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> Muslim prayers to surround U.S. Capitol By Julia Duin >on Sept. 3, 2009 into Belief Blog >Subscribe On Sept. 25, Dar ul Islam, a mosque in >Elizabeth, N.J., is slating a massive Friday "jummah" >prayer event at the west front of the U.S. Capitol; on >the very site that President Obama gave his >inauguration speech not so long ago. This is not a >joke. Click on this site and the strains of the >sonorous Islamic call to prayer (which will be heard >at the Capitol, I am guessing), will flow from your >computer's loudspeakers. The mid-day summons to Allah >will echo amongst Washington's most august monuments, >the site says "for the sole purpose of prayer." And >"the peace, beauty and solidarity of Islam will shine >through the America's capital." > > Solidarity? America's Muslims have such on-and-off >mosque attendance statistics, it's impossible to get a >realistic count of how many of them there are in this >country. Methinks a lot of other religious groups >aren't going to be happy about this jummah rally. "A >Day of Islamic Unity," the event is called. Well, I >guess if Louis Farrakhan could preach from the same >spot during the Million Man March nearly 14 years ago, >so can these folks. They're talking about reserving >500 buses and talking about 50,000 attendees, so this >could be one big clump of folks who head for lunch at >Union Station afterward. > > The Star-Ledger in Newark came out with the story >about all this on Thursday. The idea, according to >organizers, is to celebrate Muslims already being an >integral part of American society. > > Well, if you can have giant menorahs on the White >House lawn each December, you can have Muslims praying >about one-quarter mile to the north. So if Islamic >muezzins will chant out the "adhan," the call to >worship, to folks kneeling on prayer rugs on the west >front lawn, does that make the Capitol dome a minaret?

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