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Minneapolis: Video of Muslima fighting boy who tried to pull off her hijab was hoax

Jan 15, 2017 10:15 pm By Robert Spencer

“The video, titled ‘Welcome to Washburn,’ has gone viral since it was posted to Facebook, with more than 6.5 million views, more than 161,000 shares and more than 29,000 comments — many supporting the girl, who appears to be defending herself.”

There’s just one problem: this is yet another “anti-Muslim hate crime” that didn’t really happen. Hate crimes are political capital, which is why videos like this one go viral. If there were really an encompassing climate of “Islamophobia” in the U.S., there would be authentic videos of incidents coming across the transom regularly. But there isn’t such a climate, and so there aren’t such videos, and fake ones like this video go viral to feed the agenda of the “Islamophobia” victimhood industry.

“Viral Washburn High School fight video was a hoax, district says,” by James Walsh, Star Tribune, January 15, 2017:

The clip appears to show a Muslim student trying to punch a boy who pulled on her hijab, but it’s just a “play fight,” a district spokesman said Saturday.

Dirk Tedmon, a spokesman for the Minneapolis school district, said Saturday that school officials who talked to families of the students after viewing the video learned that it was a “play fight” and intended as a joke.

A video posted Friday afternoon to Snapchat, Twitter and Facebook purportedly showing a Muslim student at Washburn High School using her fists to exact revenge on a boy who tugged her hijab is fake, a Minneapolis schools spokesman said Saturday.

The video, titled “Welcome to Washburn,” has gone viral since it was posted to Facebook, with more than 6.5 million views, more than 161,000 shares and more than 29,000 comments — many supporting the girl, who appears to be defending herself.

But Dirk Tedmon, a spokesman for the school district, said Saturday that school officials who talked to families of the students after viewing the video learned that it was a “play fight” and intended as a joke. School safety and security staff confirmed the alleged incident never happened. By the time it was discovered to be a hoax, the video had gone viral, Tedmon said….

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  1. somehistory says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 10:33 pm

    The *girl* looks like a guy, moves like a guy, stands like a guy.

    And it had its purpose…to fuel the fire for moslims to be poor little victims of the mean white people.

    • freedom says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 10:40 pm

      Gotta agree with you on the gender issue.
      I’ve never seen a left hook like that from a girl.
      If not, — get her in the MMA, she’ll kick some but

    • linnte says

      Jan 15, 2017 at 10:43 pm

      Totally agree! This was no girl.

    • Saleem Smith says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 12:47 am

      Another faked anti-Muslim hate crime! And many more to come…

      We ex-Muslims living with Islam’s formal and informal death penalty for apostasy know that Islamic theology forces Muslims to constantly lie to and deceive the non-Muslims to advance the cause of Islam.

      Islam’s canonical texts (the Qur’an, hadith and sira) give Muslims permission to lie to and deceive the non-Muslim population. Lying to the infidels to advance the cause of Islam is commonly called “Taqiyya” and many Muslims practice this dark Islamic art with great skill. Do not be deceived by their wicked treachery.

      Jihad Watch contributor Raymond Ibrahim explains the dark art of “Islamic Taqiyya” –

      http://raymondibrahim.com/2015/09/28/msm-lies-about-muslim-lies-taqiyya/

      Islam is no “religion of peace.” Islam is primarily a religion of “injustice, intolerance, hatred, and violence.” The fact is, if we non-Muslims were to say about Muslims what the Qur’an says about us, we would be arrested for hate speech. The Qur’an largely preaches discrimination, death, and imposition of its dogma on everyone. Certainly some Muslims will be offended by such statements, but frankly, so what? Judaism and Christianity, the world’s two other major monotheistic religions, have had to face the harshest of scrutiny and criticism for several hundred years which continues to this day. Islam must not be granted any special privileges or be exempt from such treatment – the implications are of tremendous importance.

