Surprised?
“The US Mosque Obama Has Chosen For His First Presidential Visit Has Deep Extremist Ties,” by Chuck Ross, Daily Caller, January 30, 2016 (thanks to Plamen):
The Baltimore mosque President Obama has chosen as the first U.S.-based mosque to visit during his presidency has deep ties to extremist elements, including to the Muslim Brotherhood.
The White House announced on Saturday that Obama will visit the Islamic Society of Baltimore (ISB) on Wednesday. He has visited several mosques overseas as president but has resisted visiting one in the homeland. The purpose of the trip, according to the White House, is to “celebrate the contributions Muslim Americans make to our nation and reaffirm the importance of religious freedom to our way of life.”
But ISB is a curious choice for Obama’s first domestic visit.
The mosque is a member of a network of mosques controlled by the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), a Muslim civil rights group named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2008 Holy Land Foundation terror case. Several executives with that organization were convicted of sending money to aid the terrorist group Hamas.
An imam who served at ISB for a total of 15 years has also been a leading member of the Muslim Brotherhood network and has worked for an Islamic relief group that was designated as a terrorist organization by the Treasury Department in 2004.
Mohammad Adam el-Sheikh, who served two stints as ISB’s imam, from 1983 to 1989 and from 1994 to 2003, was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood in Sudan in the 1970s. He also co-founded the Muslim American Society, a Falls Church, Va.-based group that is controlled by the Muslim Brotherhood.
While in Baltimore, el-Sheikh served as a regional director for the Islamic American Relief Agency. That group’s parent organization is the Islamic African Relief Agency, which the Treasury Department says provided funds to Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda, Hamas and other terrorist organizations.
After leaving Baltimore, el-Sheikh served as imam at the infamous Dar al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church. That mosque has a lengthy roster of known terrorists and terrorist sympathizers. Its imam during much of the 1990s was Mohammed al-Hanooti. He was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, which killed six people.
Dar al-Hijrah came under the control of Anwar al-Awlaki in 2001. He’s the American al-Qaeda recruiter who was killed in a U.S. drone strike in 2011. Nidal Hasan, the U.S. Army major who killed 13 people at Fort Hood in Nov. 2009, is said to have attended the Virginia mosque when al-Awlaki served there. The pair also reportedly exchanged emails. Two of the 9/11 hijackers also attended Dar al-Hijrah during al-Awlaki’s tenure.
El-Sheikh took over at Dar al-Hijrah in Aug. 2003, a little over a year after al-Awlaki left. While there he defended Palestianian suicide bombings against Israel.
“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,” he said in 2004, according to a Washington Post article at the time.
As The Post reported Saturday, ISB’s website states that it seeks “to be the anchor of a growing Muslim community with diverse backgrounds, democratically governed, relating to one another with inclusiveness and tolerance, and interacting with neighbors in an Islamic exemplary manner.”
But that desire for tolerance — which President Obama frequently touts as well — does not appear to be a virtue shared by ISB’s resident scholar, Yaseen Shaikh.
A 2013 Youtube video shows Shaikh, who previously served as imam at a mosque in Plano, Tex., speaking out forcefully against homosexuality in Islam.
During an hour long diatribe, Shaikh called homosexuality a psychological disorder that has no place in Islam or society. He also lamented that gay rights groups have “hijacked” political discourse.
“This whole subject of homosexuality in the public sphere…is no longer a religious issue, unfortunately, as much as we want to use the religious card and try to defeat this, now it’s become a politicized issue,” Shaikh says in the video….

Champ says
Hear, hear!!
robm says
Double, hear, hear..
Angemon says
Let’s cut Barry some slack: 85% of mosques in America teach “radical” islam. The odds were not on his side, even if he were to randomly pick one.
Jay Boo says
Excellent point
Gungadin says
I cut Barry NO SLACK…..his first responsibility and duty is the protection of the American citizen against ALL enemies both foreign AND domestic. Seems to me he’s done a piss poor job on both fronts. His ass should have been impeached during his FIRST term but obviously we have a Senate and House that were afraid of being called “racists” so they sat on their hands and did nothing to even TRY to remove him from office.
