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The Baltimore mosque that U.S. President Barack Obama visited on Feb. 3 has been linked to Hamas and other terror organizations.
In his first visit to a U.S. mosque, Obama spoke at the Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB), whose former imam was linked to the financing of Hamas in the Gaza Strip and the Taliban in Afghanistan.
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“It’s disgraceful that this is one of the mosques – or the mosque – that he’s picked to be the first visit,” said Zuhdi Jasser, president of the American-Islamic Forum for Democracy.
A Washington Examiner editorial said that two ISB officials in 2014 “President Muhammad Jameel and General Secretary Abid Husain — joined with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) in a news conference where they denounced Israel for committing ‘genocide in the name of self-defense’ in Gaza, when it was in fact the murderous Hamas terror organization launching rockets at Israel from heavily populated civilian areas.
“CAIR was designated an unindicted co-conspirator in the Holy Land Foundation trial, which resulted in the largest terrorist money-laundering conviction in U.S. history. The FBI terminated its formal relationship with CAIR in 2008 over its ongoing status as a front for Hamas.”
The ISB also hosted U.S.-born Al Qaida terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki soon after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks.
In 2013, ISB scholar Yaseen Shaikh described homosexuality as a “psychological disorder.”