New York: Man convicted for murder of Muslim cleric, associate

(G.N.S) DT.24 A New York resident was convicted of killing a Bangladeshi-American Muslim cleric and his associate in 2016, a crime considered symptomatic of rising Islamophobic and xenophobic rhetoric in the US. “Oscar Morel of Brooklyn was convicted…of first-degree murder and other charges for the broad-daylight execution of Imam Maulana