The story of the young Muslim woman attacked on a New York subway by supporters of Donald Trump, who allegedly tried to rip a hijab off her head, keeps getting stranger and stranger.
…and garnering less and less media coverage.
Turns out, Yasmin Seweid made the whole thing up and now faces charges of filing a false report and obstructing government administration, according to CBS News.
Yasmin Seweid arrested for making up story of anti-Muslim harassment by Trump supporters on NYC subway https://t.co/tD4RiHa4EB
— Natasha Fatah (@NatashaFatah) December 15, 2016
And while the media pounced on her claims of being harassed by Trump supporters because she’s a Muslim, the news she made the story up is getting scant coverage.
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Adding to the strangeness of it all, NBC New York reported that the Muslim teenager “went missing” after filing her false claim.
https://twitter.com/OmanReagan/status/807435724052054016
…only for her to then turn up in a New York courtroom with her head shaved.
The damage done by Yasmin Seweid’s hijab hate hoax https://t.co/MsTuAUnoFA
— Natasha Fatah (@NatashaFatah) December 16, 2016
The alleged hate crime that the media was only too happy to share turned out to be a hoax and Seweid’s troubles proved to be much closer to home.
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From The New York Post:
Her problem, it turns out, wasn’t Islamophobia, but living at home in a traditional Muslim family that allegedly didn’t care for her becoming “Westernized” — dating a Catholic, drinking and staying out late.
On Wednesday, she appeared in court sans hijab and with a shaven skull. It seems that her father removed the long locks she usually covered in a headscarf — and her eyebrows, too. Do New York’s progressives have any comment on that?
More on the reason behind the teen making the false claim:
I wrote the above thread before I knew any of this:Muslim student filed bias crime report to avoid curfew punishment https://t.co/3RXfiS3OZN
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) December 15, 2016
Yasmin Seweid’s parents forced her to shave her hair as punishment for dating.The picture of her w/ shaved head is heartbreaking & enraging
— Mona Eltahawy (@monaeltahawy) December 15, 2016
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The longest-tenured writer at BizPac Review, Tom grew up in Maryland before moving to Central Florida as a young teen. It is in the Sunshine State that he honed both his passion for politics and his writing skills.
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