The King Hearings Commence …… Melvin Bledsoe Defines the Issue

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Pete King's hearings are very revealing. I have been critical of Rep. King's caving to Islamic supremacist demands in dropping Steve Emerson, Ayaan Hirsi Ali, Walid Phares from the witness list, etc., but even so,  Pete King's hearings are shedding much needed light despite the 'sobbing' Muslim Brotherhood-tied, Hamas-supporting Keith Ellison's crocodile tears ………..

For example, the idea that these hearings are somehow a witch-hunt or a waste of time when the rise of Islamic jihad is the greatest threat to the Western world flies in the face of reality. The Democrats have held hearings on:

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Katrina/Rita FEMA Trailers: Are They Safe or Environmental Time Bombs?” “Pandemic Influenza Preparedness and the Federal Workforce.” “Online Privacy, Social Networking, and Crime Victimization.” “The State of U.S. Coins and Currency.” “Diversity and the Department of Homeland Security: Continuing Challenges and New Opportunities.” “Civil Rights Services and Diversity Initiatives in the Coast Guard.” “Protecting Animal and Public Health: Homeland Security and the Federal Veterinarian Workforce.” “The Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing Enforcement Act of 2009.” “Tribal Police Recruitment, Hiring, Training, and Retention at the Bureau of Indian Affairs.” “Organized Retail Crime”

So this resistance to these hearings is illogical and essentially a front in the war on America. The war is in the information battlespace. And the Democrats are very much aligned with the enemy, as evidenced by their nonsensical chest beating and avoidance of the issue they are supposed to be addressing at these hearings. Do your jobs! Instead they chest-pound, hand-wring, and falsely characterize the mission of these national security hearings.

House Democrats Doing Bidding Of Islamists — Alleging American "Anti-Muslim Sentiment"

From my perspective, the most compelling witness is Melvin Bledsoe. He best illustates the essential struggle. Melvin Bledsoe is the heartbroken father of Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad [aka Carlos Leon Bledsoe] — responsible for the 2009 jihadist attack on the Little Rock Army Recruiting Center, killing one and wounding another. Bledsoe is a patriot and a truth teller. An excellent witness. Good on King for that.

Father says FBI dropped the ball on his son (FOX):

The father of the man charged with shooting two soldiers in Little Rock is speaking out. He says his son, Abdulhakim Muhammad, was manipulated by Islamic extremists overseas and the FBI knew it but didn't step in before it was too late.

Melvin Bledsoe of Memphis looks at what his son is accused of doing at the Army Recruiter Station in Little Rock last June the same way he looks at foiled terror plots in Dallas, and the Fort Hood shootings earlier this month.  He sees them all as acts of terrorism that could have been prevented.

"I want to say how sorry I am for the family of the soldier and we know what they're going through," Bledsoe says. "They're grieving and we're very sorry for their grieving."

Nearly six months after police say his son, Abdulhakim Muhammad, 24, gunned down two soldiers, Bledsoe wants answers from the federal government. "I don't understand why the federal government has not taken this case which it is,” Bledsoe says.  “This involves a United States soldier."

Bledsoe says the FBI tracked his son for two years after he traveled to Yemen and knew of his growing extremist views but didn't do anything to stop it.  As an example, he cites his son's purchase of an assault rifle shortly before the shooting.

"I think they could have asked some questions [like,] 'What are you doing with this weapon? What are you going to do with this weapon?'"  When asked how he thought his son would have responded to such a question Bledsoe responded, "I think something would have changed a lot." (more here at FOX)

I expect that if the FBI had questioned his son before the attack on US soldiers in Arkansas, CAIR would have sued the FBI for civil rights violations and "islamophobia."

Below from the letters of Bledsoe's son, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad:

"…how I became Muslim. I don't believe in the word "convert." What I use "revert" because we Muslims believe that all mankind are born into Islam…I went to Yemen to learn, meaning more about Islam…Yemen is quoted from our beloved Prophet…as a place of faith and wisdom…it is one of the few places left in the Islamic world where people are actually still Muslims…[speaking of his source of income in Yemen]…I felt uncomfortable teaching the language of the Enemy to my brothers and sisters…my wife's [he was married in Yemen] family is from Abyan…which was bombed by American drones…by O'l Uncle Sam…they claimed they targeted a meeting of the Mujahedeen…I read a statement from our Shaykh "Anwar Al Awlaki," and he said that they killed 17 women and 23 kids…We want revenge…They kill our soldiers, we kill theirs, but if they bomb our women, children and elders Guess what? We'll bomb theirs..the apostates of Yemeni government are true dogs. I wish I had some of their blood on my hands…"

