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What I Saw at the (Muslim Prayer) Revolution
Townhall.com ^ | September 25, 2009 | Robert Knight

Posted on 09/26/2009 4:53:51 AM PDT by Kaslin

Visitors to Washington D.C. today got to hear what residents in Hamtramck and Dearborn, Michigan, as well as areas of London, Amsterdam and other Western cities already endure five times a day: The sound of amplified Muslim prayers lifted to Allah.

This time, the prayers reverberated over America’s front lawn as some 2,000 Muslims gathered for the Jummah Prayer on Capitol Hill: A Day of Islamic Unity. Promoters had planned for 50,000 but came nowhere near that.

Hadn’t you heard about this? If not, it’s probably because the media have been tight lipped, the better not to embarrass the One in the White House. While some women in burkas were sighted in the crowd, there was no sign of Nancy Pelosi in a hijab, which she wore on her Middle East tour.

The purpose of Friday’s event, according to its Website, was to “manifest Islam’s majestic spiritual principles” in chants echoing “off the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and other great edifices that surround Capitol Hill.”

Well, they probably didn’t carry that far. These are not church bells, folks. This is the sound, however muted, of the world’s most aggressive religion rearing up and lyrically cooing its desire to master the world under Allah. Islam means, literally, Submission to Allah.

Author and Islam scholar Robert Spencer, who I saw at the rally, described the prayers, said in Arabic, as ultimately about Islamic superiority. While they may not sound threatening, the message they send to those who understand the language is that “our time has come.”

Another purpose for Friday’s prayer on the Mall was to show Muslims worldwide that Islam is on the advance in the U.S. Dubai-based Islamonline.com, which bills itself as “the leading and original Islamic portal on the Internet,” played up the prayer rally, giving it prominent homepage coverage.

Now, before you accuse me of lumping all Muslims in the same bowl, let me say that there are many nice, hardworking Muslims in America who mean no harm. In fact, many are here because they couldn’t stomach living under Sharia Law in the countries of their origin. They may believe that the world will someday be subdued under Islam, but America’s a fine place to be while waiting. Radical Muslims want to recruit moderate Muslims by convincing them that the day of Sharia is right around the corner, not in the distant future. Hence the more muscular approach at the Capitol. To understand why this is more than just a prayer rally, consider this:

The Prophet Mohammad divided the world into two areas: The world of Dar al-Islam, and the world of Dar al-Harb, or House of War. Everyone on Earth is therefore either a Muslim or an infidel who must convert or else. The Koran is quite clear about this.

In Muslim majority nations, such as Saudi Arabia, non-Muslims are regarded as Dhimmis, second-class people whose testimony in court is worth only a fraction of that of a Muslim and who must pay extra taxes. Forget equality under the law, and don’t even ask how they treat Dhimmi women.

Another event all but ignored by the press was a Capitol Hill press conference Thursday held by Former Muslims United, led by Nonie Darwish. She and other ex-Muslims warned that Rifqa Bary, the 17-year-old Ohio Christian convert who fled to Florida because she fears an “honor killing” is not alone. Darwish and many other experts are featured on the documentary Radical Islam on the March, which will be broadcast on The Coral Ridge Hour on Sunday, Sept. 27.

While the Muslim prayer rally sponsors insist their purpose was to show the world that America is a free land that welcomes Muslims, visitors to the Website can hear a loud Islamic greeting in Arabic. If Muslims are interested in being viewed as just another group of Americans, why the Arabic? Why not English? Not even all Muslims speak Arabic. The real message on the site is in large block letters: Our Time Has Come.

Muslims have been emboldened by President Obama’s election and apology tour and his frequent nods to Islam. Their pulses must have raced as he referred four times in Cairo on June 4 to the “Holy Koran,” while noting that the Middle East is where Islam “was first revealed.” They probably cheered when he became the first president in recent years not to host a Christian-sponsored National Day of Prayer event on May 7 at the White House but found time to preside over an Iftar dinner at the White House on Sept. 1 to mark the end of Ramadan.

