Jesus Akbar!
(MRC) — Mark Potok of the left-wing Southern Poverty Law Center claimed on Monday’s Newsroom on CNN that radical Islam wasn’t “our biggest domestic terror threat,” that instead, “that pretty clearly comes from the radical right in this country.” Anchor Suzanne Malveaux touted Potok as “expert on extremism” from “one of the most highly regarded non-governmental operations that are monitoring hate groups.”
Malveaux brought on the SPLC spokesman at the bottom of the 12 noon Eastern hour to discuss the upcoming hearings by the House Homeland Security Committee on the radicalization of American Muslims. The anchor first asked him, “From your study of tracking radical groups, potentially hate groups, what do you think of this hearing? Is al Qaeda radicalizing Muslims? Is that our biggest homegrown terrorism threat right now?”
Potok replied with his “radical right” claim, and went on to criticize the chairman of the House committee, Rep. Peter King:
POTOK: Well, I think it’s not our biggest domestic terror threat. I think that pretty clearly comes from the radical right in this country, although I would certainly not minimize the threat of jihadist terrorism in this country. Obviously, we have seen a fair amount of it. But what is completely false is, first of all, the idea that Peter King has repeatedly said, that most Muslims are good Americans and so on. You know, in fact what he has said is that 85 percent or 90 percent of the imams running mosques in this country are radical. They’re jihadists, and everything suggests that what he says is false. He has also suggested that Muslims are not cooperating with law enforcement, and, you know, we work very closely at the Southern Poverty Law Center with law enforcement officials, and that is absolutely not what they’re saying. They’re saying they’re getting a great deal of cooperation, and in fact, something close to half of the jihadist terror attempts that is have occurred in this country since 9/11 were found out, in fact, because of Muslim informants.
HT: Jay