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Date: Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:50 AM
Subject: [bangla-vision] The Capitol Hill Hearings, Pt. 1
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RABI AL-THANI 1432 A.H.
(March 12, 2011)
Assalaamu Alaikum (Greetings of Peace):
A number of Muslims and non-Muslims have inquired as to whether or not I would share some of my own personal perspective on the controversial hearing that took place on Capitol Hill this week. I intend to do so, insha'Allah. Before I do, however, I think it would be very beneficial to the sharing process if I could first provide our readers with some relevant background.
What follows are transcripts of the testimonies of some of the witnesses; a video feed of Rep Ellison's emotional testimony; and some very revealing background on the hearing's "star witness" – Dr. Zuhdi Jasser.
My own perspective on the hearing (I was present on Capitol Hill in the overflow room) will follow tomorrow, insha'Allah.
El-Hajj Mauri' Saalakhan
CONTENTS
1. Testimony of Sheriff Baca
2. Testimony of Abdirizak Bihi
3. Testimony of Melvin Bledsoe
4. Video testimony of Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN)
5. Revealing background on Rep. Peter King (R-NY)
6. Some revealing background on Dr. Zuhdi Jasser
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"The Extent of Radicalization in the American Muslim Community and that Community's Response"
Committee on Homeland Security
US House of Representatives
Washington DC
March 10, 2011
Testimony of LA County Sheriff Baca
LAW ENFORCEMENT INTERACTION WITH THE MUSLIM COMMUNITY IN LOS ANGELES COUNTY
The development of Muslim community outreach/History and achievements
• July 2005, Sheriff Baca establishes (MAHSC) the Muslim American Homeland Security Congress. The first of its kind in the nation. MAHSC is a non-political, nongovernmental, non-religious and non-profit organization. It was established with the mission to foster education and understanding between the Muslim Community and the Sheriff's Department to protect and defend the United States of America and to prevent terrorism and any acts of prejudice. Members of MAHSC include the following organizations that represent the Muslim Community in the southern California area:
-Bilal Islamic Center
-Council on American Islamic Relations-LA Chapter
-Council on Pakistani American Affairs
-Iranian-American Muslim Association of North America
-Islamic Center of Hawthorne
-Islamic Center of San Gabriel Valley
-Islamic Center of South Bay
-Islamic Center of Southern California
-Islamic Shura Council of Southern California
-Muslim American Society
-Muslim Public Affairs Council
-Omar Ibn Al Khattab Foundation
• July 2007, Sheriff Baca establishes a Muslim Community Outreach Program with a full time Muslim Sergeant dedicated to working with MAHSC board members and directed to restoring community trust, building bridges and to develop educational programs that will benefit the Muslim community as well as the Sheriff's personnel.
• August 2008, The Muslim Community Affairs Unit was established and staffed by one full time Sergeant, one full time Deputy and four part time Deputy Sheriffs to assist in the development of the outreach program. The MCA unit's mission is to build a stronger relationship with the Muslim community for better understanding and cooperation with law enforcement.
• September 2008, A Muslim youth program was developed with the purpose of educating the youth about law enforcement and engaging them with meaningful and productive activities.
• October 2008, A training program was developed for recruits in the academy to learn about Islam and provides cultural awareness issues when working with the Muslim Community. The material used for the training was provided and taught by community organizations and community volunteers.
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• October 2009, Law enforcement outreach coordinators group was established under the guidance of the MCA unit with the purpose of coordinating the efforts of outreach among the different law enforcement agencies. The group includes Local, State and Federal Agencies, all of which are interested in building bridges and improving the cooperation of the Muslim community with their respective agencies. (LAPD, LA City, CALEMA, FBI, DHS, US Attorney, TSA, USCIS)
• May 2010, Young Muslim American Leaders Advisory Council (YoungMALAC) was established with the purpose of engaging young Muslim professional adults with the Sheriff's Department and to encourage civic engagement with the community at large while receiving recommendations on activities and possible policy changes from young professionals. YoungMALAC consists of 12 board members with background and education in public policy, law, medicine, business and education.
• July 2010, The MCA launches a website with the objective of educating the community on the outreach efforts & social services and events carried by the unit and educating the Sheriff's department personnel on the Muslim community.
• December 2010, The MCA unit completes a training video titled"Law Enforcement Interaction with the Muslim Community". This training video was produced in partnership with the Muslim Public Affairs Council in Los Angeles.
