Spies infiltrate New Zealand Muslim community

The following is a news item, dated December 26, 2010, from NewstalkZB:

The latest Wikileaks cables to emerge featuring New Zealand reveal the United States has been keeping an eye on the Muslim community here.

The documents show diplomats have been looking out for signs of extremist behaviour and even visited a mosque to listen to a preacher’s teaching.

Though the mosque visits, quiet dinners with members of the Muslim society and meetings with Islamic scholars failed to reveal signs of a local al-Qaeda cell, the cables still warned the White House to beware of future extremism.

They didn’t offer to take me out for a “quiet dinner”. I would have been happy to expound my “extremist” view that it is illegal to invade other countries and kill millions of their people.