I've already seen one attempt to link the killer's nationality to his crime by means of South Korea's compulsory military service. (And this despite the fact that I can find no mention of his having reported for duty in any of the news articles.) I'm now bracing myself for the trickle of opinion pieces about how the pressure of familial expectations on Asian-Americans makes them all ticking time bombs.

I'm not sure what the religion of the perpetrators could possibly have to do with the post-9/11 hate crimes enumerated in the article I linked to. What they have in common is not their beliefs--among the victims are a Sikh and a Coptic Christian--but their appearance. They were targeted for no other reason than because they "looked Middle-Eastern".