Authorities have never shown any interest whatsoever in the phenomenon of conversion to Islam and the question of why so many converts turn to jihad and treason, but the Crawfords are a living illustration of why this lack of interest is dangerously myopic. Look at how often this hate-filled couple has demonstrated why they’re a danger to society:
1. The Mel’s Diner incident: “Before the Crawford’s left Mel’s Diner, it is reported that Daphne Crawford said, ‘People like you are the reason we kill.'”
2. The Facebook threat: “Daphne Crawford also threatened a victim on a Facebook post saying her husband would show up with an AK-47.”
3. The threat to the car dealer: “A police report says Alan threatened to kill a used car salesman back in March.”
4. The rape charges: “According to Sequoyah County Sheriff, in October 2009, Alan Crawford was arrested and booked in Sequoyah County on rape and sodomy charges. Those charges were later dropped.”
5. Their “radical comments”: “Six years later, law enforcement became aware that the couple was making radical comments and threats on social media about their conversion to Islam.”
6. The serviceman’s funeral: “In November 2015, when a military serviceman was killed, the Muldrow police and the Sheriff’s Office believed the Crawford’s were a credible threat to the funeral, but did not have any charges against them at the time.”
7. Their recording of mall entrances: “Then in December 2015, the Crawfords made it known that they had relocated to Fort Smith when they were escorted out of Central Mall for recording mall entrances against mall policy.”
All this makes it likely that it’s only a matter of time before the Crawfords commit mass murder in the name of their god, or at least try to do so. They should be very, very closely watched. Will they be, once they’re released for this offense? Or would that be “Islamophobic,” as in the case of Omar Mateen?
“FBI Investigates NWA Couple for Terroristic Threatening,” NWAhomepage.com, June 16, 2016 (thanks to Josh):
PRAIRIE GROVE, Ark.– A husband and wife have been arrested on terroristic threatening charges after Prairie Grove Police say they made threats to a waitress in a local diner.
Police say Daphne Ridenour, who also goes by Daphne Crawford, and her husband Alan Crawford made terroristic threats to a waitress while eating in Mel’s Diner in Prairie Grove.
After the incident in the diner, investigators say the couple continued making threats on multiple social media websites.
According to the police report, on May 24, Alan Crawford was frustrated at Mel’s Diner. Alan Crawford was upset because his order was taking too long and he thought the food was too expensive, according to the report. Alan Crawford reportedly said, “Only a Christian would treat them like that,” because they practice Islam.
Before the Crawford’s left Mel’s Diner, it is reported that Daphne Crawford said,”People like you are the reason we kill.”
Daphne Crawford also threatened a victim on a Facebook post saying her husband would show up with an AK-47. According to the report, Daphne Crawford sent the victim a picture of her husband in “Muslim attire” kneeling with a weapon described as an assault rifle.
The victim of the social media threats says the FBI is also involved in the investigation of the couple.
According to investigators, Daphne Crawford was arrested Thursday at the Value Inn in Fayetteville where she has been staying.
Alan Crawford was arrested Thursday morning in Johnson County and transferred to the Sebastian County jail where he is being held.
A police report says Alan threatened to kill a used car salesman back in March.
The arrests come after a long list of encounters with multiple law enforcement agencies.
According to Sequoyah County Sheriff, in October 2009, Alan Crawford was arrested and booked in Sequoyah County on rape and sodomy charges. Those charges were later dropped.
Six years later, law enforcement became aware that the couple was making radical comments and threats on social media about their conversion to Islam.
In November 2015, when a military serviceman was killed, the Muldrow police and the Sheriff’s Office believed the Crawford’s were a credible threat to the funeral, but did not have any charges against them at the time.
Then in December 2015, the Crawford’s [sic] made it known that they had relocated to Fort Smith when they were escorted out of Central Mall for recording mall entrances against mall policy. Fort Smith police say they kept an eye on the Crawford’s [sic], but never had charges against them….

john spielman says
more of Allah/Satan’s warriors, ie ordinary sociopaths drawn to the only world religion where its adherents are encouraged to terrorize and kill in the name of their god in order to earn entrance to a perpetual alcohol fueled whore house!
ECAW says
Yes, and when Islam the religion of psychopathy meets political correctness the religion of neurosis….
Bang.
Myrtle Linder says
GOD created all people, and decisions of taking the life of any person is only HIS right.!! Who is this woman, who thinks she has a right to kill others, if they do no live up to her standards. We do not live by her standards, even GOD does not kill those who displease HIM. Maybe she is a blood thirsty Islamist who wants to “up her tally of taking the lives of who do not live by her standards.
