There simply aren’t enough actual incidents to support the Muslim victimhood narrative that gets Muslim communities so much special consideration, and deflects counterterror efforts, so such incidents have to be invented.
“Turkish Daily Reported a Man Killed by Hindu Mob in a ‘Cow-Lynching’ Was Muslim: False,” Polygraph.info, September 26, 2019 (thanks to The Religion of Peace):
On September 23, the conservative Turkish daily Yeni Safak reported an incident that took place in India’s Jharkhand state the previous day, when a crowd of 10 to 15 people attacked a group of local people, accusing them of butchering a cow. Three men were injured in the attack, one of whom died. The story cited a senior police official, M.L. Meena.
As Yeni Safak indicated, the story it published was in fact written by the Reuters news agency. However, while the original Reuters piece was headlined, “Man in India killed by mob after being accused of cow slaughter,” and clearly stated that the attacked men were not Muslims, Yeni Safak changed the headline to read: “Muslim man in India killed by mob after being accused of cow slaughter.”
As of the time this fact-check was published, Yeni Safak had not changed the erroneous headline.
Meanwhile, other media worldwide have picked up its version of the story, with the false headline. A Pakistani website, The Frontier Post, and Azerbaijan’s Azeridaily.com republished it with same headline…
Liz says
Nice catch!
The last line in the original article even states “The three men attacked by the mob on Sunday were not Muslim, Meena said.”
Angemon says
I suspect most people don’t read that far – especially if they’re muslims looking for the reason du jour to be enraged…
SAFI says
Well, Yeni Safak is actually known for two things. One is being the main mouthpiece of the Erdogan regime, the other is for being pathological liars.
mortimer says
It sounds like the editor is trying to suck up to Erdogan by printing materials that slander people of other faiths in order to stir up resentment. Since so many journalists are imprisoned in Turkey, it is not surprising that an editor would try to stay on the good side of a whimsical fanatic like Erdogan.
I hope the Turkish people can find a way to vote Erdogan out of office before they are drawn into a shooting war.
SAFI says
I think you’re being way too lenient on these “journalists”. Not all regime collaborators are collaborating simply out of fear. Erdogan’s government has no shortage of genuine and enthusiastic supporters who are only too happy to follow the government guidelines on what they are to report and how. I’m of the opinion that Yeni Safak’s editors belong in that category. And it’s not like the opposition to Erdogan has a totally different perspective. Turkey had never really been a fuctioning democracy that allowed dissent. There’s many things that can’t say without risking getting killed (and not just by the “islamists” assassins). Hrant Dink’s gruesome murder remains a good example of what could await those who dare to step out of line. Sure, things have further deteriorated under Erdogan, a guy that’s grown to feel invincible after having already spent over 16 consecutive years in power (and is projected to stay there at least until 2023 when the next election is scheduled) longer than any other turkish leader, including Ataturk, but it’s not like he’s the one who introduced authoritarianism to the country.
GreekEmpress says
+1
Every story like this reminds me of how grateful I am my ancestors were able to get out of Constantinople and Anatolia and make their way to America.
The unexpected voice says
Greek Empress I’ll always support you and try everything as much as I can to help Greece retake Constantinople and Balkan strait.
gravenimage says
True, SAFI.
And GreekEmpress, I’m glad your ancestors got out. So did Robert Spencer’s.
GreekEmpress says
Thanks, GI—
They fought the Turks a long, long time. I had one Armenian g grandfather who was murdered by Turks, so I can really get worked up sometimes when I hear anything about Turkey or Erdogan.
RichardCdeL says
I was going to say “Don’t forgot the Armenians.”The two million who didn’t escape from the murdering raping Turkish Muslims. The famous or not famous enough photo of those naked young ladies hanging from crosses in some valley in Tukey always upsets me. Savages!
The unexpected voice says
Yes, SAFI Turkey is always an Islamist, extremist and totalitarian. Even now it keep denying their own crime, and angry at anyone who mention it.
Infidel says
The Turkish people have more in common w/ Erdogan than they ever did w/ Kemal Ataturk. Ataturk tried to transform that country into a modern, secular society, but while that was embraced by elites in Islanbul and the coasts, heartland Anatolia remained regressively Islamic. They were dormant during the decades of Kemalesque juntas that ran Turkey during the Cold War, but once Erdogan came to power, they were happy to support him.
Also, as Mark Steyn once pointed out, the coastal Turkish elites who followed Kemal had been following the same declining birth trends as Europeans, but at the same time, the hinterland Turks who support Erdogan have had their population grow by leaps and bounds.
