D.L. Adams, president of Stop Islamization of America (SIOA), has responded to accusations that bringing dogs, donkeys and women ( ! ) to the Capitol mall on Friday to interfere with the prayer event are extreme provocations:

Because the Arutz Sheva article picked up on some of SIOA’s creative brainstorming posts to use humor and a bit of theatrics involving the things that are thought to disrupt prayer for Muslims – dogs, donkeys and women – some are already calling this loving group of people “extreme”.

I take the opposite viewpoint and contend that drawing attention to the Muslim belief that ”dogs, donkeys, women” (and don’t forget breaking wind) are the things that interfere with their prayers being received, rather than spiritual matters like insincerity of heart, highlights the essential materialism of this so-called religion.

Also of note, one of the SIOA speakers at their ‘counter event’ at the US Capitol will be Christine Brim, who collaborated with the Belgian far-right Vlaams Belang (VB) party to organize the 2007 CounterJihad Europa Conference in Brussels.

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As reported by the Likudnik-leaning Israel National News, SIOA describes themselves in turgid language drawn right from the fever swamps inhabited by US right-wing extremists and hard-core Israeli settler supporters.

The organizers call themselves “scholar warriors/ideological warriors in the cause of American freedom and Constitutional government,” as well as in “the defense of… our society of liberty, knowledge, and human decency.”

The “scholar warriors” are planning to conclude their event with a “saunter” around the Capitol.

The SIOA’s own event is planned to conclude with a “saunter” around the streets of Washington DC, on the day of the Muslim prayer rally, in order to “engage in conversations with our fellow citizens who might happen to be there on the same day on matters of moment.” However, more confrontationally, the SIOA website calls for “every protest of this takiya-jihad-dawa event… [to] include some component of donkey, dog, and women.” The reason for this unusual suggestion is made clear on the SIOA site as well: Muslim doctrine, according to the SIOA, says that “Islamic prayer is nullified if a dog, a woman, or a donkey are present.”

As an aside: Is anyone reading this planning on attending? I have suspicions that the NJ mosque is making optimistic estimates of attendance (50,000). I’m not getting a clear sense of why Muslims would be so motivated to travel from all over the country for a project that has such vague goals. The mosque claims the cost of the event will surpass $200,000, and that they are collecting money from donors to cover it.

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