How “Anti-Sharia” Crusaders Turned a City Council Meeting Into Pure Chaos

Allegra Hobbs 1d agoTM

City council members unanimously approved the expansion of a nearly thirty-year-old mosque—over the objections of angry residents riled up by right-wing messaging.

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