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The Simi Valley, California Police Department had a momentous announcement on Wednesday: they revealed that they were “investigating a possible ‘hate incident’ at an Islamic Society of Simi Valley building,” according to NBC Los Angeles. What kind of “hate incident”? That’s unclear. What is clear from several recent incidents, however, is that although most people, especially political and law enforcement officials, are much more worried about “Islamophobia” than they are about Islamic jihad, the latter is actually much more of a threat.

It all started apparently when someone at the Islamic Society of Simi Valley called the cops; “officers responded and determined that someone had left ‘hate material’ at the building’s front door. Police did not provide further details about the material.” They don’t want anyone engaging in any copycat activity, you see, but their lack of specificity about the material makes it impossible to tell if the Islamic Society of Simi Valley is just getting hysterical about some Christian evangelistic material, which would not at all be beyond the realm of possibility, or if it really received something that was actually hateful or even threatening.

Other news reports are just as unhelpful. All of them seem to assume that their readers are too immature to be able to handle hearing about the actual contents of the “hateful material” the mosque received: either they’d grab their tiki torches and head to their local mosque, or they’d crawl under the desk and quiver at the unbearable “hate” displayed. And so the Ventura County Star helpfully provides the information that “officers found several handwritten messages on business card-sized papers shoved through the front door of the building, said police Sgt. Rick Morton.”

However, it says nary a word about what those business cards actually said. KEYT says that “a still-unidentified person dropped off business cards with anti-Islamic messages at the front door of the non-profit’s building.” Simi Valley Today ran an extremely curious photo of a scrap of paper on which was written “Hauk tnee,” with this caption: “A disturbing reminder of the persistent threat of hate and bias that some faith communities continue to face.” Was this a placeholder that was supposed to be corrected later, akin to “Lorem ipsum” showing up in a published work, or were the nonsense words an intentional stand-in for the “hate material” we are not allowed to see?

Whatever the case may be, the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) is enraged. CAIR-LA top dog Hussam Ayloush sputtered: “The targeting of the Islamic Society of Simi Valley, alongside reports of hate incidents targeting two other local mosques, is deeply alarming and comes at a time when Muslims across the nation are facing an unprecedented wave of hate.” Yet all that seems to have happened to the Islamic Society of Simi Valley is that they supposedly received some insulting messages.

Meanwhile, as the Islamic Society of Simi Valley tries to regain its composure after receiving some hurtful words, here has been a steady stream of violent jihad attacks against innocent non-Muslims, including four in the first two weeks of March alone.

On March 1, a Muslim migrant opened fire in a bar in Austin, Texas, killing three people and injuring 13 others. Then on March 7, two pro-ISIS Muslims screaming “Allahu akbar” threw a homemade shrapnel bomb at a crowd of pro-freedom protesters in New York City. Five days after that came two jihad attacks in one day, when a Muslim crashed his car into a Michigan synagogue and opened fire, while another Muslim, also screaming “Allahu akbar,” started shooting at Old Dominion University, murdering one person and injuring two others. 

All in all, the victims of those attacks and their loved ones would certainly have preferred to receive some hateful messages. The disparity between the alleged incident at the Simi Valley mosque and these violent jihad show up the hollowness of the “Islamophobia” narrative that remains so beloved of the left. Yes, some people are louts, and may have left some negative messages at the California mosque. Meanwhile, four people are dead in the jihad attacks in the U.S. of the first half of March, and Hamas-linked CAIR’s Ayloush and the rest of the leftist establishment have nothing to say about them. What sense can be made of this double standard? It’s positively hauk tnee.