A lot of the mainstream and legacy media such as the tabloids, Sky News, the BBC and others are getting extremely vexed over what I will call the ‘Muslim Slayer’ story. I will call it that because that is apparently what the initials ‘M S’ on a poison pen letter that has been sent to apparently random Muslim individuals and Islamic organisations are to be taken to mean.

I must admit that I think there is something seriously fishy about this story and there are a lot of questions that should be raised about it. Is it real? Is it taqiyya by Muslims in Britain to gain sympathy from Britons who are, quite frankly, losing their patience with Islam? Or is it likely to be some sort of prank? Let’s speculate a little about potential answers to these questions.

It should be noted at this point that there have been, by no means a large number of these letters reported to either the Police or Tell Mama (who are heavily promoting this story). The latest refresh of the Sky News site is stating six incidents so far. This should tell us that this is not a widespread problem and the incident has had far wider press exposure than it probably deserves. There have been probably less examples found of this letter than there are Muslim rapes on an average Friday night in the UK, there are are certainly less examples of this letter than there were people murdered by Islam in the year 2017.

Here’s an example of one of the letters that have allegedly been recieved.  This image comes from Al Jazeera

Is it real?

Firstly let’s assume for a moment that this is a genuine communication from a genuine group shall we? This is the option that the mendacious grievance mongers of Tell Mama are asking us to believe. For a short while we will throw caution to the wind and assume that Tell Mama are telling the truth. They appear to be the primary or at least the secondary source for this story, as they are widely quoted in the mainstream media in connection with it.

It could quite well be the case that these letters are the result of people living in areas that are being stressed by the presence of Islam and deciding to undertake some form of action. The motives for that sort of antipathy towards Islam are both numerous and genuine. Britain has suffered an epidemic of Islamic sex crime and we face a large number of other problems that have their roots in Muslim religion and culture, such as jihad, extremism, violent separatism and failing to make an decent economic contribution to the country. It is unsurprising that the sort of problems that Islam has brought to the UK are now so burdensome that they would piss some people off enough to send letters that promote a points based reward game with verbally abusing Muslims at the bottom and ‘nuking Mecca’ at the top.

It is interesting that one of these letters appears to have come from Sheffield, one such place where communal tensions are high. The Burngreave ward in which the Page Hall area sits is an area heavily dominated by Islam (41%), with all the resulting problems and resentments that this is likely to be causing for the 50.3% of those who describe them as either Christian or Atheist. Having had the misfortune to have to live in Islamic areas in the past, I will assume that Page Hall is also an area in which the 0.1% of the population that describes themselves as Jewish, probably have to keep their heads down. Also in the area, Muslims have clashed in the past with the Roma who have settled there in large numbers. Sheffield has also produced its own share of alleged jihadis with three Muslims being arrested in connection with a planned Christmas bomb attack back in December 2017.

With a background like that in Sheffield, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that a group of indigenous British people got together and sent these letters as an expression of how pissed off with Islam they have become. The number of people who are having concerns about Islam is rising and would explain quite easily why there are more expressions of disgust at Islam and more incidents of the State cracking down on people speaking negatively about Islam.

However, the evidence for this being the sort of serious threat which Tell Mama are making it out to be, is pretty thin. The letter is amateurish, swiftly put together, and uses fonts and layouts that look awful. It doesn’t look like the work of a professional extremist. If you were genuinely wishing to put the fear of who knows what into random Muslims, then you’d probably make a better looking result than this. Also, I can find no other evidence from websearches using different search engines that the sword and MS symbol that was on the letter is connected to any other credibly dangerous group. In fact I couldn’t find an exact replica of the symbol at all. I may have made a mistake but this certainly seems odd, after all there is often commonality between the symbols of different groups in similar political fields, the use of red by both the Labour Party and the Socialist Workers Party being an obvious example. Why not some commonality with other similar Muslim hating groups with this particular logo?

This alleged ‘Muslim Slayer’ group doesn’t even appear on the notoriously broad ‘hate groups’ list of the leftist SPLC organisation. This supposed group is therefore obviously not transnational enough to have a presence in the USA. It’s almost as if this ‘Muslim Slayer’ group, which appears to take its name from an epithet used by someone in an alleged threatening letter that was sent to an American mosque, was deliberately created by someone specifically for the purpose of sending these letters.

I don’t believe, based on the information that I’ve been able to uncover about it, that this letter constitutes a credible threat from a credibly dangerous group. If this letter was really sent with intent to stir up trouble or threaten individual Muslims, then it would probably have looked better and been better targeted. It really does look like the work of a bloke in his bedroom rather than any sinister group of neo-fascist revolutionaries.

In effect, even if this is a genuine threat, there may be very little behind the threat-maker as regards credibility. It isn’t even credible to me as a threat, it just lists points on a supposed game for actions, including violent ones, that range from the everyday to the impossible to achieve. Even the scoring system is riddled with holes and makes the story look more fishy. Why for example is there such a relatively small gap in the game’s points bands between ‘bombing a mosque’ and ‘nuking Mecca’? Surely with only one Mecca and thousands upon thousands of mosques, you would think, wouldn’t you, that scarcity value at least would mean that there would be considerably more points for ‘nuking Mecca’ than ‘bombing a mosque’?

