The website for Masjid Omar Ibn El Khattab, just a mile from the Ohio State University campus, proclaims itself “the Muslim Heart of Columbus.” And yet the mosque, described as one of the most ideologically hardline in the city, has grabbed the media spotlight once again: former attendees were recently reported as having joined the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.
As mosque officials struggle to distance themselves from yet another resident terror cell, the recent news raises questions about the extensive history of this Ohio mosque as a turnstile for terrorism.
The website for Masjid Omar Ibn El Khattab, just a mile from the Ohio State University campus, proclaims itself “the Muslim Heart of Columbus.” And yet the mosque, described as one of the most ideologically hardline in the city, has grabbed the media spotlight once again: former attendees were recently reported as having joined the Islamic State (ISIS) in Syria.
Oh, and did I mention they’ve been under investigation a number of times for links to terrorism?
Not long ago, PJ Media reported that three individuals who lived just yards from Masjid Omar for two years joined ISIS in Syria in July 2014. Rasel Raihan was killed in Syria in a U.S. airstrike. His older sister Zakia Nasrin and her husband Jaffrey Khan are still in Raqqa, according to internal ISIS documents which NBC News obtained from an ISIS defector.
In that NBC News report, the mosque’s president, Basil Gohar, tried to distance the trio from the mosque. He said that Jaffrey, despite living so close to the mosque for two years, had only attended the mosque for a few weeks and had kept to himself.
When a local TV station caught up with him a few days later, Gohar again tried to distance the mosque from the ISIS recruits — as well as from the previous convicted terrorists who had attended the mosque.
Something odd is going on at that mosque. Is it possible that the perpetrator behind yesterday’s attack also attended the mosque? Certainly, and we’ll find out soon if he did as the investigation into him continues.
Ted R. Weiland says
Why are there any Mosques in America?
CLUE: There were no openly practicing Muslims, no Mosques, no Sharia, and no Islamic terrorism in 17th-century Colonial America whose governments of, by, and for God were established upon Yahweh’s moral law, beginning with the First Commandment:
“…Religious Freedom and Christian Liberty are not the same thing. They are, in fact, hostile to each other. The former is born of the First Amendment. The latter is born of the First Commandment. In 1789, the First Commandment and Christian Liberty were formally sacrificed on the altar of the First Amendment and Religious Freedom.
“When the 18th-century founders replaced the First Commandment (found intact in some 17th-century Colonial Constitutions) with the First Amendment, America was transformed from a predominantly monotheistic Christian nation (a united nation under one God, Yahweh) into arguably the most polytheistic nation to exist (a divided nation under many gods, including Islam’s Allah).
“It’s one thing to allow for individual freedom of conscience and private choice of gods, something impossible to legislate for or against. It’s another matter altogether for government to enable any and all religions to proliferate through the land and evangelize our posterity to false gods. This is what the First Amendment legitimizes. It is an unequivocal violation of the First Commandment and the polar opposite of the following First Commandment statute:
‘[Y]e shall destroy their altars, break their images, and cut down their groves. For thou shall worship no other god: for Yahweh, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God: Lest thou … go a whoring after their gods….’ (Exodus 34:13-15)….”
For more, see blog article “National Religious Freedom Day aka Celebrating the Founders’ Violation of the First Commandment” at http://www.constitutionmythbusters.org/national-religious-freedom-day-aka-celebrating-the-founders-violation-of-the-first-commandment/.
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Sharpshooter says
Any society that is so ignorant of history as to allow terrorists to establish their headquarters any where they so desire, is a society that is doomed to failure! Our government is so afraid to “offend” some one that they will allow themselves to be preyed upon by terrorists and more than happy to live with the consequences. The citizens are going to have to do what needs to be done, themselves and let the chips fall where they may!
Iris says
Thank Oobbbamma ,!!! For ALL THE UNREST, America Has !!! He is Muslim !!, an letting all HELL Come Down On Christian an Jewishs people in America !!!!!
mike6080 says
any mosque connected with terrorism should be leveled , it is not a so called place of worship
Kendall says
Anyone familiar to what Muslims are doing in, and to, Europe should be opposed to further immigration from Muslim countries. Sweden is now the rape capital of Europe. We are dealing with a culture totally foreign to our own and hostile to American ideals of religious tolerance, civility and respect for women. While the majority of Muslims in this country are peaceful and law-abiding, it is highly unlikely that they will remain so once they have sufficient numbers to force their way of life in their own ethnic enclaves, as they have in Sweden and much of Europe. The issue becomes: how many Muslims does it take to ‘control the streets’ in the Muslim community or in neighborhoods dominated by Muslims? If the majority of peaceloving Muslims remain silent, they become complicit in the actions of the minority a d many may actually covertly support them, as public surveys have revealed.
The leading scholar of Islam, Bernard Lewis, has estimated that Europe will be majority Muslim by 2100 and, perhaps, sooner in many countries. And they know it because they are out-birthing those in the West., And instead of being cognizant of threat posed by radical Islam, there are those in West who want to attack us as “xenophobes.” It reminds me a great deal of how anti-communiusts were vilified as ‘red baiiters’ during the Cold War because they, like Ronald Reagan, had the audacity to point out that there really was an Evil Empire. And look at the way Fidel Castro is lionized in death by the likes of Justin Trudeau and Pope Francis.
There’s a reason why the aphorism ‘liberalism is a mental disorder’ rings so true.
keepyourpower says
And we will be coming close to majority Muslim, by 2100, ourselves..and on our dime.
Obama lets Muslim men bring 4 wives, at a time. One is the wife, the other 3 are dependents.
Yet, let an American Mormon try to have more than one wife, and he goes to jail!
This is an upside down world we live in.
I only hope, and pray, that Trump will bring it right side up. But, from what I have read, lately, he is just another Lefty.