Rightly or wrongly, many Muslims feel they have one of their own in the White House. Obama’s formative years were spent learning Islam. It’s not for nothing that the Bible declares, “Train up a child in the way he should go, and when he is old, he will not depart from it” (Proverbs 22:6, KJV).

Along with Obama’s recent conduct, that might be why Moammar Gadhafi referred to Obama as “my son” in his 95-minute speech at the United Nations on Wednesday. It’s partly why Obama himself received a huge ovation as he came to the UN podium even before he took shots at Israel while gently chiding radical Muslims, and apologizing yet again for America.

A major organizer of the prayer rally is attorney Hassen Abdellah, president of the Dar-ul-Islam mosque in Elizabeth, New Jersey. Abdellah represented several terrorists, including: Mahmoud Abouhalima, who was convicted in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, and is serving a life sentence in Florence, Colorado, and Mahamed el-Atriss, who was convicted of selling fake IDs to two of the Sept. 11 hijackers. On Oct. 25, 1993, New York Times reporter Richard Bernstein described Abdellah as “by far the most aggressively combative of the lawyers in the case.”

Abdellah says he “represents all kinds of people.” Robert Spencer of Jihad Watch says that’s a fair statement, but that Abdellah’s client list is “consistent” and “interesting.”

In 1993, Abdellah spoke on behalf of Nidal A. Ayyad to The New York Times:

“’You look at Ayyad,’ he said of one of the defendants. ‘He's an American. He can practice his religion and his way of life here. Why would he blow up the World Trade Center?’"

Nidal A. Ayyad is now in the supermax federal prison in Florence, Colorado after being convicted of blowing up the garage of the World Trade Center, killing six and injuring 1,042.

Another major organizer of the prayer rally is Manhattan imam Sheihk Ahmed Dewidar, who says Muslims need to project a more moderate image in order to achieve their ultimate goals.

On June 9, 2005, during an interview translated by MEMR TV, short for the Middle East Research Institute Monitoring Project, he quoted another imam uncritically:

Dewidar: In 1995 I heard some sermons, saying that Muslims should march on the White House from some of the mosques.

Host: What do you mean by “march on the White House”?

Dewidar: One cleric said in his sermon: “We are going to the White House, so that Islam will be victorious, Allah willing, and the White House will become into the Muslim house.”

Dewidar then explained that Muslim ideas will be victorious if they lose their radical image.

Another imam, Abdul Malik, is also an organizer. His Facebook site has an interesting lecture for young people. Here are some excerpts:

I want you to hear me very clearly: we must remember as Muslims, we submit and we surrender to nothing and no one: not the government, not the police, not the FBI, not the CIA. We submit and we surrender Allah alone, nothing else. Nothing else….. It’s not gonna be easy and you don’t have time to waste believing that you’re young and that you can involve yourself in sport and play because when the enemies of truth drop the bombs on the world of Islam, their number one target, and the number one people that suffer the most, it is the children who suffer, it is the old, it is the women and that day they become widows and they poison the waters and the air, and the children upon, with cancers and other diseases … Democracy is not revelation, and democracy does not equal freedom, for in democracy...you have all of the vices that are against the spirit of truth; so no we don't want to democratize Islam, we want to Islamize democracy. That's what we want."

Indeed. As the ’60s hippies once said in a more conducive climate, “Peace, Man.”


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To: exnavy

> You shouldn’t hold back so much, go ahead, express yourself.
>
> LOL Love your comment.
:)

Amen. What would we do without a sense of humor?

Would that my comment were an exaggeration.

Sadly, it’s not.

If anything, it’s an understatement.


21 posted on 09/26/2009 6:04:45 AM PDT by Westbrook (Having more children does not divide your love, it multiplies it.)
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To: Kaslin
Psalm 100

1Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands.

2Serve the LORD with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

3Know ye that the LORD he is God: it is he that hath made us, and not we ourselves; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.

4Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name.

