The tragedy in Chapel Hill shows us the stark reality of antiMuslim bigotry: hate speech and scapegoating has real life consequences. Children are bullied in schools. houses of worship are vandalized. and people are killed for the way they dress or how they pray. Candidates for public office. public officials. and leaders are spewing hatred against American Muslims. calling for Muslim refugees to be banned from entering the country. or for Muslims living hereincluding some that were born and raised as Americanshould carry ID cards or register their names in a database. This type of rhetoric is why our young children are afraid to go to school and why people are being killed because of how they look or how they pray. After the murder. some people in the press argued that it was over a parking dispute.
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Muslims are being unfairly targeted with hate speech and scapegoating.