Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the man who killed 14 people in a New Orleans truck attack, was connected to a Muslim community in Houston with a history of hard-line Islamism. The FBI is investigating Jabbar's ties to ISIS and his mosque, Masjid Bilal, which is part of The Islamic Society of Greater Houston (ISGH). ISGH has faced criticism for extremist preaching in the past, and is reportedly urging members to avoid contact with investigators and journalists.
READ MORE: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 Islam ism, DailyMail.com can reveal.
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. The Islamic Society of Greater Houston once hired the Algerian cleric Zoubir Bouchikhi, who says non-Muslims are 'worse than animals'
An ISIS flag and weapons were found inside the vehicle. The FBI is assessing Jabbar's ties to the violent armed Sunni group that was once a major force in Syria, Iraq, and elsewhere, but has since faded. Court records show Jabbar faced a deteriorating financial situation in 2022 while separating from his then-wife. Jabbar said he was behind on house payments and had accumulated credit card debt and wanted to quickly finalize the divorce.
Police and FBI have descended in force on Jabbar's home in a trailer park in the Rushwood neighborhood of northern Houston Notably, ISGH in 2001 hired the Algerian cleric Bouchikhi, who served as the spiritual leader at a southeast Houston mosque, and who was arrested and then deported in 2011, reportedly for immigration violations.
In the same diatribe, Bouchikhi slams such 'sinners' as young women who 'parade in a miniskirt,' and says that tolerating homosexuality showcased the West's moral decline. The FBI did not answer DailyMail.com's queries about whether investigators were probing ISGH or its history with Islamist extremism in connection to the bloodbath in New Orleans.
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