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During his witch-hunt congressional hearings, Peter King also used falsified information to claim over eight of ten American mosques advocate radical Islam, threatening US security.
Super-hawk racist Frank Gaffney of the Center for Security Policy also repeats the same lies in his campaign to prevent US mosque construction, and Islamophobe Gary Bauer claims unnamed "experts" support his allegation that individuals disseminating "radical Wahhabist ideology" fund 80% of American mosques.
In fact, a 2010 Duke/University of North Carolina Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security study showed Muslim American communities use mosques and affiliated community groups to fight against violent extremism.
Nonetheless, vicious hatemongering persists. Other examples include:
-- ACT! for America claims public schools secretly convert students to Islam, "literally brainwashing (them) to prepare them to turn against our own soldiers and our own military and government by basically feeding them the talking points of al-Qaeda;"
-- The Oak Initiative's Rick Joyner tells parents that public school texts are replacing Founding Fathers with Muslims;
-- the American Family Association claims Mattel's Little Mommy Cuddle 'n Coo dolls tell children "Islam is the light;"
-- in 2010, numerous Islamophobes attacked the Miss USA pageant after it chose a Muslim America the winner; and
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