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Rhode Island: Three elementary schools get beheading threat; similar threats in Massachusetts and New Hampshire

Oct 9, 2014 1:37 pm By Robert Spencer

7News Boston WHDH-TV

It may be just a prank: some creep thinking it funny to capitalize on the news of the Islamic State and Oklahoma jihad beheadings by threatening schoolchildren. Or it could be someone who wants to “strike terror into the hearts of the enemies of Allah” (Qur’an 8:60) but doesn’t intend to follow through. Or it could herald a Beslan-style jihad attack in the U.S.

“Parents worried after beheading threat at 3 R.I. schools,” by Anthony Miller, WHDH.com, October 9, 2014 (thanks to Elizabeth):

JOHNSTON, R.I. (WHDH) – A threat targeting elementary school children in several Rhode Island communities caused concern for many parents Wednesday.

Investigators say someone threatened to behead students at schools in Johnston, Cranston and Warwick.

Because of the threat, many parents kept their children out of class even though police had a visible presence on campus.

“We want to ensure that there’s a safe environment for our students as they go to our schools not only just today but throughout the entire period that they’re in school,” Cranston Mayor Allan Fung said.

Many parents kept their kids at home Wednesday. Others decided to walk their children to school.

“It is safe and I hope it’s just a prank that they’re playing, the threat is not that serious. I hope everything gets back to normal because our kids do need their education,” Giovanni Carpenter said.

The drama in Rhode Island comes on the heels of similar threats in Massachusetts and New Hampshire.

Police in Rhode Island say they don’t believe this is a credible threat but the community is certainly not taking any chances.

“When these threats come in, we take them very serious, but at the same time, we don’t want these threats to affect our daily lives including what they do here educating students,” Cranston Police Chief Michael Winquist said.

The threat was reportedly handwritten and police have enlisted the help of the FBI to determine the source of the letter.

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  1. dell temple says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    Some real sick-os out there, however with the sad state the world is in regarding terrorists, you can never discount it as a prank. Hope the sick puppy who wrote this is caught and bears the full weigth of placing the threat.

  2. Jaladhi says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 1:48 pm

    All those millions of Ben Afflec peaceful Muslims coming out with this kind of threat. report them to Ben, that will fix the problem!! Moron!!

  3. Jaladhi says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    We have let the barbarians come to this country. Now they are showing their true face!

  4. Salah says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    As I wrote in a previous comment, police cannot protect everyone all the time. We, the people, must do our part and protect ourselves and our loved ones. We need to be able to carry a concealed weapon all the time, everywhere. Obviously, school children can’t, buy school teachers and security guards can and must. Their first responsibility is to protect our children.
    Police will always be a little too late.

    • Michael Copeland says

      Oct 9, 2014 at 4:46 pm

      In Israel – continually threatened by Islamic terror attacks – the teachers carry weapons openly.

  5. Frank Scarn says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 2:22 pm

    America’s school children learn the ways of Islam.

    “We will convey our deep appreciation for the Islamic faith, which has done so much over the centuries to shape the world[*] — including in my own country.”

    OBAMA, to the TURKISH PARLIAMENT (04/06/09)

    * Including for example the complete elimination of Jewish, Christian, and Hindu/Buddhist/other populations from Muslim countries, the rearranging of Lower Manhattan’s skyline and streets, and the inconveniencing of the entire population of the flying public as they attempt to board airplanes.

    • gungadin says

      Oct 10, 2014 at 9:34 am

      Great post Frank Scarn…….

      I couldn’t have said it better myself !!! KUDOS !!

      I can’t understand with all the retired ex GI’s, cops and the like, these states simply don’t post an armed security person within the school grounds at a MINIMUM….

