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Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Top Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Hoaxes of 2014

Dec 29, 2014 11:21 am By Robert Spencer

nihad awad-corey saylorIn FrontPage today I discuss the growth industry of faking anti-Muslim hate crimes:

On Christmas morning, a man drove up to the Islamic Cultural Center in Fresno, threw rocks through the windows, and then entered the center and destroyed things inside. The local ABC outlet, KFSN, reported Friday that “Fresno Police Chief Jerry Dyer says it is clear the incident is a hate crime which is why the FBI is also investigating this case.” But on Saturday, it turned out that the incident was not an “anti-Muslim hate crime” at all: the vandal was Asif Mohammad Khan, a Muslim. The destruction at the Islamic Cultural Center in Fresno was yet another in a long series of fake hate crimes designed to prop up the fiction that Muslims in the U.S. are routinely targets of discrimination and harassment.

According to Khan’s sister Samia, the vandal is (like the recent French attackers who screamed “Allahu akbar” while trying to kill infidels) mentally ill. She also said that he was a devout Muslim who prayed five times daily. Dyer revealed that Khan had in recent days written that Osama bin Laden was the most inspirational person in his life. Dyer explained that Khan’s vandalism of the mosque “was not geared towards the Islamic community, it was not geared to the Islamic faith or any of those things and was simply to get back at a few people at the center who had belittled him and in his eyes bullied him.”

Dyer and other law enforcement authorities were extremely unlikely to consider it as they investigated Khan’s crimes, but the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslims have on many occasions in the past not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques. CAIR and other groups like it 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.

This has happened many times in 2014. Here are five of the most egregiously manipulative examples:

1. The Saleh and Akbar viral video.

In October, the Muslim bloggers Adam Saleh and Sheikh Akbar released a video entitled “Racial Profiling Experiment.” It showed the duo in Western clothing, coming to blows in front of an indifferent NYPD cop. In the second part of the video, they pass by the same cop in Muslim garb, arguing mildly – only to be harassed and frisked by the same policeman.

The video went viral. The Huffington Post hysterically proclaimed that it offered a “small glimpse into the ugly world of racial profiling.” Hamas-linked CAIR called for an investigation. But then it turned out that the whole thing had been staged. The Smoking Gun called the video a “cynical and duplicitous attempt to capitalize on New York City’s documented racial profiling problems.”

2. The German mosque arson.

Another “Islamophobic” hate crime took place in Germany in February, when there was an arson attack at the Central Mosque in Cologne. But in October, a Muslim who had been held in a psychiatric ward ever since he had been arrested (as the mainstream media and law enforcement officials have now apparently agreed that all Muslims who commit acts of violence are mentally ill) confessed to having set the fire.

“I wanted to make a clear sign,” the arsonist explained. “Because they treated me badly at the Koran school. It has always hurt me.” He also had tried to burn down two other mosques; it wasn’t reported whether or not he had been to Qur’an school and been treated badly in all three. But until he was apprehended, his arson attacks provided rich material for the “Islamophobia” mythmakers.

3. The burned Qur’ans in Dearborn.

Last June, after three burned Qur’ans were found in front of the Karbalaa Islamic Educational Center in Dearborn, the mosque’s imam, Sheikh Husham Al-Husainy met with lawyers to discuss his proposal for a statute criminalizing the desecration of holy books. “We want all of the religions to cooperate with us,” he declared, “to bring respect to the word of God, whether the Quran, Bible, or Torah.”

But as it turned out, the Qur’an barbecuer was none other than a Muslim named Ali Hassan Al-Assadi. Al-Husainy opined that al-Assadi was (surprise, surprise) “mentally unstable.” Crazy or not, the discovery that al-Assadi had burned the Qur’ans threw a large monkey wrench into al-Husainy’s plans to use the incident as the cornerstone of his campaign against the freedom of expression.

4. The Montclair State University attack.

Combine the relentless Muslim striving for victimhood with the cult of victimhood on college campuses these days, and even non-Muslims get into the faked hate act. Last April at Montclair State University in New Jersey, a student claimed that three white men in jeans and hoodies assaulted him. They called him an “Islamic terrorist.”

