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Girl "scared" after hijab attack

  • 13-01-2018 04:25AM
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    Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 9,893 CMod ✭✭✭✭




    The claim made by the child in question is that a man walked up behind her at 8:30am while she was walking to school, pulled down the hood of her winter jacket, and started cutting her hijab with a scissors. She screamed and he ran away. She hurried across the road with her brother where they followed a crowd of people "to be safe".

    The man then came up behind her again moments later and resumed cutting her hijab. When she noticed him behind her cutting her hijab again, "he just smiled and ran away".

    The man managed to cut the hijab twelve inches.

    From extensive policing experience, none of this makes sense. The time, the setting, the assault, the risk of getting caught, the return of the smiling man "wearing all black" despite the crowd, no eyewitnesses from the crowd, no alarm raised, and so on, and so on.

    For all the above reasons and many more, I don't believe this happened, or it has been greatly, greatly exaggerated.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,115 ✭✭✭✭Junkyard Tom


    Shield wrote: »
    From extensive policing experience, none of this makes sense.

    And your 'extensive policing experience' compelled you to start this thread, about children not making sense, in After Hours?

    Really?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,556 ✭✭✭SuperSean11




  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,129 ✭✭✭✭Oranage2


    I'm not fan of any religion especially the 'extreme' ones, and I'm definitely against the hijab.

    But any attack on a child is sickly and cowardly.

    *Assuming this is of course true.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,880 ✭✭✭Canis Lupus


    A whole 9 minutes of who gives a sh*t.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,020 ✭✭✭BlaasForRafa


    Shield wrote: »

    For all the above reasons and many more, I don't believe this happened, or it has been greatly, greatly exaggerated.

    She's probably being prompted to do this by muslim activist relatives to get an "islamaphobia" story in the news. She doesn't sound emotional at all, it sounds like she learned her spiel from a script.


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  • Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators, Help & Feedback Category Moderators Posts: 9,893 CMod ✭✭✭✭Shield


    And your 'extensive policing experience' compelled you to start this thread, about children not making sense, in After Hours?

    Really?
    No. I don't have extensive police experience starting threads in After Hours.

    I had to draw on my extensive Boards experience for that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,133 ✭✭✭jonon9


    Shield wrote: »


    The claim made by the child in question is that a man walked up behind her at 8:30am while she was walking to school, pulled down the hood of her winter jacket, and started cutting her hijab with a scissors. She screamed and he ran away. She hurried across the road with her brother where they followed a crowd of people "to be safe".

    The man then came up behind her again moments later and resumed cutting her hijab. When she noticed him behind her cutting her hijab again, "he just smiled and ran away".

    The man managed to cut the hijab twelve inches.

    From extensive policing experience, none of this makes sense. The time, the setting, the assault, the risk of getting caught, the return of the smiling man "wearing all black" despite the crowd, no eyewitnesses from the crowd, no alarm raised, and so on, and so on.

    For all the above reasons and many more, I don't believe this happened, or it has been greatly, greatly exaggerated.

    Thats 300mm for you old bastards.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,325 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    Someone's gotta say the magic phrase!!!!

    Radical
    Islamic
    Terrorism


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 21,325 ✭✭✭✭Donald Trump


    jonon9 wrote: »
    Shield wrote: »

    The man managed to cut the hijab twelve inches.

    Thats 300mm for you old bastards.


    Cool. I have a 300mm willy so

    Along with me massive hands


    Take that fake news!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 22,655 ✭✭✭✭Tokyo


    Shield wrote: »
    From extensive policing experience, none of this makes sense. The time, the setting, the assault, the risk of getting caught, the return of the smiling man "wearing all black" despite the crowd, no eyewitnesses from the crowd, no alarm raised, and so on, and so on.

    For all the above reasons and many more, I don't believe this happened, or it has been greatly, greatly exaggerated.

    There's also the simple possibility that the guy had mental issues, which isn't beyond the scope of what's being described here. And far worse crimes have been committed against children in far more public places and times than given above.


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 7,275 ✭✭✭Your Face


    A dwarf attacked my Muslim friend once...



    It was a lowjab attack.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,365 ✭✭✭✭McMurphy


    Shield wrote: »

    Lil bollox in the background needs this treatment.




  • Closed Accounts Posts: 14,311 ✭✭✭✭weldoninhio


    Shield wrote: »


    The claim made by the child in question is that a man walked up behind her at 8:30am while she was walking to school, pulled down the hood of her winter jacket, and started cutting her hijab with a scissors. She screamed and he ran away. She hurried across the road with her brother where they followed a crowd of people "to be safe".

    The man then came up behind her again moments later and resumed cutting her hijab. When she noticed him behind her cutting her hijab again, "he just smiled and ran away".

    The man managed to cut the hijab twelve inches.

    From extensive policing experience, none of this makes sense. The time, the setting, the assault, the risk of getting caught, the return of the smiling man "wearing all black" despite the crowd, no eyewitnesses from the crowd, no alarm raised, and so on, and so on.

    For all the above reasons and many more, I don't believe this happened, or it has been greatly, greatly exaggerated.

    The fact that she’s claiming it happened the morning of the press conference, shows no emotion and seems to be very scripted makes me believe it never happened.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,969 ✭✭✭✭alchemist33


    I'm struggling to see why a minor assault, even if on a child, where nobody was physically harmed, and on another continent, is worthy of a thread here.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,460 ✭✭✭Bubbaclaus


    OP, in 1938, reading the newspaper. Reads about kristallnacht.

