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Why the “Punish A Muslim Day” letter is almost certainly a hoax

Apr 3, 2018 5:17 pm By Robert Spencer

Today is “Punish A Muslim Day” according to fliers that were circulated in the UK, and the international media is in hysterics. However, like so many “anti-Muslim hate crimes,” the letter is almost certainly a hoax. Here’s why:

1. No one in Britain or anywhere else is calling for vigilante attacks on innocent Muslims, and no foe of jihad terror in Britain or anywhere else condones such attacks. No prominent person supports the point of view represented by this letter. But that point of view does correspond to the Islamic supremacist/Leftist media myth that Muslims are routinely victimized in the UK and elsewhere in the West.

2. The fliers were sent to homes in Muslim areas of the UK, as you can see in the story below. If the vigilantes were intending to drum up support, these areas were the last places where they would have sent the fliers, but if the fliers are a hoax concocted by Muslims, then it would make sense for them to send them to Muslims who would publicize them.

3. The day is almost over and no Muslims anywhere have been attacked. Nor should there have been any such attacks. But this indicates that the people behind the fliers were not actually intending to attack any Muslims, lending credence to the likelihood that Muslims concocted the fliers in order to divert attention away from the Muslim rape gang scandals in the UK.

4. The people who sent the fliers are either very stupid vigilantes, for apparently not knowing that their fliers would only gain sympathy for their intended victims, or very smart hoaxers, wanting to reinforce the myth that Muslims are targets of widespread discrimination and harassment in the West. It is more likely that actual vigilante thugs would simply go out and brutalize innocent people, rather than telegraphing their intentions.

But as the old saying goes, the lie travels twice around the world before the truth has finished putting on its shoes. And so it goes.

“UK charity urges vigilance after ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ letters,” by Frances Perraudin, Guardian, March 11, 2018:

Muslim communities in the UK have been urged to remain vigilant as counter-terrorism police investigate anonymous letters calling on recipients to attack Muslims.

This weekend people in Bradford, Leicester, London, Cardiff and Sheffield reported receiving the notes, printed on A4 paper.

The letters say 3 April will be “Punish a Muslim Day” and points will be awarded for certain acts of violence – from 25 points for removing a woman’s headscarf to 500 points for murdering a Muslim.

“Are you a sheep like the vast majority of the population?” the letter reads. “Sheep follow orders and are easily led. They are allowing the white-majority nations of Europe and north America to become overrun by those who would like nothing more than to do us harm and to turn our democracies into sharia-led police states.”

Counter Terrorism Policing North East said it had received reports of “potentially malicious communications sent to individuals across the UK”….

Naz Shah, the MP for Bradford West, said some people in her constituency had received the letter. “Understandably this is very distressful, not only [for] those who have received the letter but also for the wider communities,” she said in a statement on Facebook. “I would appeal to the wider community to remain vigilant and report any suspicious activity to the police.”…

Riaz Ahmed, a Liberal Democrat councillor in Bradford, told the Yorkshire Post he had received the letter at his business address. “It was not addressed to anyone, just the address and postcode as if it was sent out randomly,” he said.

“It has a second-class stamp on the plain white envelope and the frank mark is Sheffield. It was posted yesterday. It seems strange that anyone would send something like this to an address in a predominantly Muslim area. When I opened it and saw the content, I was horrified.”

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  1. Diane Harvey says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 5:26 pm

    Muslims never relent in their Punish the NonMuslim Perpetually, every Day/Week/Month/Year/Decade/Century/Millennium/Without End.

    • JawsV says

      Apr 3, 2018 at 6:08 pm

      Yep. Jihad is never-ending until Islam dominates.

  2. DFD says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 5:38 pm

    “… It seems strange that anyone would send something like this to an address in a predominantly Muslim area…”

    I’d rather say it seems TOTALLY IMPLAUSIBLE, if not utterly ridiculous to do so. Incredible.

    • TheBuffster says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 9:14 am

      Unless the purpose was to scare the hell out of Muslims with no intention of actually doing any violence. The “Punish a Muslim Day” punishment could have simply been the fear and intimidation those fliers delivered to their victims. Some passive-aggressive asshole may have just been acting out his anger and frustration at the rape gangs and so forth. I think it’s totally plausible.

      But so is the possibility that some Muslim is trying to stir up trouble and sympathy.

  3. Indiana Tom says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 5:47 pm

    Let’s punish a Muslim by taking them to a deluxe Dixie Southern Pork BBQ restaurant and then off to a petting session at the dog pound.
    Halal for everyone.
    Then a reading from the gospel of John.

  4. Georg says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 6:51 pm

    Excellent logic. There are also particularities with verbiage that suggest it wasn’t made by those who it’s purported to be made by, but don’t want to be specific enough to aid their next attempts.

