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Hamas-linked CAIR’s Ahmed Rehab and Hussam Ayloush enraged that imam to pray at ceremony for Trump inauguration

Jan 21, 2017 10:29 am By Robert Spencer

On this, Hamas-linked CAIR and I actually agree: Mohamed Magid should be nowhere near the National Prayer Service. He is the former President of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Federal prosecutors included ISNA on a list of unindicted co-conspirators in the Hamas-financing prosecution of the Holy Land Foundation for Relief and Development (HLF). ISNA is listed among “individuals/entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood.” ISNA’s conferences have featured pro-jihad rhetoric: at the 2009 convention, for example, panelists expressed extreme anti-Semitism and support for Hizballah.

Who on the Trump team chose Magid? Why wasn’t he more thoroughly vetted?

Meanwhile, note that both CAIR operatives, Ahmed Rehab and Hussam Ayloush, mention President Trump’s “animosity” toward the Muslim community. What exactly is the content of that “animosity”? He wants a temporary restriction on immigration so as to prevent jihad terrorists from entering the U.S. Hamas-linked CAIR consistently portrays any and all efforts to stop Islamic jihad terror as “bigotry” and “hatred.” The establishment propaganda media and the Obama government willingly abetted this view. Ultimately, followed to its full extent, it would lead to national suicide and surrender to the Islamic supremacist agenda.

Ahmed Rehab of Hamas-linked CAIR, in a photo from his website (since removed)

“Muslims Angry Over Imam’s Decision To Pray At Donald Trump Inaugural Event,” by Christopher Mathias, Huffington Post, January 20, 2017:

A Virginia imam’s decision to take part in an interfaith ceremony for recently inaugurated President Donald Trump has sparked outrage among some American Muslims who believe Muslims should boycott the event.

CNN reported Thursday that Imam Mohamed Magid of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society Center, also known as the ADAMS Center, in Sterling, Virginia, will deliver the Muslim call to prayer at the National Prayer Service this Saturday at the Washington National Cathedral.

Magid will join 26 other faith leaders in addressing an audience that will include  Trump and Vice President Mike Pence.

Ahmed Rehab, executive director at the Chicago chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations, wrote in a Facebook post on Friday that he was “thoroughly disappointed” by Magid’s “unilateral decision” to join the prayer service, which “goes against the consensus of our community’s leadership and grassroots.”

Rehab wrote that while he has “lots of love and respect” for Magid and his “long track record as an open-minded, loving imam,” the imam’s participation in the service will give “the appearance of normalcy and normalization to a President and an administration that is showing the Muslim community and many other communities alarming animosity.”

Hussam Ayloush, executive director at the Los Angeles chapter of CAIR, argued that Magid’s participation would allow Trump to say he has Muslim Americans’ support.

“In the face of unreluctant and unrepentant defamation and animosity toward Islam and Muslims (and many other communities) by this Trump team, a symbolic participation that does not involve any opportunity to preach or make a statement does not qualify as engaging or correcting the wrongdoers, but rather enabling them and providing them with a token cover for their bigotry,” Ayloush wrote in a Facebook post.

“Such participation also undermines the courageous and principled activism of so many Muslims and allies who chose to openly challenge this president’s bigotry and his promised unjust policies.”

Sana Saeed, a producer and host at AJ+ who is Muslim, wrote on Facebook that while she has always been “critical of [Magid’s] politics,” his decision to give the call to prayer on Saturday is a “new low.”

She added, “Part of me naively hopes he does some sort of protest but entirely doubt it.”

Magid, the former president of the Islamic Society of North America, has earned national attention for his work to deradicalize Muslim youth. The FBI has also praised the ADAMS Center, where he is the imam, for its “leadership role in building partnerships between law enforcement and the Muslim community to enhance mutual cooperation and public safety.”…

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  1. cs says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 10:38 am

    Get enraged and leave, forever.

  2. overman says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 10:42 am

    And the appeasement begins – What is Trumps team thinking. They must know about this guy. WTH

    • t. says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 2:38 pm

      “And the appeasement begins ”

      I agree! Anyway, why on earth include a Muslim imam in the inauguration ceremony, isn’t that legitimizing Islam, at least to some degree?

      • JawsV says

        Jan 21, 2017 at 2:45 pm

        Yes, there shouldn’t be any imam! What’s Trump thinking??? To heck with the imams and Islam! Isn’t this why we elected Trump? It’s why I voted for him.

