Five days after a young Muslim student at Elmhurst College in Illinois admitted that her claim of being the victim of a hate crime was a hoax, CAIR has taken down its initial report of the "assault". (I think someone alerted them to the fact that I was keeping a count on how many days it would take them to set the record straight.)
http://www.cair.com/ArticleDetails.aspx?ArticleID=25560&&name=n&&currPage=1&&Active=1
Yet, the article CAIR chose to post (by a Chicago Sun Times writer) almost seems to portray the complainant as a victim and contrasts her case (she was charged with filing a false police report) with another recent incident in which a minor female falsely reported a rape and described her attacker as "Arab-looking" (she has not been charged-see below).
http://www.chicagobreakingnews.com/2008/10/parents-say-girl-made-up-palos-heights-rape-story.html
Let's not make excuses here. Filing a false police report is a crime and inexcusable no matter who does it. The young woman in Elmhurst did a disservice to everybody, Muslims, non-Muslims and the community as a whole. Yet, according to CAIR, it all came down to giving racists an excuse to hate Muslims-and a disparity in the handling of two separate cases.
I deplore true cases of acts against Muslims because of their religion, but perpetrating false cases of victimhood and hate crimes is inexcusable. We are still awaiting the results of the alleged Dayton Mosque gas attack, but the news has completely stopped after it was revealed that a can of pepper spray was found inside the mosque after the fact.
I would hope that there will be no more false claims of hate crimes against Muslims. That will enable all of us to rally around Muslims when they are the true victims of real hate crimes.
It seems that message is lost on CAIR.
Sorry if I helped spoil your fun, Gary. But I didn't tell them about your blog or countdown.
ReplyDeleteAnyways, I thought it was a fair article. The author condemned the Muslim girl. There's nothing wrong with also pointing out the disparities between how the two cases are being handled.
Bryan,
ReplyDeleteI don't know the details of the other case except it was a minor involved. There is I think one critical sentence about the Muslim girl in the article, but it is clear that cair has an agenda on this issue.