radicalized muslim hearing

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Riot

Well ... one group is a couple hundred violent, threatening political terrorists hiding out in Afghanistan, Yemen, Pakistan.

The other are a few billion peaceful, normal, average people, including millions of your fellow Americans.

yeah we've been fighting a 10 year war against a couple hundred people.

try

100,000,000 Muslims who support a radical version of Islam.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

yeah we've been fighting a 10 year war against a couple hundred people.

try

100,000,000 Muslims who support a radical version of Islam.

Repeatedly quoting that pulled-from-thin-air number doesn't help your case.

Yes - there are only a couple hundred, or less, of Al Quaeda left.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Riot

Repeatedly quoting that pulled-from-thin-air number doesn't help your case.

Yes - there are only a couple hundred, or less, of Al Quaeda left.

my number of 100,000,000 are people who support a radical version of Islam. aka support Sharia Law (but you already knew that as I've said it a million times - you just like to misrepresent things quite often). it is estimated to be 10% of Muslims.

If anything... my number is low. Its probably more like 150,000,000

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

my number of 100,000,000 are people who support a radical version of Islam. aka support Sharia Law (but you already knew that as I've said it a million times - you just like to misrepresent things quite often). it is estimated to be 10% of Muslims.

If anything... my number is low. Its probably more like 150,000,000

That number is ridiculous, and was made up, pulled out of thin air and spread in the fear-mongering wing of American media. There is zero validation for it.

[Antitrust32]

Originally Posted by Riot

That number is ridiculous, and was made up, pulled out of thin air and spread in the fear-mongering wing of American media. There is zero validation for it.

you are certifiable.

I'm done with this topic when it involves you. you have zero objectivity.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Antitrust32

you are certifiable.

I'm done with this topic when it involves you. you have zero objectivity.

I am all for objectivity. You've never been able to post any verifiable origin for that number. Please, do.

[Riot]

Al Qaeda:

Al Qaeda Field operatives

The number of individuals in the organization who have undergone proper military training, and are capable of commanding insurgent forces, is largely unknown. In 2006, it was estimated that al-Qaeda had several thousand commanders embedded in 40 different countries.[29] As of 2009, it was believed that no more than 200–300 members were still active commanders.[30]

According to the award-winning 2004 BBC documentary The Power of Nightmares, al-Qaeda was so weakly linked together that it was hard to say it existed apart from bin Laden and a small clique of close associates. The lack of any significant numbers of convicted al-Qaeda members, despite a large number of arrests on terrorism charges, was cited by the documentary as a reason to doubt whether a widespread entity that met the description of al-Qaeda existed.[31]

6-27-10
WASHINGTON -- CIA Director Leon Panetta said on Sunday there may be fewer than 50 al-Qaida fighters in Afghanistan, with "no question" that most of the terrorist network is operating from the western tribal region of Pakistan.

Asked by ABC's Jake Tapper to estimate the number of al Qaeda terrorists in Afghanistan, Panetta said, "I think the estimate on the number of Al Qaeda is actually relatively small. At most, we're looking at 50 to 100, maybe less. It's in that vicinity."

Panetta told ABCs' "This Week" that the CIA is heavily focused on killing the al Qaida leadership in Pakistan, and he defended CIA drone strikes against "dead wrong" claims that they violate international law. He said Osama bin Laden is hiding amid the region's rough terrain with "tremendous security around him."

Al-Qaeda in Iraq: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Qaeda_in_Iraq

[Riot]

This is only about 1/3 of this article:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/plu...he_cant_s.html
The Plum Line
Posted at 1:05 PM ET, 03/ 7/2011

Pete King admission undermines his own case for anti-Muslim hearings
By Adam Serwer

Is Pete King backing away from his own stated reasons for holding hearings on Muslim radicalization this week?

On CNN this weekend, King seemed to quietly do just that, making an interesting admission in an exchange with Dem Rep. Keith Ellison. They were debating King's decision to focus his hearings solely on Muslims, and King's argument contained a telling walkback:

"We're talking about al Qaeda," King said. "There's been self radicalization going on within the Muslim community, within a very small minority, but it's there and that's where the threat is coming from at this time."

On the eve of his own hearings, King is finally acknowledging that only a "very small minority" of Muslims actually pose a danger to the U.S. But this statement is exactly the opposite of what King has been saying all along.

Recall that King first justified holding these hearings on the basis of a fabricated statistic that "80 percent" of American mosques are radicalized, and that "the Muslim community does not cooperate [with authorities] anywhere near to the extent that it should."

In 2007, he called American Muslims "an enemy living amongst us." Now he's saying it's "a very small minority" that he's worried about.

Robert Costa obtained the list of witnesses for King's hearings, and, tellingly, King isn't calling anyone who will be able to corroborate his years of outrageous allegations, or even the argument he gave for holding the hearings in the first place:

National Review Online has obtained the list of witnesses set to appear at Rep. Peter King's hearings on radicalization within the American Muslim community: Abdirizak Bihi, the brother of Burhan Hassan's mother; Melvin Bledsoe, the father of Carlos Bledsoe (Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad); Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, an Arizona physician and military veteran; Lee Baca, the sheriff of Los Angeles County; Rep. Keith Ellison (D., Minn.); Rep. Frank Wolf (R., Va.).

[Cannon Shell]

Originally Posted by Riot

Repeatedly quoting that pulled-from-thin-air number doesn't help your case.

Yes - there are only a couple hundred, or less, of Al Quaeda left.

http://afpak.foreignpolicy.com/posts..._al_qaeda_have