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Al Hunt stated on August 22, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":

"This is not a mosque. It's a cultural center that has a prayer area."

By Robert Farley• August 23, 2010

Kendrick Meek stated on August 15, 2010 in a televised debate in Miami.:

"There’s a mosque inside of the Pentagon."

By Laura Figueroa• August 20, 2010

Instagram posts stated on June 29, 2021 in an Instagram post:

“Muslim BTS fan accidentally plays the song 'Dynamite' instead of Azaan on loudspeakers at 4am; gets arrested.”

By Bill McCarthy• July 1, 2021

Michael Bloomberg stated on August 24, 2010 in a speech:

"There is already a mosque four blocks away."

By Robert Farley• August 26, 2010

Rick Lazio stated on August 17, 2010 in Fox News "Hannity" program.:

A New York imam wants to "have a mosque at Ground Zero.''

By Robert Farley• August 19, 2010

Chain email stated on January 30, 2012 in a chain email:

"This year President Obama canceled the 21st annual National Day of Prayer ceremony at the White House under the ruse of ‘not wanting to offend anyone.' BUT … on September 25, 2009 from 4 AM until 7 PM, a National Day of Prayer FOR THE MUSLIM RELIGION was HELD on Capitol Hill, Beside the White House."

By Caryn Shinske• February 9, 2012

Viral image stated on May 10, 2021 in a Facebook post:

Photos show a photojournalist crying while capturing pictures of the Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem.

By Ciara O'Rourke• May 19, 2021

Debbie Wasserman Schultz stated on December 09, 2015 in an interview on CNN:

Says Marco Rubio said "we should be considering internment" of Muslims, and "maybe we should close down cafes and diners where Muslims gather and in fact compared them to the Nazi party."

By Amy Sherman• December 10, 2015

Donald Trump stated on September 19, 2016 in an interview with Fox News' Bill O'Reilly:

"I never said" that Muslims would be subject to profiling under his policies.

By Louis Jacobson• September 21, 2016

Dan Patrick stated on August 08, 2019 in a TV interview:

Says after the shooting in El Paso, "on Sunday, everyone was going to church in America, praying about this, and the next day when their kids went to school, they weren’t allowed to pray or bring it up."

By Madlin Mekelburg• August 19, 2019

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

Facebook posts stated on June 13, 2020 in a Facebook post:

Says NASCAR “bans the confederate flag but FORCES all their drivers to do Muslim prayer.”

By Samantha Putterman• June 18, 2020

Gordon Robertson stated on April 23, 2011 in a TV interview.:

President Obama was "raised Muslim."

By Sean Gorman• April 28, 2011

Duncan Hunter stated on September 05, 2007 in a debate in Durham, N.H.:

Guantanamo detainees "get taxpayer-paid-for prayer rugs…they had honey-glazed chicken and rice pilaf."

By Bill Adair• September 10, 2007

Franklin Graham stated on October 03, 2010 in ABC's "This Week":

In most Muslim countries, "We can't have a church. We're not able to build synagogues. It's forbidden."

By Robert Farley• October 6, 2010

David Dewhurst stated on September 26, 2014 in a speech in Washington, D.C.:

"Prayer rugs have recently been found on the Texas side of the border in the brush."

By Dylan Baddour• October 19, 2014

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

Donald Trump stated on November 16, 2015 in an interview on MSNBC:

The New York Police Department used to have "surveillance going on in and around mosques in New York City. ... Our mayor totally cut that out."

By Clayton Youngman• November 20, 2015

Sean Hannity stated on April 08, 2015 in a broadcast the Sean Hannity radio show:

"You can’t build a Christian church in Saudi Arabia."

By Jon Greenberg• April 9, 2015

Pipo News stated on November 11, 2017 in a headline:

"Civil war erupts in Sweden as irate Swedes burn nine Muslim refugee centers to the ground"

By Amy Sherman• November 21, 2017

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