MSU police began an investigation, only to find that the whole incident was a hoax: a student named Navjoat Aulakh had filed a false report. Aulakh may not even be a Muslim. His full name is Navjoat Singh Aulakh; “Singh” is a name closely associated with Sikhs. The Aulakhs are a Jat clan from the Punjab area, and while many Jats are Muslims, the name Singh here suggests that this young man is himself a Sikh. His Facebook page gives no sign that he cares about much of anything but sports and babes, but apparently he does have some significant political concerns. If he is a Sikh, this would by no means be the first time that Sikhs have served as useful idiots for the Islamic supremacist victimhood posturing enterprise. Sikhs even stood with Hamas-linked CAIR to call for the allowance of hijabs on an amusement park go-kart ride that had already seen one Muslima killed as her hijab was caught in the axle.

In this case, a Sikh apparently tried to aid the false Muslim victimhood narrative. And failed.

5. The Shaima Alawadi murder.

Last April in El Cajon, California, an Iraqi Muslim named Kassim Alhimidi was found guilty of murdering his wife, Shaima Alawadi, after she had told him that she wanted a divorce.

Before Alhimidi was arrested, this murder was widely reported as an “Islamophobic hate crime”: a note was found by Alawadi’s body that read, “Go back to your country, you terrorist.” Leftists and Islamic supremacists made a great deal of this, claiming that the murder was the work of an “Islamophobe” who hated Shaima Alawadi for wearing a hijab. They even staged a campaign, “One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi.”

Reza Aslan, the celebrated author of Zealot, bashed out a sub-literate tweet blaming Pamela Geller and me for the murder: “If a 32 year old veiled mother is a terrorist than [sic] so am I you Islamophobic fucks Gellar [sic] Spencer et. [sic] al. Come find me.” This tweet indicated how much mileage the “Islamophobia” propaganda machine thought it could get from the Alawadi murder in its efforts to intimidate people into thinking it wrong to oppose jihad terror.

Yet it was another fake hate crime. And since the mainstream media remains so uncritical about Muslim claims of having been victimized, there will be many more in 2015.

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Filed Under: "Islamophobia", claiming victim status, Featured, hate crimes Tagged With: Adam Saleh, Ali Hassan Al-Assadi, Asif Mohammed Khan, Kassim Alhimidi, Montclair State University, Navjoat Singh Aulakh, Reza Aslan, Shaima Alawadi, Sheikh Akbar, Sheikh Husham al-Huseiny


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  1. Jay Boo says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 11:29 am

    Ah-Yah-Oooooooooo Bark buh
    In dark of night at the sight of the full moon
    Muslims crying wolf yet again and again

    Ah-Yah-Oooooooooo

  2. manuel-rafael says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 11:48 am

    THERE IS ONE HOAX RELIGIOUSLY AVOIDED WHEN TALK TURNS TO TERRORISM, TERRORISTS AND THE INEVITABLE ISLAMOPHOBIA “THAT CREATES ALL EVIL” THE LINK NARRATIVE WHEN THERE IS TALK OF HAMAS // CAIR AND THE MULTIPLE TERROR FRANCHISES OF THE MOSLEM BROTHERHOOD IN DOHA IS DILIGENTLY AVOIDED AND IGNORED BOTH OF THESE TERROR ORGANIZATIONS HAVE ONE IRREFUTABLE CONNECTION, QATAR; TURKEY; PAKISTAN AND THE U.S.’S DEPARTMENT OF STATE UNDER THE ISLAMIC OBAMA STATE, PRIOR TO THE GAZA WAR THIS SUMMER J.F.KERRY THREATENED ANOTHER INTIFADA THAT HAS BEEN UNINTERRUPTED SINCE THE TWO WEEK EXPIRATION DATE HE GAVE TO ISRAEL AS AN ULTIMATUM.
    THE OBVIOUS CONNECTIONS THAT EXIST BETWEEN THE OBAMA DYNASTY OF FASCIST ISLAMIC IMPERIALISM AND THE “LIVING SPACE” NARRATIVE INSOFAR AS GAZA AND THE “PALESTINIAN DECEPTION” OF A NATIONALITY OF SUPER VICTIMIZED SUPERMEN OF GENOCIDE.

