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Joplin Mosque
12:24 pm
Wed August 15, 2012

Interfaith, civil rights leaders gather in St. Louis to show support for Joplin's Islamic community

Credit (Jennifer Davidson/KSMU)
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Interfaith and civil rights leaders gathered in Ballwin this morning to show support for the congregation of the Islamic Society of Joplin, which was destroyed by a suspicious fire earlier this month.

Although the FBI is still investigating the cause, the St. Louis chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations is offering a $10,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and conviction of the person that set the fire.

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Immigrant Rally
4:01 pm
Tue March 6, 2012

Rally at Mo. Capitol to oppose "anti-immigrant" bills

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About 300 people rallied outside the Mo. Capitol against 2 immigration-related bills.
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Vanessa Crawford, Exec. Dir. of MIRA, address the crowd outside the Mo. Capitol.
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Faizan Syed from the Mo. Chapter of CAIR adresses the crowd outside the Mo. Capitol.
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A group of students hold signs protesting SB 590 at a rally at the Mo. Capitol.
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Around 300 people rallied at the Missouri Capitol today to protest two bills backers say are designed to combat illegal immigration.

Rally leaders were especially critical of a Senate bill that would require all law officers to check the immigration status of those they stop, detain or arrest if they have a “reasonable suspicion” that they’re in the country illegally (SB 590).  Vanessa Crawford is Executive Director of the group Missouri Immigrant and Refugee Advocates.

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