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DALLAS  — Thousands of people marched and rallied in downtown Dallas on Sunday to call for an overhaul of the nation’s immigration system and end to what organizers said is an aggressive deportation policy.
Organizers who called Sunday’s event the “Dallas Mega March” said President Donald Trump’s executive orders restricting travel from predominantly Muslim countries in the Middle East are discriminatory. They also want an end to hate crimes and hate speech they contend have proliferated since the November presidential election.

A woman takes part in a candle light vigil for the victims of the Sikh Temple of Wisconsin shooting, Aug. 5, 2012, in Milwaukee. An unidentified gunman killed six people at the suburban Milwaukee temple, confusing them for Muslim worshipers. (AP/Jeffrey Phelps)

Police tape surrounds the parking lot behind the AME Emanuel Church as FBI forensic experts work the crime scene where nine people where shot by Dylann Storm Roof, 21, in Charleston, S.C (AP/Stephen B. Morton)

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks while standing trial during a criminal fraud hearing in Austin, Texas, July 29, 2015. (AP/Eric Gay)
Every day at lunch, a handful of teenagers in Frisco, Texas, would pop into room C112, face a whiteboard and kneel for one of their five daily prayers.
It was just a spare classroom, used for everything from teachers’ grading to Buddhist meditation, school officials say. But Muslims at Liberty High seemed to like it.

Demonstrators hold signs at Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport during a demonstration to denounce President Donald Trump’s executive order that bars citizens of seven predominantly Muslim-majority countries from entering the U.S., Sunday, Jan. 29, 2017, in Atlanta. (AP/Branden Camp)
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(ANALYSIS) — President Donald Trump has signed a new executive order temporarily banning all refugees, as well as people from six majority-Muslim countries, from entering the United States.
In contrast to the fanfare that accompanied Trump’s rollout of January’s ill-fated travel ban, Monday’s signing was a decidedly more low-key event. Trump signed the executive order out of public view. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson later outlined the details.

Oklahoma state Rep. John Bennett speaks on the floor of the Oklahoma House in Oklahoma City, Tuesday, Jan. 3, 2017 (AP/Sue Ogrocki)
(REPORT) — Muslim students visiting an Oklahoma lawmaker’s office in the state capitol were required to fill out a form that asked if they beat their wives and other Islamophobic questions, the U.S.’s largest Islamic advocacy group said Sunday.

(ANTIMEDIA) To the likely dismay of President Trump and his voter base, Islam is set to become the world’s largest religion by 2070.

With this collection of short stories, Imtiaz Akhtar makes his bold debut. Kafka Sutra is the sort of book that as a teenager, I would have loved to sneak from my mother’s shelf, and that as a mother, I would secretly enjoy letting my daughter or son whisk away.

Rabbi Joshua Bolton of the University of Pennsylvania’s Hillel center surveys damaged headstones at Mount Carmel Cemetery on Monday, Feb. 27, 2017, in Philadelphia. More than 100 headstones have been vandalized at the Jewish cemetery in Philadelphia, damage discovered less than a week after similar vandalism in Missouri, authorities said. (AP/Jacqueline Larma)