        • Islam the religion of killers says

          Jan 22, 2017 at 2:45 am

          Trump has more understanding of any situ than most people give him credit for, having the Imam making the call to prayer instantly brings out, attitudes and give the muslims something moderate to grumble about.

          If the Imam had been denied muslims would have exclaimed bitterness about being left out, by being included they had to grumble and be bitter about something they wanted …

          Trump just suckered CAIR with their own bullshit

    • LB says

      Jan 22, 2017 at 8:55 am

      I think the Trump team did it just for show. After all, a rabbi and a priest were included, so to not include an imam as well would lead some to believe that islam and muslims have no place in “Trump’s America” (not that most leftists and muslims aren’t already saying that regardless). As Robert Spencer often points out — not all muslims are ISIS/MB sleeper agents waiting to kill and die for Allah, even though it’s incredibly difficult to tell apart the peaceful ones from secretly-jihad-supporting ones.

      As to why this imam wasn’t more thoroughly vetted… Well… Good luck try finding an active imam who DOES NOT support stealth and/or violent jihad against the West. It’s simple algebra: an imam = fully knowledgeable about Quran, Sura and Hadith = preaching and taking part in jihad against infidels.

      Besides, it’s not like Mohamed Magib will be granted a seat in Trump’s team, so there’s no real threat from him lobbying in islam’s favour — Trump knows better. So just relax guys 🙂

  3. IQ al Rassooli says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 10:48 am

    To “Hamas-linked CAIR’s Ahmed Rehab and Hussam Ayloush enraged that imam to pray at ceremony for Trump inauguration”

    You are the USUAL Duplicitous, Treacherous Hypocritical Forked Tongued Muslim who know in reality WHY Donald Trump did NOT have a Muslim Imam to give BENEDICTIONS to his presidency and the American people; because DJ Trump KNOWS that according to Muhammad’s Quran this is FORBIDDEN~

    Dear readers, please always remember that as Infidels/ Kuffar/ None Muslims, it is VITAL that you realize that one does not need more than two brain cells of logic (obviously the leftists, liberals, elites and the PC have only one) to understand Muslims & Islam in a nutshell~

    Since every Muslim is Sharia compliant, and Sharia PROHIBITS Muslims from ever integrating or assimilating with Infidels/ Kuffar, every Muslim can never be a Law abiding nor a LOYAL citizen in ANY none Muslim nation because these nations do not submit to Allah’s Sharia.

    Hence every Muslim is the enemy of every none Muslim Infidel/ Kafir on planet Earth (80% of current of none Muslim humanity)

    Every Muslim is therefore a potential Mass Murderer the instant he/ she decides that he/she is NOT Sharia compliant enough. (Not ALL Muslims are Terrorists but ALL Terrorists against Infidels are MUSLIMS)

    Every Muslim is hence a hair trigger Time Bomb primed to go off and our elites tell us that he/she is a “Lone Wolf” or Mentally Ill (accordingly ALL Muslims are Mentally Ill because they obey Sharia)

    Only in the WARPED imagination of the criminally negligent Politically Correct elites and leftists can one find Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist Muslims because in reality Muslims are Muslims just as Nazis are Nazis and no one ever addressed Nazis as Moderate Militant Radical or Extremist

    It is time for every decent human being to unshackle yourselves from the pre conceived but erroneous notions that ANYONE who is not a Muslim can make PEACE with Islam. All anyone in doubt has to do is READ only chapter 1 to 9 of Muhammad’s Quran

    $100,000 says there is not a SINGLE Muslim who can prove my article UNTRUE!

    Out of 1,500,000,000 Muslims of Ummat Muhammad, is there at least ONE of you who can take me on in a PUBLIC debate?

    IQ al Rassooli
    Kafir & Proud
    http://www.alrassooli.com
    MAGA & DTS!

    • CrossWare says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 11:07 am

      Well said!

    • Champ says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 4:42 pm

      Bravo, IQ al Rassooli. I wholly agree.

    • carol says

      Jan 23, 2017 at 1:47 am

      Probably a pragmatic compromise on Trump’s part spurred by a desire to telegraph that Imam Magid has EARNED NATIONAL ATTENTION FOR HIS WORK TO DERADICALIZE MUSLIM YOUTH.

      It signals realism and a pat on the head for any valid efforts to head in the right direction. It’s not likely we can scour misguided people out of our society but we can certainly start to combat the brainwashing and in the long run truth (and sensible demands) should eventually beat down this demon.

