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On 9 November 2016, a person identifying themselves as Maha Abdul Gawad posted the following story on Facebook of a confrontation she claimed took place at a Walmart store in the immediate aftermath of the 2016 U.S. presidential election: He post was soon shared thousands of times and was also posted on Walmart's Facebook timeline. On 10 November 2016, a company spokesperson told us that they were trying to establish contact with Gawad to obtain more information about the alleged incident. Walmart also sent us the following statement on 11 November 2016: Police in Denver, Ohio (where the incident reportedly took place) said they had not been contacted regarding such an encounter. However, Gawad's profile was later deleted; another Facebook user, Marwa Loly Hamdy Abdelhafiz, said that the images were taken from her account. Gawad's post was one of several stories of anti-Islam (and other) harassment that have circulated online since Donald Trump was elected president. Another Muslim woman described a similar incident in New Mexico on Twitter, in a post that has been shared more than 17,000 times. The Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR), a leading American Muslim advocacy group, has already called on Trump to repudiate such attacks. The group's communications director, Ibrahim Hooper, told us: Hooper did note that one woman recanted her initial account of an attack at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette. But even that case, he said, could be connected to an increase in phone calls CAIR has received from Muslim Americans facing mental health issues:
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