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Search results for "Muslim man stabbed multiple times in Utah over his religion, police say"

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Bloggers stated on May 02, 2017 in a web post on ihavethetruth.com:
A University of Texas "student pulled out a concealed handgun" on a knife-wielding suspect "and made him back down."
By W. Gardner Selby• May 10, 2017
Newt Gingrich stated on September 19, 2016 in in a Facebook post and video:
Hillary Clinton said, "with a straight face, that the terrorist attacks this weekend were caused by Donald J. Trump"
By Jim Tharpe• September 23, 2016
Michael Whatley stated on September 06, 2025 in an X post:
Former North Carolina Gov. Roy Cooper “bears direct responsibility” for the fatal stabbing of a woman on the Charlotte rail system.
By Will Doran, Paul Specht• September 12, 2025
Viral image stated on July 21, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“CNN is at it again. Putting a black guy’s head on a lily white dude to push an agenda.”
By Ciara O'Rourke• August 3, 2020
Donald Trump stated on September 24, 2019 in a speech to the U.N. General Assembly:
"80% of the world’s population lives in countries where religious liberty is in significant danger or even completely outlawed."  
By Jon Greenberg• September 25, 2019
Hillary Clinton stated on October 09, 2016 in the second presidential debate:
"We've had Muslims in America since George Washington."
By Miriam Valverde• October 13, 2016
Viral image stated on February 04, 2019 in a Facebook post:
Muslim immigrants were responsible for 11,000 of 13,000 knife attacks in London in the past 12 months.
By Ciara O'Rourke• February 8, 2019
Michael McCaul stated on October 31, 2017 in an interview by Fox News:
Says the New York bike path assault "was the ninth vehicle assault used by ISIS."
By W. Gardner Selby• November 10, 2017
Franklin Graham stated on August 19, 2010 in an interview on CNN:
"The seed of Muslim is passed through the father."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• August 26, 2010
Facebook posts stated on June 08, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“The point of defunding the Police in Minneapolis is that Minnesota is where Obama settled 1 Million Islamics. They want Sharia Law.”
By Tom Kertscher• June 17, 2020
Viral image stated on October 08, 2020 in a Facebook post:
An appellate court found Kamala Harris and police “took part in framing and prosecuting a man” for a murder he didn’t commit, paying a key witness $60,000 in relocation benefits for testifying against him.
By Ciara O'Rourke• October 9, 2020
Greg Abbott stated on January 07, 2020 in a press gaggle:
The city of Austin has "removed, seemingly, any legal consequences to the actions where the homeless lie, sleep, where they defecate."
By Madlin Mekelburg• January 24, 2020
Viral image stated on April 15, 2019 in a Facebook post:
A photo shows Muslims laughing in front of a burning Notre Dame.
By Ciara O'Rourke• April 16, 2019
Chain email stated on October 01, 2007 in :
"Obama was enrolled in a Wahabi school in Jakarta. Wahabism is the RADICAL teaching that is followed by the Muslim terrorists who are now waging Jihad against the western world."
By Angie Drobnic Holan• December 20, 2007
Steven Emerson stated on January 10, 2015 in an interview on Fox News:
"There are actual cities" like Birmingham, England, "that are totally Muslim where non-Muslims just simply don’t go in."
By Katie Sanders• January 14, 2015
Newt Gingrich stated on December 12, 2011 in a foreign policy debate with Jon Huntsman in Manchester, N.H., Dec. 12, 2011:
"The Obama administration just issued instructions that terrorism training should not involve any reference to Islam."
By John Gregg• December 14, 2011
Donald Trump stated on June 15, 2016 in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity:
Even among "second and third generation" Muslims in the United States, "there's no real assimilation."
By Louis Jacobson• June 18, 2016
Gordon Robertson stated on April 23, 2011 in a TV interview.:
President Obama was "raised Muslim."
By Sean Gorman• April 28, 2011
Facebook posts stated on February 20, 2020 in a Facebook post:
“Jihad will continue until all the Hindus, Christians, Buddhists, Atheists are killed. Your secularism & tolerance can not change our ideology. Quran does NOT permit survival of Non-Muslims. — Abdullah Zuber.”
By Miriam Valverde• February 29, 2020
Ted Cruz stated on March 28, 2016 in a campaign email:
"The Obama administration has even joined Islamist governments in sponsoring a U.N. resolution that would shred our First Amendment by threatening to make discussion of radical Islamism potentially illegal."  
By Emma Hinchliffe• May 9, 2016

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By Angie Drobnic Holan• August 26, 2010

Obama used a Koran? No, he didn't

By Angie Drobnic Holan• December 20, 2007

Fact-checking misinformation about the George Floyd protests in Minneapolis

By PolitiFact Staff • May 29, 2020

Obama vs. Trump on the phrase 'radical Islam'

By Linda Qiu• June 14, 2016

The conflicting stories about a woman in a wheelchair in the middle of Minneapolis protests

By Ciara O'Rourke• May 29, 2020

The list of 78 terror attacks the White House says the media didn’t cover — but they did

By Lauren Carroll, Linda Qiu• February 8, 2017

Fact-checking false claims about shooter’s identity in Charlie Kirk shooting

By Grace Abels, Maria Briceño, Loreben Tuquero• September 11, 2025

Getting the facts straight about the Founding Fathers

By Lauren Carroll• July 3, 2014

E-mail slams Obama on religion, race

By Angie Drobnic Holan• January 12, 2008

Trump’s immigration ban: 4 key questions answered

By Jon Greenberg• January 29, 2017

Obama is the Antichrist? Puh-leeze!

By Amy Hollyfield• April 2, 2008

Where are Ted Cruz’s Muslim neighborhoods?

By W. Gardner Selby• March 23, 2016

War of words: The fight over 'radical Islamic terrorism'

By Jon Greenberg• December 11, 2015

Donald Trump retweets anti-Muslim videos from far-right Britain First

By Manuela Tobias, Miriam Valverde• November 29, 2017

U.S. would be only country with religious test at border under Trump, Clinton says

By Allison Graves• September 2, 2016

Trump's posts on Brown shooting, Reiner killing highlight a rush to post before facts are known

By Louis Jacobson, Amy Sherman• December 15, 2025

Fact-checking the first night of the 2016 Republican National Convention

By Allison Graves, Neelesh Moorthy• July 19, 2016

PunditFact: Fact-checking the fallout from Bill Maher's Muslim monologue

By Jon Greenberg, Katie Sanders• October 9, 2014

Fact-checking the fallout from Bill Maher's Muslim monologue

By Jon Greenberg, Katie Sanders• October 8, 2014

Why Trump's Muslim ban isn't like Jimmy Carter's actions on Iranians

By Louis Jacobson• December 17, 2015