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Militant Islam Monitor > Articles > Obama Cairo Blowback - New Jersey Muslims Organize Massive Da'wa Event On Capitol Hill Obama Cairo Blowback - New Jersey Muslims Organize Massive Da'wa Event On Capitol HillSeptember 7, 2009
Obama Cairo Blowback - New Jersey Muslims Organize Massive Da'wa Event On Capitol Hill By BEILA RABINOWITZ September 7, 2009 - San Francisco, CA - PipeLineNews.org - On September 25 a movement calling itself "Islam on Capitol Hill" will stage a massive Jummah [Friday] prayer event outside the Capitol Building in Washington, D.C., as " a day of Islamic unity" under the motto " Our Time Has Come." The organizers expect 50,000 Muslims, according to their website:
"The objective of this gathering is to invite the Muslim Communities and friends of Islam to express and illustrate the wonderful diversity of Islam. We intend to manifest Islam's majestic spiritual principals as revealed by Allah to our beloved prophet Muhammad (PEACE BE UPON HIM) of Arabia. Likewise; we intend to inspire a new generation of Muslim to work for the greater good of all people. We shall serve all people, regardless of race, religion or national origin." [source, http://islamoncapitolhill.com/Home_Page.html] The prayer session is primarily being organized by Hassen Abdellah, president of Dar-ul-Islam, a New Jersey mosque, who states his intent to, "expose Americans to how Muslims pray." [source, http://www.nj.com/news/ledger/jersey/index.ssf?/base/news-14/1251729908173130.xml&coll=1] This is the first time that Muslims have organized such an event and if the thousands of Muslims show up as expected it will be the largest da'wa [Islamic conversion] exercise in history, with Abdellah claiming that the event was inspired by president Obama's Cairo speech, "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,...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..." Abdellah is also president of Muslim Brothers Movement Inc., [see, http://www.elizabethnj.org/2008_abdellah.html] http://www.pipelinenews.org/index.cfm?page=darulislam9.7.09%2Ehtm MIM: From the Islam on Capitol Hill homepage. ISLAM ON CAPITOL HILL 2009 IN THE NAME OF ALLAH "The objective of this gathering is to invite the Muslim Communities and friends of Islam to express and illustrate the wonderful diversity of Islam. We intend to manifest Islam's majestic spiritual principals as revealed by Allah to our beloved prophet Muhammad (PEACE BE UPON HIM) of Arabia. Likewise; we intend to inspire a new generation of Muslim to work for the greater good of all people. We shall serve all people, regardless of race, religion or national origin."
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September 25 ,2009 Jummah Prayer On Capitol Hill 50,000 believers in the Greatness of Allah praying for the greater good of all people. *No Fee Associated With This Event *Open To The General Public |