Last time I checked suicide bombers don’t say “in the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit” before blowing themselves to smithereens.
(Fox Nation) — Radical Islam poses a threat to the United States as a whole, but is particularly dangerous to American Muslims who are targeted by terror groups, the chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said Sunday in defending upcoming hearings on radical Islam.
…Rep. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., the first Muslim elected to the House, said that while it’s proper to investigate radicalization, he thinks it is wrong to single out a religious minority.
“If we’re going to talk about gang violence, I don’t think it’s right to talk about, you know, only the Irish community and the Westies. I think we talk about gang violence. I think, if we’re going to talk about organized crime, it’s not right to just talk about the Russian community,” Ellison said during a Sunday appearance with King on CNN’s “State of the Union.”
However, Ellison, who will be participating in the hearings, added that it makes sense to talk to the Muslim community about how to “meet the challenge of public security” to prevent people like Anwar al-Awlaki, the American cleric who fled to Yemen, from reaching his tentacles into American-Muslim communities.
“I think it makes sense to talk about the Internet, confronting ideology of people like Anwar al-Awlaki. I think where he’s trying to exploit and misuse Islam, we should counter him with what Islam really does say. And so I do think that there is a place for that. I just think it doesn’t make sense to narrow in on a discreet, insular group that has already been the target of a certain amount of discrimination,” Ellison said.