In April 2011, the ''Washington Post'' took note of Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed. He likes to run as a candidate in Sudan's presidential elections where he loses. He went on a vacation to Florida where he also took part in Terry Jones’s trial of the Koran and its later burning. A trial and burning Obama pleaded not take place because Islamists as usual would become angry and start murdering and destroying things. <blockquote>"Elhassan, a native of the Sudan who is now an American citizen, likes to call himself a sheik. He wears a cleric’s flowing white robes and claims hundreds of followers throughout Egypt, Sudan and in the United States. But he is unknown as a scholar or holy man in the state he has called home for two decades. Religious leaders in Texas say they have never heard of Elhassan, including the imam at the mosque where he worships. “This so-called leader, we have never heard of this person,” said Imam Zia ul Haque Sheikh, the head of the Islamic Center of Irving. “I believe the whole thing is made up.”<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/muslim-at-koran-trial-says-he-didnt-know-the-holy-book-would-be-burned/2011/04/05/AFKNR3oC_story.html</ref></blockquote> | In April 2011, the ''Washington Post'' took note of Mohamed Elhassan Mohamed. He likes to run as a candidate in Sudan's presidential elections where he loses. He went on a vacation to Florida where he also took part in Terry Jones’s trial of the Koran and its later burning. A trial and burning Obama pleaded not take place because Islamists as usual would become angry and start murdering and destroying things. <blockquote>"Elhassan, a native of the Sudan who is now an American citizen, likes to call himself a sheik. He wears a cleric’s flowing white robes and claims hundreds of followers throughout Egypt, Sudan and in the United States. But he is unknown as a scholar or holy man in the state he has called home for two decades. Religious leaders in Texas say they have never heard of Elhassan, including the imam at the mosque where he worships. “This so-called leader, we have never heard of this person,” said Imam Zia ul Haque Sheikh, the head of the Islamic Center of Irving. “I believe the whole thing is made up.”<ref>http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/muslim-at-koran-trial-says-he-didnt-know-the-holy-book-would-be-burned/2011/04/05/AFKNR3oC_story.html</ref></blockquote> |