Profiling And Monitoring Of Mosques

LittleGreenFootballs posts about Former White House and Pentagon official Douglas MacKinnon, who maintains we should monitor mosques much more carefully. He reports that Congressman Peter King is coming under fire for voicing concerns about the lack of observation on Muslim mosques. He said:

"There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam...We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them...I think there has been a lack of full cooperation from too many people in the Muslim community...too many Mosques in this country do not cooperate with law enforcement...85 percent of Mosques in this country are controlled by extremist leadership."

MacKinnon goes on to show that nothing in King's statement was inaccurate (a fact conveniently ignored by those attacking him). He cites recent studies:

According to that recent Pew Center survey, a quarter of younger Muslim-Americans support suicide bombings in some circumstances. That’s right. They support suicide bombings. 25% of Muslim-Americans refused to give an answer when asked if they had a favorable or unfavorable view of Al-Qaeda. 5% of Muslim-Americans said they had a favorable view of the group that attacked the World Trade Center, the Pentagon, and tried to attack the White House or Capitol building.

If we accept the Pew Center’s estimate that there are 2.35 million Muslims in the United States, then 5% of that number would be 117,500 Muslim-Americans who have a favorable view of Al-Qaeda. A number that should not only send chills down our spines, but cries out for eternal vigilance.

He also states that at least 80% of U.S. Mosques follow or are influenced by the Wahhabi sect of Saudi Arabia (which is the sect to which Osama bin Laden belongs), which believes it is a "religious obligation" to hate Christians and Jews and to think of the United States as "enemy territory."

I've said this before, and I'll say it again: we could use a little bit of profiling in America. We'd have to be careful not to allow a new wave of McCarthyism, of course, but a little common sense would go a long way toward securing America. Unless political correctness wins the day, of course.

There's my two cents.