Rep. Pete King has been called a modern Joe McCarthy by a band of Funny, I call him a squish...
In a letter to Boehner and Pelosi, CAIR, along with 50 co-signers, demanded that King, head of the House Homeland Security committee, tone down his rhetoric and hold "fair and objective" investigations that examine "all forms of violence motivated by extremist beliefs."
"Singling out a group of Americans for government scrutiny based on their faith is divisive and wrong," the letter stated. "These hearings will almost certainly increase widespread suspicion and mistrust of the American Muslim community and stoke anti-Muslim sentiment."
If King focuses on Muslims, he'll be following in the footsteps of Joe McCarthy.
"That dark chapter in our history taught us that Congress has a solemn duty to wield its investigatory power responsibly," says the letter.
After the Tucson shooting spree, the ranking Democrat on the panel, Rep. Bennie Thompson called for King to expand his focus.
"Attacks are just as likely to come from lone-wolf extremists - like James Wenneker von Brunn, the Holocaust Memorial Museum shooter, or Jared Lee Loughner, who is charged with the tragedy in Tucson, Ariz. - as they are from Muslim extremist groups," he wrote in an op-ed last month.