Religious profiling is hurting the relationship between the FBI and American Muslims:
Law enforcement efforts to root out home-grown terrorists are jeopardized by deteriorating relations between the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Muslim and Arab-American communities.
The situation worsened in February, when it became public that the FBI had planted an informant at a California mosque who allegedly tried to recruit terrorists…Last week, a Muslim coalition accused the FBI of engaging in “McCarthy-era tactics” and announced it was considering suspending all ties with the FBI unless it made public its concerns and “reassessed its use of agent provocateurs in Muslim communities.”
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Tags fbi, islam, joe mccarthy, muslims, racial profiling, religious profiling
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