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Congressional Hearings Planned On Radicalization of US Mosques

By Howard M. Friedman

The Forward reported last week that New York Congressman Peter King, who will become chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security when the new Congress convenes, is planning to hold hearings on claimed radicalization of mosques in the United States.  Ibrahim Hooper, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, says the hearings promise to be a "show trial" that will "serve to marginalize American Muslims." King, once a supporter of the Irish Republican Army, cites some who contend that that extremists are in leadership positions in at least 80% of American mosques.

Full post as published by Religion Clause on January 01, 2011 (boomark / email).