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guillaumeb

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Fri Jun 9, 2017, 08:40 PM Jun 2017

The bigots behind the "anti-Sharia" marches [View all]

From the article:

"ON JUNE 10, demonstrations are slated to take place in more than two dozen cities across the U.S. against the supposed threat of Islamic "Sharia law."
Why, exactly, are protests needed against something the majority of Americans don't know anything about, that doesn't exist in the U.S. on any institutional level, and that isn't actually a threat to anyone?
Because it's an easy opportunity for the right wing to whip up anti-Muslim sentiment--and capitalize on the racist rhetoric of the bigot-in-chief occupying the White House."

To read more:

http://socialistworker.org/2017/06/08/the-bigots-behind-the-anti-sharia-marches

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