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As House Homeland Security Committee Chair Peter King (R-N.Y.) is set to hold his next hearing on the "radicalization" of American Muslims - this time focusing on prisons - it is instructive to see what his last two hearings accomplished.

King's March hearing on "The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response" failed to establish that "radicalization" was a problem. To the contrary, it prompted a number of law enforcement and government officials to come forward and attest to the constructive role American Muslims had played in thwarting terrorist plots, undermining the hearing’s basic premise.

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