RADICALIZING AMERICAN CITIZENS BY MUSLIMS HEARING IN WASHINGTON

WORLD TERRORISM

GENESIS 6:11-13
11 The earth also was corrupt before God, and the earth was filled with violence.(WORLD TERRORISM,MURDERS)(HAMAS IN HEBREW IS VIOLENCE)
12 And God looked upon the earth, and, behold, it was corrupt; for all flesh had corrupted his way upon the earth.
13 And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence (TERRORISM)(HAMAS) through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.

2 PETER 2:5
5 And spared not the old world, but saved Noah the eighth person, a preacher of righteousness, bringing in the flood upon the world of the ungodly;

2 PETER 3:7
7 But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men

LEVITICUS 26:16
16 I also will do this unto you; I will even appoint over you( sudden) terror, consumption, and the burning ague, that shall consume the eyes, and cause sorrow of heart: and ye shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

GENESIS 16:11-12
11 And the angel of the LORD said unto her, Behold, thou art with child, and shalt bear a son, and shalt call his name Ishmael; because the LORD hath heard thy affliction.
12 And he will be a wild man; his hand will be against every man, and every man's hand against him; and he shall dwell in the presence of all his brethren.

ISAIAH 33:1,18-19 Woe to thee that spoilest,(destroys) and thou wast not spoiled;(destroyed) and dealest treacherously, and they dealt not treacherously with thee! when thou shalt cease to spoil,(destroy) thou shalt be spoiled;(destroyed) and when thou shalt make an end to deal treacherously, they shall deal treacherously with thee.
18 Thine heart shall meditate terror. Where is the scribe? where is the receiver? where is he that counted the towers?
19 Thou shalt not see a fierce people, a people of a deeper speech than thou canst perceive; of a stammering tongue, that thou canst not understand.

JOHN 16:2
2 They shall put you out of the synagogues: yea, the time cometh, that whosoever killeth you will think that he doeth God service.

VIDEO OF HEARINGS
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/video/2005/04/12/VI2005041201139.html?sid=ST2011031002070

ONE OF THE LADY MEMBERS ACTUALLY SAID ITS A FALSE FLAG SCAM THAT THIS MUSLIM THREAT IS ACTUALLY AMERICAN CYOP SETUPS TO FRAME MUSLIMS IN THE NAME OF TERRORISM.YOU COULD HEAR A PIN DROP AFTER SHE MENTIONED THIS AT THE HEARINGS JOEL SKOUSEN MENTIONED AS HE WAS LISTENING TO IT ON THE RADIO ON THE WAY TO GET READY TO DO THE ALEX JONES SHOW.

Peter King at odds with Democrats on Muslims at congressional hearing
By Michelle Boorstein and David A. Fahrenthold-Washington Post Staff Writers
Thursday, March 10, 2011; 12:32 PM

A hearing on radicalization among American Muslims began Thursday morning with two congressmen offering sharply different - and, at times, emotional - views of the Muslim community.Rep. Peter King (R-N.Y.), who chairs the House Committee on Homeland Security, opened the much anticipated congressional hearing with a statement that steered clear of his most controversial statements from the past, when he said more than 80 percent of American mosques were tainted by radicalism. But, King said, reports from law enforcement and the Obama administration indicated that Islamic terrorists were seeking to recruit American Muslims. And he cited a public opinion poll that showed support for suicide bombings among a small fraction of Muslim men.The overwhelming majority of Muslim Americans are outstanding Americans,King said.But there are realities we cannot ignore.Moderate leadership must emerge from the Muslim community,King said.But an emotional rebuttal came from the hearing's first witness, Rep. Keith Ellison (D-Minn.). Ellison, one of two Muslims in Congress, said he feared that the hearings could tar the entire Muslim community because of the actions of a few.We need to conduct a thorough, fair analysis and to do no harm. The approach of today's hearing, I fear, does not meet these standards, Ellison said.

Ellison read an account of Mohammed Salman Hamdani, 23, a Muslim first responder who died in the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Repeatedly choking back tears, the lawmaker read an account of Hamdani's love for his country and for Star Wars, and described how rumors had falsely connected him to the terrorists behind the attacks.
It was only when his remains were identified that these lies were exposed, Ellison said, his voice breaking. Mohammed Salman Hamdani was a fellow American who gave his life for other Americans.After Ellison, the committee heard from two men who described seeing their own relatives become radicalized in American mosques. Melvin Bledsoe, of Memphis, said his son turned to radical Islam in college in Nashville, then traveled to Yemen.As he spoke, committee staff put up large posters of Bledsoe's son Carlos - who changed his name to Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad - on a stand. First, a photo showed a sweetly smiling little boy in a red basketball uniform, then a young man in a tuxedo. Bledsoe's Memphis accent broke the frequent sound of camera shutters snapping as he read a statement about his son becoming more and more distant from his family and culture.He even took the photo of Martin Luther King off the wall,he said.

