Shooting, hostage-taking at Wisconsin Sikh temple

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What a terrible tragedy.  And with it, what a terribly tragic irony that members of a religious tradition that, from their historical inception in the 16th century, took very strong stands against gender discrimination, against widow-burning, against animal sacrifice, against a priestly hierarchy, and argued for religious and social inclusivism, fell victim to a racial supremacist. 

Of course, we don't know whether the shooter mistook Sikhs for Muslims in this case.  But since 9/11 there have been a number of incidents across the country, as noted above, where Sikhs were targeted by perpetrators who took them to be Muslims..and that too is tragically ironic, given that Sikhs rebelled against the Muslim Mughal rulers in India for more than two centuries.