This morning’s New York Post has a disturbing report about anti-American Islamic groups that have been embraced by the FBI:

A nationwide FBI project designed to improve ties between the Islamic and law-enforcement communities went horribly wrong when it was revealed the organizations have issued incendiary statements against the United States, The Post has learned.

Questions are being raised by counterterrorism officials — including FBI field agents — over the bureau’s high-profile involvement in a program called Partnering for Prevention and Community Safety Initiative, which is being run out of Northeastern University.

Among the groups participating in the project is the Muslim Public Affairs Council — an organization whose members have claimed Israel was to blame for 9/11, have opposed freezing the assets of Islamic charities linked to terrorism and have denounced several FBI arrests of suspected terrorists in the United States.

Steven Emerson, whose Investigative Project think tank studies Islamic extremism in the United States, released a tape of a speech MPAC National Director Ahmed Younis gave in Irvine, Calif., on July 14, 2002, in which he directed incendiary comments at then-Attorney General John Ashcroft.

“I am a person who believes that if Thomas Jefferson or Madison or the like were alive today, they would go to John Ashcroft’s house and just shoot him,” Younis said, according to the tape.

But don’t worry about Mr. Younis. If the FBI severs its ties to him, he should be able to get a job working for Brian Williams at NBC News.