Recently Kos frontpaged this shocking story:
Muslim Children Gassed at Dayton Mosque After "Obsession" DVD Hits Ohio
by Chris Rodda
Sun Sep 28, 2008 at 08:50:29 PM PDT
(From the diaries -- kos)
On Friday, September 26, the end of a week in which thousands of copies of Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West -- the fear-mongering, anti-Muslim documentary being distributed by the millions in swing states via DVDs inserted in major newspapers and through the U.S. mail -- were distributed by mail in Ohio, a "chemical irritant" was sprayed through a window of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, where 300 people were gathered for a Ramadan prayer service. The room that the chemical was sprayed into was the room where babies and children were being kept while their mothers were engaged in prayers. This, apparently, is what the scare tactic political campaigning of John McCain's supporters has led to -- Americans perpetrating a terrorist attack against innocent children on American soil.
http://www.dailykos.com/...
Now two suburbs near Chicago are reporting significant stories of hate crimes:
The father of a Muslim student at Elmhurst College who was attacked by a masked gunman Thursday night in a campus bathroom said someone scrawled a swastika and anti-Muslim graffiti on her locker about a week ago. Authorities labeled the attack a hate crime today.
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In an advisory posted on the college Web site today, the university called the attack an "aggravated battery / hate crime." The advisory also said that the attacker, described as about 5 feet, 8 inches tall, struck the woman with a firearm and that anti-Muslim graffiti was found in the restroom.
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"He said, 'Now who is going to protect you?' " the victim's father said. " 'And she said that, 'God will protect me ... You can kill me, but you cannot take my soul.' She fought for her life, and that's how God saved her."
The gunman then backed off, he said.
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Also related is this story:
Villa Park mosque vandalized for 4th time, Muslims say
October 10, 2008 at 2:07 PM
The Islamic Mosque Foundation in west suburban Villa Park was vandalized last night for the fourth time in less than two months when someone threw a 5-gallon tank of flammable liquid into the mosque's school, breaking two windows, moqsue officials said.
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I suspect this increase is directly related the distribution of the Obsession DVD and the Hate Incitement rallies by Sarah Palin and John McCain.
The punditocracy and editorial boards need to put the McCain camp on notice that he is hurting America.
America is on the cusp of a truly amazing event....for the first time in the our planet's long history, a member of an obvious ethnic minority will become the head of state and government, by popular consent, of a nation defined by it's ideals rather than the ethnicities and religious preferences of it's peoples.
Wouldn't it be great if we achieve this without blood spilling?
edit: added a comma to second to last paragraph and deleted one word to make it clearer. edit 2: emphasized some facts in the trib stories by bolding them