      Here is a recent statement from a group of Bangladeshi apostates living in the UK explaining the reasons why they have abandoned Islam:

      “One who claims to be a messenger of God is expected to live a saintly life. He must not be given to lust, he must not be a sexual pervert, and he must not be a rapist, a highway robber, a war criminal, a mass murderer or an assassin. One who claims to be a messenger of God must have a superior character. He must stand above the vices of the people of his time. Yet Muhammad’s life is that of a gangster godfather. He raided merchant caravans, looted innocent people, massacred entire male populations and enslaved the women and children. He raped the women captured in war after killing their husbands and told his followers that it is okay to have sex with their captives (Qur’an 33:50). He assassinated those who criticized him and executed them when he came to power and became de facto despot of Arabia. Muhammad was bereft of human compassion. He was an obsessed man with his dreams of grandiosity and could not forgive those who stood in his way…

      The statement continues,

      Muhammad was a narcissist, like Hitler, Saddam or Stalin. He was astute and knew how to manipulate people, but his emotional intelligence was less evolved than that of a 6-year-old child. He simply could not feel the pain of others. He brutally massacred thousands of innocent people and pillaged their wealth. His ambitions were big and as a narcissist he honestly believed he is entitled to do as he pleased and commit all sorts of crimes and his evil deeds are justified.”

      http://www.faithfreedom.org/

      • Nan says

        Jan 16, 2017 at 12:59 am

        Because Islam counsels members to lie to others, those who lie about these fake hate crimes are surprised when, as the result of an investigation, they’re charged with hate crimes. There was also a horrific crime in the twin cities a few years ago, where the Muslim husband and father burned his wife and child; the wife is in long term care from her injuries and the child died. I’m sure the husband and father was surprised that he was arrested, charged with a crime and imprisoned.

        • A Harris USA says

          Jan 16, 2017 at 11:00 am

          Nan, this pushes my belief that Muslims are King of “fake news”. This goes on all over the place, and is just a act to promote the “victim” idea even farther. No one cares anymore. Even the vandalism of Mosques, seems to be a insurance scam, and same old fake news platform… HOO HUMM!!!

      • John Hawk says

        Jan 16, 2017 at 11:05 am

        Interesting post, Saleem. My experience with Muslims and ex-Muslims, though admittedly limited, suggests that many Muslims have little real understanding of Muhammad, the Qur’an, or the hadith, which is why they defend Islam in ways based more on wishful thinking than fact.

        But I think the Internet is and will have a dramatic effect on the rate of critically thinking Muslims who leave Islam. As more people understand what Islam actually teaches, the more they will be repulsed it. Cyberspace is no insular mosque; there is no place for Islam to hide from a tsunami of critical discussion online.

        I would be interested to know your thoughts.

    • Jihadi John says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 4:02 am

      Errrmmmm…. the way you can tell the difference between Muslim men and Muslim women is easy: the men have long beards but no mustaches; the women have mustaches but no beards.

    • BC says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 8:43 am

      I also think it would be extremely unusual to find a Muslim girl trained in boxing

    • Jesse says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 4:40 pm

      Yup. I see the same thing.

  2. Shmooviyet says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 10:47 pm

    The titles and majority of comments at YT are sickening.
    All about the tuff muslim girl fighting off the “racist” white boy, “don’t mess with muslims” etc.
    One remark about how these guys better not mess with ‘my muslim sisters’.
    How about you, muslim brutha?

  3. nicu says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 10:53 pm

    They lie when they open their mouth !

    • JawsV says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 8:25 am

      I don’t believe one word that comes from a Muslim. They are consummate liars and are taught to do so in their “religion.”

  4. davej says

    Jan 15, 2017 at 10:54 pm

    Can you imagine how many more “hate crimes” are going to be reported in the future, given all the muslims and all the cameras out there?

  5. Kay says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 12:26 am

    Stupidest pretend crime ever–
    What guy do you know who just wants to see someone’s hair . . . as if there weren’t plenty of hair to see. It’s all a way to make a false story that hijab should be protected!

