BILL HEMMER (HOST): President Obama set to attend an Islamic round table today in Baltimore, marking the first visit as president to an American mosque. However, critics taking issue with the choice of this mosque, accusing it of having extremist ties because of a former imam who was a member of the Muslim Brotherhood.

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HEMMER: Why do you think now this trip is being made? Let's start there.

ZUHDI JASSER: Well I think he's basically using it as a political prop in this height of a partisan season and also right before the National Prayer Breakfast, wants to make a point. Why didn't he visit a Sikh temple, why didn't he visit a synagogue? He's simply using the -- and I say using because many of us American Muslims, especially those of us in the Muslim reform movement, are asking is this the bigotry of low expectations? Why visit a mosque that's heaped in Salafism, heaped in an ideology that is really incompatible with western identity? They have gender apartheid in the mosque. They've given a sermon just a couple of years ago from Yaseen Shaikh called homosexuals “deviants” and have a mental disorder. This is not -- even if you take the president's liberal values, he's basically using Muslims as a prop who disagree with his own liberal values it's bizarre.

Previously:

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