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Greetings All,
PLEASE SPREAD THE WORD AND SIGN THE PETITION on the following, on what I conclude to be a truly FAKE article on Muslims which has started to filter into the headlines worldwide. The article in question details how a Muslim lady divorced her husband because he lifted her veil after 30 or so years, seeing her face for the very first time. If one only looks at the nature of this story, one can see it is fake, and yet when one does simple research it is easy to see how it is simply unfettered nonsense.
The offending newspapers in London which carried the article without ANY DUE corroboration were the London Metro and the Daily Mail. The Metro’s link is as follows:
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/world/article.html?in_article_id=148742&in_page_id=64
Simple investigation reveals the following - the Metro carried the story on May 21st , the Daily Mail on May 19th - right wing racist websites were running the story (the content of which were identical) BEFORE May 19th (no other ‘reputable’ medium were running it before then)! This shows the TRUE source of this story.
Now have a look at the following. The story first surfaced on the right wing Islam Watch website on May 14th, by someone using the fake name “Ibn Misr” (one can see how fake this name is):
http://www.islam-watch.org/Misr/Saudi-Woman-Divorce-for-Lifting-Veil.htm
The same “Ibn Misr”, using the same and differing aliases then contributed to hosts of other right-wing online mediums:
http://www.sonsofapesandpigs.org/2008/05/
http://arabiguitar.blogspot.com/
http://doctorbulldog.wordpress.com/page/2/
The unforgivable part is that the Metro didn’t even bother to change the wording of the article, and picked it up WORD FOR WORD when it first appeared in the ‘Islam Watch’ site, thus showing the truly horrendous nature of its editorial process (copying and pasting from a right wing website).
We ask that you spread the word to ALL, so that everyone becomes aware of this fake article, and that you sign the following petition to protest against the Daily Mail, Metro and other mediums for carrying this story without any authentication, and censor the Metro especially for picking this up word for word from a recognized racist website.
PETITION LINK (PLEASE SIGN, AND SPREAD THE WORD TO ALL):
http://www.facebook.com/topic.php?uid=4868899647&topic=4485
We hope that by highlighting this issue, we can help the global media portray the true image Islam, rather than the right wing/ militant/ ignorant images which seem to be manifesting from these racist sites such as Islam Watch. This is what citizen journalism is all about !
Kindest Regards,
FJ Team