Who's Afraid of the Jihad?

By Bill O'Reilly

Sometimes things get so crazy in this country, it's frightening.

This week the House Homeland Security Committee will begin hearings on whether Muslim terrorism is gaining ground in America. The hearings will be open, will feature the testimony of many different people, and there's a good chance we'll all learn something.

But some on the left adamantly oppose the hearings, and go even further than that. They are denying that the Muslim jihad is the world's biggest terror threat.

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UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: What do you think of this hearing? Is Al Qaeda radicalizing Muslims? Is that our biggest homegrown terrorism threat right now?

MARK POTOK, SPOKESMAN, SOUTHERN POVERTY LOW CENTER: Well, I think, well, it's not our biggest domestic terror threat. I think that pretty clearly comes from the radical right in this country.

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Are you kidding me? The radical right? The last terror act assigned to them was the Oklahoma City Bombing in 1995.

I mean, think about this. Muslim terrorists have killed tens of thousands of people all over the world, correct? How many people have the radical right killed? And Mr. Potok, who runs a human rights agency, says right-wing loons are worse than the jihadists? Again, unbelievable.