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Abdul El-Sayed Promoted Infamous Hijab Hate Crime Hoax, Despite Warnings from Police

Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed falsely claimed in a 2012 essay that an Iraqi refugee in California was brutally murdered in an anti-Muslim attack because she had the "courage to wear a Hijab." In truth, Shaima Alawadi's

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Democratic Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed falsely claimed in a 2012 essay that an Iraqi refugee in California was brutally murdered in an anti-Muslim attack because she had the "courage to wear a Hijab." In truth, Shaima Alawadi's husband killed her in an act of domestic violence that he staged to look like a hate crime. The post Abdul El-Sayed Promoted Infamous Hijab Hate Crime Hoax, Despite Warnings from Police appeared first on .

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