Why are conservatives obsessed with labeling terrorism as Islamic?

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Racism.

Islam is not a race, so no, not racist. Just very stupid and short-sited.

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The Crusades, the Inquisition, American slavery, and Jim Crow never happened, obviously.

or, more recently, the dude in wisconsin who shot up a sikh temple because he thought it was a mosque

There is no proof of that.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisconsin_Sikh_temple_shooting#Perpetrator

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However seeing as how he was a Neo-Nazi, it's more likely he choose an easy target he knew would be full of non-whites rather than Muslims.