Obama visits mosque tied to controversial imams

CATONSVILLE, Md. — President Barack Obama paid his first visit to a U.S. mosque on Wednesday, but he chose one that has ties with controversial teachers and leaders, including one who has preached that homosexuality is immoral and "something which we despise." A former leader of the mosque, Imam Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh, has been tied to an al-Qaeda front group, and left the Baltimore mosque to lead the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, where radical American cleric Anwar al

CATONSVILLE, Md. — President Barack Obama paid his first visit to a U.S. mosque on Wednesday, but he chose one that has ties with controversial teachers and leaders, including one who has preached that homosexuality is immoral and "something which we despise." A former leader of the mosque, Imam Mohamad Adam el-Sheikh, has been tied to an al-Qaeda front group, and left the Baltimore mosque to lead the Dar Al-Hijrah Islamic Center in Falls Church, Virginia, where radical American cleric Anwar al…