A magnificent post by my choice for the next Prime Minister of Canada, Kathy Shaidle:
Blaming a local news report on a suspicious Muslim compound for the vandalism of a mosque, Nashville Somalis otherwise seem confused about stuff:
“Muslims Go Home” and a Crusade-style cross were scrawled across the front of Al-Farooq Islamic Center on Nolensville Road, says Salaad Nur, a spokesman. (…)
That right there is suggestive of fakery. The Crusades, as we know, are very much on the minds of Muslims, but it is highly doubtful that the racist Tennessee rednecks (so beloved of mainstream media myth) who are supposed to have done this would know or care what a “Crusade-style cross” looks like. The cross that was painted on the mosque doesn’t look like the crosses you see in the local churches in Nashville.
The article Shaidle quotes goes on to get entangled in an obvious contradiction:
“It’s unexpected,” he adds. “The only thing I can think of is the sensationalized reporting [by Channel 5] over Sunday and Monday. That’s the only thing I can think of. Even after 9/11 we have never had any vandalism.” (…)
In an email to the media, Elias Feghali of the Tennessee Immigrant and Refugee Rights Coalition says:
“This event is particularly troubling as it comes on the heels of a sensationalist report by News Channel 5 this past weekend about a long-time Muslim community in Dover, TN, who they initially insinuated as having links to terrorists (link). The Muslim community in TN has faced what seems like an onslaught of hatred and violence since 9/11, from individuals and groups determined to enforce their rigid worldviews on a peaceful Muslim Americans.
Besides the contradiction — get your story straight, fellas — note that Nur and Feghali both claim that the attack was “backlash” after an article exposing the terror ties of a local Muslim community. The subtext is: Don’t investigate mosques for terror ties. If you do, you will be charged with racism, bigotry, and even worse: incitement to violence.
That’s why CAIR and others have not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes.” They want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they can use them to shift the focus away from Muslims as perpetrators of violence to Muslims as victims of violence, needing special concessions and privileges to protect them from that violence. “Hate crimes” are also useful to Islamic pressure groups as weapons to intimidate people into remaining silent about the jihad threat.
Was this one faked? I don’t know. But it certainly smells.