If the father had been a Westboro Baptist Church or Branch Davidian style sect leader? Of course. We don't know what happened. For the guy to post to Reddit starting off with a 'look I'm being investigated because I'm Arab! FBI is racist!' post while not giving any information on the circumstances, that just sounds like a PR spin.
I don't know about this, Muslim leader could mean anything from successful business man to radical leader. The news was sparse on who the father was. And frankly, nothing in the article shows that his father was the reason they followed him. The article states that one of his friends wrote something on his blog. I wouldn't put it pass the FBI to investigate everyone who knew the friend in question for no other reason than they play halo together.
I guess it's a matter of interpretation, but when someone says 'Muslim leader', I personally interpret that narrowly, as in this person having a 'position of authority in the religious sense, within the Muslim faith', and not so much 'person from Muslim cultural background who is in some form of power'. The 'article' I mentioned was the original Reddit post. Apparently the kid thought the Muslim angle was important enough to deserve a mention.
Did you know that, when David Koresh discovered the ATF was asking about him and asked about him at the gun store where he did business, he proactively called the local ATF office and offered to come in and have a chat with them?
Koresh was not hiding anything. This is why he, and all the men, women and children, in there had to be killed at the end of that siege. So that these facts would not be made publicly known.
You talk about "Branch Dividian style sect" and most americans have a completely false perspective on those people and that event because they were fed government lies during the entire period.
And afterwards, when the truth came out, it was no longer news.
Enough of that, and you start thinking that it is ok to illegally spy on americans.
