Here is the original Guardian story, before Ramjanally was exposed as a liar. But now he has been arrested, his claims apparently fabricated out of whole cloth.
Why would he fabricate a “hate crime” against himself? For the same reason that the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), an unindicted co-conspirator in a Hamas funding case, has claimed that “anti-Muslim hate crimes” have risen sharply in the U.S. since 9/11. In fact, the rate of such crimes has actually dropped.
Ramjanally and CAIR know well that victimhood is big business: insofar as they can claim protected victim status for Muslims in the U.K. and the U.S., they can deflect unwanted scrutiny and any critical examination of how jihadists use Islamic texts and teachings to justify violence and supremacism.
That’s most likely why, like Ramjanally here, 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 for political points and as weapons to intimidate people into remaining silent about the jihad threat.
“Police arrest Muslim community leader who claimed he was abducted by racists,” by Vikram Dodd for the Guardian, September 3 (thanks to all who sent this in):
A Muslim community leader who claimed last week to have been abducted from his own home by racists as part of a British National party hate campaign, has been arrested on suspicion of perverting the course of justice.
Noor Ramjanally had told the Guardian that he was taken from his flat in Loughton, Essex, by two white men at knifepoint. He said he had been bundled into a car boot and driven to Epping Forest where the men threatened him unless he stopped holding weekly Muslim prayer sessions at a community centre. The prayer sessions had been the target of a leafleting campaign by the far right BNP.
Ramjanally blamed the extremist party for inspiring a terror campaign against him, including his claim of abduction which he alleged had happened on Monday 24 August in broad daylight. Today police arrested Ramjanally, 36, after consulting the Crown Prosecution Service.
Detectives are continuing to investigate allegations that he suffered a firebomb attack and received hate mail in July. Last night Ramjanally was being questioned at a police station in Harlow.
Last week he said that after being snatched he had been driven for 10 minutes to the forest, walked around and threatened. “They said ‘We don’t want your Islamic group in Loughton.’ I was scared, I feared for my life. I was in a forest, a knife was held against me, how would you feel? They said, ‘If you don’t stop, we’ll come back.'”…