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		<title>Iraqi to Stand Trial in Murder First Thought to be Hate Crime</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/08/01/iraqi-to-stand-trial-in-murder-first-thought-to-be-hate-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/08/01/iraqi-to-stand-trial-in-murder-first-thought-to-be-hate-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2013 13:24:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Kassim Al Himidi An Iraqi immigrant faces a murder trial Aug. 8 in California in the 2012 death of his wife, whose fatal beating initially sparked international attention as a possible anti-Muslim hate crime. After the FBI ruled out the possibility of a hate crime, police in El Cajon, Calif., pursued the investigation, looking at [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>DOJ Study: More Than 250,000 Hate Crimes a Year, Most Unreported</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/03/26/doj-study-more-than-250000-hate-crimes-a-year-a-third-never-reported/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/03/26/doj-study-more-than-250000-hate-crimes-a-year-a-third-never-reported/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Mar 2013 16:42:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[More than 250,000 Americans over the age of 12 are victimized every year by hate criminals, according to a new government study that puts the number some 50,000 higher than the best earlier analyses. At the same time, the study found that in recent years only about one in three hate crimes are ever reported [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>32</slash:comments>
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		<title>New SPLC Report: ‘Patriot’ Movement Swells for Fourth Year</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/03/05/new-splc-report-antigovernment-%e2%80%98patriot%e2%80%99-movement-swells-for-fourth-year/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/03/05/new-splc-report-antigovernment-%e2%80%98patriot%e2%80%99-movement-swells-for-fourth-year/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2013 15:28:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA['Patriot' Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Editor's Pick]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Intelligence Report]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The number of antigovernment “Patriot” groups on the American radical right hit an all-time high in 2012, the fourth straight year of explosive growth, according to a report released today by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC). As the new year began, serious talk of gun control, prompted by a Connecticut school massacre in December, [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/03/05/new-splc-report-antigovernment-%e2%80%98patriot%e2%80%99-movement-swells-for-fourth-year/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>142</slash:comments>
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		<title>Amish Leader Gets 15 Years for Beard Cutting Hate Crime Case</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/02/08/amish-leader-gets-15-years-for-beard-cutting-hate-crime-case/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/02/08/amish-leader-gets-15-years-for-beard-cutting-hate-crime-case/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Feb 2013 21:49:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The leader of a breakaway Amish sect in Ohio was sentenced to 15 year in prison today for orchestrating the cutting of hair and beards of Amish men and women, a form of religious degradation viewed as punishment, the New York Times reported. Samuel Mullet Sr. was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Cleveland, along [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>Latino Gang Leader Convicted in L.A. Ethnic Cleansing Campaign</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/01/15/latino-gang-leader-convicted-in-la-ethnic-cleansing-campaign/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/01/15/latino-gang-leader-convicted-in-la-ethnic-cleansing-campaign/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jan 2013 22:01:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A Latino street gang leader and his son were sentenced in federal court Monday to lengthy prison terms for their role in a years-long campaign of racist terror and ethnic cleansing targeting African Americans in and around Los Angeles. Since at least the mid-1990s, Latino street gangs across Los Angeles County have been targeting, beating [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>30</slash:comments>
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		<title>Member of Mississippi Gang that Hunted Black People is Sentenced</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/01/04/member-of-mississippi-gang-that-hunted-black-people-is-sentenced/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2013/01/04/member-of-mississippi-gang-that-hunted-black-people-is-sentenced/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 04 Jan 2013 19:51:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A sixth man has pleaded guilty to federal hate crime charges related to the June 2011 racially motivated killing in Jackson, Miss., of a black man assaulted and run over with a pickup truck by a gang of white youths. That brutal murder was captured on surveillance video and broadcast nationally. Joseph Paul Dominick, 21, [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>43</slash:comments>
