Storming the Gates in Washington, D.C. - Part 2 - Operation Rescue/Operation Save America

WOW, just returned from Washington DC. About thirty saints from Operation Save America and other concerned preacher boys from around the nation showed up at the Islamic "prayer" gathering at our nation's capitol. The organizers of this event touted 50 thousand Muslims would descend on Washington DC to declare, "There is no God but Allah, and his prophet is Mohammed." The actual number was somewhere between 4-7 thousand.

Regardless of the number, Christians had a twofold responsibility in response to this unprecedented event in America. First, we lifted high the name of Jesus and declared to their deceived souls that there was salvation in no other name. Jesus is the way, the truth, the life, and no man comes to the Father, but by Him. We loved them enough to tell them "Allah is a false god and Mohammed is a false prophet." They cannot save your souls. Jesus said that we would know them by their fruit. The fruit of Islam, despite their many denials, are slavery, death, and tyranny.

Secondly, we came to expose the dualism of Islam. When weak in a nation, they promote the "religion of peace." If they gain strength and numbers, their strategy shifts to the more dangerous aspects of Islam, which is political, ideological, and militaristic. We must remember that Mohammed failed as a "preacher." He failed to convert people based upon his brand of religious appeal. He was extremely successful, however, when he became a political, military warrior spreading his Jihad of terror throughout the world. Once he gained control of a region, the "koffer" (unbeliever, infidel) had three choices in response to Islam's conquest. You can covert, become their Dhimmi (slave) or die. We unashamedly declared, "You will not do to this nation, what you have done to other nations of the earth--over our dead bodies."

We had many amazing opportunities to preach, witness, and pray. Not so shocking, our greatest resistance came not from the Muslims, but from our own government and fellow Christians who were their promoting their "seeker-friendly, friendship evangelism." It was the Christians who were offended by our display of the Ten Commandments and the large crosses, which we presented as the righteous foundation of America. Perhaps, they forgot it was this foundation that made America great and free. It provided the freedom of religion that afforded people of other faiths asylum to worship here unmolested.

The naiveté demonstrated by our fellow brethren was frightening. When a "religion of domination" meets a "religion of niceness," what do we think will be the outcome of such nonsense?

There are two special instances that took place that are worthy of mention. First, we started preaching with bull horns. This, in and of itself, brought massive police presence. They moved us four times and threatened us with arrest on several occasions. Finally, we set up across the street and set up our sound system. At one point, God's word went forth through the Muslim crowd, overriding their sound system, and reached some special folks who were literally on the other side of our nation's capitol.

Later, we found out that they heard a "voice" of what they designated as "John the Baptist." They followed the "voice" to where we were set up. These precious folks that came consisted of a couple from IL and an African Pastor. When they came into our midst for no apparent reason we all started to weep. Enveloped in the presence of God, we began to dialogue. Come to find out the African pastor carried in his body the wounds of Islamic torture. We held each other and prayed. It was a glorious experience as he encouraged us greatly in our stand against this potential danger in America.

Lastly, at the end of our outreach, two more foreigners came into our midst. They were two German Christians who said they were sent by the Lord to our nation's capitol for two specific reasons. Number one, they came to thank America for our brave sacrifice in delivering their nation from the evil of Hitler and restoring their nation back to their calling before God. Secondly, they came to pray for our nation at this critical juncture in our nation's history. They believe the same conditions that preceded the rise of Hitler in their nation is happening in America today. As far as we were concerned, this was God's gift to us as we stood for His name, honor, and truth at a time our nation was being corrupted from within and threatened from without. By the way, the only encouragement we received by being there came from foreigners. Most of them wept as they thanked us for our stand in this evil day.

P.S. Please pray for a young man named Matthew. I had a divine appointment with him on my plane ride home. He was raised Baptist and went to a Baptist boarding home. He said he was repeatedly beaten in the name of God. Whether that was true or not, I have no way of telling. One thing for sure he hated God and the church. His aversion was so great, he told me that he paid to go to Greece to specifically urinate on the place where the Apostle Paul preached the Gospel to the Athenians.

As I ministered and he cursed, at one crucial point, he asked me a pointed question, "Are you telling me, if I refuse to accept Christ as Lord of my life, I will be lost forever?" I told him that was exactly what I am saying. He said, "If you said that 10 years prior, we would be fighting by now." I responded to him and said Matthew, "look out the window." When he did, right next to the plane in the midst of the clouds was a brilliant rainbow. He called me an SOB and began to laugh. He said, "Noah." I declared that was much more than for Noah. It was a sign of God's covenantal faithfulness. You may have abandoned God, but that does not mean that God has abandoned you. He told me that this would probably stick in his mind for some time to come. All I can say is may it lead him back home to the Great Shepherd who came once again to rescue His lost lamb.

The following was an article published in Fox News about our time in DC. Enjoy!

Several thousand Muslims convened on the Capitol grounds for a peaceable day of prayer Friday, voicing their religious fervor and solidarity with American values while ignoring scattered protesters of other faiths.

"Allah Akbar!" shouted the sea of worshippers in flowing white and gold robes and headwear, following a mid-afternoon recital from the Koran. The estimated 8,000 in attendance chanted and used carpets, blankets, jackets, and plastic tarp as the traditional ground cover on which they knelt in prayer. A sermon afterward urged all Muslims to "God bless America" and avoid the "trap" of hating anyone, particularly Christians and Jews.

