Star......can this make it's way to the Canteen or is it too unPC?
Posted on 07/28/2007 10:15:57 PM PDT by Baladas
The 10-month-old mystery of who threw the Koran into the toilets at Pace University's Manhattan campus was solved yesterday with the arrest of a student, cops said.
Stanislav Shmulevich, 23, was confronted by detectives with a surveillance photo of himself leaving a Pace meditation room where the Muslim holy books were stored, police sources said.
He made "admitting statements" after seeing the photograph, a source said.
The suspect's roommate in Gravesend, Brooklyn, said she was stunned by the charges.
"It's impossible. He was defending the Koran," said Ola Petrovich, 24, an online saleswoman. "We had that conversation. He said, 'Don't criticize the Koran if you haven't read it.'
"Why would he do something so stupid?"
Shmulevich is suspected in two bias incidents at the school last fall.
On Oct. 13, a teacher discovered a paperback Koran in a toilet in a second-floor bathroom. On Nov. 21, a student found a submerged Koran in the same bathroom, cops said.
The suspect is a Ukrainian immigrant who moved to the U.S. as a boy. He's been splitting time between his Brooklyn flat and his parents' Staten Island home, and works at a European banking firm, Petrovich said.
Shmulevich was a senior at the university when he took "a break" only a few credits shy of a degree in international business, the roommate said.
"He read the Koran," she continued. "He was telling me, 'You should read it.' He's Jewish, but he's theologically sound. Both his parents are ballistic over this."
The suspect's father, Edward Shmulevich, 55, said he hadn't spoken to his son yet about the charges.
"He's a good son," the father said. "He's a hard worker and he's about to graduate from college. He works full time at night and then he goes to school. I'm surprised, utterly surprised. I don't know what happened."
Shmulevich was awaiting arraignment in Manhattan Criminal Court on hate crime charges for criminal mischief and aggravated harassment, officials said.
and look for cameras and dont talk until you see your lawyer.
‘Don’t criticize the Koran if you haven’t read it.’...Don’t criticize America if you haven’t lived it...
Obviously trying to stage a hate-crime.
Now he’s being charged as if he actually hates the religion.
He wasn't defending anything when he told people to read it, and not to criticize it from a position of ignorance.
Which does not mean "don't criticize it". It means know it for what it is...
Hey, if he had called this “art” (like the crucifix dunked in urine), he could have gotten government funding.
Uh oh, Gravesend, my home turf.
If it were a Bible in the bowl no one who give a damn.
Certainly wouldn’t be a “hate crime”.
Now, if he does it to intimidate people at the university, then they have the right to boot him from the school for violating the student conduct policy on that pont, as well as the mischief. However, if the execution of that policy has a double standard though (like allowing for desecration of Christian holy books), he might be able civilly to sue the University for discrimination on that, but still be booted fo the mischief.
So, I don't see what the problem is. Hate Crimes are a uneccesary and unlawful invention to create supercitizenry, with advanced rights and protections over other citizen groups. Lady justice is depicted as blindfolded for a reason.
Could I get charged with a hate crime for this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwoGtHAG8IQ
... “If the book is such an important thing, you had better keep it,” Shoju replied. “I received your Zen without writing and I am satisfied with it as it is.”
“I know that said Mu-nan. “Even so, this work has been carried from master to master for seven generations, so you may keep it as a symbol of having received teaching. Here.”
The two happened to be talking before a brazier. The instant Shoju felt the book in his hands he thrust it into the flaming coals. He had no lust for possessions.
Mu-nan, who had never been angry before, yelled: “What are you doing!”
Shoju shouted back: “What are you saying!”
- Zen Flesh, Zen Bones
This concept of hate crime is a real slippery slope.
Soon you will be arrested for calling Albore a Moron,
or Hillery a crazed witch?
I guess this is what they did in Natzi Germany and the USSR.
Yes, that’s my understanding. I think you got the reference, but this is what I was comparing this to:
The article is posted here, somewhere, I think...I think...
LOL! I hadn't thought of that. The camera must have caught him not actually pooping as required by the university.
This is TYRANNY!
It would be Protected Free Speech...along with pornography and flag burning.
Well ... as long as BUSH wasn’t watching ...
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