U.S. Muslim Groups May Cut Outreach Efforts With FBI

In a press release yesterday, the American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections (AMT) announced that it is considering suspending ongoing outreach efforts with the FBI. The move was triggered by a number of recent incidents in which the FBI has sent undercover agents into mosques (see prior posting), as well as by concerns over the FBI's naming several major American Muslim groups as "unindicted co-conspirators" in connection with the trial of the Holy Land Foundation in Dallas, Texas. (See prior related posting.) Ten U.S. Muslim groups signed the AMT statement.