Rep. Peter King Announces Second Round Of Muslim Radicalization Hearings (VIDEO)

Representative Peter King (R-NY) has announced that the House Committee on Homeland Security will hold a second hearing on the "radicalization of the Muslim-American community" June 15.

"This radicalization hearing, like the one in March, will be a deliberate and thoughtful examination of an issue that is too important for our security to ignore," King said in a statement released on his official House website.

Titled “The Threat of Muslim-American Radicalization in U.S. Prisons”, this second hearing will focus on the relationship between current and former members of the American prison population and extremist groups.

According to King, "We have seen cases in which inmates have been radicalized at the hands of already locked-up terrorists or by extremist imam chaplains. We will focus on a number of the serious cases in which radicalized current and former inmates have planned and launched attacks or attempted to join overseas Islamic terrorist organizations."

The first round of hearings held in March sparked major protest from many Muslim-Americans and their allies who accused the Congressman of conducting a politically motivated witch-hunt intended to demonize the Muslim faith.

King did not release a list of witnesses who will testify at the hearing, although his statement said that both U.S. and international experts would be included.

UPDATE: Remembered for giving emotional testimony during the first round of hearings in March, Rep. Keith Ellison of Minnesota appeared on MSNBC Friday afternoon to give his brief reaction to the announcement.

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[ProgressivsLoveAmerica]

03:27 PM on 06/18/2011

How about Irish radicalization hearings- especially for people who sympathize with the terrorist group the IRISH REPUBLICAN ARMY??!??

[sallysees]

03:25 PM on 06/19/2011

Is the Irish Republican Army really a threat to America?

[chaifreak]

08:42 PM on 06/22/2011

No more so than Islam.

[Tolerant]

01:05 PM on 06/14/2011

A SIDE OF ISLAM MANY WON'T ACKNOWLEDGE:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/kabir-helminski/the-way-of-the-spiritual-_b_876031.html

[JOHNSPEAKS]

09:12 AM on 06/14/2011

May the Christian -God- forgive us for putting false gods before Him and may He cast out the liberal devil in us and bring us back to the true -God- and his prophet Peter King???

[Jan Allen McDaniel]

08:22 AM on 06/14/2011

One source of Islamist radicalization:

SAYYID QUTB: MILESTONES [1964].

Qutb’s Milestones is considered the philosophical and theological inspiration for acts such as the attacks on September 11, 2001. Qutb [1906-1966] argues that despite the genius of Western creativity that has given mankind its material comforts, it has failed to answer the basic spiritual needs of man. The West is sunk in jahiliyyah, a state of ignorance of the Divine guidance; thus jahiliyyah is “based on rebellion against God’s sovereignty on earth. It transfers to man one of the greatest attributes of God, namely sovereignty, and makes some men lords over others. [Jahiliyyah] takes the form of claiming that the right to create values, to legislate rules of collective behavior, and choose any way of life rests with men, without regard to what God has prescribed.” [Sayyid Qutb, Milestones, [English translation] Dar al-Ilm, Damascus, Syria, [N.D.] p.11]

…
A Muslim has no obligations to any nation state; he does not owe any allegiance to a particular country [p.124]. Hence Muslims living in the West, where jahiliyyah prevails, cannot possibly wish to assimilate to Western societies -- they have no desire to integrate.

http://www.jihadwatch.org/2011/06/ibn-warraq-the-westminster-institute-virginia-educating-the-public-and-government-about-the-ideology.html

[Tolerant]

12:41 PM on 06/14/2011

"Hence Muslims living in the West, where jahiliyyah prevails, cannot possibly wish to assimilate to Western societies -- they have no desire to integrate."

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Jahaliyya (ignorance) does not pervail in the West. Therefore, the Muslims are free and enouraged to continue to live in the West.

The West provides more freedom of religion, thought and mutual respect than the Muslim world does.

