Posted on 03/10/2011 7:23:43 PM PST by smokingfrog
“The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community’s Response”
Committee on Homeland Security - US House of Representatives
March 10, 2011
Thank you very much for allowing me to come here and tell the country what happened to my son. This hearing today is extremely important to begin the discussion about the issue of Islamic radicalization in America and my hope is that this Committee can somehow address this issue in a meaningful, productive way.
First, I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the family of Private William Long, and to the wounded soldier, Quinton Ezeagwula. I would like to talk about those complicit in Private Long’s murder – the Islamic radicals who programmed and trained my son Carlos to kill.
I want to tell the American people and the world what happened to my son. We sent him off to college at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee in the fall of 2003. Our dreams about his future ended up in a nightmare.
Carlos is my only son. He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. My wife and I operate a tour company in Memphis, Tennessee and Carlos started helping out with the family business at the age of eight. He loved talking to the traveling public; and he had a lot of fun interacting with the customers.
After graduating from high school, he wanted to get a degree in Business Administration. We thought perhaps he would come back to Memphis to run the business and give my wife and me early retirement.
After the fall of 2005 – his sophomore fall in Nashville –Carlos came home that Christmas for the holidays.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
I missed this article when first posted. Unfortunately a lot of people missed it on the Hill website too, and no one shared it, perhaps for the very thing the father noted- political correctness.
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