(The Conversation) — In a recent tweet, President Trump stated that ranchers have been finding prayer rugs scattered along the U.S.-Mexico border. Late last year, he tweeted that “criminals and ...

(RNS) — A Muslim convert, Mustafa Dustin Craun cherishes a brown prayer rug he bought on his first Umrah pilgrimage to the sacred site of Mecca more than 15 years ago. Unlike the Hajj, the mandatory ...

The southwest border fence in Arizona, circa 2011. (Donna Burton/CBP) President Trump fanned the flames of a rumor on Friday by tweeting about an unsubstantiated Washington Examiner story of a New ...

Another hole: While people of the Muslim faith surely cross the Mexico-Texas border – that’s not at issue in this fact check – it’s unreasonable to presume the presence of prayer rugs means ...

Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst has twice declared the discovery of “prayer rugs” on the Texas side of the border with Mexico and suggested that members of the Islamic State group have possibly sneaked in. At ...

Taxpayers footed the bill for prayer rugs at a St. Cloud school district after a lawsuit was brought by CAIR. On 29 March 2016 the web site US Herald published an article reporting that Muslim ...

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In a recent tweet, President Donald Trump stated that ranchers have been finding prayer rugs scattered along the U.S.-Mexico border. Late last year, he tweeted that “criminals and unknown Middle ...