After a longstanding Muslim community was targeted with vandalism, Christian, Jews and Muslims gathered Friday and vowed to write over the hateful speech with words of peace.
The interfaith gathering took place under shared umbrellas midday Friday at the Abdul Majid Karim Hasan Islamic Center. The center is just over the New Haven-Hamden town line at 870 Dixwell Ave.
For the third time recently, vandals sprayed obscene graffiti on a walls of the center and the home of its eponymous leader.
As a result, religious leaders of all three faiths, under the umbrella of Interfaith Cooperative Ministries (ICM), gathered at the mosque Friday for a press conference followed by prayer. Muslims, Jews and Christians were all well represented at the event. They came from Hartford and Bridgeport as well as New Haven and Hamden. READ MORE
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