A Republican state senator is facing a wave of criticism after he appeared in a photo with heavily armed members of an anti-government group during a rally in Georgia on Saturday opposing the Islamic legal and moral code. At the “March Against Sharia” rally in Atlanta, lawmaker-Michael Williams-posed for the photo with members of the Georgia Security Force III% militia, a local chapter of a national pro-Donald Trump group that supports anti-immigration and anti-government beliefs. In a tweet of the photo shared by the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Hatewatch Twitter account, three men can be seen making a hand sign with three fingers extended, which a representative from the law center says represents the III% militia.



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