It's nice to see Rep. Peter King just come right out and say it. From Lee Fang:
Yeah, and Frank, this is very unusual for our country because despite a person's ethnic background or religious background, when a war begins, we're all Americans. But in this case, this is not the situation. And whether its pressure, whether it's cultural tradition, whatever, the fact is the Muslim community does not cooperate anywhere near to the extent that it should. The irony is that we’re living in two different worlds. One is the real world that I find when I’m talking with police officers, talking with federal law enforcement authorities. And when I raise the question of Muslim cooperation, they look at me like ‘oh of course not, no there’s no cooperation, we don’t anticipate that.’ You know, ‘We never expect cooperation.’ They try but hardly ever get it.
As an empirical matter, American Muslims have provided assistance to law enforcement in almost 40 percent of domestic terror plots involving Islamic extremism. So it's just factually wrong to say "there's no cooperation."
Also, it's really hard to see how suggesting Muslims aren't Americans, and then holding hearings designed to single out American Muslims as particularly extreme or violent (when the opposite is true), fosters an atmosphere of cooperation, rather than one of persecution where cooperation actually becomes less likely because the authorities treat all Muslims as potential terrorists.
"Frank" is Frank Gaffney who believes the president "may still be a Muslim." King was appearing on his radio show.
