The hours following the terrorist attacks in Boston last week were nerve-racking for the thousands of Saudis currently living in the United States.
Like everyone else, we were horrified to see the images of innocent Americans running for their lives in the wake of those cowardly acts, which targeted them when they least expected it. However, as news spread that a Saudi youth had been “detained” for questioning and was considered a “person of interest,” many of us were suddenly filled with a sense of dread and impending doom. We quickly began to wonder whether our worst nightmare had become a reality; again. Did Saudi terrorists attack the United States a second time and shatter the sense of normalcy that Americans had been desperately trying to regain since the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001?