Fire destroys protest wall at UC Irvine

Fire destroys protest wall at UC Irvine

The Associated Press
Last Updated 5:19 pm PDT Saturday, May 22, 2004

IRVINE, Calif. (AP) - A Muslim group called for a hate crime investigation Saturday into the burning of a protest wall erected by Arab students at the University of California, Irvine.

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"Because of the ethnic and religious nature of the display and its sponsors, we urge campus police and the FBI to investigate this attack as a possible hate crime," said a statement from the Southern California office of the Council on American-Islamic Relations.

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The campus Society of Arab Students obtained a permit for the wall, which Vasich said was adorned with photographs and quotations from Martin Luther King Jr. and Nelson Mandela.

It was a protest against a 425-mile complex of fences, walls and barbed wire that Israel is building in the West Bank to keep out Palestinian suicide bombers and other attackers.

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