Advocacy Group: US Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Rose 15 Percent in 2017

Hate crimes targeting U.S. Muslims rose 15 percent in 2017, the second year of increases, according to a study released Monday by advocacy group the Council on American-Islamic Relations. The group recorded 300 U.S. hate crimes targeting Muslims last year, ranging from the June beating of a Muslim man in the Bronx borough of New York City by attackers who called him a terrorist to a November incident when a Muslim family's Kansas restaurant was burned down. That was up from 260 in 2016. CAIR...