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Given all the hate-baiting that has taken place over the Park 51 site in New York, it was only a matter of time until we started seeing stories like this:

ATF and FBI agents are investigating a Saturday morning fire that damaged four pieces of equipment and could halt construction at the site of the planned Islamic center and mosque just outside Murfreesboro.

Eric Kehn, spokesman for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, said his agency has not deemed the burning of an excavation hauler as arson. He did confirm that three other pieces of equipment were damaged, but he would not comment on the extent of the damage.

"Any type of activity like this we take very seriously and we look into," Kehn said. "When things like this happen, we really need the help of the public."

We really need some leadership at this time. I think the leadership is more than even President Obama can give alone. Instead he should get George Bush to appear with him in a joint statement calling for this hatred to stop. If not then stories like this will only become more common.

So I am sitting at home, surfing the net when I decided to
check the latest headlines on ‘My Yahoo’. It is by far one of the most popular
services out there that is used in order to keep up on news and other items, as
matter of fact you can keep up to date on new posts I make here through this
free service.

One of my most favorite features of this service is the
“most emailed stories” section. It gives you a sense of what people are talking
about around the internet. It keeps track of stories by the number of people who
actually click the “email story” link in order to share it.

So as I am reading, I found the third most emailed story on
the list as something that sounded really familiar. “Rape Spurs Anti-Hispanic
Backlash in Ohio” the headline read. Living in Ohio I had to check it out.

HAMILTON, Ohio - It started with the spray-painted,
misspelled "Rapest" on the house of a Hispanic man accused of sexually
assaulting a 9-year-old white girl. Then the house went up in flames in a
suspected arson.

That’s how the article starts. Wow I can’t believe it. I
actually don’t live in Hamilton, Ohio but I am very close, as matter of fact I
am so close all you have to do is walk out my backyard and go through the gate
in the fence and you are in Hamilton. Needless to say, this story came as no
shock since it has been the hot topic around town.