By Debbie Schlussel
As longtime readers know, I’ve been following the case of Carlos Bledsoe a/k/a Abdul Hakim Mujahid Mohammed, a Muslim who murdered U.S. soldiers on U.S. soil while they were performing recruiting duties at a military recruitment center in Little Rock, Arkansas. As I told you, Melvin Bledsoe, father of Mohammed, has repeatedly noted that Islam made his son do these killings. Now, Melvin Bledsoe and Daris Long, father of Pvt. Andy Long–who was murdered in Mohammed’s jihadist attack, are bravely calling out President Obama and his administration for fighting the award of a Purple Heart to Private Long. In today’s USA Today, they say the Obama administration is doing this because it does not want to admit that Muslims on U.S. soil target and murder Americans and have since 9/11. They also provide other information that was not broadcast in press reports about Mohammed’s terrorist attack on the Little Rock recruitment center: that prior to seeking–and succeeding–to kill a U.S. soldier, Mohammed had already firebombed one area rabbi’s house and shot up another rabbi’s home. Maybe the press didn’t tell us about this because they don’t want us to know the truth: that Muslims on U.S. soil are no less violent, anti-Semitic, and anti-American than Muslims in the heart of Riyadh or Bint Jbeil. They are part of the documentary, “Losing Our Sons,” produced by Charles Jacobs.


After Carlos Bledsoe Became Abdul Hakim Mujahid Mohammed, He Murdered Pvt. Andy Long in the Name of Islam
Unfortunately, Charles has enlisted a number of con artists and liars to his cause, none of whose praise means anything good for the documentary. That includes con woman Hanan Qahwaji Tudor a/k/a “Rachel Cohen” a/k/a “Nour Saman” a/k/a “Brigitte Gabriel”–whose entire “life story” is fiction and whose past career mostly involved trying to convert Jews, while working for Pat Robertson in Israel. This tarnishes the documentary, as does the endorsement of Jeff Jacoby, who lectured us that Gitmo Islamic terrorists have a special need for modesty supreme to all other religions and and to the safety of all law-abiding American citizens. It’s also troubling that two other endorsers, Daniel Pipes and Frank Gaffney, do a phony kabuki dance, refusing to ever admit any problem with Islam, just some mythical thing called “Islamism” (so does Tudor a/k/a the multiple con artist names she’s used). It’s completely dishonest. Both have repeatedly pimped America on extremist Mohammed Zuhdi Jasser, who is tight with the Minneapolis-area imam that sent Somali boys to become homicide bombers in Somalia, and has repeatedly made excuses for the imam (who was on the no-fly list.) The movie’s latest “endorser,” Mike Hucksterbee, recently attacked Jews on his FOX News show along with John Ramsey (who may have helped kill his daughter, JonBenet Ramsey and allowed his toddler daughter out at sickening beauty contests). The only one missing from this list of charlatans and snake oil salesman is stalker and fake terrorist Walid Shoebat. Charles, you know better than to engage these frauds in your efforts. It makes me doubt the efforts and whether you know what you are doing. In any event, the message of the two dads is good, even if the messages of those they’ve chosen to ally with are utter crap and, frankly, diametrically opposed. But here’s a tip for everyone involved: Carlos Bledsoe didn’t convert to Islamism or go to an Islamist mosque. It’s Islam, stupid. He converted to Islam, and his mosque was an Islamic mosque. Period.
This spring, the Obama administration threatened to veto the 2013 Defense Authorization Act. Of all the reasons given for the threat, the objection to granting the Purple Heart to Pvt. Andy Long stands out as strange. That is, unless you know the story.
On June 1, 2009, Pvt. Long was killed outside an Army recruiting office in Little Rock by Carlos Bledsoe, who had become Abdul Hakim Mohammed after converting to Islam. Since then, we, the fathers of Carlos and Andy, have been trying to tell our story so that other parents do not experience our tragedy. Read the rest of this entry »