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Monday, December 3, 2012

Sikh Community To Be Honored Thursday

The Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee's annual luncheon will also feature the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center.

The local Sikh community will be honored at a luncheon Thursday that also features the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. The Interfaith Conference of Greater Milwaukee's annual luncheon will honor the Sikh community "for its exemplary calls for tolerance without vengeance" after white supremacist Wade Michael Page entered the Oak Creek temple Aug. 5 and killed six people and wounded four others. The event will be held at noon at the Italian Community Center. (Click here for more information) The keynote speaker is Richard Cohen, the president of the Southern Poverty Law Center. Cohen's group tracked Page prior to the shootings and released a report last week chronicling Page's life in the years leading up to the temple …

Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Report Traces Temple Shooter's History

The Southern Poverty Law Center says Wade Michael Page's time at Fort Bragg drove him deep into neo-Nazi ways.

The Southern Poverty Law Center, a group that had tracked Wade Michael Page well before he opened fire at the Oak Creek Sikh temple, has released a report chronicling Page's life in the years leading up to the Aug. 5 attack. The report details Page's time at Fort Bragg, which it says "served as the home base for a brazen cadre of white supremacist soldiers." That exposure, according to the report, drove him deeper into neo-Nazi ways. After he was discharged from the Army in 1998 for refusing treatment for alcoholism, the white-power music scene "became the center of his life." In October 2011, he became a full member of the Hammerskin Nation, described in the report as one of the most violent and dominant skinhead groups in the United …

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