Melvin Bledsoe, whose son allegedly attacked an Army recruiting center in Arkansas, said Americans are ignoring the issue. He described how his son, Carlos, was radicalized when he went off to college in Nashville, Tenn. He described how his son's personality changed and how, when he returned home for the holidays in 2005, he told his family he converted to Islam. Bledsoe also said he noticed something was wrong when his son took his picture of Martin Luther King Jr. down. 

From that point, Carlos changed his name and eventually traveled to Yemen. 

"Some Muslim leaders had taken advantage of my son. But he's not the only one being taken advantage of. This is an ongoing thing in Nashville and many other cities in America," Bledsoe said. (more here)

Read Emerson in today's NY Daily News:

"Muslim American groups, not Rep. Pete King, are the ones fomenting hysteria with hearings on tap," by Steven Emerson for the New York Daily News, March 10:

Never in my entire career in Washington have I encountered the hype and scare tactics of those opposing the hearings into Islamic radicalization by Rep. Pete King. A classic example was a headline on MSNBC.com: "Inquiry by congressional committee looks like inquisition to many Muslims."

"Witch hunt" and "McCarthyism" have also popped up.

The line of attack is now familiar: If King (R-L.I.) were truly interested in violent extremism, his hearings would focus on a wide range of groups that wreak havoc on America, including neo-Nazis and others; by focusing solely on Muslim extremism, the argument goes, he is betraying his bias.

This is utterly ridiculous. Our organization, the Investigative Project on Terrorism, recently did an analysis of all terrorism convictions based on statistics released by the Justice Department. These stats show that more than 80% of all convictions tied to international terrorist groups and homegrown terrorism since 9/11 involve defendants driven by a radical Islamist agenda. Though Muslims represent less than 1% of the American population, they constitute defendants in 186 of the 228 cases the Justice Department lists.

The figures confirm that there is a disproportionate problem of Islamic militancy and terrorism among the American Muslim population.

This is not to say that, on a percentage basis, American Muslims tend to be violent or extremist. To the contrary. Those involved in terrorism are a tiny sliver of the overall Muslim American population.

But one ought to be able to focus on a very real problem – homegrown terrorism fueled by Muslim extremism – without being accused of painting the entire U.S. Muslim population with a broad brush.

The real underlying story here is how the self-anointed leadership of the Muslim community – groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America and the Muslim American Society – are the ones responsible for instilling panic into the Muslim community by suggesting that these hearings will lead to "hate crimes" against Muslims.

That canard has been used by these groups for years in their attempts to intimidate the media, commentators and critics of radical Islam from truly analyzing the role of these groups and others in radicalizing their constituents in the American Muslim community. The documents showing the creation of these groups with the assistance of the Muslim Brotherhood were introduced into evidence in the trial of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development several years ago. At the trial, the Council on American-Islamic Relations was described by an FBI expert as a front for Hamas, and was also listed, together with the Islamic Society of North America, as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation indictments.

Groups such as these routinely play the "Islamophobia" card, and get attention for doing so in the mainstream media, in order to silence criticism of Islamic radicalism. In fact, these very same groups, just like the Obama administration, categorically refuse to even use the term "radical Islam" in order to excise the term from the American vernacular.

Critics have taken issue with King's focus on one religious minority. But, in fact, in previous years, Congress has held numerous hearings into various ethnic subcultures that have spawned illegalities – including the Italian mob, Hispanic drug cartels, black and white prison gangs, white racists and neo-Nazis.

Headlines about King producing "panic" in the rank-and-file Muslim community are nonsense. The only panic is that being strategically fomented by groups with an interest in spreading fear. They, together with their mainstream media friends, have falsely alleged that: one, there is a war against Islam by the United States, and two, the FBI is secretly instigating Islamic terrorism by use of informants.

These are dangerous fictions.

