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| Oregon's largest mosque, situated in Portland |
From FBI-ICE investigation prompted U.S. to attempt to revoke citizenship of imam who heads Portland's biggest mosque (July 20, 2015):
"The U.S. Department of Justice is pursuing Mr. (Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman) Kariye's denaturalization based on his illegal procurement of naturalization; specifically, Mr. Kariye obtained his U.S. citizenship by providing false information and willful misrepresentation and concealment of material facts including his criminal history and failed to establish that he was a person of good moral character during the requisite statutory period," the FBI wrote in a news statement....Read the rest HERE.
Court papers filed Monday in Portland show that Justice Department officials hope to win denaturalization of the Somali-born imam's citizenship because he allegedly tried to conceal past associations with Islamic groups in Pakistan and Afghanistan....
The Islamic Center of Portland, where he is the imam, is the largest mosque in Oregon.
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