Our government no longer represents the will of its people and its become the laughing stock of the world. We’ve become a third world nation on many levels and a toothless tiger. That photo of those sailors with their hands on their heads on their knees made me want to BARF. I’m sure Barry told those service personnel to make “nice”…..What a pitiful human being he is. I for one will be glad to see him gone. GO TRUMP 2016
Pathfinder0100 says
Well Gungadin, HE is the domestic enemy, isn’t he??
Jack says
I’ve read long thought out comments by a few retired Generals and 1 or 2 Admirals who minced no words. They consider BHO to be a traitor, costing American lives and not protecting future American lives. In my 6 Decades I’ve never seen or heard of anything like this happening.
mortimer says
Would Obama visit a church if its pastor was a white supremacist associated with the American Nazi movement? I guess not.
Why would Obama visit a mosque whose leaders are Arab supremacists associate with the Egyptian Nazi party…the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD?
Why, oh why?
mortimer says
Would Obama visit a church if its pastor was a white supremacist associated with the American Nazi movement? I guess not.
Why would Obama visit a mosque whose leaders are Arab supremacists associated with the Egyptian Nazi party…the MUSLIM BROTHERHOOD?
Why, oh why?
Peter Charles says
What Jewish Temple has he visited? Or Catholic, Methodist, Lutheran, Baptist, Presbyterian etal Church has he visited here or abroad? NONE? No wonder many believe he’s a muslim, Will there be photos, will he bow to mecca? WTF!!!!!
Rufolino says
I seem to remember last year Obama visited the Southern church where a ‘white-supremacist’ boy had opened fire on a prayer-meeting, killing several people.
jura says
Well, he visited Hagia Sofia in Istanbul.
Western Canadian says
You mean occupied Constantinople, don’t you??
Dave Falanga says
When The Mosque Comes To Town by David Daniels
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MOVs6s2uhJo
Millions of Muslims are leaving Islam
Jack says
Robert Spencer correct me if I’m wrong: When BHO bowed to the King of Saudi Arabia, leader of the Sunni Stream of Islam Keeper of Mecca & Medina; in essence he submitted to both the King of Saudi Arabia AND Islam. In addition, by extension Obama submitted the USA and Americans to Islam.
mortimer says
The mosque’s slogan ‘NO PROGRESS WITHOUT STRUGGLE’ actually means ‘no progress without JIHAD’.
Muslims often give hidden messages and then laugh at the kafirs for not ‘getting it’. This supremacist Death Cult is conspiratoria, as the slogan reveals.
Bangu says
Thank you.
commonsense says
Excellent point/observation. It should have been obvious to me, too, but it didn’t register until I saw your comment.
PRCS says
“ties to extremist elements”
I imagine the article’s author, Chuck Ross, likely thinks that a Muslim’s attempts to comply with Qur’an constitutes “extremism”.
Knight says
And Hillary wants to appoint him to the Supreme Court!
Lynn says
He wants to be UN General; now THAT’S scary.
Jack says
AND Hillary, Bill, Chelsie and the Foundation have VERY serious issues that if any of them were mortal people such as myself and a former Financial & Investment Advisor for many years; they’d be waist deep in quick sand with the SEC, FINRA, Treasury and NAIF adding Lead to their load.
Obama on the Supreme Court, when he sealed his Educational Records from Public. What is it he doesn’t want known, ghost student status. He did study the Constitution but only to circumvent and defeat it using 1/2 of his race as a barrier to preventing his impeachment.Since Grand Mom died he hasn’t mentioned the White side. I’m sure that not only his detractors are fully aware of the fact he use race to the MaX. Today there are so many Men and Women who are African American fully capable of being Great Presidents but this Schmuck is who the Democrats fielded for election. His schpeil Change, Hillary’s phrase I’m a Woman and laid bare for the public a payoff for support ; a seat on the bench. Has this goofball ever litigated before a Judge and Jury?
Lynn says
Isn’t BHO special…he’ll at last be in his element… Suppose they’ll do that hoghollerin’ call to prayer he loves so much.
He’s making a stop to give the trojan horse a sugar cube and flaunt it in the face of Americans. Sort of a silent middle finger from the taqiyya king.
abad says
First U.S. mosque visited?
