USA: Rep. Peter King’s Hearings on Muslims

The vast majority of American Muslims are peace-loving. Muslim-Americans have been instrumental in thwarting terror attempts by Muslim radicals. There should be no reason to blindly accuse the Muslim-American community of noncooperation.

Ahmadiyya Times | News Watch | US Desk
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By Kashif N. Chaudhry | March 9, 2011

To the Editor:

According to Representative Peter T. King, the chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security, Muslims in the United States aren’t cooperating enough with law enforcement to counter the radicalization of youth.

As a youth leader belonging to the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community U.S.A., I have always openly condemned terrorism and have taken this same message to tens of thousands of others through Muslims for Peace fliers in various cities in northern New Jersey.


The vast majority of American Muslims are peace-loving. Muslim-Americans have been instrumental in thwarting terror attempts by Muslim radicals. There should be no reason to blindly accuse the Muslim-American community of noncooperation.

But if the government thinks that Congressional hearings will improve homeland security and help expose those exploiting Islam, I assure full cooperation. I, too, aspire to have a more secure America.

Kashif N. Chaudhry
New Milford, N.J. 
March 9, 2011

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