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Friday's meeting of the Social Action Network at Congregation Kol Ami had a different look than usual.
The women wore headscarves in solidarity with their Muslim friends.
Interfaith leaders urged Utahns of all faiths to wear hijabs (headscarves), Jewish yarmulkes, Sikh turbans, red dots on their foreheads or green ribbons Friday as symbols of support for "freedom of religion without persecution."
The call came in response to anti-Islamic rhetoric in the wake of the Paris and San Bernardino terrorist attacks.
"In the Abrahamic faiths, one of the commandments is to love the stranger, because we've all been strangers," Rabbi Ilana Schwartzman of Congregation Kol Ami, Utah's largest Jewish synagogue, said Thursday. "We want to make sure our community is a place of friendship and peace."