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.

[Russell Scott]

I won't hold my breath wating for them to report that the whole incident was staged to gain sympathy for Islam, whos greatest attribute is its ability to deceive people.

[IJCR2]

Great tasty sausages.

[Mr.Atos]

Its also reminiscent of the note included in one of the anthrax letters. The statement ended with "Allah is great!" The FBI pointed out that a true Muslim would most likely have used the name, God, if it were a true statement of homage.

[Mark17]

there are lots of Muslim converts in prison that'll have a real interesting chat with this lad...

The Muslims are vastly outnumbered in the joint. I doubt they will have many interesting chats with anyone, and yes, I think it was cute.

[Damagro]

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...

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I agree, this was very stupid. Lard would have been much cheeper.

[Mark17]

Or maybe not cute, that was not a good word, but stuff happens the other way around, and no one says anything about it.

[templar]

What do people do with pork blood?

Vampires sometimes drink it in place of human blood (usually each others, so the supply is limited in quantity). Really. It's an underground cult type of thing.

There may be other uses for pig blood I am unaware of. Ask you local butcher who his pig blood customers are to get an idea of who might be using in your area (vampires usually fit the Goth type of profile).

[The KG9 Kid]

If someone were to spray paint a backwards swastika on a synagogue's front door, instead painting a Chinese symbol of good luck rather than the intended symbol of the Third Reich, they're still a Nazi asshole -- just a retarded Nazi asshole.

[hardhead]

Just remember the 'art' exhibits of the last couple of years: The crucifix standing in a glass of urine; the painting of Mary with dung splattered on it. Double standards, all for the cause of appeasement.

[showme_the_Glory]

Just more alien livestock mutilation. Move along......

PETA

[Damagro]

Spare me the sophistry. Nobody's used the word "cute." But you know exactly what I mean. The flippant, dismissive attitude is disgraceful. Remember when those barbarians from ACT UP defiled a Catholic Mass in New York? I feel the same way when I read this. And so should any decent person.

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You can take up the mantle of these godless heathens if you like . As for me , I'll taunt and humiliate them anytime I feel like it

[kevao]

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

No, that would be "freedom of expression."

[firebrand]

That's what I thought. I saw an apoplectic Rick Moranis shouting, "You would vandalize a prayer mat?"

[firebrand]

They desecrated the host, which is tad bit more serious.

[wideawake]

LOL!

[wideawake]

You're way off. In my neighborhood Italian grandmothers, not Goths, are the natural purchasers of pork blood.

[cardinal4]

My problame is with the "Hate Crime" tag. I have always thought a accusing someone of hate crime was being discriminatory, racist, or hateful in itself.

[Mr.Atos]

If someone were to spray paint a backwards swastika

But, how do you know that the punk was not just coming to terms with his previous hateful ways and wishing the Hebrews within 'Good Luck' in the new Chinese New Year?... albeit with a criminal act of vandalism.

... and if some kid tagged the 'Nazi's' car with a Star of David (backwards or otherwise) would THAT be a crime provoked by hate... or just a humorous joke?

[templar]

You're way off.

No, that's why I said check it out. Vampire nests aren't all that common, but they aren't rare either. Vampire night clubs tend to stay pretty far underground like the Gay bars did 35 0r 40 years ago. Most of the participants are just role players, like the Dungeons and Dragons crowd, but some get pretty hardcore. I only know of one vampire in my neighborhood, and he is harmless as far as I know; not sure if he's a blood drinker or not. Weird people in the least, but mostly harmless.