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Hatewatch Headlines 12/17/2015

Ugly voice mail at black Charleston church; Candidates run from anti-Muslim violence queries; Robber calls Indian store clerk terrorist before shooting; and more.

WCIV-TV (Charleston, SC): Someone leaves voice mail at Emanuel Church: ‘It’s Dylann. I’m coming back.’

Think Progress: They asked GOP candidates about the surge in anti-Muslim violence, and then things got awkward.

Washington Post: Meet the Islamophobe who’s inspiring Donald Trump to redefine terrorism.

Salon: Another Donald Trump rally crowd turns vicious when black protesters ejected.

MLive (Grand Rapids, MI): Robber called Indian store clerk a ‘terrorist’ before shooting him in the face.

Right Wing Watch: Tennessee legislator says he was called by God to warn that gay marriage is ‘wicked.’

Seattle Times: Two high-school students arrested, expelled for threatening black classmates with lynching.

Richmond Times-Dispatch (VA): Third suspect in white-supremacist domestic-terrorism case is arraigned.

Huffington Post: Five ways journalists can avoid Islamophobia in their coverage.

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