August 6 - Racism, Ignorance and Guns Kill Sikhs in Wisconsin; An Examination of Christian Terrorism; Scholars Explain the Sikh Religion

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Part 1	We begin with a profile of the white supremacist gunman who shot up a Sikh temple killing six worshipers and gravely wounding three others and a police officer. Mark Potok, the Director of the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Intelligence Project and editor of their quarterly investigative journal Intelligence Report and the Hatewatch blog, joins us. We discuss the lethal combination of permissive gun laws in Wisconsin and ignorant racists susceptible to Fox News propagandists spewing anti-Muslim distortions and diatribes as well as reckless hate speech from politicians like Michelle Bachman.
Part 2	Then we examine the phenomenon of Christian terrorism that largely goes unreported. Mark Juergensmeyer, the Director of the Center for Global and International Studies at UC Santa Barbara and author of the best-seller ”Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence” and the recently-released “Global Rebellion: Religious Challenges to the Secular State”, joins us.
Part 3	Then finally we learn about the Sikh faith, the seekers of truth, the world’s fifth largest religion, members of which in the United States have been subjected to a 1,600% rise in anti-Muslim violence since 9/11 according the FBI. Gurinder Singh Mann, professor of Sikh Studies and Director of the Center for Sikh and Punjab Studies and Ami Shah, an expert on Sikh literature join us.
	MUSIC: Frank Zappa - Touble Every Day; Onward Christian Soldiers; Lupe Fiasco - American Terrorist; Against Me! - Bitter Divisions