(Detroit News) A Dearborn imam who had been set to deliver a benediction at President Donald Trump’s inauguration here Monday was left out of the program without explanation but amid criticism from at least one Jewish group.
Imam Husham Al-Husainy of the Karbalaa Islamic Education Center in Dearborn told the Detroit News last week he had accepted an invitation from the inaugural committee to pray at Monday’s ceremony. His name had also appeared on an early printing of the inaugural program.
But Al-Husainy did not appear alongside other clergy during Monday’s ceremony. Those who did pray included Lorenzo Sewell, pastor of Detroit’s 180 Church; Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop of New York; the Rev. Franklin Graham; Rabbi Ari Berman, president of Yeshiva University; and the Rev. Frank Mann of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.