As a matter of fact, the West is the Dar al-Islam (The Abode of Peace), according to the Shari'ah.

[Tolerant]

12:47 PM on 06/14/2011

"A Muslim has no obligation­s to any nation state."

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It is against the Shari'ah to live in a country and not obey its constitution and laws.

Many American Muslims have died for America and are currently buried at the Arlington Cemetary.

American Muslims are contributing to the welfare of the American society in nearly all walks of life.

They are politicians, like Keith Ellison, whose family originally came to America "to work" in the 1700's.

They are cab drivers, doctors and nurses saving the lives of fellow Americans, farmers, store keepers, scientists, philosophers, engineers, school teachers, college professors, first-responders, police men and women, etc.

There were Muslim first-responders on 911 and at least one of them sacrificed his life trying to save the lives of fellow Americans regardless of their religions.

Seyyed Qutb presented his own delusional thoughts and I doubt it if the majority of his followers even take him literally.

[LightShadow62]

12:50 AM on 06/14/2011

King is trying hard to be the new Joseph McCarthy.

[Badwater]

07:26 PM on 06/13/2011

What does this have to do with creating jobs for Americans? Just another broken campaign promise from Republics. It's no suprise, sadly.

[Shain Eighmey]

09:39 PM on 06/14/2011

Ahh yes the old "Look! Scary people of a darker color who are different from you in some minor way!" distraction. Unfortunately, history has shown it to be moderately effective.

[mikevab]

04:08 PM on 06/13/2011

Why aren't they holding hearings on radicalization of Christianity? There "Christian militias" in the mid-west, and hate groups like West burrow Baptist and others. These are the ones who really need to be investigated, they far more dangerous to the US.

[graceaustin]

11:15 PM on 06/13/2011

I read that the dept of homeland security has stepped back it's homegrown terrorist analysis the past two years. That means they aren't watching them well. The right ring thinking those groups make them look even worse than they are?
The Southern Poverty Law Center keeps the FBI informed of right wing terrorist activities.

[Gregor53]

10:08 AM on 06/13/2011

As if Part II will be any better.

[WryAwry]

09:30 AM on 06/13/2011

Couldn't someone please just airdrop this twinkie into Mogadishu ....

[knerd]

06:40 AM on 06/13/2011

King is implanting Islamaphobic tumors into healthy tissue.

[Tolerant]

08:49 AM on 06/13/2011

As a Sufi Muslim, I believe that the honorable Congressman, Peter King, is doing what he is doing based on his level of cosciousness and awareness of the current situation as he sees it.

He is not an evil person and we must realize that the radicalization of the prison population is a serious problem and must be resolved.

[Hassanista]

01:50 PM on 06/13/2011

The Radicalization of prison populations is virtually unheard of. It's a far less serious problem than drug gangs in the prison population. The only purpose of such a hearing (as evidenced by Zuhdi Jasser's begging/tomfoolery last time) is to divide the public and place greater scrutiny and burdens on the Muslim community. There is always someone who will benefit from a paranoid police state, even if it's brought about bit by bit, piecemeal.

What is the outcome of addressing this non-existent problem? (and a half-dozen amateur terrorists in 10+ years is a non-existent problem). Likely a call for the government to decide which Sects and Texts and specific teachings prison Imams are permitted to give. After all, Zuhdi Jasser specifically requested during the last hearing, that the government actively fund his reform "muslim" sect while implying it shut down all mainstream Muslim organizations.

[satyayug]

02:48 PM on 06/13/2011

Tolerant,
I have been following your posts and your way of thinking is refreshing.
Full disclosure: I consider myself an Atheist, and in general skeptical about men /women who claim to know the intentions/mind of God.
I had raised the issue of destruction of 360 idols by Muhammad at Kaaba. If the incident did really happen, how does it gel with ``you are free to follow your religion''.

