But somehow I doubt we are. I hate to think Europe is ahead of us on this. Then again, their problem is more pressing than ours.

Security officials from Europe's largest countries backed a plan Saturday to profile mosques on the continent and identify radical Islamic clerics who raise the threat of homegrown terrorism.

The project, to be finished by the fall, will focus on the roles of imams, their training, their ability to speak in the local language and their sources of funding, EU Justice and Home Affairs Commissioner Franco Frattini told a news conference after a meeting on terrorism.

Mr. Right and I were talking about the idea last night, and trying to figure out how best to infiltrate a mosque. If Islam teaches its adherents to lie to the infidel, how can we trust someone calling themselves "moderate" to go information-gathering for us? And obviously you can't stick a red-headed Irish guy in there and call him a Muslim without him having to prove his street-cred. A (pretend) new convert isn't going to be privy to the real fire-and-brimstone-smite-them-at-the-neck stuff. So short of wiretapping, how do you infiltrate a mosque?

Labels: Europe, Intelligence, Islam, Islamic Terror