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June 19, 2017

Virginia: Muslim Teenager Kidnapped, Murdered After Ramadan Prayers
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In Virginia, police arrested 22-year-old Darwin Martinez Torres Sunday
for allegedly murdering a 17-year-old Muslim girl after she left a
restaurant following nighttime prayers in the Washington, D.C., suburb
of Sterling. Nabra Hassanen disappeared early Sunday after she and a
group of friends were confronted by a motorist outside a 24-hour IHOP
near her mosque, the All Dulles Area Muslim Society. Police found
Hassanen's remains Sunday afternoon in a nearby pond. She was reportedly
killed by blows from a metal bat. A recent study by the Council on
American-Islamic Relations found anti-Muslim hate crimes surged in 2016
over the previous year, rising by 44 percent.


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