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Rep. Peter King Announces Third Islamic Radicalization Hearing Will Happen Next Week

The Huffington Post | Posted 09.18.2011

Peter King, the controversial Republican congressman from New York who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, announced Tuesday that he will...

Partnerships, Not Islamophobia, Must Dictate US Counterterrorism Policy

Deborah Ramirez | Posted 05.25.2011

Deborah Ramirez

Law enforcement must move past the Islamophobic rhetoric that seems to dominate US counterterrorism discourse bring Muslim communities into the fold to help in the effort.

King Hearings & Anti-Muslim Hate: A Citizen's Call to Action

Farhana Khera | Posted 05.25.2011

Farhana Khera

With the bigoted King hearings, many courageous Americans have begun to push back against efforts to target the entire American Muslim community. They include Christian clergy, law enforcement officials and civil rights leaders.

Elise Foley

Keith Ellison Tears Up At Hearing On Muslim-American 'Radicalization' (VIDEO)

HuffingtonPost.com | Elise Foley | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.), the first Muslim-American elected to Congress, broke into tears Thursday during a hearing investigating po...

Ranking Panel Democrat Suggests Muslim Hearings May Inspire Terror

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The top Democrat on the House Homeland Security Committee says Thursday's hearing on Islamic radicalism could be used by terrorists...

Terror Hearing In Congress Begins Amid Heightened Security

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON -- Extra security will accompany a New York congressman as he chairs a hearing focused on the U.S. Muslim community and its willingness to ...

Peter King's Hearings Part of a Long, Ignoble Tradition

Tom Parker | Posted 05.25.2011

Tom Parker

To this day, Peter King continues to describe the IRA as "a legitimate force" fighting British repression, which rather begs the question of how he views Hamas or Fatah.

Lucia Graves

Muslim Americans Denounce Peter King's 'Demonization' Of Islamic Community

HuffingtonPost.com | Lucia Graves | Posted 05.26.2011

WASHINGTON -- Members of the Muslim community on Wednesday denounced hearings scheduled by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y) on the radicalization of American M...

Muslim Superheroes And The House Radicalization Hearings

Shahid Mahmood | Posted 05.25.2011

Shahid Mahmood

Batman's recent choice of a new partner, Nightrunner, an Algerian Muslim living in Paris, has become a source of torment for many right-wing bloggers.

Peter King: Hearings On Muslims In America Will Be Fair

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.26.2011

WASHINGTON — Family members of two young men who were inspired to terrorism, with deadly consequences, plan to tell Congress that the men were v...

Why Are Peter King's Hearings So Loathsome? Let Us Count the Ways

Mark Potok | Posted 05.25.2011

Mark Potok

Rep. Peter King's hearing on Islamic fundamentalism are all about demonizing Muslims, and they are, unfortunately, very likely to accomplish that goal.

GOP Rep Defends Past IRA Support, Islamic Radicalism Hearings

AP | CALVIN WOODWARD and EILEEN SULLIVAN | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON — The wreckage of the World Trade Center still smoldered after the 2001 terrorist attacks when a voice rose above the pain and suspic...

White House Praises Muslims Ahead Of House Hearing

AP | EILEEN SULLIVAN and LOLITA C. BALDOR | Posted 05.26.2011

STERLING, Va. — Muslim Americans are not part of the terrorism problem facing the U.S. – they are part of the solution, a top White House ...

Congress To Hold Hearings On Muslim Threat

AP/The Huffington Post | Posted 05.25.2011

WASHINGTON - The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee says affiliates of al-Qaida are radicalizing some American Muslims and that he plan...

Peter King Note: Islamophobia Can Create Radicalization

James Zogby | Posted 05.25.2011

James Zogby

Islamophobia and those who promote it are a greater threat to the United States of America than Anwar al Awlaqi and his rag-tag team of terrorists.

GOP Rep Taps Controversial Witness For Radical Islam Hearings

The Washington Post | Michelle Boorstein | Posted 05.25.2011

In some ways, Zuhdi Jasser doesn't match the profile of the typical Muslim American. He's an active Republican who has supported the U.S. wars in Afgh...

Peter King: '80 Percent Of Mosques In This Country Are Controlled By Radical Imams' (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Nick Wing | Posted 05.25.2011

The reasons for New York Republican Rep. Peter King's insistence on holding a series of controversial hearings about the alleged growth of radical Isl...

Peter King: I'll Hold Hearings On Radical Islam

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — The incoming head of the House Committee on Homeland Security says he will hold hearings on what he calls the "radicalization" of som...