The American Muslim Taskforce on Civil Rights and Elections, a coalition of some of the most prominent Muslim organizations in the United States, has threatened to sever all ties with the FBI in response to the agency's use of an informant in a California mosque, Israel National News reports. The Muslim Public Affairs Council, another coalition of Muslim-American groups, has issued also issued a statement calling on the FBI to stop "sending paid informants who instigate violent rhetoric in mosques."

"Bias and faulty premises dominated post-9/11 law enforcement analysis of the Muslim community…The waning days of the previous administration witnessed a flourishing of anti-Muslim activity," the AMT statement read. "…recent incidents targeting American Muslims lead us to consider suspending ongoing outreach efforts with the FBI."

The condemnation stems from the FBI's use of an informant to record Ahmadullah Niazi discussing the acquirement of weapons, financing terrorists in Afghanistan, and suggesting that the informant go to Yemen or Pakistan for training. Niazi also has a brother-in-law has close links to Osama Bin Laden.

The Los Angeles Times says that an FBI Special Agent told the court that Niazi was also recorded discussing a plan to bomb abandoned buildings. MSNBC.com also says that Niazi was recorded as describing Osama Bin Laden as an "angel."

The statement claims that in 2007, Niazi reported suspicious behavior by another attendee at his mosque to the FBI, who was discussing the planning of a terrorist attack.

The statement further claimed that an FBI agent threatened to make Niazi's life a "living hell" if he didn't become an informant. The organizations defending Niazi claim the charges are retaliation for his rejection of the FBI request. The statement did not mention the other facts about Niazi's case.

Niazi has pled not guilty to the charges of immigration fraud. He is accused of lying about a 2005 trip to Pakistan where he allegedly met with a known terrorist, Dr. Amin al-Haq, and lying to obtain American citizenship and a U.S. passport, according to MSNBC.

The AMT statement also criticized the federal government's designation of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and the North-American Islamic Trust as "unindicted co-conspirators" in the terrorism financing trial of the Holy Land Foundation. The HLF was a Muslim charity that was shut down by the federal government for financing the Hamas terrorist organization.

"These McCarthy-era tactics are detrimental to a free society," the statement said.

AMT consists of many Muslim organizations including the Council on American-Islamic Relations, Muslim American Society, Islamic Circle of North America, and Muslim Students Association, all of which have been tied by some experts to the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamic organization.