February 04, 2017 10:29 PM UTC

Protect our Muslim neighbors rally

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• by: Jason Salzman

(Promoted by Colorado Pols)

It’s tough to say who has it worst among the victims in Trump’s America, but in terms of brazen bigotry, it’s safe to say Muslims have the biggest target on their backs now. It’s awful and sad and ugly, and it pisses me off.

So it was great to see thousands of people in Denver’s Civic Center Park Saturday afternoon for a “Protect Our Muslim Neighbors Rally.”

As usual, the signs at the rally sum up it up as well as anything.

Here’s what was written on some of them:

We are all Muslim
I wish I was playing video games but this shit is serious
Immigrants and refugees welcome here
We love our Muslim neighbors
We were all immigrants once
Catholics in support of Muslims
Two of Trump’s wives are immigrants, proving immigrate will do a job Americans won’t do
Give me you tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to be free…but only the hot European model babes
Muslim friends, we’ve got your back
Hindsight is literally the year 2020
I’m not protesty but Jeez
First they came for the Muslims and this Jew stood up today and said no way
No human being is illegal
Impeach Trump
Cory, if I were getting paid, I would have made a better sign
This is not fake news
Refugees are vetted more than Trump’s cabinet
Raise you normal sized fist
Love trumps hate
Will trade one Trump for 500,000 refugees
Ban terrorism not religion
Fight ignorance not immigrants
You’ve got a friend in me
Hug an immigrant
Hate has no room here.

I found myself hoping that the conservative bigots on  talk radio shows saw the signs, but then I realized, who cares?

We all know those bigots and other Muslim haters don’t represent America. We’re better than that.

That’s why we were were in Civic Center Park. So everyone knows our country is better than the bigots, including Trump, who are attacking Muslims–and so everyone knows that, yes, we will protect our Muslim neighbors.

(Photos by Brett Littleton)