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Mosque Obama visited under FBI surveillance since 2010: one of its members plotted to blow up a federal building

Feb 4, 2016 8:14 am By Robert Spencer

Obama is the President of the United States. He must know all this. That he could plead ignorance of it is inconceivable. So in light of it, why did he go? And when he went, why did he not bother to include even a word about how the Muslims in the U.S., who he thinks abhor and eschew jihad violence and share his view that the Islamic State is un-Islamic, need to be vigilant in policing their own communities and working with law enforcement officials? Why did he include nary a word about the need for mosques in the U.S. to institute programs to teach young Muslims such as Muhammad Hussain to reject the understanding of Islam that commands violence against unbelievers?

Islamic Society of Baltimore Welcome Obama

“Mosque Obama Visiting Graduated Terrorist Who Targeted Federal Building,” IBD, February 2, 2016 (thanks to Pamela Geller):

Islamophilia: President Obama is conferring legitimacy on a Baltimore mosque the FBI just a few years ago was monitoring as a breeding ground for terrorists, after arresting a member for plotting to blow up a federal building.

IBD has learned that the FBI had been conducting surveillance at the Islamic Society of Baltimore since at least 2010 when it collared one of its members for plotting to bomb an Army recruiting center not far from the mosque in Catonsville, Md.

Agents secretly recorded a number of conversations with a 25-year-old Muslim convert — Antonio Martinez, aka Muhammad Hussain — and other Muslims who worshipped there. According to the criminal complaint, Martinez said he knew “brothers” who could supply him weapons and propane tanks.

“He indicated that if the military continued to kill their Muslim brothers and sisters, they would need to expand their operation by killing U.S. Army personnel where they live,” FBI special agent Keith Bender wrote. Martinez said that in studying the Quran he learned that Islam counsels Muslims to “fight those who fight against you.”

Sentenced to 25 years in prison in 2012, Martinez also stated in a social media posting that he wanted to join the ranks of the “mujahideen” in “Pakistan or Afghanistan (a country that struggle[sic] for the sake of allah).” Most of ISB’s board members are from Pakistan.

To help disrupt the plot, the FBI reportedly put an undercover agent in the mosque, which upset the leadership there. After protests, the FBI sent an official to ISB to take questions and mollify concerns the bureau was spying on Muslims.

Members of the mosque complained that the FBI tried to “entrap” Martinez and other Muslim terrorism suspects by sending “spies with Muslim names” into the mosque.

“If I was the president of the mosque, I would not let you come here without strip(-searching) you,” one member angrily told the FBI official, “because you might drop something (like a bug) to hear what’s going on here.” “The Muslim Link” newspaper described the questioner as Pakistani.

This is the mosque that will be honored with a visit from Obama on Wednesday, the first U.S. mosque visit of his presidency.

It’s now abundantly clear the White House failed to properly vet the venue. Reportedly, it let the Council on American-Islamic Relations choose the site, even though the FBI has banned CAIR from outreach because of known ties to the Hamas terrorist group.

“For a number of years we’ve been encouraging the president to go to an American mosque,” CAIR spokesman Ibrahim Hooper said. “With the tremendous rise in anti-Muslim sentiment in our country, we believe that it will send a message of inclusion and mutual respect.”

As we reported Tuesday, ISB is affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America — which federal prosecutors in 2007 named a radical Muslim Brotherhood and Hamas front and an unindicted terrorist co-conspirator in a scheme to funnel more than $12 million to Hamas suicide bombers — and ISB has helped organize the terror-tied ISNA’s conferences.

The Shariah-compliant mosque was led for 15 years by a radical cleric — Imam Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh — who once represented a federally designated al-Qaida front group. El-Sheikh also has argued for the legitimacy of suicide bombings, according to the Washington Post.

We also first reported that ISB board member and vice president Muhammad Jameel has blamed American foreign policy — namely, U.S. support for Israel — for terrorism and the rise of Osama bin Laden.

“I hope (his death) does not camouflage the bigger picture, which is to look at what gave rise to OBL and what are the root causes of terror,” Jameel said in a local 2011 interview. “Just eliminating him does not resolve the longer-term problems, which I consider to be (U.S.) foreign policy.”

ISB board members are required to have “an in-depth understanding of the Shariah,” and “must take Islam as the way of life,” according to recently amended articles of incorporation papers filed with the state of Maryland.

We have also learned that ISB invited one of the imams of the Boston Marathon bombers’ mosque to headline a 2013 fundraiser for its Islamic school.

Then-Islamic Society of Boston imam Suhaib Webb spoke at the 25th anniversary banquet of ISB’s Al-Rahmah School — even though two days before 9/11, according to an FBI surveillance report, Webb was raising cash for a Muslim cop-killer together with al-Qaida cleric Anwar Awlaki, the hijackers’ spiritual leader.

