So, your source is some guys twitter feed? Not exactly a credible news source.
Just as reliable, if not more so, than major media news sources. A lot of the conservative and right wing Internet sites are going ballistic and stating as fact their assumptions. The news media in the area
showed the police press conference. One can plainly see that the conference did NOT take place outside, and no one was shouting. Merely reporters asking questions. Not very intelligent questions but questions just the same.
The actual photo of the Muslims supposedly "praising Allah" for the beheading doesn't show much:
One can see about 30-40 individuals, perhaps not all Muslims, surrounding two individuals, neither of which appear to be police officers. The man on the left, in the center, appears to be wearing some sort of white shirt that has a belt or a design that looks like a belt crossing from his right shoulder to his left waist. The photo was obviously taken from either a drone or a helicopter, probably a news helicopter.
The
comments beneath the picture are those cited by Jim Hoft of the Gateway Pundit. He is citing "Bob Lawson", who gives comments relating to the Muslim gathering, which I quote here because that site may go away in the future. All in all, as an on-site observer, I'd give Lawson's remarks a fairly high value rating. Especially his conclusions, highlighted in red.
2-3 local OK muslims are reading passages from their Qurans outloud on the ground at site of news conference #oklahomabeheading
— Bob Lawson (@LandonLawson78) September 26, 2014
Cops/reporters were close by but not being yelled at by muslims as many have asked me but a few muslims were saying praise allah out loud
— Bob Lawson (@LandonLawson78) September 26, 2014
According to Lawson, a small percentage of those in attendance were Muslim.
Not all at the news conf. were muslims but I'm guessing probably 30-40 were out if the 100-120 total who were there.
— Bob Lawson (@LandonLawson78) September 26, 2014
He also noted:
I was lulled into feeling safe around here over the years and today was my wakeup call. @TWATLS @tradethecycles
— Bob Lawson (@LandonLawson78) September 26, 2014
As a result of all this, he promised:
I will never go anywhere around here without my weapon again. I'm afraid it's about to get bad in my part of Oklahoma. #oklahomabeheading
— Bob Lawson (@LandonLawson78) September 26, 2014
Apparently, Lawson got asked a lot of questions…
I can't keep up with all these questions. Sorry. Today was something I wish never happened but it did. Terrorism hit my town.
— Bob Lawson (@LandonLawson78) September 27, 2014
He also had kind words for Hoft:
Thank you for telling the truth of what I witnessed today. Many sites have taken my statements out of context but not you. @gatewaypundit
I googled Muslim mosques in Oklahoma City and noted that there are four of them Two are very small, converted offices or buildings. Much like you'd see on North 27th, around Vine st. One. the American Muslim Association, is about the size of a 450-500 person church, assuming they hold only one service.. The one Nolan was in, the Islamic Society of Greater OK, less than a mile from the AMA, is BIG and obviously has well over a 1,000 members, judging from the parking lot, which can park over 400 cars.
Now, there may be just a few or many "radical" Muslims at the ISGO. If just a few where are the leaders of that group deploring the beheading? There silence is deafening. Maybe
THIS is why:
Suhaib Webb, an Imam with ties to former Al Qaeda mastermind Anwar al-Awlaki, had also previously been the leader of the Islamic Society of Greater Oklahoma City, which had been attended by Alton Nolen -- the man who on Thursday beheaded a former coworker after recently converting to Islam, Breitbart News has learned. Webb now serves as Imam of the sister organization of the mosque attended by Boston Marathon bombers Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev.
The deafness appears to be one sided. The side calling for Jihad and beheadings is very loud. Apparently the ISGO members weren't antagonistic to Webb's message of hate.
An aside: I got curious about how many Mosques there were in other parts of the country, so I googled it. If the ISGO is any indication, we have a ton of subversive nests in all the major cities of this country. Both coasts and middle America. If they've been stashing weapons and ammo we have a major internal war brewing.
