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Imam Receives Death Threats After Inaccurate News Reports Linking Him to Mateen

HeadlineJun 16, 2016

Meanwhile, The Intercept is reporting an Orlando-based imam named Marcus Dwayne Robertson has received a slew of death threats after Fox News inaccurately reported Robertson had been arrested for alleged connections to Omar Mateen. Fox cited anonymous government officials claiming Mateen had been radicalized through Robertson’s online seminary. But Robertson had not been arrested, and Mateen was never a student of Robertson’s seminary. In fact, the two never had any contact. Robertson told The Intercept, “Some members of the media decided to start pushing their own narrative, in order to build this mentality that is trying to foment hatred and blame us for these terrible acts. … They’ve put our lives in danger.”

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