Obama to Speak at
Baltimore Mosque Where Imam Condoned Suicide Bombings
by Jordan Schachtel 30 Jan 2016Washington, DC
President Obama is set to speak next week at a
mosque which was led for over a
decade by an Imam who justified suicide bombings in some circumstances and who
helped found a mosque with ties to Al Qaeda.
The President will visit the Islamic Society of Baltimore
on Wednesday and deliver remarks there, the White House confirmed
on Saturday. This will be the first time the President has paid an official
visit to a mosque during his seven years as President. However, Obama has toured
mosques while on overseas trips.
“The president believes that one of our nation’s greatest
strengths is our rich diversity,” White House spokesman Keith Maley said,
confirming reports. “As the president has said, Muslim Americans are our
friends, and neighbors; our co-workers, and sports heroes — and our men and
women in uniform defending our country.”
The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR)–which
has been declared
a terrorist organization in the United Arab Emirates
and was named
by federal prosecutors as an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land
Foundation’s Hamas-funding operation–welcomed Obama’s decision.
“For a number of years we’ve been encouraging the
president to go to an American mosque,” said
CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper. “With the tremendous rise in anti-Muslim
sentiment in our country, we believe that it will send a message of inclusion
and mutual respect.”
But critics of Obama’s decision may question his choice
of the Islamic Society of Baltimore, where Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh, a
native of Sudan and former member
of the Muslim Brotherhood, led
the institution for eighteen years
as its Imam.
Before becoming Imam there, el-Sheikh helped found
the Muslim American Society, an outfit created by Muslim Brotherhood members.
In 2004, he told the Washington
Post, commenting on Palestinian suicide bombers: “If certain
Muslims are to be cornered where they cannot defend themselves, except through
these kinds of means, and their local religious leaders issued fatwas to permit
that, then it becomes acceptable as an exceptional rule, but should not be
taken as a principle.”
El-Sheikh also helped found the Dar Al-Hijrah mosque,
which was once led by the deceased infamous Al Qaeda terrorist Anwar Al Awlaki.
When he left the Islamic Society of Baltimore, El Sheikh
became the Imam of Dar Al-Hijrah, following Awlaki’s escape from the U.S. after
the September 11 attacks.
The Dar Al-Hijrah mosque was founded
thanks, in part, to a large grant from Saudi Arabia’s Embassy in the United
States, which allowed for the large facility to accommodate some 5,000 Muslims.
Dar Al-Hijrah, which is located right outside Washington,
D.C., is connected to
several high-profile Islamic terrorists who prayed there, including Major Nidal
Hassan – the Ft. Hood massacre jihadi, two September 11 hijackers, and an
unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
El-Sheikh was also the former Baltimore
regional director of the Islamic American Relief Agency (IARA), which the U.S.
Treasury Department later designated a
specially designated global terrorist group for its support of Al Qaeda chief
Osama bin Laden.
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participant (think tank).
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Obama administration, and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.
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Freidheim Jr. is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank).
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is a member of the Commercial Club of
Chicago, the senior adviser for the Barack
Obama administration, and her great uncle is Vernon E. Jordan Jr.
Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s great uncle, a
director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think tank), a senior
counsel for Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer
& Feld, LLP, and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think
tank).
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