    • Nan says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 1:01 am

      That’s why it’s easy to spot fake muslim hate crimes; they use language that you wouldn’t hear in the west but is typical insults in muslim world and do things that westerners wouldn’t do.

  6. Wellington says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 12:57 am

    Exceedingly fitting in microcosm since Islam is a hoax, though this hoax of hoaxes has not yet been figured out by the elites of the West——-in the political realm, in the media and in academia, but “regular folks,” speaking in the aggregate and to be sure far shrewder than the elites, have already discerned that Islam is malevolent and in no way is an ally of freedom.

    Right now it’s a contest whether the clueless (and insufferable) Western elites will lead the West to destruction because of their monumental ignorance (or in the alternative a pathological self-hatred) of Islam’s ultimate totalitarian designs, or the common folk of the West, which it should be noted both Western elites aplenty and Muslims aplenty despise, will ultimately save Western Civilization and by doing so save liberty.

    Close call right now. Very.

    • maghan says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 3:09 am

      Is all of this stupid fawning before Islam due to the fact that Standard Oil discovered oil under the sand dunes of those degenerate savages and now the West depends on that oil for economic survival and sells the savages weapons in return?

      Is it just amoral business or something else?

      • Wellington says

        Jan 16, 2017 at 3:37 am

        It’s way more than just a “business thing.” It is wrapped up with the monumental twin stupidities of political correctness and multiculturalism that exists in the West, coupled with general ignorance of the greatness of Western Civilization, plus an indolent lifestyle due in part to Western excellence in technology, as well as many in the West feeling “entitled,” and much more.

        Oh yeah, it’s far more than just an “oil thing.” Far, far more.

        • Mark Swan says

          Jan 16, 2017 at 5:32 pm

          Yes Wellington absolutely—far more.

        • gravenimage says

          Jan 16, 2017 at 9:09 pm

          True, Wellington–I would also throw in unearned Western self-hatred, as well. All in all, Muslim supremacism and Western dhimmitude are a nasty and very dangerous confluence.

  7. Milo says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 3:10 am

    This was posted on Facebook and I responded to it at the time that it was clearly faked given that no one in the background reacted and the “white” boy being beaten on can be seen smiling in one shot. Of course, I got attacked, not by Muslims but rather by PCers who see themselves as open minded atheist and pagans. Too funny that the ones who scream loudest in defense of Islam are the two groups of people who’d be targeted for a jihad moment.

  8. Marty says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 5:05 am

    Leaving aside the point that “islamophobia’ is oxymoronic.
    the problem with the West, is that it barely exists.
    As we are steadily colonised & outbred in the UK & Europe, mohammedans
    continue to risk their lives in their continued invasion of our lands.
    What our lefty/liberal Establishment claims to be tolerance, is, in fact
    cowardice masquerading as tolerance.
    At a personal level, most Westerners hate & fear islam.
    At a public & institutional level we love it & pay mohammedans not
    just great respect, but also massive benefits, including taxpayers’
    money for a harem of up to four wives & taxpayer funded schools where
    their numerous kids are taught to hate us.
    Generations of miseducated graduates, many in influential jobs, really
    believe that islam is the religion of peace & that the West was behind the
    slave trade.

  9. Richard Paulsen says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 5:25 am

    How are things in U.S,A.? Normal after the latest terrorattacks? Good. Here too. Just have to build a few thousand new homes for “newcomers”.

    • JawsV says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 8:29 am

      Oh, you mean the “voyagers” and “travelers?” How ’bout “asylum-seekers?”

      Anything but the word Muslims.

      • Richard Paulsen says

        Jan 16, 2017 at 12:17 pm

        Right.

  10. Roger Dodger says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 6:12 am

    ?If the left’s lips are moving, they are apparently lying or deluded. The same applies to their supporters, enablers, Fake Newsers, and advocates.

    Don’t buy their CDs or the products they hawk on TV, don’t go to their inane movies, don’t visit their stupid sites, don’t listen to them on the radio.

