Homeland Security?

Okay, explain this to me.

OKLAHOMA CITY (Reuters) - An Oklahoma man was taken into custody after he tried to carry a bomb on board an airplane on Wednesday in Oklahoma City, an
FBI spokesman said.

Charles Alfred Dreyling Jr., 24, was detained on Wednesday morning after a security screener using an X-ray machine saw the device in his luggage as he tried to board a flight to Philadelphia at Will Rogers Airport in Oklahoma City.

"Although the investigation is in its initial stages we have found no apparent connection to any type of terrorist activity or group," FBI spokesman Gary Johnson said.

So why exactly would someone take an "improvised explosive device" on an airplane or anywhere for that matter? Tell me this story wouldn't have played out a lot differently if this wasn't a white guy (and probably a Christian) from Oklahoma. It the guy was a practicing Muslim he'd be on his way to Gitmo by now.