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Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Another ‘Islamophobic Hate Crime’ Hoax

Oct 19, 2016 7:17 pm By Robert Spencer

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Brought to you by the Huffington Post. My latest in PJ Media:

It’s a recurring and strange phenomenon: anti-Muslim hate crimes that turn out to be none of those words.

This one was especially egregious and heartbreaking — or at least that’s the way it seemed. The Huffington Post headlined its story with this:

Islamophobia Just Drove This Boy And His Family Out Of America

There was just one catch: none of it was true. The article began this way:

“I’m done with the U.S.,” Zeeshan-ul-hassan Usmani’s wife told him on Friday. Seeing her youngest son, just 7 years old, walk off the school bus bruised and battered that afternoon outside their apartment building in Cary, North Carolina, was the final straw.

It seems that the Usmanis’ son, “little Abdul Aziz, a first-grader and the youngest child of Usmani and Binish Bhagwanee, was traumatized.” The trauma came from bullying by his schoolmates that specifically focused upon the boy’s Muslim faith:

[He] told his parents a classmate had tried to force him to eat food that wasn’t halal. When Abdul Aziz refused, five of his classmates ganged up on him, making fun of his name. They punched him in the face, kicked him in the stomach, and twisted his arm while calling him “Muslim” again and again, Usmani said.

Horrible, right?

But there were problems with the story from the beginning. If Usmani’s claim were true — “They keep beating him all the way from school to home on the bus” — then the boy would have suffered extensive injuries, and the bus would have been in an uproar, as anyone who has ever ridden a school bus knows. Instead, after an investigation, school officials announced:

No students who were interviewed witnessed an altercation. The bus driver did not witness an altercation. The child did not report to the bus driver any injury.

I don’t know how far young Abdul Aziz lives away from school, but in a photo of him that was released after the supposed attack, the boy has his arm in a sling but otherwise looks happily unscathed. He hardly looks like a boy who has just been beaten all the way home from school. No facial marks whatsoever. Nary a bruise. No black eye. No fat lip. The bullies were strikingly ineffectual — if they existed at all, and it looks as if they didn’t.

So here we go again. Hate crimes are political capital, which is why we keep seeing fabricated hate crimes like this one. When real ones don’t exist, they must be invented.

The Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) and other Muslims have on many occasions not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques.

A New Jersey Muslim was found guilty of murder that he tried to portray as an “Islamophobic” attack, and in 2014 in California, a Muslim was found guilty of killing his wife, after first blaming her murder on “Islamophobia.”

This kind of thing happens quite frequently. The New York Daily News reported this one not long ago:

[A] woman who told cops she was called a terrorist and slashed on her cheek in lower Manhattan on Thursday later admitted she made up the story, police said early Friday. The woman, who wore a headscarf, told authorities a blade-wielding wacko sliced open her face as she left a Manhattan cosmetology school, police sources said.

Recently in Britain, the murder of a popular imam was spread far and wide as another “Islamophobic hate crime” — until his killer also was found to be a Muslim. And why had another Muslim murdered him? The Mirror reported that the imam “was targeted because he had made efforts to turn youngsters away from radical Islam.”

There is much, much more in this vein. According to The Detroit News, a Muslim woman, Saida Chatti, cooked up this one:

[Chatti was] charged with making a false police report after she allegedly fabricated a plot to blow up Dearborn Fordson High School to retaliate against the November terrorist attacks in Paris … Police say Chatti called Dearborn investigators Nov. 19, six days after Islamic extremists killed 130 people in Paris.

And similarly in Britain:

[A Muslim woman was] fined for lying to police about being attacked for wearing a hijab. The 18-year-old student, known only as Miss Choudhury, said she was violently shoved from behind and punched in the face by a man in Birmingham city centre 10 days after the atrocities in the French capital on November 13….

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  1. Dov Berrol says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 8:53 pm

    It is really important to keep in mind the Muslim strategy of inventing hate-crimes against them as part of their global jihad when reading about the so-called crimes of Israel committed against Arabs. Everything from the claim of being “robbed” of land that belongs to Arab Muslims to the exaggerated claims of deaths and injuries causes by Israel must be questioned from the get-go. Ever wonder why so-called “Palestinian Muslims” can’t produce proof of ownership over so much land in the region? Lying about crimes against them is just another version of rewriting history to achieve Arab domination of the world. “War is deceit.”

  2. somehistory says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 9:57 pm

    When charges are made about moslims beating up, killing, mass murdering, Christians and others, the claim is made that they kill more moslims than non moslims.

