A number of Muslim individuals and organizations offered their support to the American Jewish community following a series of anti-Semitic incidents in recent weeks.
Expressions of support included offers to protect Jewish sites. In a tweet, a former Muslim marine, Tayyib Rashid, pledged: "If your synagogue or Jewish cemetery needs someone to stand guard, count me in. Islam requires it.
Rashid, known by his Twitter handle @MuslimMarine, adds in his Periscope video that "I've seen a tremendous outpouring of love and support from all Americans, from Muslims, from my fellow Jewish Americans, from Christians, from atheists, from everyone".
He aims to open dialogue about "the recent atrocities committed by some hateful people" that were responsible for the "destruction and desecration of the graves of people of Jewish faith" and adds: "I condemn that wholeheartedly and I stand in solidarity with all my Jewish citizens."
His now-viral tweet that has been "liked" by 12,000 supporters prompted an overwhelming number of responses from Jewish Twitter users with one inviting him over for a Passover seder.
This show of solidarity follows an online campaign called Muslims Unite to Repair Jewish Cemetery, which has so far raised more than $115,000 to repair the gravestones toppled over at the Chesed Shel Emeth Cemetery in the St. Louis suburb of University City, Missouri.
Earlier this week, dozens of volunteers from various faiths helped clean up the Mount Carmel Cemetery in Philadelphia, which was vandalized over the weekend.
