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A Florida hotel cancels a Muslim conference, citing security concerns after receiving protest calls

apnews.com A Florida hotel cancels a Muslim conference, citing security concerns after receiving protest calls

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.

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The terrorists won in Florida.
- They win in Australia by holding massive protests calling for Jews to be exterminated and our government protects them. Which reality do you prefer?
  
  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"
  
  Only people crying about jews being exterminated are people like you who can't distinguish between calling israeli actions in Gaza a genocide vs. Retaliating against Hamas specifically. How deliberately do you people muddy the waters so people can't question the clearly more powerful force of IDF?
  It's not like people who hate what the IDF is doing are completely oblivious to some level of antisemitism. Extremists shouldn't be spared. But people that shout about Jews being targeted in hate speech seem to either be too daft to separate the wheat from the chaff or have their own agenda when they can't stop and say "wait a minute... The government of Israel is commiting genocide. Even their own citizens have been jailed and harrassed for stating as such. If that is true then there must be similarly anti-hamas palistinians on the other side. We are fighting for the same things!"
  Do you think the world has suddenly forgotten about what Jews went through? Or is it a more realistic situation were people are aware of that past and yet found it important to criticize Israel for repeating history?
  
  I don't think you know what's been happening in Australia. Stop getting confused.
  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/10/pro-palestine-rally-sydney-opera-house-protest-australia-leaders-condemn-anti-jewish-chants
  
  You posted a three month old article. I don't think you know whats been happening in Gaza in those three months. If anyone is confused it's you.
  
  Albanese told Sky News the images from the rally were “horrific”, featuring “slogans which are antisemitic and just appalling, with no place”.
  Glad to see that they weren't able to quote anything that was being said. It was just too horrific. Did the protestor utter the extremely anti Semitic phrase
  From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free

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