Imagine if this had been done by an actual left wing nut in a place like, I don't know, Chicago?
The response would be terrifying. You can tell by the softening and backpedaling of the initial "this is war" response that the inside info is all showing this guy is not left-wing in any way.
I always assume in today's America, there would be no way to get away with anything like this, because there are so many cameras that they could just stitch everything together.
My World Civ professor that semester as a college freshman was Egyptian. He spent several of the next class meetings talking to our class about the situation and answering questions about Islam - I know he also was a speaker at some community meetings about it all that he invited us all to...