Details Given on Secret White House Muslim Meeting

The White House has finally released the names of the Muslim advocates President Barack Obama met with at the White House last week.

For several days White House officials refused to tell journalists who attended the secretive, closed-door meeting. They relented after White House press secretary Josh Earnest came under pressure at a press briefing.

Now it has been revealed that the current and former heads of the Islamic Society of North America were among the attendees.

As CBN News has reported, critics say ISNA is a front group for the radical Muslim Brotherhood.

ISNA was also named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism financing trial in American history.

And several key ISNA leaders were convicted in terrorism trials for funding or supporting Palestinian Islamic Jihad and funding al Qaeda.

ISNA has had ties to the Obama administration for years, with their leaders gaining White House access as trusted administration advisers on issues from immigration to counterterrorism policy.

When the media firestorm first erupted over the secretive White House meeting, the Detroit Free Press reported the Muslim leaders were told not to talk to the media about what Obama said to them.

But some said they were pleased with the president's support after a supposed rise in anti-Muslim bigotry in the wake of the jihadist terrorist attacks in Paris.

And the White House released a brief statement saying: "The president reiterated his administration's commitment to safeguarding civil rights through hate crimes prosecutions."

Among other requests, the leaders asked Obama to nominate a Muslim as a federal judge.

The day after his Muslim meeting, Obama spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast where he bashed Christians for perpetrating "terrible deeds in the name of Christ" during the Crusades and the Inquisition.