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…
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