Feds Say Obama Prayer Leader Is From Group Linked to Hamas

Fox News ^ | 01/18/2009 | EagleUSA

[EagleUSA]

A Muslim scholar chosen to speak at President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural prayer service Wednesday is the leader of a group that federal prosecutors say has ties to terrorists.

Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, is one of many religious leaders scheduled to speak at the prayer service at Washington's National Cathedral.

Mattson has been the guest of honor at State Department dinners and has met with senior Pentagon officials during the Bush administration. She also spoke at a prayer service at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Mattson, who was elected president of the society in 2006, is a professor of Islamic studies at Hartford Seminary in Hartford, Conn.

But in 2007 and as recently as last July, federal prosecutors in Dallas filed court documents linking the Plainfield, Ind.-based Islamic society to the group Hamas, which the U.S. considers a terrorist organization.

[EagleUSA]

How much more obvious can it get ???

[big'ol_freeper]

But he is The One, who makes all things good.

[rob777]

Obama is not the only one who is welcoming this person:

WASHINGTON (AP) — A Muslim scholar chosen to speak at President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural prayer service Wednesday is part of a group that federal prosecutors have linked to terrorists.

Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, is one of six religious leaders scheduled to speak at the national prayer service. She has been a guest of honor at State Department functions and met with senior Defense officials during the Bush administration.

But the Connecticut-based Islamic group was also named in federal court documents as recently as July as having ties to the group Hamas. The group has not been charged.
,br> A spokeswoman for the inaugural committee says Mattson has a stellar reputation.

The existence of the court documents was first reporter by Politico.

[rob777]

I meant to post just this section:

Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, is one of six religious leaders scheduled to speak at the national prayer service. She has been a guest of honor at State Department functions and met with senior Defense officials during the Bush administration.


The only issue here is that Islamists have been successful in getting themselves embraced by high levels of government. This is not a change brought about by the Obama Adminstration.

[Cicero]

On this kind of thing, Bush has probably been just as bad. He regularly has invited Muslim leaders to the White House of celebrations and talk fests, and many of them are terrorist supporters working to undermine our security through propaganda and appeals to multiculturalism.

The Deputy Secretary of Defense, Gordon England, has been a prime supporter of Muslim moles in the Defense Department, including the notorious Hesham Islam, who was finally fired when it turned out that he had never been vetted by security and his whole life story was a lie.

Of course there is a difference. Bush is not a Muslim, merely persuadable and polite. Obama is a Muslim, in his sympathies and probably in his inner religion.

[Attention Surplus Disorder]

Why is this a bad thing? Let’s be getting used to turning over the country to a Muslim Marxist from day one, I see no reason to shilly-shally around.

[EagleUSA]

Of course there is a difference. Bush is not a Muslim, merely persuadable and polite. Obama is a Muslim, in his sympathies and probably in his inner religion.
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Yes. A MAJOR difference. And right in the middle of a WAR ON TERROR between the free world and Islamo-fascism. A very poor choice.

[autumnraine]

And people were made fun of for insinuating he was a ‘closet muslim’ or terrorist.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

I recall that Ingrid Mattson was among the hundreds of Moslem “scholars” who signed a petition against the Pope when the Pope cited a historian who revealed the brutality of the Moslems during the late Dark Ages.

[LeonardFMason]

Honestly. He is black{part). He COULD be a wife-beating, tax-cheating, cross-dressing, Christian-hating atheist. It doesn’t matter. He could(will?) take our nation straight down the toilet. He will still get 90+ percent of the black and Democrat vote. They are the facts.

[EagleUSA]

He will still get 90+ percent of the black and Democrat vote. They are the facts.
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I have always stated that about the mindless left. If Joseph Stalin himself, in spite of his list of atrocities, were running with a “D” after his name, they would vote for him.

[phatus maximus]

Correct...after all way too many of my fellow Minnesotans blindly voted for Stuart Smalley...ugh...

[a real Sheila]

Is anyone here at FR surprised by this?

[chiefqc]

Yawn, no surprise there, expect more of the same with it getting worse.