By the way...for those who like Hate Crime laws

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http://www.kxmc.com/News/Nation/147794.asp

Man Arrested For Throwing Koran In The Toilet

But this didn’t happen in Iran or Syria. This happened at Pace University in New York. They’re calling it a “hate crime,” but really it’s a thought crime

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. It was unclear if he was a student at the school. A message left at the Shmulevich home was not immediately returned.

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.

This is the problem with “hate crimes.” “Hate,” while not a good thing, is not a crime. Mugging someone is a crime. Mugging someone because that person is of a race you despise does not make that mugging a more or less serious crime

A Ku Klux Klan march is a display of hatred, pure and simple. And yet we allow those marches all the time. As well we should. As objectionable as they are, it’s free speech

The same applies to this situation. What this kid did was vandalism. That he did it out of apparent hatred toward Muslims, or at the very least a desire to insult them, is irrelevant. He is guilty of making a nuisance of himself, nothing more. That he’s now being prosecuted as though this were a major crime is travesty, and a black mark on this country

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That he’s now being prosecuted as though this were a major crime is travesty, and a black mark on this country

What is your understanding of what he is facing?

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I prefer love crimes myslef.

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I prefer love crimes myslef.