“For several years, Mateen regularly attended the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce and was there as recently as two days ago, said Imam Shafiq Rahman on Sunday.” So reported the Washington Post on June 12.
And today, the Washington Post adds in a new report: “Last Friday, June 10, Mateen went to the Fort Pierce mosque to pray and spent more than an hour there with his 3-year-old son.”
But the mosque president, Taher Husainy, “hadn’t seen Mateen since he was a child, he said, adding that Mateen seemed normal.” How did he know Mateen seemed normal if he hadn’t seen him since he was a child?
And how is it that the president of the mosque hadn’t seen Mateen since he was a child? Did mosque president Taher Husainy never attend the mosque of which he was president? After all, the mosque imam, Shafiq Rahman, says Mateen attended regularly and was last there two days before his jihad massacre. But “Husainy wasn’t sure if Mateen attended the Vero mosque recently.”
Rahman and Husainy need to get their story straight, and no doubt they will, and will start claiming they never saw Mateen and didn’t know him. Right now, however, it is clear that Husainy is lying. “War is deceit,” said Muhammad.
Besides lying, Husainy is playing the familiar victimhood card, saying that the mosque is afraid of the backlash that rarely, if ever, actually materializes. Mosque leaders pull this every time there is a jihad attack, and there is never any shortage of credulous or complicit mainstream media reporters to lap it up and package it for the public.
“Members fear ‘reputation’ of Vero mosque attended by Orlando shooter,” by Lulu Ramadan, Palm Beach Post, June 17, 2016:
A handful of people trickled slowly into a Vero Beach mosque for prayers Friday afternoon, routine to many in the Muslim community, but the crowd was smaller than usual.
“People are worried,” commented Victor Ghalib Begg, a longtime member of the tiny place of worship worship nestled between a karate studio and bagel shop in a plaza along Southwest 9th Street.
They worry about “retribution” to the mosque, which Orlando attacker Omar Mateen reportedly attended sparingly. But more than that, mosque leadership said, members are worried about a stigma:
“Our biggest concern is our name, our reputation, the way people look at us,” said Taher Husainy, president of the mosque.
Mateen, who killed 49 at an Orlando nightclub Sunday before being slain in a police shootout, and Moner Mohammad Abusalha, believed to be the first American suicide bomber in Syria, both prayed at this Vero Beach mosque and the Fort Pierce Islamic Center.
Husainy knew both men, and says that while they each carried out their crimes in the name of known terrorist organizations, it’s a mere coincidence they came from the same small Muslim community in the Treasure Coast.
Lulu Ramadan of the Palm Beach Post doesn’t bother to explain how she arrived at that conclusion.
“It’s very puzzling and bewildering,” Husainy said.
FBI agents questioned a member of the Islamic Center of Fort Pierce on Friday, a lawyer with the [Hamas-linked — ed.] Council of American-Islamic Relations told Reuters.
Sunday’s mass shooting wasn’t brought up in the “khutbah” — or weekly preaching — to the 20 or so members who congregated Friday. This compares to the 50 who usually attend, Begg said.
Husainy hadn’t seen Mateen since he was a child, he said, adding that Mateen seemed normal.
Husainy wasn’t sure if Mateen attended the Vero mosque recently and if he conversed with Abusalha, who traveled to Syria to fight alongside Islamic extremists of Al-Nusrah Front.
Mateen and Abusalha were seen together in serious conversation at a party five years ago, a classmate of Mateen’s told The Palm Beach Post.
The mosque’s leaders insisted Mateen and Abusalha’s actions don’t reflect the peaceful practice of the many who gather at the mosque. The fact that both men were associated with the same mosque, however, has forced leaders to talk to members about extremism within the community.
“We told members to be cautious and to come to us if they notice something suspicious,” Husainy said.
Mosque leaders have made the same recommendation in the past, although no members have ever done so.
After Abusalha blew himself up in the 2014 suicide attack on Syrian government forces killing 37, federal investigators visited the Vero Beach mosque and questioned members, Husainy said. They did not visit after the Orlando shooting….
