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A 23-year-old student at Pace University, Stanislav Shmulevich, was arrested Friday and charged with two felony counts of Criminal Mischief in the Fourth Degree as a Hate Crime.Numerous analysts have been quick to recognize the cruel irony of these charges. Mark Steyn quipped that instead of flushing the Qur’an, “obviously Mr Shmulevich should have submerged it in his own urine, applied for an NEA grant and offered it to the Whitney Biennial. But to that Michelle Malkin responded with the grim truth: “Actually, no. The NEA would have turned Shmulevich in to the police, too. Now, if he had submerged a Bible in urine or coated a Torah in cow dung and submitted it for a federal grant, he’d be sitting pretty–and facing rave New York Times editorials instead of time behind bars.”And that’s why,as Christopher Hitchens said,“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.”Indeed,it has to stop.For all the examples of the double standard that he, Malkin and others have brought forth-from Piss Christ to Chris Ofili’s Turner-Prize-winning, elephant-dung and pornography-bedecked Virgin Mary and the rest-emphasize the fact that the real agenda of today’s dominant politically correct culture is certainly not tolerance,or even anything-goes moral relativism.Some things most emphatically don’t go,as Stanislav Shmulevich’s two felony charges indicate.As a cultural movement,political correctness and multiculturalism are emphatically anti-Western and anti-Christian.And they are also suicidal...
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