EXCLUSIVE: The Terrifying History of Islamist Extremism At New Orleans Terrorist Shamsud Din Jabbar's Local Mosque
The man who
drove a truck into a crowd of New Year's Day revelers in
New Orleans was part of a Muslim community in Houston with a scary history of hard-line Islamism, DailyMail.com can reveal.
The
FBI has probed Jabbar's ties to ISIS and hunted for potential accomplices. One focus is his Muslim immigrant community in northern Houston, and nearby mosque Masjid Bilal, which is now swarming with police, agents and armored vehicles.
The mosque belongs to The Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH), which runs 20 centers across Texas' biggest city. It officially promotes tolerance, but the group also has a troubling track record of extremist preaching.
This includes its former cleric Zoubir Bouchikhi, who has been deported from the US. Bouchikhi has called non-Muslims 'worse than animals,' and shared anti-Christian Saudi propaganda at his Houston mosques.
Since Jabbar's attack, the mosque and ISGH have gone quiet. They did not answer DailyMail.com's requests for comment, and have reportedly urged members to brush off requests for information from investigators and journalists.
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The Islamic Society of Greater Houston once hired the Algerian cleric Zoubir Bouchikhi, who says non-Muslims are 'worse than animals'
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Jabbar lived around the corner from the Masjid Bilal mosque and religious center, part of the Islamic Society of Greater Houston
The focus is now on Masjid Bilal, the local mosque of NOLA terrorist Shamsud-Din Jabbar, and its scary history with an Islamist preacher and Saudi propaganda.
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