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The House Committee on Homeland Security’s Thursday hearing has a specific, pin-point focus: to examine the threat and extent of radicalization within the American Muslim community. The hearing was an attempt to identify the causes of this radicalization and, by extension, ways which we can, as a country and a people, work to prevent this radicalization from developing at all. It does not calumniate the American Muslim community, slander the Quran, encourage racial profiling, or do any of the other hysterics propagated by its critics. The hearing was clinical and focused.

Radicalization within the American Muslim community is a major threat to American national security. I wish it were not so, but that is the unfortunate reality of our situation. Al Qaeda has developed a continuing and evolving strategy to radicalize American citizens and permanent residents and recruit them to carry out attacks against American families within the United States. 

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