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A Florida man was sentenced to more than three years in federal prison for pulling a religious headscarf off a Muslim postal worker before saying “F— Islam” and calling the woman a “terrorist.” Kenneth Pinkney, 47, received the punishment Friday after pleading guilty in April to assault on a federal employee with a hate crime enhancement for the unprovoked, Oct. 24 attack in Fort Lauderdale. The incident unfolded after Pinkney glared at the unidentified woman as she delivered mail while wearing a headscarf called a hijab two weeks earlier, in the wake of the Hamas attack against Israel that …

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