Yasmin Seweid, the 18-year-old Muslim woman who claimed she
had been attacked earlier this month on a Manhattan subway train by three men
screaming “Donald Trump,” was charged with filing a false report after
admitting she made up the story, according to police. Seweid, a college student
from New Hyde Park, was charged with obstructing governmental administration
and filing a false report, both of which are misdemeanors. She had originally
claimed that the men grabbed her handbag and attempted to pull off her hijab.
The
story of the faux attack was major news. Conversely, the report of her
admitting that she made the whole thing up was on page 18A of my local paper,
the back page of that section, and received one paragraph of coverage.
The
nydailynews.com, for example, ran the story under the banner headline, “Drunk
men screaming Trump’s name try to rip off Muslim student’s hijab as
straphangers stand idly by on East Side subway, cops say.” The article goes on
to recount how the three “white” men also “hurled” anti-Islam slurs at her- and
at one point said, “Oh look, a (expletive) terrorist.” Seweid also claimed the
men yelled, “Get out of the country, you don’t belong here” at her.
“It
made me really sad after when I thought about it,” she said at the time.
“People were looking at me and looking at what was happening and no one said a
thing. They just looked away.” The Daily News post portrayed a “terrified
18-year-old” recounting her “harrowing encounter” with “the hate-spewing trio.”
It stated that Seweid got off the train at Grand Central Terminal on E. 42nd
St. and reported the “terrifying incident” to police. The article also stated
that she later sat with police officers and tried to help spot the men on
surveillance video, but allowed as how “no one has been arrested.”
“I was
very shaken up…I’m definitely traumatized,” Ms. Seweid exclaimed.
The
Daily went on to soberly and somberly state that: “The incident is another in a
growing list of bias crimes across the city since Trump’s election. Cops said
that from Nov. 8 through Nov. 27, there were 34 reported incidents compared to
13 in the same period in 2015.”
Afaf
Nasher, executive director of the New York chapter of the Council on
American-Islamic Relations, the absurdly-acronymed CAIR, trumpeted, “American
Muslims, and particularly men and women who wear religious attire, are being
increasingly targeted by hate nationwide in the wake of the Nov. 8 election.”
What of
those 34 “bias” crimes? 18 were anti-Semitic in nature, compared to only 5 in
the same period last year. Five of the incidents were anti-white. Two targeted
Muslims.
And
this one was completely fabricated.
Is
Trump responsible for the sharp spike in anti-Jewish
sentiment? Or could there be something else at work here?
There
is an epidemic of false rape claims
being leveled on college campuses, and spurious claims of police brutality are
legion.
Ms.
Seweid’s claim, and the mainstream media’s reaction to it- both when first
reported and then when it was proven
to be a lie- are textbook examples of actual
“fake news” reporting.
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