Muslims upset by NY police to boycott mayor event
Fifteen Muslim clerics and community leaders say they will boycott New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's annual interfaith breakfast Friday over a police effort to gather intelligence on Muslim neighborhoods, whose existence was revealed recently in a series of Associated Press articles.
The breakfast has long served as a way to showcase the city's diversity and tolerance. "I couldn't be there while knowing that the mayor supports, if not established, this warrantless spying apparatus," said Hesham El-Meligy, founder of the Building Bridges Coalition of Staten Island. (AP)
