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When three Arab Muslim students were shot and wounded in Burlington, Vermont, politicians and the media immediately hyped it as the ‘Islamophobic Crime of the Century’.
President Biden issued a statement declaring that “there is absolutely no place for violence or hate in America.” Vice President Kamala Harris’ statement bemoaned that “far too many people live with the fear that they could be targeted and attacked based on their beliefs or who they are”. The three Muslim men identified as ‘Palestinian’, two of them were wearing keffiyehs and Kamala, like many other leftists, was implying that the shooter was ‘anti-Palestinian’.
“The idea that three young men walking down the street get shot, perhaps because of no other reason than they are Palestinian, is unspeakable,” Sen. Bernie Sanders said. ”But I gotta tell you, this is not just a local phenomenon, this is happening all over the country.”
Then he blasted Israel.
“I’m heartbroken by yesterday’s senseless shooting of three Palestinian-American students visiting Burlington. We do not tolerate hate or Islamophobia in Vermont,” Sen Peter Welch tweeted.
“I do want to be clear that there is no question this was a hateful act,” Sarah George, the local State’s Attorney, claimed without evidence.
“In this charged moment, no one can look at this incident and not suspect that it may have been a hate-motivated crime,” Burlington Police Chief Jon Murad argued.
Anti-Israel groups convened a rally calling for the destruction of Israel.
“I stand here to stand with oppressed people who now fear for their lives just walking down the street here in Burlington,” Vermont Lt. Gov. David Zuckerman told the hateful mob.
A speaker at the hate rally with the antisemitic University of Vermont affiliate of Students for Justice in Palestine blamed the shootings on Jews, calling them the “shameless monsters who enabled this” and denouncing “a crime of unspeakable racist hatred, a crime borne out of white supremacy, out of fascist, genocidal malice, a crime borne out of Zionism.”
All of these claims, along with many others around the shootings, were based on lies.
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee falsely claimed that “a man shouted and harassed the victims, then proceeded to shoot them. We have reason to believe this shooting occurred because the victims are Arab.”
In reality, they had been shot by a local resident outside his house who did not say a word.
The three Muslim men were returning home from a party on Saturday night when James J. Eaton, a local resident with a history of mental instability, stumbled out of a white clapboard house on the residential street and without a word fired four shots at the three men.
Eaton had been described as “that hippie guy” and “progressive”, an organic farmer who had posted a meme with a definition of “Amerika” that called it “the worst sense of the United States, ie imperialism, corruption and the global exportation of American culture.”
He appeared to be a Biden supporter
Media outlets, anti-Israel activists and politicians attributed the shootings to the Hamas war. Everyone from Biden and Kamala on down emphasized the “Palestinian” identities of those shot and implied that Eaton had attacked them because he was opposed to the ‘Palestinian’ cause.
In reality, Eaton supported Hamas.
On December 6, Seven Days, a local news outlet known for breaking stories about local politics, revealed that Eaton had tweeted, “the notion that Hamas is ‘evil’ for defending their state from occupation is absurd. They are owed a state. Pay up.”
Responding to an article about a proposed ceasefire, he wrote, “What if someone occupied your country? Wouldn’t you fight them?”
Local politicians were aware of this which is why in December a Burlington City Council resolution from Councilman Ali Dieng, an African Muslim immigrant currently running for mayor, trying to tie the shootings to an attack on Israel failed, and so did a resolution pushing the false claim that the students had been targeted because of their identity.
The latest Islamophobia hoax had fallen apart in Vermont, but still lingered nationally.
Media outlets which had rushed to spread the false claims never retracted or modified them. After a month of pushing the lie that the shootings were a response to Israel’s campaign against Hamas or to the ‘Muslim’ or ‘Palestinian’ identities of the three men, the new information was not reported, acknowledged or in any way addressed by politicians and media reporters.
NBC News, which had run an entire ‘live blog’ about the shootings, pushing anti-Israel and Islamophobia narratives, did not provide an update that would have contradicted its narrative.
Even in December, NBC News still continued running articles falsely linking the shootings to the Hamas war and attacking Israel. A Dec 5 article quoted one of the men shot as spreading anti-Israel propaganda and claiming that “this is happening to Palestinians across the country and, more importantly, in Gaza. We’re mad at the system that’s allowing not three of us to be injured but thousands and thousands and millions of us to be displaced and injured and killed.”
