Eric Holder Wants to Restrict FBI From Spying on Mosques to Find Future Beheaders
by Betty Butter • 30 September, 2014 • Politics • 2 Comments
PC: One of Eric Holder’s last acts as attorney general will block federal agents from spying on jihadists inside mosques in a concession to Muslim groups clamoring for a religious profiling ban. The timing couldn’t be worse.
The FBI is trying to fight what could be a rash of domestic Islamic beheadings, along with nests of Islamic State cells operating in no fewer than three American cities — Boston, Minneapolis and Los Angeles.
Yet the Justice Department wants to completely blind agents to the threat from Islamic extremism.
The Los Angeles Times reports that Holder is expected to issue a broad new policy in the coming two to three weeks banning religious profiling by federal law enforcement officers. Most alarming, it “will not include an exemption for national security investigations.”
FBI agents won’t be allowed to conduct undercover surveillance of a mosque without evidence that criminal activity is underway.
After 9/11, the Bush administration gave law enforcement agencies wide latitude to monitor Islamic groups. “Federal law enforcement must use every legitimate tool to prevent future attacks,” states Justice’s “Guidance Regarding the Use of Race by Federal Law Enforcement Agencies.”
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Curiously, on another issue, that of churches promoting political candidates, the IRS still has on it’s website the following statement: “All section 501(c)(3) organizations are absolutely prohibited from directly or indirectly participating in, or intervening in, any political campaign on behalf of (or in opposition to) any candidate for elective public office.”
This particular issue was recently muddied up when a atheist organization brought a lawsuit to prohibit churches from speaking out against politicians whose ideas go against the gospel, and the case was dismissed, leaving the IRS rule with no teeth.
A piece of trivia from an article regarding this at the National Catholic Register:
The IRS uses its website, letters and literature to warn church leaders against telling their flocks how to vote. The agency bases its position on a 1954 update to the tax code known as the Johnson Amendment.
Initiated by then-U.S. Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson, the late Texas Democrat who became president, the law purportedly prohibits tax-exempt organizations from endorsing or opposing candidates and, some argue, public-policy positions.
James Davidson, emeritus professor of sociology at Purdue University, explained in the Review of Religious Research how Johnson crafted the amendment to protect himself from two secular nonprofits that openly campaigned against him with claims he was soft on communism.
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