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That's not me saying they shouldn't have lawyered up.You said this though
I'd like to think that 15 people murdered, 35 injured would prompt them to want to help the investigation, even after lawyering up.You have the right to feel however you want about their exercising of their rights in fairness but the gist of this kind of comment is that the innocent who have nothing to hide shouldn't be concerned about invoking these rights and instead should cooperate. But that's backfired on many innocent people before, its very misguided thinking.
I'm not satisfied at all by that soft vague "condemnation."They did condemn his actions though and I even pointed you to the part of their statement where they did.
The tweet alluded to this mosque as a known "bad mosque." I'd like more info about that.The quoted part about terrorism is in reference to the FBI's comments on the matter. As far as his going there who knows why that might be. I can tell you as a Muslim we're not really that attached to our local masjids, most of the time we'll go to the nearest one. The sense I get from Christians is different, they have "their" church they go to for Sunday services and holidays and the community there is important. With us its really just a roof for us to pray in congregation to the point that some masjids are just rinky dinky locations in strip malls. All that to say he could've been a regular and embedded in the community of that masjid or just a guy who happened to pray there sometimes. In which case it makes sense that people who had nothing to do with him are weary about getting dragged into the investigation.
Needing to root out any potential terrorist cells means more than Muslim's feelings in the immediate aftermath of 9/11. It's well documented there was overreach, but they were also facing a lot of pushback from Muslims that secretly supported and/or funded terrorism. It wasn't easy, but 9/11 was an unprecedented event and any resource available to hunt down those responsible was to be used.You don't think there was any overreach by law enforcement after 9/11 that might make Muslims nervous about talking to police without the presence of a lawyer?