U.S CITIZENSHIP REVOKED OVER TIES TO TERROR GROUP: IMAM OF PORTLAND’S LARGEST MOSQUE SENT OUT OF U.S

WE LOVE TRUMP - Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye, the former imam of Portland’s largest mosque, was allowed to travel back to his homeland of Somaliland this weekend, and once there, the United States has revoked his citizenship. 

It’s reported that the government had arranged for Kariye, who was on the government’s ‘no fly list,’’ to
travel back to his homeland after reaching a settlement agreement with him in January.

OREGONIAN REPORT - The U.S. government has revoked the U.S. citizenship of the former imam of Portland’s largest mosque after he arrived in Somaliland last week.

Mohamed Sheikh Abdirahman Kariye is on the government’s no-fly list, but the government arranged for him to travel back to his homeland after reaching a settlement with Kariye in January.

Under the deal, Kariye agreed not to challenge an order revoking his citizenship and acknowledged having provided false information to immigration officials in July 1997 when he had applied for U.S. naturalization.

In October, federal government lawyers told a federal appeals court that Kariye was placed on the no-fly list based on his history as a “mujahedeen fighter in Afghanistan against the Russians,” as well as his expressed support for “violent jihad” in conversations recorded between a cooperating informant and two members of the Portland Seven. They were a group of American Muslims from the Portland area who were prosecuted and convicted of trying to join al-Qaida forces in their fight against the United States military and coalition forces in Afghanistan.

The U.S. sought to strip Kariye of his U.S. citizenship because he “provided false information and both willfully misrepresented and concealed material facts’’ when applying for naturalization to the United States.

During the process, the FBI informed U.S. Justice Department attorneys that Kariye had coordinated with Osama bin Laden and other known terrorist leaders and was associated with terrorist organizations including Makhtab Al-Khidamat, or MAK, a designated terrorist organization and pre-cursor to al-Qaida. [OREGONIAN REPORT ADDED]