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Looking into the “Man pleads guilty to defacing Islamic Center and burning the Qur’an” story, I noticed an aspect that wasn’t mentioned in the Justice Department press release. The press release describes the graffiti painted on the Islamic Center this way:
mo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news.../?postshare=2591451803661911&tid=ss_tw-bottom
Looking into the “Man pleads guilty to defacing Islamic Center and burning the Qur’an” story, I noticed an aspect that wasn’t mentioned in the Justice Department press release. The press release describes the graffiti painted on the Islamic Center this way:
The graffiti included explicit and offensive language in addition to such statements as “Bash Back,” “Now is our time!” and “You bash us in Pakistan we bash here.”
But the plea agreement reports that the graffiti, put up in early 2011, contained “the following statements”:
(i) “Allahu Fukkbar;” (ii) “Queer insurrection;” (iii) “It’s okay to be gay!” (iv) “Now is our time!” (v) “Bash Back;” (vi) “You bash us in Pakistan we bash here;” (vii) “Allah was gay;” (viii) “[illegible] unite;” (ix) “Satanic trans” (with circle around Star of David above); (x) “Fukk straights;” and (xi) “Bash Back lives.”
And once one sees “Queer insurrection,” “It’s okay to be gay!,” “Allah was gay,” “Satanic trans,” and “**** straights,” this puts a different cast on the graffiti that the press release did quote — at least two and possibly all three of those statements also appear to be pro-gay-rights.
mo
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news.../?postshare=2591451803661911&tid=ss_tw-bottom
