Protestors Decry Presentation on "Islamophobia" at JCC

by Phyllis Chesler and Fern Sidman
Israel National News
March 16, 2012

http://www.phyllis-chesler.com/1079/protestors-islamophobia-jcc

Excerpt:

On Wednesday evening, March 14^th, over 30 protestors representing both Jewish and human rights organizations gathered in front of the Jewish Community Center on Manhattan's upper west side to express their outrage over a forum entitled "Combating Islamophobia."

Moderated by former first daughter Chelsea Clinton, the panelists included Rabbi Marc Schneier, co-founder of the Foundation For Ethnic Understanding, which fosters "twinning" programs between mosques and synagogues and Imam Shamsi-Ali, the spiritual leader of the Islamic Cultural Center of New York and the chairman of the Al-Hikmah mosque in Astoria.

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