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Yasmin Seweid’s lies show mainstream media is chief purveyor of “fake news”

Dec 15, 2016 3:43 pm By Robert Spencer

While purveying this fake news about Yasmin Seweid being the victim of an anti-Muslim hate crime, the establishment propaganda media is missing the real story: this girl is in danger. We know now that she made up this story to cover for being out late, and it is clear that she has every reason to be afraid of her father, who forced her to shave her head. She is just 18 years old and probably didn’t realize that she was giving the media what it wants most in this world: a story of an innocent, pious Muslim being victimized by “Islamophobes.”

She probably didn’t expect all the media attention. Her disappearance could have been because she couldn’t handle what had become of her story and was simply trying to flee the limelight, or worse, because she was fleeing a family from whom she believed she was in genuine danger.

The shaved head ought to wake authorities up to the danger she is in. The shaving is designed to humiliate and subdue her. In this kind of thinking, the hair is the core of the woman’s attractiveness — hence the hijab, which is supposed to remove the occasion of temptation for men. So shaving the head is de-feminizing her and removing her attractiveness, which in the Islamic view is all a woman has.

She is in serious danger. This father could kill her. But New York authorities and the propaganda media, committed to the idea that Islam is a religion of peace, will not even consider that possibility, and will leave her to her fate.

“What Yasmin Seweid’s Pretty Little Lies Reveal About ‘Fake News’ Media Hypocrisy,” by Stephen Miller, Heatstreet, December 14, 2016:

Since Donald Trump’s election night victory and at the direction of Hillary Clinton campaign operatives, social media users have been scolded and warned over the scourge of “fake news” from supposedly respected journalistic outlets, on the web and on network television. Clinton herself, just last week, even blamed her election loss partly on the dangerous spread of fake news.

So enter the curious case of Yasmin Seweid, the 18 year old New York City college student whose story of being harassed and assaulted by three Donald Trump supporters on a line 6 subway train went viral. This came on the heels of reports — many exaggerated — a so-called “surge” in Trump-fueled, hate-filled activity.

Protests were held at Grand Central station, where Seweid reported her assault to police shortly after saying she exited the train to get away from her attackers. Several mainstream news outlets, including CBS, NBC, Buzzfeed, Yahoo and Slate among others, picked up on the story and ran with it gleefully.

“Drunk Men Yelling ‘Donald Trump’ Attempt To Remove Woman’s Hijab On NYC Subway” declared the headline at Buzzfeed. “NY Subway Riders Stand By as Three Men Verbally Assault Muslim Teenager” was Slate’s headline, which Yahoo echoed with “Three Drunks on Train Harass Woman in Hijab, Commuters Do Nothing.” CBS News stated “Muslim teen verbally attacked on NYC subway”. Gothamist, a local NYC news site and one of the first outlets to pick up on the alleged incident, stated “Men Screaming ‘Donald Trump’ Attacked Woman Wearing Hijab On The Subway”. The New York Daily News featured the incident on its front page, professing “Attacked Because I’m Muslim” and she was interviewed by CBSNY local that night.
Seweid then posted a statement on her Facebook page (which has since been deleted) saying, “Three white racists ripped the straps off my bag & attempted to yank my hijab off my head. They yelled such disgusting slurs at me, I was so helpless and felt defenseless.” Seweid went on to blame other passengers on her subway: “It breaks my heart that so many individuals choose to be bystanders while watching me get harassed verbally and physically by these disgusting pigs. Trump America is real and I witnessed it first hand last night!”

To reputable news outlets, Yasmin Seweid, an attractive young Muslim girl, was a prime example of how hate in Donald Trump’s America has spread and manifested itself (even into progressively liberal enclaves such as New York City!)

The only problem is that the incident Seweid reported, and that these outlets ran with, didn’t happen. As reported by DNA Info, Seweid eventually confessed to fabricating the incident and lying to New York police investigating. There were troubles with her account from the start. NYC subway surveillance footage only showed one person matching a description Seweid gave following her off a train and she could not outright describe the suspects when pressed. Furthermore, Seweid went missing for two days last week and was finally found with a bag of clothes. The family’s only comment was that it was a personal matter they were handling….

The larger issue at work here is not Seweid. She’s a teenager who, for reasons yet unknown, fabricated a hate crime and will now face real legal consequences for doing so. She may be confused, she may have trouble at home or socially. Nobody knows and that information will likely reveal itself in time as she is forced to face charges in court and opprobrium in her community, which she’s no doubt damaged and hurt by making real accounts of targeted religious hate and assaults harder to report….

