When the story was first reported in all of the media, the usual crowd of libs and lefties were dancing in the streets. Funny how this story won't go beyond the local news now. Here is a good article describing the prevalance of bogus hate crimes reports:

Jewish World Review May 30, 2003 / 28 Iyar, 5763 Michelle Malkin

Faking it: More Muslim hate crime myths

http://www.NewsAndOpinion.com

| Mazhar Tabesh, Nezar "Mike" Maad, and Aqil Yassom Al-Timimi all have something in common. They were held up by Muslim activists as innocent victims of the "post-September 11 backlash." They milked the compassion of their communities. They won sympathy from the media and politicians.

And now it appears they were all hate crime hucksters who cried 'racism' to cash in on the terrorist attacks.

Mazhar Tabesh, a naturalized American originally from Pakistan, co-owned a motel in Heber City, Utah. Last July, someone set the lodge ablaze, causing nearly $100,000 in damage.

"We are really scared because we are Muslim - probably the only Muslims in the area - and we are the target," Tabesh declared. "It's scary." Tabesh complained of receiving threatening calls from anonymous hatemongers who "told us they would get us if we didn't get out."

Utah residents organized a benefit concert and raised $1,400 for Tabesh's family. The national press jumped on the bandwagon: "Immigrant Family Feels Post-9/11 Rage," blared a Los Angeles Times headline. The accompanying 1,100 story suggested that "white supremacists and skinheads living in the area" might be to blame.

But the chief suspect turned out to be Mazhar Tabesh himself. Prosecutors say Tabesh invented a "mystery man" arsonist and lied about witnessing the non-existent lodger running from the hotel after the fire started. His motive? A Heber City police officer testified at a preliminary hearing that Tabesh was losing about $5,900 a month on the motel and still owed $450,000 on the mortgage.

Tabesh will stand trial in June on first-degree felony aggravated arson charges. Don't count on the Los Angeles Times to cover it.

The tale of Nezar "Mike" Maad follows the same basic plot. Maad, an Arab-American businessman and "tolerance advocate," owned a print shop in Anchorage, Alaska. On Sept. 21, 2001, someone destroyed equipment and spray-painted "We hate Arabs" inside the store. Community leaders created the "Not in Our Town" fund, a city-backed charity which raised a whopping $75,000 for Maad. A local newspaper editorial declared unequivocally that the incident "was a hate crime. It was vandalism. It was a statement against bedrock American values…" Five months after Maad was "victimized," a jury convicted him of federal fraud charges. During the hate crime investigation, agents discovered that Maad had lied on bank loan applications and federal forms about his business finances and prior criminal convictions. Nevertheless, Maad received a reduced sentence of six months' prison time.

The FBI dropped its hate crime investigation; Maad and his wife remain the prime suspects in the languishing property damage case.

In Nashville, Tenn., Iraqi-American Aqil Yassom Al-Timmi claimed someone set his Chevy truck on fire after the Sept. 11 attacks because he was of Arab descent. Although local TV stations ate up the hate crime angle, one keen reporter remained skeptical and raised the strong possibility of an insurance fraud scheme. Writing in the Nashville Scene, Matt Pulle reported that no notes or graffiti were left at the crime scene. Emergency personnel were immediately suspicious of Al-Timimi, who reportedly pressed them to alert the media as soon as they arrived at Al-Timimi's home.

Sources said they suspected Al-Timmi was the perpetrator all along, but more than a year and a half after the fire, the case has languished. Al-Timimi, the supposed victim of hateful wrongdoing, hasn't been heard from since. "If he was playing us," Pulle told me, "he did a perfect job."

The FBI and Justice Department have vociferously condemned and aggressively prosecuted a string of anthrax hoaxes that followed the September 11 attacks. But when it comes to cracking down on hate crime hoaxes by Arabs and Muslims, the feds—too busy conducting politically correct "outreach" 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.)

Hoax crimes waste precious investigative resources, exacerbate racial tension, create terror, and corrode goodwill. It's a shame so many in the media are more concerned with protecting the twisted cult of victimhood than with exposing hard truths.

JWR contributor Michelle Malkin is the author of, most recently, "Invasion: How America Still Welcomes Terrorists Criminals & Other Foreign Menaces to Our Shores".

Are these the same incidents that prompted the college to shut down the Affirmative Action Bake Sale???? And they were faked????? Oh, man...

Hate Crime legislation will only serve to split Americans of different ethnicities even more. Who would want to be an individual who formerly associated with a diverse group of friends who might now face jail time just for saying something wrong and a 3rd party overreacting to it?

There was another incident in which a Muslim man murdered his wife in an "honor killing" and claimed she had been killed by "anti-Muslim racists"

The huckster Deomcrats have convinced the minorities that a racist is lurking behind every corner.

When the brainwashed individuals can't find any, they make one up.

Invisible racists.

"He said he wanted to do something to motivate minority students," Perry said.

Motivate them to do what? Hate?

Is filing a false hate crime a hate crime?

-PJ

Northwestern Student Charged With Faking Racist Attacks

Suspect Says He Wanted To 'Motivate' Minorities On Campus

POSTED: 10:59 a.m. CST November 18, 2003

UPDATED: 5:19 p.m. CST November 18, 2003

CHICAGO -- A 19-year-old Northwestern University student was charged with felony disorderly conduct for allegedly faking two racist incidents earlier this month because "he wanted to do something to motivate minority students," police said Tuesday.

