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Man sent to jail for whipping Muslim in Australia

A man who whipped a Muslim convert as a religious punishment for drinking alcohol was sentenced Friday to at least 16 months in jail.

Man pleads guilty in anti-Muslim NYC cabbie attack

Authorities allege Enright asked cab driver Ahmed Sharif whether he was Muslim, uttered an Arabic greeting and told him to "consider this a checkpoint" before slashing him.

AP PHOTOS: Indonesia promotes Muslim fashion

"Muslim fashion is always considered to be conservative," said Abel Haraba, a designer who showcased his clothes at the fashion fair that ended Sunday.

APNewsBreak: Ore. Muslim sues FBI, claims torture

An American Muslim says he was beaten with batons by prison interrogators while held in solitary confinement overseas for more than three months.

1 dead, 4 hurt in anti-Muslim violence in Myanmar

"I never expected that such racial violence would erupt in Lashio," said one Muslim resident, Ko Maung Gyi, who spoke by telephone from inside his locked home in Lashio's main Muslim neighborhood.

Myanmar's Suu Kyi slams 2-child limit for Muslims

Opposition leader Aung San Suu Kyi, rights groups and Islamic leaders have expressed dismay over plans by authorities in western Myanmar to revive a two-child limit on Muslim Rohingya families.

Husain Abdullah, who gave up football to take Muslim pilgrimage, is back in NFL

"It's something Muslims are required to do once in your lifetime, and we didn't necessarily have to do it then.

2-child limit for Muslims in parts of Myanmar

A local official said Saturday that the new measure would be applied to two townships that border Bangladesh and have the highest Muslim population in Rakhine.

Muslim hardliners ID London terror suspect

The Twitter account referenced a video of the bloodied suspect calling the attack "an eye for an eye" for what it called the British army's "woeful record of abuses" against Muslims worldwide.

NYPD messages to Muslim informant: 'Get pictures'

In the legal papers, a detective told the judge that he never asked an informant to get Muslims to make incriminating comments.

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