Six Flags theme park hosts Muslim Day
Today is Eid, a Muslim holiday marking the end of Ramadan. The World’s Alex Gallafent visits Six Flags Great Adventure theme park in New Jersey for what’s billed there as Muslim Family Day. One of the original organizers was a Muslim investment banker who died in the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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