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Attorney to terrorists organizes Muslim rally at Capitol

Hassan Abdellah briefs his helpers Wednesday at Dar Ul-Islam, a mosque in Elizabeth, about the Jummah Prayer on Capital Hill, A Day of Islamic Unity . Abdellah and the Al-Slam are spearheading the national prayer service.

A lawyer with a history of representing Islamic terrorists, including men connected to the 1993 and 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, is one of the chief organizers of a large Muslim prayer service intended as a show of American patriotism Friday at the Capitol.

Hassen Abdellah is president of Dar-ul-Islam, the mosque in Elizabeth, N.J., that is organizing the event. He said the mosque began organizing the gathering, called "Jummah Prayer on Capitol Hill: A Day of Islamic Unity," several months ago to convey to Muslims around the world the freedoms enjoyed by their American confreres.

The event has inspired enough rumors to warrant an entry on factcheck.org and a competing event on Friday at the Rayburn House Office Building sponsored by a group called Stop Islamization of America.

Several Islamic groups have distanced themselves from the event. The Islamic Society of America (ISNA) and the Council of American Islamic Relations (CAIR) say they will not be participating.

Imam Johari Abdul-Malik of Dar Al Hijrah in Falls Church, the area's largest mosque, said he is attending but there will be no representatives from the All Dulles Area Muslim Society in Sterling, one of the region's largest mosques.

Mr. Abdellah, as a lawyer, represented several terrorists. He was part of a legal team that represented Mahmoud Abouhalima, who was charged in the bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, and also represented Faruq Brent, a Baltimore cabdriver who pleaded guilty in April 2007 to providing material support for Lashkar-e-Taiba, a terrorist group.

He was briefly the attorney for Mohamed el-Atriss, who was convicted of selling fake IDs to two Sept. 11 hijackers, and represented Numan Maflahi, a New Jersey gas station owner who was convicted in 2004 of making false statements to federal agents.

Mr. Abdellah defended his record, saying his detractors have not mentioned that he was a prosecutor for Union County, N.J., from 1983 to 1989, just after graduating from Seton Hall University School of Law in New Jersey."I represent all kinds of people; that is what lawyers do," he said. "We protect the Constitution by representing the rights of people who no one else wants to deal with."

"We want to show the rest of the world that as Muslims, we don't have restrictions in terms of our religious practice," Mr. Abdellah said. "And Americans have been asking for the Muslims - who love this country - to step up and step forward and renounce the conflict that has taken place."

The stated goal on the event's Web site is to "manifest Islam's majestic spiritual principles" in chants that will "echo off the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and other great edifices that surround Capitol Hill."

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Renounce jihad and the killing of innocents WHO AREN'T MUSLIM, in the name of your faux religion of pieces .. support and defend the country in which you live ... THAT'S WHAT YOU CAN DO! Maybe then your lofty words won't strike us as totally phoney.

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As WND reported, one of the key organizers is Hassen Abdellah, an attorney from Elizabeth, N.J. Abdellah formed part of the legal team that defended four men in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, including Mahmud Abouhalim, who was convicted and sentenced to prison.

During the trial, the New York Times described Abdellah as “by far the most aggressively combative of the lawyers in the case.”

The case, as well as Abdellah’s other legal associations, has raised eyebrows online.

“Who’s behind ‘Islam on Capitol Hill?’” asked popular blogger and frequent TV talk show guest, Michelle Malkin.

Malkin then quoted Andrew Walden of FrontPageMagazine.com, who published an extensive look at the Muslim rally’s organizers, including a reminder that Abdellah also defended Numan Maflahi, a man who in 2004 was accused by prosecutors of being tied to al-Qaida and sentenced to five years for lying to investigators during an investigation of terrorism financing.

“Of course, everyone is entitled to legal representation,” commented Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, “but Abdellah’s choice of clients is … interesting.”

Spencer also pointed out Abdellah represented Mahmud Faruq Brent, a Muslim cabdriver in Baltimore who pled guilty in April 2007 to attending a jihad terrorist training camp in Pakistan and conspiring to provide material support to the Lashkar-e-Taiba foreign terrorist organization.

During the trial, the New York Times described Abdellah as “by far the most aggressively combative of the lawyers in the case.”

The case, as well as Abdellah’s other legal associations, has raised eyebrows online.

“Who’s behind ‘Islam on Capitol Hill?’” asked popular blogger and frequent TV talk show guest, Michelle Malkin.

“Of course, everyone is entitled to legal representation,” commented Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch, “but Abdellah’s choice of clients is … interesting.”

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Building on the Islamic interest in Obama’s inauguration, when Muslims claimed in a magazine that “It’s our time,” the event planners are calling for 50,000 Muslims to attend the event on the National Mall on Friday.

Repeated on each page of the rally’s website is the phrase

“Our time has come.”

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