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

submitted 9 months ago by DocMcStuffin@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

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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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[–] LinkOpensChest_wav@lemmy.dbzer0.com 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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

[–] JustZ@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago (2 children)

It's probably one or two total losers.

[–] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 10 points 9 months ago

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

[–] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 41 points 9 months ago (1 children)

They'll of course cancel any Christian conferences if people protest that the insurrectionists were largely Christians, right? Right?

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 25 points 9 months ago

No, they send the national guard to defend the insurrection. Because it's the white thing to do

[–] guacupado@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The terrorists won in Florida.

[+] kerrypacker@lemmy.world -12 points 9 months ago (2 children)

They win in Australia by holding massive protests calling for Jews to be exterminated and our government protects them. Which reality do you prefer?

[–] lingh0e@sh.itjust.works 5 points 9 months ago (1 children)

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?

[–] jaxxed@lemmy.world -3 points 9 months ago

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"

[–] eskimofry@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

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?

[–] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 24 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Land of the freee

[–] Travalanche@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Land of the Reeeeeeepublicans

[–] TheDankHold@kbin.social 2 points 9 months ago

Whoever told you that was your enemy

[–] vodkasolution@feddit.it 7 points 9 months ago

How much is Florida full of s****y people?!

[–] massacre@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

So we've progressed from Cancel Culture to Cancel Terrorism? Threats to judges, prosecutors, politicians and now hotels. Cowards

[–] bedrooms@kbin.social 4 points 9 months ago (1 children)

The blame should go to the idiots who made the calls.

[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world -2 points 9 months ago

I don’t fault the hotel for wanting to stay out of any controversy. They are a business that offers a safe place to stay. I wouldn’t want to endanger my other guests or cause concern over any possible protests.

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 3 points 9 months ago

Here's what makes this weird though. I looked up the owners of that hotel.

An entity controlled by Malik Abdulnoor and Sahir Malki Abdulnoor bought the four-story, 110-room hotel at 620 North University Drive in Coral Springs, according to records and Vizzda. The deal breaks down to roughly $155,000 per room.

https://therealdeal.com/miami/2023/03/30/michigan-hoteliers-pay-17m-for-courtyard-by-marriott-in-coral-springs/

They have Middle Eastern names and they're from Michigan. That makes them highly likely to be Muslims.

I'm not saying this would be the first time someone chose money or power over their religion, but you must admit that makes it weird.

[–] darkmatterstyx@lemmy.world 2 points 9 months ago

How long before sea level rise just submerges Florida?

[–] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 1 points 9 months ago

If they did this to Christians the hotel would be burned to the ground