What sort of BS is this?
Hossein Obama’s been attending mosques since he was a rugrat.
He has never been a Christian.
Just who does he think he is trying to fool?
jihad3tracker says
++++ OBAMA HAS GIVEN US A HUGE GIFT WITH THIS UPCOMING MOSQUE VISIT. Use it to get in touch with the presidential candidate you support ++++
All of them are still very eager to hear from voters. On their websites there is a path for your own remarks, but THE DONATION LINK IS USUALLY AT THE TOP OR IN THE MIDDLE.
Scroll down to the absolute BOTTOM — TO FIND A TINY “CONTACT” HOTLINK BUTTON. You will probably have to provide just a couple of items, like name and email address.
Then, in the text space where feedback is put, give the campaign staff a full accounting of Obama’s repeated demonstrations of his heart being filled with love for Islam — not Christianity.
Here is a Youtube video which shows exactly that — IN OBAMA’S OWN WORDS RIGHT FROM HIS MOUTH: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCAffMSWSzY
Without exaggeration, the survival of the United States depends on electing a person who understands that ORTHODOX DEVOUT MUSLIMS want to kill us.
Also in that message to candidates, please include a superb 5 minute reality-jolt by the brilliant David Wood: “The Jihad Triangle” which explains how a “nice quiet person” becomes a jihad assassin.
Sorry for no Youtube link — but just do a search of “Jihad Triangle” to find it.
Dave Falanga says
” the survival of the United States depends on electing a person”
When God and the Bible were removed from the schools, there is NO survival for America.
Here is why:
For three generations schools have produced stupid students that are anti-American, so it’s no wonder there are stupid adults today.
The Founding Fathers and what they said and believed.
The facts of history illustrate the this nation never intended to be “God neutral.” Public displays of worship and subservience to the God of creation have always been made matter-of-factly. There can be no greater example of this than casual and unapologetic declarations concerning God in the constitutions of every one of the fifty states!
WE ARE AMERICANS by Sam Gipp
http://www.warneveryone.com/we_are_americans.htm
Jay Boo says
They will present Obama a simulated clock bomb to put on top of his fireplace mantel.
Peggy says
Why not just tell it like it really is? He is not visiting any mosque. He is attending a Mosque.
He can’t legitimately attend a mosque while claiming that he is a Christian to he makes many visits.
Kathy Brown says
Omigosh! I finally found common ground with a lyin’, dyin’ islamofascist!
Homosexuality IS a ‘psychological disorder’ that HAS ‘hijacked’ whatever it can, and is most certainly ‘politicized’. And attempts to normalize it certainly do not have ‘any place in society’…
Of course we do still differ on the treatment of homosexuals. The subhuman muslims like to torture them, stone them, and throw them off rooftops. We in the West think that compassion is the order of the day. Oh-and of course according to allah, that means that WE have to be stoned to death, tortured, too.
Alas! That ‘common ground’ moment didn’t last long, did it?
Brit says
“… attempts to normalize it certainly do not have ‘any place in society’…”
Do you mean you are against equal rights for gays?
Angemon says
I think Kathy means she’s against the totalitarian drive behind homosexual “civil rights” groups – like, for example, punishing churches who refuse to host same-sex weddings:
https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/catholic-couple-fined-13000-for-refusing-to-host-same-sex-wedding-at-their
Brit says
“…compassion is the order of the day…”
Not very compassionate to deny gay people a religious ceremony.
Angemon says
Of course – it’s much more “compassionate” to force someone to do someone else’s biding. I think there’s a word for that. Anyway, is there any religion that sanctions same-sex marriages?
dlbrand says
“The Baltimore mosque President Obama has chosen as the first U.S.-based mosque to visit during his presidency has deep ties to extremist elements, including to the Muslim Brotherhood.”
Well of course it has ties to what we call “extremist elements”—a.k.a. good Allah-obeying, thus Muhammad-emulating Qur’an and Sunnah followers.
Jack HOLAN says
He just doesn’t care to pretend about appearances anymore. Our duty however is to disseminate this information as far and wide as possible to as many people as possible.
