New at the Belmont Club: Two kinds of threat make it through a protective defensive ring. Those who are helped through and those the defensive ring doesn’t recognize as threats.
Belmont Club: Under What Flag?
The Masjid Bilal ISGH (Islamic Society of Greater Houston) mosque has become the focus of media attention ever since one of its congregants, Shamsud-Din Jabbar, drove a rented Ford F-150 pickup truck into a crowd on Bourbon Street on New Year’s Day 2025, killing at least 15 people and injuring dozens more while flying an ISIS flag. Some controversy surrounds the mosque’s social media posts advising congregants not to speak to the FBI about Jabbar but to refer all inquiries to CAIR and the Islamic Society of Greater Houston.