DIETL: MUSLIMS ARE AMERICA'S BEST ANTI-TERROR WEAPON

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Why Muslims are America's best anti-terror weapon

Former NYPD detective Bo Dietl explains

Critics have called Bo Dietl a bigot and racist since his call for increased police presence in Muslim neighborhoods – a comment he made on FOX & Friends in the days following the deadly Brussels terrorist attacks. Today the former NYPD detective addressed the criticism on FOX & Friends, defending his statements.

"It's the same as anything. If we're infiltrating Italian mobsters that are hanging out in Italian restaurants, then you use Italian undercovers. If I’m looking for the old Irish Republican Army running guns back to Ireland, I’m going to go into an Irish community.”

The Fox News Contributor clarified he’s not out to get American-Muslims but rather to increase intelligence on possible terror threats.  He cited past intelligence gathering efforts that were successful in preventing attacks.

“I’m not looking for watchdogs all over Muslim communities. I’m looking for the same interaction that we have when we’re looking for gangs up in East Harlem or motorcycle gangs up in the Bronx.”

On March 24th, Dietl told FOX & Friends, “These are the same attackers that attacked 6 months ago in Paris. They’re within the same block radius. This is definitely an intelligence breakdown. All they had to do is put surveillance on these people over there, and they would’ve found out what’s going on, sending undercovers in there, operational. A lot of these have criminal records these little punks. They got criminal records and what they could’ve done is flip some other ones, get some undercovers. We did it in New York City in the 1990s in the mosque over there in New Jersey where we were able to find a blind cleric and all that.  We’re at a point right now where we need intelligence… We have to get intelligence to stop the bomb before it goes off.”