We are left with an appointment. In a few months, always in the House, when we discuss Islamic extremism in American prisons. They left after some discussion, without achieving a real deal on anything. The Committee on National Security of the American Chamber concluded a few days ago the first round of hearings on "appearance and extension of Islamic radicalism in the United States.
The Commission's chairman, Rep. Peter King, said he was pleased to have opened the debate on an important issue and often denied dall'imperante politically correct: the radicalization of the American Muslim community. "There's an elephant in the room, and nobody wants to talk," he said.
Democrats, Islamic groups and civil rights have responded by accusing the chairman, and the Republicans of racism. "Because we discuss only the Muslims, and not Klu Klux Klan and skinheads?", Asked the Democrat Bennie Thompson of Mississippi. For months, U.S. policy fights on the work of the Commission presided over by King.
The enemies have likened to that of the un-American activities of Senator Joe McCarthy, or internment camps for Japan-Americans during World War II. He, Peter King, says instead of having conceived the example of that "corruption in the union of Bobby Kennedy, in the late fifties." On that occasion, however, hundreds of witnesses were forced to attend the hearings, which lasted for years.
Here the purpose and ambition seemed to much more limited. Against the background of images of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon gutted by the attacks, have succeeded only seven witnesses, including relatives of two young Americans recruited by Islamic terrorists, and Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the House, who cried remembering firefighter, his co-religionists, who died Sept.
11 at the World Trade Center. A little 'little, critics say, for a commission that he wanted to "start the conversation" on Islamic terrorism "made in USA". King, the son of a policeman in New York, arch-foe of illegal immigration and a supporter of campaigns for the Guantanamo prison has not resulted in any data on the presence of Muslims in the country, their (alleged) radicalization, their international connections .
At the session was not invited any representative of the police, FBI or other agency of national security. There were leaders of major American Muslim groups, even those of the "Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), in recent years, the protagonist of a legal and political battle with the FBI, which has indirectly accused of financing Hamas (accusation then returned).
Without real data and witnesses, the meetings have ended up being reduced to a list of isolated events, motivated more by madness, or frustration, that true religious inspiration (the unexploded car bomb placed in Times Square from a U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin, Faisal Shahzad , or the massacre by Major Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood, Texas).
The result is that, rather than the analysis, we have touched the chord of sentimentality family, the clash of generations, as when it occurred to witness the father of Carlos Bledsoe, the boy accused of killing a soldier at a recruiting station military. "It has now become, has moved away from the family, I do not know what happened," said Bledsoe broken.
"The meetings of King creates anxiety in the Muslim community and reduce potential future anti-terrorism cooperation," wrote Jonathan Alter on "Washington Post". The meetings of King, much more simply prepared the ground for the 2012 presidential campaign, pointing out that the Republicans, their candidates - Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin, first - think of "terrorism threat" as a potential weapon in the battle policy.
But a weapon that could be checked if the campaign, as suggested by an aide to Barack Obama to the "Washington Post, not to take place under the banner of Al Qaeda and Osama bin-Laden's nightmare, but in the background of the Arab movement to call for democracy and rights. 
The Commission's chairman, Rep. Peter King, said he was pleased to have opened the debate on an important issue and often denied dall'imperante politically correct: the radicalization of the American Muslim community. "There's an elephant in the room, and nobody wants to talk," he said.
Democrats, Islamic groups and civil rights have responded by accusing the chairman, and the Republicans of racism. "Because we discuss only the Muslims, and not Klu Klux Klan and skinheads?", Asked the Democrat Bennie Thompson of Mississippi. For months, U.S. policy fights on the work of the Commission presided over by King.
The enemies have likened to that of the un-American activities of Senator Joe McCarthy, or internment camps for Japan-Americans during World War II. He, Peter King, says instead of having conceived the example of that "corruption in the union of Bobby Kennedy, in the late fifties." On that occasion, however, hundreds of witnesses were forced to attend the hearings, which lasted for years.
Here the purpose and ambition seemed to much more limited. Against the background of images of the Twin Towers and the Pentagon gutted by the attacks, have succeeded only seven witnesses, including relatives of two young Americans recruited by Islamic terrorists, and Keith Ellison, the first Muslim elected to the House, who cried remembering firefighter, his co-religionists, who died Sept.
11 at the World Trade Center. A little 'little, critics say, for a commission that he wanted to "start the conversation" on Islamic terrorism "made in USA". King, the son of a policeman in New York, arch-foe of illegal immigration and a supporter of campaigns for the Guantanamo prison has not resulted in any data on the presence of Muslims in the country, their (alleged) radicalization, their international connections .
At the session was not invited any representative of the police, FBI or other agency of national security. There were leaders of major American Muslim groups, even those of the "Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), in recent years, the protagonist of a legal and political battle with the FBI, which has indirectly accused of financing Hamas (accusation then returned).
Without real data and witnesses, the meetings have ended up being reduced to a list of isolated events, motivated more by madness, or frustration, that true religious inspiration (the unexploded car bomb placed in Times Square from a U.S. citizen of Pakistani origin, Faisal Shahzad , or the massacre by Major Nidal Hasan, Fort Hood, Texas).
The result is that, rather than the analysis, we have touched the chord of sentimentality family, the clash of generations, as when it occurred to witness the father of Carlos Bledsoe, the boy accused of killing a soldier at a recruiting station military. "It has now become, has moved away from the family, I do not know what happened," said Bledsoe broken.
"The meetings of King creates anxiety in the Muslim community and reduce potential future anti-terrorism cooperation," wrote Jonathan Alter on "Washington Post". The meetings of King, much more simply prepared the ground for the 2012 presidential campaign, pointing out that the Republicans, their candidates - Mitt Romney and Sarah Palin, first - think of "terrorism threat" as a potential weapon in the battle policy.
But a weapon that could be checked if the campaign, as suggested by an aide to Barack Obama to the "Washington Post, not to take place under the banner of Al Qaeda and Osama bin-Laden's nightmare, but in the background of the Arab movement to call for democracy and rights.
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