Same observation as mine but more pithily expressed

A correspondent of Mark Steyn writes about the Canadian bombers who, according to the Canadian authorites, were mystifyingly without a common thread, and who came from all across the "broad spectrum" of Canadian society. Just to remind you, here are the names of the accused so far as I know them:

Fahim Ahmad
Zakaria Amara
Asad Ansari
Shareef Abdelhaleen
Qayyum Abdul Jamal
Mohammed Dirie
Yasim Abdi Mohamed
Jahmaal James
Amin Mohamed Durrani
Abdul Shakur
Ahmad Mustafa Ghany
Saad Khalid

I asked plaintively if any readers could help me find that oh-so-elusive common thread, and lo and behold T. Rodwell provides Mark Steyn with a theory:

In fact, these lads seem to come from that part of the spectrum that is Islamic, lives in south-central Ontario, admires Osama bin Laden and, more of ten than not, calls itself “Mohammed”.

That part of the “spectrum” ain’t all that “broad”. Would the apologists have been as dismissive sixty years ago if guns and a truckload of explosive had been found in the possession of two dozen young German-speaking males with close-cropped blonde hair, brown shirts and tiny mustaches, three of whom were named “Adolf,” and all of whom who, immediately upon being arrested, demanded to be given their own personal copies of Mein Kampf?

As Dennis Miller put it, when 14 out of 19 hijackers come from the same country and you notice that fact, it’s not “profiling”, it’s “minimally observant.”