Action? What action? There was no crime.
Bruce http://www.nysun.com/pf.php?id=41944 Action Sought at Pace After Abuse of Koran BY ANNIE KARNI - Special to the Sun October 20, 2006 URL: http://www.nysun.com/article/41944 Responding to the second desecration of a Koran in a men's bathroom at Pace University within three weeks, the New York chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations and Pace's Muslim Students Association yesterday called on the university and the NYPD Hate Crime Task Force to work swiftly to solve the crimes. The groups also expressed concern over the safety of Muslim students and the rising tide of Islamophobia at Pace and in the city in general. "Though we're happy with the fact that this was recognized as a hate crime, we're concerned that it has been repeated," CAIR's president, Omar Mohannedi, said. A paperback copy of the Koran checked out from the library at Pace's Lower Manhattan campus was discovered floating in a toilet in the men's bathroom on September 21. Last Friday, another copy of the Koran was found in a toilet at the library. Also, racial slurs were scribbled on student vehicles at Pace's Westchester campus earlier this month. "This unfortunate incident underscores the apparent lack of dialogue and understanding within the Pace University student populace and the greater New York City community," Mr. Mohannedi said, referring to the second Koran desecration. "What we had hoped to be a rumor was in fact our worst nightmare," a senior at Pace who is a MSA member, Faiza Ali, said. "For a place that we call our second home, we feel we are being threatened to a certain degree.Overall, there's concern that there's a level of hate increasing throughout our community. It's not something that just pertains to Muslims," she said. The president of Pace, David Caputo, said the incidents went against the very foundation of the university. "This indicates a set of issues we need to deal with and gives us a moment to act when we have people's attention. We are facing this squarely and in public," Mr. Caputo said.The university has responded with a series of town hall meetings and sensitivity training, and plans to intensify its ongoing campaign to combat racial bias. In 2005, CAIR received 153 reports of hate crimes nationally, which marked a 9% increase from the 141 incidents reported in 2004. Mr. Mohannedi called the increase "alarming" and expressed hope that New York would react with more hate crime legislation and law enforcement. As for leads on who desecrated the Korans at Pace, an NYPD detective, Madelyne Galindo, said only that the investigation was active. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] -------------------------- Want to discuss this topic? Head on over to our discussion list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------- Brooks Isoldi, editor [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.intellnet.org Post message: [email protected] Subscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] *** FAIR USE NOTICE. This message contains copyrighted material whose use has not been specifically authorized by the copyright owner. OSINT, as a part of The Intelligence Network, is making it available without profit to OSINT YahooGroups members who have expressed a prior interest in receiving the included information in their efforts to advance the understanding of intelligence and law enforcement organizations, their activities, methods, techniques, human rights, civil liberties, social justice and other intelligence related issues, for non-profit research and educational purposes only. We believe that this constitutes a 'fair use' of the copyrighted material as provided for in section 107 of the U.S. Copyright Law. If you wish to use this copyrighted material for purposes of your own that go beyond 'fair use,' you must obtain permission from the copyright owner. For more information go to: http://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/17/107.shtml Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/osint/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
