Al Qaeda U.S. Recruiting Sparked Muslim Probe, says Lawmaker

[Chris_]

Al Qaeda U.S. Recruiting Sparked Muslim Probe, says Lawmaker

Al Qaeda's attempts to recruit in the United States and three incidents over the past two years involving killings or attempted killings of Americans are what prompted an investigation into the extent of radicalization in the Muslim community, Rep. Peter King of New York said on Sunday.

King said the hearing would focus on the influence of Al Qaeda.

"We're talking about the affiliates of Al Qaeda who have been radicalizing, and there's been self-radicalization going on within the Muslim community, within a very small minority, but it's there. And that's where the threat is coming from at this time," he said on CNN's State of the Union program on Sunday.

The hearing, set for Thursday at 9:30 a.m., is entitled "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response."

International Business Times

Predictably, liberals and progressives have circled their wagons around CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood and are comparing King to Eugene McCarthy.

[Odin's Hand]

"Viable threat = "witchhunt" now in modern liberal parlance.

But, they "supported" the war against Al-Qaeda in Afghanistan, and Afghanistan alone mind you, nary but 8 years ago...