• January 2011, Jail/Custody Outreach program was established with the purpose of connecting jail inmates with support units and organizations upon release from custody while ensuring that proper none violent teachings are taking place in the jails.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's experience with the Muslim Community in the LA area, although challenging at times, has been very rewarding. The level of trust and cooperation members of the Sheriff's Department continue to experience has been very good and continues to improve on a daily basis.
Members of the MCA unit and the department in general have been invited and have attended many social, religious, and educational events to include holiday festivities, Ramadan Iftars and family celebrations. The Mosques and Islamic centers in the LA area have been open and were made available to any member of law enforcement to visit and to attend any cultural or religious event.
The MCA unit and the Sheriff have hosted several town hall meetings with the Muslim Community to answer questions and to address concerns. Some of the educational programs that were provided to the community include:
-Domestic Violence
-Gang activities and awareness
-Youth and teens driving education
-Terrorism
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-Narcotics education and awareness
-Identity theft avoidance and awareness Success stories
We measure our success by the trust that we enjoy with community leaders, members of the community in general, and the organizations that represent the community. Sheriff's cars and uniform personnel are no longer seen as a threat to the community in Los Angeles County but rather a pleasant and welcomed part of the community and the Islamic centers.
The "Law Enforcement interaction with the Muslim Community" training video was produced in partnership with the Muslim Public Affairs Council, an organization that represents a large number of the Muslim community nationwide. Several video shoot locations, staffing, and script were provided by MPAC and members of the Muslim Community.
Many tips, leads, and reports of suspicious activities were provided by either Muslim community members or organizations. These reports of possible suspicious activities would not have been communicated to law enforcement personnel if we did not have the trust and bridges built. The trust that was earned, provided the mechanism for the community to communicate its concern and therefore reporting the criminal activity.
The establishment of the Young Muslim American Leaders Advisory Council, the activities sponsored by the Sheriff's Department, and the mutual support of the Islamic centers and the families of the youth involved is a tool and a method of countering violent extremism through trust, education, and cooperation between law enforcement and the Muslim community.
The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department's Custody outreach program in our jails is not only a bridge building for inmates with the outside world but also is a counter radicalization effort by ensuring that proper teachings of Islam are checked by having the right educators, material and well qualified and properly credentialed chaplains and Imams. The process would not have been possible without the cooperation of the local Muslim community by providing volunteers and vetted religious texts that will not incite violence but rather teach the proper peaceful message of the religion.
Lessons Learned
Our experience continues to teach us that implementing community trust policing methods is the best way to succeed and gain the cooperation of any community you serve and work with. The Muslim Community is not different than all the other communities we serve daily. Build trust, solicit cooperation and establish methods of communication with the community and the result will be crime reporting, reporting of suspicious activities, and countering violent extremism at all levels.
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Committee on Homeland Security
US House of Representatives
Washington DC
March 10, 2011
Testimony of Abdirizak Bihi
Director, Somali Education and Social Advocacy Center
Minneapolis, MN
Uncle of Burhan Hassan
First, I want to say thank you to Chairman King and Members of the Committee for allowing me to speak on behalf of the Muslim Somali American community today. I also want to thank the Somali American community for helping us, the families of the missing children, to stand up against the radicalization of our youth. And lastly, I want to thank the people of the state of Minnesota for helping the Somali American community to grow and flourish in the state of Minnesota.
Many Somali American families fled from a burning civil war to the refugee camps in neighboring Kenya where killings, gang rape, starvation and civilian mass murdering was common. They waited in those camps for years and years to be rescued by the international community. Many of them, including my sister and her son, Burhan Hassan, were fortunate to have made it safely to the shores of the United States of America. These lucky families were very good at adapting to life in the US. They have found not only peace and safety, but many other valuable opportunities such as employment and free first class education for their children. They also found the ability to build their own communities and start their own businesses, such as Somali malls, community organizations, as well as their own mosques to freely practice their faith.
Burhan Hassan, my nephew, started to adapt to life in the United States so quickly that he picked up the language and became an A student as soon as he started in school. Burhan was very happy with his life here in a new country. Since we are Muslim, my Sister enrolled my nephew to the local mosque, Abubakr As-Sadiqque (formerly known as the Shafici mosque) in the Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, where he learned his religion well. We were very pleased with his achievements, especially as many of his peers were not doing well. The reason for this was that there are not that many resources for the youth in the community, except for the local mosques.
