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Sunday, January 18, 2009

Winfield Myers:

Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA), will deliver a prayer at the National Cathedral during the National Prayer Service on January 21st. The event is part of the festivities for the inauguration of Barack Obama, which occurs January 20. A convert to Islam, Mattson directs the Macdonald Center for the Study of Islam and Christian-Muslim Relations at Hartford Seminary.

ISNA has close ties with the Muslim Brotherhood, a radical Islamist group, and was named an un-indicted co-conspirator in U.S. v Holy Land Foundation, a case that uncovered covert financing of the terrorist group Hamas. Since her election as ISNA president in 2006, Mattson's apologias for the radical Wahhabi sect of Islam have gained a much wider audience...

See also:

Politico: Obama prayer speaker comes from group feds say is linked to Hamas

AP: Obama prayer leader linked to Hamas

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Of course the ACLU is jumping to the defense of "unindicted co-conspirators," the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA) and the North American Islamic Trust (NAIT) -- see background: Hamas at the Inauguration, and Robert Spencer's piece abo... Read More

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