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[–] Indepentarian [S] 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago  (edited ago)

Considering how mosques, late night kebab shops, Islamic community centres and Islamic book stores here domestically have definitely been linked to terrorism on more than one occasion. This shouldn't come as surprising, especially considering not a week goes by for the past 4 years, where somewhere in the world there hasn't been a terrorist attack motivated by Islam.

Fair enough. I suppose to me it does hinge on the level of granularity of the surveillance, and in many of the other cases an honest and objective assessment of the imams'/leaders' public statements (including their "sermons" or whatever they call it) would have been enough to raise a red flag (and many times did, they were just ignored, whether deliberately or not).

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[–] UncleDoug 0 points 1 point (+1|-0) ago 

I can definitely see where your coming from, I was on the fence myself thinking in no way can 'blanket surveillance' not be an infringement of civil liberties.

However Japan is not monitoring Muslims in their homes or on the streets, only at Muslim related organisations from what I gather.