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Three fake “Islamophobic hate crimes” the media ran with

Aug 11, 2015 12:43 pm By Robert Spencer

AlhimidiWe covered all these extensively at Jihad Watch when they happened; it is good, however, to see others beginning to take notice. Islamic supremacist groups such as the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they’re the currency they use to buy power and influence in our victimhood-oriented society, and to deflect attention away from jihad terror and onto Muslims as putative victims. Hamas-linked CAIR, designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates, and other Muslims have on many occasions not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques.

“Fake Hate: 9 False Discrimination Stories the Media Ran With,” by Kristine Marsh, Newsbusters, August 10, 2015:

The left loves to portray the right as bigots who hate minorities, women, Muslims, and gays. So the media latch onto any claim of perceived discrimination or hate, real or not, and report it with glee (forget investigation and due diligence!)….

3. April 2014: Muslim man kills wife; sets up her murder as an ‘Islamophobic’ hate crime

In April of 2014, in El Cajon, California, Iraqi Muslim Kassim Alhimidi was found guilty of murdering his wife, Shaima Alawadi, after she told him she wanted to divorce. Next to Alawadi’s body, Alhimidi left a note that read, “Go back to your country, you terrorist,” which led the media to report the murder as an “Islamophobic” hate crime. Islamic supporters even started a social media campaign against the perceived hate crime called “One Million Hijabs for Shaima Alawadi.”

Leftist, Islamic scholar, and upcoming CNN host Reza Aslan blamed conservative “Islamophobic fucks” for the murder, even after the truth came out that it was an honor killing, not a hate crime.

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  1. June 2015: Muslim cleric’s suspicious soda tale

When Muslim cleric Tahera Ahmad wrote on Facebook that she had been subject to “Islamophobia” from a United Airlines attendant who wouldn’t give her a full can of unopened soda, the story went viral. The media took note, reporting on her unvetted, unverifiable claim as if it were gospel. The Washington Post and CNN covered it while ABC, CBS, and NBC all included the woman’s claims in their evening news broadcasts. United Airlines called the incident a “misunderstanding” but the flight attendant in question was forced out of the company a few days later.

As quick as the media were to report what Ahmad claimed, they ignored the fact that Ahmad makes a career out of fighting alleged “Islamophobia.” Evidence of that is all over her social media. Not to mention the fact that accounts from other passengers gave a very different version of what happened. The media didn’t feel the need to update their tall tale with both sides of the story though.

The Weekly Standard’s Mark Hemingway noted the media’s double standard:

“Finally, journalists who think that a single, unverified account left on someone’s Facebook page is all they need to hang a story on ought to think long and hard about the incentives they are creating for people. Knowing that there’s a good chance you can say anything and it won’t be investigated and corroborated is just going to encourage a lot of people who have very unhealthy motives to aspire to be the victim du jour.

Maybe Tahera Ahmad was treated unfairly and discriminated against, but it’s really appalling that the facts of what happened to her would not be established before we mess with a flight attendant’s career, drag an airline through the mud, and use the episode as a launching point for a national conversation about Islamophobia.But I guess this is what passes for “journalism” these days.”…

9. October 2014: Racial Profiling Viral Video Staged

Two Muslim Youtube stars, put out a video last October showing that when they wear Muslim garb they are stopped and frisked by the police and called hateful names. Turns out, the whole video was staged. But not before The Huffington Post alerted the public to the “ugly world of racial profiling,” and the liberal Muslim advocacy group CAIR (The Council on American-Islamic Relations) tweeted it out.

The young Youtubers were forced to add to the description that it was a “dramatization” but insisted this sort of thing happens all the time to them. If it happens all the time, I wonder why they don’t have even one [real] video showcasing that?

Even though it was debunked, the video is still active, and comments continue to pour in revealing most people think it’s real.

