It was recently revealed that the photograph posted online by an Arab propagandist, Abdullah Alsaafin, of a two-year-old girl identified as Bayan Abu Khamash, supposedly killed by Israeli bombs, had in fact been taken from Instagram, where the girl was identified as an American two-year-old, Elle Lively McBroom.
“War is deceit,” said Muhammad, and the uncovering of deceit is a legitimate defense in such a war. Now that we know the source of that photo, there are several things that might be done. Instagram or Twitter or wherever Abdullah Alsaafin has an account might be publicly appealed to, to remove his account in light of the fact that he has been caught malevolently misusing, for the purposes of propaganda, a photograph on Instagram. Instagram cannot police every misuse of its contents, but when such a blatant and dangerous example is brought to its attention, it has a responsibility to act. It should not only remove Alsaafin’s account (if he has an Instagram account; otherwise the places where he posted the false photo should remove his account), but explain that it is doing so because of his malevolent theft, with malice aforethought, of a two-year-old’s photograph.
This is one of many examples where the Arabs have used fauxtography. Recently, I was informed, Arab propagandists had posted pictures in the aftermath of the earthquake in Mexico, identifying them as scenes in Gaza. Photographs of destruction in Syria have been similarly applied. During the 2006 war in Lebanon, Hezbollah — and willing Western journalists — engaged in fauxtography of every kind. Burning tires in the smoky distance were presented as burned out buildings, an untouched Qur’an was carefully placed in the middle of rubble, and then deliberately set on fire, long after the building it was said to have been in had been reduced to rubble.
Empty ambulances suddenly had their alarms and lights turned on for visiting journalists. Other ambulances — still whole, though rusted-out, and with a handful of bullet holes in them, were presented as having been “hit by Israeli bombs.” If they had been hit, they would no longer exist. Reporters used Photoshop to darken photos in order to make the Lebanese scenes even grimmer. Toys were always strewn carefully about, so as to “stage” a scene where children were said to have been hit (this happened so often that one alert journalist said the stagers must have had a charge account at ToysRUs). “Dead” people did not always stay dead. Some were seen breathing regularly as they lay on the ground. Still others were videotaped as they got up and walked away, when they thought — wrongly — that all the reporters had left. These and many other examples of fauxtography can be found here.
Possibly Nikki Haley can deliver a speech at the U.N. about the misuse of Elle Lively McBroom’s Instagram photograph, showing side-by-side both photos of her, under two different names, on a giant screen set up before the General Assembly for maximum impact. Ambassador Haley, having made her point, might then go further, and offer a dozen different examples of various kinds of fauxtography practiced in the past on behalf of the “Palestinians,” not just by Hamas in Gaza, but also by Hezbollah in Lebanon during the 2006 war. It would be quite a lesson, both startling and salutary, for the U.N. delegates, and for much of the world outside the kangaroo court of the U.N., that has been swallowing this malevolent stuff for far too long.
ElderlyZionist says
“I want to believe.”
mortimer says
The TAQIYYA Song (tune La Macarena)
Misleading of the In-fi-del’s a method called ‘TA-QIY-YA’
A semi-lie is similar, but it is called ‘TAW-RIY-YA’
Sharia law says it’s ok to dupe the Dis-believ-ah.
HEY! That’s taqiyya! Uh-huh.
Deceiving the Kufaar about the meaning of Sharia
Deceiving the Kufaar about the path of Jihad-iy-ya
To keep the Kafirs living in a total fantasi-ya
HEY! That’s taqiyya! Uh-huh.
To keep the Kafirs living in a state of ‘silly-me’-ya
To keep the Kafirs living in a state of apathee-ya
Incredibly easy for Jihadists to deceive ya
HEY! That’s taqiyya! Uh-huh.
balam says
Dishonesty is the salient feature of Islam. Being deceitful never upsets the conscience of a Muslim.Hence ,it is difficult to live peacefully beside or with Muslims.
mortimer says
There are SIX DIFFERENT WAYS of deception that are permissible in Islam:
1•Taqiyya (Shia) or Muda’rat (Sunni): tactical deceit for the purposes of spreading Islam.
2•Kitman: deceit by omission.
3•Tawriya: deceit by deliberate ambiguity.
4•Taysir: deceit through facilitation (not observing all the tenets of Sharia by ‘making things easier’).
5•Darura: deceit through necessity (to engage in something “Haram” or forbidden such as drinking alcohol to exploit non-Muslims).
6•Muruna: ‘flexibility’ or temporary suspension of Sharia to make Muslim migrants appear ‘moderate’ and blend in until Muslims numerically strong enough to enforce Sharia.
Muslims imitate Allah ‘THE BEST OF DECEIVERS’.
Allahu khayru l-makireena – Koran. 3:54; cf. 8:30
– “Taqiyya permeates almost all the activities and dealings of Muslims with non-Muslim societies…” – a former sheikh Sam Solomon
mortimer says
Is that ‘FACT’ or ‘PHOTOSHOP’ ???
