Posted on 09/13/2004 9:59:20 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
A popular North American amusement park is scheduled to host a "Great Muslim Adventure Day" this week in which the park will be open only to Muslims, drawing fire from various monitor groups, WorldNetDaily has learned.
The Muslim Youth Division of the Islamic Circle of North America and the Muslim American Society, two of the largest Muslim organizations in America, has arranged exclusive use of Six Flags Great Adventure in Jackson, N.J., for the entire day Friday.
The ICNA website boasts, "First Time Ever – All Day – Entire Park Exclusively for Muslims!"
The event is designed to "provide entertainment for the entire family!" says the site. Imam Zaid Shakir will lead the Friday afternoon prayers at 2 p.m., the comedy routine "Allah Made Me Funny" will show twice, Comedian Azhar Usman will perform, and "Alhamdulillah, the entire park is reserved for Muslims only!"
The organization expects more than 10,000 Muslims.
Debbie Nauser, vice president of public relations for the Six Flags theme park, confirmed the park would be open only for "Muslims and their friends."
Six Flags has previously hosted other event days, including an annual Passover theme in which the park is predominantly filled with Orthodox Jews, but the venue is still open to outsiders and seasonal ticket holders, and organizers of previous events have never claimed exclusivity of the park.
"The exclusionary nature of the event, which disallows anyone but Muslims from being present on the fairgrounds, raises questions about the legality of permitting only members of one faith in what is a public venue," said Beila Rabinowitz, director of Militant Islam Monitor.
"Militant Islam Monitor calls on the management of Six Flags amusement park to disallow this discrimination on its property. And MIM calls on the State of New Jersey to cancel this 'Muslims Only' event."
Daniel Pipes, director of the Middle East Forum, said "it is scandalous that Six Flags – a publicly held corporation whose stock trades on the NYSE – allows such a restriction for access to its property. It's fine for a Muslim organization to sponsor a day at the theme park, it's quite another to proclaim it for Muslims only, as ICNA does. "
The ICNA has drawn much controversy to itself in recent years. WorldNetDaily attended a conference in Orlando, Fla., sponsored in part by the ICNA, which featured a main speaker who voiced empathy and support for suicide bombers, denied Muslims were involved in 9-11, characterized the war on terror as a conspiratorial Zionist plot designed to destroy Islam and Muslims, and blamed attacks on affirmative action on "the rise of the Jewish cracker."
Judicial Watch says the ICNA has ties to Hamas, and terrorism expert Steve Emerson stated: "The ICNA's hatred of the Jews is so fierce that it taunted them with a repetition of what Hitler did to them."
In his book, "American Jihad," Emerson writes: "The ICNA openly supports militant Islamic fundamentalist organizations, praises terror attacks, issues incendiary attacks on Western values and policies, and supports the imposition of Sharia [Islamic code of law]."
How do you prove that you're a muslim to gain entry? Kill an infidel?
Who owns Six Flags? Who controls this (corporation?)
Off. Back Tomorrow. This one has legs.
A small herd of goats will be on hand at the entrance.
I hear the new 'World Trade Center Stunt & Fire' show is killer...
I mean, c'mon! Even if a Muslim family didn't believe the place would be crawling with FBI, it might be crawling with drunk rednecks looking to start something ugly.
You think Muslims would go to an amusement park?
Today, Six Flags Great Adventure. Tomorrow, the world.
Islamo-fascism on the march.
Would you really want to go there on Muslim Day? It would be like going to DisneyWorld on Gay Day.
hey- 10,000 muslims in one place?
As I read it, the corporation which owns and operates the park is not claiming that the day is reserved for Muslims only, but some organization is. Supposedly anyone can claim anything, but it doesn't make it so. We see all sorts of foolish and bigoted comments even on this very thread.
You must have missed this part of the article.
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Who owns Six Flags? Who controls this (corporation?)
Six Flags Amusement Parks are owned by Time Warner.
Yes, I did. Thanks for the correction. "Muslims and their friends" is not the same as "Muslims only," but even so a private entity can set their own admissions policies within the law since it's a free country.
I agree. If a private business wants to open an amusement park up to a particular group and shut down the park to others, they should be able to do so.
It's their right to open and close their business as they see fit. The government should not get involved.
With that said, it's also my right not to patronize that amusement park anymore if I don't agree with their policy to shut the place to allow just a particular group in.
This is true if the group is muslems, the KKK, the conservation society, AARP, the black panthers, or DUmmies from DU.
I'm sure if they wanted to have a Christian's Day the ACLU would be in their face in a heartbeat.
Maybe this is an Ashcroft secret plot to get all the Muslims in one spot for secret photos and surveillence. Just a guess.
Shoot .. "Great Christian Adventure Day" ....
The ACLU would be out marching in protest and lobbing molotav cocktails at families as they entered.
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