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.

  • Mario_Dies.wav
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    529 months ago

    Seems like the people calling with these implicit threats are the ones who are disseminating terror

      • @utopianfiat
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        129 months ago

        The losers are the rest of us who can’t live freely because of the threat of right wing terrorism

      • @agitatedpotato
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        19 months ago

        Id wager organized shit like the jidl is at play, thats how you get enough threats from different enough places to be convincing. Isreal is the original troll farm, been doing it for decades, and no one questions it because its not Russian.