Congress holds hundreds of hearings each year — and most generate more yawns than fireworks.
But the plan to hold hearings on the danger posed by radical Islam in the United States has inspired protest, counterprotest, debate, editorials, petitions and even pray-ins, before the first witness takes the stand.
The goal of the hearings, the first of which is being held Thursday, is "to establish and show the American people that there is a real threat of al-Qaida recruiting and of homegrown terrorists being self-radicalized within the Muslim community," according to Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., the new chairman of the Homeland Security Committee.
Why is this controversial? Only in the surreal, p.c. Obama universe is something like a "hearing on the danger posed by radical Islam in the United States"- something that should be so obviously necessary, given the numerous incidents of attacks perpetrated by Muslims- taboo. My question is, what took this hearing so long to begin with?
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