The community has contributed millions of dollars from their meager resources to enlarge and expand the Abubakr center so it could do more youth services since there were not other useful and productive alternative youth resources for the Somali American community. We in the Somali-American Muslim community hold mosque Imams and leaders in high regard, and trust them blindly with everything, including our children, since they are the leaders of our faith- a faith of peace, a faith that stands for submission to God.
We the families in the Somali American community sought a refuge for our children in the Abubakr center from the bad influences that lead to bad choices on the streets of our neighborhoods. We never thought we could be hurt by the very institution that we trusted with our children. When we realized that our children were recruited and lured away from us into the burning country that we had fled from while they were in their infancy, we would never have thought that possibly to have existed.
This youth had never grown up in Somalia or knew Somali, nor were they ever discuss Somali or American politics. Their passion was sports, education and electronic gadgets. They all were from single mom households and all of the recruited young men belonged to one center. That is Abubakr As Saddique. It is a very important that the cost to travel Somalia from Minneapolis is over $3000 – none of the youth worked. All those brain washed and recruited young men - some of whom were killed - were smart, bright future "embodiments of the community." They were not only very loved ones but most of them were "the men'" of their single mom households.
For example the case of Mohamed Hassan. He was in the University of Minnesota. He was the caretaker of the 90 yr old grandmother who raised him, fled with him so he could survive and have a future. Before the radicals brain washed and lured him back into the Somali inferno, he was taking care of his aging grandmother. He would administer her a dozen medications and take her to her doctor's appointment. Between classes at the University, he would come home and feed his grandmother. So was the case for Jamal Bana, another smart student that was taking care of his siblings, mom and his bed-ridden dad.
Another kid was the only driver of the family car that after the radicals took him to Somalia, nobody else in the family could drive the car to get groceries, pick the younger ones from school or dugsi. Or when the car was cited to be moved for street snow removal, none in the family could save the first car and the only one from being towed and taken forever.
Burhan Hassan came to US at the age of four from the refugee camps and never saw Somalia too. He was highly achieving Roosevelt High school senior who was dreaming to go to Harvard to become a doctor or a lawyer just like many of you. Burhan Hassan had never saw or met his dad because his dad was killed while he was a few months old.
Looking back, my sister and I realized (along with the other mothers) that these young men had been behaving very strangely within the last three or four months before they went missing, spending most of their time at the mosque, even sleeping overnight and during the weekends there. They appeared pensive and spent hours alone thinking to themselves, and wouldn't leave the mosque. We would never have guessed that our kids had been brainwashed already and recruited to fight for al-Shabaab in a jihadist war which was killing other innocent Muslim Somalis thousands of miles away.
On November 4, 2008, everybody in our community was engaged with the election results. When my sister started to call me several times during the evening to notify me that Burhan had not come home, I dismissed her and told her he was probably getting the vote out somewhere, or probably somewhere in the mosque. My sister awoke with her motherly instinct at around 2 am, and searched his room, to find his laptop, important clothing and locked-up passport all gone. She summoned the whole family the next morning, and went to the local police station.
We made phone calls to the local hospitals, friends, family members, and we found nothing. My sister met two other families in the local police station, and one of the other family members had an itinerary that one of the kids had left for his uncle to see, so the families then decided to go to the airport to see if they could find someone to help stop the kids in Europe. Nothing was possible, and we were frustrated. We went to the mosque and failed to get answers. We were given promises that the imams would come and meet with the families, and do everything they could to help find out what happened to "their sons," but that never happened. We kept waiting for the imams to meet with us and give us an explanation of what happened to our kids, since they were the ones who raised our kids.
In the meantime, we immediately approached the local law enforcement, mainly the FBI, and told them that our kids were missing and that we had an itinerary that showed that they were going to Somalia, and strongly pleaded with them to urgently try to stop our children from reaching Somalia and find out what happened to them.
After a week of waiting without a word from mosque leadership except promises to help, suddenly we saw them on Somali TV blaming us, the anxious families, for lying about the mosque, and said we intended to destroy the mosque. They said there were no young men missing from the mosques, and asked the community to urgently stop us from doing harm to the Muslim community. The Imam Sheikh Abdirahman Omar also went on Somali TV and said on behalf of the mosque leadership that the only young men they see who are likely to disappear are ex-gang members and drug addicts, that they had tried and failed to rehabilitate during the summertime. Those he was referring to are our children!
