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... That was evident again this weekend as back-to-back incidents in Quebec and Texas raised fresh security concerns. Some communities are responding with solidarity with their Muslim neighbors, offering money (more than $1 million was raised to rebuild the mosque in Victoria, Texas) and whatever help they may need to secure their people and places of worship.

“We’ve seen an unprecedented spike in anti-Muslim incidents in the past year or more,” Ibrahim Hooper, national spokesman for the Council on American-Islamic Relations, a Washington D.C.-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization...

But, he notes, the spike in hate crimes has been met by a surge in support for the community.

“Every cloud has a silver lining,” he says. “That’s one thing that’s come with the election of Donald Trump is the tremendous amount of support and solidarity being expressed for the Muslim community.”

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Wafia Hammoud, an organizer at the mosque, handed out cookies and treats to the people who had surrounded the mosque.

"When I see these people, I cry," Hammoud said. "I hug everybody because it makes me very happy they're standing up for us."

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For every time you may have traveled internationally and been irritated by some visa problem you encountered along the way, there are people who had the same experience — but are so much more infuriated by it...

Passport can’t be picked up on time? You’re annoyed; they’re furious. ....

And lucky for us, these enraged, resentful, and offended people happen to have Yelp accounts.

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“The people who work at the Visa Office are delightful as ever. You would’ve thought I was asking them to drive across the country to pick up my five kids and seven dogs in a zombie apocalypse, the way they reacted to my visa application. ... ”

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“The worst embassy ever. . .
I really really advise you to avoid Canada all together.”

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A group of New Yorkers held a fake vigil Friday honoring the victims of the Bowling Green massacre, the event referred to by President Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway that never happened.
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In a video by the New York Daily News , people chanted "what do we want: alternative facts. when do we want them: now." People also chanted "Bowling Green never remember, always forget."

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American Man Politely Informs Brits He Is Their Next King in Newspaper Ad

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A parcel full of live venomous snakes, tarantulas and Asian forest scorpions has been intercepted by customs authorities after they x-rayed a box marked “two pair shoes”.

An international mail room in Melbourne discovered 11 snakes, nine tarantulas and four scorpions in the package, sent from northern Europe, on Monday.

The agriculture department’s deputy secretary, Lyn O’Connell, triumphantly declared that “no spider [was] a match for our biosecurity web”.

“We get our tails up when there are scorpions in the mail and if you try send exotic snakes ... we bite back with the full force of the law,” she said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Among the seized animals were six Wagler’s temple vipers, native to south-east Asia, and two Brazilian salmon pink bird-eating tarantulas, the third-largest tarantula in the world.

Three ball pythons, two hognose snakes, two Colombian giant tarantulas and five Mexican redknee tarantulas rounded out the package.

Jude wrote:

Number one job I never want to apply for: Australian Customs Agent.

Australian customs intercepts parcel of live snakes, tarantulas and scorpions

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A parcel full of live venomous snakes, tarantulas and Asian forest scorpions has been intercepted by customs authorities after they x-rayed a box marked “two pair shoes”.

An international mail room in Melbourne discovered 11 snakes, nine tarantulas and four scorpions in the package, sent from northern Europe, on Monday.

The agriculture department’s deputy secretary, Lyn O’Connell, triumphantly declared that “no spider [was] a match for our biosecurity web”.

“We get our tails up when there are scorpions in the mail and if you try send exotic snakes ... we bite back with the full force of the law,” she said in a statement on Tuesday.

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Among the seized animals were six Wagler’s temple vipers, native to south-east Asia, and two Brazilian salmon pink bird-eating tarantulas, the third-largest tarantula in the world.

Three ball pythons, two hognose snakes, two Colombian giant tarantulas and five Mexican redknee tarantulas rounded out the package.