A Muslim prayer gathering on Capitol Hill on Friday was attended by maybe a tenth of the 50,000 people organizers were expecting. The event's PR was even less successful than its attendance, with conservative media outlets claiming that the event's two main organizers had a history of defending terrorism, making anti-Semitic comments, and expressing anti-American views.

Specifically, Hassen Abdellah, one of the main organizers, was known as the "most aggressively combative" lawyer on behalf of Muslim terrorists who attacked the World Trade Center in 1993, and another convicted of aiding...












Religion and Politics Mix at Islam Rally on Captiol Hill