Counter-protesters were reportedly "dressed in black masks and hoods" and could be heard chanting, "No Trump, no KKK, no Fascist USA'".
The group Act for America organized the march in Waterbury.
ACT says the protest against Sharia Law is a "human rights" issue, and claims they have nothing against Muslims in general. "When that misinformation spreads, it makes life in the United States risky for the Muslims who are here".
Across the United States, counter-protests were drawn to demonstrations against #Islamic Law by people who encouraged unfounded fears and inaccurate view of the religion.
"Their beliefs do not abide by the Constitution of the United States, so our job today is to educate people to make them understand", he said.
Competing rallies about Islam, particularly the religion's rules known as Sharia law, evolved from peaceful marches to shouting matches near the beach in Oceanside on Saturday.
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Anti-Shariah protesters said their demonstration in Santa Clara and San Jose Saturday was organized in response to what they consider to be an existential threat to American democracy.
With the protest over.
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"Radical Islam is a cancer that will destroy the world if we don't confront it and defeat it", Schildmeier said.
A right-wing group protesting Islamic law, or Sharia, clashed with counter-demonstrators at rallies in Denver, Chicago, Seattle, Minneapolis and other cities on Saturday. Scuffles broke out on the approach to the Capitol and State Troopers took at least four people into custody.
But the overwhelming majority of Muslims don't want to replace U.S. law with Islamic law, known as Sharia, and only "radical extremist groups" would call for that, said Liyakat Takim, a professor of Islamic studies at McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
When President Donald Trump campaigned a year ago, he said he wanted to test Muslims coming into America to make sure they don't want Sharia law to supersede the US Constitution. But except for one brief moment when one group crossed the street to confront another - only to be herded back by police - there were no reports of violence and no arrests, police spokeswoman Eileen Hards said. "They are exercising their right to freedom of speech and as long as they don't get violent it's fine", he said.
Equally enthusiastic, however, were the considerably larger groups of opponents who showed up in each locale, to denounce the group's message of fear and hate.
That's why Mark Lori says he attended the anti-Sharia Law Rally.
The marches were on the backdrop of an uptick in anti-Muslim incidents, including arson and vandalism at mosques, harassment of women wearing Muslim head-covering and bullying of Muslim schoolchildren, according to The Associated Press.
It said anti-sharia organizers were actually "against all Muslims" and were creating a climate in which extremists felt emboldened to carry out attacks on Muslims. "We were marching, they ran up to us...they came out and attacked us".
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