Was this an insurrection on US Capitol grounds?

Not according to Capitol Police, who issued the permit. On Friday September 25, 2009, an estimated 3,500 Muslims from around the country gathered on the lawn at the foot of the U.S. Capitol to “pray for the soul of America.” 

Barack Obama was in office.

The event, organized by Hassen Abdellah, a criminal defense lawyer of the Dar-ul-Islam mosque in Elizabeth, NJ, was reported by mainstream media as the first-ever “Islam on Capitol Hill” prayer rally.

Abdellah, as an attorney, represented a number of confessed and convicted terrorists including Mahmoud Abouhalima, who was sentenced to 240 years in prison for roles in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing attack and another who sold fake identification documents to the 9/11 hijackers.

Fox News reported:

At one point, Abdellah, adopting a sarcastic tone, told the crowd: “Look at all these terrorists!” In his remarks and others’, a recurring theme was affronted astonishment that anyone would express suspicion of, or protest against, people of faith gathering at the Capitol simply to pray en masse.

Abdul Malik, a speaker, made it clear Islam would seek to make converts out of Americans.

“America, I announce to you, it is my intention to invite your children to the worship of one God,” he said. “It is my intention to remove every idol from every place — nothing physical. It is a confrontation of ideas, because, brothers and sisters, the most powerful weapon you have in your hand … is truth.”

The day before, Tony Perkins, president of the Family Research Council, said on a conference call by Christian leaders everyone has a right to gather in the nation’s capital, but he and others are concerned about the focus of the Muslim prayers.

Perkins asked, “Are they praying for the wellbeing of our nation? There’s been a lot of silence in the Islamic community when America and Americans have been attacked by acts of terror from the Muslim community. We would hope that we would hear from the Muslim community that these acts of terror are not going to be tolerated, and denounce them.”

Fox News also reported:

Other attacks the signatories (Family Research Council) called on Abdellah to denounce, in addition to 9/11, included the March 2002 Park Hotel bombing in Netanya, Israel, which killed 30 people and injured 140 others; the October 2002 Bali hotel bombing that killed 202 people; the plot to attack Fort Dix, disrupted by U.S. officials in May 2007; and the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, in which 173 people were killed.

Perkins further called on Christians to evangelize the Muslim community and to pray for their eyes to be opened to the truth.

“That’s the only thing that’s going to stop radical Islam — the love of Jesus Christ and the Gospel that sets people free,” he said.

During his presidency, Barack Obama publically stated “whatever we once were, we are no longer a Christian nation — at least, not just.”

The United States has observed many unofficial national days of prayer throughout its history until 1952, when President Harry S. Truman signed a bill proclaiming a National Day of Prayer (“on which the people of the United States may turn to God in prayer and meditation at churches, in groups, and as individuals”).

This bill did not establish a specific calendar date for the event, but left it up to each president to designate a date of his choosing.

In 1988, President Ronald Reagan fixed the date of the National Day of Prayer as the first Thursday of May.

It was April 16, 2010 that Barack Obama, based on a decision by a liberal Wisconsin judge, decided that there not be a “National Day of Prayer” held in May.

Although he said the reason for this was because he doesn’t want to offend anybody, millions of Americans called him out.

Attorneys with the Christian legal firm Alliance Defense Fund  urged Obama to appeal the decision.

ADF Senior Legal Counsel Joel Oster argued that the national prayer day is “America’s heritage” and “belongs to Americans.”

“The National Day of Prayer provides an opportunity for all Americans to pray voluntarily according to their own faith – and does not promote any particular religion or form of religious observance,” Oster contended. “It does not violate the Establishment Clause of the First Amendment, and this decision should be appealed.”

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