We in the families were at that time in a state of shock that words cannot express. We were in a state of confusion and fear, trying to locate our young men, not only locally but internationally. We were awaiting help from the mosque leadership, but we heard something that was unimaginable - a feeling which was even worse than when the kids disappeared. Suddenly, in a matter of days, the mosque leadership transformed us from victims of radicalization into pariahs of the community. We were on the defensive, with these single-mothers (with cultural and language barriers) who were extremely vulnerable to all kinds of issues, having just lost not only their children but their link to society, the only men in their households who could take care of them.
Burhan would periodically call his mother from Somalia. He would ask how she was and maybe ask for some money for glasses or other small needs. She would ask him how he was and try to get him to explain why he was there, but he would respond very cryptically. My sister became concerned that Burhan was being monitored. The last time that Burhan called was about two weeks before he was shot and killed. He told my sister that he was sick. On June 5, 2009 my sister got a phone call from another "recruit" who told my sister that "Little Bashir" was shot in the head and killed and that he had helped bury Burhan somewhere in the Hodan District of Mogadishu.
The mosque leadership continued to disseminate a strong message that there were no children missing, rather than we the families were tools and being used by infidels to try and destroy the mosque. As a result of this, the families united and started Saturday meetings that included outreaching to other community members that also had missing children. We learned from the mosque leadership's tactics used to defame us that the community was the targeted audience, and we framed our outreach strategy to educate the community about the realities of what was happening to us.
An intense outreach from both the mosque leadership and the family members started to unfold in the Somali American community, where we were trying to convince the community that our children were taken, that we weren't trying to destroy our own mosques (that we built), and that nobody can destroy a mosque. At the same time, the mosque leadership was sending the message to the families that had not yet spoken out, that:
if they speak up about their missing loved ones [they] will end up in Guantanamo because nobody
cares about Muslims;
they have a better chance of getting their children back into the country if they remain silent;
if they speak up, they will be morally responsible for having killed all the Muslims and destroyed all the mosques.
With that going on, we the families (on top of the emotional pain of missing our children), had to spend day and night outreaching to the community to convince them of the facts and the reality that we faced. We had to warn other families to pay attention with what was going on with their own children, and dared to continue to stand up for all the single mothers (which comprises a large portion of our community). With all those efforts which continued for months and years, we were alone in our efforts.
In the meantime, the mosque leadership was always in the mode of "double-speak," claiming to the larger community in English that they were victims of our efforts to find our "fake" missing children and creating open house events in the mosque where big organizations such as the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) would stand beside the mosque leaders and support them blindly, without having ever met with the families of the missing Somali youths (even though we had requested several times to meet with CAIR, but never did as we were left without a response).
On the other hand, in Somali language, the mosque leaders (led by the imam) would threaten and intimidate us, calling us all sorts of names during Friday's sermons just because we had spoken publicly about the missing Somali kids and had refused to remain quiet.
For several months, as we (the families of the missing youth) pursued a constant outreach to the Somali American Muslim community to convince them that our children were really missing, we had finally gained some momentum in our efforts. As a result, the community sympathized with us and we were getting more information as to what had happened to our children. Just as we continued to make progress in laying out the realities to our community, powerful organizations such as CAIR stepped into our community and stifled whatever progress we had made by trying to tell our Somali American community not to cooperate with law enforcement.
CAIR held meetings for some members of the community and told them not to talk to the FBI, which was a slap in the face for the Somali American Muslim mothers who were knocking on doors day and night with pictures of their missing children and asking for the community to talk to law enforcement about what they know of the missing kids. It was a slap in the face for community activists who had invested time and personal resources to educate the community about forging a good relationship with law enforcement in order to stop the radicalization and recruitment of our children.
We held three different demonstrations against CAIR, in order to get them to leave us alone so we can solve our community's problems, since we don't know CAIR and they don't speak for us. We wanted to stop them from dividing our community by stepping into issues that don't belong to them.
Our outreach efforts, after a grueling two years, have won us the hearts and minds of the Somali American community to commit to stopping the radicalization efforts of the few extremists and radicals in our community. In these efforts, we have identified the Somali American youth's challenges and aspirations which have never been addressed, by identifying and engaging the vulnerable youth. In terms of the challenges, 85% of the Somali American youth who are vulnerable do not have viable employment and are not engaged in productive social programs.
