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Which is the crime?…
By sage of monticello | July 30, 2007
…a Pace University student arrested on Friday on hate-crime charges after he threw a Koran in a toilet at Pace University on two separate occasions, according to police.
So, Michelle Malkin asks, “Which is a hate crime?”
A) Submering a crucifix in a jar of urine;
B) Burning the American Flag;
C) Placing the Koran in a Toilet
If you thought none should be a crime within the context of our Constitution - especially the Free Speech and Religious clauses - but instead guessed “C” as a result of your consideration of the liberal left’s continual hypocritical attack on traditional American values, such as Christianity; then you guessed right.
Michelle Malkin has the whole story here, with pictures.
Update: Volokh Conspiracy has a good legal analysis regarding the hate crime charge against this student. From the post:
It seems to me that this sort of use of the hate crime statutes is at least very dangerous to free speech, and may well be unconstitutional. Unfortunately, people sometimes act in illegal — often mildly illegal — ways when engaged in protest. It’s right to punish them for such actions. But it seems to me that they shouldn’t be punished more (potentially much more, as when a misdemeanor is turned into a felony) because they were motivated by disapproval of a religion, a religious practice, a sexual orientation, and the like, or were motivated by a desire to offend people based on these criteria.
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