and i welcome first dr. zogby. welcome, dr. zogby. >> thank you, madam chairman and members of the committee. the issue before us is indeed a critical one. it concerns our national security to be sure, but it also represents a grave challenge to our national character. i come at this exploration from several vantage points, some as you mentioned, an american arab leader, having worked with those and other arab communities as well. at a ph.d. in islamic studies and also someone who did postdoctoral work on the impact of religion in societies under stress, as a pollster with my brother john spog buy intensively polled communities of interest both here in the united states and europe and across the middle east and as a participant leader in ethnic coalitions in this country that has brought me into close contact with new and not so new americans watching them move from exile politics into the american mainstream. let me begin with a simple observation. despite real concerns that we all share about recent cases involving the arrests

and i welcome first dr. zogby. welcome, dr. zogby. >> thank you, madam chairman and members of the committee. the issue before us is indeed a critical one. it concerns our national security to be sure, but it also represents a grave challenge to our national character. i come at this exploration from several vantage points, some as you mentioned, an american arab leader, having worked with those and other arab communities as well. at a ph.d. in islamic studies and also someone who did postdoctoral work on the impact of religion in societies under stress, as a pollster with my brother john spog buy intensively polled communities of interest both here in the united states and europe and across the middle east and as a participant leader in ethnic coalitions in this country that has brought me into close contact with new and not so new americans watching them move from exile politics into the american mainstream. let me begin with a simple observation. despite real concerns that we all share about recent cases involving the arrests