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Some Muslim Leaders Boycott Bloomberg’s Interfaith Breakfast
More than a dozen Muslim clerics and community figures skipped Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s annual interfaith breakfast which is aimed at bringing people together.
Muslim Groups Plan To Boycott Mayor Bloomberg’s Interfaith Breakfast
They say that the rights of Muslims are being “flagrantly violated,” adding they “cannot in good conscience appear at a public gathering with the government official who is ultimately responsible.”
In New York, Ambivalence Over Muslim Surveillance
There is an ambivalence among many New Yorkers in the wake of an Associated Press investigation showing that after 9/11, police began spying on Muslim and Arab neighborhoods, often based only on ethnicity. The competing impulses of civic welcome and civic safety are evident throughout the boroughs.
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