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Brandy
Brandy
13 years ago

I’ve been watching all morning and kept checking back here to see if you wrote anything about it.
This has been an excellent hearing! The testimony of the father and uncle were especially compelling. And I loved the way they countered Sheriff Baca after he spoke.
The Democrats are making me sick! I don’t know how else to say it! And Ellison crying?! Well, how else is he going to make it on the news. Shelia Jackson Lee, GO AWAY!! Her fake outrage is disgusting! But then again, she’s used to pushing people around.
And that sheriff on the panel, Baca or whatever his name is…let me just say, as the wife of a Marine, he is an embarrassment to the Marine Corp!! He kept mentioning CAIR and all the help they gave him and finally, finally, Rep Caravac (sp?) questioned him point blank about CAIR. And the guy goes on about how “if they have proof then charge them”?! What an embarrassment!!
CAIR has been exposed today like never before!! Finally!! Now let’s see if the media report on that.

Dara Molen
Dara Molen
13 years ago

That sheriff from Los Angeles is useless. He admits his own ignorance of CAIR and why the FBI refuses to work with them. Why is he even testifying?

Brandy
Brandy
13 years ago

That sheriff chooses to be ignorant. CAIR’s terrorist ties were mentioned numerous times at this hearing and he’s like a damn monkey, “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil”.

UbinBUSHwhacked
UbinBUSHwhacked
13 years ago

I just love King’s statement the “Democrats could learn to walk and chew gum at the same time.” Classic wrap on what libtards are like today in America. Also “King’s hearings have been labeled McCarthy-like for targeting Muslims specifically.” Maybe America should have had an annual McCarthy “witch hunt”. This way America would most likely have many less socialists controlling such high offices in our government today. And certainly the ObamaNation would not be in our White House.
GO KING!

Pamela Geller
Pamela Geller
13 years ago

you are so good
thank you
Yours in liberty,
Pamela Geller
Editor, Publisher Atlas Shrugs
Executive Director, FDI/SIOA
Author The Post-American Presidency, the Obama Administration's War on America

Brandy
Brandy
13 years ago

Thanks Pamela. And notice how the Democrats are trying to act so incensed in order to get on the news. That’s what it’s all about. That’s what they always do, use emotion. Whether it’s themselves or some victim who was wronged, doesn’t matter, as long as it gets on television. The more time they get, the less time the actual hearings get.
What’s with all the talk about the KKK too? I don’t recall the KKK plotting to kill Americans lately. Is the Catholic Church urging young Christians to strap bombs on their chests and detonate them? It’s all a distraction. If the Democrats were really interested in keeping Americans safe, they’d ask pertinent questions instead of wasting time on silly side arguments.

Patti
Patti
13 years ago

Ellison made me want hurl! Where are his tears for non-muslims? and WHO is that antagonistic Sanchez woman?,,, the hostility, and nastiness with which some of these witnesses are being treated is really disgusting, geesh some of these people aren’t even there to even ASK sincere questions, they just use their time to vent their own hatred, racism and ignorance,, what a WASTE of time they are.

Patti
Patti
13 years ago

Brandy it’s called pandering to their constituency

Frank
Frank
13 years ago

“Keith Ellison’s crocodile tears ………..”
This “islamophobia” crap is Orwellian, and most of the objections to the hearings by Muslims, to use a James Joyce phrase, amount to a “shout in the street” or some other silly appeal to emotion, as with the Finger Lady, who reduces the issue to a personal matter.
All of this (“islamophobia” and Muslim supremacist delusions e.g.) is about to slam into the wall of economic reality.
The Muslim Mideast and North Africa are headed for a food and water crisis pushed by rising wheat and meat demands from Asia. The region produces little wealth (except for Israel, where high-tech inventions such as the cell-phone, invented at Motorola-Israel, are a major engine of wealth creation).
Islam is not the answer in the Mideast or anywhere else. Islam is foot-binding for the head.
Muslims everywhere (but especially in the Mideast) should be looking at Israel as the political-economic-model for the future and let go of the paranoia (delusions of grandeur and delusions of persecution) that prevent them from reasoning, seeing reality.

Kalifornia Kafir
Kalifornia Kafir
13 years ago

I loved Bledsoe’s smack-down of the uber-smug Jackie Speier (D-CA). She kept dismissing the panelists’ comments as “anecdotes” and didn’t see what qualified them to testify. Bledsoe wanted to know what qualified Speier to sit on the committee or to have her job. The audience laughed.
All-in-all, I thought this was a useful exercise. It was enlightening to see just how ignorant Democrats really are and just how dedicated they are to multi-culti pandering.

