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A South Carolina church had three of its 125-year-old windows broken and was vandalized with Islamic-themed graffiti Sunday hours after celebrating Palm Sunday. "Submit to God thru Islam" and "Muhammed is his prophet" were spray-painted on the outside of Midway Presbyterian Church, according to local police. The Anderson Police Department is offering a reward for any information that leads to the arrest of the individuals who vandalized the church building.

Vandals scrawled swastikas on the entranceway to a Muslim prayer hall in eastern France, police said Friday. The vandals also set fire to a trash can outside the prayer hall in the town of Haguenau in the Alsace region, and the flames damaged the door. The damage was discovered Thursday. Police have opened an inquiry. Last month, fire damaged a mosque and destroyed a Muslim prayer hall in southeastern France, and police suspected arson in both. In the past, Jewish schools, temples and cemeteries have been hit in anti-Semitic attacks that peaked in 2002 when a Marseille synagogue was deliberately...