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By Mike Carter
Seattle Times staff reporter
Supporters of an organization considered a hate group by local Muslims will
gather in Seattle on Saturday as part of a national “March Against Sharia,
” prompting promises of a large counter-demonstration by opponents and an
expected heavy police presence.
The “March Against Sharia,” which has been moved several times but settled
at City Hall plaza at 10 a.m., is sponsored by ACT for America, a Virginia-
based nonprofit that claims to educate Americans to national-security
threats posed by Islam.
The demonstration is one of more than 25 ACT for America is sponsoring
across the country, purportedly to raise awareness of the practices of
genital mutilation and cutting of young girls and women, which the
organization attributes to the practice of Sharia law by faithful Muslims.
Sharia is the religious law forming part of the Islamic tradition as found
in the Quran and the teachings of the prophet Muhammed.
The organization’s founder, Bridgette Gabriel, has said the group supports
President Donald Trump in fighting a “radical leftist Islamic coalition”
that poses a threat to America’s “Judeo-Christan values.”
ACT for America spokeswoman Sandy Frazier has said that genital mutilations,
so-called “honor killings,” and “violence toward women and members of
the LGBTQ community” by Islam is the reason for the demonstration.
The Southern Poverty Law Center describes ACT for America as the “largest
grass roots anti-Muslim group in America,” claiming more than 525,000
members and 1,000 chapters.
The Seattle rally — billed as a march but permitted by the city only as a
demonstration — is expected to be bolstered by ACT for America supporters
from Portland.
A planned anti-Sharia march there was canceled at the urging of Mayor Ted
Wheeler after two men were fatally stabbed and a third injured on a MAX
transit train May 26. The victims had come to the aid of two teenage girls
as a man yelled anti-Muslim taunts. One of the girls was wearing traditional
Muslim dress.
The suspected attacker, Jeremy Christian, has been charged in the killings.
Arsakan Buhkari, executive director of the Council on American-Islamic
Relations (CAIR) in Washington, an Islamic civil-rights organization, said
the hate speech spewed by Christian on the train is the same sort of
rhetoric found on ACT for America’s web and social-media sites.
“When we see these kinds of crimes, where Muslims are being assaulted and
attacked, we find these same words and slurs that are used by ACT for
America,” Buhkari said. “These things they say about Muslim women and
children has caused real harm.”
Bukhari said CAIR will sponsor an “Ask a Muslim” booth at the ACT for
America rally to answer any questions and dispel myths “in hopes that we
might have some communications.”
In the days leading up to the demonstration, rabbis and clergy from several
Seattle-area churchs and synagogues came forward to the Islamic community,
and a group calling itself Seattle Stands With Our Muslim Neighbors obtained
a permit for a counter-demonstration starting at 9 a.m. at Occidental Park
a few blocks from City Hall.
Organizers plan to march to City Hall plaza and confront the anti-Sharia
demonstrators. A route for that march had not been determined as of Thursday.
Efforts to contact ACT for America organizers were not successful. Reached
via Facebook Messenger, Kerry French, ACT for America’s field-operations
coordinator, said she was not authorized to talk to the media.
Given what happened in Portland when a recent pro-Trump “free speech”
demonstration devolved into violence and resulted in 14 arrests, the Seattle
Police Department said that it will have “the necessary staffing and
equipment available” to ensure peace is kept.
Sgt. Sean Whitcomb said free speech will be tolerated but that violence will
not.
“We have a few of these every year when the point- and counterpoint
demonstrations can raise concerns,” Whitcomb said. “What I will say is
that we do have a staffing plan and the resources in place to ensure that
everyone can be heard safely.”
Mike Carter: [email protected] or 206-464-3706. Information from
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