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Threads posts
stated on July 16, 2024 a Threads post

Switzerland “no longer recognizes Islam as an official religion.”

July 31, 2024

X posts
stated on May 9, 2024 an X post

Video shows Muslim migrants in Sweden destroying property because an Israeli singer took part in Eurovision.

May 15, 2024

Facebook posts
stated on January 25, 2023 a Facebook post

Video shows a “man burning the Quran in Sweden.”

January 31, 2023

Facebook posts
stated on July 4, 2021 a Facebook post

A Canadian mayor said Muslims must integrate after they “demanded removal of pork in all school canteens in Montreal.”

July 9, 2021

Facebook posts
stated on May 17, 2020 a Facebook post

Trump re-signed 1952 law “making Muslamic law illegal”

By Emily Venezky • May 22, 2020

Viral image
stated on February 18, 2020 a YouTube post

Says 20 million Chinese converted to Islam after it’s proven that the coronavirus doesn’t affect Muslims.

February 25, 2020

Viral image
stated on January 16, 2020 a Facebook post

Says if you take the oath of office on the Koran, “then you have committed treason.”

February 20, 2020

Bloggers
stated on January 30, 2020 a blog post

“Colorado school forces students to wear hijabs.”

February 14, 2020

Facebook posts
stated on August 19, 2018 a Facebook post

Says "Muhammad owned many slaves" while Robert E. Lee was "against slavery."

By Samantha Putterman • August 27, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2019 a Facebook post

Says North Carolina banned and criminalized "Islamic Sharia Law"

By Samantha Putterman • May 23, 2019

Viral image
stated on May 8, 2019 a Facebook post

"The city of Minneapolis has set up a Sharia hotline for residents to report citizens who criticize Islam, in order to prosecute them for ‘hate crimes.’"

May 10, 2019

Viral image
stated on May 6, 2019 a Facebook post

Says a photo of a young girl crying alongside an ISIS member is a Christian being forced into sexual slavery as a child bride.

By Samantha Putterman • May 7, 2019

Facebook posts
stated on May 3, 2019 a Facebook post

Quotes Valerie Jarrett as saying she is an "Iranian by birth" and seeks to "change America to be a more Islamic country"

By Samantha Putterman • May 7, 2019

Viral image
stated on April 19, 2019 a Facebook post

An image of a woman buried up to her neck and drinking a spoonful of water was from Iran and taken just before she was "stoned to death" under Sharia Law.

By Samantha Putterman • April 23, 2019

Ilhan Omar
stated on March 23, 2019 a speech

Says that the Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded in response to 9/11.

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 15, 2019

Chain email
stated on December 5, 2017 a chain email

Says Russian President Vladimir Putin got a standing ovation from the Duma after he gave a speech saying Muslims are "taking over" other countries but won't take over Russia.

By Sophie Kaplan • December 11, 2017

Bloggers
stated on September 7, 2017 a fake news article

"Georgia mosque keeps Hurricane Harvey donations, will send to Syrian refugees instead"

By Greg Auman, Jon Greenberg • September 11, 2017

Roy Moore
stated on August 14, 2017 an interview with Vox.com

"There are communities under Sharia law right now in our country. Up in Illinois. ... There’s Sharia law, as I understand it, in Illinois, Indiana -- up there. I don't know."

By Louis Jacobson • August 16, 2017

Bloggers
stated on June 30, 2017 a blog post

Says "CNN host Fareed Zakaria calls for jihad rape of white women."

By Jon Greenberg • July 12, 2017

Bloggers
stated on June 24, 2017 Internet posts

Minnesota imposed an Islamic anti-blasphemy law.

By John Kruzel • July 3, 2017

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