Why not?

Jay Boo says
He should be fearing a lawsuit from the families of the victims.
eagle says
Since when these freaking mosques have a president?? They should be turned into pig farms. The lawsuit should include Obama. Obama is to blame for killing the American people.
Shane says
Obama will not let our counter-terrorism agents consider Islam or Jihad when it comes to the motivation of terrorists, which is very helpful for muslim terrorists. Obama is aiding the Jihad through his weak anti-terror efforts in the USA, and his even weaker program for defeating ISIS and other Islamic terror groups around the world. Continuing to allow 100,000 muslims to immigrate into the USA every year is just suicidal and insane.
We need to elect Trump to take the fight to the Jihadis around the world and to protect the USA from more mass murdering jihad attacks.
Lord Wrath says
I think retribution is very much called for…
copakeman says
Why does he fear retribution ? The best thing that could happen to him is he will meet allah and have 82 virgins for eternity.
V L Kominsky says
it’s 72 virgins or 127 Virginians 😉
Kim Currier says
It’s 72 raisins, it was mis-interpreted a long time ago… another perverted religion…
CrossWare says
Isn’t that only 72 virgins? Or you adjusted for inflation? 😉
Jaladhi says
Just 82 due to inflation!1
Jay Boo says
Across the nation Muslims attended the first Friday Prayers after the killings.
Their outward demeanor modest and respectful.
As they pass each other they exchange a knowing awareness and a “High Five” wink.
V L Kominsky says
One of the biggest problems facing, not only investigations of these incidents but also their prevention, is the unwillingness of the politically correct politicians and media to honestly and objectively look at this for what it is: the influence of actual (not radical) Islam. Any and EVERY Masjid in America, with the exception of Ahmadiyya is a suspect Masjid. But only those Masjids that are run by Sunni, in particular those of a strict Salafi bent, are the ones we need to focus on most.
But Americans themselves have become so complacent that we forget lives are in the balance. Sure, you have a higher chance of being killed in a car accident, but you know that getting into your car. That’s why you buy insurance.
Do you expect to be killed in a club? A church? A shopping mall? At a marathon? In your workplace?
Will life insurance companies now have to include “terror attack” as a component to their policies?
See something Say something Saves Lives is a slogan we Americans need to keep in mind. I’m not talking about stark paranoia or fear mongering. I am talking about being willing to speak out instead of being concerned about being labeled an “Islamophobe”.
This not only includes the immediate world around us, but on social media as well. Instead of complaining the Facebook because some guys “friend” has an Isis flag on his profile and posts stuff about wanting to be a Mujihadeen, REPORT HIM TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES. The FBI computer crimes division cannot be everywhere on the internet. They simply don’t have the manpower.
But you and I can spare a little time helping them. No, you won’t get paid. But you will have the satisfaction of knowing that something you reported may have saved a life.
mortimer says
ALK wrote: “Do you expect to be killed in a club? A church? A shopping mall? At a marathon? In your workplace?”
We are all now on the front line of jihad. Each one of us could be the next victim of jihad. We must put more effort into alerting those around us and challenging Muslims.
The lack of knowledge about jihad is killing us.
IQ al Rassooli says
Dear readers
Is it not remarkable how every Imam in the USA after any act of terror by a Muslim tells the news media that the terrorist:
1 Was not a regular at the mosque
2 He seemed normal
3 We never discussed hate for Americans, Jews or Gays (although the Imam has to read these verses of hate in Muhammad’s Quran nand EXPLAIN them to the congregation)
4 Islam is tolerant (when no human being can fin a SINGLE operative verse in the Quran showing any TOLERANCE towards Infdels/ Kuffar currently 97% of Americans who are NOT Muslims)
5 We are worried about VICTIMIZATION (when in reality there have not been ANY since 911)
6 Every single Muslim (by the way one can only be a Muslim if he is a supporter of JIHAD) is either a WAR Jihadi or a STEALTH Jihadi (the silent supportive so called Moderate Muslims)
7 No Muslim can EVER be LOYAL to the American Constitution because it is Man Made not from Allah’s Sharia nor can they be LOYAL to non Muslim Americans called KUFFAR/ Infidels
8 Muslims are the ENEMIES of EVERY human being on planet Earth who is NOT a Muslim (currently 80% of humanity)
9 Any American believing the monstrous DECEPTIONS of these Imams, CAIR, ISNA or any apologist for them should have their brains examined!