    • marc says

      Dec 29, 2014 at 12:09 pm

      please don’t post in all caps, the shouting gives me a headache.

      • Salah says

        Dec 29, 2014 at 2:27 pm

        Not only that, but I for one, won’t even bother read such a comment.
        Too bad, it could be a useful comment but it’s too hard to read.

        • marc says

          Dec 29, 2014 at 2:50 pm

          i have no idea either, it’s unreadable.

    • particolor says

      Dec 30, 2014 at 5:45 am

      CAIR sues US Navy over right to have a Beard if You are a Muslim !!…..TRUE !
      If I saw Him coming up the Gangplank I would dive Overboard !!!

  3. mariam rove says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 12:15 pm

    CAIR is a hoax itself. m

    • cs says

      Dec 29, 2014 at 12:52 pm

      Notice the taqqiyya Christmas tree in the background.

    • epistemology says

      Dec 29, 2014 at 6:20 pm

      The whole Islam is a hoax. Or should I call it the black hole of Islam? Any way you can’t survive without making fun of these pranksters.

      Muzzies are the greatest villains and the greatest cry-babies at the same time. Whenever one of them commits a crime, it turns out he’s mentally disturbed. Big deal. Why’s that poor guy insane? There’s only one reason, he’s disenfranchised, has been victimised, traumatised and all that because of some Western thugs. The Western world is the home of naturally born baddies. These muzzzies can con other pinheads but not us.

      Hope you’re doing fine, Miriam.

  4. Salah says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 2:29 pm

    Muslims playing the victim card ON TAPE:

    http://crossmuslims.blogspot.ca/2014/04/al-jazeera-busted-strong-bias-of-al.html

  5. GKP says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 2:41 pm

    The jihadist are the criminals yet with the help of TAQUIYA (lies to spread Islam) they project themselves as a sensitive and holy person. They will destroy modern science and take human race to middle age.The progress of humanity is not possible until their complete destruction
    Beat them before they beat humanity.
    Thanks to Robert for unfolding these TAQUIYA of jihadist.Really the act of Robert to save mankind is heroic

  6. Paul says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 2:44 pm

    “you Islamophobic fucks”?

    Ahh…

    “Reza Aslan…is…a professor of creative writing at the University of California, Riverside.” -Wikipedia

  7. Brian Hoff says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    I remember than terror plot turn out to be than hoax by than person who want to call than muslim than terrorist here is than video link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ0dJ8yuF78. The deadly poison from bean plot that turn out to be than hoax by the Anti-Terrorist Police in the UK.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 29, 2014 at 10:16 pm

      The illiterate “Brian Hoff”—really, “DefenderofIslam”—is lying his ass off here. He is almost certainly referring to the Wood Green Ricin Plot, which can best be described as an overreaction, not a hoax. Besides, such a plot by law enforcement would not be a hoax, but a frame-up.

      But then, what can one expect from a poster who misuses the word “than” no less than five times in a single sentence?

      I seldom cite Wikipedia, but it is good enough for these purposes:

      http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wood_Green_ricin_plot

      By the way, the only individual actually sentenced in this case is a fine, upstanding coreligionist of “DefenderofIslam’s”, one Kamel Bourgass, who was

      “sentenced to 17 years imprisonment for conspiring ‘together with other persons unknown to commit public nuisance by the use of poisons and/or explosives to cause disruption, fear or injury’ on the basis of five pages of his hand-written notes on how to make ricin, cyanide and botulinum. Bourgass had already been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of detective Stephen Oake, whom he stabbed to death during his arrest in Manchester.”

      This upstanding Mohammedan was involved in stabbing several other victims, and once incarcerated had to be segregated from the general population due to his attacks on other inmates and attempts to forcibly convert other prisoners to Islam.

      “Brian Hoff” must be so proud!

      • pumbar says

        Dec 30, 2014 at 12:35 am

        I’m impressed you managed to read all of his post. I got to the third than and then gave up.

        • particolor says

          Dec 30, 2014 at 5:35 am

          You got to third Base ? I was thaned out on Second !!

