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Sunday, March 1, 2015

Denmark, Sweden: Muslims hold rallies to reject antisemitism



Via Times of Israel:
More than 700 Swedes staged a protest against extremism outside the Stockholm synagogue Friday following the Copenhagen shootings earlier this month in which two people died

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Outside the synagogue there are now police with machine guns. I’d never seen them carry machine guns in Stockholm before,” Cecilia, a 48-year-old Jewish woman who works at an IT company, said.

“It’s tragic to have to organize an event like this,” she added.

Around 300 people, meanwhile, attended a peace vigil in Copenhagen organised by Danish Muslims.


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