Rising Cost of Media Spin: Anti-Muslim Prejudice
A New Zealand mosque is fed up with its numerous attacks and is switching to plastic windows. Stuff News reports:
Muslims arrived at the Lower Hutt Islamic Centre at 6.30am yesterday to find four smashed windows, the Nazi symbol and the number 666 – said to be Satan's number – scrawled across its exterior walls.The centre was attacked two weeks ago and had been hit more than five times already this year, prayer leader Khaled Abbas said. "People are getting very, very upset about it," said Hanif Khan, who chairs Islamic organisation the Hutt Valley Trust. "We have not done anything at all. We are peaceful and not motivated to go against people."
The centre had replaced smashed glass windows in its kitchen and library with plastic.
Turned out it was a stupid teenager, say police.
In Maine a man rolled a frozen pig's head into a mosque during prayers.
Authorities reassured Muslims on Friday that Maine is safe after the state filed a civil-rights lawsuit against a man accused of rolling a frozen pig's head into a mosque during prayers...Published reports have quoted Matthews as telling police that he bowled the pig's head into the mosque on July 3 "as a joke," but James Howaniec, his lawyer, said Matthews has entered a not-guilty plea.Howaniec said he expects Matthews, a construction worker now free on bail, will be charged with desecrating and defacing a place of worship in local court, a misdemeanor charge.
A California man from Santa Clara stabbed his neighbor in the neck for even looking Muslim:
A Santa Clara man accused of stabbing his Sikh neighbor in the neck because he thought the man was a member of the Taliban is scheduled to be arraigned today in a San Jose courtroom on attempted murder and hate crime charges, authorities said.Everett Thompson, 25, could face life in prison if convicted in the attack, prosecutor Jay Boyarsky said. He said formal charges will be filed today, and prosecutors will ask that Thompson be held without bail.
Iqbal Singh, 40, was standing with his 2-year-old granddaughter in his family's carport on Sunday preparing to leave for religious services when Thompson approached and stabbed him once in the neck with a steak knife, Boyarsky said.
On my MySpace blog I detail the anti-Jewish incidents taking place around the world.
How could I not tell of the flipside?



Comments
Kudos for this. Anyone who decries anti-semitic attacks while turning a blind eye to other hate crimes is just a tribalist with no regard for Jewish values.
Posted by: simon | August 3, 2006 03:34 PM