My money would be, if this threat was genuine, on a lone nutter rather than any credible group that could reasonably be expected to have the ability or presence to be able to motivate people to carry out most of those actions listed on the letter.

Here are two of the images that Tell Mama is using to publicise this story and they are taken from Tell Mama’s own site. It will be noted that Tell Mama are claiming copyright on these images, which suggests to me that Tell Mama are, if not the originator of this story, at least a major conduit for it. This is odd as these sort of images normally come direct to the press from the police? What’s Tell Mama’s involvement in this case and why are the police allowing them to act as conduits for police information?

Because of the involvement of Tell Mama, an organisation that has long been linked to accusations of dishonesty in the way it compiles its ‘hate crime’ figures, and other information it produces, of course we should be a little suspicious. We should also wonder whether all is really as it seems in this story, since Tell Mama have in the past left provably fake stories of ‘Islamophobia’ up on their website for significant lengths of time, without any change or comment or any other indication to mark them as fake.

Tell Mama’s involvement in distributing this story and the location where some of the letters are said to have come from, leads me on to the next possible explanation for this letter, that of….

Taqiyya.

This whole episode could have been cooked up by those associated with various Islamic groups who have a political interest in promoting the idea of Islamic victimhood. As I said earlier Sheffield has Islamic problems, big ones, including jihad and I’ve no doubt that the negative attention that was turned on Sheffield’s Muslim community following the jihad arrests has caused consternation among that city’s Muslim Establishment.

Again, it is not beyond the bounds of possibility that Muslims themselves might send these letters in order to make themselves seem ‘victimised’, since being perceived as ‘victims’ gains political advantage in our current political set up. In an effort to make Muslims in Sheffield and elsewhere look like they are the oppressed, rather than the oppressors, someone from within the Muslim community might have created this letter. After all, we have seen fake anti-Muslim ‘hate crime’ happen before.

There is also the possibility that if this is taqiyya, then it may have been done now in order to wind up Muslims prior to the local elections. Because a number of areas are having local elections this year, including London and Sheffield, along with quite a few other areas where Islam is or could be politically influential, there might be benefit to be had for some Muslim groups in scaring other Muslims into voting for the candidates who promise the most appeasement of Islam or who promise to protect Islam the most. After all, if you’d been whipped up into a frenzy of worry about threats of violence, whether real or imagined, wouldn’t you vote for the candidate who said that they would do something significant to allay your fears? I, and many others, probably would.

However, if it isn’t any taqiyya promoting group or individual, then we need to look for another explanation for these letters.

So if it’s not genuine and not taqiyya then what else could it be? It could be a……

Prank

Because the design of the leaflet is so bad, it looks to me very much like someone was having a laugh, the strange points banding also hints at this explanation as well. It hasn’t been that well thought out or constructed and there is an aura of dark humour surrounding the contents. As for targeting, it would take the work of only a few minutes to find targets to send the letters to, such as a business in East London or a mosque or even an area where there are of Muslims, which of course increases the chance of a random Muslim receiving a randomly addressed letter.

When I first saw the letter, I was struck by the similarity it bore to the ‘It’s OK to be White’ meme that did the rounds a little while back. The use of simple text in the letters and the air of non-seriousness about the letter, brought my attention to the similarities to the ‘White’ meme and the letters. Similar also is the mainstream media shitstorm that both the ‘White’ meme and these letters have created.

Suppose someone really wanted, in order to get a bit of a twisted laugh, to cause a massive shitstorm with the counter-terror police getting involved, massive amounts of media attention and as a bonus, having Tell Mama throw their toys out of the pram over this, then sending these letters would be a damn effective way to do it. Sending this letter and seeing the way that the State so obviously rallies round Muslims when it comes to incidents like this, could also be a way for the letter writer to show how the State takes threats against Muslims far more seriously than the State does in dealing with Muslim’s threats against non-Muslims.

Because of style, content, choice of target, small number of actual letters and the subsequent police and media shitstorm that has blown up, at this juncture we should not discount the possibility of this being the work of a prankster. If it is, then they’ve scored a direct hit, at least when judged by the amount of whining and moaning it has brought forth from various entities, including Islamic grievance mongers and the media.

So, is this incident genuine, taqiyya or a prank? Only time will tell. Maybe something will indeed happen on April 3^rd or we know more about this case when or if the police arrest the perpetrator and bring them before the courts, then we will know both identity and motive. If these letters have either been sent out with intent to foment violence by a group of violent opponents to Islam, or are the result of a misguided prank, then we the public will know pretty quickly if that is the case. However, if there is taqiyya behind this incident and it has been done by Muslims themselves for political or other reasons, then we may never ever hear what happened to conclude this case or it may be dealt with quietly. This is because it would be embarrassing for the government to have one of their Islamic pets cause such a problem in this manner and the government would wish to avoid even more negative attention being turned on their pets at such a tense time.

This is an ongoing story but it is one where the narrative put out about it by the mainstream media seems to me as fishy smelling as a three week old rancid King Prawn left behind a radiator.