Accused of Desecration, a Doctor Faces the End of His Life's Work [View all]

Title of article should be: Asshole Christian desecrates sacred sites of Shinto and Buddhism, thinks he should be allowed to do so with no punishment.

One day in March 2015, surveillance cameras at a thousand-year-old Buddhist temple on the outskirts of Tokyo captured a man wearing a hooded windbreaker, a white collared shirt and black shoes, dabbing at wooden pillars with oil on his fingertip.

Less than an hour later and 17 miles away, Japanese authorities said, a man with a similar build and clothing was caught on video anointing an offerings box at another site, a Shinto shrine founded in 643 B.C. during the reign of Japan’s first emperor.

The faiths predate Christianity by centuries, and the sites draw 12 million pilgrims and tourists each year. They venerate the Buddha and the Shinto kami, the spirits that the faithful believe animate natural forces and inhabit the land. The smears of oil, as the authorities saw them, despoiled Japan’s religious heritage.

The authorities found their suspect in New York, roughly 7,000 miles away, and issued arrest warrants for him on two counts of vandalism.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/11/nyregion/manhattan-doctor-anointment-extradition-japan.html?

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Throw the book at this guy!!!!