TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) - To local Muslims, a small tree in the basement of the Islamic Center of Terre Haute proves that the way to defeat hatred and bigotry is through love and compassion.

Before serving time, Dhafir had presided as an imam—a mosque’s volunteer prayer leader—at the ... Twenty hours later, his body aching, Dhafir arrived in Terre Haute and was placed in what he would ...