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issue VII
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april 2016
the marquette
MESSENGER ONE NATION UNDER GOD pg 8-9
Photograph by Abigail Gawart
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hey’re not coming to this country,” Donald Trump, Republican presidential candidate, said one Tuesday night in December, on stage at the fifth Republican debate in Las Vegas. “And if I’m president and if Obama has brought some to this country, they are leaving. They’re going. They’re gone.” Trump was speaking about the 1.6
Muslims worldwide.
billion
In the last few months, terrorist attacks executed by the extremist group called the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) have made headlines from Belgium to Paris and even to the United States, leading many, such as Trump, to call for stricter security measures. In the wake of such events, Islamophobic violence and attitudes also have been on the rise, even in the local community. continued on page 8