Muslims who gathered for prayer to celebrate the end of Ramadan in a city park found bacon scattered on the ground, CBS 2’s John Slattery reported Monday.
With Ramadan ending this past weekend, Muslims celebrated the end of fasting with prayer. On Staten Island an outdoor service was held Sunday on a New Dorp football field, attracting some 1,500 Muslims.
But before most of the faithful arrived for Morning Prayer, it was discovered that someone had scattered a quantity of raw bacon on the field. http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2012/08/20/police-investigating-possible-bias-crime-after-bacon-found-at-s-i-ramadan-site/
If it was 1961-64 and hate crimes were around I could sue and be a millionaire. I've referred to this before but, in the Sixties, being a Catholic often times meant being the butt of a joke. Lord knows the number of times Coach Paar called me a 'minnie muncher. Mackrel snapper was also another form of derision. Whenever our football team took away game trips on Friday night we had an after game meal. The Protestants ate steak. Cripes, we didn't even get halibut or shrimp. It was always fish sticks and they weren't even Mrs. Paul's. Our buddies would laugh and joke at us but the heck with them. They knew without us their chances of winning were slim and none and as we always said, "Slim was out of town". Jude Rolfes was our leading rusher. After him came Dopey, Sneezy and Doc. Jude was a human battering ram. Being Catholic and fighting for our dignity meant we got to kick hell out of our opponents. If you put on your thinking caps you may recall that during the Election of 1960 when the Catholic, JFK was running for the presidency, there were two stories that were that were rampant across the country. (1) The Pope had built an underground tunnel under the Atlantic Ocean and as soon as Kennedy took office he was going to turn over the reins of power to the Vicar of the Church in Rome. I kid you not and if you don't believe me you can look it up. (2) In the basement of every Catholic Church there were stockpiled massive amounts of arms and ammo to start the war against Protestantism. Hard to believe, isn't it? Well, not really because the Loser Party continues to beat the drum that Republicans are going to kill of the elderly and poison the air and water for our children. I'm getting off point with this but, what the heck, it was a good history lesson.
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