Michelle Malkin has the scoop. Apparently, a Va. Tech Muslim student had a Koran that was burned in a 2004 house fire, didn’t know the proper way to dispose of it without desecrating it, so he left it at the doorstep of an Islamic Center with the hopes that it would be taken care of. Hilarity ensued.
Malkin makes a great point here:
Laila Al-Qatami, a spokeswoman for the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee in Washington, lambasted police: “If pages from the Bible were burned and put in a bag outside a church,” she huffed to the Associated Press, “I think the reaction of the police would be that it would be a hate crime.”
Actually, in this country, when you dunk a crucifix in urine, that’s “art,” and when you hang a framed copy of the Ten Commandments inside a courthouse, that’s a crime.
This incident reminds me of something that happened at Swarthmore in 1998, another hate crime that wasn’t. The moral of this story is, don’t let chocolate cake fall from your plate if you’re near a campus multicultural center:
More than 200 students, faculty and others at Swarthmore College yesterday protested a weekend incident, which college officials are calling vandalism, at the campus Intercultural Center, which houses support groups for Asian, Latino, gay, lesbian and bisexual students.
College officials said that on Sunday, a student called public-safety officers after finding several large piles of what appeared to be excrement in the center’s boardroom in Clothier Hall. College officials later determined that what looked like excrement was actually cake, but still deemed the incident “a hateful act” of criminal mischief and ethnic intimidation.
