This nationwide campaign was euphemistically called the “Global Rally for Humanity” and encouraged “fellow patriots” to unite in protest of the growth of Islam in America. As I wrote in The Atlantic at the time: “These would-be ‘patriots’ are nothing more than gun-wielding bullies trying to intimidate religious minorities from freely exercising their First Amendment rights by pointing their loaded semi-automatic Second Amendment rights directly into synagogues, temples, and mosques around the country.” Simply put, for these haters, if Muslims are allowed to build their houses of worship and participate in a free society—just as Jews, Hindus, Black Christians, and others have been allowed to do—then Muslim extremists have “won” somehow.

XREF: Connects to broader theme of weaponizing the Second Amendment against minority religious communities, and the conflation of all Muslims with extremists in political rhetoric.

Arsalan Iftikhar, Fear of a Muslim Planet_ Gl…, loc. 579