I think we should have afforded him that courtesy.

For us to focus in and say Muslim Americans specifically are this threat, when I can also talk about gang radicalization...

I am sharing my opinion as a member of this committee. My opinion is that we have focused almost as a fixation on this one community, when there are many threats to our civil society that have not been examined at all.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman. Let me say that today's hearing has been a great Congressional theater, certainly the equivalent of reality TV.

Homegrown violent extremism is not the domain of any one group of people in this Nation.

I fail to see the objectives of this hearing other than to further stigmatize and ostracize a community from whom we desire cooperation.

I am really concerned that Chairman King has decided to look at the issue of home-grown terrorism through a myopic lens that has directed its focus on one religious community, Muslim-Americans.

The goal here should be how do we address that suffering through communication, through dialogue, through enlightenment.

I would like to ask Chairman King to add gang violence to the discussion of terrorist extremists.

Let me say that today's hearing has been a great Congressional theater, certainly the equivalent of reality television.

Do you think this restriction will impact your Department's ability to protect urban areas?