03/01/2018
On a recent video from the JihadWatch Youtube channel, scholar of jihad Robert Spencer told the story of yet another fake hate crime. There are so many hate hoaxes that you have to think Allahâs little helpers must find the real thing to be a rarity, so counterfeit offenses must be created. Various proto-jihad organizations run local hotlines that encourage even vague rude behavior to be reported to maintain the narrative. The jihad establishment wants muslim immigrants to remain unassimilated to western values, and making them feel endangered helps that project.
Eleven-year-old Khawlah Noman, shown in inset below, claimed that her hijab was sliced in a hate attack, an assertion Toronto police later said was untrue.
For a variety of fake hate cases, see my Social Contract article, Hate Crime Hoaxes and Tribal Threats Expand in the Digital Age.
Back to todayâs example, I found Spencerâs dramatic reading of an earlier article to be quite effective, not to mention entertaining.
Hereâs his original article that inspired the video:
Yet Another Fake âIslamophobic Hate Crimeâ, By Robert Spencer, PJ Media, January 17, 2018As âIslamophobic hate crimesâ go, this one really tugged at the heartstrings. A tear fell from 11-year-old Khawlah Nomanâs eye as she recounted, according to the Guardian, that âan assailant, in two attempts within 10 minutes, cut the girlâs hijab using scissors while she was walking to school with her brother on Friday, a Toronto police spokeswoman said.â
Khawlah herself said: âI felt confused, scared, terrified. I screamed. The man just ran away. We followed this crowd of people to be safe. He came again. He continued cutting my hijab again.â She said she was âactually really scared,â and addressed her attacker, âWhat youâre doing is really wrong, you should not act like this, and especially, Iâm a kid.â
Frightening, heartbreaking, disquieting â and fictional. Toronto police announced Monday: âAfter a detailed investigation, police have determined that the events described in the original news release did not happen.â Asked if the incident was simply a hoax, police spokesman Mark Pugash declined to say. The Toronto District School Board was likewise terse: âWe are very thankful that this assault did not in fact happen. We wonât be commenting further.â
The Toronto District School Board was far more loquacious when the supposed âhate crimeâ was first reported. Board spokesperson Ryan Bird declared that school officials had contacted police and the girlâs family as soon as they were told about the incident. Bird said: âThis is shocking to learn of this assault. And weâll be working closely with police to offer any assistance that we can. In the meantime, weâre offering supports to the impacted student and her family.â
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau got into the act, stating: âMy heart goes out to the young girl who was attacked, seemingly for her religion. I canât imagine how afraid she must have been. I want her and her family and her friends and community to know that that is not what Canada is.â Toronto Mayor John Tory added: âNo child should ever be afraid walking to school in Toronto because of what they are wearing or for any other reason and I want to assure the family that Toronto police are investigating.â
Investigate they did, and they found that this was yet another fake âIslamophobic hate crime,â and one that followed the now-familiar pattern: the initial false charge made international headlines, while the news that it was yet another hoax garnered far less coverage.
But why did this incident, and so many others like it, happen at all?
Because genuine âanti-Muslim hate crimesâ are thin on the ground, contrary to the ubiquitous propaganda about Muslims in the West facing widespread persecution, discrimination, and harassment. But Muslim groups are trying to use these hate crimes to impose criminal penalties on criticism of Islam, as in Canada with Motion M-103, and so when they donât exist they have to be invented. There are, indeed, so many âanti-Muslim hate crimesâ that turn out to have been faked by Muslims themselves that it calls into question whether any of these incidents ever really happen at all. It is a peculiarity of our peculiar age that victimhood would be a prized and coveted status, such that people would fabricate incidents in which they were treated cruelly or brutally. But this is the world we live in.