Pace University--flushing a Quran in the toilet is a HATE CRIME!?!

[EyesOnly]

OK, let me get this straight...you can set the American Flag on fire, but you cannot flush your own Quran in a toilet?

Hate-crime arrests in Quran desecrations at Pace University


July 27, 2007, 8:33 PM EDT

NEW YORK (AP) _ A 23-year-old man was arrested Friday on hate-crime charges after he threw a Quran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions, police said.

Stanislav Shmulevich of Brooklyn was arrested on charges of criminal mischief and aggravated harassment, both hate crimes, police said.

The Islamic holy book was found in a toilet at Pace's lower Manhattan campus by a teacher on Oct. 13. A student discovered another book in a toilet on Nov. 21, police said.

Muslim activists had called on Pace University to crack down on hate crimes after the incidents. As a result, the university said it would offer sensitivity training to its students.

The school was accused by Muslim students of not taking the incident seriously enough at first. Pace classified the first desecration of the holy book as an act of vandalism, but university officials later reversed themselves and referred the incident to the New York Police Department's hate crimes unit.

The incidents came amid a spate of vandalism cases with religious or racial overtones at the school. In an earlier incident on Sept. 21, the school reported another copy of the Quran was found in a library toilet, and in October someone scrawled racial slurs on a student's car at the Westchester County satellite campus and on a bathroom wall at the campus in lower Manhattan. Police did not connect Shmulevich to those incidents.

Treatment of the Quran is a sensitive issue for Muslims, who view the book as a sacred object and mistreating it as an offense against God. The religion teaches that the Quran is the direct word of God.

In 2005, Newsweek magazine published and later retracted a story claiming U.S. interrogators at a prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, flushed a copy of the holy book down a toilet. The report sparked deadly demonstrations in Afghanistan and protests throughout the Middle East.

Ibrahim Hooper, a spokesman for the national CAIR office in Washington, D.C., has said the organization receives frequent reports of Quran desecrations in the United States, especially postings on Internet sites, but seldom makes them public.

He said CAIR decided to speak out about the Pace incidents because Muslim students are impacted by the creation of what could be viewed as a hostile campus environment.

http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/new...859,print.story

[ftf]

It's rediculous.

[kellymaureen]

The queeran is not the holy book of the United States, we have no official religion and have freedom OF religion, but also have freedom FROM religion.  This is just one more attempt at shoving their crappy sharia down our throats....the arresting officer was a MUSLIM, it is not against the law to desecrate any book as long as it is your property, muslims need to get it through their heads that the US shall NEVER be under islamic law, so either suck it up and accept that now and that you will be "offended" once in a while because we live in a free society or get out.
As a woman I am offended everytime i see one of their hag in a bag walk by....will they make women wearing trash bags against the law because if offends me, hardly, I just have to go on and be offended, thats how free society works....so embrace it or leave.

[newman]

The queeran is not the holy book of the United States, we have no official religion and have freedom OF religion, but also have freedom FROM religion.  This is just one more attempt at shoving their crappy sharia down our throats....the arresting officer was a MUSLIM, it is not against the law to desecrate any book as long as it is your property, muslims need to get it through their heads that the US shall NEVER be under islamic law, so either suck it up and accept that now and that you will be "offended" once in a while because we live in a free society or get out.
As a woman I am offended everytime i see one of their hag in a bag walk by....will they make women wearing trash bags against the law because if offends me, hardly, I just have to go on and be offended, thats how free society works....so embrace it or leave.

 

It's just not possible for someone who looks THAT good to think so clearly! 

[kellymaureen]

 :laugh:thanks....I think:P

[Kananga]

FLUSH TO JUDGMENT
Pale$tinians used Bible
as toilet paper
Muslims' desecration of holy book received little notice
Posted: May 18, 2005
1:00 a.m. Eastern


© 2005 WorldNetDaily.com

While Muslims have responded with deadly outrage to the now-retracted report by Newsweek of alleged Quran desecration by U.S. interrogators, there was little outcry three years ago when Islamic terrorists holed up in Bethlehem's Church of the Nativity reportedly used the Bible as toilet paper.

Catholic priests in the church marking the spot where Jesus was believed to have been born said that during the five-week siege, Pale$tinians tore up some Bibles for toilet paper and removed many valuable sacramental objects, according to a May 15, 2002, report by the Washington Times.

Newsweek is under fire for a report in its May 9 edition that sparked protests and rioting across the Muslim world resulting in 17 dead, scores injured, relief buildings burned down and a setback to years of coalition-building against terrorists.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=44324