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Anti-Muslim Activists Fall For Fake Story About Camp Shooting
Submitted by Brian Tashman on Wednesday, 3/30/2016 2:50 pm
Yesterday, anti-Muslim blogger Pamela Geller posted a report from the website SuperStation95 about a group of armed Muslim campers shouting Allahu Akbar and open[ing] fire on hikers, lamenting that of course there has been no reporting from the enemedia on this.
Gellers fans at WorldNetDaily and BareNakedIslam also ran with the story, as did radio host Michael Savage, who told his listeners that the media is refusing to report on the twenty Mooslims with guns in the hills above San Bernardino in one of Californias forests who were doing a little target practice while chanting Allahu Akbar. Savage claimed that the campers were only released by law enforcement agents because they hadnt yet killed Jewish children.
However, as the myth-busting website Snopes pointed out, there is no evidence that the campers were firing at anybody or shouting Allahu Akbar, noting that the sources for these conservative pundits were nothing but fringe conspiracy outlets.
As the official incident report stated, no one in the area questioned by police said they had witnessed guns being fired nor reported having been fired upon. Police found and interviewed the group of men in question and discovered that their possession of firearms was in compliance with the law and that none of them had any outstanding warrants or criminal histories. While the caller who reported the men to police claimed five to seven of the men wore turbans and fired assault rifles, police didn't mention turbans or other headwear, and they noted that the men were in possession of "handguns, a rifle, and a shotgun" (but no "assault rifles" . No credible news reports made any mention of the "Allahu Akbar" claim, and no witnesses stated they had been "shot at" by the men while hiking or camping. Also, the police report described the men only as "males," not "Middle Eastern males" or "Muslim males."
The web site that started this rumor was Superstation95, which is not a "superstation" at all but rather a repository of misinformation from Hal Turner, who in 2010 was sentenced to 33 months in prison for making death threats against three federal judges. (The name listed in the site's Contact page is Turner's criminal lawyer.)
- See more at: http://www.rightwingwatch.org/content/anti-muslim-activists-fall-fake-story-about-camp-shooting#sthash.zPYJDv0O.dpuf
A HERETIC I AM
(24,371 posts)in the sand because I pointed out the video is full of shit. It was uploaded to YouTube way back in 2009.
What's funny is the video is basically a slide show of photos of various (supposedly) "secret" underground bases the "government" (ooooh! Scary!) has built so that when they decide to kill us all off with chemical weapons the nefarious "they" have a place or places to go. The text accompanying the video states the following;
At great personal danger, fans of the Hal Turner Radio Show have successfully infiltrated and taken photos of vast, underground government facilities. When government decides to ":cull the herd" and by intentionally infecting us with bio-weapons, they plan on being protected while we are killed. My thanks to the countless men who risked their lives and their freedom to surreptitiously obtain this vital information.
Watching the vid, if one is at all familiar with the internet and stock photos and things like Cheyenne Mountain in Colorado, it is quickly apparent that every single photo is of a well known and not at all secret place. So the illustrious Mr. Turner wants his viewers to believe that your average nitwit listener of his got past MILITARY security to take photos of these supposed secret places. What's really funny is that one of them is a shot of the US Senate subway, built in the 1960's and a subway that I have actually ridden on during an elementary school field trip! Others are of tunnel boring machines, like those that cut the Channel Tunnel from Dover to Calais or of the 50 + year old blast doors at Cheyenne Mountain. Another photo shows tractor trailers in a cave supposedly delivering supplies for the elites, yet it is a stock photo of a well known underground warehouse complex in Missouri. It's so damned stupid as to be laughable, yet this co-worker of mine is now pissed at me for asking him to think a little more critically!
Warning! Stupid music and even more stupid text overlays some of the photos.
Here's the vid;
Archae
(46,337 posts)Guy in his 40's or 50's who believed in Santa Claus.
North Pole workshop, flying sleigh and everything.
He "saw Santa fly off the roof in his sleigh!"
I asked him if it had been a particularly vivid dream, I mean, I've had some screwy ones too.
Nope. He saw Santa!
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(24,371 posts)Archae
(46,337 posts)All I got back was a dirty look.