These editors, apparently not convinced that Donald Trump provides enough real life clickbait content, rushed off to prove their desired narrative of rampant Islamophobia and hate crimes….

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  1. marina says

    Dec 15, 2016 at 4:09 pm

    This girl should be punished for telling lies. But her family making her shave her head is a bit too much.

    • miriamrove says

      Dec 15, 2016 at 4:30 pm

      It is a bit too much rather it is the Islamic way of shaming people. Had she been under age, they could have brought charges against her parent, but then again CAIR would have gone ape..sm

      • A Harris USA says

        Dec 16, 2016 at 5:17 pm

        CAIR is the biggest promoter of Fake News.. Always Muslims and their fake attacks, and always covered up when it is discovered that it is fake!!! SO sick and tired of the fake Dems, fake Muslim victims, fake news, fake president, OBAMA, and fake CIA director, who BTW is a Muslim!!! Fakes are every where!!! If Muslim lips are moving, the news is fake!! That includes OBAMA!!!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 15, 2016 at 5:38 pm

      marina, her Muslim family is *not* punishing her for lying to Infidel authorities, but just for having been out late.

    • Dave says

      Dec 16, 2016 at 8:35 am

      This is clearly a “hate” crime

  2. ed cox says

    Dec 15, 2016 at 4:13 pm

    Sure she needs some punishment , but she also needs protection from her family .

  3. Tradiguy says

    Dec 15, 2016 at 4:16 pm

    What must it be like to have the precious gift of a daughter and treat her like that?? I am a father of 2 girls and I couldn’t hurt a hair of their heads let alone shave them off. The man is a pig! No grace, no love, nothing- an empty shell!!

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 15, 2016 at 5:49 pm

      True, Tradiguy–and her father would likely do much worse to her, as well. Muslim families are vicious to anyone–especially girls–who dare step out of line.

    • dsinc says

      Dec 15, 2016 at 5:56 pm

      The man is a pig! No grace, no love, nothing- an empty shell!!

      You are describing Islam. The girls value is only her unsullied vagina to be sold to his, and Islam’s best advantage.

  4. Jaladhi says

    Dec 15, 2016 at 4:24 pm

    At least WaPo reported the news of her arrest on the top front page this morning. Didn’t see it on the chief purveyor of fake news, NYTimes. Imagine a New York newspaper, NYTimes doesn’t think it is a news ( or true news) of New York worth printing!

  5. Hugh Fitzgerald says

    Dec 15, 2016 at 4:36 pm

    Message to the Media:

    You can do anything, but stay off of my True Seweid News.

    • common sense says

      Dec 15, 2016 at 8:10 pm

      Haa haa clever Hugh!

      I still say female Muslims suffer from the most acute Islamophobia of all Islamophobics in the world.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 16, 2016 at 9:32 pm

      Brilliant.

  6. Angemon says

    Dec 15, 2016 at 6:16 pm

    Clinton herself, just last week, even blamed her election loss partly on the dangerous spread of fake news.

    Hillary Clinton is a serial liar who will never, ever acknowledge the consequences of her actions. Anything bad that happens is *always* someone else’s fault. Where does the buck stop with her?

  7. Custos Custodum says

    Dec 15, 2016 at 6:35 pm

    Is it possible that our behijabed bashful-boasting heroine invented and advertised this incident to cover up a REAL but consensual encounter, perhaps – GASP – with an infidel?

    https://www.jihadwatch.org/2016/12/nyc-muslima-who-claimed-she-was-harassed-by-trump-supporters-arrested-for-filing-false-report#comment-1573698

  8. gravenimage says

    Dec 15, 2016 at 6:43 pm

    Yasmin Seweid’s lies show mainstream media is chief purveyor of “fake news”
    ………………………..

    Grimly true.

  9. j_not_a says

    Dec 15, 2016 at 7:50 pm

    My sympathy for her “plight” is tempered by the fact that she gratuitously tossed “Donald Trump” into her lying little diatribe to the cops. She probably thought that would make her story more believable, did she?

  10. linnte says

    Dec 15, 2016 at 9:11 pm

    She’ll show up missing. The father will be stunned and afraid for her. Then the authorities will find her body years later in a grave somewhere, and it will be her father or brother who killed her.

    • gravenimage says

      Dec 16, 2016 at 9:33 pm

      Yeeesh–but I can’t say that this grim scenario is unlikely, Linnte.

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