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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: lorne who wrote (71732)	9/9/2009 4:21:12 PM
From: Kenneth E. Phillipps	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 224729

It's because Dems want him to be more aggressive.

To: lorne who wrote (71732)	9/9/2009 7:00:17 PM
From: lorne	1 Recommendation Respond to of 224729

Will the USA go the same way as britain...IMO no longer GREAT BRITAIN...and other of Europe's countries and bow to islam?? obama said America is a moslum country. Guess ya cant blame islam for taking advantage of a friend in the White House New Jersey mosque organizes national prayer gathering Thursday, September 3, 2009 BY JEFF DIAMANT The Record THE STAR-LEDGER northjersey.com A mosque in Elizabeth, Dar-ul-Islam, is spearheading a national prayer gathering in Washington that organizers are billing as the first event of its kind — organized prayer for tens of thousands of Muslims outside the U.S. Capitol. The event will not include political speeches or placards, just prayer, said Hassen Abdellah, president of Dar-ul-Islam and a main organizer of the event, which is scheduled for Sept. 25. "Most of the time, when Muslims go to Washington D.C., they go there to protest some type of event," Abdellah said. "This is not a protest. Never has the Islamic community prayed on Capitol Hill for the soul of America. We're Americans. We need to change the face of Islam so people don't feel every Muslim believes America is 'the great Satan,' because we love Amer-ica." A permit from the Capitol Hill police, granted July 28, allows access to the area by the west front of the Capitol from 4 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sept. 25, but the main gathering will occur at 1 p.m., for the Friday prayer service. Abdellah said he expects 50,000 people to attend from mosques around the country, though non-Muslims are welcome, too. About 400 people are expected from his own mosque, which is raising money from donors to help pay the cost of the event, expected to surpass $200,000. The gathering will occur by the site where presidents have been inaugurated since 1981. In fact, 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, Abdellah said. "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, but in the sense of being welcome and acknowledging we are integral citizens in the society — that we're gainfully employed, we're educated."