Peter King began his congressional hearing on Islamic radicalization Thursday, saying America is "failing to confront the threat."
But one Representative, Keith Ellison, a Democrat from Minnesota and a Muslim himself said, "When you assign their violent action to the entire community, you assign collective blame to a whole group. This is the very heart of stereotyping and scapegoating."
That leads to my question, which is if you don't try to find terrorists and threats how will you ever ferret them out? Because while political correctness sounds good, decent and humane, there's no doubt subversives take advantage of the premise.
Beyond that, even when there are no imminent threats, groups have been singled out in this country since its inception, and there's discrimination all over the place even now. Whether its religion, color, gender, sexual preference, economic status or a slew of other characteristics and traits, there's more than enough hate and distrust to go around.
So, since that's how it works around here, all kinds of groups, sects and sets have had their share, or more, of hostility, and significant numbers still do. And the game's not going to change in that regard soon, I don't think.
And that means for Muslims, it's their turn in the limelight right now. Which means they can help everyone solve the problem through cooperation in routing out the bad ones or worsen the whole process by protecting the thugs.
That's it for today folks.
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