I think it has less to do with religion or skin color, than it does his actions. When someone acts sneaky, people naturally go on alert. It's body language 101. Then they see something they can't explain, and when asked, the person is passive aggressive. It's going to set off all kinds of alarms (no clock pun intended). Like the first scene at the bus stop, if he would have just told the big dude that it was an alarm clock, it would have disarmed him.
This is what happened with the little hajji. He knew damn well what he was doing. Kind of funny just three weeks prior his older sister is suspended from school for saying she was going to blow it up.
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