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Religion and refugees are deeply entwined in the US

  • Written by Stephanie J. Nawyn, Associate Professor of Sociology and Co-Director of the Center for Gender in Global Context, Michigan State University
Rally organized by HIAS, a Jewish group that supports refugees, outside the White House.Ted Eytan/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA

Robert Bowers lashed out at what he believed to be a Jewish plot to bring more refugees and asylum seekers to the U.S. before allegedly murdering 11 people at the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh.

Bowers’s claim that HIAS,...

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