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
V L Kominsky says
You are absolutely correct. And families suspiciously never saw/heard/smelled anything even though they lived in close quarters (Mateen and his wife only had a 900 square foot apartment, and she never noticed anything?)
mortimer says
IQ has an excellent check list for journalists. If only they would use it!
‘Political correctness’ is limiting the fair and accurate reporting of jihad news. The media are so petrified of slander by Muslims and they are so miserably uninformed about Islam, they are unable to report jihad news with any depth or accuracy.
The media are letting us down by laziness.
CrossWare says
“Muslims are the ENEMIES of EVERY human being on planet Earth!”
I think you are spot on! I always dreamed that in my lifetime I can see some of the things from Star Trek become a reality. I wanted to see the first human steps on Mars. Well all goes to hell now. I have to watch the beginning of another dark age as civilization falls apart and barbarians attack. (with our treacherous leaders help).
Oh and by Muslim “science”, space travel is impossible.
IQ al Rassooli says
CrossWare
Please do NOT be PESSIMISTIC!
We Ummat al Kuffar/ Nation of Infidels (80% of humanity) shall bring to power TRUMP like leaders and Islam will be HISTORY!
Our readers should always remember that Ummat Muhammad/ Nation of Muslims is the LEAST Productive Inventive or Creative in human history trying to SUBJUGATE Ummat al Kuffar the MOST Productive Inventive Creative & Powerful in human history hence when we REMOVE our current Spineless & Criminally negligent leaders, we
SHALL OVERCOME ISLAM!
IQ al Rassooli
Kafir & Proud!
CrossWare says
Amen to that!
mortimer says
We only need to inform the millions of people about the true nature of Islam. Muslim terrorists are opening the minds of Western people to the realization that Islam as supremacist Death Cult that despises Western civilization and wishes to exterminate it from within.
Jaladhi says
If anybody can believe this lying imam and his compatriots thne the usual “I have got bridge for sale to you”!! When would Americans wake up and never ever believe/trust what a Muslim says?
IQ al Rassooli says
Jaladhi
You do not need to sell any bridge. Just read the following and I hope each of our readers will spread all over the net to wake the Brain Dead~
Arab & Islamic Supremacy: Charter of Umar
It is vitally important that none Muslim peoples realize the following: 99.99% of Unbelievers as well as Muslims, have no idea or have never heard of or read the Charter of Umar. Therefore let me enlighten them~
After the rapid expansion of the ARABS under the banner of Islam and starting the domination of one of the largest, bloodiest, most retrograde and longest enduring Imperialist Empire in history starting c635 AD the Arab conquerors were required to work out a way of dealing with Non-Muslims, who remained in the majority in many areas for centuries.
Their solution was to develop the notion of the “dhimma”, or “protected person”. The Dhimmis were required to pay an extra very onerous tax called Jizyah for not converting to Islam – paid with humiliation and degradation – so as to remain unmolested until such time as a distraction was needed for the populace.
The Pact of Umar is supposed to have been the peace accord offered by the Caliph Umar to the Christians of Syria, a “pact” which formed the pattern of later interaction unto the present day as acted upon by ISIS and other Muslim terror groups.
Historians are NOT unanimous as to which Umar this Charter / Pact or Covenant is actually attributed, whether Umar ibn al Khattab, the second Khalifa or the Ummayad Umar the II.
In the final analysis, it is irrelevant to whom it should be attributed since the Conquering Muslim Arabs implemented it and have been doing so for the last 1400 years and continue to do so in the 21st century in most Muslim states.
