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By Harry Bruinius, Staff writer Josh Kenworthy, EqualEd Fellow at the Christian Science Monitor
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2016/1213/Pastors-tell-Muslims-We-will-stand-with-you
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BOSTON AND NEW YORK On Monday, Bob Roberts got on a plane to head to Washington. The evangelical pastor from Keller, Texas, had a message he wanted to send to the nations Muslims.
Im here today, to say as a Southern Baptist, I want you Muslims to know, I love you, I care about you, I support your right of religious freedom, Mr. Roberts told those gathered at a mosque on Monday. I will stand with you, and there are many of us.
Its a message thats being delivered in cities like Boston, where 2,600 people poured into a mosque Sunday night for an interfaith service, and Nashville, Tenn., where residents created a chalk mural of support outside a mosque. And its being heard in Phoenix, where hundreds of residents including the mayor lined up to buy food from a Lebanese baker whose front windows were shattered multiple times by a vandal.
When a business owner showed up to donate new windows, the Arizona Republic reported, the bakery owner, Isam Saed, asked him who sent him. The world, Rick Pyle, owner of M&M Glass Co., replied.
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(34,582 posts)Pyle is my mother's maiden name. I am glad someone is keeping it up.