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Kyoto Temple Fire Sparks Unverified Claims About Muslim Arson and Immigration

A fire at Kyoto’s Kōdai-ji on August 3 was quickly portrayed on social media as an act of Muslim arson and evidence of a threat from Muslim immigration, despite investigators not yet determining whether it was deliberately set.

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Fire broke out on the grounds of Kyoto's Kōdai-ji on August 3. Within hours, social media posts had recast it as arson by Muslims, and then as evidence of Muslim immigration threatening Japan. The problem: investigators hadn't determined that anyone set i
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Kyoto Temple Fire Sparks Unverified Claims About Muslim Arson and Immigration

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Fire broke out on the grounds of Kyoto's Kōdai-ji on August 3. Within hours, social media posts had recast it as arson by Muslims, and then as evidence of Muslim immigration threatening Japan. The problem: investigators hadn't determined that anyone set i