Being too "paranoid"? No. "Paranoid" would be the right word if she would have reacted the same way toward someone of another ethnicity. "Prejudice" would be more suitable here. She got racially and/or religiously profiled. If I recall correctly, immediately following the bombing of the federal building in Oklahoma City, many of the local Arab Americans were being harassed and detained by the authorities, and others got their property vandalized by neighbors. Sadly enough, those who pestered the local Arab population didn't have the conscious to regret what they did upon finding out that Timothy McVeigh - a white man - was responsible. I believe something similar, although on a smaller scale, occurred in reaction the bombing in Atlanta during the 1996 Olympics.