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simoom7/21/2010 5:17:55 pm PDT

Glenn Beck attempts to stoke outrage over Six Flag’s annual Muslim Family Day, which takes place at the end of Ramadan:
huffingtonpost.com

From a Glenn Beck e-mail blast:

At the very minimum this is one of the worst PR moves of all time. A Six Flags amusement park is having a ‘Muslim Family Day’ which if that’s what they want to do, great! BUT they’ve decided to have the festivities on September 12th - of ALL days, THIS is the one they pick? What in the world were they thinking?

From Beck’s Radio show:

BECK: I can’t imagine that in 1948, they would have had ‘Japanese Day’ at the water park on December 8th.

The history of Muslim Family Day:

History of the Event:

This event was first held at Six Flags Great Adventure, NJ, in September 2000. The event was immediately a huge success. The tragic events of 9/11 that resulted in the loss of thousands of innocent lives, also affected this event directly. The chief organizer, Tariq Amanullah, who worked on the 96th floor of WTC, Tower 2, passed away. The team was unable to come together again till year 2004, when the event came back bigger than ever before.