Posted on 06/05/2017 7:49:49 PM PDT by markomalley
Activist Linda Sarsour has raised more than $80,000 for a Somali woman who claims she was attacked by a white man in a hate crime, but there’s much more to the story, the two people accused of the hate attack tell The Daily Caller.
Sarsour started the fundraiser for Rahma Warsame, a 40-year-old single mother who lives in Columbus, Ohio, who says she was attacked on Saturday night by a white man while defending a friend.
Sarsour, a leader in the pro-Palestine cause who has come under fire for her sympathetic views on sharia law, posted a picture of Warsame in the hospital and said that she has four missing teeth, a swollen face, swollen nose and busted lip.
In her fundraising pitch for Warsame, Sarsour says that Warsame will miss work due to her injuries and needs money to provide for her 12-year-old son. The goal for the fundraiser has been increased several times since it was posted on Sunday. The goal is now $100,000.
The Columbus chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) has also gotten involved in the case and is calling on police to pursue a hate crime investigation. The group compared the case to an incident in which a white man killed two people who were defending a Muslim woman on a train ride in Portland last month.
According to CAIR, Warsame claimed that the white man told her “you all will be shipped back to Africa.” The group held a press conference on Sunday to complain that the man involved in the incident was not arrested.
But Samantha Morales says that the Sarsour and CAIR have the story all wrong, including the allegations that racial epithets were hurled at Warsame.
Morales, 31 and of Mexican heritage, says that she was attacked first by a mob of men and women, including Warsame, following a neighborhood argument involving a woman and her son.
“What happened is not what she is claiming. The woman that is in the hospital, I feel sorry for her, but she is one of the women who was kicking and hitting me after I got tased,” Morales told TheDC in a phone interview on Monday.
Morales, who works as an insurance claims agent, says that her boyfriend, Ricky Boyce, is the man alleged by Sarsour and CAIR to be the white man who hurled racial insults at Warsame.
But both Morales and Boyce say that he uttered no racial pejoratives in Saturday’s incident, which they say began after Morales intervened while a woman of African heritage who lives in her apartment complex was yelling at and hitting her son with a shoe.
“I didn’t even have time to talk to any of them because they were over there jumping [Morales] at the time,” Boyce told TheDC, denying that he made racial remarks during the incident.
Morales says that Sarsour and CAIR have ignored another major piece of the story: Morales herself was transported to the emergency room by ambulance because of the injuries she sustained in Saturday’s melee.
“They’re not even mentioning that I was the victim. They came at me. The woman that’s in the hospital is part of the group that was aggressing me,” Morales said.
A copy of emergency room discharge papers that Morales provided to TheDC show that she underwent a CT scan and X-rays on her hand and ankle at a Columbus hospital. She claims that she sustained a concussion during the attack.
Morales said that the saga began after she yelled from her porch at a woman who was screaming at her child and hitting him with a shoe in a common area behind her apartment.
“I went outside. I wasn’t trying to get involved. I just thought the presence of an adult would have stopped her,” Morales says.
But Morales says the woman — who Morales says she does not know — left for a moment and came back angry and threatened to break the windows on her car and apartment. The woman, who Morales says was carrying a stick, then walked near Morales’ car and accused Morales and Boyce of having taken her child.
Morales says she called 911 and explained what had transpired before the threats.
The standoff escalated to violence soon after, Morales says.
“Four or five different men” assaulted Morales before someone used a taser on her, she claims. Then a group of women joined in the assault, both Morales and Boyce said.
It was after the taser was used that Boyce, who was watching from the apartment, says he sprung into action.
Boyce says he’s sure he hit someone in the scuffle but says he can’t be sure that he struck Warsame. He also strongly denies purposely targeting her.
Morales says that police temporarily detained Boyce but soon let him go. He says that officers realized that he was not an aggressor in the incident.
A police report taken of the incident backs up Morales’ and Boyce’s claims. According to the report, a Muna Warsame had a Taser at the scene of the incident.
The report also states that “due to conflicting statements,” the “primary aggressor was not able to be identified.”
The report also notes that Morales called 911 again on Sunday morning after men and women involved in the events the night before threatened her outside of her apartment.
But in a press release and a press conference held on Sunday, CAIR officials insisted that Columbus police have not thoroughly investigating the case.
“The fact that the perpetrator was not taken into custody and was not charged raises serious concerns and sends a very dangerous message,” Jennifer Nimer, the executive director of CAIR-Columbus and an attorney for Warame, said in a statement.
Nimer did not return a voice mail seeking comment about the information provided by Morales and Boyce.
A group called MY Project USA had planned a rally for Warsame at the state capitol building in Columbus was on Monday, but it was canceled for reasons that are unclear.
For her part, the New York City-based Sarsour has issued several tweets about the Columbus incident. It is unclear if she has talked to Warsame or CAIR or if she is conducting her online fundraiser separately.
She did not immediately respond to a request for comment sent through Twitter.
just another “hate crime” hoax designed to get publicity and money. Those perpetrating such hoaxes should be charged with a “hate crime” and imprisoned.
UPDATE:The police have announced that they have found “no evidence” that the attack was a hate crime; however, they also said that “after interviewing multiple victims and witnesses, Columbus Police say no arrests were made because of conflicting stories by everyone at the scene, and a lack of evidence.”
Draw your own conclusions from that statement, but if CAIR’s national office felt the need to go public with this information, it’s clear there’s much more at play here than meets the eye.
If you’d like to contribute to Rahma’s medical bills, you may do so here.
Al Sharpton would be proud.
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‘Islam isn't in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Qur'an should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on earth’
-- Omar Ahmed, Chairman of the Board of CAIR (Council of American Islamic Relations),
San Ramon Valley Herald, July 1998
MUSLIMES LIE! IT'S IN THEIR KORAN!
“After what happened last week in Portland, police across the country should be sending a strong message that hate crimes will not be tolerated,” said Nimer, of CAIR, at the press conference outside the hospital where Warsame was recovering. “We are asking law enforcement to investigate this as a hate crime and to bring the perpetrator to justice immediately before he commits another act of violence.”
https://www.buzzfeed.com/talalansari/columbus-ohio-brawl?utm_term=.icQOondD9#.df6keNaQY
And from the Columbus Dispatch:
“Muna Warsame called 911 too. She accused Morales of taking the boy into her apartment, which Morales later denied. Muna Warsame told dispatchers she had a stun gun for protection and she was headed for Morales’ apartment.
“Morales said Muna Warsame stunned her hand. Morales’ screams can be heard on the 911 call as well as the electrical popping sound of a stun gun. She said other Somali neighbors began attacking her. Her boyfriend, 28-year-old Ricky Boice, came to her defense, she said.”
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170605/no-hate-crime-in-neighborhood-brawl-police-say
Why is this jihadist fraudster still on the loose?
Why is this jihadist fraudster still on the loose?
I smell another CAIR/radical islamist con-job aka “Rev. Al Sharpton and Tawana Brawley”.
Who’s accountable for the cash? Al? Linda? Mr. McGoo?
Someone ought to check the “activist’s” bank accounts to see if she is taking the money for herself.
Typical liberals.
Warsame, a single mother; Why have her own people not killed her in an honor killing?
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