PBS ran a similar article in December quoting an uncle of one of the men as contending that “even in this country, even in this town — that many of the risks that exist for my nephew and his friends in Palestine exist for them here.”
This torrent of anti-Israel and pro-terrorist propaganda was based on absolutely nothing.
There was never a single shred of evidence that the men had been targeted. And the only basis for this claim that was ever cited was that two of the men were wearing ‘keffiyehs’ and speaking English and Arabic when they were shot. This entirely circumstantial information was amplified with feverish claims and rushed statements by elected officials, prosecutors and police.
The reality that has emerged is that Eaton was mentally unstable, left-leaning, opposed to America and supportive of Islamic terrorists. He was neither Jewish nor pro-Israel.
He had actually publicly stated his support for Hamas.
Eaton could not have known that the three Muslim men were going to walk past the house where he was living and it’s implausible that he would have had the time to plan such an attack.
The Muslim men were walking down the middle of a small narrow residential street with no street lights at night and Eaton would not have had enough time to realize the men passing by were Muslims, grab a gun, run out and shoot them. That’s even assuming that he had spent the whole evening by the window watching for incoming Muslims in an 87% white Vermont city.
Most likely, Eaton, suffering from an episode, stumbled out and opened fire.
Shooting four rounds at three men suggests this was not a planned mass shooting. He might have just as easily shot at anybody on the street or at nobody except the voices in his head. According to his mother and an ex-girlfriend, he had a history of violence and mental illness.
All of this was well known, yet the media instead chose to push a false anti-Israel narrative.
The Burlington shootings were far from the first Islamophobia hoax to gain a national platform.
The killings of four Muslim men in Albuquerque were initially billed as Islamophobia. Biden even issued a statement declaring that “my administration stands strongly with the Muslim community” and warned that “these hateful attacks have no place in America.” The attacks were Islamophobic, but the perpetrator was a Sunni Muslim Afghan refugee who hated Shiites.
Hasan Minhaj, the Netflix Muslim comedian, was recently exposed as having made up the stories of discrimination that he had built his high-profile career around. During the campaign against Hamas, CAIR promoted a false claim that a Muslim man had been hit by a Jewish driver shouting “Kill all Palestinians,”and “Long live Israel”. Before Biden and other elected officials could issue statements, the actual perpetrator turned out to be the victim’s own brother.
And then there was the rash of Hijab snatching hate crime hoaxes across the country which included Yasmin Seweid, an 18-year-old college student in NYC, falsely claiming that three Trump supporters had tried to tear off her hijab while shouting, “take that rag off your head”.
The Burlington shootings were similar to a different category of hate crime hoaxes in which a crime did occur, but the motive was misattributed to ‘Islamophobia’. One was the rape and murder of Nabra Hassanen: a 17-year-old Muslim girl in Virginia by a low-IQ illegal alien MS-13 member from El Salvador after a fight with her friends. Another was a parking dispute in Chapel Hill that had nothing to do with Islam and where the shooter was a Rachel Maddow fan.
(As in Burlington, leftists and Muslims seem to shoot far more Muslims than conservatives do.)
Despite the facts of the cases, sustained pressure by Islamist groups led the authorities to brand these crimes as being ‘Islamophobic’ which then allowed groups, many of them with terror ties, to claim that any criticism of Islam or Islamic terrorism would get Muslims killed.
The Burlington shootings were blatantly exploited to attack Israel and promote terrorism.
Vigils in front of City Hall and at Brown University called for the destruction of the Jewish State.
One of the men, Hisham Awartani, told the hateful mob at Brown that his shooting “did not happen in a vacuum” but that he was only “one casualty in a much wider conflict” and “had I been shot in the West Bank” and “the medical services which saved my life here would have likely been withheld by the Israeli army.”
While the Burlington story has fallen apart, like the previous ‘Islamophobic’ hoaxes the damage was already done. The larger purpose of Islamophobia hoaxes, like that of Islamic terrorism, is to reframe the perpetrators as the victims and to justify Islamic violence against non-Muslims.
That is why the truth matters. Islamophobia lies kill, the truth exposes the killers.
Wow. What a difference evidence makes. Superb work, Daniel!
Thank you. Please help spread it. The truth counts.
One of countless examples that show what lying sacks of che aiiit the mainstream media are.
