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Muslims observe day of prayer in Washington
CNN ^ | 9-25-09

Posted on 09/25/2009 6:49:32 PM PDT by Justaham

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Thousands of Muslims gathered Friday on Capitol Hill for a day of prayer that organizers said was intended to inspire American Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

"But I will say something it took me my whole adult life to come to: America is not perfect, but I want to tell the truth: It is one of the best places in the world to live."

Organizers had hoped that 50,000 people would show up for the Friday afternoon prayer session, which took place at the foot of the U.S. Capitol.

There were also anti-Muslim protesters near the event.

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1 posted on 09/25/2009 6:49:32 PM PDT by Justaham
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"But I will say something it took me my whole adult life to come to: America is not perfect, but I want to tell the truth: It is one of the best places in the world to live."

And now I want to turn it into the islamic cesspool I just left...

2 posted on 09/25/2009 6:52:09 PM PDT by 2banana (My common ground with terrorists - they want to die for islam and we want to kill them)
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To: Justaham

Thousands? Yep. A whopping 2000, tops.


3 posted on 09/25/2009 6:53:10 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Justaham
Organizers had hoped that 50,000 people would show up...

LOL, CNN. Instead of the few hundred that actually showed up, right?

Yet they stared at over a million 9/12 protesters and called it a few thousand - when they bothered to report it at all.

Traitorous MSM scum.

4 posted on 09/25/2009 6:53:27 PM PDT by Talisker (When you find a turtle on top of a fence post, you can be damn sure it didn't get there on it's own.)
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To: Justaham

That’s sweet.

Taking a break between attempted suicide attempts.


5 posted on 09/25/2009 6:58:21 PM PDT by Red in Blue PA (If guns cause crime, then all of mine are defective!)
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To: buccaneer81; TaraP

BWAAAA-HAAA-HAA! 2K and the loser media said 50K were coming?

I started praying at 5am, Central. It worked! :)


6 posted on 09/25/2009 6:58:37 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (Save The Earth. It's The Only Planet With Chocolate.)
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To: Justaham
was intended to inspire American Muslims and non-Muslims alike.

It inspired me to buy some of this.

7 posted on 09/25/2009 7:02:48 PM PDT by Mr. Mojo
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

LOL!


8 posted on 09/25/2009 7:04:17 PM PDT by buccaneer81 (ECOMCON)
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To: Justaham

Picture #1... If that’s the best they can do, it looks
like maybe a couple hundred showed up.

Picture #2... The little white hats and the kaftans do
not resemble the crowd wardrobe in picture #1. I think
it is a stock photo from another country or event.

Picture #3... Could have been taken at the same event
as Picture #2, but I have my doubts it was taken in D.C.

— My Opinion —


9 posted on 09/25/2009 7:04:57 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Justaham
"The beautiful thing ... about this, is that we have a good representation of the uniqueness and beauty of what Islam stands for."

Goats on the Capitol lawn?

10 posted on 09/25/2009 7:05:51 PM PDT by norton
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
I started praying at 5am, Central. It worked! :)

God says,"If My people who are called by My name will humble themselves and pray and seek My face and change their wicked ways, then will I hear from heaven and will forgive them and heal their land." 2 Chronicles 7:14

The answer for American begins on bended knee.

Blessed is the nation whose God is the Lord.

11 posted on 09/25/2009 7:07:52 PM PDT by stars & stripes forever ( Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness)
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To: Jo Nuvark

“Picture #2... The little white hats and the kaftans do
not resemble the crowd wardrobe in picture #1. I think
it is a stock photo from another country or event.

Picture #3... Could have been taken at the same event
as Picture #2, but I have my doubts it was taken in D.C....”

I agree with you Jo. They look like they were taken at some other event other than at DC. The State Run Media really does suck.


12 posted on 09/25/2009 7:14:24 PM PDT by lgjhn23
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To: Mr. Mojo

LOL!


13 posted on 09/25/2009 7:19:05 PM PDT by NRA2BFree (THE ONLY ASTROTURF IN CONGRESS IS FOUND BETWEEN NANCY PELOSI'S EARS!!)
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To: Justaham

But but but ... Don’t I remember this:

Barack Hussein Obama: US “one of the largest Muslim countries in the world”

June 3rd, 2009

It is important to note that “if you actually took the number of Muslim Americans, we’d be one of the largest Muslim countries in the world”.

So says President Barack Obama. Or I should say: Barack Hussein Obama.

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/tobyharnden/9959057/Barack_Hussein_Obama_US_one_of_the_largest_Muslim_countries_in_the_world/


14 posted on 09/25/2009 7:32:08 PM PDT by Bhoy
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To: stars & stripes forever
On the Sunday after 9/11/2001, that verse from 2Chronicles verse was attached to a little American flag and placed in the mail slot of each member of our small Lutheran (LCMS) church..

It has become one of my most treasured of God's promises!

15 posted on 09/25/2009 7:38:58 PM PDT by milagro
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To: Justaham
Organizers had hoped that 50,000 people would show up for the Friday afternoon prayer session, which took place at the foot of the U.S. Capitol.

Well it would seem, CNN, that if you have a line that clearly states that the 50,000 goal was not achieved it would seem incumbent upon you to qualify an estimate of how many were there. I know you mentioned thousands in the opening line but needless to say that be it 2,000 or 50,000, both figures qualify as thousands. And what's with the tight framing of the three photos attached to the article? We know the answers.

16 posted on 09/25/2009 7:39:09 PM PDT by torchthemummy (No Obama: Not Because He's Black But Because He's Red)
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To: buccaneer81

......................Thousands? Yep. A whopping 2000, tops.
........................

That’s a real shame.

Could’a been a real target rich environment!!


17 posted on 09/25/2009 7:47:46 PM PDT by aShepard
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To: Justaham

NINES of Muslims gathered together for prayer.


18 posted on 09/25/2009 7:48:27 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (RATs, nothing more than bald haired hippies.)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin

Up all night with IHOP-KC and Lou Engle.

I’d like to think there really WERE 50,000 Muslims planning to attend, and all but the couple’a three thousand that actually showed up had overnight dreams, revelations and encounters with the Risen Christ that kept them home.

Keep praying for them all, the “sword” was obviously turned back, but their end-game will not change unless their hearts are transformed, and no media campaign will accomplish that; it’s going to have to be a Living God thing.


19 posted on 09/25/2009 7:55:57 PM PDT by HKMk23 (In the end, life contains only one tragedy: not to have been a saint.)
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To: Justaham

That’s fine....as long as they don’t blow anything or themselves up.


20 posted on 09/25/2009 7:57:09 PM PDT by Dallas59
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