Comments on: News Roundup for August 10, 2011 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/10/news-roundup-for-august-10-2011/ Hatewatch is a blog of the Southern Poverty Law Center Wed, 19 Jun 2013 03:59:42 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: B.B. http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/10/news-roundup-for-august-10-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-315209 B.B. Thu, 11 Aug 2011 12:58:06 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7518#comment-315209 <I>An Orange County, Calif., man pleaded guilty to setting three fires in a local church because he was opposed to the church’s teachings on masturbation. Izad Chavoshan, 32, was charged with arson and a hate crime, which makes him eligible for up to 20 years in prison.</I> I find it interesting that neither SacBee nor the SPLC mentions what those teachings were. Considering that the subtitle for this blog is "Keeping an eye on the radical right", one would be forgiven in assuming this was an act of right-wing terrorism against a progressive church because they were insufficiently conservative on sexual issues. Yet <a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/lanow/2011/08/oc-man-convicted-church-masturbation-hate-crime.html" rel="nofollow">The LA Times</a> reports that Izad Chavoshan was disgruntled because of the churches anti-masturbation stance, so it is doubtful that this was the criminal act of a radical right-winger. An Orange County, Calif., man pleaded guilty to setting three fires in a local church because he was opposed to the church’s teachings on masturbation. Izad Chavoshan, 32, was charged with arson and a hate crime, which makes him eligible for up to 20 years in prison.

I find it interesting that neither SacBee nor the SPLC mentions what those teachings were. Considering that the subtitle for this blog is “Keeping an eye on the radical right”, one would be forgiven in assuming this was an act of right-wing terrorism against a progressive church because they were insufficiently conservative on sexual issues. Yet The LA Times reports that Izad Chavoshan was disgruntled because of the churches anti-masturbation stance, so it is doubtful that this was the criminal act of a radical right-winger.

]]> By: Jonas Rand http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/08/10/news-roundup-for-august-10-2011/comment-page-1/#comment-315130 Jonas Rand Thu, 11 Aug 2011 01:46:56 +0000 http://www.splcenter.org/blog/?p=7518#comment-315130 Excuse me, but how is it a hate crime to light fires in a church because you and the clergy have divergent opinions about wanking? Excuse me, but how is it a hate crime to light fires in a church because you and the clergy have divergent opinions about wanking?

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