Dearborn Mayor Jack O'Reilly slams Peter King over anti-Muslim hearings #p2

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Come Thursday, Rep. Peter King will begin his hearings on The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response. It would be a surprise if the hearings end without King proposing a targeted destruction of constitutional rights. But don't worry. If you're not a Muslim—or an Islamo-symp—you have nothing to worry about.

It's not yet known whether this bigoted chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee will start off the hearings with an "I have a list" introduction. But it wouldn't be out of character for King, who claimed in 2007 that "there are too many mosques in this country" and "There are too many people sympathetic to radical Islam. We should be looking at them more carefully and finding out how we can infiltrate them." According to him, 85 percent of the mosques in the United States are controlled by "extremist leadership." Muslims, he told Sean Hannity, make up "an enemy living amongst us."

The hearings begin just as Political Research Associates has released an 80-page report documenting lax oversight of $1.67 million in funding for states' counterterrorism programs:

"America faces very real threats of violent terrorism, yet, trainers from the organizations in our study draw from a variety of anti-Islamic frames to teach public servants conspiracy theories about stealth infiltration of America that echo the shameful witch hunts of McCarthyism," says Thom Cincotta, author of the report.

"In the process," he adds, "they may put millions of Americans at risk both in terms of security and in terms of protecting their constitutional rights."

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