The following is from Al-Turtushi, Siraj al-Muluk, pp. 229-230.
We heard from ‘Abd al-Rahman ibn Ghanam [died 78/697] as follows:
When Umar ibn al-Khattab, may Allah be pleased with him, accorded a peace to the Christians of Syria, we wrote to him as follows:
In the name of Allah, the Merciful and Compassionate. This is a letter to the servant of Allah Umar [ibn al-Khattab], Commander of the Faithful, from the Christians of such-and-such a city.
When you came against us, we asked you for safe-conduct (aman) for ourselves, our descendants, our property, and the people of our community, and we undertook the following obligations toward you:
We shall not build, in our cities or in their neighborhood, new monasteries, Churches, convents, or monks’ cells, nor shall we repair, by day or by night, such of them as fall in ruins or are situated in the quarters of the Muslims.
We shall keep our gates wide open for passersby and travelers.
We shall give board and lodging to all Muslims who pass our way for three days.
We shall not give shelter in our churches or in our dwellings to any spy, nor bide him from the Muslims.
We shall not teach the Qur’an to our children.
We shall not manifest our religion publicly nor convert anyone to it.
We shall not prevent any of our kin from entering Islam if they wish it.
We shall show respect toward the Muslims, and we shall rise from our seats when they wish to sit.
We shall not seek to resemble the Muslims by imitating any of their garments, the turban, footwear, or the parting of the hair.
We shall not speak as they do, nor shall we adopt their kunyas.
We shall not mount on saddles, nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our- persons.
We shall not engrave Arabic inscriptions on our seals.
We shall not sell fermented drinks.
We shall clip the fronts of our heads.
We shall always dress in the same way wherever we may be, and we shall bind the zunar (bell) round our waists
We shall not display our crosses or our books in the roads or markets of the Muslims.
We shall use only clappers in our churches very softly. We shall not raise our voices when following our dead.
We shall not show lights on any of the roads of the Muslims or in their markets.
We shall not bury our dead near the Muslims.
We shall not take slaves who have been allotted to Muslims.
We shall not build houses overtopping the houses of the Muslims.
(When I brought the letter to Umar, may Allah be pleased with him, he added, “We shall not strike a Muslim.”)
We accept these conditions for ourselves and for the people of our community, and in return we receive safe-conduct.
If we in any way violate these undertakings for which we ourselves stand surety, we forfeit our covenant [dhimma], and we become liable to the penalties for contumacy and sedition.
Umar ibn al-Khittab replied: Sign what they ask, but add two clauses and impose them in addition to those which they have undertaken.
They are: “They shall not buy anyone made prisoner by the Muslims,” and “Whoever strikes a Muslim with deliberate intent shall forfeit the protection of this pact.”
It is imperative that our readers comprehend the following:
1 The Muslim Arabs were imposing degrading and discriminatory rules on the conquered peoples in their OWN homeland by the AGGRESSORS.
2 The conquering Arabs were protecting the natives from WHOM?
3 Every condition above represents utter CONTEMPT for the religious beliefs and feelings of the subjugated peoples, for their culture, their heritage and their dignity.
4 Although generally they were unmolested, it did not stop the leaders to have them mass slaughtered whenever they needed to distract the street Muslims in times of stress. (Take genocide of 1.5 million Armenian by the Turks as one example) or mass convert them as happened repeatedly
5 While the Muslims in the majority of their countries continue to implement many of the above against all unbelievers, they, with obscene degrees of hypocrisy, duplicity, ingratitude and mendacity demand all human rights in our democracies and at the same time, disloyally intend to bring down the institutions of the host countries to their abysmal level of intolerance, ignorance and stupidity.
6 Muslims falsely and deliberately deceive a mostly Quran ignorant world with two of the most egregious lies that have ever been insinuated into the human consciousness: that Islam is a Peaceful Abrahamic Religion.
