A couple weeks ago, the House Homeland Security Committee, under the leadership of Rep. Peter King (R-NY), held hearings on radicalization ^[1] in American Muslim communities.

It was hardly the replay of the McCarthy hearings that many on the left had hoped for.  And so, aside from Rep Ellison’s tearful testimony ^[2], the hearing itself received less extensive press coverage than the lead up.  The upside to this is that the Committee had the opportunity to do just as Mr. King suggested: look dispassionately at radicalization – a problem many Muslims themselves will tell you greatly concerns them.  The downside is that some of the more thoughtful testimony – like that of Dr. Zuhdi Jasser ^[3], a Muslim himself, was not given the attention it deserved.

Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, MD, President of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy (AIFD) ^[4] dropped by The Heritage Foundation following his testimony to chat with Heritage experts.  We took the opportunity to record his answers to a few questions and share them with visitors to The Foundry.