This is just another in a long line of “Islamophobic hate crimes” that turns out to have been faked by Muslims. the Hamas-linked Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) wants and needs hate crimes against Muslims, because they’re the currency they use to buy power and influence in our victimhood-oriented society, and to deflect attention away from jihad terror and onto Muslims as putative victims. Hamas-linked CAIR, designated a terror organization by the United Arab Emirates, and other Muslims have on many occasions not hesitated to stoop even to fabricating “hate crimes,” including attacks on mosques. A New Jersey Muslim was found guilty of murder that he tried to portray as an “Islamophobic” attack, and in 2014 in California, a Muslim was found guilty of killing his wife, after first blaming her murder on “Islamophobia.”

“Woman admits she lied about being slashed in face, called ‘terrorist’ in lower Manhattan,” by Reuven Blau, Rocco Parascandola, Thomas Tracy, and John Annese, New York Daily News, April 1, 2016:

A woman who told cops she was called a terrorist and slashed on her cheek in lower Manhattan on Thursday later admitted she made up the story, police said early Friday.

The woman, who wore a headscarf, told authorities a blade-wielding wacko sliced open her face as she left a Manhattan cosmetology school, police sources said.

The 20-year-old student at the Make-up Designory on Broadway near Rector St., said she was walking toward Trinity Church at 4:10 p.m. Her attacker, she said, came up behind her by Wall St., grabbed her arm, and slashed a roughly 2-inch gash into her cheek, police said.

The woman claimed incident took place outside Trinity Church in downtown Manhattan on Thursday.

But police could find no video or witnesses to back up her account and she ultimately admitted her wound was self-inflicted.

The woman was taken to Bellevue Hospital for treatment and later a psychological evaluation….