      Better for someone to have a gun and NOT need it……than to need it and not have it…

  6. Terry says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    What’s a “Beslan style jihad attack?”

    • Undaunted says

      Oct 9, 2014 at 2:36 pm

      This is what a Beslan-style attack will look like. Read all the “Perfect Day” links in para 1.

      http://freemendo.typepad.com/undaunted/2014/09/still-crazy-after-all-these-years.html

    • Beagle says

      Oct 9, 2014 at 2:39 pm

      See for yourself:
      http://www.examiner.com/slideshow/the-beslan-massacre#slide=1

      September 1, 2004
      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beslan_school_hostage_crisis

  7. Bro. Nick says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 2:29 pm

    Whoever is responsible for these threats will find out personally that “the LORD GOD” minces no words – and means just exactly what “the Lord Jesus Christ” personally said:
    {1} Then said he unto the disciples, It is impossible but that offences will come: but woe unto him, through whom they come!
    {2} It were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and he cast into the sea, than that he should offend one of these little ones.
    (Luke 17:1-2 [KJV])

    Unless they repent of their sins and accept the “free gift” of Salvation – like I did, for:
    “The Lord is not slack concerning his promise, as some men count slackness; but is longsuffering to us-ward, not willing that any should perish, but that all should come to repentance.”
    (2 Pet 3:9 || also 1 Tim 2:4 | Ezek 18:30-32 [KJV])
    .

    • Undaunted says

      Oct 9, 2014 at 2:37 pm

      It is also written that God gives some over to a reprobate mind, they are beyond salvation.

      • Bro. Nick says

        Oct 9, 2014 at 3:33 pm

        @ Undaunted – I know that there are many that have hardened their hearts so that they will not be “converted” – but only “the Lord God Almighty” knows who they are.

        In the meantime my responsibility as a ‘watchman on the wall’ is to pray unto “the only wise God” that there will be many-many men, women, boys, and girls from all around the world that will come to a Saving Belief in “the Lord Jesus Christ”:
        {8} For by grace are ye saved through faith; and that not of yourselves: it is the gift of God:
        {9} Not of works, lest any man should boast.
        {10} For we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained that we should walk in them.
        (Eph 2:8-10 [KJV])
        .

        • Undaunted says

          Oct 9, 2014 at 4:56 pm

          No doubt.

  8. Undaunted says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 2:31 pm

    The schools threatened probably won’t be attacked. These guys aren’t stupid; they will strike with no warning at all. So, that means it’s more likely that they’ll hit the school your kids go to than ones threatened as in this story.

    Really.

  9. aprilnovember811 says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 3:22 pm

    Just a couple of weeks ago in Moore, OK, (the place where the woman was beheaded,) an Arab man with a heavy accent went into a school and was asking suspicious questions. The police are trying to track him down. If you google it, you should find it. I think they’re serious and I think they’ll succeed, because they’re here and they’re determined. We have been horribly betrayed by the Federal Govt.

  10. Champ says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 5:36 pm

    The threat was reportedly handwritten and police have enlisted the help of the FBI to determine the source of the letter.

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    Whoever wrote this threat is possessed by pure evil! …so it wouldn’t surprise me if this was written by a muslim. Afterall, mohammedan slaves of allah are famous for carrying out these barbaric beheadings. Sure, not all muslims go around beheading people, but the vast majority of beheadings are done by SOA’s!

    Beyond sick …

  11. UneasyOne says

    Oct 9, 2014 at 6:00 pm

    This is why the left will come around. But the right has to do it’s part and set other differences aside while we deal with this threat. There is plenty of resistance to the truth on the right. Bush started the aggressive promotion of the “religion of peace” BIG LIE while the 9/11 rubble was still smoldering and before he had even smuggled the Bin Ladin family out of the country. – while everybody else’s plane was still grounded. He held hands with the Saudi King.

    Rewriting history to lay the whole mess on Obama simply won’t fly.

    The problem is that ALL our politicians are wholly owned by big oil. We can build windmills, give tax advantages to solar and other renewable energy – and we can take it out of the 4 billion we currently SUBSIDIZE the most profitable industry in the world to more than four billion dollars a YEAR! Not only that, but we actually paid Exxon a REFUND on no taxes paid of $183,000,000 FOR ONE YEAR!

