'I Am A Muslim Too': Angry protesters gather to declare allegiance to Islam and hate toward President Trump

Protesters spoke out against Trump's immigration policies

More than 1,000 people of mixed races and faiths gathered in New York's Times Square to declare they were Muslim, too.

LOS ANGELES, CA (Catholic Online) - The "I Am A Muslim Too" rally was organized to protest President Donald Trump's immigration policies.

The protesters joined on what is remembered as the day President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 in 1942, which ultimately rounded up Japanese immigrants and their descendants to place them into detention centers, no matter the length of their residence or their American citizenship status.

During Sunday's events, a loud Muslim call to prayer rang through Times Square, where the words "Allahu Akbar" could be heard, and the large crowd declared their allegiance to Islam.

"We are here today to show Middle America our beautiful sides," Hip-Hop mogul and co-protest organizer, Russel Simmons said during the Sunday events, according to Fox News. "And through our beautiful actions and intentions, that they have been misled. That the seeds of hate that were small, and maybe just ignorance, cannot be watered, and that hate cannot grow."

Although words full of love and hope were spoken by many of the guest speakers, including actress, Susan Sarandon who stated "We will fight hatred with love. We will fight bigotry with inclusivity," and New York Mayor, Bill de Blasio who declared America is a "country founded to protect all faiths and all beliefs," signs of pure hate and anger were also present.

Among the waving American flags and Islamic American signs were pictures of President Trump depicted as Adolf Hitler and Mussolini. Many of the protesters also turned against the police, declaring them "un-American," "fascist," and "squelching" their free speech.

The crowd shouted "Hey hey, ho ho, Donald Trump has got to go," and "No wall, No Muslim ban, no fascist USA."

On the protest's press release, Simmons even stated, "Everyone except white privileged males are in immediate danger."

"We must join together at the most famous crossroads in the world to make a collective statement that, 'Whenever my Muslim brothers and sisters are demonized and vilified, discriminated against or victimized by hate crimes and violence, 'Today, I am a Muslim too,'" expressed Rabbi Marc Schneier, Foundation for Ethnic Understanding's president and co-organizer of the first "Today, I Am A Muslim Too" rally in 2010, according to ABC.

According to Fox News, misinformation was flowing all over the protest crowd, including information on Trump's executive order, which made no first mention of the Islamic religion.

Nonetheless, present activists continued to demand local officials take steps to halt "President Trump's deportation machine."

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