Seems that anti-mosque fever still hasn’t died down among the FoxNews addicts and ethnocentric jerks in our midst. Case in point, in Florence, S.C., on Sunday — a traditional time for Christians to take a break from the daily grind and thank God for their blessings — some enlightened folks felt inspired to leave a two-word message, spelled out in bacon strips, on the walkway of the Florence Islamic Center. Here’s the good part: The anti-Muslim pig patrol members were so inept, no one can figure out what the second word of their message was. The first word spelled in bacon was “PIG.” The second was either “CHOPS” or “CHUMP,” or maybe it was something else. Neither one makes sense as an ethnic or religious insult — but that’s to be expected from anyone who thinks it’s cool to harass people just because their religion doesn’t allow them to handle snakes. Earlier this year, vandals broke windows in the Florence Islamic center after it was announced that local Muslims were raising money to build a proper mosque. The bacon strip message is just the latest in a line of anti-Muslim actions around the country.
As a native South Carolinian, I can tell you that the people who left the message were seriously pissed off — in Florence, you just don’t waste that much bacon without being enraged about something. At least they left the liver mush out of the argument, so no one’s breakfast was too badly affected. And, trying to look on the bright side, the fact that the vandals (or whatever you call people who leave bacon-strip messages) spelled one of the two words correctly shows that literacy efforts in the area must be working.
This article appears in Oct 12-18, 2010.
“…you just don’t waste that much bacon without being enraged about something.” [Great line. Apropo here in Wisconsin, too. Though I’ll argue that there are some things far worse than bacon-graffiti.]
Soooo, putting bacon on a building IS a hate crime, and putting a Qu’ran in a toilet IS a hate crime, but burying a non-Muslim kid in fecal matter is NOT a hate crime?
It’s inarguable that seven year-old Zach Montero from Delaware was different enough from his attacker for police to at least investigate the “hate crime” motivations of the teen who abducted him and doused him with feces:
http://gravelle.us/content/non-muslim-boy-imprisoned-doused-fecal-matter
…even though prosecutors seem to be aggressively pursuing most of the possible charges against Magee Almadhrahi, we’re still left to wonder (especially in the wake of the Tyler Clementi case) if a Caucasian can EVER be considered by the courts to be the victim of a so-called “hate crime”:
http://www.dailyscoff.com/?p=2785
…when set upon by non-Caucasians.
The answer, so far, has been universally “No”. The justice system seems to insist that white people, in particular STRAIGHT white people, can never be the victims of racially motivated crimes. They can only commit them…
-jjg
Mr. Grooms – don’t anti-mosque weirdos have just as much of a right to free speech as the Westboro Baptist Church idiots? You stood up for the Westboro’s hateful protests of a dead soldier’s funeral but anti-Islam nuts can’t put bacon on the walkway of a mosque? I think bacon is far less threatening.
J.Gravelle – wouldn’t you consider ALL crimes to be ‘hate’ crimes? I know I do. It seems funny to me to single out a crime just because it happened to a gay person or a black person or an Islamic. The person’s sexuality, religion, or race shouldn’t matter, a crime is a crime.
Are you seriously wondering why a 14 year old bully isn’t being charged with a hate crime?
Do you have any idea how the juvenille justice system works or do you just like to foam at the mouth while raving about things you have no understanding of? Teabagger or just plain stupid, Gravelle? Probably both.
Oh I get it… just a shameless plug for your crap copy+paste website. I like the mid-90s formatting. Good to see you’re committed to staying behind the curve.