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“Obama condemns Muslim attack on Arkansas Army recruiters…not”
By Michelle Malkin • June 2, 2009 12:47 PM
SNIPPET: “The news is what he left out.
Not a word about the jihadi attack on the two Army recruiters in Arkansas. No condemnation of the heinous attack and senseless violence. No condolences for the families of the targeted men or praise for the military recruiters who have been under increasing attack on U.S. soil. No statements from the DOJ or Pentagon, either.
Nothing.”
Note: The following post is a quote:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2263306/posts
Little Rock Shooting Suspect Joins Growing List of Muslim Converts Accused of Targeting U.S.
FOX News ^ | June 2, 2009 | By Joseph Abrams
Posted on June 2, 2009 4:04:34 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
The suspect in the deadly shooting at a military recruiting center in Arkansas is the latest in a series of Muslim converts accused of planning or launching violent attacks in the U.S., part of what security experts call an alarming domestic trend.
The attack came less than two weeks after a foiled bomb plot on two synagogues in Riverdale, N.Y., allegedly led by four men who converted to Islam in prison or shortly after their incarceration.
Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, the 23-year-old accused of killing a U.S. soldier and injuring another in the attack Monday in Little Rock, was born in Tennessee as Carlos Leon Bledsoe. He reportedly converted to Islam as a teenager, and court records show he changed his name in March 2006.
Little Rock police said there was no indication Muhammad was part of a wider plot to attack the military, but terrorism experts say there are important connections between his and other homegrown terror plots in recent years, including their targets, motives and inspiration.
“The real common denominator is the ideological commitment (present) in every single case I’ve seen over the past few months and over the past few years,” said Walid Phares, director of the Future of Terrorism Project at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
Phares said the vast majority of converts are nonviolent, but a few embrace the teachings of extremist religious mentors.
“In the lives of these diverse people there’s always one moment where there’s a click,” he said — in which the budding convert is turned by a radical cleric or ideologue, or swayed by indoctrinating material they find online.
Prosecutors say Muhammad was targeting U.S. soldiers “because of what they had done to Muslims in the past” and was angry about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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