“The organizer of a protest at a Phoenix mosque last week watched his GoFundMe campaign to raise $10 million for his family’s security shut down three days after it was set up.
Protest organizer Jon Ritzheimer had a brief moment in the sun when he was interviewed by Anderson Cooper about his “Freedom of Speech Rally Round II,” featuring a “Draw Mohammad” contest.
Ritzheimer saw his protest fizzle, drawing only a few hundred people, with as many opposing him as supporting him and has since made the rally Facebook page unavailable. The former Marine had stated that he would be selling “F*ck Islam” shirts as part of his campaign to promote freedom of speech.”
Read more here:
http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/phoenix-mosque-protest-organizer-launches-10-million-fundraising-bid-fails-miserably/
Cenk Uygur (http://www.twitter.com/cenkuygur), host of The Young Turks, breaks it down.
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