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		<title>Mosque Arsonist Pleads Guilty, Implicates Fox News in Fueling Hate</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/12/20/mosque-arsonist-pleads-guilty-implicates-fox-news-in-fueling-hate/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/12/20/mosque-arsonist-pleads-guilty-implicates-fox-news-in-fueling-hate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:17:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=10133</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[An Indiana man who pleaded guilty yesterday to setting an Ohio mosque on fire told a judge he was motivated by media accounts – specifically those on Fox News – suggesting Muslims were threatening Americans and were in control of parts of the federal government. Details made public at the plea hearing also revealed that the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/12/20/mosque-arsonist-pleads-guilty-implicates-fox-news-in-fueling-hate/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Three Elderly Mennonite Women Attacked in ‘Heinous’ Hate Crime</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/12/18/three-elderly-mennonite-women-attacked-in-heinous-hate-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/12/18/three-elderly-mennonite-women-attacked-in-heinous-hate-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 18 Dec 2012 17:36:42 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Three Mennonite sisters, ranging in age from 84 to 90, remained hospitalized in Lancaster County, Penn., after being assaulted in their home in what authorities describe as a “heinous” and “unfathomable” hate crime. The alleged perpetrator, 22-year-old Dereck Taylor Holt, was arrested Saturday, one day after a man posing as an insurance salesman forced his [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/12/18/three-elderly-mennonite-women-attacked-in-heinous-hate-crime/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>24</slash:comments>
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		<title>FBI: Anti-Muslim Hate Crimes Remain Relatively High</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/12/10/fbi-anti-muslim-hate-crimes-remain-relatively-high/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/12/10/fbi-anti-muslim-hate-crimes-remain-relatively-high/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 10 Dec 2012 16:23:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=10073</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Hate crimes against perceived Muslims, which jumped up 50% in 2010 largely as a result of anti-Muslim propagandizing, remained at relatively high levels last year, according to 2011 hate crime statistics released today by the FBI. The bureau reported that there were 157 reported anti-Muslim hate crimes in 2011, down slightly from the 160 recorded [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/12/10/fbi-anti-muslim-hate-crimes-remain-relatively-high/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>95</slash:comments>
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		<title>NYPD Investigating Hate as Possible Motive in Brooklyn Murders</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/11/20/nypd-investigating-hate-as-possible-motive-in-brooklyn-murders/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/11/20/nypd-investigating-hate-as-possible-motive-in-brooklyn-murders/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 19:25:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Extremist Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9985</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: Police in New York City arrested Salvatore Perrone, 64, over the Thanksgiving weekend and charged him with using a sawed-off .22-caliber rifle he carried in a duffel bag to kill three Brooklyn shopkeepers in the last four months. People who saw surveillance footage of Perrone, who’s white, pointed police to Perrone, despite an artist’s [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/11/20/nypd-investigating-hate-as-possible-motive-in-brooklyn-murders/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>17</slash:comments>
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		<title>FBI May Investigate Apparent Hate Murder of White With Black Friends</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/25/fbi-may-investigate-apparent-hate-murder-of-white-with-black-friends/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/25/fbi-may-investigate-apparent-hate-murder-of-white-with-black-friends/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Oct 2012 13:25:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9902</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[If a white man is attacked and murdered because he was “hanging out” with black friends, should that be investigated as a federal hate crime? That question looms in Louisiana after 24-year-old Michael Luke “Boulon” Darby was fatally stabbed earlier this month outside a bar in Lafayette, where he had gone with two friends who [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/25/fbi-may-investigate-apparent-hate-murder-of-white-with-black-friends/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>84</slash:comments>
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		<title>Bogus Louisiana Hate Crime Report Illuminates Trend</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/24/bogus-louisiana-hate-crime-report-illuminates-trend/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/24/bogus-louisiana-hate-crime-report-illuminates-trend/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 24 Oct 2012 13:59:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9893</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[It happened again this week. A woman in Louisiana told police that she had been set afire in a horrifying hate crime Sunday — only to have police, after a full-tilt investigation, say yesterday that she had fabricated the story. Sharmeka Moffit, 20, set herself on fire in a park in Winnsboro, La., Police Chief [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/24/bogus-louisiana-hate-crime-report-illuminates-trend/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>48</slash:comments>
