White House official praises Muslim Brotherhood leader

Deputy NSC chief begs for ‘cooperation’ at mosque in Virginia

WASHINGTON – While visiting a mosque in the Washington area last week, a senior White House security official lavished praise on a Muslim cleric who happens to be a top leader of the radical Muslim Brotherhood in America, FBI investigators point out.

Imam Magid and Denis McDonough

“They are so ignorant,” said one FBI veteran regarding the White House. “This is unbelievable bullsh–.”

White House sources explain that deputy National Security Adviser Denis McDonough was unaware of the cleric’s radical ties, and added that the presidential assistant attended the outreach event as a show of support for the Muslim community ahead of Thursday’s congressional hearings on Muslim radicalization. Led by New York Republican Rep. Peter King, the planned hearings have already generated charges of “bigotry” from Muslim activists.

During his speech at the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, Va., McDonough singled out the mosque’s imam, Mohammed Magid, for praise.
“Thank you, Imam Magid, for your very kind introduction. I know that President Obama was very grateful that you led the prayer at last summer¹s Iftar dinner at the White House,” he said. “Thank you, also, for being one of our nation’s leading voices for the values that make America so strong, especially religious freedom and tolerance.”
However, Sudanese-born Magid (aka Hagmagid Ali) is also president of the Islamic Society of North America – a terror-supporting organization and known front group for the Egypt-based Muslim Brotherhood’s operations in America.

The Justice Department recently implicated the Islamic Society of North America, or ISNA, in a criminal conspiracy to fund Palestinian terrorists. U.S. prosecutors, in fact, designated ISNA as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism-finance case in U.S. history, the Holy Land Foundation trial. They also identified ISNA as a U.S. front group for Hamas and its parent the Muslim Brotherhood.

In a post-trial opinion, the federal judge ruled the government provided “ample evidence” to support ISNA’s involvement in the foundation’s conspiracy to underwrite terrorism, and he refused ISNA’s petition to remove its name from the list of co-conspirators.

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