Peter King

We need to transition to countering violent Islamism because that is what they call themselves.

The reason this whack-a-mole program continues is because we have not been engaging in true reform for the separation of mosque and State.

We are ignoring movements like the Muslim Reform Movement.

That is what happens when you work with the Saudis and the Muslim groups that Secretary Johnson went and spoke to.

So when you hear that in America this attempt to invoke blasphemy laws, it is actually doing the bidding of the elephant in the room.

Well, we fought this battle before.

You can't have it both ways.

It is a suspension of disbelief and a cognitive dissonance for Homeland Security to list for you Muslim partners and then say Islam, well, it has no problem.

The reason our homeland security is failing is because the pool that they are swimming in, they can't look at the Omar Mateens of the world.

You will hear the absurd and, I am sorry to say, un-American pleas for you to invoke blasphemy speech restrictions upon yourselves in the discourse in order to dishonestly avoid terms like Islamism, Islamist, Ummah, takfir, Islamic State…

But once you say that anyone who is Muslim and is anti-terror is on our side, then you end up doing the bidding of theocracies like Iran and Saudi Arabia.

We facilitated and participated in the overthrow of Gaddafi.

The key question, I think, that Congress needs to ask is what has happened, potentially, to create this dramatic increase since 2008?

That is not a slippery slope to defining or destroying the Second Amendment of the United States.

Why should we be perhaps providing dollars to terrorist groups? I hope these groups are being vetted.

I get calls and e-mails all the time from communities saying ISIL, Daesh, or some other terrorist organization does not represent our religion, our community, or our faith.

We should be trying to expand our friendships and isolate our enemies.

We cannot allow people to silence facts just because the facts do not fit their preferred narrative.

I have been to Islamic Society of North America organizations. I think that they are an excellent group.

I am not going to say that Daesh is Islamic. There is neither a State, nor they are Islamic.

I mean, you and I are old enough to remember--I am older than you, but--that when they were going after the mafia in New York, the FBI and the NYPD were in the Italian American community, not because they didn't trust Italian Americans…

I want to thank all the witnesses for their testimony.

I just wanted to get that on the record because of many of the unfair allegations that have been made against the NYPD over the years from certain organizations and from the media.

I'm doing very well. I felt as though all of us were part of it and that Donald Trump wants to cut through and it's interesting dealing with a businessman as opposed to a political person and he's able it to weed out a lot of the…

But being an unindicted co-conspirator in one of the largest money-laundering terrorist cases in the country, shouldn't that be sufficient grounds to deny a grant?