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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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http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/03/the-jihad-at-home/
“EDITORIAL: The jihad at home
Ignoring the enemies among us”
Wednesday, June 3, 2009
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It’s a sad day in America when the shooting of an abortion doctor stops the presses but no one notices two soldiers gunned down by an Islamist.
When abortionist Dr. George Tiller was shot in Wichita, Kan., on Sunday, President Obama rushed out a statement condemning the shooting. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. dispatched U.S. Marshals to protect abortion providers and clinics (officially known as “appropriate people and facilities”), and the Justice Department Web site prominently featured Mr. Holder’s statement pledging to “bring the perpetrator of this crime to justice.”
SNIPPET: “The next day, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, a homegrown, Yemeni-trained Muslim who spent time in the Middle East, gunned down two U.S. soldiers in broad daylight near Little Rock, Ark., killing one. When arrested, he made statements “indicating his association with Jihad,” according to law enforcement sources. He told police he hates the military for its crimes against Islam and would have shot more soldiers if they had been available. You would think this would be worthy of comment from Washington, but as of this writing, we are still waiting.
This is the second homegrown terror event by black Muslim converts in as many months.”