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One comment on Jihad Watch sums up this latest audacity of the White House leadership nicely:
Tom Davis - August 12, 2011 9:09 AM
"So, the White House invites known terrorist sympathizers to an event and then hushes it up? It means the White House KNOWS who these people are, and they are OK with it. Disgusting!
One comment on Jihad Watch sums up this latest audacity of the White House leadership nicely:
Tom Davis - August 12, 2011 9:09 AM
"So, the White House invites known terrorist sympathizers to an event and then hushes it up? It means the White House KNOWS who these people are, and they are OK with it. Disgusting!
White House - Obama hosts Ramadan dinner
But they were there. ISNA has admitted ties to both Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood. "Obama’s Iftar guest list omits controversial attendees," by Neil Munro in the Daily Caller, August 11 (thanks to all who sent this in):
The White House’s published guest list for this year’s Ramadan Iftar dinner was much shorter than previous years’ roster. It excluded the names of several controversial advocates who have attended the event in the past, including some who The Daily Caller can confirm did attend on Wednesday night.
“It was a squeaky clean list,” said Durriya Badani, director of the U.S.-Islamic World Forum, an annual event organized by the Brookings Institution’s Saban Center and the Qatari government. The guests on the published list are “not controversial at all,” said Badani, whose name is on the list the White House provided to reporters.“It was a lot more low-key … It was a more intimate event this year,” said Haris Tarin, the Washington director of the Muslim Public Affairs Council, whose invitation was kept off the published list. “I have no idea why they didn’t publish [MPAC’s invite] … I’m going to learn about that a little bit more,” he told The Daily Caller.Mohamed Magid also attended but did not appear on the White House’s publish list. Magid is imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque in Northern Virginia and the current president of the Islamic Society of North America. Along with MPAC, Magid’s two organizations have drawn criticism from a loose network of online critics who claim they are sympathetic to Islamist groups....The list also excluded a few controversial attendees, such as Tarin from MPAC and Mohamed Magid, who is the imam of the All Dulles Area Muslim Society mosque in Northern Virginia and the current president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA).Critics of Tarin’s and Magid’s organizations — including the Investigative Project on Terrorism — use the Internet to publish court records, translate Arab-language media reports, and record information released by Muslim advocacy groups in the United States and overseas. For example, court records now available online show that the federal government designated ISNA an unindicted co-conspirator during the 2008 trial of Texas Muslims who smuggled money to the Hamas terror group.
