Many American Muslims are no doubt horrified by terrorism committed in the name of their religion. But recent actions by an organization that bills itself as “America’s largest Islamic civil liberties group” reveal a troubling extremism among at least some U.S. Muslims.
A California chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations placed on its website a poster that discourages cooperation with law enforcement.
The poster shows a darkly clad, frightening FBI agent standing near a row of houses. The word “SLAM!” is on the front door of most of the houses. But most disturbing of all, the poster reads, “Build a wall of resistance. Don’t talk to the F.B.I.”
That is the wrong approach for American Muslims or any other group to take in this era of rampant terrorist threats and actions. If someone had “talked” to the FBI prior to the 9/11 attacks by radical Muslims, thousands of American lives might have been saved.
The Muslim organization later said it would remove the poster from the website. But a spokesman for the group did not say that the message of refusing to speak to law enforcement was flat-out wrong. Rather, he told Fox News Radio that the poster was “subject to misinterpretation.”