MorningStar says
Govt. Of Turkey Building Massive $100M Mosque Complex … In Maryland:
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2013/05/24/maryland-govt-of-turkey-building-massive-100m-mosque-complex/
Obama Accepts Offer To Open Turkish Mega-Mosque:
https://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2015/04/21/obama-accepts-offer-to-open-turkish-mega-mosque-in-maryland/
Erdogan: “The minarets are our bayonets; the domes are our helmets. Mosques are our barracks, the believers are soldiers. This holy army guards my religion. Almighty, Our journey is our destiny, the end is martyrdom.”
Turkish American Community Center – Lanham, Maryland:
underbed cat says
I find it difficult to believe that there is no mosque inside the Capital or the White House……you know in the cause of diversity…..which in the irony of all ironies is preparing to bring an “un-diversity of the caliphate to the world, through a struggle of hardened hearts called jihad.
New residence?
Western Canadian says
‘struggle’ of course means jihad, as in going to the gym to lose a little weight…..
/sarc off
Oppressaphobe says
Isn’t pronounced shtruggle, according to Michelle?
That’s if you want to be cool.
Pumbar says
Could you also use sarc/on before you begin using sarcasm? That way we can be told when the sarcasm is coming into use.
Sarc/off.
Oppressaphobe says
Very helpful. The difference between being part of the problem or being part of the solution.
Oppressaphobe says
And BTW, not original at all.
Oppressaphobe says
In my dreams he is going to give his:
‘YOU DIDN’T BUILD THAT’ speech.
He’s going to say, “This nation was built by Judeo-Christian values: love, forgiveness, tolerance even…yes, tolerant. Jesus never tried to destroy his enemies. He tried to win them over by right speaking and right acting–by example. Forced conversions never work and aren’t embraced by Christians because in Christianity…it is the heart that matters.
Now any of you that want to come and kneel at the alter and ask forgiveness, the paralegals…uh, I mean the paramedics…you don’t need lawyers…remember bend your knees if you feel light-headed in my presence.”
AND THEN I WAKE UP.
Pathfinder0100 says
Ya know MP, he has proven over and over by words and actions that he is a Muslim ever since he has been in office. Congress has supported him all the way, hasn’t it?? What do you think??
Jr says
Does no one recognize the quote on the mosque’s board – “There is no progress without struggle…” Is this not from Adolph Hitler, perhaps quoted in Mein Kampf ? Never forget – Mein Kampf translates as “My Struggle.”
JR says
This is what I posted on my FB page regarding the Mosque’s sign:
Their board says, “There is no progress without struggle…” AND it is in quotes. Who are they quoting ? Without doing the research, I would say that they are quoting Adolph Hitler, their inspiration for Jew hatred and murder. Don’t forget his autobiography – Mein Kampf – translates literally as “My struggle.” Of course, HItler’s observation that life is a struggle is actually correct, and is further corroborated in the Vedas, in which “struggle,” in Sanskrit, is termed karshati. The Vedas consider that material life is a great struggle for existence. In the animal kingdom, the struggle is literally a struggle for survival, survival of the fittest. The small fish is food for the large fish, etc. In the human species, the struggle usually plays out in the economic sphere, as the more powerful attempt to accumulate a greater share of wealth, and then manipulate those who don’t accumulate as much wealth. But in Islam the struggle, of its very nature, institutionalized in the Koran as making war against the infidels, begets violence as Islamists attempt to convert others at the point of sword. Therefore, we can see that this type of “convincing” essentially throws humanity back to the animal platform of cruel
JR says
Which is a another way of saying that Islamists have forsaken the finer human qualities of compassion, kindness, empathy and mercy and are allowing their consciousness to descend to the level of jackals, wolves, hyenas and the very dogs they loathe.
Jack says
They are all afraid to Impeach Him for one stupid reason; 1/2 of his genetic makeup is African American. Never mine that the other 1/2 is Caucasian. I’m sure many loyal American Democrats can see that this man (a Constitutional Scholar) is purposefully working to undermine both Our Government and Fundamental Rights. When retired Generals and Admirals are calling the President a traitor its clear. In my 6 Decades plus I’ve never witnessed these events. It makes Nixon’s actions look like child’s play.