I hope someone will soon tell her that GOD created the world and everybody and everything in it, and the rules belong to HIM. of course he hates homosexuality, also, as this in not the way HE made man, but HE did not give us the right to kill who we opposed the way they live. We must go through the justice. system, before taking the life of someone, since we have so many fools, ready to rid the earth of those who offend us!!
we simple do not kill those who we oppose, we are not Islam, we are Christian, here, which GOD’S rules reign, sometimes.
Lise Houle says
Just a question for Myrtle Linder. You say God hates homosexuality, and you forgot to captitalise He, how do you know he hates homosexuality? Did He tell you that Himself? If you say it says so in the Bible, well, MAN wrote the Bible, not God…but anyway, if he made all man, then he made homosexuals too…far as I know, they’re human, so God must have made them? And how can you say that God does not kill those that displease him? Ask Noah why he built the boat? Or ask the people of Atlantis how they like swimming with the fishes! You can’t use God’s name the way you want. He made everyone, he loves everyone!
Greyhound Fancier says
I bet though that Alan Crawford isn’t the first one to want to kill a used care salesman.
Joyce Clemons says
Think about this….for this couple, conversion to Islam makes them feel legitimized for having a sense of entitlement. That way of viewing the world, like it owes you something, or everything, is common in thug teens, left wing SJWs and miscellaneous plutocrats. This Islam conversion, with it’s association to a terrorist element, is a “pious” license to live as a tyrant without doing the political work. Being rewarded by Allah is the Promise of the cherry on top of this dish of free ice cream. It’s extortion and emotional blackmail. People with this attitude don’t always convert to Islam, but who should be surprised if they do. Put them away,in the looney bin if you can’t for a crime.
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eagle says
Do you think this couple will be charged with a hate crime? Hahahahahahahahahhhahahahahahahahhaahah What a joke.
Richard says
Some would say that religious converts are particularly vulnerable to extremist perspectives while studying their chosen faith. It is the duty of their teacher to advise them of the dangers of extremism during conversion and to back them off while they immerse into a more modulated faith before conversion … this would prevent so many from falling into the same rabbit hole. If they have teachers that is, as some faiths do not require completion and attendance of supervised courses prior to formal conversion.
Susan B says
The killing manual is extreme and if that is what they believe in and follow that is what they do. How can you tell not to do what is commanded??
Michael says
It is clear you have not read the koran. Any talk of “modulated faith” is naive.
ermom says
Remember that Turkey’s President Erdogan said, ‘Islam is Islam’, and denies there are two Islams, one peaceful and one violent.:
devindersingh says
no,he said there is no moderate Islam is a Islam. he said Muslims are our foot soldiers
Carolyne says
Oh my God. How naïve can you be? It is the duty of a Muslim instructor to advise newcomers of the violence which Allah requires against non-Muslims.
Jay Boo says
Maybe Richard is correct.
All we need to do is remove the violent passages from Qur’an and Hadith and teach all new converts to Islam from the resulting 3 page peaceful pamphlet during a 15 minute tea break (sarc).
Norger says
Sir, the “teachers” of this faith instruct that the texts actually mean what they say.
gravenimage says
Good grief. Violence against unbelievers is a core part of Islam.
And your idea that converts are “particularly vulnerable to extremist perspectives while studying their chosen faith”–an odd way to characterize *threatening murder*–does not hold up. Was Omar Mateen a new convert? Syed Farook and his wife? The Tsarnaev brothers?
And you write, “their chosen faith”–as though this does not apply solely *to Islam*. Do you find converts to Judaism threatening to murder Gentiles? Converts to Christianity threatening nonbelievers? Converts to Buddhism threatening those of other faiths? Of course not.
ermom says
I thought making ‘terroristic’ threats, threatening to kill someone, is a crime, nationwide. I guess it’s NOT true for Muslims. Just look at the FBI’s saying that in spite of terroristic threats, the Orlando Islamic jihadist, was NOT a threat, and dropped their cases.
Learn Islam for yourselves.
Jerry says
How many more muslims like this are out there? I’m thinking too many.
William says
That question was asked by Gravenimage in another thread.
Gravenimage:
Again I wonder: how many more Omar Mateens are out there, not even bothering to hide?
Yes indeed. How many more? Let’s say many.
Nevertheless, Hussein the half-baked half-breed keeps on pushing for gun control. Forget about insisting the FBI do their job.
