Sunday, July 29, 2007

Mindcrimes Today

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.

Yes. And I'm quite sure that dunking a Bible in the toilet would get similar legal attention. And never mind in Saudi Arabia. Where it would be a spectator sport if they had thought of it... yet...