New Jersey imam, member of Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas, "taken aback" that his mosque was under surveillance

"How do you separate a "good" muslim from a "bad" muslim?"
A good muslim is a bad person.
A good person is a bad muslim.

Since all Mahoundians are obligated to jihad as a duty to Allah, there is no such thing, as certain Mahoundians or some Mahoundians...There is only Islam, and there are only Mahoundians...

Not all Italians are Mafiosi. But all Mafiosi are...Mafiosi.

Not all Germans were card-carrying Nazi party members. But all card-carrying Nazi party members were...Nazi party members; once you got to know the German community well enough, one learnt how to spot the Nazi sympathisers, in the 1930s.

Not all Arabs [nor all Persians, nor all South Asians, from the Subcontinent] are Muslims. But all *Muslims* are Muslims, paid-up members of the Mob, unless they have publicly apostasised (in which case they are in danger from any member of the Mob who decides to activate the sharia rule that says an apostate must be killed).

Once the police got to know the Italian communities, in Australia or in the USA, they learnt who was in the Mafiosi and who wasn't; and then they focused on *those*.

The analogy with your line about 'Italians' would not be 'surveillance of Muslims' but preliminary surveillance of ethnicities known to be *mostly* Muslim - Arab, South Asian, Somali, Iranian, Turkish, for example.

After a while one would get to know, and learn how to spot, the Arabic-speaking *Christians* in their various flavours (Assyrians and Chaldeans from Iraq, the 'Palestinian' Arab Christians, the Copts, the Maronites from Lebanon), the South Asian Hindus and Sikhs (and Christians), the few Somalis who have apostasised and joined Christian churches, the Iranians who are Zoroastrian or from the old dhimmi churches or who have apostasised from Islam and formed little Evangelical churches, the Turks who have apostasised and formed little churches or joined existing churches, and one would be able to distinguish them from the Muslims.

And then one would focus on the Muslims; because you simply cannot know who among them is already Jihad-minded [some make a big show of their allegiance to the Mob, parading around in beards and pyjamas or in burqa or niqab, but others conceal their hostile intentions behind a clean shave and a suit, or a hijab-less coiffure and a slinky dress] and who is currently inactive but may suddenly Go Jihad in the future. Of course, among the 'inactives' *are* those who are going to jump in the *other* direction: people with the same mindset as, say, our friend Fineliving or Mesdames Wafa Sultan and Nonie Darwish would have had when they first arrived in America; people still calling themselves Muslims but full of gnawing *doubts* and discontents about Islam, and proceeding, in fits and starts, toward the little door marked EXIT. Those people - the apostates-in-posse - are likely to be quite fearful of the sharia-pushers and the fire-breathing Imams, and only too happy for such to be identified and taken out of circulation by Infidel law enforcement).

Thank you for responding to my comment. You've made clear, in many ways, on what I thought was a pretty good anology. Sorry, I must have lost my head.

gerard,

Not to pick nits, but what does a good person, who is a nazi, do?

I see no difference between islam, and nazism, or communism, or (take your pic bad 'ism).

Good people don't make bad ism followers, they get the flock out of the bad ism altogether.