King Announces Third Muslim Radicalization Hearing
Tuesday, July 19, 2011 at 1:38PMHouse Homeland Security Chair Peter King (R-N.Y.) announced Tuesday that he has scheduled the next hearing studying the radicalization of Muslim Americans.
The hearing, titled “Al Shabaab: Recruitment and Radicalization within the Muslim American Community and the Threat to the Homeland,” will be heard by King’s committee on July 27.
“At this hearing, the third in a series, we will examine Somalia-based terrorist organization al-Shabaab’s ongoing recruitment, radicalization, and training of young Muslim-Americans and al-Shabaab’s linking up with al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP),” King said in a statement.
King’s hearings have drawn harsh criticisms from civil rights activists who have tagged the hearings as discriminatory and that they exercise racial profiling.
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