Don’t matter if the subject is the israeli-hamas conflict , climate change, big tobacco , big oil, whatever.
They lie to support their narrative with the ease that you and I breathe!
Evidence?
“Most likely, Eaton, suffering from an episode, stumbled out and opened fire.”
“Shooting four rounds at three men suggests this was not a planned mass shooting.”
You mean “baseless speculation”, right?
More warblings from our rezudentura Leftist
I was on the Intrepid from Aug. of 66 through Jan. of 69 in Vietnam. I wonder if you use Intrepid as your sign because you too were aboard the old girl.
Follow the evidence R tard! There is no evidence that this was a planned mass shooting of specifically Arab or Palestinian victims.
Do you leftists have any capacity left to look at what truth is?
What am I asking for, lies and lying are like oxygen to you people!
You’re right. The left is too busy shooting off its mouth to claim facts not in evidence.
Thanks Daniel! I suspected there was something fishy about that incident.
The MSM treatment of the story is a good example of plopping down a pre-existing narrative without establishing the facts. That is not only propaganda, it is lazy journalism,as all the have to do is use the standard narrative. Then each news source can copy from the other news sources by looking on the internet.
I saw a good example of that once, an attack in a city 50 miles from San Francisco that I was familiar with. At first most stories said “near San Francisco”. But then one news site slipped up and said “in San Francisco”. By the end of the day almost all the stories coming out had it placed “in San Francisco”.
These details need to get out & media outlets that don’t report them should be held accountable (letters written, subscriptions CANXd, indy media asking questions, etc.). *However* the reality is that “FrontPageMag.com” is going to be immediately dismissed as “fringe,” “alt-right,” “white nationalist” (despite being founded by Jews), etc. News is still dominated by the MSM–perhaps you don’t like that it is the mainstream, but it is. That’s why they call it “mainstream.” You need to get this fact checking–this actual old fashioned journalism–into the MSM ether. Along with the facts about Chapel Hill & Albuquerque.
**At least** start w/ Fox! I can even do my part. And I don’t even agree with probably 80% of David Horowitz-style politics & ideas! But I do care making sure that the story of America’s **inherent goodness* gets out! Of course this country isn’t perfect Obviously we have collective dark stains on our past. But no nation or community has been a greater force for good in the modern era than the USA! None of the immigrants in your stories would come here if they didn’t think a better life lay ahead for them here!
I don’t share many of your opinions on Muslim immigrants, but that is actually not the main point here. This story, Chapel Hill story and the Albuquerque story need to get out. What happened to the story about the murdered female synagogue president in Detroit? It’s gone because it turns out to be a local crime unrelated to terrorism. It’s a sad story, but it’s no longer national news–and rightly so.
*However,* if/when the facts about Vermont, Chapel Hill, & Albuquerque get out, there must be an effort to make the MSM pay a price for not following these stories up. If Front Page can do it, certainly the NYT can!
As a proud American, a proud Jew, and a proud American who happens to be Jewish . . . I want your facts to get out . . . even though, like I said, I think disagree with about 80% of your views. Sometimes out of malice, often out of ignorance, people are using false info from these stories to malign the character of the USA and, for the hard-left radicals, an excuse to bash Zionism . . . which is pathetic because all Zionism is–at its most basic level–is the call for the Jewish people to have a state in their homeland just like the Polish people do or the Kenyan people do.
Let’s do this.
The mainstream legacy media has done its job, as you say, the majority now believe the lies told by the Democrat Party communications managers.
The only way to stop them lying is to withdraw your support for them by 100%
Thank you. Getting a story into the media these days is difficult because the media’s leadership lives in fear of the class of activists they hired on as James Bennett, fired for running an anti-BLM op-ed, formerly of the Times described.
https://www.economist.com/1843/2023/12/14/when-the-new-york-times-lost-its-way
Here’s the stunning admission from the Washington Post’s Erik Wemple
“It’s also long past time to ask why more people who claim to uphold journalism and free expression — including, um, the Erik Wemple Blog — didn’t speak out then in Bennet’s defense. It’s because we were afraid to.”
So it’s not impossible to get the truth out into the media, but it is very difficult.
We’re trying to do what we can by spreading it across social media, but echo chambers are a problem. Still the more people hear about it, the more the media has to eventually confront it.
Tom Cotton is allowed an oped titled “Send in the Troops”. Allowing free speech got that editor run off.
