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  • 2016-08-26 (xsd:date)
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  • Did President Obama Enforce an Islamic Prayer Opening in the U.S. House? (en)
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  • A video uploaded to the right-wing Supreme Patriot Facebook page purports to show an Islamic opening prayer enforced in the U.S. House of Representatives by President Obama. The video, which is clipped from a C-SPAN feed of a House session televised on 13 November 2014, shows Imam Hamad Chebli of the Islamic Society of Central Jersey in South Brunswick, New Jersey, delivering a prayer on the House floor after an introduction by then-Speaker of the House John Boehner. This is the text of Chebli's prayer: The same video of the same opening prayer was posted in 2014 on LiveLeak.com, accompanied by this description of events: However, Chebli's prayer service was neither instigated nor enforced by President Obama, nor was this the first time such an outrageous display of submission to Islam occurred in the House of Representatives. Under the auspices of the Guest Chaplain program, which provides for the inclusion of opening prayers by religious leaders of various faiths sponsored by House members, seven imams have delivered Islamic opening prayers since April 2000 — including three during the G.W. Bush administration. All are listed, along with transcripts of their prayers, on the House of Representatives web site. (en)
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