CAIR is an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas terror funding case — so named by the Justice Department. CAIR officials have repeatedly refused to denounce Hamas and Hizballah as terrorist groups. Several former CAIR officials have been convicted of various crimes related to jihad terror. CAIR’s cofounder and longtime Board chairman (Omar Ahmad), as well as its chief spokesman (Ibrahim Hooper), have made Islamic supremacist statements. (Ahmad denies this, but the original reporter stands by her story.) A California chapter distributed a poster telling Muslims not to talk to the FBI, and a Florida chapter distributed pamphlets with the same message. CAIR has opposed virtually every anti-terror measure that has been proposed or implemented and has been declared a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates.
“President Obama’s mosque visit spotlights a new generation of Muslim Americans,” by Michelle Boorstein, Washington Post, February 3, 2016:
President Obama’s visit to a mosque Wednesday — his first such U.S. event as president — puts the biggest spotlight in memory on Muslim American life, but not in the way most Americans are accustomed to seeing. In the small group picked to meet Obama in suburban Baltimore are a competitive fencer, a graffiti artist and a police chaplain.
A big part of why Muslim American leaders have been pushing for years for Obama to visit a mosque is because they feel their community has been defined, and stigmatized, since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by images related to terrorism. That any time Americans hear “Muslim,” they see images in the news of the Paris attacks or San Bernardino or Islamic State militants. The expression experts often use is that Muslims are stuck in front of a “security lens.”
That’s why the visit Wednesday at the large Islamic Society of Baltimore is being watched closely by Muslims eager for a rebranding.
A new poll out Wednesday by the Pew Research Center shows that the overwhelming majority of Americans — 68 percent — see the problem of religious violence as really being about “violent people using religion to justify their actions,” compared with 22 percent who say some religious teachings promote violence. However, for those who said some religions promote violence, Islam was by far the most common religion named, with 14 percent of respondents….
Aside from the fact that presidents don’t often visit houses of worship outside their own church time, making the mosque visit happen has appeared to be tricky for a president who is believed to be Muslim by about one-third of Americans, according to some polls. (He’s Christian.) The White House has been talking about this trip since last fall, said spokeswoman Jen Psaki. That was about the time Republican candidates began ramping up comments about Muslims that set off Islamophobic rhetoric.
“We discussed this as an option of something powerful the president could do to speak directly to Muslim Americans,” she told The Washington Post on Tuesday. The rhetoric, she said, “has really impacted him on a personal level in terms of how damaging he feels it is to this entire community.”…
Zainab Chaudry, Maryland Outreach Manager for the Council on American Islamic Relations, a Muslim civil rights organization, was also invited to the session. She said the visit was incredibly important.
It “will send a strong message to folks who are trying to divide our country along religious lines that religious pluralism is one of the values that defines our country,” Chaudry said. “At the same time, we realize it’s going to take more than one mosque visit to resolve the underlying issues that help contribute to this climate of hatred. It’s certainly a step in the right direction.”
Obama’s visit is likely to draw parallels with a landmark speech to the Islamic world early in his presidency. At Cairo University, Obama in 2009 called for a “new beginning” between the Islamic world and the United States, noting shared interests on issues such as extremism but also acknowledging mistakes made over centuries by all societies in the name of culture and faith.
Asked why it took seven years to organize a U.S. mosque event, Psaki said that “was a hard question to answer” and was more about logistics than politics. Many political observers of both parties, however, believe Obama was unable to make the visit before because of the intense anger and fear around Islamist extremism, but that today it could be politically beneficial to Democrats (from Obama to 2016 candidates) who can contrast Obama’s comments with the GOP on this issue of Islam. GOP candidates in recent months have talked about excluding Muslim migrants from other countries and creating an official preference for Christians.
The first event is a roundtable with about a dozen Muslim leaders from around the country. The president will then “deliver remarks” in front of about 200 people, mostly members of the mosque. Those remarks will be streamed live around noon here.
The full list of roundtable participants wasn’t immediately available, but here are some of the names: Obama will be introduced by Sabah Muktar, a student at the University of Maryland-Baltimore; Ibtihaj Muhammad, a member of the U.S. fencing team who will be the first Olympian to compete in a hijab if she makes it into the 2016 games in Rio; Rami Nashashibi, an artist who directs the Inner-City Muslim Action Network and runs a holistic health center; Imam Khalid Latif, chaplain of the Islamic Center at New York University; Khadija Gurnah, who founded a project for young Muslims; and Suzanne Barakat, a San Francisco doctor whose brother and sister-in-law were killed in the 2015 Chapel Hill killings last year.
