"...it is absolutely appropriate that Islam is not represented."

There are too many law-abiding, decent American Muslims in the US to exclude them, to exclude a religious representative of their faith community. We are all brothers and sisters, citizens of this country. No one can boast of American tolerance and civility if some Americans are excluded. 


So at the prayer service, we will have -- a white male Catholic, a white female Evangelical Protestant, a white male Evangelical Protestant, a black male Protestant, a brown male Evangelical Protestant, and a white male Jew. And of course, the service will be at a white mainline Protestant church -- the Episcopal National Cathedral. All the more to have an American Muslim cleric present!