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New Jersey Muslim mayor who complained about DHS questioning has history of jihad support

Nov 8, 2019 8:00 am By Robert Spencer

“And the only reason they’re taken back to secondary inspection and questioned that way is because of their faith, what they happen to be wearing, and what direction they pray,” said Hamas-linked CAIR New York’s litigation director Ahmed Mohamed.

No. Maybe it’s because of the support for jihad detailed in this article.

“Turns out NJ mayor who complained about DHS questioning has history of jihad support,” by John Rossomando, American Thinker, November 7, 2019:

A New Jersey mayor who expressed bewilderment after being stopped and questioned by Customs and Border Protection (CPB) agents in August distributed aid in 2013 with pro–Muslim Brotherhood jihadists allied with al-Qaeda’s former Syrian affiliate, social media posts show.  Other posts show Prospect Park mayor Mohamed Khairullah’s sympathies with various Syrian jihadist groups.

It isn’t known whether those activities triggered the CBP questions.  The agency declined to comment.

Nevertheless, Khairullah told the Washington Post in September that he “doesn’t go near shady organizations” during numerous trips to Syria as a relief worker.

He complained at a September press conference organized by the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) that CBP pulled him aside upon his August return from Turkey to New York’s JFK airport.  The agents took his electronic devices and interviewed him about his travels and his background.  Agents told Khairullah they were keeping his phone, and it took him 12 days to get it back.

“I felt that I was selected basically because of my name and identity,” Khairullah said.  He also claimed that his support for U.S. Reps. Rashida Tlaib and Ilhan Omar might have led to his having been singled out.

“It’s flat-out insulting,” he said.  “It’s flat-out stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs.”

Khairullah claimed that his rights were violated when CBP agents asked him if he had met with any terrorists during his trip.

CAIR backed the claim that Khairullah was targeted solely due to his religion.  “And the only reason they’re taken back to secondary inspection and questioned that way is because of their faith, what they happen to be wearing, and what direction they pray,” said CAIR New York litigation director Ahmed Mohamed.

It is more likely that Khairullah was pulled aside by the CBP due to his frequent travel to the Syrian war zone via Istanbul, former CBP agent Phil Haney, who specialized in targeting potential terrorists, told the Investigative Project on Terrorism (IPT).

“This has to do with indicators of potential terrorism,” Haney said, noting that the 2008 Holy Land Foundation Hamas terrorism financing case proved the existence of a network of individuals and groups in the U.S. that support Islamist terrorism abroad.

Khairullah’s Charity and Its Terror-linked Partners

The mayor worked on relief missions and was a board member with Watan USA, the American branch of the London, England–headquartered Watan Foundation.  Watan’s partner organizations and some of its leaders have supported and assisted al-Qaeda in Syria.  Its co-founder and president, Moaz al-Sibaai, belonged to the Muslim Brotherhood–linked Muslim Council of Britain’s Business and Economics Committee.

A 2015 IRS tax form listed Khairullah as a Watan USA board member.  It signed a cooperation agreement in 2016 with Turkey’s IHH Humanitarian Relief.

Leaked Turkish documents show that IHH provided logistical and financial support to al-Qaeda’s then-Syrian affiliate, Jabhat al-Nusra, in 2013, in conjunction with Turkish intelligence agency the MIT.  IHH has aided al-Qaeda since the 1990s and maintains close relations with Hamas, according to a report by terrorism analyst Evan Kohlmann, published by the Danish Institute for International Studies.

Khairullah’s social media shows he repeatedly expressed support for Jabhat al-Nusra.  For example, he praised the 2014 defection of a Hezb’allah faction to al-Nusra, saying, “The Lord will be pleased.”  Other Khairullah Facebook posts show him supporting the Jabhat al-Nusra–led jihadist coalition called the “Army of the Conquest.”  He backed its 2015 military campaign in Syria’s Idlib Province….

Khairullah even thanked ISIS for taking bandits off the streets of Syria.

“A good thing that ISIS has done is to eliminate the thieves and bandits in their area of control.  Allah knows what was behind this move,” Khairullah wrote in a Jan. 5, 2014 tweet.

Khairullah did not respond to an email asking about his statements….

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  1. DBM echo says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 8:32 am

    “It’s flat-out stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs,” the mayor claims.

    1400 years of consistent murderous jihad activity, following to the letter the words/instructions left to succeeding generations by their Mohammad, removes any hint of stereotyping.

    • mortimer says

      Nov 8, 2019 at 9:11 am

      He supports the ARMY OF THE CONQUEST. Sounds a bit suspicious, doesn’t it? Shouldn’t security agents investigate someone with friends like that?

      Clearly, the NJ Mayor Khairullah is a jihad bagman and courier who was using his position to help support a terrorist organization called the “Army of the Conquest.”

      When did you or anyone you know support a group with a similar name? (The Army of the Conquest.)

  2. WPM says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 8:42 am

    An ISIS supporter ,on the board of a organization(based in England) that he is an American board member of Watan USA that sends money to the middle east(thru English branch) to support al Qaeda fighters in Syria .Flying back and forth into war torn Syria by way of Turkey ,I wonder how he even had the time to be mayor of any town in New Jersey with all the overseas traveling ,help run overseas “non-profits” that directed money to terror outfits in the Middle East he is a very busy man? How and why would DHS stop and question this man on his return trip of “vacationing” in Turkey with his family with side visits to war torn Syria to take the sights in and soak in the peaceful atmosphere of the crime free ISIS “policed” streets .