Nov. 11: Northwestern University Students Rally Against Hate

Xander Saide Jaime A. Saide (pictured, right), 19, of Des Moines, was charged late Monday with two counts of felony disorderly conduct for filing separate false police reports claiming he was the victim of a hate crime, Evanston Police Commander Michael Perry said.

In the first report, filed Nov. 4, Saide said someone hung a sign on the door of his dormitory room that read, "Die Spic," Perry said.

Northwestern had offered a $2,500 reward for the arrest of anyone involved in the incident, university spokesman Alan Cubbage said at the time. University police found racial slurs and the word "die" written on a wall near the student's room in Chapin Residential College, as well as a piece of paper hanging outside the door with the similar messages, Cubbage said.

On Nov. 8, Saide filed a report stating he was attacked as he walked north on Sherman Avenue near University Place in Evanston, Perry said. Saide said a man walked up behind him, put a knife to the side of his neck and said, "Spic, we didn't run away this time," according to Perry.

Police were skeptical of Saide's account, and he later admitted he concocted both incidents because he was concerned about racism on campus, Perry said.

"He said he wanted to do something to motivate minority students," Perry said.

Saide was charged late Monday and held overnight before attending a bond hearing Tuesday morning at the Skokie Courthouse, Perry said. Perry did not know the bond set in the case.

Perry said Evanston and Northwestern University police continued to investigate a series of bona fide hate-crime incidents that have occurred recently on or near the campus.

An anti-Semitic phrase was found Nov. 9 written on an outside wall of the Norris University Center, near where a 3-foot-tall swastika scrawled in blue marker also was found that day, Kimberly Carter, office administrator at the Fiedler Hillel Center, 629 Foster St. in Evanston, had said.

Carter would not specify what the phrase said.

The first in the latest incidents of vandalism occurred Oct. 30, when police found a swastika written in pencil in the hallway of Willard Hall. No forced entry was involved in that incident, so the university believed the vandal to be a student, Cubbage said.

During the spring of 2003, at least four incidents were reported in which racial slurs and a picture of lynching were drawn on doors of three African-American students' dorms, Cubbage said.

Police have yet to arrest anyone for the crimes, which do not appear to "have a pattern," Cubbage said.

During the fall, the university took measures to prevent further hate-related vandalism from happening, including meeting with student leaders and revising freshman orientation materials, "but apparently not successfully," Cubbage said.

Students protested the crimes last week by wearing black as a show of solidarity and holding several rallies and candlelight vigils.

Saide was scheduled to appear for a preliminary hearing at 9 a.m. Dec. 1 in Skokie Court, Perry said.

This report came from City News Service.

If it was a hate crime then, why isn't it a hate crime when the caught the guy who did it?

Years ago during an intense ballot measure campaign seeking to ban the state from granting minority status to homosexuals in Oregon, a black handicapped lesbian repeatedly had someone burning a cross in front of her house. The local news picked up the stories around this played a significant role in the campaign. Just before the vote the police caught her on camera not only doing it herself, but not even requiring a wheelchair. It was no small feat to catch her because the police chief's daughter, who also worked for the police department, was tipping others in the homosexual community whenever a stakeout of her property was fixing to occur. The police officers involved figured out what was going on and decided not to inform their boss (Chief Potter who has recently announced he is running for mayor of Portland), and low and behold they caught her on tape.

The story was quickly moved on the front pages and a couple years went by and from what I recall all she got was a slap on the wrist.

So, don't hold your breath when expecting equal treatment before the law...let alone the media today.

Looks like this hammerhead is a Frodo fan (see ring on chain around neck).

Pathetic misguided troublemaker will probably be an "activist" hero.

If we any needed any more evidence that liberals want to stir up hatred and exacerbate racial tension for political gain, this provides it.

re: ring on chain - common for couples to wear the others' ring like that. Just FYI. You're prolly right about this dolt becoming an activist hero.

I'd almost be inclined to support certain causes - if this scmuck was thrown in jail for his crime. "It coulda happened" is about the best any of us will get out of this nonsense.

Isn't this akin to yelling "fire" in a crowded building?

Police have yet to arrest anyone for the crimes, which do not appear to "have a pattern," Cubbage said.

Of course there's a pattern! Lots of doors involved! And writing! I would be looking at the guy who said he was a victim trying to build up awareness. Sounds like he was on a mission. Maybe he didn't think his own example was extreme enough, or else he made an example of himself to throw off the bloodhounds.

I wonder why we should take any report of a hate crime seriously anymore.
If you're bored, look up the Carr brothers in the Wichita Eagle and try to explain why this wasn't a federal case -- a hate crime.

"he wanted to do something to motivate minority students,"

He was (in my opinion) intent on fomenting racial hatred.

We both know why the Carr massacre was undercovered and not declared a race crime. It's for the same reason the welfare state exists.

Who would want to be an individual who formerly associated with a diverse group of friends who might now face jail time just for saying something wrong and a 3rd party overreacting to it?

Or make something up against you, to "motivate minority students."

I wonder what this guy wants to motivate them against, fake hate crimes?

Approx. a year and a half ago, there was a big story here in Detroit where a black couple found their new house in a predominately white neighborhood spray painted inside and out with racial slurs.

A couple weeks later on the morning news there was a brief clip where it was reported that it was discovered that the vandalism was done by the home owners.......

Perry said Evanston and Northwestern University police continued to investigate a series of bona fide hate-crime incidents that have occurred recently on or near the campus.

How can they be bona fide if they're still investigating and have not identified the perpetrator? If the crucial component of a hate crime is the motivation, how can they know that before the suspect is questioned?