Diversity Is Our Strength: 'Washington Post' Reporter Defends Mosque Where Imam Was Caught Promoting Female Genital Mutilation

Ladies and Gentlemen, your mainstream media: 

...when one reader thanked her for her article on "an extremist hotbed," Hauslohner responded that she has "never seen any evidence to suggest that Dar al-Hijrah is an extremist hotbed":

7 Jun

Ehsan Rehan @Ehzan

Replying to @ahauslohner

This is alarming! Thank you for reporting this. The Dar al-Hijrah Center is an extremist hotbed. https://www.rabwah.net/muslim-extremist-linked-to-cair-and-911-mosque-volunteered-for-virginia-democrats/ …

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Abigail Hauslohner 

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.I've never seen any evidence to suggest that Dar al-Hijrah is an extremist hotbed.

4:05 PM - Jun 7, 2017

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This is truly a remarkable claim.

In addition to the fact that she was reporting on the imam of that mosque promoting a criminal act banned by federal law, considerable reporting exists detailing the evidence that Dar al-Hijrah is an extremist hotbed. Some of that reporting comes from Hauslohner's own publication.

In September 2011, the Washington Post reported on the ties between Fort Hood killer and former mosque attendee Nidal Hasan and al-Qaeda cleric and the mosque's former imam Anwar al-Awlaki...