North Carolinians Join Prayers At Triad Mosques To Oppose Islamophobia

By Laura Pellicer,

Published February 28, 2017 at 12:27 PM EST

on Friday. The outpouring of support for the Muslim community was a reaction to violent, anti-Islamic speech that emerged from a held in Kernersville, North Carolina.

Jordan Green, senior writer for the was at that meeting. He speaks with host Frank Stasio about what he heard, plus he talks about how the .

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Laura Pellicer is a digital reporter with 瓜神app鈥檚 small but intrepid digital news team.

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Longtime NPR correspondent Frank Stasio was named permanent host of The State of Things in June 2006. A native of Buffalo, Frank has been in radio since the age of 19. He began his public radio career at WOI in Ames, Iowa, where he was a magazine show anchor and the station's 瓜神app Director.

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