Jerry says
And frankly, I think a lot of people are asking that same question, millions. I mean, ideologically speaking, there’s little difference between the terrorists and the proverbial “moderate” muslims. It’s like the difference between a Nazi clerk and a Nazi SS killer, they operated on a different level but both were working toward the same thing, conquest and supremacy. I think we have way too many muslim “clerks” in western society.
Nigel GFF says
“…difference between a Nazi clerk and a Nazi SS killer…”
Brings to mind the railway clerks organising the shunt routes for the ‘cattle cart’ death-trains. The list compilers and bean counters, all enablers are complicit, with their ink stained fingers steeped in blood up to the elbows.
ECAW says
Something wrong with half-breeds?
William says
Is he not one?
ECAW says
Do you always answer a question with a question?
gravenimage says
I agree with ECAW on this one.
I have no problem with Obama being mixed race–lots of people in the United States and all over the world are mixed race.
I judge him by the content of his character–*that* is where he fails abysmally.
Jerry says
Brings to mind the railway clerks organising the shunt routes for the ‘cattle cart’ death-trains.
Yes, thank you. You drove my point home with a terribly effective illustration.
gravenimage says
All too true, William.
Greyhound Fancier says
And I bet that Ramadan is the worst because you take a bunch of angry entitled people, tell them no food or drink from dawn to dusk, then you’ve got your hands full with some hair-trigger tempers.
Jerry says
lol, so true. Maybe Spencer isn’t quite right about Ramadan’s increasing threat. It isn’t that they are seeking to be more devout, they’re just hungry. 😉
Expat88 says
Nightmare couple!
Walter Sieruk says
Those two Muslims who made terroristic threats to waitress a diner because the service ,they felt , too slow and the price of the food was too high. Also, someone heard the female of the couple even say to the waitress “People like you are the reason that we kill.” This not only reveals the violent prone way some Muslim think but this also shows the there must be something to the saying that “Evil is always looking for an excuse.” Just speaking for myself,as a Christian, there have been times when at a restaurant, the service was terrible . The result was me leaving no tip Likewise some restaurants I had found are overpriced the outcome is then going out to eat ,a later times, I just went somewhere else to eat in which the cost of the food was no that overly expensive. So there is a civilized way to handle a situation which is the right way. In contrast there’ is the uncivilized way to handle a situation, which is the wrong way .It’s amazing that this Muslim couple can’t or won’t understand this.
Jerry says
There’s much truth in what you say. It seems way too many muslims believe violence is the best means of “overcoming.” Not surprising since their “religion” says the same thing. In islam Jihad is the murky portal through which the dim light of ignorance and hate filters through. It doesn’t matter if it’s overcoming their inner conflicts (lol) or cutting off an infidel’s head, jihad seems to be their core principle. Contrast that with Christianity’s teaching of the healing power of forgiveness, salvation from sin, and “Blessed are the peacemakers.”
So yeah, you’re right in drawing that comparison between yourself as a Christian and muslims. We’re two different cultures with two different mindsets. One is based on principles of love and forgiveness, the other on bigotry and violence for a demonic god. This all sounds like a plot for an apocalyptic movie, but the dead bodies remind us, it’s all too real.
Hope says
Get a load of these two beauties. Obviously products of cousin marriage, which fits right in with their adopted “religion.” I can hear the dulcid tones of the banjo, playing the theme from “Deliverance.”
Islam is for losers.
RichardL says
these two are not really Muslims, I think. I saw two interviews with them some time ago and the guy said that they eat pork bacon on their burgers.
The impression I have of the two is that they are simple minded and attention seeking but completely harmless. They probably were dressed up as something else a few years back and will be something different in a few years time.
Naturally, I would not allow them to buy guns and check their papers at every opportunity.
ermom says
RichardL., ‘would not allow them to buy guns’. Hmmm, and they, if serious, wouldn’t get them ILLEGALLY? Or make pressure cooker bombs, or attack with knives, cars, etc.?
Remember that in Islam, that the ‘best way’ to get to Paradise, which totally ignores sin, such as eating bacon, drinking alcohol, etc., is to die while committing jihad for Allah, and die, become martyred FOR ALLAH, in the process. At that point, according to the Islamic trilogy: the Qur’an, hadith and sira, there is NO judgement or weighing of good vs. bad deeds. The martyr goes directly to Paradise. Remember the 9/11 hijackers, and the videos of some of them in bars, drinking alcohol prior to their committing jihad and flying into the WTC? People said, oh, they aren’t real Muslims, because of that, proving that they didn’t know Islam. The jihadists KNEW that they were going to die in the name of Allah, killing kafir, so that their sins would be wiped out.
