Anti-Sharia Demonstrators Hold Rallies in Cities Across the Country
The Washington Post’s Abigail Hauslohner and Justin Wm. Moyer report, “Anti-Muslim activists hoisted American flags and delivered fiery speeches in rallies across the country Saturday, facing off against crowds of counter-demonstrators in several cities and exposing the visceral rage that has come to define America’s political extremes.” The rallies were organized by ACT for America, an organization that the Southern Poverty Law Center recognizes as a hate group. One demonstrator named Pawl Bazile announced to a cheering crowd of a few dozen people in Manhattan, “We understand what Islam is, and we say ‘no.’ You’re in the land of Budweiser and bikinis, for God’s sake.”