Bledsoe's son eventually returned from Yemen and opened fire on a military recruiting station in Arkansas. A U.S. soldier died in the attack.Americans are sitting around doing nothing about radical extremists as if Carlos's story [isn't] true. This is a big elephant in the room. Our society continues not to see it, Bledsoe said.Abdirizak Bihi, a Somali American from Minnesota, described how a nephew turned radical and left to fight with an Islamic militia in Somalia. His nephew was killed there. In questions from Rep. Dan Lungren (R-Calif.), Bihi said he had been discouraged by mosque leaders from seeking answers about what became of his nephew and others who left for Somalia.If you do that, you're going to be responsible for the eradication of all mosques and Islamic society in North America, Bihi said, recounting what he was told. You will have eternal fire and hell.Lungren responded, Would you call that intimidation, sir? Intimidation in its purest form, Bihi said.

Another witness, Zuhdi Jasser of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy, said he believes some Muslim communities need to stop thinking of themselves as separate from American society.It's a minority, but it's a mindset that exists in some mosques ... and it's a significant number, Jasser said. It is about that separatism, the idea that the Islamic state takes precedence, that Islamic law takes precedence over American law.Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca described cooperation his department has fostered with Muslims. He cautioned against aiming suspicion at Muslims generally.This plays directly into the terrorist propaganda that the West's war on terror is actually a war on Islam, Baca said.The hearing's stated purpose is to examine the Muslim community in America, but committee members seem equally focused on examining Congress itself. The witnesses include no representatives of large Muslim groups, and only one member of law enforcement - the sheriff, called by Democrats.Instead, a major focus of the hearing seems to be whether there should be a hearing on this subject at all. In between substantive questions of the witnesses, legislators traded jabs about whether they should even be there, asking these questions.

It has already been classified as a way to demonize and castigate, said Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (R-Tex.). She waved up a copy of the Constitution: This hearing right now is playing into al-Qaeda, around the world.The committee's ranking Democrat, Bennie Thompson (Miss.), gave a statement after King, saying that he worried the hearing could be used by terrorist recruiters to show that America is hostile to Muslims generally.We cannot give this lie a place to rest, Thompson said. With about 90 seats in the beige-walled, chandeliered hearing room - small for a hearing of this size - space was very tight. Imams sat shoulder-to-shoulder with rabbis and human rights lawyers. A long skinny table up against the wall was jammed with reporters.Security was tight in the hallways, where a line of about 100 had already formed by 8:30 a.m. on the third floor of the marble-floored Cannon House office building. Police officers were everywhere.The first three in line were women from New York, including Aisha Ghani, 30, a Muslim PhD student in national security at Stanford who took the overnight bus to bear witness to what must be the most absurd moment in American history.Even if this is under the guise of something reasonable, there is no question this is about Islam, she said. American Muslims do not pose a threat, and the King hearings, she said, are about justifying Islamophobia.

With her was Amna Akbar, 32, a Muslim human rights lawyer based at New York University. She called the hearing political theater meant to distract from the failed war on terror.Outside, two protesters stood on the rainy sidewalk along Independence Avenue SE. Virginia Spatz, a Chicago native who has lived in the Washington area for 25 years, held a sign that said Pluralism or Perish.I don't want this hearing to go on without some kind of visible protest, Spatz said. All religious people should be horrified that one religion is being singled out like this.Next to her, Galen Muhammad of Forestville said that he'd heard leaders in Muslim religious services tell congregations that anyone with radical ideas should leave and spend their life on a desert island, where they can't hurt anyone. So many Muslims had immigrated to America for freedom, and the message was: Don't mess it up for us, Muhammad said.I don't know who the criminals in the Muslim community are, said Muhammad, who is Muslim. Because they're not going to come to law-abiding Muslims and tell us they're going to commit a crime.

Radicalization’ hearings reignite US Muslim debate - AFP MAR 10,11

House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King (R-NY) listens to witnesses during a hearing on The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response on Capitol Hill in Washington. -Reuters Photo
WASHINGTON: A US lawmaker on Thursday was to hold provocative hearings on the alleged radicalization of US Muslims, in a move critics say fans anti-Islam sentiment nearly a decade after the 9/11 attacks.

Representative Peter King, the Republican who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, has promised a thorough probe, setting the stage for one of the most controversial congressional debates since the 2001 attacks.I want (Americans) to realize the extent to which Al-Qaeda is attempting to radicalize within the Muslim-American community, King said Wednesday in summing up his intent.The nation’s major Muslim groups, none of which have been invited to testify at the Capitol Hill hearing, and other rights defenders have blasted King’s fear-mongering.The seven million Americans (who are Muslim)… deserve more than collective guilt by suspicion, said Shahid Buttar, who heads the non-denominational and non-partisan Bill of Rights Defense Committee.By trafficking in bias and xenophobia, Representative King aims to essentially be the (Joseph) McCarthy of the 21st century,Buttar said.McCarthyism refers to allegations of treason or subversion without proof, and was coined after the former US senator’s anti-communist witch-hunts in the 1940s and 50s.

