As many observers of the behaviour of Islam and its followers in the West have discovered, some Muslims have little moral or ethical problem when it comes to cooking up fake ‘hate crimes’. We’ve seen a virtual epidemic of whining Muslims claiming that they’ve been attacked or insulted because they are Muslim, claims that all too often are shown to be dishonest and completely without foundation. These attacks are faked some say so that Muslims can claim some form of victim status for Islam, a victim status that it plainly doesn’t deserve because Islam is more often than not the oppressor ideology when it gains any sort of power or influence rather than any sort of victim.
There have for example been numerous hijab-pulling claims made in America, Canada, the United Kingdom and elsewhere, all of which have been proven to be false when the cases have been investigated. Claims of physical assault and even of arson against Islamic community property have been made by Muslims, but many of the circumstances surrounding these cases, such as suspiciously convenient broken CCTV on mosques or lack of traceable witnesses to street attacks, has shown many of these claims to be likely to be fictitious. In Britain we’ve had Islamic grievance mongers claim that there are figures that show a ‘massive’ rises in ‘Islamophobia’, figures that once examined, blew this claim out of the water.
When claims by Muslims that there is a significant anti-Muslim social problem are examined more closely it becomes readily apparent that there is a strong current of dishonesty in many of these claims. Promoting fake ‘hate crimes’ can be quite lucrative for various Islamic groups. In the USA fake ‘hate crimes’ are used by dodgy groups like the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) as a basis for both fundraising and profile raising. We in the UK are not immune to this problem either. UK groups like Tell Mama for example can easily trouser well over one hundred thousand pounds a year of taxpayers money in order to monitor or rather shroud-wave, over sometimes questionable or false stories of ‘Islamophobia’.
But we in the West are not alone in having a dishonest Islam problem. It may surprise many to know that lying to gain some advantage by claiming that some ‘hate crime’ had happened has even happened in countries that are largely Muslim in both population and character, countries like Indonesia.
The Jakarta Post is reporting that a claim made by the caretaker of a mosque in West Java that he was beaten up, bound and otherwise assaulted was complete fakery on the part of the claimant. Despite claims by the alleged victim, Uyu Ruhyana that he was attacked by five unidentified men one of whom was armed with a cleaver, his story quickly fell apart once he was medically examined and found to be unharmed. On being questioned by the police, Ruhyana eventually admitted that he had cooked up the whole fake attack in order to secure himself a pay rise from the mosque management.
Unfortunately, as the author Mark Twain said: “A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes”, the fake ‘hate crime’ claim went viral on social media well before the truth of the matter came out. It appears from reading the Jakarta Post story that there have been other claims of attacks on religious figures, some of which have been proven to be accurate and which were said by the Post to be the work of mentally ill individuals. Ruhyana obviously saw the furore that these attacks or rumours of attacks were causing and decided to exploit the concern by faking this ‘hate crime’.
As we can see this sort of fakery is very similar to that which has occurred in the West. We have a number of matches with the Indonesian case with aspects of fake ‘hate crimes’ that are claimed in places like Britain and the USA. There is the initial claim that travels like wildfire among Muslims that one of their number has been assaulted or hurt by a non-Muslim, then there are the whines about ‘safety’ and ‘Islamophobia’ or ‘attacks on religion’. There then follows the involvement of shit-stirring groups like CAIR and Tell Mama, which often precedes a swift collapse of the case when police start to investigate the case more deeply and find that it is bogus.
It is very interesting to note that the sort of taqiyya (lying to promote or protect Islam) incidents that we’ve encountered in the West are also not only happening elsewhere but are happening in Islamic nations themselves. All peoples and all cultures can produce those who lie in order to gain for themselves an advantage, we are human and with human faults and passions. But, Islam seems to produce a remarkably large number of individuals, of which Ruhyana is but one of many, who see no moral problem with dishonesty if it results in a gain for either themselves personally, whether financial or social status, or for the ideology of Islam in general. A culture that has such a strand of dishonesty running within it, cannot be fully trusted to tell the rest of us the truth about either the nature of their guiding ideology or to be honest about their intentions towards those outside of Islam.