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  1. somehistory says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 12:57 pm

    Oh what a tangled web they weave with their islam approved, sanctioned, commanded, practice to deceive the rest of us. And what *real* news people can do with lies that they can’t do with truth…make the deceit of islam oh so cute and much to be admired.

    • Alarmed Pig Farmer says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 4:07 pm

      Oh what a tangled web they weave…

      Yeah, and the pattern the Moslems have woven for us is that we can’t tell the truth about them, but they can lie about us. And without penalty, cuz the news entertainers dig their action, which evokes the heart rending emotions about native Americans and black slaves from back in the day, and now the We Shall Overcome courage of illegal aliens, homosexuals, and now even… Caitlyn Jenner.

      So what if the Moslems are out to overcome freedom? It’s an easy sell and fills airtime for news entertainers, say, for example, news entertainer superstar Bill O’Reilly. He should have his ghost writer team pound out a book entitled Killing Islam.

  2. Angel Gabriel says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 1:09 pm

    Reza Aslan is a disgusting pig who makes money by spreading lies for the purpose protecting terrorist ideology. He is intolerant of Western values and bigoted against those who rightfully criticize Islam.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 1:22 pm

      Reza Aslan feels no philosophical or moral dilemma about lying for Islam because Shi’ites like him all have a Ph.D. course in TAQIYYA.

      He never asks himself why anyone would want to be part of a religious enterprise that relies on LYING for its survival and its propagation!

      Is that intellectually dishonest or merely intellectually VACUOUS?

  3. mortimer says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 1:16 pm

    Islamic Victimology 101 plus Islamic Melodrama 101 = VICTORY against the dirty kafirs!

    Leftarded cultural Marxist require an unending stream of VICTIMS with which to justify their dopey CLASS STRUGGLE mythology. Cultural Marxist need VICTIMS so they can put on their SUPERMARXIST cape and save the victims…at the same time SMASHING European civilization…the supposed real culprit.

    The Muslim jihadists, however, don’t fit the Marxists’ stereotype! The jihadists are not underprivileged as a rule, but well-off, well-educated and from stable homes.

    There is a distinct lack of victims of European civilization these days…so they must INVENT THEM even if it means posing as victims EVERY TIME a Muslim commits an HONOR KILLING !

    Blaming the dirty kafirs for Islam HONOR KILLINGS takes a lot of creativity!

  4. mortimer says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 1:19 pm

    But…Reza Aslan is a real terrorist supporter…doesn’t that make him an unconvicted CO-CONSPIRATOR with the terrorists?

    Isn’t Reza Aslan similar to Tokyo Rose or Lord Ha Ha?

  5. Linde Barrera says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 1:21 pm

    Islamists are superb at propaganda.

    • mortimer says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 1:28 pm

      Not for long, Linde…not for long.

      Muslims get caught in their lies, then they get murdered by their fellow Muslims. That’s Islamic history! Repeat and repeat…starting with Mohammed who told so many wicked lies Omar and Abu Bakr couldn’t stand him and murdered him in his bed and then buried Mohammed under it in the night!

      Assassination and betrayal are an integral part of this Death Cult religion.

      • Qur'an is Haram says

        Aug 12, 2015 at 7:40 am

        I hope you are right Mortimer.

    • Lee says

      Aug 12, 2015 at 5:24 am

      I don’t think Muslims are “superb at propaganda” – journalists are. Agreed, Muslims will lie about *anything* (including their most cherished beliefs) – which is an astonishing commitment to their war on us. But their lies are so outrageous and clumsy they could be easily exposed.

      However it is non-Muslim journalists who are the real propagandists – who conceal for Jihadis and terror organizations at every turn to divert those who would stop them, and who spread and give credence to false stories of “backlash” and the lie of “Islamophobia” in order to stir more Jihadis into action.

      See for example Bruce Bawer’s brilliant book ‘Surrender’ – part 2, chapter 2 ‘The Media In the Driver’s Seat’ through to chapter 14 ‘Secular Fundamentalists’, which includes the *official guidelines* for the ‘Society of Professional Journalists’ on how to lie for Islam.

