Muslim Baiting: Peter King’s Dangerous Obsession.
Agrees Hussein Rashid, a professor at Hofstra who blogs at HusseinRashid.com: “Most domestic terror does not come from the Muslim community. The equivalent would have made all Irish Catholics suspects in ’80s, Jews in Communist era, blacks in rise of the Black Panthers, or that all Italians would be responsible for the mob. It is unacceptable.
“It shows that King is unaware of his constituency in New York. It shows a real lack of engagement with those constituencies and shows a real lack of awareness of what being in charge of Homeland Security actually means — it means engaging on what unites us rather than [what’s] dividing us. . . . Diverting law enforcement resources away from real threats to investigating our community, well, that opens holes in our safety net.”