Police Now Have Machine Guns to Help Protect My Synagogue

According to new directives, police officers guarding Jewish buildings in Sweden should now carry automatic rifles, The Local reports. I don’t know what I feel about the sight of heavily armed policemen guarding my synagogue. It’s great that they take the threat to Swedish Jews seriously, but it’s a worrying reminder of the violent hatred against us Jews. It also bothers me that a small minority of Muslim thugs have hijacked Islam and turned an entire religion into a perceived threat to our civil liberties.