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Facebook posts
stated on January 25, 2023 in a Facebook post:

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

By Ciara O'Rourke • January 31, 2023
Facebook posts
stated on July 4, 2021 in a Facebook post:

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

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 9, 2021
Viral image
stated on January 16, 2020 in a Facebook post:

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

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 20, 2020
Bloggers
stated on January 30, 2020 in a blog post:

“Colorado school forces students to wear hijabs.”

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 14, 2020
Facebook posts
stated on August 19, 2018 in a Facebook post:

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

By Samantha Putterman • August 27, 2019
Ilhan Omar
stated on March 23, 2019 in a speech:

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

By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 15, 2019
Volusia County Republican Party
stated on April 2, 2017 in in an email:

"The United States Department of Education has introduced an Islamic indoctrination program for the public schools, called ‘Access Islam.’ "

By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2017
American Unity PAC
stated on August 30, 2016 in a campaign ad:

Says Ted Strickland supported giving $150 billion to Iranian regime that persecutes women, Christians and gays.

By Nadia Pflaum • September 15, 2016
Ben Shapiro
stated on October 15, 2014 in a YouTube video:

"We’re above 800 million Muslims radicalized, more than half the Muslims on Earth That’s not a minority. That’s now a majority."

By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
stated on March 6, 2014 in a segment on 'The Rush Limbaugh Show':

President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency "into a Muslim outreach department."

By Katie Sanders • March 12, 2014
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 12, 2011 in a foreign policy debate with Jon Huntsman in Manchester, N.H., Dec. 12, 2011:

"The Obama administration just issued instructions that terrorism training should not involve any reference to Islam."

By John Gregg • December 14, 2011
Herman Cain
stated on August 11, 2011 in the GOP debate in Ames, Iowa:

Says that he did "not exactly" say that communities have the right to ban mosques.

By Willoughby Mariano • August 17, 2011