From Newsy
Examples of Islamophobia were identified in a BuzzFeed analysis that highlights anti-Muslim rhetoric. It found government officials in 49 states have made anti-Muslim remarks or proposed anti-Islamic legislation since 2015. In Rhode Island, Republican state Sen. Elaine Morgan emailed: “The Muslim religion and philosophy is to murder, rape, and decapitate anyone who is a non Muslim.” In Nebraska, a state senator retweeted a message that Muslim immigrants should be forced to eat bacon. This directly affects the nearly 3.5 million Muslims living in the U.S. But it could also have a normalizing effect on the rest of the country.
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