Father of Muslim Convert Who Attacked Ark. Army Recruiting Center Says Keith Ellison is a “Fool” and a “Liar” For Denying Jihadist Threat…
The dad has good reason to detest Ellison, the Democrat claims his son’s conversion to Islam and descent into jihadism was his fault, not the imams he trained under in Yemen or the recruiters in Nashville who sent him there.
(IPT) — His emotional testimony, choking back tears as he discussed a Muslim-American first-responder killed on 9/11, garnered national headlines last month for U.S. Rep. Keith Ellison.
But two days after a House committee hearing on Muslim radicalization, the Minnesota Democrat had a far more hostile tone. In a speech in Rochester Hills, Mich., Ellison made a series of personal attacks against three other witnesses who were on the opposite side of the issue.
- He seemed to blame Melvin Bledsoe for the actions of his son Carlos, who stands accused of shooting and killing an Army private after converting to Islam and becoming radicalized.
- A Somali-American who complained about interference from organized Islamist groups while trying to learn about a score of missing young men who turned up with a terrorist group in Somalia was there simply to “diss” the Muslim community in Minneapolis.
- Zuhdi Jasser, a Phoenix physician who challenges the Islamist narrative, simply is out to make a buck, Ellison said.
Ellison’s speech echoed that criticism, and he told his Michigan audience that if King “really was trying to learn something about violent radicalization, why wouldn’t he include [as a witness] somebody who actually had something to say of value?” Ellison asked. Instead, he called “one guy… named Mr. Bledsoe, whose son I guess became a Muslim, went to Yemen, came back and killed some police officers (sic).”
Bledsoe dropped out of college shortly after his conversion to Islam in 2004. Muslim leaders in Nashville urged him to go to Yemen, long a hotbed of jihadist activity. In 2007 he traveled there, apparently to study under a radical imam.
He is accused of opening fire outside an Army recruiting office in Little Rock, Ark. in June 2009, killing one soldier, Pvt. William Long, and seriously wounding another, Pvt. Quinton Ezeagwula.
In his testimony, Melvin Bledsoe recounted his son’s descent into violence, saying the American people are largely unaware of the threat posed by Islamist radicalism. “There is a big elephant in the room, but our society continues not to see it,” Bledsoe said.
After stating that he did not want to bring pain to a grieving parent, Ellison appeared to suggest that the bulk of the blame for Carlos Bledsoe’s radicalization didn’t lie with the jihadists who indoctrinated him, but with his father. Carlos “was in that man’s house all his life. He’s a Muslim for a few years. Enough said,” Ellison said.
Melvin Bledsoe did not mince words when told about Ellison’s comments during an interview with the Investigative Project on Terrorism. He dismissed Ellison’s notion that radical Islam played no part in his son’s actions. Carlos left the Bledsoe home in 2003, changed his name to Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad when he converted to Islam a year later, and spent extensive time in Yemen.
“They stole my son,” Bledsoe said. “They raped his mind. They changed his thought, his behavior. They changed him from Carlos to Abdulhakim. I asked God to give me my son back.”
Ellison is a “fool” and “liar” when he tries to deny the insidious nature of jihadist recruiting that is occurring in this country, Bledsoe said.
HT: Jack
Posted by ZIP on Wednesday, April 13, 2011, at 4:25 pm | 
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I hate to admit it but that all the dumbasses here in Mn can vote for Fools, Liars, Thieves.
Ellison is just another bad fucking joke, perpetrated on America by the asshole left.
Suprised ? WTF, we have a founder of the Black Panthers in Congress, too….
Ellison is a real piece of shit. Kudos to this man for speaking the truth about the Muslim menace.
Leftwing JournOList media seen plugging ears and shouting ‘La la la!’ as loud as they can.
Blessings on this brave father.
The left will be launching a smear campaign against this father soon…..
I find people hard to understand that would vote a muslim into our government!
That is like putting a pedophile in charge of a playground!!!!!!!! What a bunch of idiots!
I wish the Father the best. Ellison is a real sick joke that is helping our enemy’s infiltrate us. He will have his day coming soon enough when he gets voted out.
“The enemy within.” M.Savage
Fool ?
Insult to fools.
‘Carlos “was in that man’s house all his life. He’s a Muslim for a few years. Enough said,” Ellison said.’
Um, excuse me?
Yeah, the kid was a Muslim for five minutes and he already murdered somebody? Enough said.
screw you ellison. You have no idea what went on in the household and you probably never will. Im sure Mr. Bledsoe did not and probably has never spoken to you about what went on within the privacy of their home. so for you to assume any damn thing makes you LOOK LIKE THE MORONIC FOOL YOU ARE
The convert never murdered anyone while living in his father’s house, it was only when he converted and started spending all his time with mooselimbs that he became a murderer.
“Nuff said.
Keith Ellison is a “Fool” and a “Liar” For Denying Jihadist Threat…
Don’t forget whining little pussy, traitor, apologist and the list goes on and on.
Apparently taking the Oath of Office on a Koran means lying and insulting citizens of this country are OK …..
We should NEVER AGAIN allow someone to take the oath on a Koran (or however the he!! you spell it).
He was that close (R’chester Hills – hour north)
Damn, missed him.
Peckerwood is breathing my air, I’d REALLY like him to stop.
Kudos to the father for telling it like it is.
Keith Ellison is a Nation of Islam supporting douchebag who’s “religious” motivation is his anti-White bigotry. The stupid asshole doesn’t even realize that muhammed had black slaves and called them raisin heads.
How people like Ellison can ignore the following is beyond me
Ishaq:243 “I heard the Apostle say: ‘Whoever wants to see Satan should look at Nabtal!’ He was a black man with long flowing hair, inflamed eyes, and dark ruddy cheeks…. Allah sent down concerning him: ‘To those who annoy the Prophet there is a painful doom.” [9:61] “Gabriel came to Muhammad and said, ‘If a black man comes to you his heart is more gross than a donkey’s.’”