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		<title>Possible Hate Attack on Black Woman Roils Louisiana Town</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/23/louisiana-woman-attacked-burned-in-apparent-hate-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/23/louisiana-woman-attacked-burned-in-apparent-hate-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Oct 2012 19:57:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Don Terry</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Update: Late Tuesday afternoon, authorities in Louisiana said Sharmeka Moffitt, a 20-year-old African-American woman, set herself on fire in a park in Winnsboro, La., Sunday night and faked what appeared to be a brutal, racially motivated hate crime. The alleged attack rattled the small city of 5,000 residents, dredging up memories of the state’s racially [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/23/louisiana-woman-attacked-burned-in-apparent-hate-crime/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>22</slash:comments>
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		<title>Feds: Teen Militia Leader in Nevada Planned &#8216;Mass Killings&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/12/feds-teen-militia-leader-in-nevada-planned-mass-killings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/12/feds-teen-militia-leader-in-nevada-planned-mass-killings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 12 Oct 2012 20:13:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Antigovernment]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Militias]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Authorities in Nevada may have just aborted another mass shooting with the arrest of an 18-year-old, self-professed militia leader who authorities say planned to “conduct mass killings” and “bragged about plans to shoot people on the Las Vegas strip.” Steven Matthew Fernandes, who claimed to be a member of the Southern Nevada Militia, was arrested [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/12/feds-teen-militia-leader-in-nevada-planned-mass-killings/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>41</slash:comments>
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		<title>Suspect Charged in Toledo Mosque Arson</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/05/suspect-charged-in-toledo-mosque-arson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/05/suspect-charged-in-toledo-mosque-arson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 05 Oct 2012 22:12:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9807</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Federal hate crime charges were filed today in Ohio against an Indiana man, Randolph Linn, who is a suspect in last weekend’s arson fire that heavily damaged the Islamic Center of Greater Toledo. Linn was charged with intentionally defacing, damaging and destroying religious property, and with using fire and explosives to commit a felony, the [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/05/suspect-charged-in-toledo-mosque-arson/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>25</slash:comments>
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		<title>Muslims &#8216;Under Attack,&#8217; Says Toledo Mosque Official After Arson</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/04/muslims-under-attack-says-toledo-mosque-official-after-arson/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/10/04/muslims-under-attack-says-toledo-mosque-official-after-arson/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Oct 2012 19:11:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9791</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Muslims and their places of worship “are clearly under attack,” says the president of one of the country’s largest mosques, which was heavily damaged four days ago in an arson fire. “We’re actually reeling in disbelief,” Dr. Mahjabeen Islam, president of the Islamic Center of Toledo in Ohio, told Hatewatch today in describing the devastation [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>Amish Leader, 15 Others Convicted of Hate Crimes in Beard-Cuttings</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/09/20/amish-leader-15-others-convicted-of-hate-crimes-in-beard-cuttings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/09/20/amish-leader-15-others-convicted-of-hate-crimes-in-beard-cuttings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 20 Sep 2012 21:45:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[The leader of an Amish splinter sect in Ohio and 15 of his followers were convicted of federal hate crimes today for forcibly shaving the beards and hair of breakaway members of the religious community.]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/09/20/amish-leader-15-others-convicted-of-hate-crimes-in-beard-cuttings/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>13</slash:comments>
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		<title>SPLC Urges U.S. Government to Take Domestic Extremism Seriously</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/09/19/splc-urges-u-s-government-to-take-domestic-extremism-seriously/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/09/19/splc-urges-u-s-government-to-take-domestic-extremism-seriously/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Sep 2012 17:48:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Booth Gunter</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremist Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Groups]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9726</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[U.S. Sen. Dick Durbin is convening an important hearing in Washington today to examine the threat of domestic extremism and hate crime in the wake of the horrific attack on Sikh worshippers in Wisconsin last month.

