Today is “Punish A Muslim Day” according to fliers that were circulated in the UK, and the international media is in hysterics. However, like so many “anti-Muslim hate crimes,” the letter is almost certainly a hoax. Here’s why:

1. No one in Britain or anywhere else is calling for vigilante attacks on innocent Muslims, and no foe of jihad terror in Britain or anywhere else condones such attacks. No prominent person supports the point of view represented by this letter. But that point of view does correspond to the Islamic supremacist/Leftist media myth that Muslims are routinely victimized in the UK and elsewhere in the West.

2. The fliers were sent to homes in Muslim areas of the UK, as you can see in the story below. If the vigilantes were intending to drum up support, these areas were the last places where they would have sent the fliers, but if the fliers are a hoax concocted by Muslims, then it would make sense for them to send them to Muslims who would publicize them.

3. The day is almost over and no Muslims anywhere have been attacked. Nor should there have been any such attacks. But this indicates that the people behind the fliers were not actually intending to attack any Muslims, lending credence to the likelihood that Muslims concocted the fliers in order to divert attention away from the Muslim rape gang scandals in the UK.

4. The people who sent the fliers are either very stupid vigilantes, for apparently not knowing that their fliers would only gain sympathy for their intended victims, or very smart hoaxers, wanting to reinforce the myth that Muslims are targets of widespread discrimination and harassment in the West. It is more likely that actual vigilante thugs would simply go out and brutalize innocent people, rather than telegraphing their intentions.

But as the old saying goes, the lie travels twice around the world before the truth has finished putting on its shoes. And so it goes.

“UK charity urges vigilance after ‘Punish a Muslim Day’ letters,” by Frances Perraudin, Guardian, March 11, 2018: