Hoax! An open letter to Tell Mama regarding ‘Punish a Muslim Day’

 

Dear Tell Mama,

It seems as if the ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ phenomenon, something that your organisation played a major part in publicising, has turned out to be a hoax, which is as I and many others expected to be and indeed hoped and prayed it would be. Over the last 24 hours I have kept a weather eye on both the mainstream and alternative media and some of your own social media output, to see if I could perceive any uptick in the number in the reports of genuine criminal offences, that could definitively be linked to this ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ phenomenon, such as physical assaults on innocent Muslims.

I have as many predicted I would, found nothing in media reports to suggest that this is the case. Even your own Twitter feed did not contain much in the way of reports of alleged physical attacks on mosques or on individual Muslims that could reasonably be linked to ‘Punish a Muslim Day’. There was just the usual self promotion, tweets from police officers with ‘diversity’ responsibilities and the promotion of groups of similar mindset to yourself. Apart from that there was little to suggest that your output was different on ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ as there was on any other day. This is odd behaviour on your part as your organisation has been extremely quick in the past to publicise alleged anti Muslim attacks, on some occasions even before there is proof that they are of such a nature. The one admittedly nasty attack that took place that was reported on your Twitter timeline in the relevant time period, was one about a Sikh gentleman who had his turban pulled off, but there is nothing to suggest in your communication that this is anything to do with ‘Punish a Muslim Day’. This should give me, others reading this letter and yourselves some idea of how little happened yesterday and how baseless has been your organisation’s scaremongering, a scaremongering you willingly engaged in by using this by now obviously hoax letter.

This scaremongering, which your organisation took a very great part in creating, over an alleged letter that should have been looked at with extreme suspicion and classified early on as a hoax. This letter was either the work of a lone crank with no credibility or some practical joker or even some Islamic extremist or similar sort of Islam promotion outfit eager to sow division. What this letter should not have been seen as or publicised as is a genuine threat, which is what your organisation did.

By treating, as you did, this alleged letter as a serious threat, you have cried wolf with a very loud and strident voice, and this has had a number of consequences. The first of these is to my mind the most serious. You have promoted fear and anxiety without justification. By promoting this hoax ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ story with such gusto and by involving all manner of other individuals and groups in order to do so, your organisation has probably put many individual Muslims in fear, a fear that they may not have experienced prior to your flogging to death of this hoax. I have to say at this point that whilst I have no great love for the ideology of Islam, in fact I dislike it immensely as is my right to do so, I would not wish any physical harm to come to any innocent Muslim individual as we are all, even the ones who follow ideologies which I despise, children of the Eternal One.

The scaremongering over this patently obvious hoax that your organisation has relentlessly promoted and engaged in, has probably terrified the hell out of many people. I think here especially of those from some of the more peaceful sects of Islam such as the Ahmediyya and the Ismailis, groups that have little or nothing to do with Britain’s current Islam problems, such as the ongoing problem of jihad terrorism and the issue of Islamic Rape Gangs. There are probably people, from these and other half decent Islamic groups, along with innocent people who may have nothing to do with Islamic terror or other problems, or who are only vaguely culturally Muslim, who may because of the fuss over these alleged letters have lived in absolute terror recently. They may have lived in terror of reprisals from non Muslim Britons for the jihad attacks and other crimes that have been committed by Islamic extremists and one of the reasons for this unnecessary period of fear and terror over the last few weeks, is your organisation’s promotion of the fake ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ documents. You should be ashamed of your part in promoting this sense of terror.

The promotion of the ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ hoax that your organisation has played such a large part in has also had other consequences, apart from unnecessarily terrifying people. This hoax, which should have been binned at the earliest possible opportunity, has wasted an significant amount of police time and the time of other similar agencies. Senior officers have been dragged away from probably much more important issues to comment on this ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ letter and they have more than likely been spurred to do so because of the influence that Tell Mama seems to have with various police forces.

By giving credibility to this hoax your organisation has helped to waste an enormous amount of police time. These letters have taken up police officer man hours in units such as the counter terrorism that could and should have been put to much better use, such as tracking the increasing number of jihad-aligned individuals that are popping up in Britain’s Islamic communities. I pray to the Almighty that there will be no Islamic or other terror attacks that may occur because the police officers tasked with protecting us from such attacks, were distracted by what is rapidly looking like a tissue of lies concocted by a person or persons currently unknown. If there is such an attack, then your organisation will have some of the blood of the victims on your hands. This is because you promoted this obvious hoax as a genuine threat and thereby have diverted police resources away from where they are actually needed.

Another consequence of your promotion of an ‘anti Muslim plot’ that is rapidly unravelling and being revealed to be a ‘nothingburger’, is the dragging in to this scandal of Mr Sajid Javid, the Secretary of State for Housing, Local Government and Communities and coincidentally the minister ultimately responsible for your lavish levels of public funding. Mr Javid has been extremely embarrassed and shown to have been a little ‘economical with the truth’ by a number of people on social media over the issue of an alleged Punish a Muslim Day’ letter that he claims to have received. It was quickly revealed that the image of a letter that Mr Javid claimed to have received was merely one of your own publicity stills and its provenance was easily traced back to your organisation. Mr Javid made an attempt at a u-turn on this and waffled on about ‘data security’ but a lot of people don’t seem to be buying his wriggling. The result of Mr Javid’s support for your publicity campaign surrounding these ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ letters is public embarrassment for himself, his party and his Department.

Finally we come to the issue of wasted Parliamentary time. This hoax, about which I have little doubt that you flogged to your supporters in Parliament, resulted in statements by the Home Office to the House of Commons along with Urgent Questions posed by the likes of Bolton South East Labour MP Yasmin Qureshi and all the others Members who virtue signalled like billy-o over this incident. I feel that at a time when there is a lot for Parliamentarians to do with regards Brexit and other future challenges for Britain that are coming up on the horizon, use of Parliamentary time to consider this hoax was time utterly and completely wasted.

Your involvement in promoting this hoax has resulted in a much worse situation than before you started this publicising this strange and incredible document. It has resulted in frightened innocent Muslims, counter terror police diverted from normal duties, an embarrassed Secretary of State and wasted Parliamentary time. These outcomes are not only something that your organisation should be truly ashamed about and make public repentance for, but also show why your organisation is not a fit recipient of £1.9 Million of taxpayer’s money.

If your organisation’s staff are not even capable of discerning that this alleged ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ communication came from either from a lone nutter who poses little credible threat, was a prank or maybe mischief making by Islamic extremists or similar, then the money that our government showers on your organisation is wasted.

You’ve been caught out big time by something that should never have been taken seriously and by something that even the most clueless of individuals out there could have seen was not worth the amount of publicity that your organisation gave it. This ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ bullshit would have been forgotten in an instant and nobody would have been wound up and put in fear or see parliamentary and police time wasted, but for your relentless and aggressive promotion of something that has very quickly turned out to be nothing.