      The link below provides a real reminder of the dangers of Sharia and dispels any false ideas some like to twaddle about “moderate Muslims”:
      Flashback: Moderate Muslims Agree Stoning Women To Death Is Acceptable https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0b46I8fmkQEx

  4. Keith Gilbert says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 10:52 am

    I agree…nothing islamic, ‘human’ or otherwise, should be found in America and it is only up to US to make it so.

  5. Michael Copeland says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 11:44 am

    The Islamic call to prayer should not be called in a Christian Cathedral. Its words disparage Christians.

    In Germany brave Heidi Mund protested it, using Luther’s, “Here I stand. I can do no other.”

    In Islamic rules the calling to prayer in a building makes that building a mosque in perpetuity.

    • commonsense says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 2:37 pm

      Yes, Mr. Copland. But unreported so far is that another Muslim present at the ceremony, immediately following Magid’s delivery of the Muslim call to prayer, recited the Fatiha (the first sura of the Koran) in front of the new president and to all others present. The Fatiha is a supplication to Allah by the faithful to keep them on the Straight Path (i.e. Islam) – the path of those whom Allah has favored (i.e. the Muslims) – and not on the path of those who have incurred Allah’s wrath, or on the path of those who have gone astray. According to hadiths believed by Muslims to be sahih, i.e. authentic, Muhammed himself explained to his followers that the Jews are those who have incurred Allah’s wrath, while those who have gone astray are the Christians. In subsequent chapters in the Koran, we learn that the Jews are the most sinful of the People of the Book, as they deliberately changed the words of their Torah for selfish purposes, killed prophets, and broke the Sabbath, which led to the worst of them being transformed into apes and swine. Because of their repeated sins, and their repudiation of Muhammed, the Jews are the chief enemies of the Muslims, and the objects of Allah’s fury. The Christians, we learn, are not much better, as they have, through error, lost the true message of their Gospel, and aver that Allah has a son – i.e. Jesus – which is a blasphemous belief.

      All of this is mainstream, orthodox Islam. The imam who recited this sura knew exactly what he was doing – he was cursing Jews and Christians for their unbelief, delivering this in Arabic, hoping that nobody would understand any of this. He was, in short, engaging in stealth jihad. I wonder – will Trump’s advisors on things Islamic, like Sebastian Gorka and, especially, the Muslim-by-birth Walid Phares – make him aware of this imam’s duplicity?

  6. Rosewood11 says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 12:02 pm

    Well, at last I found something on which I agree with militant islamic jihadis: I don’t think their “imam” should participate in the prayer service, either. It’s in a Christian church, for a Christian man leading a CHRISTIAN nation. We don’t need any prayers to false gods as part of the service!!! In fact, I particularly enjoyed the lack of islamic participation in the inauguration of PRESIDENT TRUMP (doesn’t that sound wonderful!?!). I hope every mother’s son of them is sent packing right back to where they came from–and they can take their wife, kids and filthy religion with them!!!

    • Don McKellar says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 12:19 pm

      It is not a Christian nation.

      • JawsV says

        Jan 21, 2017 at 2:47 pm

        Judeo-Christian nation.

  7. Don McKellar says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 12:17 pm

    clearly the need for Robert Spencer as part of the Trump administration has now been established with this slip-up where clearly somebody was not paying close enough attention

  8. Sam says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 12:44 pm

    Well I am all for Takiya if it is against Islam. Hope it is and I am pretty sure it is. Trump’s military advisers know what Islam is.

    Please let Trump fight against “Islamic Terror”. Soon we can give the enemy its real name in public discourse; ISLAM.

  9. Mirren10 says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 12:51 pm

    Well, *this* is sickeningly disappointing.

    After being thrilled there was no stinking imam praying at the actual Inauguration, it would now appear President Trump is falling for the usual ‘inter-faith’ claptrap.

    It didn’t take long for him to start wearing the usual lying politician suit. ?

    • Shmooviyet says

      Jan 22, 2017 at 5:44 am

      Agreed, disappointing.
      So many of us are just downright desperate for Trump to be the One who’s going to undo all the horror of Caesar Obama Wrecks, and in 4 short years if not 8. If if one questions ANYthing Trump says, they are set upon.
      That “radical islamic terrorism” was an ‘eeww’ moment as well. Hoping he’ll remove the ‘radical’ from before ‘islamic, permanently..!

