The Million Muslim March, an event set to move into motion on Wednesday over at Washington D.C. to commemorate the 12th anniversary of the September 11 bombings, may have fallen short in that it lacked a crucial element to its goals: the millions of Muslims.
While several Islamic practitioners did come over to gather at the said event, they merely numbered in the hundreds, not even thousands, police stationed around the area say. The event has since been renamed "Million Americans against fear," but the new name seems to not have attracted much improvement to its number of attendees.
The shortcoming had been likely, almost inevitable. Organizers from the group spearheading the event, the American Muslim Political Action Committee, may not have thought their strategies through. Light has also been cast on their leader, M.D. Rabbi Alam, who has been known to have very controversial thoughts on the September 11 attacks in 2002, actively pushing anti-Semitic statements and conspiracy theories surrounding the tragic event. While the event was defended by organizers saying that it instead remembers that both Muslims and non-Muslims suffered in the terrorist attacks, and also about defending Muslim rights, several of the targeted audiences may not have desired an association with the organization's more popular beliefs.
A counter-demonstration has overcome the failure of the Million Muslim March, as thousands of bikers swarmed into the area despite being denied entry for not having permits. The counter demonstration also has a similarly, if not almost as ambitious title, "2 million bikers," which expects to gather up to three thousand patrons to the capital, to rove around the city protesting the Million Muslim March. The organizers have also applied for a no-stop permit, which would have given them free reign over the city's roads without paying attention to traffic rules, but have since been denied. Both demonstrations are set to continue at noon, September 11.
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