Posted on 04/25/2003 12:05:02 PM PDT by RedsHunter
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:42:20 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
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.
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Under the jail? One would think being in jail would be unpleasant enough.
This was my first thought. It doesn't seem like an act of bigotry, but rather the 'performance' of an act of bigotry... by a perpetrator who has a flawed image of the kind of person that would do something like that; like the church burnings. Its sounds complex (almost Sicilian ...aka. Princess Bride), but stick with me. The staging of the 'pork blood' container is like a kid trying to get his brother in trouble... steal the cookies and leave a note saying 'brother did this.' Why would one leave a marked container when the act of desecration didn't require an explanantion?
Remember the staging of Lynx hairs in Northwest forests to enact land use restrictions based on endangered species regulations? Similar??
And since I don't support the idea of hate crimes, what would be the applicable charge? Vandalism?
It is one of the best yet least known remedies for a hang-over ;-)
... and a potent aphrodesiac, I'm told.
No, that means these Muslims did it themselves.
If it is pork blood, then ArcLight is correct.
Good point. Simply desecrating the prayer mat with blood of any kind, even fake blood, would have got the message across.I remember an antiblack hate crime at a university here in the US...I wish I could remember which college, or at least which state, or the year (think it was 2000 or 2001). Anyway, the note was bizarre...It sounded like it was written by a cartoon KKK member-but it used rap slang in at least two places! Now, that could mean a young racist white kid, who is not immune to the influence rap has had on the culture....Or it could mean a young black kid trying to frame "white folks" for his own misdeeds or for attention. Don't think that case was ever resolved. I wish the perp in this case had left a note, it's analysis might have been illuminating.
Ahh... now there's something interesting. It it is not pig's blood, but was still done by bigots, is it not still a crime, based on the fact that it was committed of an emotion of hate?... regardless of whether or not it was a true act of desecration.
And if it WAS a performance, by someone wishing to create the notion that 'hateful' bigots are roaming campus with squirt-guns full of pig's blood looking for Muslims, then even if it was truly pig's blood it would not be a hate crime... because there was no real emotion of 'hate' involved.
Do you see the creepy aspect of 'hate' crimes? Under the definition of those advocating 'thought' policing, a Leftists can never be convicted of a 'hate' crime because there own motives are never considered to be hateful - reciprocal, just, impassioned, good-intentioned - but never hateful. Putting condoms in a church offering plate? That's a ideological statement protected by the First Amendment... right?
I think you and I both know the answer to that question.
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