Heartbreaking news: an Army recruiter is dead and another injured after a shooting in Arkansas.

A man with “political and religious motives” killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another Monday in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center, police said. The shootings were not believed to be part of a broader scheme.

The soldiers completed basic training within the past two weeks and were not regular recruiters, said Lt. Col. Thomas F. Artis of the Oklahoma City Recruiting Battalion, which oversees the Little Rock office.

William Long, 24, of Conway, died, and Quinton Ezeagwula, 18, of Jacksonville, was wounded and in stable condition, Police Chief Stuart Thomas said.

Both men were from nearby hometowns and volunteered to work at the recruiting center to attract other locals to the military. “They can show the example, ‘Here’s where I was, and here is where I am,”‘ Artis said.

Police arrested Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, 23, along a crosstown interstate moments after the shootings at the Army-Navy Career Center in a shopping center in west Little Rock.

Muhammad acted alone, the police chief said, and based on an interview with officers, the suspect “probably had political and religious motives for the attack.” He lived in an apartment just 1.5 miles from the recruiting center. A search warrant had been obtained for the apartment.

Thomas said Muhammad, previously known as Carlos Bledsoe, would be charged with first-degree murder, plus 15 counts of committing a terroristic act. Thomas said those counts result from the gunfire occurring near other people.

The accused shooter’s father, Melvin Bledsoe of Memphis, Tenn., hung up on a reporter who called about his son’s arrest Monday night.

Witnesses told police that a man inside a black vehicle pulled up outside the recruiting center and opened fire about 10:30 a.m. Long fell onto the sidewalk outside the center while Ezeagwula was able to crawl toward its door.

Now, just who is Carlos Bledsoe? Surprise, surprise, he’s a Muslim convert who “trained” in Yemen who changed his name from Carlos Bledsoe to “Abdul Hakim Mujahid Muhammad” (More at Michelle’s).

A 23-year-old convert to Islam with “political and religious motives” killed a soldier just out of basic training and wounded another in a targeted attack on a military recruiting center in Arkansas, police said.

The suspect, Abdulhakim Mujahid Muhammad, reportedly had been under investigation by an FBI joint terrorism task force after he traveled to Yemen and was arrested there for using a Somali passport. The probe was in its early stages and based on Muhammad’s trip to Yemen, according to ABC News.

While there, Muhammad — a U.S. citizen from Memphis who is a convert to Islam and was previously known as Carlos Bledsoe — studied jihad with an Islamic scholar, Jihadwatch.org reported.

Muhammad told authorities that he approached the recruiting center in Little Rock by car on Monday and started shooting at two soldiers in uniform, according to a police report.

“He saw them standing there and drove up and shot them,” Lt. Terry Hastings told The Associated Press. “That’s what he said.”

Obama has been noticeably silent on the subject. He had time, however, to condemn the murder of late-term abortionist George Tiller. Now, I think it is horrible that George Tiller was murdered. As much as I despise what he does, he does not deserve to be murdered for it. There is a right and a wrong way to deal with such disagreements, no matter how deep or profound. The asshole who murdered Dr. Tiller, Scott Roeder, should fry. And so should Carlos Bledsoe.

But for some reason, the outrage is entirely reserved for Scott Roeder. The White House is outraged. Liberals are holding moonlight vigils. And the media is obsessed with it. It’s yet another example of violent right-wing anti-choice wackjobs, so the media’s running with it.

Where’s the outrage for the violence in Arkansas? Where’s the anger for murdering one of our soldiers and injuring another? Why is there so much silence on this particular subject?

It’s sad that I even have to ask.

William Long deserves candlelight vigils as well. His family deserves prayers. And it sickens me that liberals are so quiet about his murder, simply because it doesn’t neatly fit into an ideological box. They don’t actually care about George Tiller or his family. They’re eating this up. This means they can slander the right. They can talk about how dangerous being pro-choice is. They can feel like victims again. And it’s to be expected from such small-minded people. But all the same, I frankly cannot believe that a mass-murderer such as George Tiller gets more tears and sympathy than a soldier who was murdered in uniform, just for volunteering to serve his country.

I don’t condone Dr. Tiller’s murder. And I sincerely feel for his family — they are in my prayers. But I weep much more for the family of William Long. And they deserve our thoughts and prayers as well, even he didn’t die for a fashionable cause like George Tiller did.