Anti-Islam protests

Anti-Islam rallies across USA making Muslims wary

Organizers are planning about 20 anti-Muslim ralliesthis weekend across the USA, putting officials at many mosques on high alert and prompting many community leaders to urge Muslims to take precautions in case demonstrations turn violent.

The goal of the Global Rally for Humanity, which is asking supporters to create a Facebook page for each protest planned, is to gather a group in front of every mosque in the country — in part to counter aNation of Islam rally in the District of Columbia to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Million Man March. The number of mosques in the United States has risen from about 1,200 in 2000 to 2,100 five years ago, according to a study from the Hartford Institute for Religion Research titled The American Mosque 2011.

War on Islam Comes to Our Backyards

We are at war with Islam. Or so many people would like the world to believe. Whether it's the Islamic State or anti-Islam protestors across the U.S, this narrative is determined to manifest the clash of civilizations between the West and Islam.

From the Central African Republic to Iraq to Nigeria to Mynamar, Muslims are taking cover as the mass population has fallen target to both extremes -- religious fundamentalism and Islamophobia. Both ideologies reject the reality that there is no single phenomenon that can be called Islam, nor is there one set of persons who could be said to represent all Muslims. Rather there are countless "Islams" that are the expression of how 1.6 billion unique individuals live and practice their faith.

And now American Muslims have joined the climate of fear.