If the hearing in the Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights and Human Rights does nothing else but put additional pressure on the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to take far-right extremism seriously, it will be worthwhile.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>38</slash:comments>
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		<title>SPLC Statement on Shooting at Family Research Council</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/15/splc-statement-on-shooting-at-family-research-council/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/15/splc-statement-on-shooting-at-family-research-council/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 15 Aug 2012 19:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Hatewatch Staff</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9564</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[We’ve seen news of the shooting of a security guard today at the Family Research Council office in Washington, D.C., and are getting media inquiries about it. There are unconfirmed reports that the shooting was ideologically motivated. We condemn all acts of violence and are following the story closely.]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>247</slash:comments>
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		<title>Neo-Nazi Killer Wade Page was Member of Hammerskin Nation</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/08/neo-nazi-killer-wade-page-was-member-of-hammerskin-nation/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/08/08/neo-nazi-killer-wade-page-was-member-of-hammerskin-nation/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 08 Aug 2012 20:11:48 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Domestic Terrorism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Extremist Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Groups]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Nazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racist Music]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racist Skinheads]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9532</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Wade Michael Page, the racist skinhead who killed six people last weekend at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin before turning the gun on himself, was a “patched” member of the Northern Hammerskins, a regional chapter of the larger Hammerskin Nation, the Southern Poverty Law Center has learned. Page became a full, or patched, member of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>37</slash:comments>
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		<title>Nebraska Police Not Ruling Out Hoax in Attack on Lesbian</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/26/nebraska-police-not-ruling-out-hoax-in-attack-on-lesbian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/26/nebraska-police-not-ruling-out-hoax-in-attack-on-lesbian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Jul 2012 15:28:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9464</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Police investigators in Lincoln, Neb., have not ruled out the possibility that a 33-year-old lesbian allegedly attacked last weekend because of her sexual orientation might have staged the hate crime. But they’re also not ready to call her story, which has ignited interest across the country, a complete fabrication. Chief Jim Peschong told the Lincoln [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/26/nebraska-police-not-ruling-out-hoax-in-attack-on-lesbian/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>75</slash:comments>
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		<title>Police: Intruders Carved Anti-Gay Slurs into Nebraska Lesbian</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/24/police-intruders-carved-anti-gay-slurs-into-nebraska-lesbian/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/24/police-intruders-carved-anti-gay-slurs-into-nebraska-lesbian/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 19:51:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Ryan Lenz</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/24/police-intruders-carved-anti-gay-slurs-into-nebraska-lesbian/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor&#8217;s Note: Police subsequently said they had not ruled out the possibility that the attack was staged. Last weekend, three men in masks stormed into a woman’s home in Nebraska, bound her wrists and ankles with zip ties, and carved anti-gay slurs into the woman’s body. The men also painted anti-gay slurs on the walls [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/24/police-intruders-carved-anti-gay-slurs-into-nebraska-lesbian/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>59</slash:comments>
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		<title>After Texas Charges Only Misdemeanors, Feds Win Felony Case Against Hate Criminals</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/24/after-texas-charges-only-misdemeanors-feds-win-felony-case-against-hate-criminals/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/07/24/after-texas-charges-only-misdemeanors-feds-win-felony-case-against-hate-criminals/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jul 2012 18:52:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9450</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Three white supremacists involved in a racially motivated assault last year on a black man in Houston will serve federal prison sentences ranging from 30 to 77 months. Brian Kerstetter, 32, was sentenced yesterday to 77 months, followed by three years of supervised release, by U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt. Charles Cannon, 26, was [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>12</slash:comments>
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		<title>FBI: Washington White Supremacist Plotted to Kill Obama in 2010</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/05/10/fbi-washington-white-supremacist-plotted-to-kill-obama-in-2010/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/05/10/fbi-washington-white-supremacist-plotted-to-kill-obama-in-2010/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 10 May 2012 21:50:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Neo-Nazi]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Racist Skinheads]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[White Supremacist]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9164</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The FBI in 2010 disrupted what its agents now believe was a terrorist plot that involved killing President Obama, according to testimony and court documents filed in U.S. District Court in Spokane, Wash. The revelation came at the two-day sentencing hearing for white supremacist Wayde Lynn Kurt, the accused mastermind of an alleged plot that [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>36</slash:comments>
