Posted on 06/04/2009 7:25:39 PM PDT by DCBryan1
Crowd rallies in support of troops where soldiers shot
Posted on 04 June 2009
By Rob Moritz
Arkansas News Bureau
LITTLE ROCK — Dozens of people rallied in support of U.S. military personnel Thursday outside a recruiting center where two soldiers were gunned down this week.
Pvt. William Long died and another soldier, Pvt. Quinton I. Ezeagwula, was wounded in the attack Monday at the Army-Navy Career Center in west Little Rock. Police arrested Abdulhakim Muhammad, 23, who has pleaded innocent in the shooting.
Muhammad, born Carlos Bledsoe, converted to Islam as a teen-ager and legally changed his name in 2006.
“This soldier has given his life in battle. He was ambushed in a cowardly act by a terrorist,” state Rep. Ed Garner, R-Maumelle, told a crowd of about 50 people. “We need to let soldiers know that when they put on the uniform for our country and our freedom, we support them.”
Ed Hairston of Benton said he attended the rally in support of America.
“These soldiers were for America,” Hairston said. “The life was taken so tragically. It’s a senseless crime.”
A makeshift memorial of several bouquets of flowers was erected in front the recruiting center. A half-dozen or so uniformed servicemen at the facility Thursday stood at attention as the crowd sang the national anthem and recited the Pledge of Allegiance.
Some attending the rally stood near Rodney Parham Road and held signs — “Does the Jihad love us yet Obama?” among them — critical of President Obama’s overtures to Muslims worldwide.
Passersby honked in support of the rally.
Jim Porter, former commander of the Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 10483 in Hot Springs Village, said he was disappointed that just 50 people attended.
“This was a disasterous, disgraceful act,” he said about the shooting. “This parking lot should be packed.”
Though none of the speakers made inflammatory remarks about Islam, a Muslim woman who was driving by and noticed the signs stopped during the rally.
Faten Abdeljaber confronted those holding signs near the roadway and said she was upset because she felt Islam was being slandered and labeled a terrorist religion.
“Islam is peace,” said Abdeljaber, dressed in a black berka, traditional public attire for Muslim females. “Do you see me holding a sign saying Christianity is terrorism?”
The woman and several of the people attending the rally argued over her presence there and whether her religion should be equated with terrorism.
Eric Hairston of Benton, who saw the woman from a distance, said he didn’t think she should be there and that she needed to show respect to the soldiers.
Hairston’s father, Ed, told his son the woman had a right to voice her opinion.
“If she doesn’t have the right to speak, we’ve gone too far,” he said.
Signed....the master instigator....dcbryan1...
PS: I'll be posting more photos when I get them from Kenny (pulaskibush)
Pulaskibush has good Freep photos and a GREAT video of the INSANE MOOSELIMB woman pulling in after seeing my sign.
Anyways, heading to bed and will post pictures tommorrow!
DCBRYAN1....your www.freerepublic.com instigator of Mooselimbs since 11 SEP 01.
Thanks for being there Bryan! Also thanks for posting the address of that Recruiting Office the other day at my request. I am going to find an appropriate condolence card and send it there. I am outraged that our fake president has yet to utter a word about this act of domestic terrorism. He is a disgrace. I thought when my husband served under Clinton as Commander in Chief it was bad, but this clown Obama is way worse. I feel for all the service members who must serve under such an unworthy man.
God Bless all members of our armed services and see them through this dark time and keep them safe. Amen.
If Islam is a religion of peace, then beheading is a simly a switcheroo....
He finally did today:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2264865/posts
Of course, he was "outraged" about Tiller's killing but merely "saddened" by the attack on the soldiers.
I'll post links from Arkansas websites as soon as they appear.
The media really dropped the ball with "Faten" Muslim woman.
She was screaming, "EVIL JOOOOOOZ" and "9/11 was an inside job", and "Islam is a peaceful religion".
When someone asked her about the Muslim who killed Private Long, her response was, "A JEW DID IT, prove to me that it was a Muslim".
Jeeez.......that is what we are fighting.
Thanks for the ping and update DCBryan1.
Someone should have asked her why she wasn't there supporting the men who were gunned down by one of her muslim of peace then.
I actually thought that my buddy had paid someone to dress as a muslim and do this because of her total meltdown, but low and behold...she was a genuine Mooselimb!
She was a disgrace to Islam and to the human race....totally brainwashed and hated the Country that gave her the freedom to do so. I told her that in every Islamic country, she would have already been stoned to death for interuppting a memorial.
Can’t wait to see more pictures! Great job, FRiends!
When she was in her car, before she pulled in, I told her, in arabic, "Allah is the false moon god, and Mohammad is a pedophile, pork eating, donkey f**ker".
Her response was unintelligible and led to her pulling in and confronting the sign-holders ;)
Good job today, DC!
In case it hasn’t been mentioned before, there will be a funeral service for Pvt. Long on Monday morning.
Services will be public, and will be held at Harland Park Baptist Church in Conway, Arkansas.
Don’t have the address at hand, but a web search should be fruitful, in case someone wants to send flowers for the memorial.
You were the closest to “Fatem”...what did you think of her moonbattery and screaming at the soldiers memorial?
BUmp for pictures tomorrow.
Did Katie Courva report this tonight?
I must say that she showed very poor taste, especially considering the solemn circumstances.
She really believes what she was screaming. Poor, deceived soul. Good thing for her that she was among Patriots (Conservatives)...because if she had done that with some other folks, they would have beaten her to a pulp (or worse).
After you guys left, she actually softened toward me a bit, especially after I stated that I believed that “not all Muslims were jihadists [terrorists]. As I was leaving, she actually told me that she agreed with my sign that said...
“WE WILL NEVER SURRENDER TO TERROR”
She actually said that she agreed with that statement. Go figure. There’s hope for her.
Thanks for the ping!
Way to go!!
Please ping me when you get the pics up if you get a chance.
You should have asked her if Islam approves of late term abortions.
inspiration ping
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