Reply #100: Context??? [View All]

While I agree with you about the context being important, but you seem to be reading A LOT into the article in order to create your context. The only thing they seem to have connected Mr. Shmuelvich to is putting the Quran in the toilet. He was charged with "criminal mischief and aggravated harassment", not vandalism or trespassing. According to the article, other than the Quran itself, the police have NOT connected Mr. Shmulevich to any other acts of vandalism. Pace has classified the desecration of the book as vandalism, but that doesn't mean it's legally the case in a US court. What "other crime" was he committing when he did this? From the article, it doesn't say anything about trespassing only that they're not sure if he was a student or not. Is there any evidence to show that this was done "surreptitiously", unless you figure that if he was in the bathroom there is a certain degree of privacy that it provides? Is there another article on this that has more information?