More Muslim <font color=blue>"Hate Crime"<font color=black> Myths
Daniel Pipes
I published an article today, <font color=blue>"'Islamophobic Prejudice' and CAIR,"<font color=black> that documents how one Mirza Akram of Everett, Washington, plastered vile anti-Arab graffiti on the store he was managing and planning to buy before allegedly setting fire to it.
Well, the ever-vigilant Michelle Malkin, in a May 29, 2003 article titled <font color=blue>"Myth of the Muslim hate crime epidemic"<font color=black> and a May 30, 2003 article titled <font color=blue>"More Muslim hate crime myths"<font color=black> provides specifics of four other instances in which American Muslims – Ahmad Saad Nasim, Mazhar Tabesh, Nezar "Mike" Maad, and Aqil Yassom Al-Timimi – won themselves vast sympathy as victims of <font color=blue>"hate crimes,"<font color=black> only to have it turn out that they were actually the perps. She notes that what she calls <font color=blue>"hoax crimes"<font color=black> have a real price: they <font color=blue>"waste precious investigative resources, exacerbate racial tension, create terror and corrode goodwill."<font color=black>
In all, then, there are at least five cases proven or alleged hoax crimes since 9/11; how many more might there be that no one has counted? Malkin wonders about this too, noting that when it comes to cracking down on hate crime hoaxes by Arabs and Muslims, the feds—too busy conducting politically correct <font color=blue>"outreach"<font color=black> with Muslim leaders who pooh-pooh hate crime fraud—have been appallingly negligent. There is no way of knowing whether fake hate crimes outnumber real anti-Muslim crimes because no law enforcement agency keeps track. (Note to frustrated cops: Send me your suspected hoax cases and let's get started.)
She also blames journalists for ignoring this phenomenon: <font color=blue>"It's a shame so many in the media are more concerned with protecting the twisted cult of victimhood than with exposing hard truths."<font color=black> (August 25, 2004) |