Asked Tuesday whether the president was intending to encourage Muslims to be more active in helping police catch radicals, White House spokesman Josh Earnest emphasized to reporters that the point of the visit is to bring up other topics. And to show support for Muslim Americans.
“Look, I also don’t want to leave you with the impression that the president’s remarks at the mosque are going to be focused on national security,” Earnest said. “I think the president is quite interested in making sure that we’re affirming the important role that Muslims play in our diverse American society, and certainly affirming their right to worship God in a way that’s consistent with their heritage.”…
Of course.

L.C.F says
I wish he would visit with the Christian families whose children have been beheaded by Isis!
jihad3tracker says
Hello L.C.F. — If you want an explanation of why Obama will never do what you wish for in the above comment, search Youtube for a video titled “Obama the Muslim in his own words” , or very close to that.
NOTE; SOME POSTERS HAVE CHOPPED THE VIDEO DOWN TO ABOUT 6 MINUTES. Look for the full 9 minutes version.
manuel paleologus says
Great statement! As a Muslim he will not.
His deeds all these years in the WH demonstrate who he is and what he stands for.
I don’t need anybody to tell me what this president is. Its a shame so many Americans have no clue whom they voted for.
ICH says
I hope USA does not go down the toilet like UK
jihad3tracker says
AS USUAL, THE ULTRA-MULITCULTURAL WASHINGTON POST FALLS ALL OVER ITSELF ABOUT THIS “REBRANDING” OF ISLAM.
For those of you who have some time to spare, and a hometown or state news paper with a Letters-to-the-Editor section, send along your reaction to this vomit-inducing conduct by Obama.
BUT YOU HAVE TO KEEP IT RELATIVELY EASY ON THE STRONG LANGUAGE — so cowardly editorial page staff will be brave enough to print it.
Oh, yeah —- plenty of facts and numbers on the body count piling up to please bloodthirsty Allah might also be helpful.
HOWEVER, THE SMART CYNICS COMMENTING BELOW ME WILL REASONABLY SUGGEST SUCH EFFORT WOULD BE A WASTE OF ENERGY.
Champ says
Of course he did! ..and obama loves the MoBro’s, too. This president is a closet MUSLIM, and I’ve always thought so …
Ted Cruz 4 President ~ 2016!!!!
livingengine says
Here’s my contribution to the knowledge base.
undrebed cat says
I guess he knows what role he plays…I hope it is noticed. Connections with diversity. A reunion in the states.
Jack says
Playing the Chappell Hill card again after it was determined both on the local and Federal level that Religion, ethnicity nor National Origin played nor part in those murders whereas in contrast a deep seated hatred of White Americans was found on the 3-Muslims’ FB pages until they were taken down. Yet, President Obama will likely pontificate again falsehoods about race. Will he ask One Question and One Question ONLY of CAIR. Does CAIR reject all violence, Anti-Semitism, perpetrated, directed by or encouraged by; on an unconditional basis, irrelevant of Israel?
Claiming that you seek Peace, reject terror desire only a two State treaty, Peace & Security for the State of Israel, having stated the US does not deal with Terrorists and that Hamas is defined as a terrorist entity by the Department of State; YOU pick not just unusual bedfellows but the most Evil ones you can lay your hands on in the Arab/Israeli conflict Today you invited CAIR, WHO REFUSES TO CONDEMN UNCONDITIONALLY HAMAS and YOU will be share this day with these Questionable
gravenimage says
Jack wrote:
Playing the Chappell Hill card again after it was determined both on the local and Federal level that Religion, ethnicity nor National Origin played nor part in those murders
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I noticed that as well, Jack–but Muslim apologists will *never* let go of pretending that was “islamophobic” violence. What else do they have?
somehistory says
Too bad for her: she has hair peeking from under her scarf. Clearly, it wants out.
And the people who recognize the clear and present danger in islam are not going to have their minds clouded by an open visit to a giant barracks and some lies thrown about.
islam is the wild beast from satan.
worldcitizen1919 says
Just a symbolic gesture but being done in an election year makes it look insincere.
gravenimage says
So “worldcitizen” cares more about whether Obama is “sincere” here than that he is hobnobbing with those who have links to violent Jihad?
Why am I not surprised?
Mo says
He’s not even pretending to hide his allegiances anymore, is he?
gravenimage says
Obama invites Hamas-linked CAIR official to visit Baltimore mosque with him
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This should surprise no one.
