Stanislav Shmulevich, as you may know, was charged last week with two felony counts for dunking a Koran in a toilet at New York’s Pace University when he was a student there. This morning, offers to help him fight this outrage have been pouring in. There are several attorneys involved, and as soon as there’s a way for interested people to contact the defense team, I’ll post it here.

Thanks to everyone who’s emailed and offered assistance; this story has really touched a nerve among Americans who value free expression and refuse to be bullied by CAIR and the MSA and their Wahhabist masters. I’m not going to be the coordinator (schedule’s already insane!) but I’ll let you know who is.

UPDATE at 7/30/07 8:12:41 am:

Phil Orenstein has personal experience with the pressure tactics of the Muslim Student Association at Pace University: Hate Crime Arrest for Desecration of a Koran.

I have been involved over the past year battling the censorship and outrages of the film police at Pace, where the administrators caved in to Muslim Student Association’s pressure and threatened police action against Hillel if they showed the film Obsession. This brings us back to the starting point of this drama last year when a Koran was found in a toilet, as reported in the news at the time:

NEW YORK (AP) - A lower Manhattan college is investigating how a paperback copy of the Quran from the campus library ended up in a public toilet, school officials said Tuesday. The discovery at Pace University was among three separate incidents in the past two weeks involving vandalism with racial or religious overtones. In the other two, racial slurs were scrawled on a student’s car parked at a satellite campus in Westchester County and on a bathroom wall at the downtown campus.

These incidents fueled the MSA to pressure the administration to shut down the Pace Hillel events. After these incidents the Council on American-Islamic Relations jumped into the act holding a town meeting at Pace University to combat “Islamophobia.” The administration appeased them by changing the designation of the Koran incident from “vandalism” to “hate crime” and referred it to the New York Police Department’s hate crimes unit. This has presently resulted in the arrest of Stanislav Shmulevich to the cheers of CAIR and it’s not known whether or not he’s a student and no further evidence in the arrest has been offered at this point. Justice has been served in the eyes of those who are determined to see Sharia law prevail.

The other incidents “with racial or religious overtones” at Pace University were swastikas painted on a bathroom wall and on a Holocaust memorial event poster, the desecration of a Menorah on campus and other vicious antisemitic attacks which never rose to the level of hate crime, nor should they so along as burning the American flag is free speech and the photograph Piss Christ was the winner of “Awards in the Visual Arts” competition sponsored by the National Endowment for the Arts. However, this demonstrates clear evidence of a double standard lurking at Pace, throughout academia and trickling down throughout the body politic where Muslims and certain identity groups get preferential treatment while others are spurned.