Four Atlanta-area mosques have received death threats in recent weeks, leading a rights organization to urge heightened security.

"Mosque leaders should do all they can to protect their houses of worship by working with local law enforcement authorities, installing security cameras and employing security officers during the daily prayers," said Edward Ahmed Mitchell, executive director of the Georgia chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

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Two mosques in Alabama received identical emails two weeks ago, CAIR says. The Washington-based Muslim civil rights and advocacy organization says the threats are part of a mass mailing to mosques nationwide.

In the first two months of 2017, four mosques across the country were set on fire.

'Death is waiting,' letter says

On February 24, Greenview Madani Center in Lawrenceville, Georgia, received a mailed, handwritten letter. Itcultures in this country, or in this state."

This rhetoric is infuriating, but it is not new. The only thing new is how blatantly xenophobic the language in South Dakota is. These bans have typically been wolves in sheeps' clothing, thinly veiled in the language of equality. In South Dakota the wolf has lost its clothes.

Since 2011, abortion bans parading as women's rights bills and exploiting racial stereotypes have been on the rise. Lawmakers have proposed this in Congress many times and, in 2013, it was the second most proposed abortion ban at the state level. Given the onslaught of various types of attacks on abortion in recent years, this is striking. The ACLU, representing the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum and the NAACP of Maricopa County, is