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" I was waiting for the most singularly oblivious reaction to the massacre at the Sikh temple in Wisconsin. I thought for a moment I had a winner when Michelle Malkin \u2014 the one and only Michelle Malkin \u2014 decried the &amp;quot;vulgar politicization&amp;quot; of the event. (Here&amp;#039;s a golden oldie wherein Michelle vulgarly politicizes John Kerry&amp;#039;s war wounds.) But then I happened upon the lovely Ann Althouse, who seems to be very confused about the whole business.... It&amp;#039;s still not clear why the FBI is treating the murders as domestic terrorism. Perhaps the targeting of Sikhs by a non-Sikh is reason enough to investigate it as terrorism. Perhaps, but more than likely it is occurring because Wade Page was a murderous white-supremacist loon who not only shot up a temple full of people without giving a good goddamn about the nuances of various Eastern religions, but also then lay in wait for the cops, and then opened up in them when they arrived to help. This is what terrorists do. (And, I&amp;#039;m also hearing a lot of comparisons with the murderous rampage of Nidal Hassan at Fort Hood. Apparently, it wasn&amp;#039;t immediately termed an act of domestic terrorism so, nah-nah-boo-boo, MOOOOSSSLLLLIIIMMMS! Of course, in the aftermath, the president sent a drone to blow up the guy halfway around the world whom he believed merely inspired Hassan&amp;#039;s bloodbath, killing the guy&amp;#039;s kid in the process. I&amp;#039;m fairly sure this de facto makes Hassan&amp;#039;s crime count as terrorism.) The Professor continues: Of course, Sikhs had nothing to do with 9/11, though people sometimes mistake Sikhs for Muslims (and mistake Muslims generally for the subgroup of Muslims behind 9/11), but in a planned killing where someone goes to the place of worship, it would be harder to make the mistake. Are you joking, Ann? This man was looking for brown people to kill. Arguing the final point there is tantamount to arguing that, because children had nothing to do with the siege in Waco, it would have been harder for Timothy McVeigh to &amp;quot;make the mistake&amp;quot; of blowing up a day-care center. EARLIER: The Wisconsin Shooting and Our Political Lizard-Brain: Is It Time to Talk About Gun Control Yet? "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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