And here’s another vile example of this being done.
Pamela Geller of Atlasshrugs, a co-founder of a American hate group, and an ally of the English Defence League (EDL), tried claiming ‘Muslim youths’ looted the dead after a French Rail crash, which is now believed to have been caused by technical faults.
Geller wrote:
Quote: “This is the second unexplained train crash in as many weeks. More bodies are still being recovered in a mysterious Quebec train disaster in Canada. In this latest disaster in France, French Atlas readers tell me that Muslim “youths” were looting corpses at the train crash site. Most media neglected this monstrous bit of news; The Daily Telegraph makes a brief mention of the ghouls, referring to the Muslims as, ahem, “local people.”Looters weren’t exactly ‘Muslims’, Geller made news up
There have been some reports of looters but those reports only mention “jeunes” and “local people” in their descriptions.
No credible source mentions ‘Muslims’ except for hate blogs Islam vs Europe, Sheikh Yer’Mami and Pamela Geller (not surprising as they have been known to incite hate and demonise Muslims).
“Jeunes” simply means young people, in this case, French youth. No one but Geller and other Islamophobic sites (who are known to rip articles from each other) mentioned Muslims at all in relation to what happened in France.
The EDL joins in sharing incorrect news
We at EDLReview also noticed that the EDL was sharing the misleading news. Note how these two Divisions – The Bournemouth Division and the Poole Division – put their own twist on the story, saying the ‘youths’ threw stones and ran away.
LoonWatch originally exposed this and concluded in its article:
Quote: ‘There is a reason that any respectable media have neglected Geller’s “monstrous bit of news”, and that is because it is not news, but simply another of Geller’s endless steam of sick Islamophobic fantasies.’Further reading:
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