Peter King: New York Times intellectually dishonest

by SEUNG MIN KIM
Politico
July 27, 2011

https://www.legal-project.org/1535/peter-king-new-york-times-intellectually-dishonest

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Rep. Peter King opened his latest hearing on whether Muslim-Americans are being radicalized by terrorist groups with an attack on the "vacuous ideologues" at the New York Times, who have suggested his inquiry should look at other potential forms of home-grown terrorism.

King, the Republican chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, opened the hearing Wednesday with an attack on the Times' coverage of the recent Norway bombings and shooting massacre. The paper reported that the suspect was deeply influenced by a small group of American bloggers and writers who warn about threats of Islam. The story noted that many critics accuse King and others of focusing too much on the threat of Islamic terrorists, stoking anti-Muslim sentiment, while ignoring other threats.

"If they had even a semblance of intellectual honesty, the Times and others would know and admit that there is no equivalency in the threat to our homeland from a deranged gunman and the international terror community apparatus of Al Qaeda and its affiliates who are recruiting people in this country and have murdered thousands of Americans in their jihad attacks," King said Wednesday.

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