Posted on 10/20/2022 8:04:44 AM PDT by Impala64ssa
In March 2022, a prominent Muslim preacher, Uthman Ibn Farooq, told the world he had been stabbed in downtown San Diego by a man shouting anti-Muslim slurs at him. He recorded the incident as it happened and subsequently posted the video to social media, garnering sympathy from his thousands of Muslim followers and leaving many wondering if they’d be the next victim of an “Islamophobic” hate-crime.
If someone had been stabbed and reported it to SDPD, there would be an SDPD crime case. My understanding is there is no crime case.
Lieutenant Adam Sharki, Public Information Officer, San Diego Police Department. Within hours, news of the alleged attack spread far and wide beyond San Diego. In the UK, the Muslim news organization 5Pillars offered their sympathies to Uthman and condemnations for the attacker. The story even made headlines in Muslim news outlets as far away as Nigeria and South Africa. Uthman’s own video of the incident has, to date, been viewed nearly half a million times, and a number of other prominent Muslim YouTubers have covered the incident including Eddie Deen, whose YouTube channel has more than 537,000 subscribers.
Soon after the attack, Uthman stated he had filed a report of the attack with the San Diego police. After an apparent months-long search, Farooq revealed in September that the alleged attacker had finally been caught and arrested.
In the minds of his supporters, the saga, which attracted a significant amount of attention, likely confirmed Uthman’s reputation as a tough and confrontational street preacher known for his verbal face-offs with Christians, Jews, and Hindus documented in hundreds of videos on his YouTube channel.
News of the stabbing was first reported in a March 23 tweet by the Muslim news outlet 5Pillars UK. The tweet included a photo Uthman took of himself in his car, bloodied by an apparent stab wound on his lower abdomen. The tweet mentioned that Uthman was stabbed at a public dawah stall and that he was targeted because of his frequent public proselytizing of Islam. His supporters were quick to offer sympathies, while others lamented the perceived double standards and hypocrisy of Western media for not reporting on this hate crime.
There’s just one problem. There is little, if any, evidence to indicate that this alleged “Islamophobic” hate crime against Uthman ever took place. Repeated inquiries to the San Diego police indicate that no report about the stabbing was ever filed and that no arrest has been made.
The next day, Uthman’s Islamic non-profit organization, One Message Foundation, posted the video of the encounter that he had taken on his phone on its YouTube channel. The video shows a white male in a baseball cap and a disposable face mask aggressively approaching Uthman’s car and shouting at him.
“I’ve seen your videos, man!” he said. “You’re a (expletive) terrorist! (Expletive) you and your Muslim (expletive)!”
image4.png The footage of a confrontation posted by Uthman Ibn Farooq on YouTube includes this image of the alleged attacker. (YouTube screenshot.) In the video, Uthman is heard responding: “you think I’m scared of you?” The recording abruptly ends when he drops his phone. Viewers are left to conclude that Uthman subsequently exited his vehicle to physically confront the man shouting at him.
The March 24th video ends with a message to Uthman’s supporters in which he assures them that he has filed a police report and that detectives have the attacker’s weapon and his face, and that he will not get away with it. The video also shows bandages on Uthman’s lower abdomen, and he tells his viewers that he is totally fine after having been checked out of the emergency room.
The very next day after the Uthman posted the video, the San Diego Union Tribune reported the attack in a story published under the headline “Local Muslim Imam says in viral video that he was attacked by man who called him a terrorist.”
According to the article, the San Diego Police Department could not provide details as to when or where the incident occurred, but that the SDPD was aware of the video and had been in touch with Uthman.
Lieutenant Adam Sharki told the San Diego Tribune in a statement that SDPD “takes reports of hate crimes very seriously” and that “anyone with information about this incident is asked to call police or Crime Stoppers.”
I’ll take “Things only Liberals Do” for $500, Mayim..................
What if he identifies as two different people?
How dare you assume anything on they/them you cisgender, hetero-patriarchal mansplaining white nationalist!...
(I’m not putting the tag...)
He may not be multiple personality but as he is a Muslim those voices in his head aren’t from the Holy Spirit.
If they followed their greed back to their home countries they wouldn’t have to worry about filing police reports.
The spirit of Sudden Jihad Syndrome is strong with the bearded ones...
There’s only one thing wrong with this article. The title should not be in the form of a question.
Some years back I had a stalker on FR posting about me on Fundies Say The Darndest Things and after I noticed I started posting links in the threads that were quoted, proudly holding out that I had been considered worthy to be mocked by the bwave wawwiows of the Weft who believed I would never see their tirades against what I say.
It must have been noticed because that individual stopped quoting me.
Anyway, one of the posts here that was cited was this one:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/3657973/posts?page=11#11
In part: “But that doesn’t change the fact that Islam itself is what can make a terrorist of any Muslim with little warning. Moreover, Islam creates the conditions for “moderates” to be the tall grass the others hide in.”
Smart enough not to file a false police report.
That person is on some UKR v RUS threads.
I agree with the assessment with respect to Muslim.
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