United States Secret Service and White House officials aren’t saying why the Muslim mayor of Prospect Park, New Jersey, was not permitted onto the White House grounds for an event with President Joe Biden on Monday.
Mohamed Khairullah, a Democrat who has served as the New Jersey town’s mayor for nearly two decades, was on his way to the White House for a reception marking Eid al-Fitr, the traditional holiday which marks the end of sunrise-to-sunset fasting during the holy month of Ramadan.
