It’s a fact that most Muslims in America do not engage in terrorism. But it’s also a fact that a great many of the terrorist acts against this country have been committed by radical Muslims.
So even though we surely should not brand every Muslim a terrorist, it is appropriate that Congress is planning hearings on the radicalization of some segments of America’s Muslim population.
U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., is convening hearings in March in the Homeland Security Committee of the House of Representatives. The hearings will focus on the threat of radical Islam in the United States.
That has led some “civil rights” groups to suggest the hearings are discriminatory and to demand that they be stopped, or expanded to include other hate groups.
You can find plenty of mindless hate from varied groups and individuals in this country, and that is much to be deplored. But as a matter of national security, other groups have not recently shown the same likelihood to engage in deadly terrorism that radical Muslims have.