Delicate wokesters were horrified at “storm troopers” possibly deployed against actual rioters . . . until they were used as useless props to further slander previously entrapped MAGA patriots.
Muslim’s dedicate themselves to an evil ideology. One that calls for the rape and slaughter of your family members.
Does admitting this mean I’m not cordial to people if they’re muslim? No. I’ve been perfectly nice to any muslim i’ve ran across. I’ve had perfectly nice conversations with nice muslims who admitted they believe it’s allah’s will I be murdered in a terrorist attack. I never shared a cross word even after they told me that.
It’s possible to face the truth and not treat someone harshly just because you don’t share their beliefs.
Pretending they’re all wonderful people who should be mass imported to destroy the western world is evil. You have alot to learn, but you don’t want to. That’s on you, and should eat your conscious at night.
Alot of NAZIS were pulled into the fold. Alot of them were smart and nice, but you NEVER ignore their ideology. Is that cause you’re told what to think, and whitewashing islam is SOO in with your clique.
The M.S. Media Bottom Feeders will hide the facts from us as they always do
In the last 50+ years (where the political leans are released) well over 90% of the mass attacks, the attacked is from the extreme left. These are people committing nearly all mass shootings yet it is nearly universal that conservatives are blamed and the facts are suppressed until everybody forgets about the last attack and it now onto the next hoax.
Kind of reminds me of the Islamofascist attacks on Israel. It isn’t news until Israel “suddenly shoots back for no reason”
This accidental shooting by a mentally deranged, pro Hamas gunman (who is not Jewish) is “ISLAMOPHOBIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!” In contrast, if Ilhan Omar, Alexandria Ocasio Cortez or Rashida Tlaib were video recorded setting fire to a synagogue on Yom Kippur, The New York Times or The Washington Post would write, “no motive can be ascertained” If they reported it at all.
Yes. TTM. The truth matters.
It doesn’t seem to matter to the Biden administration, the UN and the ICJ. I just can’t comprehend that. But I sure believe the reality of truth not mattering to them.
You would expect truth to be the antibiotic that can cure the bacteria of Islamophobia. But this is an engineered truth-resistant bacteria.
Waiting for a real cure, we only have the truth. At the very least, this article keeps us sane, bolsters our morale and strengthens our resolve to stand up for the truth and know in our bones that evil will be defeated.
Well said. Our press was guaranteed free by the first amendment because our founders saw the need to keep the voting public informed. Today our present MSM is entirely corporate owned and has degenerated into perpetual infomercials. Our opinions are what the MSM says they should be. This is opposite of what the first amendment was for.
Thank you. The truth gives us a vantage point and a high ground. Regimes fall because people come to realize they’re all built on lies.
And they start to search for the truth.
Of course I had heard about the shootings in our garbage “news media.” Yet not a peep about the facts presented in the column. Didn’t fit the all-important albeit false narrative.
They flooded the media with the lies and then shrugged when the truth came out. A few articles admitted that it was hard to distinguish the motive and that the shooter may have been more progressive, but that was as far as they went.
Typical Vt. Bernie bro. Probably thought they were Jews.
Leave it to Brown University to get the story wrong. Its President – although she is a convert to Judaism – is a moral coward who cannot call out Jew-hate. She, the admins and many of the professors who are Marxists and Jew-haters must be called out and FORCED TO RESIGN. Christine Paxon, its president, stated in a speech that idiot students should not be afraid to wear Keffiyehsa (which are swastikas as far as I am concerned) and did not mention Jewish students afraid to show their stars of David in her oral speech (she had it in the written one) because she was afraid of the lefty/Islamonazi mob.
And they still jeered her. It was pathetic and despicable.
Exactly:!!! “the purpose of slamophobia hoaxes, like that of Islamic terrorism, is to reframe the perpetrators as the victims and to justify Islamic violence against non-Muslims. GET WISE TO IT! They are coming for us and using governments and media to help them
Islamophobia hoaxes, like claims of genocide, famines, civilian casualties, are shields covering for Islamic terrorist attacks.
Islamophobia is such an absurd misnomer, I refuse to recognize it as a real word. “Phobic” comes from “phobia,” meaning an irrational fear usually associated with mental illness. It would be like someone accusing me of “sharkophobia” because I refuse to swim in waters where sharks are present. There’s a reason why people in education, media, and various govt agencies seek an illiterate populace. The less literate we are the less we’ll be able to effectively counter the left’s propaganda.
