I wonder if the FBI will be inviting Hatem Abudayyeh to tour the government’s most sensitive anti-terrorism facilities, snoop around the top-secret National Counterterrorism Center, and maybe even pop by the FBI training center in Quantico. Surely he’d be a splendid addition to the Bureau’s next six-week “Citizen’s Academy,” where he could ask our agents searching questions about their investigative practices and anti-terrorism policies.

Oh, sure, he may be at the center of a federal grand-jury investigation in Chicago. And yes, as Politico’s Josh Gerstein reports, the selfsame FBI, armed with a search warrant, did just finish raiding Abudayyeh’s home last week, apparently seeking evidence tying Abudayyeh to support for terrorist organizations. But what’s the big whoop? After all, Mr. Abudayyeh “has never been convicted of a crime and never [been] charged with a crime.”

According to Ross Rice, top flack for the FBI’s Chicago field office, that’s the Bureau’s new gold standard. Yes, you may be a cog in the terror-support wheel. You may be virulently anti-American and committed to the destruction of Israel. But if we haven’t indicted you yet, you’re okay in our book — c’mon in and see what we’ve got.

To be fair, Bureau spokesman Rice wasn’t talking about Abudayyeh. He was speaking instead of Kifah Mustapha. Sheikh Mustapha is a recent graduate of the Citizen’s Academy, where he got the full lowdown on our nation’s most sensitive domestic-security locations and practices. Prior to that, Mustapha was best known to the government as “unindicted co-conspirator no. 31” in the most significant terrorism-financing case ever brought by the Justice Department: the Holy Land Foundation prosecution in which several of the sheikh’s confederates were convicted of sending millions of dollars to Hamas.

It was in the HLF case that the government revealed the FBI’s discovery of documents proving an Islamist conspiracy to “destroy” the U.S. “from within” by means of “sabotage.” The trove in question, describing what conspirators called their “civilization jihad,” had been seized from the home of a top Muslim Brotherhood operative. The Brotherhood’s top U.S. priority, the documents showed, was to support the terrorist operations of Hamas, the Brotherhood’s Palestinian branch, which is — the government has declared and Hamas’s own charter brays — dedicated to the annihilation of Israel.

The Brotherhood coordinated Hamas support in the U.S. through an outfit called the Islamic Association of Palestine. The IAP and other Brotherhood fronts set up the HLF to be Hamas’s American piggy bank. As terrorism analyst Patrick Poole recounts, Mustapha was the registered agent of the HLF in Illinois. The purported “Islamic charity” paid him more than $154,000 for his efforts between 1996 and 2000. Moreover, at the HLF trial, an FBI agent testified that Mustapha sang in an HLF-sponsored band that regularly featured songs dedicated to killing Jews and glorifying Hamas.

What a guy! Obviously, the Brotherhood thought so. Mustapha was soon made the imam of the infamous Bridgeview mosque in Chicago. As the Chicago Tribune observed in a probing 2004 report, that mosque’s leaders “are men who have condemned Western culture, praised Palestinian suicide bombers and encouraged members to view society in stark terms: Muslims against the world.” They also exhorted Muslims to resist “melting into American society, culture and lifestyle,” executing the Brotherhood’s “voluntary apartheid” strategy of establishing Muslim enclaves throughout the West, to be governed by Islam’s authoritarian sharia law. Bridgeview’s Muslim community became a bastion of Hamas support. Indeed, upon being captured by Israeli forces for funding Hamas, a Chicago academic and Hamas operative named Muhammad Salah confessed that he’d been recruited into the Muslim Brotherhood at the Bridgeview mosque.