On top of that, as I pointed out to SAFI the other day, Turkey has been pretty enthusiastically celebrating pan-Turkic history – be it the Mughals, Ghaznavids, Timurides and anyone else. Looked at from that aspect, they have a long history to be proud of – when they had empires in Turkistan, Iran, Afghanistan, India, Syria, Egypt and North Africa. I’ve never really understood why they’d ever wanna be a part of Europe when they have such a triumphant history to fall back on – something that even the Russians would envy
SAFI says
Actually most of them do NOT want to be part of Europe (certainly not the ones who support AKP) it’s a misunderstanding that they do (despite some insincere public statements you may have heard)… they just want some of the economic and political benefits that a special relationship with Europe could provide them (something which they already enjoy to a large extent) but without having to democratize or be subject to any of the rules which full EU membership would entail. Erdogan’s ambition is not to join the EU. His ambition is to make Turkey into a great eurasian superpower complete with nukes and a seat at the Security Council and undisputed leader of the Muslim (under)world. …oh and maybe also “liberate Kudus”(jerusalem) from the zionists and go down in history as the greatest Ghazi. To a very large extend the Turkish masses enthusiastically embrace that megalomaniacal vision . They even embraced when he built that 1,500 room “White Palace” to house His own Neo-Ottoman Magnificence. Today you’ll likely find fewer politicians who are in favor of turkish EU membership in Turkey than in some European countries(particularly Britain, which however is itself ironically on the way out of the Union.)
Also I can’t say I really feel sorry for the decline of “Kemalism”… To begin with I find Ataturk’s legacy to be a very dubious one. I’m also quite sceptical about the quality of his “secularism”. Yes certainly was, at least privately, a strong atheist though he never openly proclaimed that to his people. Insead he styled himself a “Gazi”(islamic holy warrior). …But so was Stalin. He also created a very robust “personality cult” for himself which actually predated Stalin’s(I’m not sure however if Stalin drew inspiration from Ataturk like Hitler provenly did – read Stefan Ihrig’s book “Ataturk in the Nazi Imagination” for more on that)
Those “Kemalesque juntas” you mentioned weren’t just “kemalesque.” They genuinely subscribed to Kemal’s ideology. Kemalism is at its essence dictatorship. Today many ignorant outsiders especially in Europe and America feel comfortable deceiving themselves by imagining that the Kemalists represent the principled democratic opposition to Erdogan but the truth of the matter is that the CHP had always been the party of dictatorship. We used to know that but after nearly 2 decades of uninterrupted AKP rule some basic facts about Turkey have been forgotten in the West. As strange as it may sound to some, the islamists in Turkey may actually be more committed to democracy than the Kemalists ever were.
Kemal himself ruled as an absolut dictator as did his appointed successor Ismet Inonu(until he made the mistake of organizing the first unrigged elections in 1950 because he falsely imagined that his land reform had made him popular enough to win them). Kemal was basically a fascist, a “secular” fascist, but a fascist nonetheless. Saddam was “secular” too. But he’s remembered as a villain for gasing the Kurds whereas Atarurk who did exactly the same thing back in 1937 (and in 1925) is considered by the ignorant and self-deceiving West as some sort of great secular hero. And it’s not just many dozens of thousands of Kurds whose blood is on Ataturk’s hands… Kemal has been on record saying that Armenians must be annihilated politically and physically. During the euphemistically named “Turkish War of Independence” his ordered invasion of the Russian part of Armenia (where many survivors of the genocide had fled earlier) resulted in about a couple hundred thousand Armenians being slaughered by the Kemalist Army. About an extra hundred thousand Armenians and Greeks perished when Smyrna (now a kemalist electoral stronghold) was destroyed at his orders. His record with Jews is no better, just look up the 1930s pogroms to get an idea. Even today when it comes to anti-Armenian bigotry in Turkey I think the Kemalists are noticably worse than the Islamist counterparts. Frankly, I’d be less shocked if Erdogan recognized the Armenian genocide than if a kemalist government did such a thing (although the chance of either happening is realistically zero.)
Also regarding the actual quality of Ataturk’s “secularism” the truth is that even at its heighest kemalism did not so much try to separate Mosque and State as to rather subordinate religion to its state burreaucracy by handing its administration to government “Directorates”(like Diyanet) essentially turning religion into a branch of government. Kemalism has also been criticized by true secularists as being in many ways “crypto-religious”. One of the reasons for that is that the new “Turkish” identity which Ataturk created had in spite of external appearances, Sunni Muslim identity covertly built into its core foundations. Instead of attempting to detach “turkishness” from Sunni religious identity, he from the very beginning officially excluded all infidel religious minorities from the turkish nation while he bestowed obligatory “turkish” status and tried to forcibly assimilate into “turkishness” all Sunnis regardless of ethnic or linguistic background. Hence why starting with Ataturk and for almost a century the turkish regime officially denied even the existence of a Kurdish people.
The unexpected voice says
Yes, SAFI and The Turks are always arch enemy of Europe and their ambition will never die until they completely lost their power.