I would like to leave any further conclusions or comments to our readers regarding the mercy and compassion of Muslims vis a vis the People of the Book and ALL non Muslims
IQ al Rassooli
Cecilia Ellis says
“Mateen and Abusalha were seen together in serious conversation at a party five years ago . . . Husainy knew both men, and says that while they [Mateen and Abussalha] each carried out their crimes in the name of known terrorist organizations, it’s a mere coincidence they came from the same small Muslim community in the Treasure Coast.”
THESIS ALERT: “A Statistical Study of the Improbability of Coincidences Occurring Coincidentally Within a Control Group”
Hindu American says
Imam with selective amnesia. All of a sudden no one remembers seeing Omar at the club for men. Must be the zamzam cola these guys drink once a year. Where have we seen that before?
Georg says
He can memorize the Koran but can’t recall that dirtbag being there (interacting with al Nusra boy, no less).
tedh754 says
To paraphrase Mark Steyn, “Muslims fear backlash over tomorrow’s nightclub shooting.”
Expat88 says
Did they hand out candy to each other at the mosque after the Jumu’ah prayers???? Oh, I forgot, it is still Ramadan, but they can eat it after sundown for breakfast.
abad says
Gov Scott should just shut down that terrorist training center
David says
Just one simple question.
WHY ARE THESE SAVAGE SATAN WORSHIPING DEMONS STILL AT LARGE, TO WALK AMONG US, KILLING AT WILL?
When will the criminals and fools in Washington ever pull their heads out and DO SOMETHING TO PROTECT US?
PRCS says
Lulu Ramadan?
Probably not a Presbyterian, eh?
“The mosque’s leaders insisted Mateen and Abusalha’s actions don’t reflect the peaceful practice of the many who gather at the mosque. The fact that both men were associated with the same mosque, however, has forced leaders to talk to members about extremism within the community.”
It’s not about how “peaceful” Muslims act. It’s about what Qur’an and Sunn’ah say and how truly devout Muslims interpret it and act because of it.
And what does “extremism” mean vis-à-vis.Islam? Has anyone here ever heard or read a definition of a Muslim “extremist” from the politician “journalist” who parrot the notion? What do those folks actually think it means, themselves?
What do clerics in U.S. mosques tell their flocks during Qur’an study when they get to 5:38? Do they tell little Ahmed and Fatima that only extremists do that? Or do they explain that it’s Big Al’s word and they’d better not question that?
linnte says
The truth is these folks who attend this Mosque should be afraid! Because Americans are hearing more and more Qur’an daily. The more we learn, the more Islam is rejected. Exposed for being a true hateful organization of millions who want to see the West fall, and Shari’a replacing our Constitution it will be them who are going to have to make a decision….stay here and be anathema, and degraded, or go back to the ME where their mentality is welcomed. Honor is such a HUGE part of Islam. So opposite of Christianity. Even if Hillary is elected, the more attacks like Orlando, the more the American people will connect the dots! And there will be more, maybe not in this sadly grand scale, but each attack opens up dialogue about Islam.
Angemon says
Right, that’s the real victim here – the reputation of that mosque.
Also, Lulu Ramadan? What, was the article written by a muslim poodle?
Sam Hawkins says
Best muslim journalist name EVAH.
Georg says
“Our biggest concern is our name, our reputation, the way people look at us,” said Taher Husainy, president of the mosque.
I wonder what number concern the 49 murdered people rank.
Jay Boo says
The search for a motive continues.
Did homosexuals PROVOKE this mosque’s Muslim by calling themselves GAY?
GAY implies happy and free.
Muslims insist that others show respect.
Lovers of death wish others to wallow in their MISERY.
Was Omar offended by the word ‘GAY’?
Did lack of deference to Islamic misery cause him to snap?
Anything but (- – – – -) will be open to consideration and debate.
Baucent says
So two out of fifty members of the mosque are known to be jihadists. Statistically interesting on what it might say about other mosques.
Georg says
In case anyone was wondering what belongs between a karate studio and a bagel shop…