{"id":113,"date":"2010-05-04T11:55:00","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T11:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/muslim-suspect-arrested-in-times-square-bomb-scare-us-muslim-group-praises-law-enforcement.html"},"modified":"2010-05-04T11:55:00","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T11:55:00","slug":"muslim-suspect-arrested-in-times-square-bomb-scare-us-muslim-group-praises-law-enforcement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/muslim-suspect-arrested-in-times-square-bomb-scare-us-muslim-group-praises-law-enforcement.html","title":{"rendered":"Muslim Suspect Arrested in Times Square Bomb Scare; U.S. Muslim Group Praises Law Enforcement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Although U.S.officials have stood by their<a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beliefbeat\/2010\/05\/pakistani-muslim-terrorist-news-suspect-convicted-in-mumbai-attack-group-claims-credit-for-nyc-bomb.html\"> dismissal of the Pakistani Taliban&#8217;s efforts to claim credit for the Times Square bomb scare <\/a>over the weekend, it appears that a Muslim man from Pakistan is the prime suspect.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/05\/05\/nyregion\/05bomb.html?hp\">New York Times reports that <\/a>Faisal Shahzad, 30, a naturalized&nbsp;American citizen who lives in Connecticut, was taken into custody last night after authorities pulled him off a plane bound for Dubai at New York&#8217;s JFK Airport. He has told authorities that he acted alone in the attempted car bombing.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mpac.org\/article.php?id=1112\">Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC) quickly released a statement praising the law enforcement officials <\/a>for the arrest, while also noting that a Senegalese Muslim immigrant was reportedly the first person to notice the suspicious smoke coming from the vehicle. (In other words, Shahzad&nbsp;doesn&#8217;t represent&nbsp;Muslims in Manhattan, let alone America.)<\/p>\n<p>Check back for updates and share your thoughts in the Comments section below.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"Apple-style-span\"><span class=\"Apple-style-span\">*<a href=\"http:\/\/feedburner.google.com\/fb\/a\/mailverify?uri=beliefnet\/beliefbeat\">Click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>subscribe to Belief Beat<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/strong><\/a>and<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/beliefbeat\">click here to<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><strong>follow Belief Beat on Twitter<\/strong><\/a>.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Although U.S.officials have stood by their dismissal of the Pakistani Taliban&#8217;s efforts to claim credit for the Times Square bomb scare over the weekend, it appears that a Muslim man from Pakistan is the prime suspect. 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