By Gina Dalfonzo|Published Date: September 25, 2009
Thousands of Muslims are gathering to pray in Washington, D.C., today, in an event called "Islam on Capitol Hill." The event's website proclaims, "The objective of this gathering is to invite the Muslim Communities and friends of Islam to express and illustrate the wonderful diversity of Islam." However, a closer look at some of the leaders of the movement suggests that that may not be all there is to it. Human Events reports:
According to a transcript provided by the Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI), [Sheikh Ahmed Dewidar] recalled that “in 1995, I heard some sermons, saying that Muslims should march on the White House from some of the mosques.” He recounted that “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…the Muslim house.’”
Dewidar explained that this cleric meant that “through the domination of Islam and its ideas, the White House will change.” He said that this wouldn’t happen, however, “unless the Muslims abandon their slogans and become a role model.” He criticized Muslim spokesmen who engage in “patronizing, condescending rhetoric that ‘Islam is coming, and it will change the face of the earth,’ while at the same time he cannot even change the face of the Islamic capitals, which overflow with garbage.”
At first glance this seems like a sober call for responsibility, but note well that Dewidar did not take any issue with the idea that the White House would become the “Muslim House” through the “domination of Islam.”
Dewidar has also claimed, "The Zionist community numbers only 3 million, but they control the government, the politics, the economy, and the media in the U.S."
Read more here about the organizers of the march, and some Christians' reactions to it.
We are very excited about all the great commenting that goes on The BreakPoint blog. It is growing and more people are getting engaged. Only one hitch -- it is pretty much "among Christians."
I'd like to invite you (even those have not commented here yet) to go out to the front lines with us -- to the Colson Center YouTube channel. Click below to find out why.
Eric Metaxas, who for two years was a member of the BreakPoint writing staff, was the guest speaker at this year's National Prayer Breakfast, held a few days ago at the Hilton in D.C. See him pictured here, making President Obama laugh. But after the jokes, Eric gently spoke truth to power regarding abortion, just as Mother Teresa did some years ago when she spoke at the National Prayer Breakfast.
In another case, a 15-year-old Wisconsin student was threatened and verbally abused by school superintendent of Shawano High School for writing an op-ed in opposion to gay adoption. Ironically, the article was a school assignment.
Five or six years ago Focus on the Family released “The Truth Project” DVD series, and I went through it as a discussion leader of a small group. I haven’t looked at it since, so when a friend of mine said a group was going to go through it and invited me, I agreed. I thought it would be good to refresh what I learned from the DVDs and maybe learn some new things I missed the last time.
What a sad statement about the growing culture of death in the Netherlands: Advocates for euthanasia and assisted suicide are celebrating a decade of their legality by hosting a weeklong film festival called the "Week of Euthanasia."
Sadly, after getting their foot in the proverbial door, the advocates continually redefine the criteria for which people "request," voluntarily or involuntarily, suicide. READ FULL ARTICLE »
