Is Desecrating the Koran a Hate Crime?
Another Koran was found in the toilet at Pace University in NYC, and CAIR has pressured the city to designate this as a 'Hate Crime'.
A couple of things bother me about this move to make it a 'Hate Crime'. 1) How can it be a crime, when no one was injuried or rights were infringed upon? and 2) Did Free Speech suddenly go out the window because it was a Koran that was in the toilet?
Burning the American Flag is concidered Free speech, but dumping a Koran in the crapper is not? If it was a Bible, would that be concidered a Hate Crime? I doubt it, in fact if it was a Bible, I doubt it would even make the news. Muslims don't want equality, they want undeserved special concideration because of their faith, and I for one am tired of it.
And this leads us to my first question: How could this be concidered a crime?
There is tolerence and then there is butt-kissing, and letting CAIR push this incident into be classified as a Hate Crime is just old fashion butt-kissing by PC twits with no spines.
Mr Minority
(CNSNews.com) - Under pressure from Muslim advocacy groups, an act of Koran desecration at New York City's Pace University has been declared a hate crime. And now there's a second incident of a Koran ending up in a toilet at the Pace University library. The Council on American-Islamic Relations says a Koran carried into the library was left in a toilet last Friday, in a case similar to that in September. "We once again call on Pace University to take concrete measures to help educate the student population about Islamophobic bigotry and its negative impact on ordinary Muslims and on American society," said CAIR-NY Civil Right Director Maryam Sayar Akbar. It's not clear if the second incident may have come in reaction to the uproar over the first. CAIR-NY, in collaboration with the Association of Muslim American Lawyers, the NYPD Hate Crimes Task Force, the NYPD Community Affairs Bureau, and the Muslim Students Association of Pace worked closely with the university in having the September Koran-in-toilet incident documented as a hate crime. According to the New York Daily News, vandals also scrawled a swastika and anti-black slurs in the same bathroom where the Koran was found in September.
A couple of things bother me about this move to make it a 'Hate Crime'. 1) How can it be a crime, when no one was injuried or rights were infringed upon? and 2) Did Free Speech suddenly go out the window because it was a Koran that was in the toilet?
Burning the American Flag is concidered Free speech, but dumping a Koran in the crapper is not? If it was a Bible, would that be concidered a Hate Crime? I doubt it, in fact if it was a Bible, I doubt it would even make the news. Muslims don't want equality, they want undeserved special concideration because of their faith, and I for one am tired of it.
And this leads us to my first question: How could this be concidered a crime?
There is tolerence and then there is butt-kissing, and letting CAIR push this incident into be classified as a Hate Crime is just old fashion butt-kissing by PC twits with no spines.
Mr Minority
