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After massacre, Canadian Jews form ‘rings of peace’ around mosques
Times of Israel ^ | February 5, 2017 | By Renee Ghert-Zand

Posted on 02/05/2017 1:18:39 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee

Hundreds of Jews and other Canadians formed “rings of peace” around mosques across Canada on Friday in a show of interfaith solidarity with Muslims following a deadly shooting attack during prayers at a Quebec City mosque January 29.

Alexandre Bissonnette, a 27-year-old French Canadian student known for far-right nationalist views, has been charged with six counts of first-degree murder and five counts of attempted murder for the rampage that left six dead and 19 wounded.

The human rings took place at the initiative of Yael Splansky, the senior rabbi at Toronto’s Holy Blossom Temple.

After Splansky floated the idea by her pan-denominational colleagues and gained support from Toronto Board of Rabbis, many of the city’s synagogues worked together to rally people to come out midday on Friday to encircle seven mosques throughout the Greater Toronto Area. The mosques were all receptive to the gesture, and in some cases local churches partnered in the interfaith effort.

Rings of peace and solidarity visits to mosques also took place on Friday in other Canadian cities, including Ottawa, Edmonton, Montreal, Halifax and St. John’s. . .

(Excerpt) Read more at timesofisrael.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News
KEYWORDS: jews; mosques; muslims
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1 posted on 02/05/2017 1:18:39 PM PST by Brad from Tennessee
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Useful idiots are so useful!


2 posted on 02/05/2017 1:20:20 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (President Trump is coming, and the rule of law is coming with him.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Virtue signaling in overdrive.


3 posted on 02/05/2017 1:20:53 PM PST by proust (Trump / Pence 2016!)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Shouldn’t these Jews be protesting against Israel for not accepting massive numbers of Islamic refugees?

Why are they agitating for Islamic immigration into the West, but not Israel?


4 posted on 02/05/2017 1:21:15 PM PST by Meet the New Boss
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To: Brad from Tennessee

To whom are they denying entry?
What if a normal person simply wishes to visit a mosque to see what they're all about?
That is not inclusive, diverse, or open-minded!

5 posted on 02/05/2017 1:21:54 PM PST by Blue Jays ( Rock hard ~ Ride free)
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To: Brad from Tennessee
Do you think they would do the same for you? Just idiocy.


6 posted on 02/05/2017 1:24:34 PM PST by Telepathic Intruder (The only thing the Left has learned from the failures of socialism is not to call it that)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

And have we ever seen moslems attempt to protect synagogues or churches???


7 posted on 02/05/2017 1:25:29 PM PST by NoKoolAidforMe (Donald Trump is going to be the 45 president of the United States. Accept reality.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Suicidal fools.

They will buy boxcars so the muzzies can transport them to the camps.


8 posted on 02/05/2017 1:26:07 PM PST by dsc (Any attempt to move a government to the left is a crime against humanity.)
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To: E. Pluribus Unum
> Useful idiots are so useful!

And they are really going to feel like idiots when they learn that the Muslims carried out the attack against their own mosque for sympathy.

9 posted on 02/05/2017 1:29:34 PM PST by jsanders2001
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To: Meet the New Boss

Israel is already 20% Muslim, but I think these particular protesters would be happy to protest against Israel as well.


10 posted on 02/05/2017 1:29:50 PM PST by rightwingcrazy
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To: Brad from Tennessee
After massacre, Canadian Jews form ‘rings of peace’ around mosques

I see now how the Nazis (Soros included) were able to march SIX MILLION to the gas chambers with almost no resistance.

11 posted on 02/05/2017 1:30:44 PM PST by The Sons of Liberty (Soros first political party quit collecting dues in 1945, now hes right at home as a marxist dem)
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To: proust

12 posted on 02/05/2017 1:31:10 PM PST by Fiddlstix (Warning! This Is A Subliminal Tagline! Read it at your own risk!(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: NoKoolAidforMe

The only time you see Muslimbs surround a church is when they are getting ready to destroy it.


13 posted on 02/05/2017 1:32:28 PM PST by Flavious_Maximus
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Sheep showing solidarity with wolves.


14 posted on 02/05/2017 1:32:37 PM PST by beethovenfan (I always try to maximize my carbon footprint.)
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They are insane!

Those Muslims in those mosques they are defending would cheerfully watch them die and help kill them.


15 posted on 02/05/2017 1:33:16 PM PST by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: rightwingcrazy

If they think Muslims are so wonderful, let them go emigrate to Pakistan.


16 posted on 02/05/2017 1:34:50 PM PST by Meet the New Boss
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To: NoKoolAidforMe
Muslims have destroyed hundreds of thousands of Christian churches, Hindu temples, Jewish synagogues, and every other religion's worship sites over the past 1,400 years.

The term "virtue signaling" applies here, and is a manifestation of misguided human pridefulness.

17 posted on 02/05/2017 1:34:54 PM PST by wildandcrazyrussian
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To: Brad from Tennessee

They think that ingratiating themselves to the Muslims will now make them love them... The fools never learn.


18 posted on 02/05/2017 1:35:06 PM PST by aquila48
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To: Brad from Tennessee
"Hundreds of Jews..."

"Hundreds of Jews self-loathing retards..."

19 posted on 02/05/2017 1:36:02 PM PST by EEGator
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To: Brad from Tennessee

Islamic extremists will see this moral preening as proof of the weakness of the Jews and the rightness of their cause in that Allah has made the Jews step forward to protect their mosques.


20 posted on 02/05/2017 1:36:08 PM PST by Rockingham
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