You may have heard that Republican congressman Peter King of New York, who chairs the Homeland Security Committee, will hold hearings in February about the radicalization of Muslims in America. King tells Muslims not to worry because he will not invite Islamophobes like Pamela Geller or Bruce Spencer, but he will appear on the debut episode of Brigitte Gabriel's weekly television show on American Life Network and Family Life. Gabriel, who is notorious for her anti-Muslim screeds, has elected herself to man the barricades of Christian Western civilization against the perils of Islam. All practicing Muslims are a threat for Gabriel and for Peter King to appear on the first episode of her program as he gears up to hold the first congressional hearings on radical Islam does not seem very reassuring. Good police investigative work is the most effective way to fight against fanatic radicals. Holding hearings is just another public spectacle that is very likely to stigmatize all Muslims in this country. Last summer's media spectacle around the Islamic cultural center in New York is a sobering reminder that you can't control the frenzy of paranoia around Islam, and it's a sure thing that more paranoia is what the hearings will produce.