India: White House lauds Muslims but supports hearings

The Times of India

White House: Muslims are part of solution


WASHINGTON: Ahead of a controversial Congressional hearing on radicalisation of Muslims in the United States, the White House has said the Obama administration believes that Muslims in the country are part of the solution and not a problem.

"We believe Muslim Americans are part of the solution, they are not the problem. It is through the helpful cooperation of Muslim Americans that we are able to effectively address this issue," White House press secretary Jay Carney said. However, the Obama administration, he said, supports Congressional hearings on this issue.

Representative Keith Ellison, first Muslim elected to the US Congress, broke down in tears while offering an emotional testimony in a controversial hearing on homegrown Islamic terrorism.

Democrat Ellison had been asked by Representative Peter King, who chairs the House Homeland Security Committee, to testify despite his clear opposition to King's controversial investigation of the radicalization of American Muslims.

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