Dafydd at Big Lizards has a very thought provoking piece today:

Steyn is correct that there are many radical mosques in the United States; I've heard it said (I don't know if this is true) that there are more militant mosques in America than any other Western nation. These radical mosques contain radical imams who preach violent jihad as a matter of course.

Thus, for national security reasons, we should be surveilling every last one of these militant mosques, determined by our own intelligence operations (that is, sending loyal American Moslems into the mosques to listen to the sermons). From what I understand, they hardly hide their inflammatory opinions under a burning bush: it shouldn't be hard to decide that a mosque is "radical" if the imam says the congregation should financially support Hamas and encourage their children to become mall-martyrs.

Get warrants when there's court-level evidence; but do it under the president's plenary power as Commander in Chief when the probable cause is military level but not civil-court level.

Regardless of how we justify it, let's tap their phones, bug their conference rooms, tail their employees. Let's read their mail, ghost their hard drives, and track their bank accounts.

We should have been doing this for the last five years — and maybe we have and the New York Times just hasn't gotten that leak yet. But somehow I doubt it.

Call me crazy - I wouldn't know, since I'm in here looking out.  But DON'T call me Islamophobic because I believe there are some Imams and Mosques in the United States that are preaching hate, and the violent overthrow of not only our government, but our way of life.  I have nothing against Muslims, or Jews, or Buddhists (my Mother-in-law is one), or adherents of pretty much any other religion.  I spend a good chunk of change with a local merchant who is a Sihk. 

But I DO have a problem with anyone who believes that his religion gives him not only the right, but the DUTY to kill or subjugate me.  And I am incensed that my government is NOT doing these basic things to protect my family, and yours, and that of the vast majority of Muslims who do not agree with the fanatics, for fear of being branded Racists or Islamophobic.

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