Some religious leaders attending Mayor Bloomberg?s interfaith breakfast Friday expressed solidarity with Muslims upset about Police Department surveillance in their communities while more than a dozen leaders boycotted the yearly gathering that is meant to be a showcase of tolerance.
?I wouldn?t like it to happen to my house of worship,? Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin said at the breakfast of the spying program.
?I would be hurt if it was my faith group that was in this situation or predicament. . . . I see it as the mayor choosing one faith-based group to target.?
The absence of 15 Muslim clerics and civic leaders made little difference to the size of a breakfast roster that totaled more than 360, but it made their concerns about police infiltration of Muslim neighborhoods and mosques a topic of conversation for many.
Bloomberg didn?t directly address the boycott during the event, though he did quote his father as telling him that ?discrimination against anyone is discrimination against everyone.?
He also said: ?We have to keep our guard up, but if we don?t work together we?re not going to be able to have our own freedoms.?
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