'Christian' Obama at mosque: 'Muslim-Americans keep us safe'
“Muslim-Americans keep us safe,” Obama said while speaking at the Islamic Society of Baltimore, Maryland, which is affiliated with the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA. “They are our police. They are our firefighters. They’re in [the Department of] Homeland Security.”
Obama’s speech was his first at a U.S. mosque during his tenure in the White House. Leaders of the 47-year-old building are known for using vehement anti-Israel rhetoric. Terrorism expert Steve Emerson of the Investigative Project on Terrorism told WND on Sunday that Obama was informed of the building’s links to radical politics and terror, but he agreed to the event anyway.
“They prepared memos for the president’s aides that specifically laid out the sordid history and nexus to terrorism of the Islamic Society of Baltimore,” Emerson, the founder and director of IPT, said. “As he has done so many times in the past, he...