
Originally Posted by
Debray
I just received this and want to pass it on, our school kids may be getting a day off if Obama supports this Muslim Day of Prayer, or will he have them stay in school and join in.
Maybe aother TV blitz and he will lead them in Muslim prayer.
September 24, 2009
Dear Chuck,
The Islamic community hopes to have 50,000 Muslims surrounding
the U.S. Capitol for Jummah prayer this Friday, September 25.
While all people are of course free in America to pray according
to the dictates of their own conscience, a look at the leaders of this
prayer event raises serious questions about whether this event is good for
America.
The main organizer of the event, Hassen Ibn Abdellah, was,
according to the New York Times, the "most aggressively combative of the
lawyers" representing the terrorists who staged the 1993 World Trade Center
bombing. His client was convicted of manufacturing and transporting the bomb
and is now in the "Supermax" prison at Florence, Colorado.
In 2004, he tried to get Numan Maflahi off the hook. Maflahi is
a New Jersey Muslim who was sentenced to five years in prison for his part
in terrorism financing schemes centered in Brooklyn.
In 2007, Abdellah came to the defense of Mahmud Faruq Brent, a
Baltimore cabdriver who pled guilty to attending a jihad terrorist training
camp in Pakistan, and who, under Abdellah's instructions, refused to
cooperate with authorities or testify against other defendants.
The imam who will lead the recitation of the Koran, Sheikh Ahmed
Dewidar, is a Manhattan cleric who once said that "through the domination of
Islam and its ideas, the White House will change," and spoke approvingly of
another cleric who said that one day "the White House will become...the
Muslim House."
He has also claimed that Zionists "control the government, the
politics, the economy, and the media in the U.S."
In other words, this Islamic prayer event is being led by men
who harbor both anti-Semitic and fundamentally anti-America views.
President Barack Obama has barely acknowledged the Christian
heritage of the United States, refusing to participate in the National Day
of Prayer and issuing only a perfunctory proclamation which he was required
to do by law. Yet he has hosted a dinner celebrating what he called "the
Holy Month of Ramadan" in the White House, and recently issued a
proclamation at the end of Ramadan which concluded with an Arabic blessing.
Will he support the Muslim Day of Prayer?