Peaceful American Muslims, Terrorists, and the FBI

This entry was posted by owl and bear staff on Wednesday, March 25th, 2009 at 1:53 pm.

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.”

[CSM]