No … it’s ISLAMO-FACTOIDS.
Buraq says
Pallywood. YouTube is full of examples.
DogOnPorch says
Muslims lie.
Rarely says
Alternatively, one might ask, if one were muslim: Why would Elle McBroom’s parents steal a picture of Bayan Abu Khamash from the internet and pretend it was a picture of their daughter? Maybe Mossad did it.(sarc)
DogOnPorch says
Unless the person is deemed ‘right wing’, nothing will be done re: the account posting the lies.
Alien Republican says
Islam is the religion of fakes. A faked up religion.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
But as physically real as a heart attack. Here I’m not talking the Holy Ko-Ran and Hah Death stuff, I’m talking about your in the flesh hairy Moslem. Explosive.
carpediadem says
Link to fauxtography does not work.
Techno Dan says
The link was missing a ‘/’. I searched for the Wikipedia article on Google and found it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2006_Lebanon_War_photographs_controversies
gravenimage says
Thanks, Dan.
Indiana Tom says
had in fact been taken from Instagram, where the girl was identified as an American two-year-old, Elle Lively McBroom.
See, I told you she was from Hicksville Ohio.
Alarmed Pig Farmer says
Social media has [no sic] come to fruition and full bloom over the last 5-10 yrs. It’s become the medium for all of our public discourses, which confers it enormous power. And they’re using it, so well that the big door is closing on free speakers, including Spencer.
Given the importance of Facebook, Twitter and Google, it’ll be interesting to see what the long term regulation on postings will be for Moslems. Almost everybody on these platforms is a liberal, so there probably aren’t a lotta postings by Infidels on Moslems. But another big mass murder on sacred U.S. soil is coming up, and some posters may start telling the factual reality truth on Islam. How Facebook and Twitter handles the situation will be very public. Fox and the Feds will be watching closely. It’ll be a good show.
gravenimage says
Hugh Fitzgerald: A Suggestion for Nikki Haley
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Nikki Haley has actually been much savvier about the threat of Islam than most ambassadors to the UN.
Lydia says
You guys really need to get a clue about Nikki Haley . She worked with John Kerrys asst Ann Patterson ( formerly Egyptian Ambassador) to bring Muslims in South Carolina from the Cameroon with World Relief and the apostle Lutheran church. I live here, I saw the local news. I read the papers. I voted for her twice because as usual the liberals facing off against her for her second term were obviously a disaster. That being said she has ALWAYS been pro illegal immigrant and pro refugee. At a time when Christian genocide was severe in the Middle East she let in Muslims. Not Christians. ( Look up Leo Hohmann article on her its totally accurate and he lives in Georgia. Get his book ” Stealth Jihad” you’ll be shocked angered and scared about how our nation is being undermined by the” elite” money liberals as well as republican politicians. You’ll be shocked.
Robert Spencer says
I actually wrote “Stealth Jihad.” Leo’s fine book is called “Stealth Invasion.”
Ann says
Everything you say there about Nicki can be said times a hundreds, about Trump. He was the one who first introduced the Saudi government fund to the New York real estate market, in the 1980s. They were his longest time ally in often pushing Jews out of deals. In true alt right loving fashion once in power he made Kushner the public face of dealings with the Saudi government. The rightists are right, Russian collusion didn’t happen gulf Arab collusion did, big time. He made his first trip to do the Jihad dance in Saudi Arabia and gave a wink to you by also talking about terrorism. He has not curtailed Muslim immigration whatsoever. But mainly he upped the sales of Saudi weapons by hundreds of millions a year, which was the reason for the promised trip. There’s no Muslim government which he hasn’t done giant business deals with, including Iran. But Saudi Arabia and the sheikhdoms are doing quite well under Trump, buying US properties left and right, and investing in giant US companies. I know the response will be he was a business man business people do things like that. Um, no they don’t, if you don’t why should they? Search for buildings Trump co-bought with Islamic governments over the decades.For all we know 9/11 terror venue could have been because the Saudis wern’t able to buy out the Twin Towers from the Jewish owners, I don’t know, but do know the Saudi government was as involved as the Iranian government in 9/11, and that the Saudi government has been on a buying binge of New York real estate often with Trump’s help since the 1980s.
Berengaria says
Everything that a Muslim does or says is DECEIT & the only Mortals who believe such Deceit, are the Muslim Sympathizers, aka Muslim Apologists.
There are NO excuses for the Muslim Savages & I refuse to even consider their Pathetic Fauxtography.
Wake Up Western Civilization, You inported those who are practicing Christian & Jewish Genocide.
May God Help us.
dumbledoresarmy says
I hope that Hugh will in fact write – under his own name, whatever that is, for ‘Hugh Fitzgerald” is a nom de guerre – privately, to Nikki Haley, making to her the exact points that he has made here.