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OC Muslims say FBI surveillance has a chilling effect
latimes ^ | 3/1/09 | By Teresa Watanabe and Paloma Esquivel

Posted on 03/02/2009 3:31:34 PM PST by Flavius

Use of an informant in Orange County leads some to avoid mosques and cut charitable giving. By Teresa Watanabe and Paloma Esquivel March 1, 2009 The Islamic Center of Irvine is a beige stucco building that blends into the rows of office buildings surrounding it. But last week, it became the most publicized mosque in California with disclosures that the FBI sent an informant there to spy and collect evidence of jihadist rhetoric and other allegedly extremist acts by a Tustin man who attended prayers there.

The revelations dismayed mosque members like Omar Turbi, 50, and his 27-year-old son who shares his name. After Friday prayer service last week, while hundreds of others scurried back to work, the pair stood with their backs to a wall and mulled over the news.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cair; counterterrorism; fbi; islam; mosque; muslimamericans
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1 posted on 03/02/2009 3:31:34 PM PST by Flavius
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To: Flavius
Use of an informant in Orange County leads some to avoid mosques and cut charitable giving.

Terrorists and jew haters hardest hit.

2 posted on 03/02/2009 3:32:40 PM PST by SampleMan (Socialism and Liberty are mutually exclusive.)
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To: Flavius
ummm..

GOOD.


3 posted on 03/02/2009 3:32:47 PM PST by xcamel (The urge to save humanity is always a false front for the urge to rule it. - H. L. Mencken)
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To: Flavius

They should be paranoid.

I ease drop on their services all the time (or do I?)


4 posted on 03/02/2009 3:33:13 PM PST by Retired Greyhound
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To: Flavius

If you don’t like it go back to whatever shithole you came from. This is our country.


5 posted on 03/02/2009 3:34:19 PM PST by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: Flavius

Fortunately, so many of the Muslims who regularly attended that mosque were willing to come forward and identify those who advocated criminal acts, that the surveillance was unnecessary.

/sarcasm


6 posted on 03/02/2009 3:35:46 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy
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SNIPPET from the link at post no.1:

"And some mosques have asked speakers to refrain from political messages in their sermons, such as criticism of U.S. foreign policy, said Hussam Ayloush, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic Relations in Anaheim."

7 posted on 03/02/2009 3:36:47 PM PST by Cindy
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8 posted on 03/02/2009 3:37:14 PM PST by Cindy
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To: Flavius

I feel sorry for the informant who had to put up with tons of anti-USA rhetoric. I a sure he wanted t slap a couple of people silly.

Now if the FBI could infiltrate the Housewives of Orange County, THAT would be a coup.


9 posted on 03/02/2009 3:37:21 PM PST by Cyman
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So the fact the FBI found that Mosques are hiding anti-American terrorist planning and/or support means those activities go away if the FBI stops surveillance?

Got Bugblatter Beast?


10 posted on 03/02/2009 3:37:59 PM PST by freedumb2003 (Communism comes to America: 1/20/2009. Keep your powder dry, folks.)
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To: Flavius

This is most excellent!! Finally some good news today!


11 posted on 03/02/2009 3:38:10 PM PST by Paige ("All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing," Edmund Burke)
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To: Flavius

I sure hope it has a chilling effect!!! What is it they are afraid of having known?


12 posted on 03/02/2009 3:38:22 PM PST by LiteKeeper (Beware of socialism in America; the Islamization of Eurabia)
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To: Flavius

So what is the problem? Don’t like it, go practice your wailing and thrashing in a muzzie country. There is a damn good reason you are being watched fool..............


13 posted on 03/02/2009 3:38:39 PM PST by doorgunner69
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To: Flavius

One word.

Good.

I literally see them as the modern equivalent of the German American Bund.


14 posted on 03/02/2009 3:39:01 PM PST by RobRoy
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To: Flavius

This would not have a “chilling” affect on my church. We would welcome it.


15 posted on 03/02/2009 3:39:46 PM PST by RobRoy
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That’s so kind of you. I view them as a cancer on humanity


16 posted on 03/02/2009 3:41:32 PM PST by jusduat (wondering,questioning,searching)
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To: Flavius
If they're cold then they can go back to Saudia Arabia. It's warmer there.
17 posted on 03/02/2009 3:41:34 PM PST by starlifter (Sapor Amo Pullus)
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To: Flavius
The revelations dismayed mosque members like Omar Turbi, 50, and his 27-year-old son who shares his name.

Were they dismayed at the fact their mosque attracted a terrorist or that the FBI was following him?

18 posted on 03/02/2009 3:43:38 PM PST by Harmless Teddy Bear (Faith Manages.)
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To: jusduat

You missed my point. My point was that we would have nothing to hide and they may even find Jesus if they did it to our church.


19 posted on 03/02/2009 3:46:55 PM PST by RobRoy
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To: RobRoy

Yes, I did miss that. I hope that we will always have
nothing to hide in being Christians.


20 posted on 03/02/2009 3:52:18 PM PST by jusduat (wondering,questioning,searching)
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