  5. livingengine says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 8:33 pm

    http://www.ksdk.com/article/news/local/from-punish-a-muslim-day-to-love-a-muslim-day/63-534435344
    Yet, another non-story, and so, let’s bring on CAIR executive director, Faizan Syed to comment.
    Call the station here –
    5 On Your Side
    1000 Market Street
    St. Louis, MO 63101
    314-421-5055

  6. Wellington says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 9:02 pm

    And if it is a hoax, which it almost certainly is, then it will be forgotten by the stupid powers that be in the West, i.e., politicians, academics and media personnel, as quickly as possible.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 3, 2018 at 11:22 pm

      Actually, I doubt it will be, Wellington–instead, worse, it will be trotted out by Muslims and clueless dhimmis as proof of violent “Islamophobia”–even though nothing happened and that it is almost certainly a Muslim hoax.

      There have been hysterical articles in The Guardian, BBC News, the Huffington Post, the Washington Post and many other news outlets (hysterical in the sense of hysteria, of course, not amusement).

      There have also been infidels afflicted with a sense of unearned guilt sucking up to Muslims to show they are not “Islamophobes”. Check out the moronic #WeStandTogether hashtag.

      And Susan Williams, a Home Office minister in the House of Lords, was Tweeting #ProtectaMuslimDay, where any Mohammedan could request Infidel volunteers to walk them home:

      https://twitter.com/hashtag/ProtectAMuslimDay?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.washingtonpost.com%2Fnews%2Fworldviews%2Fwp%2F2018%2F04%2F03%2Fpunish-a-muslim-day-generates-anger-fear-and-solidarity-in-britain%2F

      There is also a close-up of the above letter on the Twitter feed, including its “point system”–it is notable how much projection there is here–supposedly urging “Islamophobes” to verbally abuse Muslims, throw acid on women, stabbing or running over victims, or bombing their places of worship.

      Of course, these are all things *Muslims do to Infidels*.

      • dumbledoresarmy says

        Apr 4, 2018 at 9:02 am

        Precisely.

  7. gravenimage says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 11:03 pm

    Why the “Punish A Muslim Day” letter is almost certainly a hoax
    ……………………….

    That was my first thought, as well–that there has not been so much as a threat to pull off someone’s headscarf today pretty much confirms it.

    Also, that it was sent to Muslims, rather than skinheads or soccer hooligans or neo-Nazis–or whatever “Islamophobes” might seem plausible–makes it pretty clear that this was never intended to actually incite any violence against Muslims.

    I suppose one could argue that it was intended to frighten Muslims–but this seems pretty lame compared to what it actually threatened.

    My guess is that this is yet another fake hate crime ginned up by Muslims themselves.

    Meanwhile, back in the real world, Muslims slaughtered an entire Christian family in Pakistan and a Muslimah in a Hijab shot up YouTube headquarters just a few miles from where I live. This is what is *really* happening.

    • JawsV says

      Apr 3, 2018 at 11:19 pm

      graven, I don’t think the youtube shooter is a Muslima.

      • gravenimage says

        Apr 3, 2018 at 11:29 pm

        Hi, Jaws. I don’t know many Infidels who wear headscarves:

        “Active shooter at YouTube headquarters in California is woman wearing headscarf”

        https://www.jihadwatch.org/2018/04/active-shooter-at-youtube-headquarters-in-california-is-woman-wearing-headscarf

        I suppose she might be a babushka or just having a bad hair day, but I don’t think this is terribly likely.

        • JawsV says

          Apr 3, 2018 at 11:33 pm

          Actually, now I’ve read that the shooter is an Iranian woman. I guess the leftist media is doing their best to cover (no pun intended) that up.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 3, 2018 at 11:34 pm

          I just checked it out, and the shooter has been identified as Nasim Aghdam. That sounds like a likely Muslim name to me. The article also mentions–from Aghdam herself–that one of her YouTube accounts is in Farsi.

        • gravenimage says

          Apr 3, 2018 at 11:45 pm

          Thanks, Jaws.

  8. Lydia Church says

    Apr 3, 2018 at 11:16 pm

    This is another ‘Reichstag Fire’ false flag.

