On a cold October night in Walsall, England, last year, John Ashby followed a British Indian woman off a bus, broke into her house and then brutally raped and beat her.
During the attack, Mr. Ashby, 32, told the woman, “You are a Muslim, I know” — though she was, in fact, Sikh — and he ordered her to perform acts to degrade the Islamic faith, prosecutors said at his sentencing last month. Mr. Ashby pleaded guilty to rape, to religiously aggravated assault and to other crimes and was sentenced to life in prison.
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