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Was a Muslim Educator Named Superintendent of Atlanta’s Schools?

A "satirical" blog's Facebook page used an actual news outlet's photograph to make a stinker of an Islamophobic "joke."
By Arturo Garcia

(SNOPES) Like everything else on the page and the LLOD blog, the story is fake. The person seen in the photograph, Mohamed Bakr, is actually a Muslim — but the image was taken from a story by KUOW-FM, a public radio station in Seattle, about its “Ask a Muslim” event in August 2016. In reality, Meria Joel Carstarphen has been the superintendent of Atlanta Public Schools since 2014.

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