    Don’t watch them on their Fake News TV, don’t buy tickets to see them do ANYthing, and especially don’t watch or attend their dumb, leftist-activist “shows.”

    Are they the oily, lying, Shmuck Shroomer, political type?

    Or the lying, insane, “You can Keep Your Doctor,” I-rule-the-world, type?

    If so, they would be your leftist, Islamist, One-World, slave-master wannabes. And they are coming after you and your family, just as they are coming after Donald Trump

    You have only to see the bloated, debauched-looking face of their newest poster slut, John Dufus, the failed “civil rights leader,” to see how they roll in their own, filthy, stinking lies about Donald Trump and you.

    It demonstrates they stop at Nothing to grasp at their filthy, stinking goals.

    Don’t believe any lying word they say. Defund them; block their plots. “Find them, fix them in place, isolate them, and ridicule them.” (To paraphrase their own leader, Saul Alinksky)

    Think: would you wipe them out financially, or have them praising Trump, in about 6 weeks? ??
    .
    Will you pass these ideas onward and forward to your mailing lists? It’s your Move, isn’t it?
    .
    .

  11. Michael Copeland says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 6:28 am

    For a video that is not a fake go to youtube for

    Muslim slaps a Chinese girl for refusing to dance with him

    • gravenimage says

      Jan 16, 2017 at 9:18 pm

      Yes–this Chinese girl *rocks*! I love that video!

      Here’s the link:

    • Shmooviyet says

      Jan 17, 2017 at 10:07 am

      @Michael and GI: Oh YES!
      Thank you for the reminder of that excellent ‘don’t mess with me’ moment, as well as the link.
      If that happened at Washburn the ‘phobia would make the Star-Trib front fishwrap.

  12. duh swami says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 6:53 am

    ‘All the world is a stage, and all the Muslims on it are actors’…

    It would seem that ‘Paliwood’ has expanded it’s operations to the US where the
    uninformed kufr will believe most anything…

  13. Alarmed Pig Farmer says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 9:00 am

    In the Twin Cities we get a regular diet of Eyewitness News segments and newspaper articles that put Moslems in the best of light. Reasonable, misunderstood folk who are victimized. They’ll spin this. Nary a word about what’s in the Holy Ko-Ran, what this young Moslima and all Moslems believe in, hope for. That wouldn’t fit the narrative being pushed in the local media here.

  14. Susette says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 9:27 am

    The moslema has to be a boy….otherwise, she’ll be “honor-killed” when she gets home for touching a male kafir.

  15. Angemon says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 9:46 am

    Another fake “anti-muslim hate crime”? Imagine my surprise…

  16. TheBuffster says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 8:59 pm

    How completely stupid! You mean people watched this video and believed some accompanying text that claimed it to be a fight over a tug on a hijab?

    And that’s supposed to prove bigotry against Muslims?

    My eyes tell me right off – regardless of any text – that these kids both know a little something about punching and defending. It looks like two kids practicing to me. And the girl is extremely aggressive and confident, as if she’s done this before. That’s my immediate impression without reading a thing.

    The girl is clearly on the offense in this video, so it proves nothing. Her hijab is firmly in place, so it doesn’t appear to have been pulled askew. But if the boy had actually pulled on her hijab and she went after him in that fierce manner, she was overreacting and not in the right.

    Then there’s the fact that in a school setting boys often tease girls. Tugging on a girl’s hijab, even if it really happened, might or might not be a sign of maliciousness. It could also be a case of good-natured teasing, foolishly naive as that would be.

    But in the case of this video, the clues all point to the story not matching the actions. There is NO EVIDENCE within the video to give credence to the story, and if people took it to be evidence, that’s a sad commentary on the state of logical competence of those silly people.

  17. gravenimage says

    Jan 16, 2017 at 9:04 pm

    Minneapolis: Video of Muslima fighting boy who tried to pull off her hijab was hoax
    ……………………..

    Another fake Muslim hate crime. What a shock…sarc/off

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