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Pace University student pleads guilty to tossing copies of Quran into toilet
The Associated Press

    NEW YORK — A former Pace University student who twice threw copies of the Quran into a toilet at the school after disputes with Muslims pleaded guilty Monday to disorderly conduct in connection with the incidents.
    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 Quran that was recovered in the October incident “was covered in feces.”
In both cases, a teacher found the books in a men’s room on the second floor of the school’s main building in lower Manhattan.
Muslims consider the Quran a sacred writing that contains the direct word of God, and desecrating it is seen as an offense against God.
    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.
    His lawyer, Glenn Morak, said he believed the disorderly conduct plea was an appropriate disposition.
    “There was no hate crime here,” Morak said. “He accepts responsibility, and he is repentant.”

So does this mean that if someone takes my christian bible and flushes it down the toilet....then that someone would be arrested and charged for a hate crime?

Is that what 'tolerance' means in this country? We denounce and push aside our own long standing beliefs and elevate, promote and make laws to protect other, new beliefs?

What a waste of freakin' time and money.....chaos will ensue and the threads are being pulled out of the fabric of logic.....God doesn't need defending from toilet flushing-----HELLLLLOOOOO....DUUHHH...

You can do whatever you want to a bible and nobody cares but flush the Quran in the toilet and it's a hate crime, what a crock of crap that is.

You got that one right shadow. We won't be around to see this, but I would bet the farm that in 100 years this country, if it is still in existence, will be a Muslim country and Christianity will be something you watch and hear about on the history channel.