Looks like more than a full house at the 200-seat Copley Formal Lounge at Georgetown.
According to Imam Hendi, one of the panelists, there are people here from the State Department, the Defense Department, the local Muslim community and Georgetown.
The audience includes Rev. Jennifer Butler of Faith in Public Life, Nawar Shora of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee, Rev. Welton Gaddy of the Interfaith Alliance, Achmad Younis of the Muslim-American Public Affairs Council, and Cynthia Schneider, former ambassador to the Netherlands.
Media covering the event include the Washington Post, Religion News Service, the Pakistan Chronicle, VOA TV and the Maghreb Arab Press.
Salman Ahmad is sound-checking his guitar. The Sufi rock star will perform a song near the end of the 90 minute program.
The program will begin in a few minutes.
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