Hate Crime Irregularities

When a Menorah was desecrated on campus and a swastika was drawn on a Holocaust memorial event poster, Pace University’s president David A. Caputo labeled the events as "bias incidents."

When a paperback Koran was tossed in a toilet – resulting in minimal water damage – Caputo labeled the incident as a “hate crime” that outraged him.

Now, police have discovered who was responsible for the Koran-toilet incident: Stanislav Shmulevich, a Russian Jewish immigrant who was a student at Pace while anti-Semitic vandalism was occurring and going unpunished. He is being charged with felony hate crimes that could land him in jail for up to four years – just for putting a book in a toilet.

I’d like to remind you of the following events that did not warrant being labeled hate crimes:

The Brooklyn Museum of Art opened a new exhibit that included "Yo Mama's Last Supper," “which depicts Christ as a nude woman standing with her arms outstretched and 11 black men disciples sitting or standing on either side of her and one white man as Judas.”

Andres Serrano's “art” that depicted a crucifix in a jar filled with urine.

Northern Kentucky University professor Sally Jacobsen and some of her students removed crosses from a social commentary/protest installation on campus and threw them in the trash, because she was against the anti-abortion message it was representing.

The above incidents are just a few of many where liberal causes – protecting abortion rights and criticizing Christianity – are on display. The perpetrators are seldom, if ever, punished and certainly not punished with hate crime legislation. Yet liberals are quick to condemn anything that criticizes Islam or Muslims. For example:

Muslim students at Brown University successfully prevented an on-campus speech by Nonie Darwish, who criticizes the hatred preached by radical Islam.

San Francisco State University put conservative students on trial “for hosting an anti-terrorism rally at which participants stepped on makeshift Hezbollah and Hamas flags.”

Pace censored a screening of Obsession, a film critical of radical Islam, after Muslim students complained.

PC liberals kowtow to anything Muslim because they are both scared of Muslim groups like CAIR (which has pushed the legal troubles against Shmulevich). Unfortunately, people like Shmulevich get thrown under the bus for acting out against something the PC liberals claim to protect.