Daniel Pipes asks why the Federal Bureau of Investigation continues to reward those who attack it: Federal Bureau of Islamists.

It’s time to worry when the Federal Bureau of Investigation, America’s national police agency, consistently cannot figure out who’s friend and who’s foe in the War on Terror.

The bureau’s record of honoring the wrong American Muslims captures this problem.

In February 2001, it promoted Gamal Abdel-Hafiz, a special agent who rejected a counterterror assignment on the grounds that “a Muslim does not record another Muslim.”

In May 2002, FBI Director Robert Mueller had his spokesman call the American Muslim Council “the most mainstream Muslim group in the United States,” despite its record of helping fund-raise for terrorism. Today, the AMC’s long-time leader sits in jail and the organization is virtually defunct.

In September 2003, the FBI nearly bestowed its Exceptional Public Service Award on Imad Hamad of Detroit, saved from this embarrassment by columnist Debbie Schlussel, who exposed Hamad in the New York Post as someone who “supports terrorism and [who] was himself a suspected terrorist.”

A few weeks ago, the bureau did it again, honoring Marwan Kreidie, a Philadelphia activist, with its Community Leadership Award for his being “very helpful to the FBI office,” and specifically for his efforts “in identifying, preventing & disrupting acts of terrorism.” Celebrating Kreidie raises deep concerns about the FBI’s continuing inability to understand the war it is fighting.