    They victimize themselves because no one else does, and they just must, must have sympathy and use that to further their elevation to a protected and most privileged status.

    If the *mother* of the little boy in this pretend case is *done* with this country, she is free to leave. No one will bar the door is she decides to leave for one of the stans.

    • Carolyne says

      Oct 20, 2016 at 11:20 am

      In fact, I will contribute to buying First Class tickets for the whole family to take them back home to whatever hell hole they came from.

  3. gravenimage says

    Oct 19, 2016 at 10:19 pm

    Robert Spencer in PJ Media: Another ‘Islamophobic Hate Crime’ Hoax
    ………………

    This is especially egregious, since they used their own child in the lie. In a just world, they would be prosecuted for this calumny against the school children.

  4. Jay Boo says

    Oct 20, 2016 at 6:34 am

    Note: Cary NC is not Deep South Redneck
    Cary North Carolina is full of Yankees and California Lefties.
    Many are liberal.

    http://www.movoto.com/guide/cary-nc/moving-to-cary/

  5. Angemon says

    Oct 20, 2016 at 7:03 am

    Hate crimes are political capital, which is why we keep seeing fabricated hate crimes like this one. When real ones don’t exist, they must be invented.

    That’s a mainstay of identity politics. How else would anyone justify discriminating on the grounds of race, religion, sexual preference or any of the left’s pet groups?

  6. linnte says

    Oct 20, 2016 at 7:58 am

    I get very excited when there is even a hint of a Muslim family threatening to leave the USA! Would that they all consider this solution.

    • Hindu American says

      Oct 20, 2016 at 9:23 am

      My question to those muslim families is why they chose to leave their original country of birth and move to America?

      • j_not_a says

        Oct 20, 2016 at 9:51 pm

        Hijrah, jihad by immigration then breed like rabbits.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 20, 2016 at 10:16 pm

          Exactly. Muslims are not coming here to become Americans, but to impose Islam on us.

      • linnte says

        Oct 20, 2016 at 10:07 pm

        Simple answer, Hindu. Qur’an commands “emigration in the way of Allah” to spread Islam and gain control of all the world. So they come here or to Europe etc, but because our country is not Shari’a Compliant, which would make Muslims superior to kuffar, they get fed up being the low guys on the totem pole. Ironically, everyone in the USA has equal rights as per our Constitution. But these supremacists don’t want EQUALITY, they want “Special Rights”. How dare infidel children pick on his male offspring who, in his eyes is way superior to those other kids.

        It may not be nice, and it is bullying, but all kids pick on each other! I guess this Muslim dad doesn’t know the old adage; sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me. Come to think of it, millennials don’t know this old saying either.

        • gravenimage says

          Oct 20, 2016 at 10:18 pm

          But it is not true, Linnte–the claim that schoolchildren beat up this Muslim child is demonstrably false.

        • linnte says

          Oct 20, 2016 at 10:39 pm

          I didn’t say it was true that he got beat up. What I said was, all kids poke fun, tease and pick on other kids. And it’s usually the odd kid that gets it. I can see how this cutie kid would get picked on by other kids. But that doesn’t mean it happened. I truly think this is a case of typical Muslim needing attention and special treatment. Also, CAIRs involvement probably means the dad has high hopes for a law suit that would garner him some settlement money.

          How are you Graven?

  7. Carolyne says

    Oct 20, 2016 at 11:24 am

    I was wondering what I was going to do with that enormous 3/10% raise that I would be receiving. Can’t think of a better place to invest it than a ticket home for these liars.

    Barbra Streisand and several other pampered overpaid Hollywood celebrities have threatened to leave the country if Donald Trump wins. That is hardly a threat which will have any affect on the country, except perhaps for the better.

    • j_not_a says

      Oct 20, 2016 at 9:49 pm

      Please God, if Donald Trump wins, don’t let all those looney moonbat liberals like Barbara Streisand or Beyonce, especially, move to Canada, all of us sane Canadians don’t want them here either. We have too many of them as it is especially Justine Zoolander Junior Trudeau, our Resident Prime Minister Syrian refugee buttkisser!

      • gravenimage says

        Oct 20, 2016 at 10:08 pm

        I don’t think you need to worry about that, j_not_a. I remember how many twits said that they would mover to Canada if George Bush won the presidency, and said the same about Ronald Reagan before him. No one I heard of ever did move.

        For good or ill, the US was stuck with them. I doubt it will be any different this time.

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