I think that we have to come up with lucid succinct alternatives to “Islamophobia” – ones that reflect the truth. The problem is that the “usefulness” of the term lies in its versatility – it implies that being averse to Islamic terror, disagreeing with the tenets of the Muslim faith, and unjustly discriminating against people who profess Islam, are all part of the same phenomenon. And that all three are wrong (when in fact only the last is unethical).
Very true about the addition of “phobia” to a condition. I have long said that I am not in any way “homophobic” – I am not scared of homosexuals. A better word would be “homonauseous” – They make me puke!
Nice thing about being liars, is the damage is already done and served its purpose.
What a self-gassing peach Bernie is. He really loves displaying his wokeness with his vapid and viscous hatred of Jews grabbed most frequently out of his bag of fake Bernie virtue as his most luminescent badge..
Rember Bizzarro from the Superman comics? Bernie/Bizarro. Has anyone seen them together?
“In an 87% white Vermont city.” Isn’t that a defacto racist city by dem standards, and isn’t Vermont a defacto racist state? Vermont needs a lot of illegal alien busses, to set it right.
They’re on it.
“Burlington, a mostly sleepy college town on Lake Champlain, used to average two shootings a year. Last year, there were 26, and 16 so far this year, ”
https://www.sevendaysvt.com/news/burlington-teen-charged-in-shooting-death-of-fellow-14-year-old-39417190
A 14-year-old Burlington youth was charged with second-degree murder in the accidental shooting death of a 14-year-old boy from Shelburne.
The shooting took place around 7:20 p.m. on Monday outside an apartment building in Bristol while teens in a car were passing around a 9mm pistol.
Hussein Mohamed was sitting in the rear seat of a sedan in the driveway and “waving the gun around” when it went off, fatally striking front-seat passenger Madden Gouveia in the back, according to police.
https://www.inhalton.com/gunfight-that-left-one-dead-injured-two-cops-in-burlington-subject-of-inquest/
The circumstances surrounding the death of Ahmadu Ahmed will be investigated before a jury that is expected to make recommendations aimed at preventing similar incidents.
Whatcha wanna bet gun control will be the outcome?
Anti-Israel reactionaries are fabulists. They build castles from fragments of of unoriginal thoughts. It is not surprising that the Ivies have stranded themselves on a hill of ordure. It takes a foundation of shit to build such a castle. No insight involved, no honest research, sadly this is a fashion statement, a trend, a generalized malaise that could provoke a holocaust. We’ve seen it before, and Goebbels didn’t have TikTok to do the heavy lifting.
Goebbels used the existing emerging propaganda of the time. The Nazis took a look at Busby Berkeley routines and Harvard football chants and turned it into processions and Sieg Heil chants.
Actually the corporate mainstream media has been bought out and has degenerated into pure propaganda. The narrative must be maintained. Media employees who don’t spout the official narrative will be demoted or even fired if they are even hired in the first place. The government has degenerated into a gang of thieves hiding behind a pack of lies that it is the media’s job to write pablum and propaganda for so they can fool the suckers and take more contributions..
Well … I was sure it was a lunatic, and a Lefty-leaning type, but I was wrong …
… I thought it would turn out that he shot them …
… because he mistook them for Jews.
I know, I know … no one here would confuse a Palestinian keffiyeh for a Jewish tallit …
… but I live in east Texas … and we only have two kinds …
… cowboy hat and baseball cap …
Just sayin’ …
Thanks, Daniel for the good work ..
never let the truth get in the way of a good story . jews and whites are guilty , no evidence required because of reasons .
“Islamophobia lies kill, the truth exposes the killers.”
But Islamic lies get spread and the truth gets ignored.
I seem to recall someone, long past, saying something like: Lies travel at the speed of light, while truth remains hidden in darkness.
Ah, taqiyya. Funny how that works.
One of my favorite pieces is taqiyya about taqiyya by Ray Ibrahim.
Eaton’s episode was no doubt induced by smoking too much powerful weed.
I wouldn’t be hugely surprised if drugs were involved
Another G-damned DNC-Media hoax! When will they be held to account for poisoning the public’s conscience?
Are there screen shots of his Hamas supporting tweets? I could only share this with proof.
So, is this the archetypical Biden supporter?