Egyptian student freed

The Egyptian student who was detained after a pilot radio was allegedly discovered in his hotel room was released when it became clear that the radio wasn’t his, and he was merely a victim of circumstances, in the wrong place at the wrong time.

I saw him in an interview on FOX after being released, and Higazy wasn’t bitter at all. In fact, he understood how FBI agents could have made such a mistake, expressed his admiration for America in general and his desire to stay and study here. He even offered to take the FBI agents out to dinner!

He showed a lot of class, and is a great example of pro-Western Muslims we need to respect more when they’re here in America, and to support and empower in their home countries. It’s obviously not in our national interest to have them tossed into detention due to somebody’s sloppy, incompetent investigative procedures…

If the Arab world is to reform and democratize in future years, young professionals and intellectuals like Abdallah Higazy will play an extremely important role.