Again – these stories are becoming way too common: -New York City police say four Staten Island teenagers accused of bullying a Muslim classmate are now facing hate crime charges. The Staten Island Advance says the incidents occurred from October 2009 to June 2010. Authorities say the bullies called the boy a “terrorist,” frequently punched […]
Now there are reports of shots being fired at the Murfreesboro Islamic Center in Tennessee (via The Political Carnival): Rutherford County Sheriff’s deputies are investigating a complaint about shots being fired this afternoon near the construction site of the Islamic Center of Murfreesboro on Veals Road off Bradyville Pike. The report came just hours after […]
Finally we have someone to make an example of. I am sure there will be more down the road: Alie Kamara, a black Staten Island teenager, watched the results of the Nov. 4 election at a friend’s house. Soon after Barack Obama was declared the winner, he walked home alone to his house in the […]
Welcome back to the sixties: No bombs were thrown into the party, but just after 3 a.m. several miles away, someone crept into a clearing in the woods and set fire to the predominantly black Macedonia Church of God in Christ, reducing it to a skeleton of charred metal and wood. Investigators have yet to […]
First off here is the story– Two men were airlifted to University Hospital after they were burned in a restaurant fire. The blaze broke out at Steak Thyme Subs on the 8100 block of Princeton-Glendale Road shortly before 9 p.m. According to a report in the Hamilton Journal News, the restaurant has been vandalized three […]
Gives me flashbacks of Footloose: Chicago gay rights activists are concerned about what may have been a hate crime in the Lakeview neighborhood. The Chicago Public Library says that about 100 books were destroyed after someone set a fire in the section for gay and lesbian literature. It happened Tuesday about noon at the John […]