I've been on the road so much that I am a bit late with this, but it is worth putting up even at this late date because of the use that Islamic advocacy groups and apologists for Islamic jihad and Islamic supremacism make of incidents like this. Just last week, when I spoke at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, one young man asked me about the increase in hate crimes against Muslims in the U.S., and cited this Dayton mosque incident -- apparently he was unaware of the fact that it has been exposed as a hoax, or didn't care because it was still useful. Another young man wrote a column in the campus newspaper in which he claimed that "it’s no secret that attacks against Muslims in America have been on the rise ever since the tragedies of Sept. 11." In fact, many of these attacks have been exposed as hoaxes, and Jews in the U.S. suffer five times more hate crimes than do Muslims, who are way down on the list behind many other groups.
Hate crimes against Muslims are useful to Islamic advocacy groups, as they allow them to deflect attention from jihadist and Islamic supremacist activity, and to claim protected victim status for Muslims, thereby absolving them from criticism and scrutiny. But it appears that the decency of Americans is making these stealth jihadists desperate, such that, in the absence of real hate crimes, they have to be fabricated.
"Police: Can of pepper spray was found inside mosque," by Lucas Sullivan for the Dayton Daily News, October 7 (thanks to Axel):
DAYTON — The can of pepper spray found four days after someone sprayed a 10-year-old girl in the face at a local mosque was discovered inside the mosque, a Dayton police lieutenant said.The girl said she was sprayed about 9:40 p.m. Sept. 26 through an open basement window of the Islamic Society of Greater Dayton, Lt. John Huber said.
The girl told police one of two men outside the basement window sprayed her with something from a white can with a red top as she watched children whose parents and relatives had gathered at the mosque to celebrate Ramadan.
A can of pepper spray was found Sept. 30 in another room in the basement inside a red and white-striped bag, Huber said. He said it was initially reported to him that the can was found near the mosque, but he later learned it was inside the mosque.
Police have interviewed a 10-year-old boy about the incident. The boy and his family are members of the mosque. Police are not ruling out that someone inside the mosque sprayed the girl, Huber said.
Chief Richard Biehl has said there is no evidence the girl was the victim of a hate crime.
She and another woman were taken to local hospitals after feeling nauseous, according to police.
A few of the 300 people celebrating the last 10 days of Ramadan with dinner and a prayer session were treated for eye irritation at the scene.
The bag and can are being checked for fingerprints by the FBI, Huber said. The FBI has also taken the girl's clothes to determine if there are any chemicals that match what was in the can. HAZMAT crews found no traces of chemicals in the mosque or on the girl.
The incident happened days after the DVD "Obsession: Radical Islam's War With the West," was circulated in a paid advertisement in the Dayton Daily News and other newspapers across the country.
Islamic Society of Greater Dayton President Dr. Tarek Sabagh said the DVD created an atmosphere of "fear" among Muslims, but said he was not sure it was related to the incident at his mosque....
A prudent uncertainty, Dr. Sabbagh!
The MSM has lost all credibility. Someday there COULD be an attack on a mosque and I will pay no attention to it, not because I dislike or don't care about Muslims but because I cannot believe the MSM. They have cried "wolf" far too many times.
The latest is the accusation that attendees at a Palin rally in Ohio shouted "kill him!" when Barack Obama's name was brought up. The only person to hear it was the reporter who wrote the story. It was quickly picked up by wire services who breathlessly spread the story nationally. Secret Service agents are charged with protecting the safety of presidential candidates and none of them heard it or could find anyone else who heard it.
The MSM is on life support. Good journalists are being destroyed by the bad ones. We the people are the losers.
Sounds to me like some boy got hold of some pepper spray and tried it out on another child, But I also think that there are some Tawana Brawley type stories out there.
A few years ago there was some professor at some university who perpetrated a hoax on herself in order to prove that what she said was so enraging to the right wing nativists neandertals that they vandalized her car, turns out she did it herself, the story sort of died out, perhaps she was counselled by some other leftist?
I have been following one story in the paper where some Mahometan chica has been attacked by some shadowy antimahometan racist twice, the pictures accompanying the article are precious, all emotions and solidarity and deep deep concern, who knows it may turn out that there is some there there, but it to me is more likely to turn into a tawana brawley type thing.
Here is an online version of the story that I suspect will end up being another tawana brawley http://www.huffingtonpost.com/naazish-yarkhan/elmhurst-college-muslim-s_b_133699.html
On the issue of increased hate crimes against Muslims:
The law enforcement community because of 9-11 was ordered for the first time that I can recall in early 2002 to start writing reports of any attacks against Muslims. Most agencies who had officers writing these reports where also required to write out a special form on the incident so it could be directed to a statistic gathering center, thus there was the likeliness of showing an increase in Muslim assaults.
Actually many of these attacks occurred against Sikhs' who have been mistaken as Muslims but wear a beard and a head piece that stands out quite predominatley.
stickman, that Puff Ho article you posted is a hoot!
The most pathetic, sympathy-grabbing schlock from -who guessed it- another islamic shill in Puff Ho by the name of Naazis YarKhan, obviously also a follower of the Muhammedan cult.
What a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.
Or
"You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you can't fool all the people all of the time."
It's time for the MSA to pay the piper.
Marwan's Daughter linked to that article last week of even before in some thread.
'They hate us more than they love their own children'. Golde Meier.
I read that the other day and thought it was so true. How can you fight an enemy like that. The poor little girl could have gone blind and was probably in a great deal of pain. It's all worth it for their cause.
Disgraceful.