Esmeralda
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It isn't a protest march and it isn't a demand march. ~ It is intended to say they want to be understood as not being responsble for 9/11, that they want people to know it isn't Islam or the average Muslim who is responsible. They want people to understand that it was blind hatred that led to 9/11 and now blind hatred is targeting American Muslims and that such hatred itself is bad. It's about not being fearful of them, of Islam. It's about understanding, not about protesting or making any demands.The day has become known as a day for remembrance, not a day to list your demands.
The march is in poor taste, and it's amazing they are not bright enough to figure that out.
This is a reason to sit down with each other and talk. Instead of just getting more hateful. It is a problem of miscommunication, possibly a cultural issue.
That would be fine if that's what they were calling for, but it's not.
Try to imagine about ten to fifteen years after the end of WWII, that Japanese-Americans decided to stage a march on DC to protest FDR's roundup of Japanese-Americans during the war, and they specifically chose the day of December 7th. They may have had great reasoning for the march, but it would have been in terrible taste to have marched on the date that Pearl Harbor was attacked.