Congressman King To Open Congressional Inquiry Into Muslim "Radicalization"

From Jihad Watch:

Congressman King to open Congressional inquiry into Muslim "radicalization"


Will they examine this question fully, fairly, and honestly? If so, that will be the first time in official Washington. "Muslim 'Radicalization' Is Focus of Planned Inquiry," by Raymond Hernandez for the New York Times, December 16:



WASHINGTON -- The Republican who will head the House committee that oversees domestic security is planning to open a Congressional inquiry into what he calls "the radicalization" of the Muslim community when his party takes over the House next year.

Representative Peter T. King of New York, who will become the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, said he was responding to what he has described as frequent concerns raised by law enforcement officials that Muslim leaders have been uncooperative in terror investigations.



He cited the case of Najibullah Zazi, an Afghan man and a legal resident of the United States, who was arrested last year for plotting to bomb the New York subway system. Mr. King said that Ahmad Wais Afzali, an imam in Queens who had been a police informant, had warned Mr. Zazi before his arrest that he was the target of a terror investigation.



"When I meet with law enforcement, they are constantly telling me how little cooperation they get from Muslim leaders," Mr. King said....





Cue predictable whining and claiming of victim status from people who, in a sane world, would be working hard to show they were loyal Americans who wholeheartedly and sincerely accepted Constitutional principles:



Told of Mr. King's plan, Muslim leaders expressed strong opposition, describing the move as a prejudiced act that was akin to racial profiling and that would unfairly cast suspicion on an entire group.

Abed A. Ayoub, the legal director for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, said Mr. King's effort ignored that Muslim leaders around the country had been working closely with law enforcement officials since the 2001 terror attacks.



"We are disturbed that this representative who is in a leadership position does not have the understanding and knowledge of what the realities are on the ground," Mr. Ayoub said, adding that Mr. King's proposal "has bigoted intentions."



Salam al-Marayati, the executive director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, also expressed deep concern and noted that his group would be holding a convention this weekend at which members would discuss the impact that the Republican takeover of Congress could have on Muslims.



"He basically wants to treat the Muslim-American community as a suspect community," Mr. Marayati said of Mr. King. He added that Mr. King was potentially undermining the relationship that Muslim leaders had sought to build with law enforcement officials around the country. Tensions have occasionally erupted in recent years over counterterrorism measures that civil rights groups and others said had gone too far.



In 2007, for example, the Los Angeles Police Department was forced to abandon a plan to create a map detailing the city's Muslim communities after civil rights advocates and Muslim leaders denounced the effort as a form of racial profiling....





The controversy was actually about mapping mosques. Yet churches and synagogues are open, public places. Everyone knows where they are. No one objects if maps are made.



Mr. King, who has conveyed his intentions to Republican leaders in the House, said he would seek comment from mainstream Muslim leaders so that the hearings he was planning to hold were not one-sided, with only people critical of Muslims.

Yeah, that's so important, because "mainstream Muslim leaders" never get a fair hearing, and "people critical of Muslims" are featured in the mainstream media on a regular basis -- no, wait...



But Mr. King suggested that Muslim leaders had minimized the extent of the problem he said he had identified. "They try to tell me that it is not as bad as it seems," he said.

Yes, don't trust your lying eyes, trust Honest Ibe Hooper.

Posted by Robert on December 17, 2010 2:49 AM