NJ.COM: WASHINGTON — The Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee said today during a hearing on Islamic radicalization that denying a link between Islam and terrorism “defies credulity,” while Democrats countered that the hearing itself was counterproductive in the fight against terror.Rep. Peter King (R-NY), the Long Island congressman who chairs the committee, cited an assessment by U.S. counterterrorism officials that the greatest threat to U.S. security was from supporters of al Qaeda, the radical Islamic group that launched the 9/11 attacks. No one was suggesting that all Muslims were terrorists, King said. But, he said, “To deny that there’s any correlation between the Muslim faith and the biggest threat to this country today defies credulity.”
“When they’re looking for the Russian mob, they go to Breighton Beach and Coney Island,” King said, referring to Russian immigrant neighborhoods in Brooklyn. “That’s just good police work.” » | Steve Strunsky/The Star-Ledger | Wednesday, June 20, 2012
