Protesters held rallies across the United States yesterday to denounce sharia law, the Islamic legal and moral code that organisers say poses a threat to American freedoms. ACT for America, a self-described grassroots organisation focusing on national security, staged rallies in New York, Chicago, Boston, Denver and Seattle, as well as many smaller cities. Hundreds of people pledged on social media to attend an event that ACT billed as "March against Sharia." <br/>On the steps of the Pennsylvania state capitol in Harrisburg, barricades and a heavy police presence separated about 60 anti-sharia demonstrators from an equal number of counter-protesters. Many of the latter were dressed in black masks and hoods and chanting "No Trump, no KKK, no Fascist USA." Police said, the atmosphere was tense but the protest went off with no violence and only one arrest.<br/>The KKK stands for right-wing extremist organizations and movements for so called purification of American society.<br/><br/>