Here is a short news story from Fox News (hat tip: one of my friends from Tennessee) alerting us to a hearing scheduled for later this month in the House of Representatives on the recruitment of Somali refugees to return to Africa for Jihad training.
The Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee will hold another hearing on Muslim radicalization.
Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., plans the third in a series of controversial hearings for July 27. It will focus on the
Somalia-based al-Shabaab terrorist organization and its recruiting tactics in the U.S.
“In Minnesota, Ohio, and other states, dozens of young Muslim males have been recruited, radicalized, and then taken from their communities for overseas terrorist training by al-Shabaab,” King said in a statement. “This coordinated and ongoing recruitment and radicalization of young Muslim men in the U.S. is a serious and growing threat to our homeland security and simply cannot be ignored.”
King has been widely criticized by Muslim groups and some Democratic members of the Homeland Security Committee for holding hearings that focus strictly on Muslim radicalization rather than all types of radicalization.
Just a reminder, last week the Senate Homeland Security Committee held a hearing on how Iraqi refugees with links to terrorist activities in Iraq got into the US, here.
This morning we reported that a trial has opened in the Minnesota Al Shabaab recruitment case.