by Jill Kaufman
December 17, 2016
The parking lot at the Islamic Society of Western Massachusetts filled up fast, and then drivers parked along the neighborhood side streets. The mosque’s main hall was standing room only. Hundreds showed up Wednesday for an interfaith conversation about hate crimes in the area.
According to the Anti-Defamation League, the number of incidents in Massachusetts are up three-fold since the election.
“How is everyone doing back there?” Mohammad Salim Bajwa asked from the podium. Bajwa, the mosque’s treasurer and a physician in nearby Holyoke, guided half-a-dozen speakers through a more than two-hour talk. An imam, a rabbi, a priest, a representative from the state attorney general’s office and others spoke of unity and available resources.
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