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Muslim activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi have launched a crowdfunding\u00a0campaign<\/a>\u00a0to support the repair of a St. Louis Jewish cemetery that was vandalized over the weekend \u2014 and the response has been overwhelming.<\/strong><\/p>\n

The campaign, which aimed to raise $20,000, exceeded its target in three hours \u2014 and had drawn more than $130,000, more than six times its initial target, by Sunday.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are overjoyed to reach our goal,\u201d organizers wrote. \u201cAny additional funds raised in this campaign will assist other vandalized Jewish centers.\u201d<\/p>\n

And example of\u00a0Muslims andd Jews’ cooperation<\/h3>\n

\"cemetery_jews_muslims_1\"<\/a>As many as 200 gravestones were toppled or damaged in the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery. The defacement was discovered on a weekend when 11 Jewish Community Centers received bomb threats.<\/p>\n

In their crowdfunding pitch, Sarsour and El-Messidi appealed to cooperation between Jews and Muslims recorded in the Quran. They say any extra funds will go to repairing vandalism at other Jewish sites.<\/p>\n

\u201cThrough this campaign, we hope to send a united message from the Jewish and Muslim communities that there is no place for this type of hate, desecration, and violence in America,\u201d they wrote.<\/p>\n

Source:<\/strong> FastForward<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Muslim activists Linda Sarsour and Tarek El-Messidi have launched a crowdfunding\u00a0campaign\u00a0to support the repair of a St. Louis Jewish cemetery that was vandalized over the weekend \u2014 and the response has been overwhelming. The campaign, which aimed to raise $20,000, exceeded its target in three hours \u2014 and had drawn more than $130,000, more than six times its initial target, by Sunday. \u201cWe are overjoyed to reach our goal,\u201d organizers wrote. \u201cAny additional funds raised in this campaign will assist other vandalized Jewish centers.\u201d And example of\u00a0Muslims andd Jews’ cooperation As many as 200 gravestones were toppled or damaged in the Chesed Shel Emeth cemetery. The defacement was discovered on a weekend when 11 Jewish Community Centers received bomb threats. In their crowdfunding pitch, Sarsour and El-Messidi appealed to cooperation between Jews and Muslims recorded in the Quran. They say any extra funds will go to repairing vandalism at other Jewish sites. \u201cThrough this campaign, we hope to send a united message from the Jewish and Muslim communities that there is no place for this type of hate, desecration, and violence in America,\u201d they wrote. 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