Great summary; weak initial comment
Reader comment on item: Compelling Testimony, Political Theater at Radicalization Hearing

Maybe the difficulty getting people to understand the specific problem we have with the radicalization of young Muslims is people like the first commenter write (kind of) and open their mouths.

Yes, the Democrats on this committe were childish. But they were trying to divert the point of the hearing and keep the spin going that it is anti-Islam. It's a tactic! They were going to do this regardless of the actual content of the witnesses. Sure, it made them look like fools. As though they weren't actually listening to the stories of the two relatives of radicalized Muslims. And, uh, where were the hearings on skinheads, Klan and neo- nazis when MY Democratic party were in power? Obviously, condemning the focus of this hearing for excluding other political fanatic organizations was a tactic, not a serious concern.

I'd like to forward this article, which summarized the hearings well, to my more liberal friends but I'm afraid comments like the one above will just prevent intelligent folks from taking this seriously.

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