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In this March 17, 2017 photo, a worker transports material on a truck at a Muslim-owned ranch in front of the newly built condominium complex where a controversial mosque is planned in Hefei in central China's Anhui province. On the dusty plains of the Chinese heartland, the bitter fight over the mosque illustrates how a surge in anti-Muslim sentiment online is spilling over into the real world. If left unchecked, scholars say, such attitudes risk inflaming simmering ethnic tensions that have in past erupted in bloodshed. (Photo by Gerry Shih/AP Photo)
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