5For the LORD is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations.

Psalm 100 has become my prayer for the nations, including my own beloved country. "Blessed is the nation whose God is the LORD, the people He has chosen for His inheritance." Psalm 33:12

22 posted on 09/26/2009 6:08:06 AM PDT by Pegita ('Tis so sweet to trust in Jesus, just to take Him at His word ...)
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To: Westbrook

Sad but true.


23 posted on 09/26/2009 6:15:10 AM PDT by exnavy (GOD save the republic)
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To: .44 Special
"Keep your friends close, but keep your enemies closer."

Keep your powder dry and be prepared.

Anyone who jumps the gun will be made example of and discredited in the state controled media.

24 posted on 09/26/2009 6:20:17 AM PDT by exnavy (GOD save the republic)
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To: PA-RIVER

It is hoped that millions of Americans will adopt my tagline.

P.S. Lard works best as it lubricates without running. Makes a great shotshell load, too.

I call it “Muslim Kryptonite”.


25 posted on 09/26/2009 6:27:31 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: .44 Special

“OBAMA ON SUPER TUESDAY: ‘OUR TIME HAS COME’”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/06/AR2008020600199.html?tid=informbox

Stop Islamization of America (SIOA) to protest Muslim prayer at Capitol
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133436

Obama delcares, ‘We are no longer a Christian nation:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmC3IevZiik

Obama makes fun of the Bible
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPIr5qJEtP0:
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$20.3 Million for the Resettlement of Radical Muslims
PRESIDENT OBAMA INVITES HAMAS TERRORISTS TO AMERICA
http://righttruth.typepad.com/right_truth/2009/02/203-million-for-the-resettlement-of-radical-muslims.html
Obama seeks Muslims for White House posts

45 Ivy League grads, Fortune 500 execs,government officials submitted for work in government
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=93251

Obama appoints Muslim to highest level position in Dept of Homeland Security:
http://www.chronwatch-america.com/articles/5583/1/Obama-Appoints-Muslim-to-High-level-Position-in-Department-of-Homeland-Security-/Page1.html
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26 posted on 09/26/2009 6:30:51 AM PDT by patriot08 (TEXAS GAL- born and bred and proud of it!)
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To: Kaslin
”2,000 Muslims gathered for the Jummah Prayer on Capitol Hill”

At first glance I thought this was some sort of homage being paid to Jummah Carter. They do owe him a lot.

27 posted on 09/26/2009 6:31:43 AM PDT by ArchAngel1983 (Arch Angel- on guard)
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To: thethirddegree

All believers in Islam WILL burn in the lake of fire because they will never repent and accept Christ as their Savior, since they hate Jews and Christ was a Jew.


28 posted on 09/26/2009 6:33:56 AM PDT by XenaLee
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To: albie

>>”First, the red flag of China flys side by side with American flag in DC.”<<

Excellent post! Do you have a picture of the CHINESE COMMUNIST flag equal with Old Glory? Would love to see it.

Thanks.......panax


29 posted on 09/26/2009 6:42:28 AM PDT by panaxanax
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To: exnavy

You’d think our national hemorrhoid “Peanut” Carter would have attended, at least he’d be among friends. It would be a case of “Jimmah at the Jummah”.

;^)


30 posted on 09/26/2009 6:43:15 AM PDT by elcid1970 ("O Muslim! My bullets are dipped in pig grease!")
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To: Kaslin

BTTT


31 posted on 09/26/2009 6:54:59 AM PDT by kellynla (Freedom of speech makes it easier to spot the idiots! Semper Fi!)
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To: elcid1970

LOL


32 posted on 09/26/2009 6:58:48 AM PDT by exnavy (GOD save the republic)
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To: Kaslin

“...the White house will become into the the muslim house.”

Pssst—it already HAS become into the muslim house with the US’s muslim in chief.


33 posted on 09/26/2009 6:59:32 AM PDT by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like what you say))
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To: shadeaud
Did they have a permit to assemble?

assemble bombs?

