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Title: Church with large Arab membership defaced
Post by: mord on January 29, 2009, 07:37:00 AM
Church defaced by pro-Israel, anti-Arab graffiti

January 29, 2009

WASHINGTON (JTA) -- A Maryland church was defaced with pro-Israel and anti-Arab graffiti.

A blue Star of David with the words "Israel forever -- Arabs never" was spray painted on a back door to the Sts. Peter and Paul Antiochian Orthodox Church in the Washington, D.C. suburb of Potomac, Md. Local police said the incident is being investigated as a hate crime.

 
The graffiti was discovered on Jan. 13, according to the Gazette newspaper. The church, according to the newspaper, draws many parishoners of Middle Eastern descent

http://jta.org/news/article/2009/01/29/1002601/church-defaced-by-pro-israel-anti-arab-graffiti