        • pumbar says

          Dec 30, 2014 at 6:55 am

          It must be the festive merriment, as a rule I’d skim over the whole thing.

  8. Dave J says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 3:20 pm

    Typical Islamic behavior – duplicitous and violent at the same time.

    BTW, no throwing rocks at Mosques, cameras and voice recorders are better tools to fight the terrorist traitors.

  9. timo says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 3:44 pm

    we could add there the recent Mosque attack in Sweden.

    http://www.thelocal.se/20141226/five-hurt-in-mosque-arson-attack

    “Somebody threw an object through a closed window and afterwards a fire started inside,”
    This was a worlwide new in few hours.

    Now police said Fire come from kitchen of mosque.

    this one was also a lie

  10. Don Watkins III says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 3:49 pm

    Victimization is part of the plan for this cult/phony religion. Mohamhead was not a prophet…

  11. Angemon says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 7:26 pm

    Yet it was another fake hate crime. And since the mainstream media remains so uncritical about Muslim claims of having been victimized, there will be many more in 2015.

    The MSM is satisfied in lynching watchdogs every time the boy cries “Wolf”. And by “Wolf” I mean “anti-islamic hate crime”.

  12. gravenimage says

    Dec 29, 2014 at 10:26 pm

    Robert Spencer in FrontPage: The Top Anti-Muslim Hate Crime Hoaxes of 2014
    ………………………………….

    This fake victim-mongering—while Muslims become more and more violent and savage to non-Muslims could not be more repulsive.

    After every Muslim atrocity—most recently the Lindt chocolate cafe hostage-taking and double murder—Muslims whine about a “backlash” that never materializes.

    And when they want to heighten the false drama, they just fake another “hate crime”, which almost either turn out to have been ginned up out of whole cloth or else actually committed by other Muslims.

    • particolor says

      Dec 30, 2014 at 7:13 am

      I like the Muzzo Burks in Buka’s that said they were frightened to travel alone by train in the Suburbs and City after it !!…. Victims ?? I wonder who put them up to that ??

  13. jay says

    Dec 30, 2014 at 3:06 am

    Someone call the Islaaaaaaaambulance, muslims gots grievances!!! Wow that’s new, it’s so unlike to them to be bitching about something. Hopefully if they keep up this crap, muslim fatigue will finally set in. I know many people I’ve talked to are so sick of the media’s endless victimhood coddling of this trash.

  14. mortimer says

    Dec 30, 2014 at 10:15 am

    CAIR = cultural JIHADISTS

    CAIR = Cairo = Muslim Brotherhood

    CAIR = KHAIR (‘a good thing’ in Arabic) = a euphemism for ‘Islam’

    KHAIR = in the Koran ‘let one speak khair or remain silent’

    CAIR = an instrument of censorship of non-Islamic speech

    • mortimer says

      Dec 30, 2014 at 10:36 am

      Study Course of First Year Jihadology:
      -Muslim Melodrama 101 (compulsory)
      -Muslim Victimology 101 (compulsory)

  15. Carolyne says

    Dec 30, 2014 at 7:30 pm

    Shortly after the destruction of the World Trade Center, I read that George Soros and Teresa Heinz Kerry. who are directors and contributors to something called the Tides Foundation, designated a large amount of money to support gay Muslims who were victims of some kind of backlash they expected to happen. Of course this was not a very pressing problem. Ms. Heinz-Kerry, married to the now Secretary of State John Kerry, was the widow of PA Senator Heinz, a conservative. He had been killed earlier in a plane crash. I wonder what Senator Heinz would think of his money being wasted on such a nonsensical non-event. I also can’t help wondering why Soros and Heinz-Kerry would even think of such a thing.
    Considering the punishment meted out by Islam for being gay, Would anyone apply for any of this money?

  16. No Fear says

    Dec 30, 2014 at 11:34 pm

    “Self porking”: The act of a Mohammedan placing pig products in or near a mosque.

    Thanks go to Robert who has outlined numerous incidents of “self porking” at mosques in 2014.
    Stay tuned for more self porking news coming to you in 2015.

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