Will Grigg?s Liberty Minute

March 11, 2011

The House Homeland Security Committee?s hearings about the radicalization of American Muslims are a gratuitous exercise. The process through which young Muslims are radicalized is not a mystery; the Federal government does it all the time.

Over the past several years, provocateurs employed by the FBI have targeted religiously indifferent, socially marginalized young Muslim men, indoctrinated them in Jihad, and manipulated them into participating in phony terrorism plots. The recruiting pitch didn?t focus on the impudence of infidels for rejecting the so-called Prophet Mohammed and his god; rather, it focused on the fact that millions of Muslims are being killed and impoverished by wars waged by Washington abroad.

To understand how American Muslims can be "radicalized," why don?t we ask the people who have been most successful: Those who have orchestrated FBI provocation operations, and the architects of the foreign policy that has created so many converts to the jihadist cause? That?s the last place Homeland Security Committee Chairman Peter King wants to look.

Let us take back the liberty wherewith Christ has made us free.