{"id":18955,"date":"2013-08-17T16:27:15","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T20:27:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/theredphoenixapl.org\/?p=18955"},"modified":"2013-08-17T16:27:15","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T20:27:15","slug":"million-muslim-march-on-911-anniversary-planned-in-dc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redphoenix.news\/es\/2013\/08\/million-muslim-march-on-911-anniversary-planned-in-dc\/","title":{"rendered":"Million-Muslim March on 9\/11 anniversary planned in DC"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Lincoln Memorial (foreground), Washington Monument (C) and US Capitol (background) are seen from air on the National Mall above Washington, DC. (AFP Photo\/Saul Loeb)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On the anniversary of the September 11 terrorist attacks, the American Muslim Political Action Committee will host a gathering of one million people in Washington, DC, denouncing \u201cFBI traps\u201d and urging the government to reveal \u201cthe truth\u201d about 9\/11.<\/span><\/p>\n

With an event initially coined the \u201cMillion Muslim March\u201d and later changed to the \u201cMillion American March Against Fear,\u201d the committee hopes to generate awareness about civil rights violations that Muslims have endured after the September 11 attacks that occurred nearly 12 years ago.<\/span><\/p>\n

Protesters will condemn \u201cFBI traps\u201d and the \u201cillegal tapping and surveilling of Muslim Americans,\u201d as well as \u201cmedia propaganda making the word terrorist synonymous with Muslim,\u201d Isa Hodge, organizer of the march, told US News & World Report last month.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cOur government either sits idly by and does nothing to protect our freedoms or it exacerbates the problem with its constant war on terrorism in Islamic countries, congressional hearings on Islam in America, and its changes to the [National Defense Authorization Act<\/i>],\u201d he said in a press release, in which he notes that Muslims have faced constant oppression and discrimination over the past decade.<\/span><\/p>\n

Protesters will also urge the government to reveal \u201cthe truth\u201d about 9\/11, which Hodge claims has been partially covered up by the US government.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe want to hold President Obama accountable for his empty promises of creating a transparent government<\/i>\u201d Hodge said. \u201cWhat exactly have we spent all our money, lost lives and taken lives for? The entire record of the 9\/11 Commission [Report] has never been released<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

In the press release about the event, Hodge did not specify what sort of \u201ctruths\u201d remain hidden, but groups that\u2019s aren\u2019t predominantly Muslim but adhere to 9\/11 conspiracy theories \u2013 including some Tea Party groups \u2013\u00a0 have already pledged to join the March. The Pennsylvania-based Williamsport Tea Party is one of the groups that have already put the march on its schedule.<\/span><\/p>\n

Minister Louis Farrakhan of the National of Islam has not yet responded to a request to join the march, but Hodge said that lower-level ministers are interested in getting involved. The AMPAC has also extended an invitation to former Texas Rep. Ron Paul.<\/span><\/p>\n

In response to critics who condemn Hodge for choosing 9\/11 as the date of the march, the AMPAC member said Muslims were also among those who were victimized in the attacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThere were Muslim firefighters, police officers, first responders<\/i>,\u201d he told US News. \u201cThat day was not only an attack on Americans but a deeper attack on Muslim Americans\u2026 we were not only victims but made villains<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The AMPAC hopes to repeat the success of the 1995 Million Man March, another a large gathering on the National Mall, in which an estimated 1.5-2 million protesters stood up for African-American civil rights to \u201cconvey to the world a vastly different picture of the Black male<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

The AMPAC also hopes to make the march an annual event in Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe American Muslims reject violence and terrorism, and defend the Constitutional rights of all Americans<\/i>,\u201d MD Alam, founder of AMPAC, said in a separate press release. \u201cEvery year on September 11th, beginning in 2012, we will be marching in Washington, DC as we build toward our goal of bringing one million American Muslims to march in our nation\u2019s capital<\/i>.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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