"A burned Quran left at the door of a Blacksburg[, Virginia] mosque in June was not a hate crime, but the act of a Muslim who hoped mosque members would know how to properly dispose of the damaged book, police said...." We reported on the incident here and here.

Columnist Michelle Malkin argues, in light of this revelation, that the incident is "a symbol of the knee-jerk penchant among some civil-rights groups and their enablers to cry racism, claim discrimination, and criticize U.S. law enforcement authorities for not doing enough to stop 'hate crimes.'" Malkin, a frequent commentator on race relations, is the author of "In Defense of Internment: The Case for 'Racial Profiling' in World War II and the War on Terror."