ISN’T PUBLICLY BURNING THE KORAN A HATE CRIME?
Hal Pepinsky, pepinsky@indiana.edu, pepinsky.blogspot.com
April 2, 2011
The only difference I can see between burning a cross on African American property and burning a Koran in Florida is that in the latter case, the incitement to hatred is advertised globally rather than in a neighborhood. I do not believe in punishment, but I recognize international outrage that the US does not nationally treat Koran burning on a par with KKK cross burning. If there is such a thing as a hate crime, public Koran burning qualifies…doesn’t it? Love and peace--hal
About Me
- Hal
- Worthington, OH, United States
- I retired Jan. 2009 from after 33 years on the criminal justice faculty at Indiana University, Bloomington. I continue not to charge for any form of public service, including speaking and consulting, and now have plenty of free time to do so on request. I do not do social networking. I regularly monitor just one email account: pepinsky@indiana.edu; my home phone number is 1-614-885-6341; my skype name is halpep. My papers and such are archived at http://webapp1.dlib.indiana.edu/findingaids/view?brand=general&docId=InU-Ar-VAA9639.xml&doc.view=entire_text. I am known as a co-founder of "peacemaking criminology." Page proofs of my latest, 2006 U of Ottawa Press book, Peacemaking: Reflections of a Radical Criminologist, are freely available at http://critcrim.org/sites/default/files/Pepinsky_proofs_0.pdf , the end of which lists my publications, nine books and over 80 articles and chapters in all, on a wide range of subjects from the international to the interpersonal level. My preceding book, A Criminologist's Quest for Peace, is also freely available at http://critcrim.org/pepinsky, and a pdf of Myths That Cause Crime is on the critcrim.org home page.
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