Where are U.S. Muslims in the Darfur movement?

From May of '06.

Inoticed something rather curious when I attended the Save Darfur national rally in Washington, D.C., on April 30.

I was part of a diverse crowed, estimated at 10,000 to 15,000 people, who took out a full day to protest the massacres and massive human rights violations inflicted upon the African Muslim population of Darfur, Sudan, by the Sudanese-government-sponsored militia, the Janjaweed.

According to estimates provided by international aid agencies, 400,000 have died as a result and two million Darfurians have been displaced.

What was curious was that as far as I could tell there were nearly no Muslims participating in the rally.

I might have seen one or two hijabs in the whole dense gathering. But of all the group banners, printed T-shirts and handmade signs I scanned, and I looked around a lot, I saw no evidence of a significant American Muslim presence at a rally to save African Muslims. When I scanned the crowd photos of the rally printed the next day I detected no apparent signs of an American Muslim presence.

Why was that?

I had to wonder.

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