There’s
already so much hate in the world today. So it’s a truly disturbed person who
will add fuel to the fire by making up stories about people being hateful.
That
includes Yasmin Seweid, an 18-year-old Muslim college student in New York City who
claimed she was attacked on the subway by three men who tried to pull off her
hijab, called her a terrorist and yelled Trump’s name, all while fellow travelers
stood by and did nothing.
Seweid
took those allegations to the police and filed a report, all of which made the
news…
Until
she admitted to making the whole thing up. Now, of course, the only news
outlets to give any updates on the situation are Breitbart, Infowars and Fox
News.
Oh
yeah, and The Washington Post, which
is running the headline, “She
claimed she was attacked by men who yelled ‘Trump’ and grabbed her hijab.
Police say she lied.” Putting the “Police say she lied” at the end of the
title is manipulative. So is immediately following it up with a picture of
Seweid looking gorgeous in a mere head scarf, not a hijab, and the lines:
“The
attack described by Yasmin Seweid sounded all too familiar.
“The
18-year-old Muslim woman from Long Island told police and media outlets in
early December that she was riding the subway home one night from Baruch
College, where she is a student, when three drunk men cornered her and began
screaming “Donald Trump!”
Because,
you know, that kind of thing happens to Muslims around me all the time. It’s an
epidemic. And I constantly see it on the news too. Much more than, say,
college professors forcing their liberal values on students or, I don’t
know, terrorist
attacks caused by Muslims.
Moving
on though…
While
police recognized right away that there were numerous inconsistencies with
Seweid’s story, Fox
News reports that they gave her the benefit of the doubt as a traumatized
victim.
But
when no witnesses came forward, the MTA security footage showed just one of the
perps she’d described, and she disappeared over the weekend, reappearing with
the excuse that she was at a relative’s house, they started pressing Seweid a
little harder.
Her
excuse when she finally ‘fessed up? “Family problems.”
She’s
now under arrest for filing a false report – and of a time and resource-sucking
supposed hate crime too.
I
don’t care what kind of problems she has. Disseminating hatred the way she did
is inexcusable.
Way
to make the world a more hateful place, Yasmin Seweid, for Muslims, Trump
supporters and everyone else.
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