The King Hearings on Homeland Security

I imagine that Sheik Qaradawi himself will be called to testify in Representative King's hearing. When Pete King first caved to CAIR and threw Steve Emerson and Robert Spencer under the bus, I wrote that it was over before it started.

"King abdicated," I wrote in the American Thinker. Smelling blood, the hyenas at CAIR went for the jugular. And so King conceded again in early February and threw the Somali former Muslim Ayaan Hirsi Ali under the bus. And just last week, another casualty in the CAIR rout was Walid Phares.

When you thought it couldn't get any worse, it was announced today that CAIR Sheriff Lee Baca would be testifying. Looks like the taqiyya will be flying fast and furious. Keith Ellison will have plenty of Brotherhood company to keep.

I hope the penalty for perjury is fully enforced in these hearings.

Witness List Set for King Hearing IPT News

Two members of Congress, two men whose families were devastated by a relative's radicalization and two civic leaders with opposing views on Muslim community support for law enforcement will testify Thursday at the first hearing on Islamic radicalization in America.

According to the National Review, the father of a man accused of gunning down an Army recruiter and the uncle of a Minneapolis man killed after joining the Somali terrorist group al-Shabaab will testify about their relatives' path to violence. Also testifying are U.S. Reps. Keith Ellison, D-Minn., and Frank Wolf, R-Va., along with Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca and Muslim political activist M. Zuhdi Jasser.

U.S. Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., called the hearing in December, saying Congress needed to study new and effective methods used by al-Qaida and its affiliates to recruit terrorists from among Muslims in America. That includes English-language Internet video postings and several issues of a new magazine issued by al-Qaida's Yemeni branch.

In addition, King has said, more needs to be done to get community support for terrorism-related investigations. "When I meet with law enforcement," he told the New York Times, "they are constantly telling me how little cooperation they get from Muslim leaders."

Last week, for example, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) filed two lawsuits against the FBI, accusing the agency of allowing unchecked, wholesale investigations into Muslims because of their faith.

Baca has been a staunch CAIR defender, while Jasser has been a persistent critic. The Investigative Project on Terrorism compiled brief profiles of all the witnesses.

Pamela Geller