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“We have yet to determine if [Wade Michael] Page mistook Sikhs for Muslims, but such questions are irrelevant.” Are they? Read more here.

Read about this latest arson attack here.

“Everyone here is thinking this is a hate crime for sure,” said Manjit Singh, who goes to a different temple in the region. “People think we are Muslims.” That quotation from a New York Times article on the shootings earlier today at a gurdwara in Oak Creek, Wisconsin (map), was echoed in other news reports.…

What do you think of this video?

The familiar Republican tactic of demonizing victims? “Romney’s statement that Israelis’ cultural superiority explains their economic success — and, by extension, that the “backward” Palestinians are to blame for their failures — isn’t particularly surprising.” True? What do you think? Read the article here: Mitt Romney’s “culture” war.

What’s your take on her participation in the Olympics? One report is here. A snippet: “In remarks carried on the Olympics website, Shahrkhani said her journey was only just beginning.” Is she a trailblazer for Saudi women?

For the first time — ever — women from Saudi Arabia, Qatar and Brunei are competing in the Olympic Games. Methinks Muslim women from non-Muslim-majority countries have competed before. Why is this different?

Is the concept of honor killing still valid in the 21st Century? According to the AP: “In Britain, more than 25 women have been killed in so-called honor killings in the past decade.” Here is an article about parents who were convicted of killing their daughter, who objected to a forced marriage to her cousin.

Now, here’s a scary thought. Michelle Bachmann (R.-Minn.) has raised more than $1 million in campaign contributions because of her Muslim-bashing. “Bachmann said July’s harvest came from more than 22,000 contributions with an average donation of just under $50, typical of the kind of grassroots base extending far beyond her district’s borders that she’s been…

Who could possibly object to a new building with a religious purpose? Evidently some folks in Brooklyn, New York. Read it here.
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