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In 2000, Switzerland voted to ban the construction of new minarets, in April of this year France introduced a law to ban the burqa. Now, in Dearborn, Michigan, officials introduced an ordinance to curb the use of garages as hangouts. Is this another attempt to single out Muslim Americans? With over 100,000 Arab-Americans, Dereborn is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1838,"featured_media":4713,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"\n
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