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高中英语 VOA常速听力2012年08月合辑（文本）Researchers-say-Racist-Internet-Sites-Breed-Hate素材 LOS ANGELES — American Sikhs have been mourning the victims of the mass shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin - and are trying to comprehend an act that seems senseless. The shooters motives are unclear, but one organization that monitors hate groups points to the Internet as a breeding ground for racial hatred. In the Los Angeles suburb of Sikhs and other community members gathered for a vigil to remember the victims of the Wisconsin shooting. Some also tried to understand what motivated the accused shooter, Wade Michael Page. California temple member Nachhatar Singh Bhullar calls the act senseless. It could happen anywhere. Somebody can come anywhere and do those things, he said. But researchers into hate groups say Page had ties to music groups with a white supremacist message and they speculate that his hatred sparked the rampage. Tim Zaal, 48, recognizes the message. He came to the Sikh temple to offer condolences, but says he once viewed all dark-skinned people with hatred. He spent a year in jail for attacking an Iranian couple and has been involved in other hate crimes. In the 1980s, he was a skinhead and organizer for the neo-Nazi group White Aryan Resistance. The white racialist movement was moving into a different direction. Rather than have all these great big organizations, they started to operate in these little cells, he said. And they started organizing online. Rick Eaton is a researcher on hate groups with the Simon Wiesenthal Center, which monitors social sites such as Twitter and Facebook, and distributes an online research app - or application - to law enforcement agencies. He says a world of hatred, little seen by most Americans, thrives on racist music, epithets and symbols. The name of the song is Keep Fighting, and it says their job is to keep fighting and if you dont, Ill kill you myself, he said. Rabbi Abraham Cooper, associate dean of the Simon Wiesenthal Center,