A South Florida Marriott Hotel canceled a Muslim group’s conference at the last minute after a protest group claimed the coalition was promoting Hamas, terrorism and antisemitism.
The South Florida Muslim Federation, a coalition of about 30 mosques and Islamic groups, said Friday that it was told by the Marriott Coral Springs Hotel and Convention Center that its conference was being canceled because of security concerns after it received 100 calls demanding it bars the group. This weekend’s second annual conference was expected to draw more than a thousand people.
Kakli said that even before Marriott raised security concerns, his group hired Coral Springs police officers and private guards for protection. He said he told Marriott that the federation would hire more, but was rebuffed.
Kakli denied that he or his group supports terrorism or antisemitism. He said those accusations are often made against Muslims who criticize Israel, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government and its treatment of Gaza to strip them and their arguments of legitimacy.
You’re suggesting that the group trying to have a conference in Florida is tied to whatever zionist bullshit you’re spouting about Australia?
Or are you suggesting that simply being Muslim is a reason to think they’re anti-semetic?
Or are you suggesting that we have to pick either jews or muslims?
Or are you suggesting that the conference deserved the threats of violence?
I’m saying what I said, none of the really stupid reinterpretations you have said.
So what is your point then? Please, explain your words.
But if they explain them they can’t keep up the dog whistling
Dudes digging himself in a deeper hole than a New York Rabbi.
Op was suggesting that you should be happy with the level of intolerance that the event shows, with a lightly implied “or else it could get worse”