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The Finnish princess, expecting to visit her American friend, did not expect to hear of her uncle being injured in the Christchurch mosque in New Zealand. She remembered crying and standing in solidarity with the victims of the massacre in New Haven, Connecticut. About her.

Dozens gathered Wednesday evening in a public corner in downtown Newhaven to express their solidarity with the victims of the massacre that killed 50 worshipers. The majority of speakers blamed the rise of Muslim hate crimes against US President Donald Trump.

A princess of Al Jazeera Net says she is not shocked by the amount of hatred that is spreading in Europe, America and all over the world towards Muslims, but ruled out that this attack is the latter.

"It's a joke to say hatred was found because of Trump, but the difference is that he gave them the green light to get out and it's very scary now," said her friend Basia, a US Jewish student at Yale University.

Princess (left) and her friend Basia (Al Jazeera)

In a speech by Waterbury activist Fahad Syed, Trump stressed that Trump has been attacking minorities in the country and inspiring terrorists from the far right, leading them to commit many crimes against blacks, Latins and Muslims, and in the US Congress where the attack is still against the veiled Muslim MP Elhan Omar led by AIPAC.

The American Socialist Party member Norman Calmant hopes that the murderer will be punished. He linked him to Trump, who, he said, contributed to inciting Islamophobia and hatred against Muslims. He said that Trump worked on demonizing Muslims and Arabs with his words and deeds and stressed his presence in the stand to express His party was outraged by the massacre.

"We have a president who has not apologized for just an apology and has shown no sympathy or compassion for what happened in New Zealand," said the imam of Islam's New York mosque, Saif al-Din, who agrees with him: "We are all American immigrants, but the Indians are the only ones who are considered indigenous. Someone comes and says they are invaders, all immigrants came from countries in wars and tragedies seeking only a decent life. "

The 18-year-old Syrian refugee, Noor al-Zu'bi, came to the United States with her family to the United States in 2016 to receive a speech about peace in Islam, sending greetings to those who lost their lives praying at Christ Church , And expressed its shock at the massacre as an attack on humanity and not only on Muslims.

The Council is trying to monitor hate crimes and the state government is monitoring only 40 percent, according to the FBI's 2018 report. "But because of this low rate we can not tell if we have a real problem in the state."

Americans wear hijab in solidarity and at the invitation of "visit my mosque" (Al Jazeera)

On Friday, dozens of non-Muslims answered the invitation of the Islamic Center of the city of Bridgeport, entitled "Visit my mosque," where they followed Friday prayers and sermons condemning the crime and stressed that all religions call for peace and love between people and renounce violence.

After the prayer, a panel discussion was held on the causes of the growing hatred. Olga, an American of Cuban origin, spoke about her conversion to Islam and how she changed her life with her Christian parents who had prejudices about the Muslims.

Olga said that idea changed over the years she spent explaining how she worshiped one god like them, the difference that she did not eat pork or drink alcohol, and other women shared their experiences wearing headscarves and some of the sometimes ridiculous and sometimes mischievous situations.

Dr. Khalid Al-Leithi, head of the center, said the event came as a series of meetings to invite non-Muslims to visit the mosque, meet Muslims and learn about Islam, and hoped that a number of recommendations would be agreed upon to deliver them to Congressional representatives in Congress.

Al-Leithi pointed out that there is a deficiency in education, culture, laws and the media in general, pointing out that such visits and discussions contribute to reducing the increase in the wave of hatred and violence against different religions.