Wednesday, August 1, 2007

"Hate crimes" are simply the symptom of unassimilable diversity By Lawrence Auster

Regarding the indictment of 23-year-old Pace University student Stanislav Shmulevich for two felony counts of "Criminal Mischief in the Fourth Degree as a Hate Crime" for having placed two copies of the Koran in public toilets and attempting to flush them, leaving one of them covered in feces, the establi-cons--Robert Spencer, Mark Steyn, et al--are attacking the double standard they see at work here. They say that if the same were done to a Torah, it would not be seen as a hate crime.

I don't agree with that. If you were a Jewish student at Pace University and entered the men's room and found a Torah in a toilet covered in feces, you would feel attacked and intimidated as a Jew. The person who did it might very well be charged with a hate crime.

But hate crimes are not the issue here. They are just the surface of the problem.

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