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McClatchy Washington Bureau | 05/08/2008 | Where did the Web rumors about Obama come from? : "Some things about Barack Obama rub some voters the wrong way. 'We don't need a Muslim,' said Jannay Smith, a retiree from Kokomo, Ind. 'Who's to say if he gets in there what he'll do?' Added Steve Shallenberger, a Kokomo electrician: 'He's just calling himself a Christian because he knows that's what we in Indiana want to hear.' Then there's Sherry Richey, also from Kokomo: 'He wouldn't put his hand on the Bible; he wanted the Quran. He won't put his hand over his heart during the anthem or say the Pledge of Allegiance. He's too un-American.'"

Israel's Original Sin Sixty years ago, a 12-year-old boy witnessed the slaughter of his family. His name was Fahim Zaydan, and he lived in the Arab village of Deir Yassin in Mandate Palestine, which was attacked on April 9, 1948, by Irgun and Stern Gang troops, paramilitary forces allied with the right-wing of the Zionist movement. These troops swooped into the village and started machine gunning civilians. Those that survived this initial attack were then forced by the troops to gather outside. "They took us out one after the other," Zaydan recalled. "Shot an old man and when one of his daughters cried, she was shot too. Then they called my brother Muhammad, and shot him in front of us, and when my mother yelled, bending over him -- carrying my little sister Hudra in her hands, still breastfeeding her -- they shot her too."