In the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis, alone, we have the highest number of youth per density of land in the state of Minnesota, and no tangible resources for the youth. As a matter of fact, hundreds of millions of dollars of charitable tax credited funds are being invested in rehabilitating the neighborhood, but it is not having any positive impact on the community.
In conclusion, it important for me to state the fact that 99.9% of Muslim Somali Americans are good citizens who are very grateful for the opportunities they have and are very busy in chasing their American dream. It is also important to mention the fact that they abhor al-Shabaab and terrorism as much as any other American does. However, the challenge is that the community is lacking strong and true leaders that translate the real voices of the average members of the community.
The only visible voices we hear are voices that are propped up by certain organizations (such as CAIR), and those organizations continue to deny the real facts and voices of the communities by claiming that no problem exists, though we continue to face problems such as the radicalization of our vulnerable youth, a growing trend of human trafficking and increasing youth violence. We regret the silencing and intimidation faced by leaders and activists who dare to speak out on the real challenges that keep our youth and community vulnerable to radicalization. Burying our heads in the sand will not make this problem go away.
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Committee on Homeland Security
US House of Representatives
Washington DC
Testimony of Melvin Bledsoe -
Father of Carlos Leon Bledsoe (aka) Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad
March 10, 2011
Thank you very much for allowing me to come here and tell the country what happened to my son. This hearing today is extremely important to begin the discussion about the issue of Islamic radicalization in America and my hope is that this Committee can somehow address this issue in a meaningful, productive way.
First, I would like to express my deepest sympathy to the family of Private William Long, and to the wounded soldier, Quinton Ezeagwula. I would like to talk about those complicit in Private Long's murder – the Islamic radicals who programmed and trained my son Carlos to kill. I want to tell the American people and the world what happened to my son. We sent him off to college at Tennessee State University in Nashville, Tennessee in the fall of 2003. Our dreams about his future ended up in a nightmare.
Carlos is my only son. He grew up in Memphis, Tennessee. My wife and I operate a tour company in Memphis, Tennessee and Carlos started helping out with the family business at the age of eight. He loved talking to the traveling public; and he had a lot of fun interacting with the customers. After graduating from high school, he wanted to get a degree in Business Administration. We thought perhaps he would come back to Memphis to run the business and give my wife and me early retirement.
After the fall of 2005 – his sophomore fall in Nashville –Carlos came home that Christmas for the holidays. We were sitting around in the family room, Carlos's only sister, Monica, her husband and I, having a normal conversation about life in general. But at a certain point, Carlos and his brother-in-law Terrell got into a heated conversation about the Muslim religion. Then and later, we felt like Carlos's personality changed when we spoke about Islam. We thought maybe he had some Muslim friends in college and was offended by our comments.
The next time Carlos came home, we saw another side of him that we hadn't seen before. During the night, he took down all the pictures from the walls in the bedroom where he slept. He even took Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. picture off the wall. We asked Carlos: "What is going on with you?"
He replied that he is now a new convert to Islam and that everything he does from now on will be to honor Allah. We got very concerned: While he was growing up, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr's picture had always hung on his bedroom wall; but now treated the picture as if Dr. King was nobody to him. We asked Carlos not to take Dr. King's picture off the wall, but he took it off the wall anyway. This became a big concern to us. We went to visit him in Nashville because we wanted to learn more about what was really going on with Carlos.
We discovered that Carlos had dropped out of school, at the beginning of the 2005 fall semester. He was working a temporary job. He had gotten a dog while in college, and now we found out that he had turned the dog loose in the woods because he was told that Muslims consider dogs dirty creatures. I really couldn't understand how he could do that, because Carlos grew up with a dog in the house since he was five years old. So my wife and I thought that there something or someone was getting in his head and changing the way he thinks. It had gotten to the point where he had no interest in coming home, even for the holidays.
All of this was part of brainwashing him, and changing his thinking a little bit at a time. He had a job in Nashville, together with some Muslims, who would tell him that according to Islamic law, his employer had to let him pray at certain times of the day, regardless of what was going on at the job. As a business owner, I told Carlos that it would be very difficult for an employer to do this for all of his employees.
As the next step on his process of radicalization, Carlos was convinced to change his name. He chose the name Abdulhakim Muhammad. At this point, his culture was no longer important to him, only the Islamic culture mattered. Some Muslim leaders had taken advantage of my son. But he's not the only one being taken advantage of: this is going on in Nashville and in many other cities in America.
