Tel-Chai Nation

The Washington Times writes about a lawsuit that CAIR and the ACLU filed against the FBI for mosque surveillance. The Wash. Times defends surveillance, and there's reason why it's necessary and important:

If anything, federal authorities have been too cautious in dealing with surveillance of mosques. The First Amendment guarantee of freedom of worship does not place mosques, churches, synagogues and other religious structures off-limits to law enforcement when they suspect illicit activity is taking place inside. And while all Muslims may not be violent extremists, those who hate America and dream of carnage do tend to network at centers of Islamic worship.

In the years leading up to the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks, when the jihadist network was spreading and violence was increasing, the FBI was cautious in investigating domestic Muslim extremist groups. Overly sensitive authorities bowed to political correctness even when dangers were clear and present. The “blind sheikh” Omar Abdel Rahman, who was Osama bin Laden‘s main stateside contact, traveled widely in the United States in the early 1990s giving lectures in which he denounced Americans as “descendants of apes and pigs.” He urged fellow jihadists in Western nations to “cut the transportation of their countries, tear it apart, destroy their economy, burn their companies, eliminate their interests, sink their ships, shoot down their planes, kill them on the sea, air or land.”

This is the same problem that led to the tragedy of the Fort Hood bloodbath. And notice how that "blind" sheik used a slur similar to one used against Jews.

There's plenty of good reason why mosque surveillance is needed, and we cannot allow political correctness to impede upon it any further.

Labels: anti-americanism, CAIR corruption, islam, jihad, terrorism, United States, war on terror