The Westboro Baptist Church (WBC), listed as a “hate group” by the Southern Poverty Law Center, planned to picket and protest a Jewish synagogue, Congregation Har Shalom, and the Chabad Jewish Center of Northern Colorado, in Fort Collins, Colorado today.
Congregation Har Shalom, Fort Collins, Colorado - Target for Westboro Baptist Church Anti-Semitic Protests (Photo: Website)
The WBC has a long history of protesting and picketing Jewish synagogues in New York City and throughout the United States, including spreading Holocaust Denial in its videos stating “you lie about the holocaust days.”
Westboro Baptist Church Hate Group Protester with Anti-Semitic Sign "God Hates Jews"
On July 9, 2010, the WBC plans to picket and protest a Jewish house of worship in Dallas, Texas (Congregation Beth el Binah), as well as the Dallas Holocaust Museum, Jewish Community Center of Dallas, Yavneh Academy of Dallas, and Texas Jewish Post.
The Jewish Star has reported on the WBC: “The automated telephone greeting at the Westboro Baptist Church features a pleasant, Southern-accented female voice who advises if you are a ‘Hindu, Buddhist, Muslim, or Christ-rejecting Jew,’ that ‘God hates you all.'”
On June 24, 2010, the WBC also praised “world terror” and terrorist attacks on humanity. The WBC group has praised terrorist bombings on a Somalia mosque, praised terrorist attacks against Iraqi Christians, and has praised the shooting and the murder of police officers. At the end of April 2010, the Florida-based Dove World Outreach group decided to support and defend the WBC, and held a joint march with the WBC hate group. Dove World Outreach’s objective is to promote a message that “Islam is of the Devil.”
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We condemn such protests against houses of worship as seeking to intimidate and spread fear among those seeking their universal human rights of freedom of worship.
We urge all to Choose Love, Not Hate, Love Wins.
