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March 10, 2011

SF Chronicle: Critics fear hearing will fuel anti-Muslim bias

by Joe Garofoli
The San Francisco Chronicle

Alauddin El-Bakri worries about a new round of backlash and mistrust toward members of his Saratoga mosque because of a congressional hearing being held today on what a Republican congressman is calling the radicalization of Islam in the United States.

Once again, El-Bakri said, American Muslims are being linked to terrorism.

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