Seattle Police have been called to the Muslim Youth Academy (MYA) in Beacon Hill twice this week over complaints about ongoing harassment in the neighborhood.
According to police reports, staff at the school called police on February 8th after someone raised a confederate flag up the school’s flagpole. The next day, police were again called to the MYA after faculty discovered that someone had used a hammer to break the steps and handrails on three portables at the school and covered the playground in pinecones.
Staff at the school told police that the harassment is becoming more frequent and they believe MYAl is being targeted because “they are a Muslim institution”. Staff members told police that in the last year, someone has attempted to set the building on fire, defecated in the school’s front entrance, taped pages of the Koran to the school’s windows and broken in to the building. In January, the report says, an unknown person had 50 pepperoni pizzas delivered to the school.
Police are investigating the incidents as malicious harassment, Washington state’s hate crime statute.
The MYA declined to comment on the ongoing harassment.
covered the playground in pinecones … defecated in the school’s front entrance …
had 50 pepperoni pizzas delivered to the school
Sounds like a bored teenager to me.
And covering the playground in pinecones? That’ll teach ’em…
“covered the playground in pinecones.” Be on the look out for a group of very tall individuals with branchlike arms, rough brown skin, dressed in green. Suspects will be standing very still.
@2: Racial profiler!
@1 i’m bored, what’s your address?
Hm, first thing I’D do if I were SPD is look for houses in the vicinity with very tall evergreens, then check to see how clean their yards are –
– case SOLVED!
@3 yeah, so? Trees don’t deserve rights, I say round them up and put them in special detention centers, like parks, or just cut them down and build desks and houses with their lifeless bodies. We must remember not to try waterboarding them, as they only get bigger and stronger when watered.
Sounds like some asshats who can’t accept the fact that Muslims have the exact same rights as Christians.
how much do surveillance/security cameras cost these days?
Yeah, but do they have Prince Albert in a can?
Ok, boo to harassment… but the pizza one made me laugh.
What kind of idiot pizza place receives an order for 50 pies and DOESN’T call back to make sure it’s legit?
#11 – no shit. I can’t even get a single pizza to my house without a credit report and my most recent cable bill.
I’m assuming the pepperoni is what makes it a hate crime.
No doubt that Christopher Frizzelle finds this funny.
It obviously took a real genius to hang a confederate flag at a Muslim school.
Maybe the police should check up on Jason Fortuny…?