More:
A big part of why Muslim American leaders have been pushing for years for Obama to visit a mosque is because they feel their community has been defined, and stigmatized, since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks by images related to terrorism. That any time Americans hear “Muslim,” they see images in the news of the Paris attacks or San Bernardino or Islamic State militants. The expression experts often use is that Muslims are stuck in front of a “security lens.”
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Perhaps that is because they keep committing Jihad terror, both here and abroad? Nah–couldn’t be…sarc/off
More:
That’s why the visit Wednesday at the large Islamic Society of Baltimore is being watched closely by Muslims eager for a rebranding.
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A “rebranding”–note, they don’t actually want to end their homicidal attacks on us–they just want to lull the Infidels into a false sense of security.
More:
“We discussed this as an option of something powerful the president could do to speak directly to Muslim Americans”
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Actually, Obama has been “speaking directly to Muslim Americans” almost from the beginning of his first term, at all sorts of events and Iftar dinners at the White House. The implication that Obama has never done this is almost eight years is utterly false.
And then there was the Cairo Speech, where he pledged his allegiance to the Muslim world.
More:
she told The Washington Post on Tuesday. The rhetoric, she said, “has really impacted him on a personal level in terms of how damaging he feels it is to this entire community.”…
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He doesn’t feel that Jihad terror attacks are damaging–but any suggestion that we begin to minimize the danger of them occurring *is*.
JoeKidd says
The first thing I always think of when I hear about CAIR is how they were unindicted co-conspirators in the biggest terrorist-financing trial. I already thought that even before clicking the link that brought me here.
Northern Virginiastan says
CAIR activist Zainab Chaudry agitated for adding the Eid holiday on the Montgomery County Public Schools calendar.
gravenimage says
What else do we know about Zainab Chaudry? She has asked Donald Trump whether he would “whether he would also ban white ‘Christian extremists'”–even though no Christian refugee has committed violence in the name of his faith, unlike large numbers of Muslim invaders; has demanded that Obama release the rest of the Guantanamo Jihadists; and has urged Infidel women to wear Hijab slave rags in “solidarity” with supremacist Muslimahs–while ignoring Muslims who murder women for failing to wear it.
Here she is over at the Huffington Post, about Obama’s Mosque visit:
“Why President Obama’s Mosque Visit Matters Now More Than Ever”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/zainab-chaudry/why-president-obamas-mosque-visit_b_9136166.html
In it, she notes that the Mosque visit will not end Muslim ‘grievances’, which include demanding an end to drone strikes on Jihadists, closing Guantanamo, and all security measures that help protect us against Jihad terror.
The only bright spot is that even on the uber-Leftist Huffington Post not everyone is buying this ridiculous Muslim victim-mongering.
Oppressaphobe says
One thing that we can rest assured of is that Obama has a specific plan. Call me cynical because I don’t believe that man moves an inch without a motive, maybe to scratch himself.
He may have a multi-fold motive. Certainly this is to bash the republicans and get the muslim vote. Remember they have been having many children over the recent years, so you have an entirely new crop of voters to tap. So it’s political…of course.
But then it may be his way of softening people to the idea of a muslim president; therefore all the garbage he has been busy cooking up about the history of muslims in America…..o.k., whatever….
Why this might be important is because he is setting up a line of muslims to follow him into the highest levels of office in America. He is more excited about opening the door for muslims than for blacks….I CAN ASSURE YOU OF THIS. Do you think he likes Ben Carson? Doubtful.
He also chose a mosque that could be construed as controversial because then, every other mosque will be accepted, after he bullies americans into accepting this mosque. Again, he’s opened the doors for muslim invaders. He has been the DOOR OPENER IN CHEIF his entire presidency.
He is not looking at the immediate problems of americans like heathcare–remember how he didn’t give a crap about any of the details of obamacare? He just said get it done. You really sensed that he did not really care about it. He used a sledgehammer to do what needed to be done with a surgeon’s scalp. That’s when I knew he was evil to the bone.
So he has both political and treasonous motives for doing what he did and he should be met with a response according to his evil motives. This all has bad foreshadowing of the future, as the muslim invaders see it. Americans should not let their guard down and should oppose this president at every turn.
He still needs to be impeached but the pansy Americans are too fat and stupid to do it.
Angemon says
Yeah – a generation brainwashed by victim-mongering and more aggro than ever now that they saw America falter in the ME and the rise of the islamic state.