At Pentagon, Muslim Service Members Answer the Call To Prayer
The makeshift mosque is imbued with reminders of the evils done in the name of a radical, hijacked form of Islam, and of the Muslims who reject it.
Nancy A. Youssef
Nancy A. Youssef
09.11.16 12:01 AM ET
Friday was an exceptionally busy day at the point where American Airlines Flight 77 struck the Pentagon nearly 15 years ago. There were more tour groups passing by, more families stepping inside the memorial attached to a chapel to touch the etched name a lost loved one and ceremonies nearby to remind the nation of a day it’s vowed to never forget.
But inside the Pentagon Memorial Chapel, which sits just feet from where the plane struck the building, there also was a solemn act of defiance of those attacks, as Muslim service members gathered for Friday congregational prayers, or jum’ah.
Their answer to the Islamic call to prayer was also an answer to the idea that being an American patriot and Muslim are mutually exclusive—all at the site of an attack that sought to place that idea in the American psyche.
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