These fearmongering tweets bear an uncanny resemblance to a 2018 action film, “Sicario: Day of the Soldado.”Its trailer shows a scene of a Muslim man praying and a row of prayer rugs at the ...

(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.

This time it is the prayer rug. These fearmongering tweets bear an uncanny resemblance to a 2018 action film, “Sicario: Day of the Soldado.” Its trailer shows a scene of a Muslim man praying ...

Trump recently tweeted about prayer rugs being left along the border. Many may not know the role and history of Muslim prayer rugs and why they are not likely to be left behind.

David Dewhurst, then the lieutenant governor of Texas, repeated the prayer rug claim twice in 2014 to support his belief that the Islamic State was using the border to cross into the U.S.

Take, for example, Muslim prayer rugs. Every day, millions of Muslims across the world unfurl mats of various sizes, shapes, and origins to signify the start of prayer.

In 2015, the right-wing outlet Judicial Watch reported, based on unnamed sources, that Muslim prayer rugs were recovered at an Islamic State training camp eight miles away from the United States ...

One blog, DownTrend.com, featured a post on Feb. 12 with the headline, "Students In Fla. High School Forced To Recite Islamic Prayer, Make Prayer Rugs." Sign up for PolitiFact texts.

Q: Did the Obama White House hold Islamic prayer five times a day, and provide prayer rugs for Muslim employees and visitors? A: No. This is a hoax perpetuated by a satirical news website. Is it ...

I actually do think Harvard would ban my pork-and-lingerie prayer time, even though it did not ban the Black Mass. Supporting Islam is trendier than supporting Christianity right now, and not ...

It can provoke alarm only on the basis of the bigoted assumption that every Muslim is a terrorist, and therefore the presence of a prayer rug somewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border means that ...