Policing Domestic Muslim Radicalism
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 13 December 2010
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Eric Holder has become the first Attorney General to address a national Muslim group at a time when Muslim-Americans are divided over the anti-terrorist tactics of the FBI. Are agents over-zealous? Are Muslim-Americans themselves doing enough to combat radicalization? Also, a Virginia Judge rules Obama's healthcare bill "unconstitutional," and the US knows which dealers sell guns to Mexican drug gangs. We hear why prosecution is so rare.
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| 0:00.0 | From PRI, Public Radio International and KCRW Santa Monica, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.6 | Are Muslim Americans living dangerously? |
| 0:14.0 | Hello again, I'm Armin Alney, and this is To the Poet from Public Radio International. |
| 0:18.0 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:20.6 | Muslim American groups give the Obama administration high marks for combating bigotry, |
| 0:25.2 | but they're divided over sting operations by the FBI. |
| 0:28.7 | Young bombing suspects have been arrested before they could do any harm, |
| 0:31.9 | but after FBI agents acted as false accomplices. |
| 0:35.8 | Anti-terrorist agents routinely appear uninvited at mosques, workplaces, |
| 0:40.4 | and homes. Are the feds just getting to know the community, or spying? Do agents inadvertently |
| 0:46.2 | help radicalize young men? Are they stepping on American rights to privacy, freedom of speech, |
| 0:51.3 | and religion? On reporter's notebook later on, U.S. gun dealers who are arming Mexican gangs. |
| 0:57.3 | First, here's the news. |
| 1:00.0 | Support for To the Point comes from subscribers of KCRW Santa Monica and from the Public Radio International Program Fund, |
| 1:07.7 | whose contributors include the Ford Foundation, the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur |
| 1:11.9 | Foundation, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, dedicated to the idea that all people |
| 1:17.0 | deserve the chance to live a healthy, productive life. Information at gatesfoundation.org. |
| 1:22.0 | Hello again, Warren Alney, back with To the Point. Eric Holder has become the first Attorney |
| 1:25.8 | General to address a national Muslim group |
| 1:27.9 | at a time when Muslim Americans are divided over the anti-terrorist tactics of the FBI. |
| 1:33.3 | Are agents overzealous? Are Muslim Americans themselves doing enough to combat radicalization? |
| 1:38.9 | On reporter's notebook, federal law keeps them secret, but the Washington Post has learned the names of the top U.S. |
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