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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.).