"McCarthyism" to fight home-grown killers

Al-Qaida now is actively recruiting home-grown killers within United States borders! That's the extremely ominous warning from Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King, who has set hearings in the U.S. House on the radicalization of American Muslims.

Because of increased security, it's "extremely difficult for them to attack us from outside," Rep. King said. So al-Qaida has switched to recruiting within U.S. borders! "They're taking people who are under the radar screen, who are not on any terrorist surveillance list at all, and they are recruiting them to fight against America," he said.

So how do you suppose they're going about it? Would they approach infidels -- such as Christians or Jews or even atheist liberals -- or seek out Muslims? Would al-Qaida buttonhole people on the street or, say, mosey up in a mosque?

Certainly mosques, where America's Muslims worship and socialize, would be a happy hunting ground.

And the most promising mosque? Why, the one about to be built at Ground Zero in New York City, so that its shadow daily will fall across the site of Islam's triumphant 9/11 strike. Yes, the one that's still scheduled despite the overwhelming objections of the American people. Maybe that's why our protests and petitions are being ignored, huh?

Mr. 0 naturally has been slow to acknowledge the urgency of the terror threat and take a hard line, Rep. King said, noting "it's sort of a schizophrenic administration."

"Schizophrenic." Rep. King said it; not me! Like in some government officials being against terrorism; others, pro?

Rep. King chided Mr. 0 for not being firm enough about the violent protests in Iran. "With Egypt, he was quick to pull the rug on President Hosni Mubarak," he said. "Yet with Iran, when the Iranians were so brutal to the demonstrators, putting down those demonstrations in 2009, the president was virtually silent."

What's more, a new Pentagon-funded study confirms al-Qaida is using the Internet, including Facebook and YouTube, to recruit potential new members right there in their U.S. homes. Poster boy for the home-grown terrorist theory, of course, is Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan, an American-born Muslim who killed 13 in a 2009 shooting spree at Fort Hood.

As you might expect, Islamic leaders quickly expressed deep concern that King's hearings will be a witch hunt reminiscent of those by anti-communist crusader Sen. Joe McCarthy in the 1950s. And The New York Times (who else?) criticized the plan.

By the way, thanks to Sen. McCarthy, a massive communist infiltration of our government and society was exposed, narrowly averting a takeover. Bitter that the coup was foiled, sympathizers long have vilified the senator so that his name has become a dirty word -- "McCarthyism" -- to be invoked any time bad guys need to stop Congress from getting to the bottom of some treasonous plot. Like now. But recently released KGB records show the communist ploy was about to work, fully exonerating Joe. You can Google it up. Like the words rainbow and gay, the name McCarthy deserves to be redeemed, but I digress.

Rep. King's Homeland Security Committee hearings are legitimate because: "We have to find out who is being radicalized, how are they attempting to do it, how are they recruiting within the Muslim community and whether or not Muslim leaders are cooperating with law enforcement, what Muslim leaders are doing to find out who in their midst is being recruited and who is a potential danger to the United States," he said.

And isn't it alarmingly sad that right-minded Americans must overcome traitorous opposition and turncoat media to schedule such fact-finding hearings in order to expose this obvious threat. But what else would you expect from an administration run by an Islamist sympathizer whose middle name is Hussein?