Vandalism of Muslim Prayer Room at N.Y.U. Is Investigated as Hate Crime

[David__77]

A prayer room used by Muslim students at New York University was struck by vandals who etched and drew graffiti on the walls and soaked Islamic prayer mats with urine, according to N.Y.U. officials and members of the university’s Muslim community.

The soiled mats and other vandalism were discovered Thursday afternoon in a worship space inside Bobst Library, the university’s towering red building across from Washington Square Park in Greenwich Village.

An image of male genitalia was drawn onto the wall of the room, along with the letters “AEPI,” the nickname of Alpha Epsilon Pi, a nationwide Jewish fraternity that was suspended from N.Y.U. in 2015 for hazing, according to a university directory of suspended fraternities and sororities.

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https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/nyregion/vandalism-muslim-prayer-room-nyu.html

[AloeVera]

2. You don't think this shows hate?

Then you must not think vandalism on a synagogue is hate either.

[AloeVera]

4. But that's how it starts. Always.

I get your point, of course it's a "lesser" crime. But the animus behind it is the same. It's the hatred that is clear to see. To me anyway.

[David__77]

5. Many people consider cross burnings to be hate crimes.

I can’t say I consider it unreasonable to think that.