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On Dec. 8, 2015 the same day that then-Republican presidential primary frontrunner Donald Trump called for banning Muslims from entering the United States a Twitter user named Jerry Morgan posted a question.
“Where’s the evidence that ‘Islam is a religion of peace?’ Morgan wrote. “They’ve gone to war against every society they’ve encountered for 1000s of years.”
A week later, in a tweet addressed to the Fox Business channel, Morgan wrote: “Muslims will take everything we give them and us [sic] it against us. Time to wake up!”
It’s the type of rhetoric one is likely to find in the internet’s right-wing fever swamps or, say, on the timeline of one of Tennessee’s U.S. senators. But Morgan’s tweets and there appear to be many more where the above came from have caused a particular stir because of his job. He is allegedly the same Jerry Morgan who works as an attorney on the staff of the Tennessee Board of Professiona