Muslim community leaders on Tuesday demanded President Biden publicly apologize to a longtime Muslim mayor from New Jersey who was abruptly blocked from attending the White House’s Eid al-Fitr celebration.
had not been cleared for entry by the Secret Service, but offered no explanation why the agency blocked his entry.said at the press conference. “I have been around with a lot of elected officials from the national level all the way to the school board level, and I have supported many of them.”says he has not heard from Mr. Biden or anyone at the White House since the incident.
White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre repeatedly deferred to the Secret Service when asked Tuesday about the incident. “Let me just first say this is under the purview of the Secret Service,” she said. “I can say this: I was in the room. The president was very proud to welcome nearly 400 Muslim Americans to the White House to celebrate Eid yesterday.”deserved a more detailed explanation, Ms. Jean-Pierre repeated the incident was “in the purview of the Secret Service.”
A spokesperson for the Secret Service said in a statement late Monday that the agency regrets the inconvenience but couldn’t comment further “on the specific protective means and methods used to conduct our security operations at the White House.”was born in Syria and has been a U.S. citizen since 2000. He is now in his fifth term as mayor of Prospect Park. He said he was a victim of Islamophobia and profiling by federal agencies.
“Incidents like this — being flagged on a watch list and denied the honor that every leader should be given — make me question our progress,” he said.
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