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Last month, two dozen Somali youths swarmed and attacked two Maine residents in a park in Lewiston, beating them with sticks while laughing, as video of the incident shows. One of the victims was hospitalized, but no charges were filed. Then, last Tuesday, a group of Somalis fired pellet guns at non-Somalis in the same park. A fight broke out and one non-Somali, a 38-year-old father of two, died days later from his injuries. Kennedy Park in Lewiston has become the focal point of such clashes, according to reports. Previously, a 10-year-old girl was jumped and beaten by a Somali...

Theo van Gogh and Margaret Hassan were murdered within days of each other -- indeed, since we don't know the exact date of Hassan's murder, they might both have perished on the same day. They were more than a thousand miles apart when they died: Van Gogh was murdered in Holland, Hassan in Iraq. And they were very different people. Van Gogh was a Dutch pornographer who sought to outrage respectable Holland and people of faith; Hassan was an aid worker inspired by faith who spent her life helping the poor. Above all, they had very different attitudes about Islam....