It’s come to this.
Via Orlando Sentinel:
. . . After the heavily armed agents flooded the grounds of the Flagler Mosque, a small converted house in a modest neighborhood west of Milam Dairy Road and north of Flagler Drive, they waited for morning prayer to finish before arresting Khan outside.
“Instead of barging in with 25 agents and trampling all over the place, one agent took off his shoes and went in,” he said. “”They respected the congregation that was there.”
After the arrest, agents informed other Muslim leaders before going public, Ba-Yunus said, so there was some lead time to prepare for media inquiries. Ba-Yunus saw those steps as progress stemming from meetings with federal authorities.
Still, despite the kinder, gentler arrests, Muslim leaders say many in the community remain wary of federal authorities, their suspicions fueled by cases like one last year in Irvine, Cal., where a confidential informant’s mission backfired. Mosque members, alarmed about his calls for violence, tried to turn him in to authorities.
HT: ROP