Brian Schiff
Brian Schiff
13 years ago

Ellison gets the Oscar for drama queen;if the punk was in his hometown of Detroi’-and happened to catch
Robert Spencer’s helluva talk on the Moslem Brotherhood at the Holocaust Memorial Center,he’d have been
cryin’ real tears wearin’ a disguise.

Mackie
Mackie
13 years ago

I watched the entire 4Hours& 15Min. of the King hearings and I think Peter King and the Republicans bent over in a collective effort to not demonize the entire Muslim community as a whole.
Clearly the leftwing Democrats serving on King’s committee chose to demonize his hearings no matter how moving the powerful testimony was from a Somali Muslim who lost his son in Somali after being radicalized ironically at a mosque that the Minneapolis Somali community at first supported, and a man whose son was radicalized to the point were he murdered a military recruiter outside his office.
I understand sheriff’s Baca’s approach as a law enforcement officer of the biggest Sheriffs dept. in the country. I was however dismayed after all the knowledge that is out there that Baca stated he was unaware of CAIR being an unindicted co-conspirator with Hamas in the Holyland Foundation case in Texas.
For some reason the liberal left choir kept asking why the KKK,skin heads,or other radical groups in America were not included in this hearing. Again this was clearly an orchestrated political agenda. They knew for months what the focus was in Rep. King’s hearing without question.
Any of these Democrats certainly have the right to form their own hearings on those other radical groups if they choose to. So the question is why haven’t they? But instead they chose to demonize Rep. King’s efforts to have an open discussion on Islamic radicalism in America.
Dem. Rep. Jackie Speiers had the gall to ask what right the witnesses had to be there and what made them experts on Islam.
I believe it was Dr. Zuhdi Jasser who is a devout Sunni Muslim who practices Islam but fights to keep sharia out of it shot back and asked her what expertise she had in regards to Islam herself.
Marvin Bledsoe who lost his son to Islamic radicalism was well spoken and was shocked and appalled at why the Democrats played to their perceived political fears than face the daunting problem of Islamic radicalism that turned his son into a murderer for allah.
The 4hour King hearings are being repeated again right now on C-Span 3

Kafir
Kafir
13 years ago

McCarthy was a hero vilified by communists he exposed, and to put off further investigations.

John Kelly
John Kelly
13 years ago

What a pity the Academy Awards were given out last week. Keith Ellison would have won best actor hands down with his tear soaked performance.
Lets get real Ellison you would sell out the American Constitution for Sharia in a heartbeat.

Nick
Nick
13 years ago

Don’t forget, If your not nice the bad muslimes will come.say nothing bad about islam.

Brandy
Brandy
13 years ago

Yeah…I know. But at the expense of our security, it’s maddening.

Jew_Lover
Jew_Lover
13 years ago

A phobia is an irrational fear of something or someone.
An irrational fear of a vegetable that can do us no harm is a phobia.
A rational fear of peanuts that can result in death to those with allergies is NOT phobic, but prudent.
Are Jews to be considered Naziphobic?
Are minorities to be considered KKKphobic?
Are Infidels to be considered Islamaphobic?
Muslims are allowed or required to do the following per Mohammed, Koran, Hadith, and Sira:
Pre-Pubescent Child Rape (65:4), Sex Slaves (4:24), Rape (24:13), Amputation and Crucifixion (5:33), Beheading (8:12, 47:4), Wives Beating (4:34) and Wives Raping (2:223), Theft and Robbery (entire Chapter 8 of Koran called Booty), Extortion (9:29), Lying (3:28, 5:51), Stoning to Death for Adultery (Sahih Muslim 17.4206),..etc.
Regarding us Infidels, the Koran and Muslims have this to say about us:
Infidels are diseased (2:10), evil (2:99), deaf dumb and blind (2:171), can’t be our friends (3:28), are our enemies (4:101), losers (5:53), pigs and apes (5:60), evil (5:59), worst beasts (8:55), filthy (9:28), perverts (9:30), and the vilest of creatures (98:51)
The above acts, all considered illegal for Infidels under Western Law by the FBI and statistically compiled under the UCR (Uniform Crime Reports) are all legal for Muslims under Shariah law.
FBI vs. CAIR
Western Law vs. Shariah Law
21st Century vs. 7th Century

