{"id":55,"date":"2008-10-08T00:07:59","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T00:07:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/cityofbrass\/2008\/10\/strange-twist-in-the-dayton-in.html"},"modified":"2008-10-08T00:07:59","modified_gmt":"2008-10-08T00:07:59","slug":"strange-twist-in-the-dayton-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/cityofbrass\/2008\/10\/strange-twist-in-the-dayton-in.html","title":{"rendered":"Strange twist in the Dayton incident"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a followup in the Dayton mosque incident, with the police now revealing that the can of pepper spray was found inside<\/i> the mosque<\/a>, not nearby:<\/p>\n

The can of pepper spray found four days after someone sprayed a
\n10-year-old girl in the face at a local mosque was discovered inside
\nthe mosque, a Dayton police lieutenant said.<\/p>\n

The girl said she was sprayed about 9:40 p.m. Sept. 26 through an
\nopen basement window of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, Lt. John
\nHuber said.<\/p>\n

The girl told police one of two men outside the basement window
\nsprayed her with something from a white can with a red top as she
\nwatched children whose parents and relatives had gathered at the mosque
\nto celebrate Ramadan.<\/p>\n

A can of pepper spray was found Sept. 30 in another room in the
\nbasement inside a red and white-striped bag, Huber said. He said it was
\ninitially reported to him that the can was found near the mosque, but
\nhe later learned it was inside the mosque.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

The article also mentions that the police interviewed a ten-year old boy in relation to the incident. It’s possible that this wasn’t an attack at all, but an accident between children. If that’s the case, then obviously the Obsession<\/i> mass-mailing was not relevant to the incident at hand (though hardly exculpatory for the more serious critique of Obsession<\/i>, that the movie creates a climate of hate and mistrust towards ordinary muslim-Americans. There’s no white-washing the cynical evil intent of the movie and its cowardly, shadowy backers). <\/p>\n

I hope that this incident turns out to have been nothing more than an accident and not a hate crime at all. That would be really, really great news indeed. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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