Saturday, May 30, 2009
At the end of a long article lamenting the presence of an oddball at the Newburgh, NY mosque, who turned out to be an FBI informant (Newburgh mosque leaders: We don't preach hate), comes this:
...Just days after the arrests, the mosque community is left grappling with the big questions: Why didn't we report Maqsood? How could we have been so sure he was up to no good but stayed silent?
"Maybe the mistake we made was that we didn't report him," Muhammad told his congregation in his sermon Friday. "But how are we going to report the government agent to the government?"
Well yeah...but you didn't know he was a government guy, did you? oops. And why didn't anyone report him, in spite of knowing he was up to no good? Well, there could be a lot of reasons, of course. But could one reason be that a lot of "moderate" Muslims are really sympathetic to the radicals, even if they wouldn't do what the radicals are willing to do themselves? I think that has something to do with it, too.
well, they were getting money & weed from the good muslim fellow...why report a brother?