This is what Arthur Cummings II, the FBI’s executive assistant director in charge of counterterrorism and national security investigations in the United States, has said about trying to get cooperation from Muslim groups in dealing with terrorist threats.

The FBI has outreach programs to try to develop sources in the Muslim community and solicit tips, but Mr. Cummings found little receptivity. He found that while Muslims have brought some cases to the FBI, Muslim leaders in particular are often in denial about the fact that the terrorists who threaten the United States are Muslims.

The article should be read in full. Fascinating detail of the kind that seldom becomes available.

Meanwhile this is what the head of ASIO in Australia has said, and done with the full support of the PM and Julie Bishop:

ASIO director-general Duncan Lewis has phoned Coalition poli­ticians to urge them to use the soothing language favoured by Malcolm Turnbull in their public discussion of Islam.

In what is thought to be an unprecedented intervention in politics by a head of the spy agency, Mr Lewis is said to have told the MPs that their more robust comments risked becoming a danger to national security. It is believed the Office of the Prime Minister has been involved in arranging for these phone calls to take place.

I take it that ASIO finds the same lack of cooperation as does the FBI in America but is hoping for a better result. The kid gloves treatment does however seem to lead to the kind of problem that has surfaced at Rotherham where the preference was to let the abuse continue rather than to feed various non-PC attitudes, even if as in this case they were accurate.