    "In my vast policing experience, this didn't happen"

    Because of the lack of internet he is unable to open thread on boards. He puts down the newspaper happy out he has told those liberals what is what in his mind again. The end.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    Attacks and abuse thrown at women in Islamic dress are common in the U.K. And have increased massively in recent years. It's not beyond the realms of possibility that similar stuff occurs in the US considering the xenophobia being stoked there.


  • Site Banned Posts: 1,489 ✭✭✭Ralf and Florian


    I'm a little sceptical TBH.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,023 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    She's probably being prompted to do this by muslim activist relatives to get an "islamaphobia" story in the news. She doesn't sound emotional at all, it sounds like she learned her spiel from a script.

    She's probably 3 or 4 raccoons dressed up in a trench coat with an intricate string and pulley system.

    'Bout as based on fact as your statement

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 23,023 ✭✭✭✭everlast75


    I'm struggling to see why a minor assault, even if on a child, where nobody was physically harmed, and on another continent, is worthy of a thread here.

    It's not. It's purpose is to bring the "debate" down to two points of view that are well aired on Boards and neither party will convince the other that they are wrong

    Elect a clown... Expect a circus



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,520 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    I’m struggling to find a point of this thread other than to be divisive.


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 751 ✭✭✭quintana76


    There have been several so called anti Islam attacks that were proved fake over the last year or so. Would not be surprised if this proves to be the case here. Justin Trudeau, never one to miss a chance to virtue signal has condemned it. Hope he ends up with egg all over his smug face.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,373 ✭✭✭Phoebas


    I'm struggling to see why a minor assault, even if on a child, where nobody was physically harmed, and on another continent, is worthy of a thread here.

    There just wasn't a thread on the first page of After Hours that allowed people to vent about either Islam or islamaphobia, so the OP helpfully searched the depths of the internet for something.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,252 ✭✭✭FTA69


    I’m struggling to find a point of this thread other than to be divisive.

    Exactly, even if this is a hoax (everything is possible) you can be sure there are countless real examples of Muslims in America being abused in the street.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 4,385 ✭✭✭Field east


    She's probably being prompted to do this by muslim activist relatives to get an "islamaphobia" story in the news. She doesn't sound emotional at all, it sounds like she learned her spiel from a script.

    Stories get legs , the media take them on, politicians get involved and give the story a higher profile, makes the news on TV and now it becomes a REAL story irrespective of whether it happened or not - or something fairly innocent may have happened but certainly not the story that was put out there. So I wonder what was the case here. Everybody, by their utterances/ actions have an agenda- be it an overt or covert one. There is no problem with one having an agenda but are they trying to keep it SECRET?

    By way of example , on the Late Late show last night, Liam Neeson had a very frightening story about a man who touched a woman's back in some endearing way during an interview or some similar situation in public felt that he should mention it to the lady afterwards that he should not have done it- now that we are in the ' Wynestein era'. He reiterated again a short time afterwards again what he had done and apologised for it. The lady ,on all occasions said not to worry, it was nothing, etc, etc. A few months afterwards a solicitor representing the lady sent a letter to the gentleman about the matter. You probably can accurately guess what the letter was about. Neeson was making the point that this area of "who touches who, in what way, etc , etc, etc" is gone overboard.
    So if it goes to court, who's story will will be believedand which story will be the correct one?


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,612 ✭✭✭✭meeeeh


    Is this 'there was no Muslim terrorists attack this week that I know of but we have to fill antimuslim quota' thread? You can do better op, I'm sure someone blew themselves up in Kabul or Mogadishu or somewhere. You can start a thread about that.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,520 ✭✭✭Fighting Tao


    meeeeh wrote: »
    Is this 'there was no Muslim terrorists attack this week that I know of but we have to fill antimuslim quota' thread? You can do better op, I'm sure someone blew themselves up in Kabul or Mogadishu or somewhere. You can start a thread about that.

    Sure it’s only noteworthy if it’s in the West. Muslims killing Muslims is surely a good thing in some people’s eyes.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 28,417 ✭✭✭✭vicwatson


    Stopped watching after a minute, though the young lad in the background was funny, fixing his hair and sh1t


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 16,134 ✭✭✭✭Discodog


    Shield wrote: »


    The claim made by the child in question is that a man walked up behind her at 8:30am while she was walking to school, pulled down the hood of her winter jacket, and started cutting her hijab with a scissors. She screamed and he ran away. She hurried across the road with her brother where they followed a crowd of people "to be safe".

    The man then came up behind her again moments later and resumed cutting her hijab. When she noticed him behind her cutting her hijab again, "he just smiled and ran away".

    The man managed to cut the hijab twelve inches.

    From extensive policing experience, none of this makes sense. The time, the setting, the assault, the risk of getting caught, the return of the smiling man "wearing all black" despite the crowd, no eyewitnesses from the crowd, no alarm raised, and so on, and so on.

    For all the above reasons and many more, I don't believe this happened, or it has been greatly, greatly exaggerated.

    I hope it's in the past if you don't know the rules when dealing with any suspected assault on a child.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,460 ✭✭✭Barry Badrinath


    Well if she doesnt like it, she should stop being a terrorist.

    /sarcastic post/


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,544 ✭✭✭Samaris


    Poor kid.

    Can't possibly know the truth from here, so I am more inclined to accept her word until proven false by the actual police.


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