The other day, I read this story about a Pace U. student now charged with two counts of felony hate crimes for flushing the Koran. [For more on why he might have done this, read more about the motive no one at Pace wants to talk about. ]
Contrast the draconian treatment he is getting with the punishment facing this guy.
So if he'd been slashing 42 tires belonging to the members of Pace University's Muslim student organization, then it would be a hate crime?
I guess, if you don't consider the members of our military people belonging to a group targeted solely because of their membership in that group. Or, in this guy's case, if you just don't consider them people at all, just mindless killing machines.
But no, seriously folks, what is the real difference between these two cases? Let's say it out loud shall we?
We're not afraid of offending the military. Just ask Christopher Hitchens, who obviously isn't afraid to tell it like it is. [Hat-tip LGF]
This has to stop, and it has to stop right now. There can be no concession to sharia in the United States. When will we see someone detained, or even cautioned, for advocating the burning of books in the name of God? If the police are honestly interested in this sort of "hate crime," I can help them identify those who spent much of last year uttering physical threats against the republication in this country of some Danish cartoons. In default of impartial prosecution, we have to insist that Muslims take their chance of being upset, just as we who do not subscribe to their arrogant certainties are revolted every day by the hideous behavior of the parties of God.It is often said that resistance to jihadism only increases the recruitment to it. For all I know, this commonplace observation could be true. But, if so, it must cut both ways. How about reminding the Islamists that, by their mad policy in Kashmir and elsewhere, they have made deadly enemies of a billion Indian Hindus? Is there no danger that the massacre of Iraqi and Lebanese Christians, or the threatened murder of all Jews, will cause an equal and opposite response? Most important of all, what will be said and done by those of us who take no side in filthy religious wars? The enemies of intolerance cannot be tolerant, or neutral, without inviting their own suicide. And the advocates and apologists of bigotry and censorship and suicide-assassination cannot be permitted to take shelter any longer under the umbrella of a pluralism that they openly seek to destroy.