10% of all Mosques in the US are owned or funded by Extremists. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_re_us/us_mosque_forfeiture
After the foul-up handling the Major Hasan Fort Hood Islamic terrorist attack, they have to do something.
That's great news. Bogart, you might like this - here's a press release by the FBI, that lists more details.
The radical mosques are a real problem. The Iranian ones are supporting cells of Hamas and Hezbollah. The Hamas and Hezbollah terrorists aren't interested in attacks but use the US to raise money through donations and illegal activity to fund their Middle East activities. This could change should the US take military action against Iran. Many other mosques are funded by extremists from the Gulf States and have been used to organize terror attacks against the US. The blind Sheikh Omar Abdul-Rahman is a prime example of the problem. Abdel-Rahman was issued a tourist visa to visit the US despite his name being listed on a US State Department terrorist watch list. Rahman entered the United States, in July 1990, via Saudi Arabia, Peshawar, and Sudan. Preaching at three mosques in the New York City area, Abdel-Rahman was soon surrounded by a core group of devoted followers that included persons who became responsible for the World Trade Center 1993 bombings. One of Rahman's followers, El Sayyid Nosair, was linked to the assassination of Israeli nationalist Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defense League. He was subsequently acquitted of murder but convicted on gun possession charges. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omar_Abdel-Rahman
Trying to murder a head of a terrorist organization is hardly criminal, the USA are still trying to kill Osama.
The US is as war against the Taliban and al Qaeda. Bin Laden is and armeded combatant. Americans or people within the US do not have the right to wage private war.
It's amazing to think of someone so violent as Abdel-Rahman going from mosque to mosque in the US, saying to kill Americans, that Americans are descendants of apes and pigs, it's ok to rob banks and kill Jews, etc. Not only do they not tell on him, they actually admire him...
You still can't figure out which side you are on, eh? "they" refers to his followers and supporters. The one's who sit through his 'preaching' how America should be attacked and "they" do nothing.
It's a "war on terror" and the JDL is a terrorist organisation, it's been deemed so constantly for a number of years by various US groups like the FBI. That is why the JDL is a terrorist organisation, they think they are their own little army and can kill, bomb whatever they like yet they are not the government.