GARLAND, Tx: On Monday night it was revealed that Fox News correspondent Jesse Watters of the Watters' World segnent on the O'Reilly Factor was barred from the 'Defend the Prophet' conference in Garland Texas on Saturday. Other journalists were allowed to enter the premises, but only for the first twenty minutes.
As reported at Fox News, Watters explained that his ticket was "revoked" as he landed in Dallas by representatives of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), who were evidently "gatekeeping the press attendance." Watters opted to interview some of the attendees outside of the conference, which was held at the Curtis Culwell Center.
The invitation for the event explains that "[H]ate groups in the U.S. have invested at least $160 million dollars to attack our Prophet and Islam" but does not go into specifics. The organizers continue to say that "accusations [against Islam] were invented by Islamophobes in America."
Watters asked one of the attendees about a controversial keynote speaker, Imam Siraj Wahhaj, who is an "unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing" as reported at the Washington Times. The unnamed attendee responded angrily that the assertion was "propaganda."
Wahhaj was also quoted as making many divisive comments, including:
If only Muslims were clever politically, they could take over the United States and replace its constitutional government with a caliphate.
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