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Some religious leaders attending Mayor Michael Bloomberg's interfaith breakfast Friday expressed solidarity with Muslims upset about police department surveillance in their communities while more than a dozen leaders boycotted the yearly gathering that is meant to be a showcase of tolerance.
"I wouldn't like it to happen to my house of worship," Rabbi Robyn Fryer Bodzin said at the breakfast of the spying program first revealed by The Associated Press. "I would be hurt if it was my faith group that was in this situation or predicament. ... I see it as the mayor choosing one faith-based group to target."
The absence of 15 Muslim clerics and civic leaders made little difference to the size of a breakfast roster that totaled more than 360, but it made their concerns about police infiltration of Muslim neighborhoods and mosques a topic of conversation for many.