And in Arizona today's Guardian reports a Sikh being shot dead on Saturday by a man said to have shouted "I stand for America all the way".

Bad times. But the same issue of the Guardian also has this: Tehran's mayor has sent a message of condolence to New York's Rudolph Giuliani in the first public oficial contact between the two states since the 1979 Islamic revolution.

"This act is not just against New Yorkers, but all humanity" Morteza Alviri said.