(Newswire.net — September 11, 2013) Washington, D.C. — So in one of the most anticipated clash of the titans, who won?
The Million Americans Against Fear rally was organized to bring attention to the plight of muslim civil rights and also to counter inaccurate depictions of muslims in the media. The organizers of the event defended their scheduling stating “Muslim[s] and Non Muslim[s] alike were traumatized” on Sept. 11, 2001.
As the event got closer, the Weekly Standard reported that a memo was sent to D.C. office building tenants to expect “somewhere in the hundreds, not thousands, of participants,” according to police estimates.
According to U.S. Park Police, approximately, 25 people showed up in support of the rally. They were confronted by approximately 20 protestors.
So how about the bikers?
The group, 2 Million Bikers to DC, had been denied a permit to demonstrate around the National Mall. The National Park Service had reasoned that the event would cause “a severe disruption of traffic” and more police than D.C. could provide.
But D.C. law states, “it shall not be an offense to assemble or parade on a District street, sidewalk, or other public way, or in a District park, without having provided notice or obtained an approved assembly plan.” So technically the event was legally going to happen, without the permit.
As the roar of motorcycles descended on the capital, estimates of the numbers were hard to quantify. One estimate put the number of bikers there at 880,000.
So it looks like that neither event achieved their goal of a million. But the motorcycle rally clearly beat the muslim rally, by a large margin.