50,000 Moslems Plan Giant Mosque on Capitol Hill, USA

Ron Ross
Bridges for Peace News
Email: ronrossbfp@hotmail.com

September, 2009

The name of the website is islamoncapitolhill.com. It forecasts 50,000 Moslems will assemble in the same location where US presidents swear on the Bible and are inaugurated.

The website declares ‘Our Time Has Come!”

The host mosque is in Elizabeth, Dar-ul-Islam. They are billing the prayer gathering as the first event of its kind. A permit was granted by Capitol Hill police on July 28.

The organizers believe they can create a giant outdoor mosque. The Jummah service – weekly Friday prayers – will be the feature.

“Thousands of Muslims from all races, creeds, colors and ethnicities will gather for the sole purpose of prayer,” the organizers’ website states, and “the peace, beauty and solidarity of Islam will shine through America's capitol.”

The website is headlined by the red, white and blue US flag and an inset of a brown hand shaking  the hand of one symbolizing the US. “Islam & America” it reads.

The announcement goes on to say:  “The Athan will be chanted on Capitol Hill, echoing off of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and other great edifices that surround Capitol Hill

“Thousands of Muslims from all races, creeds, colors and ethnicities will gather for the sole purpose of prayer

“Bonds of friendship will be formed between those in attendance, both Muslims and Non-Muslims

“Muslim youth will experience tours of the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court.”

Interesting to read the Wikipedia comment on ‘athan’ (or ‘adhan’):

“The adhan sums up the teachings of Islam. In the Qur'an and the sunnah there are four fundamentals on which the entire superstructure of Islam rests:

“(a) Belief in the oneness of Allah and in the fact that there is no Power greater than Him

(b) he alone is the Creator and the Master of the universe and no one other can claim share in His Godhood of sovereignty

(c) Muhammad is the final dispenser of the Will of Allah and it is his words and deeds that His will find expression

(d) it is not the material utility that determines the value of things or acts in Islam but their spiritual significance - thus salvation in Islam lies in the purification of the soul which can be achieved only by willing and conscious obedience to the Commands of Allah, and prayer is the most important of that obedience;

(e) the highest aim of the life of a Muslim is to live a life of a eternal bliss.” (Wikipedia)



The organizers have commenced fundraising to reach the estimated $200,000 needed for a successful event.