الولايات المتحدة: اعتداءات على المسلمين بواسطة لحم الخنزير

أشارت وسائل الإعلام الأمريكية إلى ارتفاع مظاهر استخدام لحم الخنزير في الاعتداءات الموجهة ضد المسلمين والمؤسسات الإسلامية بـ"الولايات المتحدة".

وتأتي هذه التصريحات في أعقاب قيام مجهولين بكتابة لفظ "خنزير"، ولفظ "أحمق" خارج مسجد جنوب "كارولينا" باستخدام شرائح الخنزير، في استفزاز جديد لمشاعر المجتمع الإسلامي.

وطبقًا لتصريحات مجلس العلاقات الإسلامية الأمريكية "كير"، فإن كثير من الاعتداءات على المسلمين وقعت من خلال استخدام لحوم الخنزير؛ مثلما حدث بمسجد "دينيفر" سبتمبر الماضي، ومدرسة "مينيسوتا الثانوية" مارس الماضي؛ حيث قام طالبان أمريكيان بإلقاء لحم الخنزير على مجموعة من الطلاب المسلمين.

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Bacon attack on an American mosque: prank or hate crime?

Strips of bacon spelling 'PIG' and 'CHUMP' were found in front of a South Carolina mosque Sunday. In post-9/11 America, pork – which is unclean in Islam – is a primary form of anti-Muslim protest.

When he first spotted the strange graffiti, Mushtaq Hussain thought it was a juvenile prank: Somebody had used bacon strips on a sidewalk in front of a Florence, S.C., mosque to spell out the words "PIG" and "CHUMP."

But as Mr. Hussain, a board member at the Islamic Center in Florence, gave it some thought, the incident last Sunday seemed less like an ill-advised gag and more like a cunning and cruel affront. "We thought seriously, and we thought, ‘You know, somebody doesn't like us,' " he told WMBF-TV news in Florence.

Nationwide, polls show a growing ambivalence – or even anger – toward Islam among Americans, which has in part explained the opposition to a mosque near ground zero and mosques elsewhere, as well as the aborted mass burning of Korans by a Florida preacher. But subtler, more psychological attacks against Muslims have also become prevalent, say Muslim groups.

Pork as a weapon

According to the Council of American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), attacks on mosques, cases of Americans burning and even shotgun-blasting Qurans, and personal confrontations on streets have ticked up in recent months. Such claims are hard to quantify, experts say, because more people may simply be reporting incidents that went unheeded in the past.

Anecdotal evidence points to the use of pork as an anti-Islamic protest in recent years. For example:

•  In September, the US Postal Inspection Service reported that at least four packages containing hate letters and bacon were sent to American mosques from Denver. CAIR is a regular recipient of pork-related hate mail.

•  In March, two Minnesota high school students allegedly shoved bacon in the faces of several Muslim classmates, according to a CAIR complaint.

•  In 2007, a Texas farmer held afternoon pig races on Friday – the Muslim holy day – to protest a proposed mosque next to his farm.

•  In 2006, a severed pig's head was thrown into a Maine mosque during prayers.

•  Overseas, 7,000 protesters held a "pork sausage and booze" party in Paris this summer, which was designed as a provocation against Muslims and a protest against the perceived Islamicization of France.

• On the Internet, bloggers are invoking pork to incite Muslims. In a recent column on the conservative Town Hall.com, Mike Adams, a criminology professor at the University of North Carolina, proposed several pork-related pranks against the "ground zero mosque," including "building a large bomb filled with bacon grease. Dubbed the 'Mother of All Bacon,' or MOAB, this bomb would not hurt anyone but would permanently defile the location so that no one could worship there".