What is full story with the "Million American March Against Fear" on Sept. 11th?

[deltasigma]

This was originally billed as the Million Muslim March but you can just imagine the sort of response that drew. The name apparently was changed back in February - along with the apparent focus - but not before all sorts of groups decided to have their own counter rallies.

The demonstration originally called the “Million Muslim March” now has an explicitly secular name, the “Million American March Against Fear,” organizer Isa Hodge stressed in a Friday interview with U.S. News.

                             Media coverage of the event, scheduled for the 12th anniversary  of the 9/11 terrorist attacks, exploded earlier this week. Hodge said  he's irritated that many reports used the original name, which he says  was changed in February after the addition of groups that doubt the  official account of the 2001 attacks.

“They’re focusing on what it was [called] before February to continue the misinformation and fear that we’re trying to stop,” Hodge said. “It’s more sensational if they can put out there that it’s just Muslims going to dance on the graves of the 3,000 souls that were lost that day. That’s not what we’re doing.”

Protesters will instead take to the National Mall to denounce government surveillance and call for “the truth” about the attacks, Hodge says.

Full article at link.

[moriah]

Aren’t you answering your own question? If not, could you please restate the question in terms of what part of the ‘full story’ you think you’re not getting?

[deltasigma]

Well if I knew that . . .

Sorry to be glib but I think it’s obvious there’s more here than meets the eye. This starts out as one thing then gets rebranded as something else apparently as the result of public outcry. I’d like a little more information from people who follow stuff like this. I obviously don’t.

[Dissonance]

@deltasigma

Sorry to be glib but I think it’s obvious there’s more here than meets the eye. This starts out as one thing then gets rebranded as something else apparently as the result of public outcry.

How so? Reading the linked US News & World Report article and the link in there to the earlier ‘Million Muslim March’ Scheduled for Sept. 11 Reorients to Seek 9/11 ‘Truth’, it’s one nutball trying to get other nutballs to join him in a “million man march” - for which in the application for the National Mall permit cited just 1,000 likely participants.

The organizer said north-central Pennsylvania’s Williamsport Tea Party has joined with planners, in addition to groups that adhere to conspiracy theories about the 9/11 attacks or oppose the National Defense Authorization Act, which authorizes the president to approve indefinite detentions.

“Depending on my work schedule, I will be attending the event,” Nick Defonte of the Williamsport Tea Party told U.S. News. “We all deserve to be judged on our own merits, and that is precisely why I will show my solidarity with peaceful, Constitution-loving citizens.”

“We’re waiting on Minister Louis Farrakhan [of the Nation of Islam] to respond to our request,” Hodge said. “His ministers below him are interested in being involved, we’re just waiting for Minister Farrakhan to OK it.”

Hodge said he’s also trying to persuade former Rep. Ron Paul, R-Texas, to attend.

One major Muslim advocacy group, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, will not be joining the event.

Googling ‘Isa Hodge’ led me to this article at The American Muslim

Who is the American Muslim Political Action Committee (AMPAC)? This organization was established in 2012 and says on its’ website:
— AMPAC Misson Statement: The mission of the United States of America Political Action Committee (AMPAC) is to stimulate an active interest in Muslim Americans relating to Political and Governmental affairs to facilitate Muslim American participation in the United States of America, to promote the ideas and principles of the Political Party, and to encourage and seek Muslim American candidates for public office and explain positions of other political candidates to Muslim American voters. The AMPAC shall also work with the Muslim American Communities to bring their issues to the state and national political attention. We are the Muslim- American Communities living in United States of America.
— AMPAC FAQ’s contains this: AMPAC will focus on those issues that are of special importance to the Muslim community, and where there is a significant degree of agreement among Muslims. For example, there is widespread agreement in the community (though this is censored by the current leadership) that the “war on terror” is a hoax and that the official story of 9/11 is not true.

Most postings on the site are incoherent and meaningless. The statement above, that they want “to promote the ideas and principles of the Political Party” is a typical example. As far as I can determine, they have not promoted any candidates for public office, or done anything at all except promote the 2012 failed candidacy (for Missouri secretary of state) of MD Rabbi Alam, the Chairman of the organization. The title of the organization should be the MD Rabbi Alam political action committee.

When he ran for office in 2012, MD Rabbi Alam became embroiled in a controversy when he stated “My question was, ‘What’s the reason not a single Jew was killed on that day? Was there a single Jew killed on that day?” As VIN News reported Missouri Politician Apologizes For Claim No Jews Died on 9/11‎ (audio):

So yeah, nutball 9/11 truthers.

[moriah]

I don’t mean to be glib either, but “public outcry rebrands march” sounds like a complete story to me.

[deltasigma]

@moriah

I don’t mean to be glib either, but “public outcry rebrands march” sounds like a complete story to me.

Not really. More anon.

@Dissonance

How so? Reading the linked US News & World Report article and the link in there to the earlier ‘Million Muslim March’ Scheduled for Sept. 11 Reorients to Seek 9/11 ‘Truth’, it’s one nutball trying to get other nutballs to join him in a “million man march” - for which in the application for the National Mall permit cited just 1,000 likely participants.Googling ‘Isa Hodge’ led me to this article at The American MuslimSo yeah, nutball 9/11 truthers.

I did a little digging of my own and found this from HuffPo.

Organizers of the “Million Muslim March” have defended the timing of their event by noting that “Muslim[s] and Non Muslim[s] alike were traumatized” on Sept. 11, 2001. True, but beneath the group’s insistence that the march will be about civil rights, indefinite detention, and “slanderous” statements about Islam, lies a toxic strain of trutherism. That fact led Corey Saylor, spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, to tell U.S. News last month that CAIR would definitely not support the event.

So . . . given the fact that the organizers seem to have an agenda that would be consistent with wanting to rewrite history to make it seem as if there was no Islamic/Jihadist connection with 9/11, I’m guessing their original intention (which is now rebranded subtext) was precisely that. Unfortunately they were too stupid to co-opt the even dumber teabaggers into helping them out with their asinine plan before they let the cat out of the bag. Morons.

[Tom_Tildrum]

The line in the linked article about media coverage “exploding” is nonsense. Almost no one’s covering this event, and almost no one’s heard of it. Certainly, it’s gotten zero publicity here in the DC area.

[moriah]

Oh, I get it. The issue isn’t over the title of the article which was about the renaming of the event, but about whether the event is legit or looney.

[LawMonkey]

@Dissonance

So yeah, nutball 9/11 truthers.

Which is a bit of a shame. I quite like the name of the event, and am all for having an [del]x-man (no, not X-Man. x-man. Ok, let’s try this again)[/del] n-man march against the security/surveillance state we’ve gotten because of OMG TERRISTS! An n-man* march w/ 9/11 truthers… not so many.

• In this case, I expect n to be < 500.

[Nametag]

Hey, don’t drag the n-man word into this.

[deltasigma]

You’ll be able to see all the tinfoil hats from space.

[Chessic_Sense]

@LawMonkey

Which is a bit of a shame. I quite like the name of the event, and am all for having an [del]x-man (no, not X-Man. x-man. Ok, let’s try this again)[/del] n-man march against the security/surveillance state we’ve gotten because of OMG TERRISTS! An n-man* march w/ 9/11 truthers… not so many.

• In this case, I expect n to be < 500.

Likewise, I’d like to see an n-man march against terrorism because OMG SURVEILLANCE!