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

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 52 points 9 months ago

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

[-] JustZ@lemmy.world 5 points 9 months ago

It's probably one or two total losers.

[-] utopianfiat@lemmy.world 12 points 9 months ago

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

[-] agitatedpotato@lemmy.world 1 points 9 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.

[-] AFKBRBChocolate@lemmy.world 50 points 9 months ago

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

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 30 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 45 points 9 months ago

The terrorists won in Florida.

[-] RedditWanderer@lemmy.world 29 points 9 months ago
[-] Travalanche@lemmy.world 7 points 9 months ago

Land of the Reeeeeeepublicans

[-] TheDankHold@kbin.social 1 points 9 months ago

Whoever told you that was your enemy

[-] kent_eh@lemmy.ca 2 points 9 months ago

Francis Scott Key?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 11 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.

[-] cactusupyourbutt@lemmy.world 4 points 9 months ago

might be as simple as „hey if you host those terrorists we proud boys are going to be there“

[-] prole@sh.itjust.works 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

They cancelled it because they received threats of violence. I don't see anything weird about it? They may be Muslims (not really relevant), and they scheduled a Muslim conference. They received threats from Zionists, and decided to cancel to be safe.

How is that them choosing money/power over their religion? Seems like they were just afraid of violence after being threatened with violence.

[-] maness300@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago

Just another example of Zionists silencing dissent.

We have it happening here on lemmy, too.

They've gone full-force with censorship. Nowhere is safe.

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

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

[-] RBWells@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

In the cities it's fine. In the country it's rednecks. In the legislature it's reactionary backwards idiots because they gerrymander the state to advantage conservatives. Getting worse in some ways as we get overrun with northern conservatives but cities still pretty diverse and tolerant.

[-] massacre@lemmy.world 5 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

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

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world -4 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.

[-] flamingarms@feddit.uk 0 points 9 months ago

They didn't stay out of controversy - they sided with the terrorists and cancelled the conference.

[-] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago

I don’t think a private institution canceling a conference constitutes “siding with terrorists”.

But hey if you want to use inflammatory language for fake internet clout be my guest.

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

How long before sea level rise just submerges Florida?

[-] Kbobabob@lemmy.world 1 points 9 months ago
[-] AbsoluteChicagoDog@lemm.ee 3 points 9 months ago

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

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