Homeland Security Watch

Comment by William R. Cumming

March 10, 2011 @ 4:40 pm

What kind of legislation would KING support on radicalization?

Comment by john comiskey

March 10, 2011 @ 8:41 pm

The US must engage the Muslim Community and in the case of homegrown terrorism and radicalization the US Muslim Community

The Muslim community must engage representative rule and in the best case democracy.
In the case of the American Muslim community, they must engage and participate in American society.
If not the cannons of dissension and war will roar.

NYPD’s Radicalization in the West is instructive:
http://www.nypdshield.org/public/SiteFiles/documents/NYPD_Report-Radicalization_in_the_West.pdf

Similar to loners who are attracted to cults, embittered/unstable Muslims are being recruited and radicalized by more embittered and certainly unstable terrorists who maliciously recruit vulnerable soldiers in their ill-gotten jihad.

Rep. King’s hearings are appropriate. At a minimum we’re talking.

I pray that America and the world will respectfully engage Islam.

I pray that moderate Islamics [those that renounce violence, oppression, and intolerance] will take a proactive role in embracing American society.

Comment by Muslim Americans

March 11, 2011 @ 6:07 am

I agree John that the hearings are appropriate, yet sensitive, very sensitive and I am sorry to see the inevitable media attention for the concerns and issues must be discussed, however not to be politicized or abused by the media for while even one incident can involve many lives affected, given the “stats” on the number of internal threats identified, planned attacks or in fact, actual successful attacks, the percentage of those participating in the American Islamic community are few, very few and those in the American Islamic community are as much concerned against any actions taken against the America they love as Muslim Americans as their families are as vulnerable as anyone else…I see much tolerance here on Main Street USA, however less on the streets of Europe and far more such tensions will erupt throughout Europe for certain….

We must not insult the community at large, fellow Americans, our melting pot, however we must all as Americans understand that we areat peril from so many differing platforms that this must be discussed and I just hope the media can address any such reporting and commentary in a responsible manner….