The crowd in attendance on the West Front of the U.S. Capitol Building was comprised predominantly of people of color and men, with females seated separately. They arrived from disparate points across the country, mostly the East Coast, to take part in what organizers billed as "Jummah Prayer on Capitol Hill: A Day of Islamic Unity." In Arabic, "Jummah" refers to a day of gathering, usually traditional Friday prayers.

No arrests or disturbances of any kind could be seen in several hours of observing the event. Asked if any such incidents had occurred, a law enforcement official on site who declined to provide her name said, "Only what you see."

At remote locations, distanced far away from the proceedings and under the watchful eyes of uniformed and plainclothes Capitol Police, scattered groups of Christians used microphones and public address systems to voice their displeasure with the Muslim event.

One such group, whose members displayed two oversized tablets similar to those seen in Biblical depictions of the Ten Commandments, called itself "Operation Save America" and distributed pamphlets saying: "Abortion is Murder!! Homosexuality is Sin!! Islam is a Lie!!"

The organizer of the Muslim event, Hassen Abdellah, a criminal defense lawyer from Elizabeth, New Jersey, urged the Christian groups to "show respect" and not disrupt the Muslim worship service. But the din of the Christians' rally chants, amplified over their portable public address systems, could still be heard while an aged Muslim cleric led the thousands of Muslims in prayer.

At one point, Abdellah, adopting a sarcastic tone, told the crowd: "Look at all these terrorists!" In his remarks and others', a recurring theme was affronted astonishment that anyone would express suspicion of, or protest against, people of faith gathering at the Capitol simply to pray en masse.

"The idea [behind the event] is to express and illustrate the beautiful diversity in Islam, the spirituality in Islam, the humanity in Islam," he told FOX News in an interview Thursday.

"Americans have been asking and requesting and calling out for Muslims to come out who renounce the violence, who renounce the criminality and the hijacking of the religion," he said. "And we believed that if we started a grassroots movement, Muslims would appear and show up in tens [of thousands] and droves, because the majority of Muslims in America love this country."

An open letter signed by 19 activists, mostly conservative Christians and including Tony Perkins, head of the Family Research Council, was circulated in the days prior to the Muslim day of prayer. It called on Abdellah and other organizers to "unequivocally denounce" specific terrorist acts and plots of recent years, starting with the Sept. 11 attacks.

"[W]e note," said the signatories, that "the overwhelming number of terrorist acts are carried out by Muslims, that many Muslim-American groups have terrorist ties and that justification for acts of violence against 'infidels' is found in the Koran."

Other attacks the signatories called on Abdellah to denounce, in addition to 9/11, included the March 2002 Park Hotel bombing in Netanya, Israel, which killed 30 people and injured 140 others; the October 2002 Bali hotel bombing that killed 202 people; the plot to attack Fort Dix, disrupted by U.S. officials in May 2007; and the November 2008 attacks in Mumbai, India, in which 173 people were killed.

Abdellah had not seen the letter until a FOX News reporter showed it to him during Thursday's interview. Asked for his response, Abdellah said: "Muslims, individually and collectively, repudiate these acts, but I don't think tomorrow is the place for us to repudiate specific acts. Tomorrow is about our faith; it's not about politics. Because if we involve politics in the Jummah prayer, then what we'll do is only bring on other controversies. We're trying to bring people together."

A former Union City, New Jersey prosecutor, Abdellah in private practice has represented a number of confessed and convicted terrorists. They include one who took part in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing and another who sold fake identification documents to the 9/11 hijackers. Asked if this background made him a poor evangelist to spread a message of Muslim solidarity with America, Abdellah disagreed, saying such logic would preclude an attorney who has represented drug dealers from taking part in anti-drug events.

Still, not all sentiments expressed at the Capitol event were unqualifiedly pacifist or positive. One speaker addressed news media present and said, "Some of you can be friendly, but you can also be vicious." The same speaker, who could not immediately be identified, also chastised Oprah Winfrey for promoting actresses who make money by "baring their bodies," and said such activities encourage the establishment of prostitution rings like the one that brought down former New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.

There was also no denying that the day of prayer attracted some individuals and groups fanatical in their hatred of Muslims. At a separate event, held simultaneously in a conference room at the Rayburn House Office Building, a group calling itself Stop Islamization of America warned about the supposedly hateful, violent, and anti-Western teachings of the Koran.

John Cosgrove, who identified himself as a counterterrorism consultant, called on "American males" to "stand shoulder to shoulder" in the battle to save America from the imposition of Sharia on American law. Sharia is a body of Islamic law used, with varying degrees of severity and harshness toward women, in many Muslim societies. At one point, Cosgrove brandished a book called The Quranic Concept of War to demonstrate the supposedly aggressive and confrontational nature of ancient and modern Islam.

Noting the arguments of some that Thomas Jefferson possessed a copy of the Koran, Cosgrove conceded this was true and added: "He had it so that he could know his enemy, so he could confront them, know them, kill them, and vanquish the Islamic pirates, the scourge of the seas and spreading tyranny abroad. After reading the Koran, founding the Marines and expanding the Navy to go kill them, I think he laid the Koran down thinking perhaps he was done. Sadly, it was not the case."