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New York: Muslim woman set on fire not hate crime, attacker targeted non-Muslims also

Sep 15, 2016 11:21 am By Robert Spencer

Professional victim Linda Sarsour has been all over this case, writing in the Guardian: “A Muslim woman was set on fire in New York. Now just going out requires courage.” Her goal? “The irresponsible and rhetorical vilification of Muslims in this current election cycle is leading to violent acts against members of a faith community and it must stop.” There is no actual evidence that any “rhetorical vilification of Muslims” is leading to any violence at all. And since she and her allies regard as “rhetorical vilification of Muslims” even the mildest of counterterror efforts, their agenda is clear: they want restrictions on criticism of Islam and Muslims and the complete dismantling of any attempt to stop jihad terror.

That is the purpose behind their trumpeting of these false “hate crimes” against Muslims: to claim a victim status that will lead to the ending of counterterror efforts as supposedly being the cause of the victimization of Muslims.

Will Sarsour now apologize and retract? Don’t hold your breath.

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“Muslim woman set on fire in New York not targeted due to faith: police,” by Laila Kearney, Reuters, September 14, 2016 (thanks to Steve):

New York police investigating an attack in which a Muslim woman’s clothing was set alight are no longer probing the case as a hate crime after linking the suspects to similar assaults on non-Muslims, authorities said on Wednesday.

A man who was part of a group set fire to the 35-year-old woman’s traditional Islamic attire as she window shopped outside a luxury clothing store in Midtown Manhattan on Saturday, police said in a statement. The victim quickly patted out the flames and was unharmed.

Police said they initially believed the crime, committed a day before the 15th anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, may have been prompted by what the woman was wearing.

After further investigation, officers determined that at least three other women were threatened with fire by the same group of suspects on Tuesday, police said. Those women were not wearing Muslim clothing.

“The motivation for these crimes is not considered to be ‘bias-related’ at this time,” police said….

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  1. Stephanie says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 11:29 am

    Prominent Author: France Preparing For “Civil War” Against Muslims

    https://twitter.com/PrisonPlanet/status/776378747079581696

  2. ECAW says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 11:30 am

    Anyone fancy pointing this out to the appalling Craig Considine?

    https://craigconsidinetcd.com/2016/09/13/muslim-woman-in-nyc-lit-on-fire-this-is-why-we-say-islamophobia-is-racism/

    I tried for the sake of his 200,000 readers, some of whom may be reachable, but he just zaps all my comments now.

    And to think he has free access to young impressionable minds.

    • Stephanie says

      Sep 15, 2016 at 11:34 am

      … This is Why We Say “Islamophobia is Racism™”

      1m ‘… how to handle islamophobia™’

      https://twitter.com/schnellmann_org/status/772756451378995200

    • jihad3tracker says

      Sep 15, 2016 at 12:42 pm

      HERE IS A CONTACT PATH TO HIM: https://craigconsidinetcd.com/dr-craig-considine-contact/ It is a template form, asking for an email address.

      As I have suggested before (if you have not done this already) create a Gmail account ONLY FOR WRITING TO LEFTIST FOOLS + ISLAM-LOVING FOLKS who might spam your MAIN EMAIL inbox if you force a dose of truth into their brains.

      IMPORTANT: because Considine probably runs from any encounter with the sick atrocities of Allah worshippers, consider this tactic: Make the message you write deceptively neutral, something like “I am also keeping track of what is happening with Muslims. Here are two videos regarding such events.”

      FIND THE MOST GRAPHIC VIDEOS SHOWING WHAT MUSLIMS DO — ISIS meathooking prisoners, tossing gays from roofs, Nice truck rampage (81 killed), Paris Bataclan theatre massacre, and so on. Put those links in the post to him, BUT MAKE SURE THERE IS NO DESCRIPTION.

      You just want the bloodshed to bitch-slap him right in his pathetic face. After the links, you can close with “Please get back to me at with your thoughts on what occurred in these recordings.” And be sure to sign off with your FICTITIOUS NEW GMAIL USER NAME — NOT YOUR ACTUAL ONE.

      • ECAW says

        Sep 15, 2016 at 1:45 pm

        What is the point of contacting him directly? He is too far gone to reach. I tried to challenge his posts in hopes of reaching his readers. I have to admit that itself is probably a forlorn hope since the other posters at least are all either antis like me or Muslims.

    • Angemon says

      Sep 16, 2016 at 8:40 am

      Yesterday I linked to the Reuters article debunking the “islamophobia” accusation, took a bit of Considine’s text – the part about how allegedly the victim’s clothing and/or body were a sign for the attackers – and applied it to the victims of Rotherham muslim rape gangs, with a link to an interview with one of their victims. I got a “your comment is waiting for moderation” notice. Today, my comment is nowhere to be seen.

      • ECAW says

        Sep 16, 2016 at 10:11 am

        Angemon – That is how Considine must have his wordpress settings set up. The default is to have comments await moderation then, after one has been accepted, following ones from that commenter are not moderated. If you are interested in taking him on the thing to do is send one bland comment first.

        If I have something I want to say I do it in the morning, after 1:00 am Houston time so at least it’s there till he’s had his breakfast. I consider his effusions so damaging to impressionable minds, who might not yet have realised that sociologists really live in the castles they build in the air, that I will go out of my way to put a counter view up if only for a few hours. Who knows, perhaps one of his students might see it and have an emperor’s new clothes momment (oh sure!)

        • Angemon says

          Sep 16, 2016 at 10:59 am

          Only if he changed the settings since last time I commented there, a week or two ago. That’s the first time I remember seeing that warning.

        • Angemon says

          Sep 16, 2016 at 11:02 am

          For the record, I’ve been posting there under the name “monkeyduster” 🙂

        • ECAW says

          Sep 16, 2016 at 11:30 am

          Monkeyduster, my friend. It was you all along!

