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'Muslims'

Former Congressional candidate Chintan Desai calls Jason Rapert a "[bleeping] disgrace" after Rapert's anti-Muslim comments

Rapert frets about Muslim voter turnout. He asks: "Do you want them ruling everything in America?"
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Another court declines to enforce Trump travel ban

The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, not known for its liberalism, voted 10-3 to keep in place an injunction against Donald Trump's attempt to ban travelers from certain Muslim-majority countries.
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Their home, too

Rasha Alzahabi is one of thousands of Arkansans whose families have been impacted by President Trump's travel ban.

Will states protect their citizens from federal data digs? Few stand up.

Will states prevent federal prying into state records to create registries of Muslims or immigrants. The results of a nationwide survey found little support for the idea.
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Governor says bills targeting Sharia law and 'sanctuary campuses' are unnecessary

At a press conference this morning to sign his military retiree tax cut into law, Governor Hutchinson gave critical remarks about two pieces of legislation by Rep. Brandt Smith (R-Jonesboro) that seem to target immigrants.

Committee approves bill targeting Sharia law

In other states, such legislation has been introduced based on a theory that's circulated among conspiracy theorists on the right: Sharia, or Islamic law, is secretly infiltrating the American judicial and political systems and must be preempted.
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Trump immigration protest at LR: Quick and fierce

It was not even 24 hours ago that Sophia Said, director of the Interfaith Center; City Director Kathy Webb and others decided to organize a protest today of Donald Trump's executive order that has left people from Muslim countries languishing in airports or unable to come to the US at all — people with visas, green cards,a  post-doc graduate student en route to Harvard, Google employees abroad, families. I got the message today before noon; others didn't find out until it was going on. But however folks found out, they turned out in huge numbers, more than thousand men, women and children, on the grounds of the state Capitol to listen to speakers from all faiths and many countries.

'Would my son have a place in your America?'

The father of a Muslim soldier who died saving U.S. comrades in combat has a question for Donald Trump. We'd ask it, too, of Tom Cotton.
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Rapert claims victory over Facebook; either way, he still doesn't get 1st Amendment

Sen. Jason Rapert sent me a Tweet early this morning claiming that Facebook had relented and reinstated some anti-Muslim Facebook posts that had been removed for violation of the private social media company's "community standards." True or not, he still doesn't get the U.S. Constitution.

Jason Rapert: Goes off again on Muslims; erupts again over Facebook edit

Sen. Jason Rapert's anti-Muslim views have won him national attention again. His call to ban entry of Muslims to the U.S. apparently got him taken down on Facebook and the senator is NOT happy about it.
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Conway woman, a Christian, attracts attention with hijab

Interesting little story in the D-G's River Valley & Ozark edition on Nancy Allen, a librarian from Conway who wears a hijab, the traditional headscarf worn by Muslim women, even though Allen herself is a Christian. Allen tells the paper that she is “supporting the Muslim-American community and freedom of religion."

Terror panic: This time it strikes a Fort Smith mall

Add a Fort Smith mall to the unfounded fear of terrorism list. Complaints by shoppers led to the removal of a Muslim couple seen making cell phone recordings in the Central Mall.
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