  3. PRCS says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 10:43 am

    So, if jihad is merely an inner, spiritual struggle–and nothing more–what’s the problem.

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 8, 2019 at 6:30 pm

      Ha ha

  4. OREN WYSOCKI says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 11:03 am

    I am sure he has no problem questioning white supremacists or supposed islamaphobes.

  5. somehistory says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 1:26 pm

    John Dillenger was arrested because of his “name and identity.” Billy the Kid was chased and hunted due to his “name and identity.”

    This blubbery moslim creep said, “because of my name and identity” To this I say, them’s the breaks fat creep for making your “name and identity” synonymous with the crime of funding terror and meeting with terrorists…including the two “reps” who do the same.

    He’s the only one who can keep himself out of trouble. If he commits crimes, he should be arrested, not just questioned. And “profiling” is a good way to find those who commit crimes of this nature…funding terrorists, traveling to meet with terrorists and subverting justice as cair and its members so often do.

  6. Beneath the Veil of Consciousness says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 1:48 pm

    “The lady doth protest too much.” excerpt from Hamlet by William Shakespeare, or “Something stinks in Prospect Park, New Jersey.” Such insincere overacting! Take some acting lessons, mayor. We’re not buying your delivery bag boy.

  7. Mario Alexis Portella says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 2:14 pm

    The man should be arrested by the FBI and put on trial for, as so many Islamist-Americans do, subvert our Constitution and our way of life.

  8. b.a. freeman says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 2:32 pm

    “A good thing that ISIS has done is to eliminate the thieves and bandits in their area of control…”
    —
    of course they took the “thieves and bandits” off the streets; after all, IS was the gang in control, and like any gang, they don’t tolerate competition!

    • gravenimage says

      Nov 8, 2019 at 6:38 pm

      Spot on, b.a. freeman.

  9. James Lincoln says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 2:45 pm

    Customs and Border Protection agents did a fine job.

    However…

    I only wish that they had bought Prospect Park mayor Mohamed Khairullah an immediate one-way ticket – back to Turkey.

  10. John P Veracruz says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 3:05 pm

    Don’t know why he feels that he is been pick on, Americans are always getting stop and search, I worked in the middle east countries and coming back to Houston, TX. That’s the USA, get used to it Mr Mayor, that’s the rules in our USA. Again don’t sweat it, your not special.

  11. Roland says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 5:29 pm

    I remember when Prospect Park, NJ was a Dutch Reformed Church town. 40 years ago. What a change! PP is just outside of Paterson, early home of the textile industry. Early in the 20th century, Paterson received many Middle Eastern Christian refugees from the Ottoman Empire, mostly from Lebanon and Syria. Later, more Muslim immigrants arrived.

  12. Wellington says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 5:59 pm

    Yet another enemy within. And with some political power too. Not good. Not good at all.

    What a curse to America, to the West in general, and to all of mankind is Mo’s warped creed and its deluded followers. The wonder of it all is that more people haven’t figured this out by now. Thus, Islam still hides behind its religious veil very effectively. Yes, the fault for this dangerous nonsense ultimately lies not with the Muzzie but with the non-Muzzie who remains, against all reason and common sense, insouciantly ignorant.

    • Bob Builder says

      Nov 9, 2019 at 1:41 pm

      So this Jihadi is a Mayor in New Jersey?

      I think it’s time to contact the FBI Tipster line..

  13. gravenimage says

    Nov 8, 2019 at 8:39 pm

    New Jersey Muslim mayor who complained about DHS questioning has history of jihad support

    “And the only reason they’re taken back to secondary inspection and questioned that way is because of their faith, what they happen to be wearing, and what direction they pray,” said Hamas-linked CAIR New York’s litigation director Ahmed Mohamed.

    No. Maybe it’s because of the support for jihad detailed in this article.
    ………………………

    Exactly. No one much cares what Muslims wear or what direction they pray in. But the fact that their faith preaches violent Jihad *is* a huge issue.

    More

    Khairullah even thanked ISIS for taking bandits off the streets of Syria.

    “A good thing that ISIS has done is to eliminate the thieves and bandits in their area of control. Allah knows what was behind this move,” Khairullah wrote in a Jan. 5, 2014 tweet.
    ………………………

    We have a mayor of an American city lauding *ISIS* for their savage treatment of petty criminals? *Good lord*.

    And while he may have a problem with thieves–if they are robbing Muslims, at least–he clearly has *no* problem with using Infidel girls as sex slaves, burning people to death in cages (including a sex slave who refused to cooperate with her rapists), crucifying children who snack during Ramadan, and out and out genocide—all things ISIS has done.

    I’m *glad* he’s being investigated.

  14. Angemon says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 8:04 am

    Turns out NJ mayor who complained about DHS questioning has history of jihad support

    Imagine my surprise…

  15. Rooster says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 9:27 am

    Liar liar pants on fire…..Muslims lie people! They are taught from birth that lying to infidels to further Islam is divine. They are the antithesis of American values! Muslims cannot be American citizens because of Islam. In order for America to survive in this world ALL Muslims must be purged from our boarders! Don’t expect dysfunctional American religions to do anything. The “Church” is the only hope for America!

  16. Giacomo Latta says

    Nov 9, 2019 at 11:11 am

    ”flat-out stereotyping of Muslims”
    That’s what you and your ilk do, sport.

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