JihadWatch
2/28/2009
What do you think CAIR's objective
is here? Obviously they want the FBI to stop placing informants in mosques, and
to trust their assurances that they will help them with anti-terror efforts.
Yet CAIR has opposed every anti-terror initiative that has ever come down the
pike, most notably the Patriot Act. It aided the Flying Imams in their lawsuit
against the passengers who reported them for suspicious behavior -- a lawsuit
that, had it succeeded, would have made Americans afraid to report suspicious
behavior in airports for fear of being sued. And now CAIR wants informants out
of the mosques -- despite the fact, as Pamela points out here, that studies show that jihad
violence and Islamic supremacism are taught in the
vast majority of American mosques. If the FBI turns a blind eye to what is
going on in the mosques, who will be the sole beneficiary?
"SoCal Muslims Angry at Informants in Mosques," from NBCLosAngeles.com,
February 28 (thanks to Pamela):
"The
American Muslim community has never wavered from its commitment to keeping
This
coming from a group that has had several of its officials convicted of various terror-related
crimes, and that is linked to the Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas.
But, it said, reports that informants have been paid
"to monitor and provoke law-abiding Muslims in houses of worship" and
the recruitment by the FBI of Muslims "to become informants" have
left American Muslims with "deeply troubling concerns."
You
know something? No one ought to be able to provoke a law-abiding citizen to
commit treason.
One of them is that "these coercive and intimidating
methods highlight the fact that the FBI continues to view the entire American
Muslim community as suspect and treat it as such," the statement said.
Maybe
the hypocrisy and disingenuousness of statements like this contributes to that.
"Infiltrating mainstream mosques the way FBI
informants infiltrate white supremacist groups illustrates the FBI's perception
of American Muslims as a community that must be constantly monitored, instead
of being treated as an equal partner in fighting crime and terrorism,"
according to the statement.
An
Craig Monteilh, 46, says he recorded Ahmadullah
Sais Niazi discussing jihad, weapons and plans to
blow up abandoned buildings.
Monteilh filed court documents Wednesday saying he served as a
confidential informant for the FBI from July 2006 to October 2007 to identify
and thwart terrorist operations in the Orange County Islamic community.
The CAIR
statement said Monteilh's story coupled with an FBI
agent's court testimony this week in Niazi's trial
regarding the use of an informant "to infiltrate" Southland mosques
"have re-ignited feelings of anger, disillusionment and mistrust among
American Muslims toward the FBI."
"...The
FBI's counter-productive actions damage the trust between Muslims and law
enforcement and trample our constitutionally mandated civil liberties," it
said.