House `radicalization’ hearings worry U.S. Muslims
Rep. Peter King, the new GOP chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, plans to hold hearings on what he calls radicalization in the Muslim community. RNS has a report:
A nine-term incumbent from Long Island, King has a sharp tongue, little patience for political correctness, and a history of controversial statements about Muslims.Read it here.“There are too many mosques in this country,” King told Politico in 2007. “There are too many people who are sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them.”
On Fox News last February, King said 85 percent of American mosques are led by extremists. “This is an enemy living among us,” he added.
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King has said most Muslims in America are “hardworking, dedicated Americans.” But local and federal law enforcement officials complain that Muslim leaders and imams refuse to cooperate with their investigations, he said.“There’s a disconnect between outstanding Muslims who contribute so much to the future of our country and those leaders who—for whatever reason—acquiesce in terror or ignore the threat,” King wrote in a Dec. 19 op-ed in Newsday.
