The F.B.I. is ordering field supervisors to count the number of mosques and Muslims in their areas as part of the antiterrorism effort. Civil rights advocates and Arab-American leaders denounced the survey as a form of racial profiling. Bureau officials said, however, that the results would not be used to establish quotas for investigations. “Any suggestion that the number of mosques in a field division is being used to set investigative goals for that division is wrong,” an assistant director of the bureau, Cassandra Chandler, said in a statement. “The survey, a small part of the F.B.I.’s much larger re-engineering effort, looked at a wide range of demographic and other measures, focused primarily on vulnerabilities, and mosques in the past have been targeted for violence.” Full Story
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