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Gerry Connolly: “I think it is a great distortion for us to focus only on the threat from the radicalization within the Muslim community…”

On the recordSeptember 13, 2016
I think it is a great distortion for us to focus only on the threat from the radicalization within the Muslim community in this country or abroad.
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Gerry Connolly
Democratic · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Connolly criticizes the exclusive focus on Muslim radicalization as a distortion of the terrorism threat.

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