The organizers of the Million American March Against Fear on 9/11, formerly known as the Million Muslim March, have deleted a pro-Islamist Facebook group created by its leader following a Clarion Project report.
The Facebook group, named “Million Muslim March in Bangladesh,” was created by American Muslim Political Action Committee head MD Rabbi Alam to “protest violence against Islam.” This was in solidarity with Islamist protestors angry at the secular government’s crackdown on Jamaat-e-Islami.
The cached version of the Facebook group shows its objective was to “Support Long March called by Hefazayate Islam in Bangladesh on April 6, 2013.”
Hefazayate Islam is a coalition of about a dozen Islamist groups and is allied with Jamaat-e-Islami. BBC News reports that the coalition has a 13-point charter of demands that includes:
- enactment of an anti-blasphemy law with provision for the death penalty
- exemplary punishment to all bloggers and others who ‘insult Islam’
- cancellation of the country’s women development policy
- a ban on erecting sculptures in public places
- a ban on mixing of men and women in public
- a ban on candlelit vigils
- ending what they call “shameless behaviour and dresses”
- declaring the reformist Ahmadiyas as “non-Muslims”
That is the agenda of the Islamist group that MD Rabbi Alam supports. No wonder he wants to clean up his past.
On August 24, one of the march organizers expressed his “overwhelming concern” about the Clarion Project’s original expose of the group that was published two days prior. A follow-up article was published by Clarion on August 28 documenting Alam’s support for Bangladeshi Islamists and the Facebook group was then disbanded. The main website of Alam’s pro-Islamist march remains open, for now.
This isn’t the first time that Alam’s colleagues have covered up their past. Last July, after Clarion discovered links between Viva Palestina and Alam’s Missouri Democratic Party Asian-American Caucus, several names were removed from his group’s website.
On August 29, the Million American March Against Fear on 9/11 organizers announced that they been granted a permit for their event at the National Mall.
