PEACE, LOVE ISLAMBERG! 1960s Mantra Is Updated Today By Outpouring At Sufi Enclave By LIBBY CUDMORE • for AllOTSEGO.com ISLAMBERG – In the end, love won. Five-hundred supporters from Oneonta, Cooperstown, Hancock and as far as South Carolina and Georgia stood united with the residents of Islamberg this afternoon against about a dozen “American Bikers United Against Jihad.” The motorcyclists had threatened to harass the Muslim community en masse. But today, only five bikers and five vehicles drove past the Sufi community on a dirt road between Routes 11 and 17 in Delaware County. Even after it was over, the “American Bikers”…
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