In May 2016, brave “Muslim Selfie-Girl” Zakia Belkhiri, shot to fame after she defied crowds of “anti-Muslim” protestors in Belgium by posing in front of them for waiting photographers. The media loved it.
“Defiant teen stands up to anti-Muslim protestors with amazing selfies” they proclaimed. It became a little embarrassing when more observant social media users started to discover her history of virulent anti-Semitic postings, including the notorious “Hitler didn’t kill all the Jews, he left some. So we know why he was killing them”. She claimed her account had been hacked, claimed she couldn’t remember ever posting such remarks, claimed they were old from times when she was “younger and ignorant” and she was now a changed person. The press quietly let the issue die out, Belkhiri closed her social media accounts and the world moved on.
On March 22, 2017 social media came alight with photographs of a Muslim woman walking past victims of the Jihadist attack in Westminster, cell phone in hand and seemingly unconcerned by the carnage around her. Within minutes, people were coming to her defense, posting pictures of a “white guy doing the same thing”. Within hours, the press were publishing articles examining pictures from different angles to support their case that the woman was just as shocked as anyone, was telling her family she was safe, and just wanted to get away from It all as fast as she could.
In a statement to TellMama, the UK agency well-known for turning even the slightest criticism of anything related to Islam into a savage attack of so-called Islamophobia, the woman (still anonymous) blasted “those who could not look beyond my attire, who draw conclusions based on hate and xenophobia”. It was, in the words of the press “a classic example of how easy it is to take an image out of context and use it for the purpose of propaganda”.
It must have been a dream come true when, on April 8, 2017, a “brave woman” stared down ‘fascist thug’ Ian Crossland, leader of the English Defence League (EDL), a notorious ‘anti-Muslim’ ‘far-right’ organization. Depending on which newspaper you read, Crossland had tried to hit her but was restrained by the police, she was a smiling heroine who had come to the rescue of another Muslim girl who was being assaulted by a howling crowd of violent criminals, or a heroic local resident who just happened to be passing and came to the rescue of another girl in distress. The high-quality professional photograph of the pretty Muslim girl smiling down on the unshaven angry faced Crossland went viral and within hours had been published in newspapers from Dublin to Delhi and Amsterdam to Adelaide.
Some elementary fact checking reveals a somewhat more nuanced picture that doesn’t quite fit the perfect story. A local girl indeed, born in Birmingham of Bosnian and Pakistani parents, Saffiyah Khan would seem to be the perfect poster girl for multicultural liberals. It must be very inconvenient that she actually appears to live in London, is a self-confessed ‘anti-fascist’ activist and apparently specifically attended the EDL in order to disrupt it. No wonder then that that there was only one obscure website that reported these facts, while the mainstream press conveniently omitted them.
Perhaps the press might too have taken a little time to examine the history of the posts by Saffiyah Khan who, with “Free Gaza – Free Palastine” t-shirt had made no secret of where her sympathies lie. But then they might have just stumbled on a 2014 pro-Hamas post, a most inconvenient truth:
“If you really think Hamas is Israel’s problem; think again. Hamas was only formed in the late eighties, 1987 to be precise, but the occupation stated in 1948. This means 39 years of massacres, imprisonment and displacement. 39 years of pretexts to kill more Palestinians. If Hamas was destroyed, they will find another pretext to kill.”
But perhaps her twitter account was hacked? It’s certainly interesting that two new twitter accounts were opened in the last week, each claiming to be by her. And the “offending” twitter account … is that really her and not some imposter? Many of the Facebook links posted in the account in question, bring you to the account of Saffiyah Begum Khan. Someone else, obviously? Checking the electoral rolls for Birmingham reveals some interesting facts: there is a Saffiyah Begum listed at an address in Birmingham and at the same address there is a Saffiyah khan. The oldest male resident at that address is Mohammed N Khan; the oldest female resident at that address is Kaniz Begum.
So, there cause for serious doubt as to whether our brave Muslim heroine is indeed a sweet innocent-looking local girl who happened to be passing by and came to the rescue of another girl, or a long-term pro-Hamas antifa activist who, after traveling up from London with the main purpose of disrupting an otherwise peaceful EDL protest, took part in an elaborate scam to play the media and the public for fools.
After the Westminster incident people were vociferously insisting that a person’s actions should never be judged from an image but, as another tweater remarked, it’s funny how fast things change when they fit a certain agenda.
Such a shame that media darling anti-EDL poster girl is a pro-Hamas hardcore antifa activist who lives in London. pic.twitter.com/HGOetpwKMo
— Simon the Scribe (@si5) April 10, 2017
Written by SIMONXLM with much gratitude from VladTepesBlog
WOW!
Whoops. Meant to add: brilliant investigative work! Thanks. Deceiving seems to be the default position of Muslims and their promoters eg media, politicians, the Left, the greens and lately and lastly: the Vatican
This should actually be spread as wide and as often as possible because it is so typical of this kind of “folk” and confirms what you, guiltily, might think of as “prejudices” . Anything a typical Muslim in Taqijja mode or a Leftist in propaganda mode will do and say is far worse than what we might (timidly) think.
Where is the photo of her walking victoriously by the London victims ?
Whoops again…it’s in the 2nd link !!
What you said in all of your comments.
Smelled a fish immediately and you proved my initial thoughts, thanks!
blasted “those who could not look beyond my attire, who draw conclusions based on hate and xenophobia”
Back in 2005: “Prince Harry apologized on Thursday after he was photographed wearing a Nazi soldier’s uniform with a red and black swastika armband”
So a .fascist uniform is ok if it is islamic anti-semitic but not if it is German anti-semitic?
A uniform is a uniform – wear it and be associated with others who wear it.
And worse, she is to be thought well of even though she means all that is associated with the uniform, and the Prince is to be hated even though he wore the Nazi uniform mockingly.
The age of reason is over.