Weaponized Bacon is Not a Hate Crime
Keep sending your bacon slices and shots of tequila to mosques. According to one Homeland Security Official, it is not a hate crime to do so. Yet.
From the CSM here:
When he first spotted the strange graffiti, Mushtaq Hussain thought it was a juvenile prank: Somebody had used bacon strips on a sidewalk in front of a Florence, S.C., mosque to spell out the words “PIG” and “CHUMP.”
But as Mr. Hussain, a board member at the Islamic Center in Florence, gave it some thought, the incident last Sunday seemed less like an ill-advised gag and more like a cunning and cruel affront. “We thought seriously, and we thought, ‘You know, somebody doesn’t like us,’ ” he told WMBF-TV news in Florence.
Nationwide, polls show a growing ambivalence – or even anger – toward Islam among Americans…
In those attacks, pork – which Muslims are forbidden to eat because it is considered unclean – is being used as a primary weapon, sent in packages to mosques, invoked in sharply worded letters, or, as in Florence, used to spell out literal messages.
“These are not hate crimes, but they’re expressions of intolerance, really,” says David Schanzer, director of the Triangle Center on Terrorism and Homeland Security at Duke and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
No, they are not expressions of intolerance David Schanzer. They are reflections of the intolerance that Muslims have for all kafir. If Muslims stop hating us maybe we’ll stop sending them naked pictures of beautiful women eating ham sandwiches.
