Washington. The US Secret Service said it blocked a Muslim mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey, from attending a White House event marking the end of Ramadan. President Joe Biden also participated in this program.
According to the New Jersey chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Mayor Mohammad Khairullah was about to arrive at the White House to attend Eid al-Fitr celebrations when he received a call from the White House informing him that He has been denied permission by the Secret Service to attend the event, where Biden addressed hundreds of guests.
US Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi confirmed that Khairullah was denied entry to the White House compound but declined to specify why. Khairullah was elected mayor of the borough in January for a fifth term. Saladin Maksut, executive director of CAIR-New Jersey, called the move “completely unacceptable and outrageous.”
The White House declined to comment on it. CAIR-New Jersey spokesman D. Syed Ahmed said Khairullah, who has done humanitarian work in Syria and Bangladesh, had previously been held at New York’s John F Kennedy International Airport for three hours and was questioned about whether Does he know any terrorist?
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