Most presidents returned to their home town or state after their term of office had ended. But Obama intends to remain in Washington, D.C. — which means he intends to remain fully engaged in politics, God help us.
Reportedly, Obama has purchased a multi-million-dollar, palatial, 8,200-square-foot mansion in the upscale northwest Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Kalorama, where he and his family will live after he — finally — leaves office.
The most interesting thing about Obama’s D.C. mansion is that it is located 1,096 feet from the Islamic Center of Washington — one of the largest mosques in the Western Hemisphere — where there is prayer five times daily, each preceded by the Azan, the Muslim call to prayer that Obama had rhapsodized as being “one of the prettiest sounds on earth”.
Islamic Center of Washington
The Islamic Center of Washington is located in D.C.’s Embassy Row, which means the embassy of Oman and the former embassy of Iran are also very close to Obama’s new mansion.
By the way, claims that Obama had bought a house in Dubai, a Muslim country in the Middle East, are not true.
The rumor originated in a fake news site, WhatDoesItMean.com, written by a notorious purveyor of fake news — a man who uses the alias Sorcha Faal, who writes for the official-sounding EU Times and typically cites the Russian government as his source. “Sorcha Faal” is actually David Booth, an American computer programmer who has been tied to hoaxes, plagiarism and other unsavory undertakings.
Both Obama’s new digs and the Islamic Center are located in the fancypants northwest Washington, D.C. neighborhood of Kalorama.
The Islamic Center is a tremendous resource for the District’s Muslim community. “It provides Qur’an and Islamic Literature and distribution of such publications that would create awareness and knowledge of Islamic Truth,” according to the center’s website.
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