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More protests on King hearings: Muslims feel “unfairly singled out” over jihadist terrorism

Mar 7, 2011 8:45 am By Marisol Seibold

Here is a piece from across the pond on the watered-down hearings on Islamic “radicalization” that are nonetheless provoking waves of protests by Muslims in America, who are displaying more outrage and more intensive mobilization over King’s hearings than at the continued stream of attempted jihadist attacks on the United States — oh, sorry, almost all of those were “entrapment,” we were told.

Apparently even this much attention to Islam in connection with terrorism is too close for comfort. One might say they “doth protest too much.” And so they employ two major tactics: 1.) Deflect attention by appropriating victim status, and 2.) Silence the discussion by acting as though criticism of Islam or Muslims is tantamount to inciting to hate crimes.

But the character of this story is highly consistent with Peter Sissons’ account of pro-Islamic bias at the BBC, in addition to being just plain sloppy. For example, there is this remark, casually dropped in without elaboration:

Mr King’s language on this subject has often proved inflammatory, our correspondent says, and many believe the witnesses he has called to speak at the hearings do not represent mainstream Muslims.

“Our correspondent says.” “Many believe.” Honestly, even that paragon of factual rigor, Wikipedia, calls those “weasel words,” and would pop in a little superscript “who?” at such drive-by shootings of prose. “US Muslims protest over hearings,” from BBC News, March 6:

Several hundred people have gathered in New York’s Times Square to protest at this week’s Congressional hearings on the US Muslim community.

The hearings will look at the extent of radicalisation within the community and the response on that issue of Muslim leaders.

Muslim organisations say they are being unfairly singled out.

The hearings are in response to such events as the Fort Hood shootings and the Times Square car bomb plot.

‘Xenophobic behaviour’

The BBC’s Tom Burridge in Washington says the protesters braved the rain to march on the streets of New York, many carrying banners reading “Today I am a Muslim too”.

In the hearings, Peter King – a Republican Congressman and chair of the homeland security committee – has called several witnesses to testify about “the extent of radicalisation within the American Muslim community”.

Mr King, who represents New York, claims some Muslim leaders are not doing enough to help the police and the FBI investigate terror plots which originate in the US.

Our correspondent says cases such as that of Pakistan-born US citizen Faisal Shahzad, who tried to blow up a car bomb in New York’s Times Square last year, and Virginia-born US army Maj Nidal Hasan, who allegedly killed 13 people on a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009, have changed political language and thinking in the US.

And the first World Trade Center attack, and 9/11, along with attempts in Springfield, Illinois, Dallas, Portland, Baltimore, and Lubbock, Texas (and potentially Dallas again), just to name a few more.

Politicians, the police and people are talking about a relatively new, homegrown threat, he says.

The protesters in New York and others fear the hearings will only increase Islamaphobia [sic] in America.

There’s a sentence laden with unsubstantiated assumptions, reported as facts.

Hip-hop mogul Russell Simmons and Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, who led the campaign to build an Islamic centre near the destroyed World Trade Center site, addressed the Times Square crowd.

“Our real enemy is not Islam or Muslims,” said Imam Rauf. “The enemy is extremism and radicalism and radical ideology.”

Muslim Democratic Congressman Andre Carson said he wanted to tell “the Peter Kings of the world, we will not take your xenophobic behaviour”.

Mr King’s language on this subject has often proved inflammatory, our correspondent says, and many believe the witnesses he has called to speak at the hearings do not represent mainstream Muslims.

You’re not talking about The Stig. “Some say” won’t cut it.

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