Protestors Decry Presentation on “Islamophobia” at JCC Over 30 protestors gathered in front of the JCC in Manhattan to express their outrage over a forum entitled “Combating Islamophobia.”

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Protestors Decry Presentation on "Islamophobia" at JCC

Over 30 protestors gathered in front of the JCC in Manhattan to express their outrage over a forum entitled "Combating Islamophobia."

By Phyllis Chesler & Fern Sidman

First Publish: 3/16/2012, 10:07 PM

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.

Holding aloft signs and banners reading "What Are Muslims Doing for Peace???", "Burning Churches, Honor Murdering Women. Where is the Muslim Protest?", "Sharia Equals Death", "Since 9/11, Radical Islamists Committed 11,961 Attacks, Killed 75,038, Injured 115,255", "Wake Up! Islam's Goal: Destruction of Our Way of Life", "Stop Billions of Saudi Oil Monet Funding Worldwide Radical Islamic Intolerance and Terror", "The Right of Jews to a Jewish State in Israel," "The Right of Muslims to Convert to Other Religions," the protestors took aim at what they perceived to be the hypocrisy that this event represented...............