Peter King may be biased and hard liner.

However, as an American you need to work out which direction America should take. At the moment Muslims are in a low % in population and so all this “Victim” approach where they will simply plead that they are marginalized. But wait for sometime for them to go on converting your American population to Islam and with high birth rate, they will soon hit 10% of population.

When Muslims approach 10% of the population, they tend to increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions. In Paris , we are already seeing car-burnings. Any non-Muslim action offends Islam and results in uprisings and threats, such as in Amsterdam, with opposition to Mohammed cartoons and films about Islam. Such tensions are seen daily, particularly in Muslim sections, in:

Guyana -- Muslim 10%
India -- Muslim 13.4%
Israel -- Muslim 16%
Kenya -- Muslim 10%
Russia -- Muslim 15%

After reaching 20%, nations can expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings, and the burnings of Christian churches and Jewish synagogues, such as in:

Ethiopia -- Muslim 32.8%

At 40%, nations experience widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks, and ongoing militia warfare, such as in:

Bosnia -- Muslim 40%
Chad -- Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon -- Muslim 59.7%

From 60%, nations experience unfettered persecution of non-believers of all other religions (including non-conforming Muslims), sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon, and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels, such as in:

Albania -- Muslim 70%
Malaysia -- Muslim 60.4%
Qatar -- Muslim 77.5%
Sudan -- Muslim 70%

After 80%, expect daily intimidation and violent jihad, some State-run ethnic cleansing, and even some genocide, as these nations drive out the infidels, and move toward 100% Muslim, such as has been experienced and in some ways is on-going in Pakistan.

REPEAT: As an American you need to work out which direction America should take.

....and walla! you've got yourself a Hitler speech!

Really? You seem to be writing propaganda here as the person reporting the suspicious vehicle had nothing to do whatsoever with thwarting the attack. This is truly pathetic. The only reason the bomb did not go off was the incompetence of the bomb maker. So you either did a very poor job of researching or you are trying to slip one over on people to further your point of view. Either way pathetic.

"Civil rights advocates and religious leaders of all faiths are particularly concerned that the hearings will only serve to advance pervasive myths about Muslim Americans' support for extremist violence."

But isn't that the point? Since the tenth century, when Jews, heretics, Saracens, and sodomites were cultivated as convenient scapegoats, Western political culture has understood the value of scapegoats for deflecting the inadequacies of political regimes and their leaders. Divide and rule has been practiced continuously ever since.

We don't call projects such as Mr. King's "witch hunts" for nothing. Witch hunting was crucial to state-building throughout the Renaissance. Witch trials were the anvil upon which European law codes were hammered out. And although Hobbes thought it silly to use the irrational fear of witches in the practice of the politics of fear, he did place his stamp of approval on the politicization of fear.

With the revolutions in North Africa and the Middle East creating a counter-narrative to the one told by Israel and Washington as justification for state-sanctioned violence against Muslims, the mainstream narrative that elides "Muslim" with "terrorist" requires some shoring up. Mr. King's investigations are intended to do that.

Peter King acknowledges the obvious - radical Islam is a major problem for the United States. Leftist groups are aligned with Islamic groups to change the American way of life. Naturally both groups become hysterical when Islam is being targeted. This is par for the course. Just because some groups get hysterical, when they learn that their ways are not written in stone, doesn't mean we shouldn't move forward.

Since Islam is a political system that just happens to have a religion attached to it, we should put it under a microscope. Muslims seek to implement this political system by invoking terror across the Western world. At a minimum we should start paying to attention to this, and start asking questions.

One last point. Why are leftist drones aligned with Islamic groups? They are working together to change the system. The leftist dummies think that eventually they'll be able to create a socialist wonderland. The Islamists have other ideas. I would not bet against the Islamists.

The most troubling aspect to me and to many I know about Islam is that it is a capital crime (in the Koran) and in everyday life to convert to another religion. A Mulsim is absolutely on his/her life prohibited converting to another religion. Literally on his life.

All the holy books anyway are self contratictory, illogical, inconsistent. The holy books are grossly antiquated, irrelevant and immaterial texts which have been left chewing and choking on ancient Mideast desert dust by the culturally irrigated modern world of the European Enlightenment and especially by modern science. Religions in the tropics are equally out of modern times as presently for instance a billion Indians continue their ancient tradition (when there were 80% fewer Indians) to pollute the Ganges River by ritually bathing and passing waste into it.

One time getting my hair cut I was chatting with friends in a predominantly and tranquil Muslim province of a Buddhist country. My dear Muslim friends mentioned with great self-satisfaction and a come-to-us smugness that a Christian American they know there recently had converted to Islam. I simply responded that Christians inter alia are absolutely and individually free to convert to another religion. My Muslim friends fell silent because they knew I was indirectly saying the opposite is true of Mideval absolutist Islam, and on your life. If one is going to lose his/her life for converting to another religion, then we are talking a kind of fascism.

As a member of the Democratic party of the United States, I would say that those searching for a conspiracy among US Muslims as a whole are searching for rat droppings, their tongues hanging out. The same conspiracy theorists who wish to be destructively creative by searching for a connection between "Leftist" groups in the US, as defined to the convenience of the conspiracists and global Sharia Law Muslims do not know the Muslims of the United States. The conspiracists make more trouble against the Constitution than they themselves are worth.

The Constitution wisely and rightfully protects the conspiracists, Muslims and all of us, to include the demagogue US Rep Peter King (R-NY) and the Republican party which is beginning to remind us of another Republican in Congress, the late Sen Joe McCarthy (R-WI), old tail gunner Joe himself.

