Home-Grown

It must be nice to have a strong moral compass. From The Dayton Daily News:

A 10-year-old girl sprayed in the face with a chemical Friday, Sept. 26, while at a local Islamic mosque was not the victim of a hate crime, police Chief Richard Biehl said.

The girl was watching children whose parents and relatives had gathered at the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, 26 Josie St., to celebrate Ramadan when she noticed two men standing outside a basement window about 9:40 p.m., according to police.

One of the men then sprayed something through the open window and into the girl's face from a white can with a red top, according to a police report. The girl said she immediately felt burning on her face and felt "sick to her stomach," the report stated.

Other children and a woman in the room felt affects from the chemical and the mosque was evacuated.

I think the police are wrong not to class it as a hate crime -- any time you have an act of vandalism or violence perpetrated at a place of worship, there's bias involved.

Chris Rodda at DailyKos has an account from a woman who was there. It differs rather markedly from what the police are saying. I'm not sure Rodda is right to draw the specific conclusions he draws about its relationship to the DVD Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, but I'm not sure he's wrong either. The producers of that DVD, of course, will stand there and mumble something about "not condoning violence." Maybe -- the racists and homophobes on the right are getting pretty brazen.