Student suspended for putting a ham sandwich next to some Muslims. Police are called.

On April 11, 2007, a student placed a ham steak in a bag on a lunch table where Muslim Somali students were eating. Muslims consider pork unclean and offensive because they believe an invisible man told them so, probably because someone got trichinosis 2000 years ago.

Rather than admonishing the offending student and telling him to grow up, the school treated this silly prank as a "hate incident" - the same category of crime that includes hanging black people from trees because they looked the wrong way at a white woman. Lewiston police investigated and the Center for the Prevention of Hate Violence worked with the school to create a "response plan".

The student was suspended for his "hate crime".

D.A.G. says: Could someone get these whiny morons a box of tissues. Whether they use it for wiping their tears or the other use, we don't want to know. Both seem appropriate.