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The riveting true story of America's first homegrown Muslim terror attack, the 1977 Hanafi siege of Washington, D.C. Late in the morning of March 9, 1977, seven men stormed the Washington, D.C., headquarters of B'nai B'rith International, the largest and oldest Jewish service organization in America. The heavily armed attackers quickly took control of the building and held more than a hundred employees of the organization hostage inside. A little over an hour later, three more men entered the Islamic Center of Washington, the country's largest and most important mosque, and took hostages there. Two others subsequently penetrated the District Building, a few hundred yards from the White House. When a firefight broke out, a reporter was killed, and Marion Barry, later to become mayor of Washington, D.
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Shahan Mufti is a journalist and the author of "The Faithful Scribe: A Story of Islam, Pakistan, Family, and War." His work has been published by Harper's Magazine, WIRED, The New York Times Magazine, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, and many others.
Shahan is a graduate of New York University, Middlebury College, and the United World College of the American West and he has also served as a Fulbright scholar in India. He lives with his wife in Richmond, Virginia, where he is an assistant professor of journalism at the University of Richmond.
