"We're going to reach out to everybody. I don't care what their background is."

Wahhaj “is the leader of a large mosque,” he said. “We’re going to reach out to everybody. I don’t care what their background is. We do not want to have people in this city who feel that they are so estranged from the community that they start fighting the community.”

But if federal prosecutors are to be believed, Wahhaj has been “fighting the community” for decades.