A Pace University student has been charged with a hate crime for putting a Koran in the toilet.

Stanislav Shmulevich, a Ukrainian immigrant, was arraigned Sunday in New York Criminal Court on two charges of criminal mischief in the fourth degree as a hate crime.

“The defendant, as a hate crime, intentionally damaged property of another while having no right to do so nor any reasonable grounds to believe that he had such a right,” said the complaint filed by the New York County District Attorney’s Office.

You’ve got to be kidding me.

Throw a Bible in the toilet and take a picture of it, it’s free speech.

urine Submerge a crucifix in urine, it’s art.

But put a Koran in the toilet, you’re going to jail.

As a Christian I am insulted that the New York County District Attorney (hello, Robert Morganthau) is trying to put a dopey college kid in jail over this dumb act, but when Christianity is insulted over and over again by “artists,” no one in the Manhattan DA’s office runs off to file charges. Nor should they. This is America and free speech, though at times can be repugnant, is supposed to be protected.

This is political correctness gone way too far.

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