Posted on 07/30/2016 9:59:12 PM PDT by TigerClaws
Muslims Expected 100,000 to Attend Anti-Terror Rally in DC – Only a Couple Dozen Show Up
Kristinn Taylor Jul 30th, 2016 11:05 pm 11 Comments Muslims against terror rally DC 07232016 State Dept 2
A rally organized by Muslim groups held on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. on July 23 was planned with the goal of drawing 100,000 attendees. Only dozens showed up according to media reports.
Al Jazeera reported on the planning for the rally for 100,000 that was initially planned as being anti-ISIS but was also billed as anti-Trump.
A group of American Muslims, joined by interfaith leaders, have launched an initiative to get thousands of Americans to take part in a march in Washington DC on July 23, in what they call a stand against bigotry, “extremism”, and gun violence.
The American Muslim March will take place at the National Mall – home to various large-scale historical gatherings – to also condemn “terrorism” and vocally eschew the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL, also known as ISIS), organisers said.
Rally sponsors include more than 20 organisations representing the three monotheistic regions, as well as the Buddhist, Sikh, Hindu, and Bahai communities.
The initiative comes at a time when anti-Muslim sentiment is high, in part driven by the rhetoric of Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, who has called for the banning of foreign Muslims from the United States.
Trump has made his Muslim ban a centrepiece of his candidacy: he recently reiterated his proposal following an attack on a gay nightclub in Orlando, which left 49 people dead. He also suggested profiling Muslims, citing Israel as an example, and implied that US President Barack Obama was complicit or sympathetic to radicalised Muslims.
Some Muslim groups have been more vocal about terrorism, gun violence and Islamophobia, since a married couple, inspired by ISIL ideology, killed 14 people in San Bernardino, California.
“We were motivated to take action after San Bernardino,” said Khaled al-Mufti, a member of the rally organising committee. “We wanted to denounce ISIS as an ideology that claims to be representative of Islam, but it’s not. That’s not the religion we practise. We want to make it loud and clear to all the world: This is not Islam.”
The rally is being organised by the Islamic Society of Central Florida, and the All Dulles Area Muslim Society (ADAMS) in Washington DC, which recently hosted Secretary of State John Kerry and Hollywood actress and activist Angelina Jolie with Syrian refugees in recognition of World Refugee Day.
For the event, organisers are reaching out to renowned Muslims such as Yousef Islam, previously known as Cat Stevens, retired basketball legend Kareem Abdul Jabbar, and influential Islamic scholar Hamza Yusuf. They are hoping to attract about 100,000 people from the Muslim and immigrant communities and anybody “affected by the recent surge in hostility towards minorities”, Mufti told Al Jazeera.
“The rhetoric going on in the presidential campaigns is creating an atmosphere of bigotry,” he said. “This is not only towards Muslim, but also towards immigrant communities. We therefore wanted to provide a platform for everyone to speak about those issues…”
The Eventbrite page for the rally listed almost as many sponsors as attendees. One of the sponsors, ISNA was named as an unindicted co-conspirator in the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terror funding case, according to Wikipedia.
“In the 2007 Holy Land Foundation terrorist financing case, the United States Department of Justice named ISNA, along with Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), the North American Islamic Trust, as an unindicted co-conspirator and one of a number of “entities who are and/or were members of the US Muslim Brotherhood.”[18][19][20] ISNA, along with NAIT and CAIR, filed motions seeking to be removed from the UCC listing, and the District Judge found that the government had violated the organizations’ rights by listing them as Unindicted Co-Conspirators.[21] Judge Solis, as affirmed by the US Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, held that the government should not have listed CAIR and ISNA, but that “the government has produced ample evidence to establish the associations of CAIR, ISNA, NAIT, with the Islamic Association for Palestine, and with Hamas”.[22]”
THE RALLY WAS A DUD.
The media tried to blame the attendance failure on the summer heat in Washington.
Was this like the million-man march thing....except it was a 12-man march?
Bigotry? Oh come on.
Did Clinton show up? Or anyone any of us might know?
Do those 12 share the 72 virgins?
September 11 would have been a better day.
Pics anyone?
Maybe their camels were getting re-shoed.
Which only goes to prove how correct Trump is and that MOST Muslims living here are NOT against ISIS and want our destruction!
I thought that sandmaggots were immune to insanely hot weather.
HELLOOOOO?
Seriously, THE SILENT MUSLIMS ARE THE SUPPORT divisions of the actual islamist terrorists who do the throat-cutting and stuff. Must be at least 50 support bodies per terrorist...
It’s also very clear that they are lying/don’t know what’s in the Koran ( spit ); perhaps both
They should deport the ones who showed up, just in case.
What was that old Paul Anka song? “Leave My Head On My Shoulders”?
The rest of the Muslims were at home making bombs.
You can tell by the turn out, most of the Muslims are NOT Ant-Terror.
This is amusing. Here is the website for the American Muslim March on Washington
Looks like it was going to be a very impressive event, but reports say only 20-30 people showed up, and some of there weren’t Muslims.
I guess Muslims are so unaccustomed to hot weather that they stayed home even after the event was moved to the cooler evening hours.
Well, well! What a surprise. NOT!
Either that or they were attending a sermon at the Mosque learning how to build IEDs.
The non-event was held on July 23rd, which coincidentally happened to be the 24th anniversary of me taking delivery of my 1992 Harley-Davidson Fat Boy in Traverse City. What a great day it was, and a man never forgets his first Harley.
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