Incidentally, it’s only a matter of time before Charles gets labeled an anti-Semite. Any wagers on when?

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I need your help.

The White House wasn’t painted black as a result of last Friday’s Islamic Prayer Event, but something much more terrible happened. Their prayers turned me Muslim. Worse yet, I’m one of those wimpy kind of Muslims, the kind who think compassion is the answer to everything. They’re like those damned beatitudes-preaching Episcopalians except they pray more.

It’s all about the Five Pillars to them: submit to God, help the poor, pray five times a day, fast for a month, and make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once. I don’t get to do any of the really cool things like the more Southern-Baptist-like radical Muslims do. No waging war on non-believers. No stoning the Gay or beating immodest women. No hating at all. I might as well be a Unitarian.

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Their names were likely used because it could be expected that their announced presence would draw attention and raise awareness.

The only recognizable name on the list is Martin Mawyer, founder of the Christian Action Network.

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Rifqa Bary made a surprise appearance last night at the national prayer/conference call held by the Christianists opposed to the ‘Jummah on the Hill’ event.

Kyle describes:

At the beginning of the clip, Lou Engle is told by one of the other participants that “their little sister” is on the line, at which point Engle introduces Rifqa Bary to the conference call participants and asks her to share her story. Bary, sounding like a somewhat nervous but otherwise perfectly average teenager, recounts her conversion to Christianity and her decision to flee from the home of her Muslim parents in Ohio. Following that, Engle declared Bary to be “an Esther for such a time as this” and asks her to lead the call in prayer, which she agrees to do, at which point she becomes seemingly hysterical and rather incoherent while sobbing and praying, making it nearly impossible to understand what she is saying outside of her repeated cries to Jesus.

And then, just like that, she stops, seemingly catching the other participants off guard until Engle then chimes in with his own fervent prayers to God to “use Rifqa to be an Esther.” Soon Engle is joined by various others, all of whom pray for this modern day Esther who will lead Muslims out of Islam and into Christianity while asking God to spread Rifqa’s “so that the testimony of Jesus will go out to CNN, will go out to talk shows and use this little story so that all across America the Gospel will be preached” and to “expose the hidden darkness that is rolling into the nation through these ideologies.”

Eventually, Engle unmutes the conference call’s participants and asks them all to pray for Rifqa, at which point the call the descends into little more than chaos and static.

Listen here.

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No new information, except this:

Jihad Sileh, a spokesman for the Congressional Muslim Staffers Association, said his group’s regularly scheduled midday prayer service is at 12:30 p.m., so it won’t be an official part of the prayer event. The congressional association is also sponsoring a 1 p.m. prayer service for the Congressional Black Caucus at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, so many staffers will not have time to head over to the Capitol for outdoor prayers.

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