U.S. House Panel Probes Muslim Radicalization, Critics See Witch Hunt

[Purveyor]

The U.S. House of Representatives will investigate radicalization in the American-Muslim community, sparking outrage that the probe is a witch hunt akin to the 1950s anti-Communist campaign. With al Qaeda and its affiliates openly trying to recruit Americans and Muslims inside the United States for attacks, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King called congressional hearings on the subject “absolutely essential”.

“I am facing reality, my critics are not,” King said on MSNBC. “Al Qaeda is changing its tactics, they realize that it’s very difficult to attack from the outside, they’re recruiting from within.”

King, who will lead a hearing on Thursday, has questioned the cooperation by Muslim Americans with U.S. law enforcement authorities and accused mosques of being a breeding ground for radicalization.

Critics say the hearings smack of the effort in the 1950s by Republican Senator Joseph McCarthy, who presided over congressional hearings to expose and ostracize Communists and their sympathizers in the United States. Muslim and civil rights advocates have condemned King’s assertions, countering that Muslims in the United States are being unfairly targeted and pointing to tips they have provided to authorities in the past.

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http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2011/03/09/u-s-house-panel-probes-muslim-radicalization-critics-see-witch-hunt/

[BobbyBoring]

1. I'm actually surprised

That we haven't seen major uprisings from American Muslims. Between all the indiscriminate killing of civilians in the ME to the harassment they endure here, I would think by now at least one would go off with an AK 47 on a crowded street some where or maybe the Mall of America.

I'm sure quite a few here have had relatives murdered over there and these folks have LONG memories and they do carry grudges. The rift between Sunni and Shia goes back 100s of years and it pretty much about bull shit.

We won't be happy until we do stir up the hornets nest and I doubt we'll like the results~

[bigdarryl]

2. What about probes on skin heads