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stated on August 8, 2026 in X posts:

Michigan Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed “openly calls for Sharia law in America.”

By Amy Sherman • August 10, 2026

Threads posts
stated on July 16, 2024 in a Threads post:

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

By Ciara O'Rourke • July 31, 2024

X posts
stated on May 9, 2024 in an X post:

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

By Sofia Ahmed • May 15, 2024

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

Facebook posts
stated on May 17, 2020 in 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 in a YouTube post:

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

By Ciara O'Rourke • February 25, 2020

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

Facebook posts
stated on April 23, 2019 in a Facebook post:

Says North Carolina banned and criminalized “Islamic Sharia Law”

By Samantha Putterman • May 23, 2019

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stated on May 8, 2019 in 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.’”

By Ciara O'Rourke • May 10, 2019

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stated on May 6, 2019 in 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 in 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 in 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 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

Chain email
stated on December 5, 2017 in 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 in 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 in 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 in a blog post:

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

By Jon Greenberg • July 12, 2017

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