September 29, 2008

The Daily Kos is reporting that on Friday, September 26, a 'chemical irritant' was sprayed into a room of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton. Over 300 people were assembled at the ISGD at the time, where they were participating in a religious service. The irritant was sprayed into a room where children and infants were being kept while their parents prayed. Friday night was kadir, one of the holiest dates on the Islamic calendar. One adult and one child were taken to the hospital while others were treated at the scene.

The attack came at the end of a week in which the notorious DVD Obsession was sent through the mail to thousands of Ohio residents. Obsession: Radical Islam's War Against the West, was originally shown on Fox News in the days preceding the 2006 mid-term elections. The movie, which has been denounced as anti Islamic-propaganda by the Council on American-Islamic Relations and other organizations, is being distributed in swing states across the south and midwest. Plans reportedly are to distribute up to 28 million copies of the DVD nationwide.