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Lovely - Jihadist Attack on Military in Arkansas Receives Paltry Media and Presidential Attention
Guest Column | By Pamela Meister | June 4, 2009
Much is being made in the media about the murder of a doctor who performed late-term abortions by a radical pro-life activist - even President Obama took the time to comment on it. Let me state up front, as someone who used to consider myself "pro-choice" but find myself moving more firmly into the pro-life camp, I don't believe that cold-blooded murder of abortion doctors is either morally or politically defensible and the perpetrators should always be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law. One prominent blogger likens it to domestic terrorism, and I have to say I agree.
That being said, I find it chilling that we've only seen the most perfunctory reporting of the murder of one U.S. soldier and the wounding of another at a Little Rock, Arkansas recruiting station. The suspect is a convert to Islam who has been under investigation by FBI's Joint Terrorist Task Force since he returned from Yemen. (So much for the idea that law enforcement can take care of the problem.) The suspect, Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad (formerly Carlos Bledsoe), 23 (I have also seen his age listed as 24), apparently was opposed to the U.S. military. According to Little Rock Police Lt. Terry Hastings, "He has converted to (Islam) here in the past few years. We're not completely clear on what he was upset about. He had never been in the military. He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them. That's what he said."
Private William Long, 23 was killed on the scene and Private Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, was wounded. They were working at the recruiting center at the time and were standing outside on a break.
Since it has suddenly become trendy to publicly support our troops now that a liberal is in the White House, one might wonder why the shooting of two members of our fine military is being treated as any other run-of-the-mill news story, dwarfed by continued hyperventilating coverage of the marital problems of reality TV stars Jon and Kate Gosselin and Susan Boyle coming in second in the Britain's Got Talent finale. Yet the reason may be simpler than we think: the suspect is a Muslim and, dare I say, black. In today's multicultural, Balkanized, ultra sensitive society, this gives him double minority victim status and thus he escapes the kind of scrutiny normally given in heinous circumstances such as these.
As of this writing, there has been no public statement about the Little Rock shooting from either President Obama or his representatives in the White House. I realize he's on his way to the Middle East and is just as busy as he can be, but somehow he managed to find time to pledge U.S. support in helping to do whatever is necessary to find out what happened to the Air France plane that recently disappeared over the Atlantic as if flew from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.
His administration also found the time to encourage American embassies around the world to invite Iranian officials to their July Fourth festivities. That's just how I'd love to spend the Fourth - watching fireworks and munching hot dogs and potato chips with Ahmadinejad's drones.
According to the news stories I've seen, Muhammed doesn't seem to be a part of any organized terrorist group, a prosecutor said he admitted to shooting the soldiers "because of what they had done to Muslims in the past." And since when do Jihadists need a connection to al Qaeda or the Taliban to get the job done? Think about the foiled terror plots in Fort Dix, Brooklyn, and Goosecreek, South Carolina and get back to me.
Another factor in this reluctance to brand this act as a Jihadist terror attack on our homeland is that groups like CAIR have done a bang up job of squelching honest debate about Jihad and extremist Islam, as noted by the experts such as Dr. Zuhdi Jasser and Steven Emerson. For another example, note how Islamic scholar and critic Robert Spencer was targeted by CAIR within recent years. Who wants to run afoul of that smear machine?
Amazingly, despite media pressure to the contrary, Americans by a 2-1 ratio, support keeping Gitmo open. Still, don't expect American concerns about terrorists, either foreign or homegrown, to encourage the media to give the recruiting center story much more coverage. It doesn't fit the "everything's great now that Obama's president" theme that has been going for nearly six months now.
Keith Olbermann once odiously compared right wingers to Jihadists. Here's a real-life Jihadist, gunning down those who volunteered to serve our nation in cold blood. What will Keith say about him?
FamilySecurityMatters.org Pamela Meister is a former radio broadcaster, a recovering liberal, a contributor to AmericanThinker.com and a blogger at http://blogmeisterusa.mu.nu
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