Spies in mosques

The question has come up about putting undercover police officers or informants in mosques. The Left says it is a violation of the First Amendment to put informants in mosques because it restricts the free exercise of the Islamic faith. Sorry, there is legal precedent showing that matters of national security out way parts of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights.

Don't believe it? During the fight against the Ku Klux Klan, the Federal Bureau do Investigation (FBI) placed informants in in locations where there were likely gathering of Klan members. The FBI slipped informants in to Southern churches to root out Klansmen. It worked. During the 70s and 80s, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Alcohol, Tobacco & firearms(ATF) and Drug Enforcement Agency(DEA) placed agents and informants in several of the white supremacy organizations with religious leaders and churches. With the information gained white supremacist were arrested, charged and convicted from infiltration of religious organizations.

So, what's the difference? Since the federal law enforcement agencies have infiltrated Christian, I use the word loosely, churches they sure can infiltrate Muslim centers of worship. I have no problem with agents and informants being placed in places of worship. These infiltrators do not cause problems in the "churches." They are members of the faith they mix with and worship as everyone else. They just collect information and pass it on. No harm, no foul.

Where it's been legally done before, it can be legally done again.