What will you do with Shariah?

Conference focuses on choice between Constitution and Islam's law

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Posted: September 16, 2011
9:50 pm Eastern© 2011 WND

"It happened to my son. Today. Tomorrow. Your son."

With those terse words, Melvin Bledsoe describes how his much-beloved son first was introduced to Islam and Shariah, then converted, then radicalized.

That process is the subject of a coming conference, thePreserving Freedom Conference,which will be held Nov. 11 in Nashville.

The event focuses on the simple question of whether the Constitution or Islamic Shariah law will prevail in America, as their embedded differences make it clear both cannot remain, organizers said.

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Lou Ann Zelenik, executive director of the Tennessee Freedom Coalition, one of the sponsors along with WorldNetDaily, the Religious Freedom Coalition and the Center for Security Policy, knows the story of Melvin's son, Carlos, who was "brainwashed" into turning himself into Abdulhakim Mohamed, is an important one.

According to Zelenik, the Bledsoe story is a tragedy. It's the loss of two sons, from two families.

Carlos Bledsoe went to college in Nashville and was introduced to the Islamic Center there. Soon he converted to Islam as Abdulhakim Mohamed, and shortly after traveled to Yemen to train.

He returned to America in an apparent rage, and now is suspected of the shooting death of Pvt. William "Andy" Long, who had completed his military training and was en route to an overseas deployment. Long was shot and killed outside a Little Rock, Ark., Recruiting Center, and Carlos Bledsoe later told the AP it wasn't murder, because he was just doing what a Muslim should do.

Andy Long's father, Darius, now is fighting to have his son's death reclassified as a terror attack and have his son awarded a Purple Heart.

The conference will hear from Pamela Geller of Stop the Islamization of America, Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, Jay Sekulow of the American Center for Law and Justice, Mathew Staver of Liberty Counsel, William J. Murray of the Religious Freedom Coalition, Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy, Christopher Holton of Center for Security Policy, Zelenik, Andrea Lafferty of Traditional Values Coalition, James Lafferty of Virginia Anti-Shariah Task Force, Barrister Paul Diamond of the United Kingdom, Father Keith Roderick, Bishop Earl. W. Jackson, actor Fred Grandy and Wafa Sulton.

Subjects will include Shariah, jihad, the European experience, the dehumanization of women, the Muslim Brotherhood in America, organizing against Shariah and mega-mosques.