Mosques lack the religious-freedom protections guarding other houses of worship from entrapment

Evidence

A year later, the FBI instructed one of its informants to manufacture a terrorist plot with congregants at the Islamic Center of Irvine in California. Their operation backfired when mosque leaders reported the informant to the FBI as a dangerous extremist. Craig Montielh, whose undercover name was Farouk Aziz, talked of jihad and claimed to have access to weapons. Instead of embracing extremist ideas, the leaders of the Islamic Center sought a restraining order barring him from returning to the mosque. Only later did they discover Farouk Aziz was an informant who the FBI sent to entrap members of their congregation. These cases demonstrate that religious freedom norms safeguarding houses of worship from predatory law enforcement practices do not apply to mosques or their Muslim congregants. — Sahar F. Aziz, The Racial Muslim, 930

Categorization

• XREF: Pairs with the user’s readings on the social construction of who counts as a protected minority — here the asymmetry is between mosques and churches under the same legal regime.
• QUESTION: Is there a clear legal doctrine explaining why the restraining order case did not yield sanctions against the FBI for sending an informant into a house of worship?