Muslim Event to Take Place on Capitol Hill

This should sicken all Americans. Muslims are organizing a day of national prayer later this month on Capitol Hill. I don't think we would tolerate it if 50,000 neo-nazis were going to capitol Hill. I don't see how this is any different. It should not be allowed. They are using our freedom to eventually undermine it. There needs to be limits to our tolerance and we should not tolerate so-called "free speech" by those who are at war with us, and make no mistake, despite what our clueless political leaders say, muslims are at war with us. But because islam has been labeled a "religion" rather than the political totalitarian, supremacist ideology that it really is, muslims are able to use the cover of freedom of religion to get away with these types of events as well as gaining other such accommodations. The purpose of this event taking place in our nation's capitol and outside an American institution like Capitol Hill which represents our democratic republic, is a deliberate attempt by muslims to send a message that they are here to dominate us, replace our constitution and way of life with sharia, not to become assimilated and be equal members of America's pluralistic society. Most Americans won't realize this and would probably think what I am saying is paranoid, but all they have to do is look at what has been taking place in Europe. And any attempts to oppose this and similar events will be regarded as bigoted, "islamophobic", intolerant and whatever other labels they will put on us, making us out to be the bad guys when all we are doing is trying to preserve America, our way of life and constitution. The muslims can count on our own clueless and self-hating liberals to help in this regard. Muslim immigration must come to a complete end.

Elizabeth mosque organizes national prayer event in D.C.
Monday, August 31, 2009
Jeff Diamant
STAR-LEDGER STAFF

A mosque in Elizabeth, Dar-ul-Islam, is spearheading a national prayer gathering next month in Washington, D.C., that organizers are billing as the first event of its kind -- organized prayer for tens of thousands of Muslims outside the U.S. Capitol building.

The event will not include political speeches or placards, just prayer, said Hassen Abdellah, president of Dar-ul-Islam and a main organizer of the event, which is scheduled for Sept. 25.

"Most of the time, when Muslims go to Washington, D.C., they go there to protest some type of event," Abdellah said. "This is not a protest. Never has the Islamic community prayed on Capitol Hill for the soul of America. We're Americans. We need to change the face of Islam so people don't feel every Muslim believes America is "the great Satan,' because we love America."

A permit from the Capitol Hill police, granted July 28, allows access to the area by the West Front of the Capitol building from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m. on Sept. 25, but the main gathering will occur at 1 p.m., for the Friday prayer service.

Abdellah said he expects 50,000 people to attend, from mosques around the country, though non-Muslims are welcome, too. About 400 people are expected from his own mosque, which is raising money from donors to help pay the cost of the event, expected to surpass $200,000.

The gathering will occur by the site where presidents have been inaugurated since 1981. In fact, it was President Obama's words at his inauguration in January, and then his speech in Egypt in June, that led Abdellah and an area imam, Abdul Malik, to begin discussing the idea, Abdellah said.

"For the first time in my lifetime," Abdellah said, "I heard someone of his stature speaking about Islam and Muslims not in an adversarial sense, but in the sense of being welcome and acknowledging we are integral citizens in the society -- that we're gainfully employed, we're educated."

"He said he had his hand open to the Islamic world," he said. "The Islamic world wants to open their hand and shake it."

The website set up for the event, islamoncapitolhill.com, features a logo with a red, white and blue hand shaking a light brown hand, with the words to the preamble of the Constitution and a page of Arabic text in the background.

Mosque members have been working since July to organize the event, through e-mails, phone calls and visits to mosques and Muslim Students Associations in different states.