Jew_Lover
Jew_Lover
13 years ago

@ Brandy – I find it interesting that Muslims refer to us Infidels as diseased (2:10), evil (2:99), deaf dumb and blind (2:171), can’t be our friends (3:28), are our enemies (4:101), losers (5:53), pigs and apes (5:60), evil (5:59), worst beasts (8:55), filthy (9:28), perverts (9:30), and the vilest of creatures (98:51). The one thing I’ve always thought missing from those 3 monkeys is a 4th monkey, DO NO EVIL.
@ Ms. Geller – Thank you Ma’am for keeping up the good fight. If any of my posts should be unwelcome, please feel free to delete them as you’d like. I often repeat posts believing that crucial information repeated is better than new information that might not be crucial. We are all in this fight against EVIL together and the last thing I want to do is get in the way. Note to lurkers: inclusion of comments by posters DOES NOT IMPLY agreement.

Brandy
Brandy
13 years ago

Do no evil, yes it belongs there as well. However, the sheriff is doing evil simply by siding with the enemy. His testimony really upset me and I plan on sending him an e-mail later tonight.
If he had the chance, he would have given Maj Hassan two thumbs up for being such an exemplary ambassador for our military.

Monica
Monica
13 years ago

Muslims are speaking out and telling the public that the official Muslim Organizations have hyjacked their communities and stolen their narrative and replaced it with Tagiyya and Polical Islam’s Muslim brotherhood propaganda. Of course the left and the Islamofacists are publicly hysterical they’re about to have their facist supremacists’ masked ripped off publicly by moderate Muslims brave enought to stand up to the useful idiots and Islamic thugs.

Jew_Lover
Jew_Lover
13 years ago

The deadliest Muslims are those who appear to be the most innocuous. Before terrorists commit atrocities, they do their very best to fit in, becoming model citizens that everyone admires.
Mohammed Atta and other 9/11 hijackers were law-abiding, outstanding citizens up to Sept. 11th when they changed in an instant revealing their true intentions that were so marvelously disguised.
Atta and Jarah were filmed in Afghanistan on Jan. 18th, 2000 while Clinton was President giving their last will and testament, for the well-planned 9/11 which was to come 20 months later.Jara was smiling ear-to-ear during his last will and testament as they were both about to get 72 hymen-regenerating virgins in heaven as THE ONLY GUARANTEED WAY TO GET TO HEAVEN FOR MUSLIMS IS TO KILL INFIDELS (Koran 9:111).
Actor James Wood (MIT graduate) mentioned to authorities a week before 9/11 suspicious behavior of a 9/11 dry run, but “authorities” just said, don’t worry, be happy.

lilredbird
lilredbird
13 years ago

The brave and dignified Marvin Bledsoe, whose son was recruited, indoctrinated, and ultimately destroyed by the largest destructive cult in the world — Islam — puts to shame the sniveling, blubbering manipulations of Keith Ellison. He put to shame — if they were capable of feeling shame — both Ellison and the contemptible Speiers. He has my admiration and gratitude.

JewishOdysseus
JewishOdysseus
13 years ago

I have to confess that I jumped the gun in writing off Rep. King’s planned hearings. As events have played out, the hearings have clearly proven a useful forum to address **a portion** of the Islamist threat we face. The spectacle of the blubbering fifth-columnist Keith Ellison alone was worth the price of admission.
I think we all generally prefer to “hit the bullseye” of a problem, like Alexander the Great cutting the Gordian knot, but it may just be that this problem is better approached by a peeling-the-onion tactic, layer by layer.
Softly, softly, catchee jihadi.

damon whitsell
damon whitsell
13 years ago

34 PART VIDEO SERIES: The Complete Congressional Hearing On Radicalization Of Islam DAY 1
http://religionofconquest.com/34-part-video-series-the-complete-congressional-hearing-on-radicalization-of-islam-day-1/

KC
KC
13 years ago

My heart crys out for Mr. Bledsoe and the soldiers family. They have taken over our colleges and universities and brainwashed our kids. Mr. Bledsoe is right! This could have been prevented. The FBI knew of his son’s activities and didn’t even pull him over for not signaling? OMG, he killed a soldier. And now we have to watch some pansy ass, terrorist loving Congressman whine!
That said, “Get saved, there’s not much time left”

Carol Eberwein
Carol Eberwein
13 years ago

PLEASE keep bringing us the King hearing reports.I turn to you
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