Washington, March 11 (IANS) As a US Congressional panel began a controversial hearing on the radicalisation of Muslim Americans, several organizations representing South Asian, Chinese, Japanese and other Asian American communities denounced the move.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have grave concerns with the tenor and scope of the hearing,\u201d they said as Peter King, Republican Chairman of the House Homeland Security Committee, convened a hearing Thursday on \u201cThe Extent of Radicalisation in the American Muslim Community.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cAs we had anticipated, the hearing did not produce any significant contributions to the crucial issue of national security,\u201d South Asian Americans Leading Together (SAALT), Organization of Chinese Americans (OCA) and the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) stated.<\/p>\n
\u201cRather, they continued to scapegoat a single religious community,\u201d they said adding, \u201cAs Asian Americans, we are extremely disappointed with the targeting of a particular community within the halls of Congress.\u201d<\/p>\n
Along with Asian American communities, South Asian, Arab, Sikh and Muslim Americans share a long history in this country and have played an invaluable part in building this nation, the community organisations said.<\/p>\n
\u201cYet our communities have also faced discrimination and alienation in America,\u201d they said calling \u201cupon Congress to engage in an objective dialogue about national security that focuses on constructive solutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
On the Capitol Hill, the four-hour session of the House panel heard calls from moderate Muslims for support in overcoming extremists seeking to indoctrinate their children, as well as protests from Democratic legislators who complained the hearing unfairly implicated all Muslims for the criminal acts of a small minority.<\/p>\n
In the end, King said the hearing that generated widespread media coverage \u201cactually went a lot easier than it could have.\u201d<\/p>\n
He blamed what he called the \u201cmindless, baseless hysteria in the media\u201d in preceding weeks for the controversy, and promised additional hearings in coming months, with the next perhaps focusing on the radicalisation of Muslims in US prisons.<\/p>\n
Despite strong criticism from Muslim Americans and accusations of a McCarthyist revival, King started the hearing by defending it as neither \u201cradical or un-American.\u201d<\/p>\n
Witnesses stressed to the panel the need for more understanding of the issue, with a father describing how his son was radicalised by Islamic extremists, and a moderate Muslim activist advocating an American form of Islam that believes in \u201cseparation of mosque and state.\u201d<\/p>\n
Democrats on the panel sharply criticised King for focusing the hearing only on the Muslim-American community, with some expressing outrage and other making emotional pleas.<\/p>\n
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