The F.B.I. and Muslims' in America

The F.B.I. and Muslims in America

Historically, the Federal Bureau of Investigation relationship with Muslims’ in America has been synonymous with its relationship with organizations and individuals in the larger society whom dared to challenge the American status quo. J. Edgar Hoover’s (founder of the F.B.I.) career was launched in the 1920’s with its formation and subsequent destruction of the largest mass protest organization in Black American history…Marcus Garvey and the U.N.I.A. We can also point to 1940’s and their harassment of other social activist such as Paul Roberson and Dr. W.E.B. Dubois. Taking the form of “predator” vis-à-vis the Black liberation struggle in the 1960-70’s, the F.B.I. launched a successful taxpayer financed offensive primarily on its Black population called the “Counter Intelligence Program” (a.k.a. C.O.I.N.T.E.L.P.R.O.), as Black Americans’ tried to navigate their way socio-politically thru the stench of Jim Crow and neo-colonialism.
Here are some facts; Malcolm X and the Nation of Islam (the F.B.I. placed an agent in the hierarchy of the group as an arch enemy to Malcolm X, see John Ali…its’ National Secretary, Dr. Martin Luther King (extensively wiretapped by the Kennedy admin), The Black Panther Party (Bobby Seal, Huey Newton, Dhuroba bin Wahad… also see the assassination of Fred Hampton in Chicago, and others were stalked by the United States government. In addition, other government agencies such as the “House Un-American Activities Committee” and the “Subversive Activities Control Act” participated in this harassment. What’s perplexing about America is that (like a parasite) it has a needs’ for a domestic and international enemies (fictional or not)…this seems to serve its agenda of hypocrisy and double-speak.
According to John Stockwell, (the highest ranking C.I.A. officer to ever go public), on the eve of the fall of the Soviet Union in the late 1980’s, C.I.A. agents all over the globe rushed home from their imperialist missions only to infiltrate over 80 different Black social and political organizations. By 1990-91 with the Soviet Union off the map, America launched its international war on Islam. The Chicago Tribune newspaper reported this very fact in mid-year 1990 on a Sunday addition. Domestically, the F.B.I. manned a special task force of 100 persons’ to harass Minister Louis Farrakhan and his organization. The key aim of this ongoing initiative is based in the same ole “dirty tricks squads” antics of past decades.
Further, the F.B.I. has re-launched C.O.I.N.T.E.L.P.R.O. with its’ Patriot Act counterpart into key Masajid in every tier 1 and tier 2 city in this country.
Due to the lack of synergy between Muslims whom have migrated to America from the Middle East, Asia, and Africa and indigenous Black American Muslims, the F.B.I. seems to have a free reign inside the Masjid thru highly placed undercover agents “setting up” young immigrants for sting operations and traps that otherwise would be “snuffed” out if they tried it with their Black American brethren. The past harassment in the 1960-70’s makes them to keen to that “old game”. The oft-times separate duality that exist between the two groups allow for different perspectives in this matter. The immigrant Muslims’ goals and objectives of complete assimilation in American society puts’ them at ideological odds with indigenous Muslims. For Black American Muslims: 1) you will find more political and community activism 2) the very fact that Black Americans’ threw off the “yoke” of Christianity and converted to Islam in the first place speaks directly to the most significant step they will take in their lifetime against assimilation vis-à-vis the “slave mentality”. We find the immigrant Muslims’ view of the F.B.I. as a “social services agency” differs from the relationship this government “goon squad” of crooks, liars’ and assassins (see Malcolm X and its interference in…and the death of Chairman Fred Hampton of the BPP in Illinois) has historically with the Black community. For the Black brethren of Muslims’ would run for cover as oppose to the hospitality of immigrant Muslims of offering the F.B.I. tea, exotic food and a comfortable seat each time they come snooping for “snitches for green cards” at the Masjid.
What is clear in this landscape, is that The U.S. government currently is involved in infiltration, divide and conquer campaigns, trump up charges, and the surveillance and wiretapping of its’ Muslim citizens. The obvious goal is to continue its domestic and international campaign to attack, destabilize and control from within and without the growth of Islam in America and throughout the world. What is un- clear is how the Muslim body as a whole in this country will prepare to deal with it.


(Al-Hajj) Abdul-Malik Aziz
Co-Convener, Darfur 23
http://www.darfur23.org/