B'nai B'rith

===1977 Hanafi siege===
{{main|1977 Washington, D.C. attack and hostage taking}}
On March 9–11, 1977, three buildings in Washington, D.C., including the headquarters of B'nai B'rith, were seized by 12 [[Black nationalism|black nationalist]] [[Nation of Islam]] gunmen, led by Hamaas Abdul Khaalis, who took 149 hostages and killed a [[radio journalist]] and a police officer. After a 39-hour standoff, all other hostages were released from the District Building (the city hall; now called the [[John A. Wilson Building]]), B'nai B'rith headquarters, and the [[Islamic Center of Washington]].

The gunmen had several demands. They "wanted the government to hand over a group of men who had been convicted of killing seven relatives – mostly children – of takeover leader Hamaas Khaalis. They also demanded that the movie ''[[The Message (1976 film)|Mohammad, Messenger of God]]'' be destroyed because they considered it sacrilegious."<ref>{{cite news |url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/11/AR2007031101562.html |title= 'Some Things You Never Forget': Thirty years ago, gunmen stormed three D.C. buildings, taking 150 hostages and one life |author= Theresa Vargas |newspaper= Washington Post |date= March 12, 2007 |page= B01 |access-date= March 12, 2007 <!--DASHBot-->}}</ref>

''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]'' magazine noted: "That the toll was not higher was in part a tribute to the primary tactic U.S. law enforcement officials are now using to thwart terrorists—patience. But most of all, perhaps, it was due to the courageous intervention of three Muslim ambassadors, [[Egypt]]'s Ashraf Ghorbal, [[Pakistan]]'s Sahabzada Yaqub-Khan and [[Iran]]'s [[Ardeshir Zahedi]]."<ref name="time-77">{{cite news |title=The 38 Hours: Trial by Terror |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946751,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080415145539/https://time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,946751,00.html |archive-date=2008-04-15 |date=March 21, 1977 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]] magazine |url-status=dead |access-date=July 19, 2021 <!--DASHBot-->}}</ref>