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NeoGreen

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Thu Jul 20, 2017, 11:41 AM Jul 2017

Muslim Woman Faces Online Hate After Entering Race to Become AZ Senator [View all]

http://www.patheos.com/blogs/friendlyatheist/2017/07/20/muslim-woman-faces-online-hate-after-entering-race-to-become-az-senator/




Muslim Woman Faces Online Hate After Entering Race to Become AZ Senator
July 20, 2017 by Hemant Mehta

Deedra Abboud is a Muslim-American woman who plans to challenge Republican Sen. Jeff Flake next year when he’s running for re-election in Arizona.

Despite Donald Trump‘s hopefully disastrous effect on the GOP next year, she still has an uphill battle in several ways. She’s Muslim, it’s Arizona, she’s a Democrat, she’s a she…

But yesterday, after she posted a rather innocuous Facebook post with a picture of the Constitution and some patriotic words about the founding of our nation, the bigots came into the comment thread and things got ugly.


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