MUSLIM MAYOR from New Jersey denied entry by Secret Service to a White House end of Ramadan celebration because he is on the FBI Terror Watch List

The US Secret Service stated Monday that it barred a Muslim mayor from Prospect Park, New Jersey, from attending a White House party with President Joe Biden and other Muslims to honor the conclusion, known as Eid al-Fitr, of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

BreezyScroll (h/t Nita) Shortly before he was scheduled to arrive at the White House for the Eid-al-Fitr celebration, Mayor Mohamed Khairullah said he received a call from the White House informing him that he had not been cleared for entry by the Secret Service and would therefore be unable to attend the event at which Biden delivered remarks to hundreds of guests. He claimed that the White House representative failed to explain why the Secret Service had denied him admission.

Khairullah, 47, notified the New Jersey chapter of designated terrorist group CAIR (Council on American-Islamic Relations) after being denied entry to the event.

The group has asked the Biden administration to stop the FBI from disseminating information from a Terrorist Screening Data Set, which comprises hundreds of thousands of people. The group told Khairullah that a person with his name and birthdate was included in a dataset collected by CAIR attorneys in 2019.

Khairullah said “It’s a list that has targeted me because of my identity. And I don’t think the highest office in the United States should be down with such profiling.” Khairullah was a vocal opponent of former President Donald Trump‘s travel ban, which barred citizens of many primarily Muslim nations from entering the United States. 

US Secret Service spokesman Anthony Guglielmi, who declined to elaborate said, “Unfortunately we are not able to comment further on the specific protective means and methods used to conduct our security operations at the White House.”

Khairullah claimed he was detained by officials in 2019 and grilled for three hours at New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport about whether he knew any terrorists. Khairullah said they also asked if he visited any towns with terrorist cells and whether he personally met with any terrorists. The event occurred when he was returning to the United States from a  trip to Turkey. “It’s flat-out insulting,” he said. “It’s flat-out stereotyping of Muslims and Arabs.” 

Agents told him they’d have to keep the phone, Khairullah said. They held it for 12 days until a lawyer from the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations intervened and helped get it back.