King has said that Muslim leaders and mosque imams are doing too little to stop the radicalization of young Americans and are not cooperating with law enforcement. He has also said most US mosques are controlled by extremists.The charges have alarmed US Muslim communities, the very ones President Barack Obama’s administration insists have been crucial to helping reduce the extremist threat.Obama’s Attorney General Eric Holder shot down King’s assessment that Muslim leaders have not helped law enforcement, stressing that they have contributed significantly to thwarting attacks.
We don’t want to stigmatize, we don’t want to alienate entire communities, Holder said.Imam Johari Abdul-Malik of the Coordinating Council of Muslim Organizations insisted that King was launching a modern-day witch-hunt.But he and others acknowledged that some American Muslims, while the numbers are small, had indeed been radicalized in the United States.We’re not in denial as a community that something is going on, he said. King is on to something, but he’s moving in the wrong direction,he said, voicing the same frustration held by many Muslim leaders, who say they are still viewed with suspicion despite the help they provide to law enforcement.The Council on American-Islamic Relations expressed concern with how King has been singling out and stigmatizing the American Muslim community.CAIR director Nihad Awad warned that King’s approach is going to radicalize young people.

Several rights groups, including the American Civil Liberties Union, insist the probe should be broadened to include all extremist violence, though not extremist thought, which they insist is protected by the US Constitution.With the battle lines drawn, the congressman at the center of the storm has vowed he will not back down on his investigation, which has divided fellow lawmakers.House Majority Leader Eric Cantor on Tuesday reiterated his support for the hearings, but fellow Republican and House Speaker John Boehner has been mute on the issue, essentially distancing himself from King.Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid said he was deeply concerned about these hearings, which demonize law-abiding American Muslims who make important contributions to our society.House Democratic Whip Steny Hoyer has also objected to the hearing, saying it sends the wrong message to the Muslim-American community.We need them to work with law enforcement to identify terrorist threats, not be afraid of them,he said in a statement.King said two Muslim-Americans with knowledge of radicalization practices in US mosques will testify, as well as an African-American whose son was radicalized and converted to Islam.Representative Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the US Congress, has said he would appear before the committee, in part to offer an alternative view to King’s.CAIR cited a recent study by Duke University that said 11 Muslim Americans have committed domestic terror attacks since 9/11, killing 33 people, compared to about 150,000 murders in the country over the same period.

Interfaith Rally in Times Square against Congressional Hearings on Muslim Radicalization IslamToday / Agencies Mon, 03/07/2011

Hundreds of people from 135 different interfaith, government, and civil liberties organizations stood in solidarity with the Muslim Americans of New York City in Times Square for the Today I Am a Muslim, Too rally on Sunday, March 6. Their purpose was to speak out against a planned congressional hearing on alleged Muslim terrorism, criticizing it as xenophobic and saying that singling out Muslims is unfair.Feisal Abdul Rauf, the imam who is a cofounder of a planned Islamic center near the World Trade Center site, and hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons were among those who addressed the crowd.Our real enemy is not Islam or Muslims,Rauf said.The enemy is extremism and radicalism and radical ideology.The chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, Representative Peter King, has said that affiliates of Al Qaeda are radicalizing some American Muslims. King plans hearings starting Thursday on the threat he says they pose. King, a Republican from Long Island, told CNN’s State of the Union yesterday that he sees an international movement with elements in the United States of Muslims becoming more radical and identifying with terrorists.

The overwhelming majority of Muslims are outstanding Americans, but at this stage in our history there’s an effort . . . to radicalize elements within the Muslim community,King said in the interview. It's there and that’s where the threat is coming from at this time.I don’t believe there is sufficient cooperation by American Muslims with law enforcement, King said. Certainly my dealings with the police in New York and FBI and others say they do not believe they get the same — they do not give the level of cooperation that they need.Speakers at the cold and drizzly Times Square rally said King was targeting Muslims unfairly. American Muslims are as fully American as any other faith community,said Rabbi Marc Schneier, founder of the Foundation for Ethnic Understanding.Local elected officials have raised concerns about the hearings as well. Councilwoman Helen Diane Foster wrote in a letter addressed to King: Statements of generalization and accusations toward the Muslim-American community and their houses of worship throughout New York City is a complete disregard to this large population. As elected leaders, we cannot lose sight of productive measures such as seeking cooperative efforts through interfaith dialogue.

The first Muslim elected to the House, Representative Keith Ellison, said that although it's proper to investigate radicalization, he thinks it is wrong to single out one religion.To say we’re going to investigate a religious minority, and a particular one, I think is the wrong course of action to take, said Ellison, a Minnesota Democrat. Sources: Karen Matthews, Rally hits Congress's focus on Muslims, terror Boston March 7, 2011.Catherine Yang, Hundreds Rally Against Radicalization Hearings in NY The Epoch Times.