Student who threw Koran in toilet gets community service
In a New York courtroom earlier today, Pace University student Stanislav Shmulevitch, who admitted to throwing a Koran in the toilet, was sentenced to 300 hours of community service.A former Pace University student who twice threw copies of the Koran into a toilet at the school after disputes with Muslims pleaded guilty Monday to disorderly conduct in connection with the incidents.I can't wait to see how Al-Jazeera reports this.... But Shmulevich is lucky he doesn't live in Israel.
Stanislav Shmulevich, 24, pleaded guilty as part of a deal in which he must do 300 hours of community service. He has completed about 80 hours of the service at a hospital, his lawyer said.
Shmulevich, of Brooklyn, admitted he tossed the Muslim holy books into toilets at Pace on Oct. 13, 2006, and Nov. 21, 2006. A criminal complaint says the Koran that was recovered in the October incident "was covered in feces."
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Detective Faisal Khan, who prepared the complaint, said Shmulevich told him "he committed the acts out of anger toward a group of Muslim students with whom he had a recent disagreement."
Shmulevich, a business major and immigrant from the former Soviet Union, initially was charged with two counts of criminal mischief as a hate crime. The charge is a felony punishable by up to four years in prison.
posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 1:25 AM
2 Comments:
What if I burn a nation's flag, whether Saudi or American?
What if I throw a Scientology book in the toilet?
What if I piss on a copy of the Declaration of Independence (which, in an ironic way, such a judgement by a US court is figuratively doing)?
Has the US gone nuts?!
Throwing a book of fairy tales in the toilet is a crime?..I'd better be carefull with my Harry potter books.
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