50,000 American Muslims will gather for prayer on Capitol Hill tomorrow, and according to the event's web site, the day's activities include the following:

• The Athan will be chanted on Capitol Hill, echoing off of the Lincoln Memorial, the Washington Monument and other great edifices that surround Capitol Hill
• Thousands of Muslims from all races, creeds, colors and ethnicities will gather for the sole purpose of prayer
• Bonds of friendship will be formed between those in attendance, both Muslims and Non-Muslims
• Muslim youth will experience tours of the Library of Congress and the Supreme Court.
• The peace, beauty and solidarity of Islam will shine through America's capitol.

Sounds to me like an important moment for a community of faith that has consistently been subjected to discrimination and demagoguery in this country.

Speaking of which, in a Washington Update earlier this week Tony Perkins wondered,

Will any of the expected 50,000 attendees affirm loyalty to the U.S. and our constitutional liberties? Or will they pray for shari'ah law to come to America?

According to the organizers, the point of the event is "to inspire a new generation of Muslim to work for the greater good of all people [and to] serve all people, regardless of race, religion or national origin." Serving the greater good of all people sounds like a fundamentally American (and religious) value to me.

Perkins also made several guilt-by-association allegations by event organizers and urged Family Research Council members to pray for Muslims' conversion to Christianity, but to me the big picture is this - American Muslims are gathering to pray on Capitol Hill, and it makes Tony Perkins suspicious, and he wants his readers to share his suspicion.

When did presumption of disloyalty based on religion alone become a Christian value?