    We can afford to invest in renewables after we eliminate oil subsidies and tax their enormous profits.

    We are all useless pawns of the oil companies, so we HAVE TO SUBMIT to islam. That is their decree.

    If we crash the price of oil by replacing most of it, those deserts won’t produce anything but goatherds in a generation or two.

    • Western Canadian says

      Oct 9, 2014 at 10:29 pm

      No, you are not a uneasy one. You are a staggeringly ignorant one, who has been programed with WHAT to think, and given an obscene aversion to HOW to think….. The subsidies to the ‘alts’ (which I have been studying for over 30 years), are bigger than those for oil by a massive ratio. Ignorant people should learn to shut up.

      • GP says

        Oct 10, 2014 at 12:51 am

        Right? It’s still Bush’s fault and evil big oil that does all of the beheadings. Someone is off their meds!

  12. Laura says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 6:08 am

    I always believed the Americans to be tough, no-nonsense people – fair, highly moral, democratic and unwilling to be ‘messed with.’
    However, recent events have shown me that you are being pushed around by an aggressive minority, a ‘faith based’ minority determined to take the country from the people who did the hard work and made the nation that the rest of the world looks to, or used to look to, with admiration and envy.
    I wonder why the gun-toting Americans don’t just say to their minority (soon to be majority) community leaders, whenever threats are issued, ‘bring us the perpetrators,and those who issue threats from within your communities, or we will commence wholesale deportations without delay.’
    I mean, they couldn’t hate you any more than they already do, so what have you got to lose? You certainly have a lot to gain.

  13. DiMu says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 8:06 am

    Holder has forbidden mosques to be investigated as a matter of routine – yet they are the epicenter of jihad.

    It is obvious that Obama wants Islam to grow from strength to strength in this country to fulfill his dream of a non-Western USA.

    That’s why he’s encouraging the hispanic invasion. He wants the USA to look like a cross between Mexico and Africa and to be run by the Muslim Brotherhood.

    If we the people had any clout, we would make sure that Islam is outlawed as child abuse.

  14. Richard T. says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 11:49 am

    Boston’ predominately minority section, Roxbury, has one or the largest mosques in the United States. It is alleged the Boston Marathon Bombers attended that mosque. Let us not forget, in the sixties, Malcolm X, and the leader of the Nation of Islam, Louis Farrakhan, both lived in Roxbury. Malcolm X converted to Islam while incarcerated at the the Charles Street Jail in Boston. Louis Farrakhan graduated from Boston English High School. One would have to conclude their presence in the Boston area, in the early stages of the radical Muslim movement, had a profound effect on the foundational beginning of the Muslim movement in that city.

  15. Oliver Gra nt says

    Oct 10, 2014 at 3:01 pm

    Fort Hood was the first hint that all “workplace violence incidents” could rooted in jihad. Oklahoma beheading is another clue. Middle east accents was one clue that threats against colleges and businesses were based on jihad. Now an explicit beheading threat is a pretty strong link to a certain religion. In Israel, Egypt, Pakistan, Thailand, they don’t bother to hide the “return address” of an attack, but in the US I suspect the recent rash of mass attacks and random attacks on individuals and families of all kinds with no obvious “motive” all have one obvious possible motive – staged attacks on americans, made to look like they are targeted against individuals or racial groups.

  16. Cindy Mccoy says

    Oct 11, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    I don’t blame those parents for getting upset! I would keep my kids home from school too!!! I would start home-schooling. You can’t trust those -people who say those things. They don’t have a problem one hurting kids especially white American kids. I don’t mean that to be ugly in anyway but they are just weird. They will hurt anyone who is a Christian they hate us with a passion. They are blinded by hate and evil. I pray God will protect America and HIS people!!!

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