RichardL says
I am with you, bro! Thing is, these guys are harmless nutters and law enforcement has thousands of real jihadis in the US to focus on.
I would bet that 2 FBI agents talking to them would make them drop their mohammedan garb in 10 seconds.
HeadShake says
“Thing is, these guys are harmless nutters and law enforcement has thousands of real jihadis in the US to focus on.”
I’m sure FBI agents told themselves the exact same thing about Omar Matteen and his now-disappeared wife, 49 people ago.
snafubar says
The fact they threaten to kill people is enough to jail them.
ECAW says
Nor was Mohammed.
Nigel GFF says
A rude awakening awaits them. I’m guessing that they haven’t read the chapter on apostasy yet!
gravenimage says
The impression I have of the two is that they are simple minded and attention seeking but completely harmless.
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Really, what could be more “harmless” than threatening to murder people? sarc/off
R Cole says
Clearly this couple know that as Muslims they are privileged.
And know anyone reporting them is more likely come under suspicion. [Having used the wrong ‘terminology’ to do so i.e. mentioning their faith.]
The Orlando shooter had multiple complaints made against him – with a few reaching the local authority and FBI. The question is how many more of these cases are out there?
Political correctness kills!!
The excuses such as workplace violence, waitress did not serve customers who happened to be Muslim on time, homophobia [after being spotted casing Disney World], are all used to downplay the increasing hostility toward non-Muslims.
snafubar says
The fact that these two skum are still walking the streets is proof that our Justice Department is complicit.
abad says
Islam is for vindictive people – vindictive by nature, which is why this religion attracts so many.
Jesus Christ had MORE than a few words to say about vindictiveness.
abad says
Weak people revenge.
Strong people forgive.
Intelligent people ignore.
Ed Lee says
I have extensive experience in northwest Arkansas. The people there are very skeptical of “outsiders”. To them, that is anyone who was not born and raised in the local area. They firmly believe that if the rest of the world were to disappear, their lives would continue unchanged and uninterrupted. They are isolationists. They are northwest Arkansans first and Americans second. Most of them do not believe that the jihad terror threat will ever come to their isolated corner of the world. These incidents involving the Crawfords are the first salvo in a rude awakening for northwest Arkansas.
Mark Swan says
Some very worldly and educated people live in North/West Arkansas—Fayetteville is a College City,
there is no need labeling people in Arkansas as isolationists, and assuming a general stereo-type of those folks.
Ed Lee says
I’ve lived in California, Nevada, Oklahoma, Texas, Virginia, and Maryland, and I’ve never been shunned as an outsider like I have been in northwest Arkansas. As soon as most people there hear something other than a distinct southern accent in my voice, their demeanor changes and becomes cold and distant. I have been made to feel unwelcome in numerous other ways. I have experienced this for more than 20 years. I have plenty of evidence for my conclusions.
gravenimage says
How dare anyone shun people who threaten to murder them? They must be intolerant isolationists…
Guest says
At least Arkansas is taking the Islamic threat seriously.
PRCS says
“4. The rape charges: “According to Sequoyah County Sheriff, in October 2009, Alan Crawford was arrested and booked in Sequoyah County on rape and sodomy charges. Those charges were later dropped.””
Doesn’t say if it was little boys or prepubescent girls.
gravenimage says
Thank you, PRCS. This appears to be the story, from back in 2009:
“Muldrow man charged with rape and sodomy”
http://www.sequoyahcountytimes.com/news/local_news/article_0d52207f-bcde-5c19-8919-f0b3a1084e99.html
This is from right over the Arkansas border in Oklahoma.
Does it surprise anyone here that this Jihadist is a rapist?
Jim says
They are Muslim (protected class) yet white (persecuted class) and SOUTHERN even (uber-hated class). The feds won’t have any idea what to do.
labman57 says
“I’m a freakin’ Muslim convert! Now where the hell is my bacon and eggs?”
Baucent says
That’s good!
elizabeth says
Locate their mosque and shut it down – forever.
SBJ says
A new American KKK, except they hate whites.
Marty says
This repellant couple are obviously converts.
The rule of thumb re mohammedan converts is that they are
usually low level criminals who want to join the largest violent
criminal conspiracy the world has ever known.
In the UK, or on the Continent, they would be respected for their
“faith”.
The US has tougher social mores.
I hope they & their type are soon subject to a vigorous response
from decent Americans.
dragaozao says
Why are they not been invited to to White House?
gravenimage says
Grimly hilarious…
Rich says
Has Mark Suckerforislam banned her from Facebook for the threatening photo and comment?