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The FBI assigned a secret agent to infiltrate a mosque in southern California in 2013, with an intention of finding out if there were terrorists within the mosque.

The man, Craig Monteilh, started attending services every weekend, getting to know many of the other attendees. He was welcomed and accepted by the community.

While attending, he got a reputation for being very forgetful, leaving his keys and phone at the building. These everyday items actually had secret recording devices installed on them.

Quite interestingly, and eventually, other attendees of the mosque reported him to the FBI out of concern that he might be a terrorist. He’d been discussing violent Jihad. (Source: 9th Circuit revives Muslims’ lawsuit charging FBI with spying at mosques. Dolan, Maura)

The intention was to find out if any of the mosque members would liken to his ideas of terrorism. Somehow the FBI thought his words “We should blow up the infidels!” would be met with cheers of joy.

But they found out the Muslims in attendance weren’t actually fans of terrorists either.

It was a bit of a black eye for the FBI, and they are now contending with a lawsuit, and probably rightfully so.

Your piont exactly?

referandum:
Your piont exactly?

All I see is information. Did you see something else?

Please, justify your usage of 'backfired'.

trutht828:
All I see is information. Did you see something else?

i was just wondering too

Anybody arguing or killing on religions are just wasting their time and doing so possibly for personal reasons. No one was present when God was doing His things yet we have gut's to defend what we have no knowledge about but self made opinions.

fistonati:
Anybody arguing or killing on religions are just wasting their time and doing so possibly for personal reasons. No one was present when God was doing His things yet we have gut's to defend what we have no knowledge about but self made opinions.

While I don't know exactly what you are trying to achieve spamming this picture here, I would like to let Nairalanders know that this picture is outrightly edited and put into that scene. If Father Christmas would be allowed into Mosque then it would definitely be him barefooted. No one enters into the Mosque with their shoes on let alone pray in them.