Infidel says
SAFI, that’s just what I thought. While Kemal and his successors desperately wanted Turkey to be integrated into Europe, it was never obvious why the average Turk at large – well aware of their trans-Caspian heritage – would wanna go that route.
Yeah, Erdogan is obviously vying for leadership of the Muslim world, and trying it in unconventional ways given how he knows that the majority of Arabs or Farsis would never endorse a Turkish overlordship, just like they didn’t during Seljuq, Khwarezmid, Ottoman or other Turkic empires. There are the ex-Soviet stans looking for a post Soviet identity, and finding it in their Turkic underpinnings. Only thing – how many of them would be willing to transform themselves – a la Afghanistan – from a largely secular populace to a population of Islamic rage-boys in Samarqand, Boqhara, Ashgabat, Bishkek or Baku? He might have better luck winning support from Pakistan, which cherishes their Turkic history – be it the Mughals or their predecessor Turkish sultans.
I agree w/ you about Ataturk as well. Some of it probably wasn’t his fault – a population like the Turks, who established the reputation of being the most powerful Islamizing force in the world, including the Arabs – were not likely to embrace secularism easily. But as you point out, he was a Fascist and a Racist. As Hugh pointed out many times, he sought to replace the cult of Islam w/ the cult of Kemal, but that was never gonna last. Which explains why Kemalism throughout its existence had to be a dictatorship. Which the EU didn’t like, but the Turks w/o a dictatorship were never going to be compatible w/ Europe, particularly the EU that has evolved over the last 30 years. If one wants to separate the Turks from their Islamic fantasies that they experienced in the 10th century and beyond, one just has to use force, which is what the Kemalists did.
Also, the Kemalist model is one that has been very closely mimiced in Turkmenistan – where everything was based around the cult of Niyazov – rebranded as ‘Turkmenbashi’. And I wouldn’t be surprised to see that country produce an Erdogan like leader. Already, Uzbekistan, which was pretty hostile to Erdogan during the Karimov regime, has decided to join the Turkic council, and that’s a huge coup for Turkey. Since Uzbekistan contains some of the most major cities in Islamic history – Samarqand, Buqhara, Fergona, Andijon. Expect more Erdogans to emerge in the coming years in Ashgabat, Tashqent, Bishkek, Nursultan and Baku. Already, Pakistan has its own Erdogan in Imran Khan
What Erdogan has done has a lot more traction since he’s put his finger on what made the entire Turkic nation stand out. And he can make it a regional bloc, particularly if he manages to win over Pakistan, which I think he’s likely to do.
The unexpected voice says
Infidel, Turkey was never really a “secular” nation. It just trying to make itself looks like one to trying to gain the West’s trust. Not to mention that Ataturk himself was a tyrant.
Infidel says
Very true. I never expected Turkey to end up as a secular country – they have too much of an Islamic heritage to be able to part company w/ that
mortimer says
Turkey ought to have been dismantled in 1920 when the Western powers had a chance to do so.
SAFI says
Well that was a once in a millenium opportinity to see justice be served that’s unlikely to ever reoccur. But the West let it slide by because it was preoccupied with its internal disvisions and consumed by its own greed. (And Lenin’s very generous help to Ataturk of course.) Once again the West’s short-sighted “geopolitics” saved Islam’s bacon. Like it happened in the Crimean War and several other earlier occasions. But this time it’s Islam and Turkey who are on the offensive again and I doubt if this moribund suicidal West will be as lucky as the Turks have been in the past.
The unexpected voice says
It’s time to kick them out of NATO and officially declare Turkey as the enemy of the West, since Turkey always dream of putting Europe under Islamic rule. This ambition never gone.
gravenimage says
The Ottoman Empire *did* break up–but all of the pieces have remained troublesome Muslim polities.
DHazard says
Journalism in the Western world is unreliable, in non-democratic or countries that sport a veneer of democracy, journalism is propaganda. This intentional misleading can be harmless or deadly. Any news editor in the Middle East knows knows that Muslims can be stirred to violence over completely made up stories that involve “unjustified” attacks against Muslims, non-Muslims not respecting Muhammad or the Quran, attacks against Muslim women, the sort of things Muslims do all the time to other people. So they write these stories, people die and they get paid and take a vacation.
gravenimage says
Turkey: Newspaper falsely claims that Hindus in India murdered a Muslim for killing a cow
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More Muslims ginning up fake victimhood.
peter says
The sameErdogan who shed crocodile tears and black mailed Saudi Arabia over the death of Kashogji and forgot everything he said the moment his bhakshis was paid ! What an actor and a hypocrite!
ploome says
ah……Hindu Blood libel
-guess they couldn’t find a Jew in India
Infidel says
Their Paki comrades slaughtered a bunch of them in Mumbai in 2008