In Nashville, Carlos was captured by people best described as hunters. He was manipulated and lied to. That's how he made his way to Yemen. Carlos was hoping to go there for a chance to cross over to Saudi Arabia and visit Mecca, as he was taught all true Muslims must do at one time in their life. He was taught that he would get to walk on the ground where Prophet Muhammad walked, be able to travel around the area. But these hunters had other plans for him. They set him up, telling him that he could teach English at a British School in Aden in South Yemen, This school turned out to be a front and Carlos ended up in a training camp run by terrorists.
Carlos's joining in with Yemeni extremists was facilitated by their American counterparts in Nashville. We have since discovered that the former Imam of a Nashville mosque, the Al Farooq Mosque, wrote the recommendation letter Carlos needed for the school in Yemen. We also discovered that the school functions as an intake front for radicalizing and training Westerners for Jihad.
From what I understand, the FBI had been following Carlos since before he left Nashville and continued to do so after he came back from Yemen. When Carlos was arrested for overstaying his visa in October of 2008, he was interviewed by an FBI agent based in Nashville even before the U.S. Embassy was alerted about the arrest.
According to the Embassy, the FBI was alarmed about what they learned from Carlos. We wish they could have told us - his family – about what they learned. If we knew how serious his extremism had become, we could have put in every effort to prevent the tragedy in Arkansas from happening.
When my son was arrested in Yemen, my family cried out for help in bringing our son back to America from our Government. We got in touch with the U.S. Embassy and the State Department. We also asked for help from our U.S. Representative, Steve Cohen's office, and from FBI Special Agent Greg Thomason, who had been tracking my son since Nashville.
After our son was finally released and brought home to us. No one said anything to us about what might have happened to him in Yemen or what they may have learned that so alarmed the FBI agent who interrogated Carlos while he was in the custody of Yemen's Political Security Organization. Carlos's experience in Yemeni political jail was the final stage of his radicalization. He was in there with true evil-doers – hard-core Al Qaeda members who convinced him to get revenge on America.
Something is wrong with the Muslim leadership in Nashville. What happened to Carlos at those Nashville mosques isn't normal. I have other family members who are Muslims, and they are modern, peaceful, law abiding people, who have been Muslim for many years and are not radicalized.
I also have several uncles and brothers in the military. Our family has fought for the United States in every war since the Civil War. I have nephews who are currently in Afghanistan, as I speak, fighting for democracy and freedom for all Americans.
It seems to me that the American people are sitting around and doing nothing about Islamic extremism, as if Carlos's story and the other stories told at these hearings aren't true. There is a big elephant in the room, but our society continues not to see it.
This wrong is caused by political correctness. You can even call it political fear - yes, fear. Fear of stepping on a special minority population's toes, even as a segment of that population wants to stamp out America and everything we stand for. I must say that we are losing American babies – our children are in danger. This country must stand up and do something about this problem.
Yes, it's my son's tragic story you're hearing about today, but tomorrow it could be your son or your daughter. It might be an African-American child that they went after in Nashville, but tomorrow their victim might have blonde hair and blue eyes. One thing is for sure, it will happen again.
We must stop these extremist invaders from raping the minds of American citizens on American soil. Here in America today, there are people with radical Islamic political views who are organizing with one goal in mind: to convert our citizens and to turn them against the non-believers. This is a big problem now in Nashville, on college campuses and in the nearby area. Nashville has become a hot bed for radical Islamic recruiting.
Carlos grew up a happy-go-lucky kid. He always had a big smile on his face, and loved to crack a joke or two. Everyone liked him. He loved to play team sports like basketball and football. He loved swimming, dancing, and listening to music. Today we have two families that have been destroyed. This could have been prevented. I would like to see something change so that no other family in this great country of ours has to go through what our family is facing now.
GOD HELP US! GOD HELP US!
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| Statement from Rep. Keith Ellison (D-MN) |
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For some revealing background on the new chairman of the Congressional Homeland Security Committee, Rep Peter King (R-NY), click on the following link:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3IAIAWyCDzM&feature=relmfu
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· Joy Bahar discusses the King Hearings with Dr. Jasser and Congresswoman Lee [Video and audio archives]
And finally, some background on Mr. King's "star witness"
Zuhdi Jasser and AIFD - Identified by Rep. King as the Ideal American Muslim Leadership
[Message clipped]
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Palash Biswas
Pl Read:
http://nandigramunited-banga.blogspot.com/
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