  9. Jayell says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 1:22 am

    If the reaction of muslims and muslim organisations as reported in the media and social media is anything to go by, then the whole ‘punish a muslim’ thing was seen as a logical and credible reality because, according to the muslim mindset, this is precisely what should happen. The sad fact is that, when it DOESN’T happen, the muslim mindset will interpret that as cowardly submission and a vindication of their supremacist attitudes and behaviour, and they will continue as they are until they achieve their jihad goal. To describe the current official UK attitudes as Chamberlain-style appeasement is to insult Chamberlain since he simply wanted a peaceful and civilised solution to an aggressive and uncivilised threat, not inevitable abject surrender masquerading as attempted democratic co-existence. Sadly, the UK needs a Churchill to call a spade a spade and put an end to all the fanciful, ‘well-meaning’ bullsh☆t.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 1:31 am

      True, Jayell–look at this load of ludicrous Muslim fake victim-mongering:

      “It’s ‘Punish a Muslim Day.’ Or, as We Muslims Call It, Every Day”

      https://www.thedailybeast.com/its-punish-a-muslim-day-or-as-we-muslims-call-it-every-day

      As if Infidels in America were *really* torturing and murdering Muslims and bombing Mosques every day–or at all. Bald-faced lies.

      Ironically–but not surprisingly–this story is followed at the link by the story of an Iranian woman in a Hijab shooting people at YouTube headquarters in California. This is what is *really* happening in America and the rest of the West.

  10. Benedict says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 1:26 am

    – 1. No one in Britain or anywhere else is calling for vigilante attacks on innocent Muslims. –

    No one in Britain or anywhere else is calling for vigilante attacks on Muslims who might not be innocent. That’s the decency of our part of the world: one is considered innocent unless proven guilty through a court procedure.

    Muslim mentality induced by Islam supports the idea that all infidels and apostates are guilty due to their unbelief and Muslims are prone to show their contempt, openly or secretly, and justify their private judgments over these inferior creatures. That’s the ugliness of Islam.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 1:31 am

      Spot on, Benedict.

  11. Phil Copson says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 4:38 am

    Naz Shah, the MP for Bradford West, said some people in her constituency had received the letter. “Understandably this is very distressful…”

    ————————————————————————————————-

    Apart from from parading her stupidity – (“distressful” – I ask you….*) – it is encouraging to read that Naz Shah has evidently come to understand that making vicious racist comments is unacceptable, and I’m sure that she herself would never dream of making anti-semitic remarks or telling young white victims of muslim rape-gangs to “shut up for the sake of diversity” – oh, no – she already ha…….

    * putting “ful” onto the end of a word to create an entirely new – (and unwanted) – adjective seems to be a hobby of the thickos who infest the Labour Party – can’t remember her name, but in Tony Blair’s cabinet he had a minister who was so pitifully moronic that she gave an interview about public spending in which she stated that the government had to ensure that it was “bargainful”…….

  12. FYI says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 5:24 am

    And yet……..EVERYDAY in the world is the islamic ..

    “KILL ALL THE INFIDELS WHEREVER YE FIND THEM ” day

    …in honor of allah’s command to “slay the unbelievers wherever ye find them” koran 2v91

    Of course,one of the best ways to silence criticism of islamic jihadism would be to fraudulently invent these letters targeting muslims.Thus,the targets conveniently become the victims.

    It’s that old Reichstag Fire trick….

  13. Harbi says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 2:22 pm

    The Muslim Council of Britain released and presented a polished 130 page report–titled “Our Shared British Future: Muslims and Integration in the UK”–to parliament, just four days after these letters became publicly known. In this report, they call on the government to further bend over backwards for Muslims, and to crack down harder on ‘Islamophobia’. My guess is that the MCB are responsible for creating and distributing these letters, and tried to use them as leverage for getting the policy proposals in their report implemented.

    Here’s a brief news article about their report:
    https://thearabweekly.com/uk-muslims-calling-equal-integration-strategy

    And here is their report itself:
    http://www.mcb.org.uk/we-need-an-equal-integration-strategy-for-all-britons-muslim-council-of-britain/

    • Save Europe says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 8:26 pm

      Indeed. How about they issue a Fatwa, and insist on halting the murder and rape of all non Muslims? Yet, they won’t…..

  14. Brian hoff says

    Apr 4, 2018 at 11:31 pm

    It is real the letter. It went to hater of Islam in the UK thab they fail to report it to British government afew end up in muslim hand by mistake and where report to police. Then the govern said they will tolerate any act of hate against. Muslim.

    • gravenimage says

      Apr 4, 2018 at 11:41 pm

      What a load of crap. This was mailed to numerous Muslim households, businesses, and Moqsues. The idea that the main target was the “filthy Infidels” but that not a single one reported it is obviously ludicrous.

  15. OP says

    Apr 5, 2018 at 4:07 am

    Isn’t it a give-away that it’s structured like formal letters written in Arabic or Urdu, not in English…. An English person educated in the English school system would never structure a letter that way. And the logo in the bottom corner (the ‘official seal’) is commonly used in the Arabic culture. The centered text is also typically Arabic.

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