      • Roy C says

        Sep 16, 2016 at 7:10 pm

        The only thing that surprises about all this nonsense coming from Sarsour is how receptive the loony left is to this Muslim-as-victims idiocy. It’s not just internet crackpots and the like but much of the main stream media and academia. Even Bush did his bit after 9/11 – or do we all forget his appearance at the Mosque to “reassure” American Muslims that they are safe here and good Americans stand with them against – who exactly? At the same time the Bin laden clan and other Saudis were airlifted home despite the no-fly ban. Very odd, at least to me.

  3. Jay Boo says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 11:38 am

    Horrible crime to happen to anyone.

    At CAIR Headquarters many bottles of non-alcoholic champagne were opened just a bit prematurely in a wished for victimhood celebration.

    • miriamrove says

      Sep 15, 2016 at 11:53 am

      nice Jay!! M

    • Angemon says

      Sep 15, 2016 at 12:45 pm

      XD

    • Champ says

      Sep 15, 2016 at 4:58 pm

      Good one, Jay Boo! 😀

    • linnte says

      Sep 15, 2016 at 6:59 pm

      haahahahahaha hah! You can BET on it Jay!

  4. R Russell says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 12:25 pm

    I don’t approve of crime, however:
    Muslims always want to be victims. They use everything and anything to try to make people sorry for them. They seem to want co-dependent relationships where they can manipulate people to do what they want them to do.
    It’s time to wake up to their tactics or we will be bending even more backwards until they turn our countries Islamic. What other crimes were committed which had to be side-tracked because of this false claim of hate crime.

    • miriamrove says

      Sep 15, 2016 at 12:34 pm

      people sorry for them…… They are a bunch of sorry asses to begin with. m

    • Defen0derofIsliam says

      Sep 18, 2016 at 11:15 am

      It still than hate crime because burning woman clothes while they are wearing then is than hate crime toward woman. Most likely these hate criminal are man who suffer from femaleophoric under than more fany latin or greek name there is than fear of female.

  5. VampireJack says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 12:32 pm

    I wonder if all victims were not of the black variety?
    Has BLM gone Pyro?

  6. Angemon says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 12:43 pm

    Professional victim Linda Sarsour has been all over this case, writing in the Guardian: “A Muslim woman was set on fire in New York. Now just going out requires courage.”

    Standard MO of special interests groups – take a problem, pick a victim that fits the pattern of your special interest group, and claim discrimination. A muslim woman was attacked? Islamophobia! More people were attacked? No problem, we can spin this. All of them were women? Sexism and misogyny!

  7. UltraMihai says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 12:50 pm

    If you can find the article on the Guardian website, do check out the comments section. Almost all comments are deleted, most of them were normal, logical, reasoned. There is still hope in Europe (well mostly Central and Eastern Europe), the people are waking up.

  8. eagle says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 1:07 pm

    CAIR needs money, this has to be considered by CAIR a hate crime. Obama will agree.

  9. gravenimage says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 2:27 pm

    New York: Muslim woman set on fire not hate crime, attacker targeted non-Muslims also
    ………………………..

    A nasty and potentially harmful crime, but clearly one that did not target Muslim victims.

    But of course, victim-mongering Mohammedans don’t want you to know that. Here’s Linda Sarsour’s bs:

    “A Muslim woman was set on fire in New York. Now just going out requires courage”

    https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/sep/13/new-york-muslim-woman-set-on-fire-eid-al-adha

    She also implies this was targeted on the bloody Eid Al Adha Islamic “holiday”–but since this has happened before–and to non-Muslims–this is clearly false.

    Sarsour also mentions 9/11 and the Orlando massacre in passing–but only to cry fake *Muslim* victimhood.

    And, of course, it isn’t just Sarsour–the egregious CAIR is all over this, as they always are with false claims of Muslim victimhood and demands that Infidel authorities make them a protected species.

    The article in the Washington Post story also cites the shooting of an Imam and his assistant in Queens–without noting that the shooter’s lawyer has alleged that this was a hit ordered by disaffected Muslims at the Imam’s own Mosque.

    • Defen0derofIsliam says

      Sep 18, 2016 at 11:26 am

      This lawyer cannot be trust as he is trying to get his clint off the the criminal charge against him. May be the newpaper fround out the lawyer claim is false.

  10. vlparker says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 4:11 pm

    It’s one thing to set someone on fire. But woe to anyone who sets someone on fire and hates them too. That is beyond the pale.

  11. Champ says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 4:16 pm

    Professional victim Linda Sarsour has been all over this case …

    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

    “Professional victim” ..LOL!!!!! 😀 Indeed!!

  12. Banislam says

    Sep 15, 2016 at 6:31 pm

    Just a silly prank. Maybe it was his religion? lol

  13. Gen Jones says

    Sep 16, 2016 at 11:27 am

    Here’s a special issue all about that professional victim: https://twitter.com/satirianews/status/776021628664840192

    I highly recommend following the satiriannews twitter. This issue is excellent too:
    https://twitter.com/satirianews/status/776771216803848192

  14. mark says

    Sep 17, 2016 at 8:38 am

    Does anyone know of a UK newspaper (joke), where its actions are the direct opposite of its title, ie, like the guardian?

  15. Barry Hewitt says

    Sep 18, 2016 at 10:35 am

    ‘She was window-shopping outside a luxury clothing store’?? What in hell for! I doubt they would have had a set of curtains cheap enough for her to turn into a hate-uniform!!

  16. Defen0derofIsliam says

    Sep 18, 2016 at 11:34 am

    Robert you have nothing to say about the mosque that was set on by fire by than jewish mam he is charge with than crime since he is than three time loser he might get life behind bar.

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