I am just FLOORED that the legislative branch would waste its time and taxpayer money on McCarthy-style hearings on the radicalization of the Islamic population of the U.S. when our economy is going down the drain, people are out of work in record numbers and losing everything they have and the deficit and national debt are at all-time highs with nothing being done about it! WHAT A JOKE!!

Is it any wonder that our nation's citizens has lost faith and trust in our governmental institutions? Is it any wonder that the American people view politicians in Washington as being wholly out of touch with what is really going on with the average citizen on the street?

As for Mr. King, a self-confessed IRA sympathizer, he might do well to take a good, long look at himself before presuming to pass judgment on anyone else!

Just becasue you can throw dirt collected through Google on folks who are calling the radicalization of American muslims a reality does not make you an expert or an authority.

The simple fact is that American Muslims are getting more and more extremist. For crying out loud there are Muslim groups here in the US who consider listening to music a sin. I have not seen any refernce of that in the Quran. I am a Muslim.

Anyone who has lived in or travelled to Metro New York, DC Metro area, Chicago and Houson can find a boat load of extremists. They are not prone to violence but their views are extremist. Who knows when these same people decide one day that thier religion is in danger; can violence then be an option for them.

I see alot of mohamedites rushing ti defend the creed with "but but but... CHRISTIANS".

3 things wrong with that:

1. 2 wrongs don't make a write, except in internet discussions it seems. Muslims did something bad, they did something bad. Period.

2. There are Christian extremest groups. The KKK, in the 20's at the height of thier power, were crushed and marginalized by the US GOV. Hitler, was a Christians, but he didnt quote Jesus as he invaded poland, and it was other Christian nations that put him down.

3. When a man quotes the Quran, cites examples of Mohamed's life as examples of how muslims should treat and kill non muslims, yeah Islam was the problem. When a muslim does something like rob a bank b/c he was starving had needed money, Islam was not the problem.

Periods of economic difficulty are known to engender insecurities that foster protective solidarity and oppression of distinctive minority groups. Antisemitism is the classic historical example. Though not the only reason for Western Islamophobia, it is timely.

Political arm of Islam has been waging its jihadist war against the rest of the world for centuries, ever since its inception in seventh century. Islamic invaders from the middle east invaded India hundreds of times beginning with the first one in 712 AD.

Muslim invaders began entering India in the early 8th century, on the orders of Hajjaj, the governor of what is now Iraq. Starting in 712 the raiders, commanded by Muhammad Qasim, demolished temples, shattered sculptures, plundered palaces, killed vast numbers of men — it took three whole days to slaughter the inhabitants of the city of Debal.

Qasim’s early exploits were continued in the early eleventh century, when Mahmud of Ghazni, "passed through India like a whirlwind, destroying, pillaging, and massacring," zealously following the Quranic injunction to kill idolaters, whom he had vowed to chastise every year of his life. In the course of seventeen invasions, in the words of Alberuni, the scholar brought by Mahmud to India, "Mahmud utterly ruined the prosperity of the country, and performed these wonderful exploits, by which the Hindus became like atoms of dust scattered in all directions, and like a tale of old in the mouth of the people. Their scattered remains cherish, of course, the most inveterate aversion toward all Muslims."

Muslims follow Qur’an and Qur’an openly calls for the killing or converting of non-believers (i.e. pagans) and idolaters (i.e. Hindus and Buddhists) and for oppressing and humiliating the People of the Book (i.e. Jews and Christians).

Qur'an calls on Muslims to wage jihad against non-Muslims 2:191, 2:193, 4:66, 4:84, 5:33, 8:12, 8:15-18, 8:39, 8:59-60, 8:65, 9:2, 9:5, 9:14, 9:29, 9:39, 9:73, 9:111, 9:123, 25:52, 37:22-23, 47:4, 48:29, 69:30.

Qur'an promotes jihad against the non-Muslims by glorifying it 2:216, 9:41, 49:15, or by promising lust in paradise to Shaheeds (martyrs) who die in such a war 3:142, 3:157, 9:20.

Qur'an promises hell to non-Muslims 3:85, 4:56, 5:37, 5:72, 8:55, 9:28, 15:2, 21:98, 22:19, 22:56, 25:17, 25:55, 29:53, 31:13, 66:9, 68:10, 72:14.

Qur'an warns Muslims against mixing with non-Muslims 2:21, 3:28, 3:118, 5:144, 9:7, 9:28, 58:23, 60:4.

This is horrendous. I hope the author realises that fewer and fewer people will fall for this kind of meaningless sobby rhetoric through which debate is silenced and truths swept under the carpet. The current methods aren't working, there are some facts that have to be addressed. Violent extremists may be a minority, but the beliefs, customs and mentality that breed them is widely held within the Muslim community and they have plenty of sympathisers. King may be a hypocrite but the issues he seeks to address are real. The US government should be concerned about the number of their citizens who adhere to a regressive, violent, backward, sexist, pedophilic religious dogma that violently stifles any form of goodness and freedom that it encounters.

As it states at the beginning of the article, Peter King is chairman of the Homeland Security Committee. Surely it is a legitimate matter for Homeland Security to consider the danger of radicalization. If a calendar year ever passes when a U.S. Muslim resident does not become radicalized and commit or attempt to commit a terrorist act, perhaps this will become unreasonable, but all the recent attacks or attempted attacks within the U.S. have been committed by U.S. residents, who are Muslims who have become radicalized. That seems like a very legitimate issue for the Homeland Security Committee to consider.