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Peter King On Radical Muslim Hearings, "Leadership Of The Community Not Geared To Cooperation"

January 19, 2011

January 19, 2011 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - In an interview given to Politico [see, http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/47756.html] Representative Peter King, the Chair of the House Homeland Security Committee, essentially claimed that the self-appointed spokesmen for American Islam are only giving lip service to ending the threat of Muslim terrorism.

"...It's the fact that there's a real threat coming from this attempted radicalization of the community and it's, in many ways, coming from overseas...The leadership of the community is not geared to cooperation..."

The tactic these pressure groups have employed is intentionally deceptive and hints at a more sinister motive, generating endless streams of public relations statements suggesting cooperation, while in private, counseling the Muslim community, the Umma to "Build a wall of resistance, don't talk to the FBI," as CAIR California recently did [see image inset and Fox News, http://www.foxnews.com/us/2011/01/13/cair-says-anti-fbi-poster-misinterpreted/] then disingenuously countering [after hastily pulling the poster from its website] that it was all a big misunderstanding.

As he has stated on many occasions, until September 11, 2001 King enjoyed an excellent relationship with New York's Muslim leaders, but that all ended after the attacks as the alphabet soup of - often foreign influenced - Islamist pressure groups adding insult to injury, embarking on a nationwide snake-oil tour, crying Islamophobia, when none existed.

"Before 9/11, few if any American politicians had a closer relationship with the Muslim community and its leadership than I did. During my first months in Congress in 1993, I traveled to the Balkans - including Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo - to support that region's Muslims from aggression by Serbian Orthodox Christians...I attended the Islamic Center of Long Island ...had Muslim students intern in my office...In the days following 9/11, I made several television and radio appearances supporting American Muslims, saying that they had nothing to do with the attacks and were as loyal and patriotic as any Americans..." [see, Rep Peter King To Hold Hearings On Islamic Radicalization, http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=kinghearings1220102%]2Ehtm

It is clear now that the purpose of this effort was to in essence contaminate the jury pool and turn Muslim citizens against their government and its efforts to protect the homeland.

It is for this reason that King's hearing are long overdue. The charlatans who have appropriated positions of leadership in the American Muslim community need to be held to account, to clearly state their stance on Islamic terror organizations such as Hamas and Hezbollah, to go on the record as to supporting or opposing Shari'a and to answer questions as to the source of their financing and to what degree they are stoking American mosques with Wahhabist radicals.

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