We need to talk, America.
FBI agents were called to the Michigan home of a Saudi student who was spotted walking around with a pressure cooker — only to learn that he was using it to bring food to his friend’s house.
Talal al Rouki told the Saudi daily Okaz he was visited by several FBI agents last Friday after a neighbor apparently called in to report his “bullet-colored” pressure cooker. [...]
He then showed the agents his cooker, which he had just used to cook kabsa, a traditional Saudi dish consisting of rice, meat, and vegetables.
A “bullet-colored” pressure cooker. Or what may be more commonly referred to as stainless steel.
On one hand I can understand the sight of a pressure cooker being carried from one apartment to another would be unsettling after the Boston Marathon bombing, but on the other hand I imagine this never would have happened if Rouki were a white lady who just cooked a Sheperd’s pie rather than a young Saudi male.
After all, the New York Post didn’t spend an entire week pointing fingers at “a Saudi man” with nothing to show for it.