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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsLibraries Become Unexpected Sites of Hate Crimes
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/08/us/libraries-hate-crimes.html?ref=politicsA librarian at the public library in Evanston, Ill., was recently preparing for a program titled The Quran: Is It a Good Book?
She gathered books to display for attendees and discovered that inside the cover of one, The Koran for Dummies, someone had written lies cover to cover, drawn a swastika and made a disparaging remark about the Prophet Muhammad.
She discovered six more books about Islam and the Quran that had been similarly defaced with racist language and imagery, officials said. The vandalism was a first for the library, Karen Danczak Lyons, its director, said in an interview.
The authorities say there has been a spate of hate crimes targeting libraries, their books or patrons offenses officials said they had rarely seen before. These crimes coincide with a recent report by the F.B.I. that attacks against American Muslims surged last year.
Ms. Danczak Lyons called the episode troubling, noting that libraries, which promote education, research and discussions, had unexpectedly become sites for acts of divisiveness.
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Libraries Become Unexpected Sites of Hate Crimes (Original Post)
WhiteTara
Dec 2016
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guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)1. My response:
Put the defaced books in a closed exhibition case and present a series on tolerance in the community. Make this a learning experience.
get the red out
(13,458 posts)3. It's all good!
Because Trump is in office.
That's what these types say when they get caught anyway.
CTyankee
(63,768 posts)4. The election of Trump has opened up a nest of nasty in this country.
So it seems that book burning will be next and librarians might be targets...I get chilled just reading about this.
Initech
(99,909 posts)5. He's going to sink the planet into a new dark age.