So let’s recap. The mosque that is hosting the commander in chief, while receiving his historic benediction graduated a terrorist who plotted to blow up a local Army recruiting station, hired an imam who condoned suicide bombings and blames American “foreign policy” for terrorism.

Obama has to be willfully blind not to see all these ties to terror.

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  1. Peter Hyatt says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 9:02 am

    This visit and speech will lead to more deaths as the President of the United States has emboldened, more than he has in the past, jihadists or devout Muslims, to act upon the koranic commands.

    http://analysistomorrow.blogspot.com/2016/02/the-supremacy-of-islamic-male.html

    He has affirmed to them what Europe has affirmed.

  2. Liam1304 says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 3:10 pm

    Perhaps it will be argued that Obama’s visit was itself a form of outreach to a mosque with a “mixed” history. He wanted to affirm them and bring them fully into the fold. All over the West politicians are doing this, flying in the face of reality in one last attempt to include the Other.

    So it might be argued…

  3. Georg says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 3:17 pm

    “… ‘brothers’ who could supply him weapons and propane tanks.”

    The POTUS says something like, “Muslims are among the most patriotic people you’ll meet.”

    Yea… How about that’s a reprehensible lie which insults the patriotism, or at least lack of $*&^ attitude toward all things Western, which is so rife with them. Go to any college classroom filled with a majority or plurality of MIddle Eastern/Muslim students and bask in the cold-looks, anti-American sentiment, and grinding self-pity. That is not patriotism. It’s opportunism, entryism, and shows disgusting disdain for the sacrifices that went into building the United States which they not only don’t appreciate, but sneer at. It must be something to come over to a civilization to which one’s ancestors contributed not a thing, plug right into the economic pipeline as a virtual free-rider and hold it in scorn.

    Now, that is offensive. And to be held in contempt simply for taking notice. That’s an attempt to demoralize us into capitulatoin, and it’s as simple as that, but it won’t work. To anyone who’d say Muslims are among the most patriotic people around, after considering the history of American sacrifice: Fuck you.

  4. Michael Copeland says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 3:39 pm

    Try this:
    “If I were the priest of this church, I would not let you come here without strip-searching you, because you might drop something (like a bug) to hear what’s going on here.”
    Evidently they do not want anyone to hear “what’s going on here”.

  5. Nimrod says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 6:38 pm

    He intentionally visited a mosque that was not clean from a law enforcement perspective because he wanted to provoke a response.

    This was needed so that others could denounce his critics as “racist”, either outright or through implication.

    The people who selected and approved the mosque know what they’re doing. They know most people are ignorant, lacking in rationality, and will behave according to a completely emotional response. In other words, many will ignore the logical rational content of criticism and go “that makes me feel bad so therefore the critics are morally bad!” Their emotions will be aroused, emotional judgements will be made.

  6. Angemon says

    Feb 4, 2016 at 7:42 pm

    Mosque Obama Visiting Graduated Terrorist Who Targeted Federal Building

    Yeah, yeah, we should know by now which side his bread is buttered on…

    “If I was the president of the mosque, I would not let you come here without strip(-searching) you,” one member angrily told the FBI official, “because you might drop something (like a bug) to hear what’s going on here.”

    So… would you also strip-search women, or do you just like to look at naked men?

  7. Hope says

    Feb 5, 2016 at 1:51 pm

    Did you all see the front page of the NY Times, Thursday Feb 4th?? Obama’s mosque visit, the main headline. This story was a total whitewash of the whole thing, no surprise from this left-wing propaganda newspaper. I forced myself to read the whole article, and found no mention of the evidence linking the mosque to terror. There was a very brief mention that, some time ago, maybe somebody at the mosque maybe said something nasty about Israel. But of course, Ibrahim Hooper was allowed to comment on that. The implication was along the lines of There go the Jews acting up again, wink, wink. People are reading this crap and swallowing it whole!

  8. Richard P, Sweden says

    Feb 5, 2016 at 4:00 pm

    To say that more and more are critical to islam therefore You have visit an islamic organization and a mosque to show sympathy equals to me as suggesting that nazism is growing, therefore You have to visit the nazi leadership and headquarters of the nazi organization.
    Thus no logical argument for a visit.
    Typical that Germany is so generous regarding influx of muslims and mosques. Where the nazi ideology grew and came to power.
    We ought to know better.

  9. celnira says

    Feb 27, 2016 at 2:24 pm

    That he could plead ignorance of it is inconceivable. So in light of it, why did he go? And when he went, why did he not bother to include even a word about how the Muslims in the U. Where is this information?

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