  10. Westman says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 1:03 pm

    “….not qualify as engaging or correcting the wrongdoers..” – Ayloush (CAIR)

    And who are the wrongdoers?

    A. Muslims who don’t agree with Ayloush.

    B. Donald Trump.

    C. Infidels.

    D. Jews.

    E. All of the above.

    “….And whoever transgresses the limits of Allah – it is those who are the wrongdoers.” Quran 2:229

    These guys can’t open their mouths without some Quranic saliva dripping out. Language determines the scope of thought and communication. Having their mind infused with Quranic language, reinforced by bobbing for the slave master 5 times a day, has robbed hundreds of millions humans of their potential.

    Perhaps the rabid response to “pictures” of Muhammad are a consequence of a limited vocabulary; unable to adequately express their fear that the majority of humans do not consider Islam, the whole purpose of their being, as legitimate?

    Imagine the paucity of life, chained to, “.. enjoin what is right and forbid what is wrong..” – to everyone – in order to be Allah’s “best of peoples”. Quran 3:110. It’s like the early days of Mao Zedong – every man is a spy on his fellow Muslim.

  11. Angemon says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 3:10 pm

    Sana Saeed, a producer and host at AJ+ who is Muslim

    AJ+ – Al Jazeera Plus – is an anti-Western, pro-muslim propaganda channel funded by Qatar. Think of it as the muslim version of Russia Today.

  12. Terry says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 3:56 pm

    Son this Imam shows up, and speaks. Big deal.

    IF it is true that the FBI said that he is helping deradicalizing, etc- perhaps he is trying to do some good.

    President Trump (has said) that he listens to different views- so he listened to this guy. Does not mean that he accepts anything that he said.

    I think (quoting a Shakespeare play) Much Ado About Nothing.

    It is not as if he will be attending briefings or be part of the security council.

    To me, much more dangerous- that there is a Muslim on the House Intelligence Committee.

    • JawsV says

      Jan 21, 2017 at 4:11 pm

      The FBI are know-nothings about Islam, chumps and dupes. “De-radicalizing” – that’s funny! Radicalization is what Islam’s all about.

      Yes, after all the Moslems have done to us it is a big deal. No, it’s not “much ado about nothing.” BTW, there’s a double-entendre to that title of Shakespeare’s play.

  13. louis carole says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 4:39 pm

    can someone follow up on how this terrorist got to speak at trump function?

  14. skep says

    Jan 21, 2017 at 6:35 pm

    I think Trump looked kind of bored with all that praying.

  15. firefox says

    Jan 22, 2017 at 4:51 am

    CHANGE THE FONT FONT TO BLACK -OR- BOLD!!!!!!!

    • marc says

      Jan 22, 2017 at 11:43 am

      It is black, you should adjust your browser
      https://www.chromium.org/user-experience/low-vision-support
      https://www.google.com/accessibility/products-features.html
      https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/accessibility-features-firefox-make-firefox-and-we#w_zoom-fonts-and-colors
      Also, it looks like your keyboard caps lock key is broken, you should get that fixed.

  16. Val Finnell says

    Jan 22, 2017 at 8:15 am

    A lot of this is the syncretism of the Episcopal Church that runs the National Cathedral. They allow Muslim prayer services there. That should not happen and the Bishop should forbid all but Christians to speak at a prayer service.

  17. Paul Ashley says

    Jan 22, 2017 at 11:06 am

    Where was the imam featured? I watched the inauguration and saw only Christian and Jewish religious leaders.

    • Kay says

      Jan 22, 2017 at 11:44 am

      Prayer service Saturday, one of 26 religious leaders.

  18. Carolyne says

    Jan 22, 2017 at 12:01 pm

    In the picture, it looks as if he just shaved his shoulders. What was the point of his topless picture, anyway. He trying to attract more wives? I didn’t hear his caterwauling at the prayer service, but I know what it sounds like. A camel in heat. In fact, he sort of looks like a camel in heat.

  19. Carolyne says

    Jan 22, 2017 at 12:36 pm

    On further thought, this man is very feminine looking. Was this picture to prove he is a man? He would make a better looking woman than Bruce Jenner.

  20. bobm says

    Jan 23, 2017 at 1:17 am

    the lone muslim glaed in almost warning at the assemblage… he spoke for very short time in an aggressive tone… the air was cold for him .. he was unwelcome …. GOOD

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