34 posted on 09/26/2009 7:01:37 AM PDT by nascarnation
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To: Kaslin
As someone who has worked with Muslims co-workers for several years, I can tell you emphatically that NO Muslim can be trusted at face value. (that includes our Muslim in chief)

Even the "peaceful" non radical Muslims to a certain degree are infected with this Islamic ideology that their religion is superior to everything and Islam will eventually dominate the world.

I had many, many interesting conversations where I knowing a fair amount of Muslin ideology and philosophy, they were were hard pressed to deny Islam long tern goals. I can also tell you they were very uncomfortable knowing an infidel (sub human) like myself had their number.

35 posted on 09/26/2009 7:17:08 AM PDT by Popman (Am I still a racist if I disgree with Obama white half ???)
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To: Kaslin
Another major organizer of the prayer rally is Manhattan imam Sheihk Ahmed Dewidar, who says Muslims need to project a more moderate image in order to achieve their ultimate goals.

Kind of like liberal Democrats.

36 posted on 09/26/2009 7:41:30 AM PDT by SuziQ
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To: Mean Maryjean

***I am sick to my stomach having seen the picture of a couple thousand jackasses (asses jacked in the air),***

A couple of thousands? Photos? From the MSM?

I’m still waiting for the photos from the MSM of the crowd on 9-12!


37 posted on 09/26/2009 8:01:40 AM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar (That's reicest you dirty rat dog Reicest you! Reicest I say! I gonna cutchu boy!)
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To: Kaslin

Imho, the Muslim world has made some fatal assumptions regarding their plans for “world domination” (I can’t believe I’m even writing that, it sounds like the plot of bad B movie). The Muslim world has watched a gradual expansion and takeover of society in Europe with very little resistance for the most part. Muslims see the US and Europe as very similar, but they are not.

The psychology of the average American and average European is quite different. Besides the obvious liberal worldview of the average European, they have been demoralized and crippled by two world wars on their shores and repeated wars and conflicts throughout the centuries. The educated, wealthy and bourgeoisie Europeans decided to stay and “adjust”. European societies have been conditioned to accept their fate and have found themselves under tyrannical rule countless times. For the most part, they have a reputation of being well educated, civilized and cultured - all good things, but the moral relativism created by the loss of their Christian faith has allowed tyranny a foothold. The militant Muslim population has carefully manipulated this “civility” and respect for the law and equal rights in European society to their advantage. They’ve painted themselves as the victim to gain traction.

The US is another story. The American spirit, on the other hand, is that of the pioneer - fearless and unflinching - quixotic, creative, independent and, some might say, eccentric. Unlike Europe, many of us still cherish our Christian faith and realize the danger of the moral vaccumm created by a secular world.

Inside even the most mild-mannered appearing American beats the heart of a warrior. A little rough, a little untamed, very cunning, creative warrior who sees the world for what it is, and not for what we would like it to be and who has the courage to act. It is in our DNA to question anything that threatens our security, liberty and freedom, especially when it comes in the guise of authority in any form. We understand fickle human nature and routinely rip our own leaders to shreds (figuratively) as a form of sport in an attempt to keep them honest. We do not defer, bow down or worship any leader. Our rights come from God, our direction comes from examining our own conscience and not from the State.

Imho, the radical Muslim world has taken on the wrong enemy.

Sorry for the long rant - I’m usually quite brief.:)


38 posted on 09/26/2009 9:08:41 AM PDT by khnyny
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To: Mean Maryjean; PubliusMM; Westbrook; .44 Special
What specifically can be done to stop the Islamic virus in these United States?
39 posted on 09/26/2009 1:45:29 PM PDT by Jacquerie (Islam is a barbaric social and political system in religious drag.)
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To: Jacquerie

Eliminate political correctness. They count on people not being willing to speak out for fear of being labeled “haters”.


40 posted on 09/26/2009 1:49:05 PM PDT by PapaBear3625 (Public healthcare looks like it will work as well as public housing did.)
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