Hate crime probe at UCLA after Muslim prayer mats defiled

SFGate.Com/AP ^ | Thursday, April 24, 2003 | Unattributed

[RedsHunter]

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Police at the University of California, Los Angeles, opened a hate-crime investigation after Muslim prayer mats at its medical center chapel were smeared with a liquid marked as pork blood.

University police received a report about noon Saturday that the prayer mats were defiled, said Nancy Greenstein, a spokeswoman for the University of California Police Department.

[RedsHunter]

And if it's not pork blood, is it still a "hate crime?"

[Paul Atreides]

I wonder if someone had desecrated a Christian symbol, at a Christian, would it be a hate crime?

[Paul Atreides]

but appeared to be pork blood that can be bought at grocery stores

I've never heard of that before. What do people do with pork blood?

[jim35]

No, because Christians are, like white heterosexual males, a group that can be spit upon with impunity. I want to puke, every time I hear the term "hate crime." The university police have made this a priority? What a joke.

[jim35]

Pork blood is great for gravies, sauces, etc. I wouldn't recommend drinking it straight!

[wideawake]

You can make your own black pudding - I believe there is a Mexican version of the dish as well.

[kaylar]

Nah. That would have been a 'work of art' or 'street theater', and the perp would have wound up with a grant from the NEA.

Who wants to bet this is another staged 'hate crime' , meant to bludgeon critics of Islam into silence? I'll also bet that the next report on this incident will specify that criticism of Islam incited this crime.

[Salman]

I wonder if someone had desecrated a Christian symbol, at a Christian, would it be a hate crime?

It would be "art".

[Paul Atreides]

Wow. Learn something new every day.

[wideawake]

Black Pudding From Scratch

Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients
1 1/4 qt Fresh pig's blood
8 7/8 oz Bread cut into cubes
1 1/4 qt Skim milk
1 lb Cooked barley
1 lb Fresh beef suet
8 oz Fine oatmeal
1 ts Salt
2 ts Ground black pepper
2 ts Dried and crumbled mint

Instructions 1. Put the bread cubes to soak in the milk in a warm oven. Do not heat the milk beyond blood temperature! Have the blood ready in a large bowl, and pour the warm milk and bread into it. Stir in the cooked barley. Grate the beef suet into the mixture and stir it up with the oatmeal. Season with the salt, pepper and mint.

2. Have ready 2 or three large roasting pans. Divide the mixture between them - they should not be more than 3/4 full. Bake in a moderate oven -- 350 F - for about an hour or until the pudding is well cooked through. This makes a beautifully light pudding which will keep well in a cold larder.

3. Cut into squared and fry till heated through and the outside is crisp, in bacon fat or butter. Delicious for breakfast, or for supper with fried apples and mashed potato.

[Geezerette]

I think the Polish call their blood soup, "Charnina". I asked a Polish co-worker about that, and she said they also eat blood sausage. Wow.

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[Paul Atreides]

That brings something to mind: it would be interesting (though I know the outcome) to find an artist brave enough to create a work of art that is highly offensive to the Muslim faith. I know what the reaction of practicing Muslims would be, but I would just love to hear the art department/art community weasel out of displaying it.

[tet68]

Yep, I like the "Instant" pork blood though, it's fast and easy.
The nonfat PB "Lite" just doesn't have the same porcine flavor.
It's good in the summer time over ice though.

Available at fine Abbattoirs everywhere.

[ArcLight]

Glad some of you think this was cute. Me, I think it's disgusting and they should put the person who did it under the jail. Not that they'll have to--there are lots of Muslim converts in prison that'll have a real interesting chat with this lad...

[Sir Gawain]

How about a statue/carving/painting of Mohammed having sex with a little boy?

[Paul Atreides]

Point out where anyone said that it was cute.

[LanPB01]

You'd have to find an artist that was tired of living. Remember what happened to Salman Rushdie?

[lawdude]

"What do people do with pork blood?"

Give Gerald Nadler an enema!

[tet68]

Flippant perhaps, the truth of the matter is yet to be known.

[Paul Atreides]

I would classify it as more of pointing out the double-standard of hate crimes. If that is cute or flippant, so be it.