Andrew C. McCarthy gives his enthusiastic backing to Mitt Romney, the Massachusetts governor who called for the wiretapping of US moques.
National Review Online, 19 September 2005
But McCarthy’s plan – which would involve snooping on “not all mosques, but many of them” – is a bit liberal for Robert Spencer’s tastes: “The only problem here is that we cannot know which mosques need monitoring without monitoring them.” According to Spencer, 80% of mosques in the US are under “extremist” influence. Clearly, the only solution is to wiretap the lot.