      Mr. Spencer writes “…(CAIR) want and need hate crimes against Muslims, because they’re the currency they use to buy power and influence…and to deflect attention away from jihad terror and onto Muslims as putative victims.”

      Well said. But an important addition is that the *overwhelming majority of non-Muslim journalists* are also spreading false hate crimes (among other techniques) to *deliberately groom Islamic terrorists*. See the manifesto of any Jihadi raised in the West – where the Jihadi lays out a false, grievance-filled world-view *identical* to what you would learn from mainstream journalists.

  6. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 2:03 pm

    … upcoming CNN host Reza Aslan…

    CNN, which I like to call the Communist News Network, has become a reel [no sic] big problem when it comes to freedom. First we got the awful and slimy Fareed Zakaria, and now they’re gonna give us the oily Reza Aslan?!

    Luckily, nobody watches that TV channel anymore. Except in lobbies at airports and office buildings, where the viewers have no choice except to step outside. But you can’t even step outside in an airport anymore, since the Moslems showed up. Security.

  7. jayell says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 2:12 pm

    But this happens all the time. We noticed in the UK after Lee Rigby was murdered in the name of islam and all the muslim organisations got onto their righteous high horses and started reporting all sorts of nasty things and claiming to be victims of hate crimes etc. When investigated, it was discovered that all these pernicious crimes apart from one (when I believe a Somali social centre was burned down) were people saying or threatening nasty things and no more, assuming the complaints were not simply just plain lies. Now, of course, this is what muslims do all the time (plus they ocassionally actually DO the nasty things), so no doubt they were expecting to get it back big time (the psychological phenomenon of ‘projection’, where ‘project’ your own psyche onto someone else). In the absence of any expected reaction, they make it up. Which means that (again) they can play the victim, except they haven’t noticed that no-one believes them anymore.

  8. Fr. Basil says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 4:25 pm

    What about the Christianophobic hate crimes committed in the Middle East by mahometans?

    • Cecilia Ellis says

      Aug 11, 2015 at 9:33 pm

      You know, Fr. Basil, that’s a great idea! I am going to start using your term in presentations. I will, of course, give you credit [JW reader Fr. Basil], with your permission. “Christianophobic” . . . God, I love that word!

  9. Angemon says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 5:12 pm

    Sharknado is more real than islamophobia.

  10. Tiredofstupid says

    Aug 11, 2015 at 9:19 pm

    I think I’m more like DR Nicholai Sennels and go with islamonausea. I’m sick of these monsters and their crimes. I know far more about islam than I ever wanted to. It puzzles me that so very few seem to understand that we don’t accept that we’re at war with islam and don’t realize that they are at war with us and have been for the last 1400 years.. (See Dr Bill Warners 1400 yr old secret
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t_Qpy0mXg8Y ) They tell us plainly that they are out to subjugate us and take our women and children as slaves. I’m guessing that people won’t take it seriously until there is civil war or religious war in europe or a horrendous jihadi op here in U.S.. We need to stop the islamic invasion forces. I wouldn’t mind christian or yezidis refuges, coptics, animists, or buddhist refugees, are fine but of course no indians ( too many of them and they will own the whole country-I’m kidding -I like indians,) They come here, work hard, most want to become americans and almost all adapt to our wersion of democracy and become citizens. That’s a successful immigration. Living in a muslim ghetto with islamic schools and sharia is not. I know I’m preaching to the choir here but I know you have to get as tired of the political and economic elite that are throwing us under the discrimination bus.as I am.

  11. Steffen Larsen says

    Aug 12, 2015 at 6:17 am

    The Eskilstuna mosque arson, in Sweden.
    It was islamophobic extremists, a man had been seen throwing a molotov cocktail, everyone who was someone was in an uproar. Big headlines.
    Except it was all made up, there was a fire alright, but certainly no arson. And no apologies.

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