In the US state of New York, another hearing similar to Republican Senator Peter King's last month hearing on the 'radicalization of Islam' has been held, promoting Islamophobia. The hearing was held by Republican New York Senator Gregory Ball and focused on US Homeland Security preparedness, a Press TV correspondent reported. From the Council of American Islamic Relations, Cyrus McGoldrick criticized Senator Ball's choice of witnesses critical to radical Islam, who were also a part of King's hearings. "At the testimony, people like Nonie Darwish and Frank Gaffney should not be accepted as any type of expertise related to HomeLand Security or anything about Islam," McGoldrick told Press TV. Holding the same view, New York Council of Islamic Relations' Zead Ramadan said, "He kind of poisoned the water by bringing in the two, because they are infamous. All scholars and academics denounce their rhetoric, because it's not based facts, or law enforcement statistics." The Director of the Arab American Association of New York, Linda Sarsour, was also invited. "We are also concerned about radicalization. We're concerned about terrorism as well, but we want to make sure that it's just not focused on one community. There are true threats from Neo Nazis and other hate groups in this country," she said. The American FBI director was not invited, because he disagreed with the hearings entirely. Peter King's hearing last month drew much attention as massive protests broke out across the country against his looking into "the radicalization of American Muslims." King, who years ago had been linked with the Irish Republican Army, a known terrorist group, has been quoted in the past of having complained that there are too many mosques in the US, and that 85 percent of American mosques and their leaders are radicalized, a figure not backed by accredited statistics.
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