Muslims finance recovery Jewish cemetery

new york - American Muslims have converted fetched 80,000 euros by vandals damaged headstones to fix a Jewish cemetery. The damage at a cemetery in St. Louis in Missouri were accompanied by threats to Jewish institutions on the Internet.

About 170 tombstones were killed kicks or damaged. Many people regarded the action as another example of anti-Semitism after the election of Donald Trump as president emerged. During his campaign, he received strong support from white nationalists and far-right groups.

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Muslims who picked the money for the restoration of the tombstones, show on their website solidarity with Jews and condemned 'the heinous manifestation of desecration' in the cemetery. Remarkably, the Jewish cemetery itself refused to comment on the gift.