I am confused by your reply : ``Put yourself in the shoes of God....
You probably meant it as a metaphor, but the impression I get is that of a petty god, A god ordering destruction of competing faiths. Proclaiming that he alone is true. A god that takes sides in tribal disputes...
So if I do actually ``step into Gods shoes'', the first thing I do is establish ownership??.

A god with all the human attributes, formless perhaps but so very human-like.

Or 1 could defend the destruction by claiming that they represent false religions. Then it is back to `My god is greater than yours approach. I don't think you subscribe to that way of thinking.

Or maybe it was just a property dispute (and the income it generated)?.

The Muslim invaders of India (in the name of Islam) also destroyed a number of temples,
since I am commenting on an Islam related issue, I state that I am not a ``Muslimophobe'' and I am not a bigot.

Cont.

[french queen13]

05:28 AM on 06/13/2011

King looks like he's trying to give someone the death stare ...

[LMPE]

10:43 PM on 06/12/2011

Peter King seems to have forgotten about how George W. Bush got radicalized after getting acquainted with Billy Graham.

[tamazul]

10:05 PM on 06/12/2011

He looks radical enough with that mean-spirited face of his already.

[LMPE]

10:39 PM on 06/12/2011

Peter King always looks constipated.

[MohammedAbbasi]

09:46 PM on 06/12/2011

Peter King and the rabid Tealibans are proof to the planet that the US has lost the war on terror!

[Jan Allen McDaniel]

08:26 PM on 06/12/2011

In chapter 10 of his book, “Willful Blindness”, Andrew McCarthy describes the murder of Rabbi Meir Kahane by Sayyid Nosair, a protégé of the Blind Sheikh, Omar Abdel Rahman, whom Mr. McCarthy prosecuted for the first World Trade Center bombing in 1993.

After killing Kahane, Nosair was held in Rikers Island prison, where he became the star of the New York jihadist community, especially the jihadist group that eventually attacked the WTC. Osama bin Laden contributed $20,000 to Nosair’s defense fund.

While incarcerated, Nosair made audiotapes which were distributed by his jihadist group, in which he said:

“God the Almighty…will facilitate for the believers to penetrate the lines no matter how strong they are… God the Almighty enabled His extremely brave people, with His great power, to destroy one of the top infidels… So, brothers, begin the jihad! Begin the jihad! Begin the jihad! There is no honor without al-jihad.”

For a while after his conviction for seditious conspiracy in the WTC bombing case, Rahman directed jihadist activities from his cell in America, with the aid of his American attorney, until she was arrested.

I think there is a long history of jihad in prison that should be investigated.

[Tolerant]

08:39 PM on 06/12/2011

As a Sufi Muslim, I second that. If there are Muslim individuals and groups who are currently in prison, and are being radicalized and are directing violent acts against the civilians or even the armed forces of the U.S., they must be eradicated.

On this one, I am going to follow Shaykh Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri's fatwa, which is over 600 pages long that he has issued on the subject of terrorism.

He has clarified that the Prophet Muhammad did point out that there would be a group of people who would look pious Muslims and would quote from the Qur`an and Hadith, but they would be called Kharajites and would not be Muslims.

Today's form of these Kharajites are the terrorists -- the suicide bombers and the planners and executors of all violent activities against the civilian population as well as against the armed forces of the West.

These non-state characters are of two kinds, according to Shaykh Muhammad Tahir-ul-Qadri:

1. Who have been brainwashed and it is too late for them to return to the original teachings of Islam. The Shaykh points out that the Prophet has indicated that they must be eliminated.

2. Those who are in the queue to become the suicide bombers. They must be identified and de-brainwashed and re-integrated into society after they have realized the mistake of the so-called Jihadism. Among them there will be those who will take the next step. Those must be eliminated.

[Tolerant]

08:48 PM on 06/12/2011

Jan Allen, I have a 4-part message for you here:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rev-dr-c-welton-gaddy/islamophobia-united-states_b_874428.html?show_comment_id=92272085#comment_92272085

Take care,