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Decades-Old Video Doesn’t Show Congresswoman

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Musician Ted Nugent posted a 1989 video of a now-deceased woman who called for “making America Muslim.” He wrongly described her as “the new congresswoman from Michigan.”


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Sharifa Alkhateeb in 2004. But the Muslim scholar’s words are still present — including in a video from 30

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