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		<title>North Dakota Weather Helps Convict Aryan Wannabe</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/04/26/north-dakota-weather-helps-convict-aryan-wannabe/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/04/26/north-dakota-weather-helps-convict-aryan-wannabe/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 26 Apr 2012 19:56:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Groups]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=9072</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[A would-be Aryan warrior who apparently thought he’d committed the perfect murder forgot one thing: There’s no mud in North Dakota in the middle of the winter. It was a pair of muddy boots and coveralls, along with a mud stain on a basement wall, that led investigators to discover the buried, decapitated head of [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>3</slash:comments>
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		<title>Indictment: Amish Photographed Forcible Hair, Beard Cuttings</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/04/09/indictment-amish-took-photographed-forcible-hair-beard-cuttings/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/04/09/indictment-amish-took-photographed-forcible-hair-beard-cuttings/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Apr 2012 22:10:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8993</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The FBI has recovered a disposable camera that reportedly was used to photograph Amish men and women whose beards and hair were forcibly shaved in what is now being prosecuted as a federal hate crime. That detail is contained in a new, expanded 10-count federal indictment just returned by a grand jury in Cleveland. The [...]]]></description>
		<wfw:commentRss>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/04/09/indictment-amish-took-photographed-forcible-hair-beard-cuttings/feed/</wfw:commentRss>
		<slash:comments>2</slash:comments>
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		<title>California Mother Slain in Possible Anti-Muslim Hate Crime</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/03/26/california-mother-slain-in-possible-anti-muslim-hate-crime/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2012/03/26/california-mother-slain-in-possible-anti-muslim-hate-crime/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Mar 2012 19:08:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8907</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The weekend death in California of a 32-year-old Iraqi immigrant – a mother of five children — is drawing worldwide attention as the latest possible U.S. hate crime killing. Shaima Alawadi died Saturday after she was taken off life support, three days after being found unconscious and brutally beaten in her family home in El [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>19</slash:comments>
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		<title>Members of Amish Splinter Sect Arrested on Hate Crime Charges</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/23/members-of-amish-splinter-sect-arrested-on-hate-crime-charges/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/23/members-of-amish-splinter-sect-arrested-on-hate-crime-charges/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Nov 2011 20:28:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill Morlin</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8237</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the first case of its kind, the FBI on Wednesday arrested the leader of an Amish splinter sect and six of his followers in Ohio on federal hate crime charges for cutting the hair and beards of other Amish men and women. The hair-cutting was a form of religious degradation and viewed as punishment [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>6</slash:comments>
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		<title>FBI Reports Dramatic Spike in Anti-Muslim Hate Violence</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/14/fbi-reports-dramatic-spike-in-anti-muslim-hate-violence/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/11/14/fbi-reports-dramatic-spike-in-anti-muslim-hate-violence/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Nov 2011 19:00:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Mark Potok</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Immigrant]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Latino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=8201</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Anti-Muslim hate crimes soared by an astounding 50% last year, skyrocketing over 2009 levels in a year marked by the vicious rhetoric of Islam-bashing politicians and activists, especially over the so-called “Ground Zero Mosque” in New York City. Although the national statistics compiled by the FBI each year are known to dramatically understate the real [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>26</slash:comments>
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		<title>News Roundup for September 16, 2011</title>
		<link>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/09/16/news-roundup-for-september-15-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/09/16/news-roundup-for-september-15-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Sep 2011 18:49:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Janet Smith</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Anti-Black]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-Latino]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Anti-LGBT]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Hate Crime]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7862</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Two psychologists testified this week that a Santa Maria, Calif., parolee charged with trying to murder a local waiter a year ago is mentally incompetent to stand trial. Curtis Martin allegedly asked a waiter at a Denny’s Restaurant if he was gay and when the victim answered that he was, Martin stabbed him twice. Anthony [...]]]></description>
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		<slash:comments>0</slash:comments>
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