I love how Congressman King never misses an opportunity to rip on CAIR.

WASHINGTON — The fifth in a series of controversial hearings on Muslim radicalization has been scheduled for Wednesday morning by Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), the Long Island congressman who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee.

The 10:15 a.m. hearing at the Cannon House Office Building will focus on the Muslim community’s response to the previous four hearings, held last year from March through December, according to King’s office.

The previous hearings addressed the extent of radicalization of the Muslim community and its response; the threat of radicalization in U.S. prisons; recruitment by the al-Shabab radical group; and the threat to U.S. military communities posed by radicalization, exemplified by 2009 shooting at Fort Hood, Texas, which killed 13 people.

King issued a statement Tuesday acknowledging the controversy generated by the hearings, while rejecting accusations by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other critics that he was on a McCarthyesque witch hunt.

“I was vilified by the politically correct media, pandering politicians and radical groups such as CAIR,” King stated, “even though this issue was nonpartisan and of serious concern to national security and counterterrorism officials in the Obama administration.”