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Trump’s Muslim ban leads to Texas mosque being burned to the ground!

Tom Cahill wrote a case study article for the site US Uncut titled, “Hours after Trump’s Muslim ban, Texas mosque burned to the ground,” January 28, 2017 AD. Thus, my focus is not defending POTUS Donald Trump—as I have utterly no reasons nor interest in doing so—but in investigating the issue of #fakenews and how it spread on the web. Cahill’s article is a case study in fake news and present double fake news in one article. Note that as per a Hoaxy report this article has made its way to 776 online sites (as of January 29, 2017 AD) and has been fact checked an absolute zero times.

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The story is simple enough—too simple in fact: Trump promulgates a “Muslim ban” also in the article as “halting Muslim immigration” and this led directly to a “Texas mosque” being “burned to the ground” thus, Trump’s actions led to Islamophobic arson.

But how does Tom Cahill know this? Well, this pertains to the Islamic Center of Victoria the president of which, Shahid Hashmi, said he was told that it “is a restricted area for now for the investigation.”
Fire Marshal Tom Legler “said the cause of the fire is currently unknown.”

So there is no story.

But, Cahill takes it upon himself to inform us that according to well, his Spidey senses tingling, “The timing of the fire is peculiar.” As we saw, he has a reason for making this un-evidenced assertion “President Donald Trump signed an executive order halting all refugee resettlement for 120 days on Friday, and indefinitely banning immigration from predominantly Muslim countries.”

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Now, at this point my point is that the cause is simply unknown and so Cahill is clearly and dangerously jumping to division causing conclusions. It may actually turn out that some unstable nut thought to themselves, “Well, then, ol’ Trump is keepin’ them Muslims out: now I’ma gonna make ’em leave!” Yet, we know of no such facts at this point. Also, since we are told that Muslim terrorists are not Muslims even when they claim to be and have lived their whole lives as Muslims then no one can be possible said to be motivated by what Trump does—thus, are the ways of our poop-culture’s modus operandi of emotions first and thinking is not applicable.

As you can see from my post What does Trump’s executive order on immigration ban REALLY say? anyone who actually goes through the trouble of reading the mere few pages will know that Trump’s executive order on immigration does not state anything to the effect of that there is a “Muslim ban,” there is no “halting Muslim immigration” no “halting all refugee resettlement” and no “indefinitely banning immigration from predominantly Muslim countries.”
In fact, ever since the Order was signed plenty of Muslims from plenty of Muslim countries have entered the USA—even some from the Muslim countries mentioned in the Order.

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Tom Cahill then writes, “If the fire is indeed arson…” so clearly he is writing a much ado about nothing article. Yet, the way I have seen it dealt with online is the manner in which many people deal with much such info: read the headline, come to absolutist conclusions and use #fakenews as a platform from which you express divisive hatred even whilst pretending to be concerned about the spread of divisive hatred.

Now, Cahill writes that if what he imagines might, perhaps, possible be the case “it wouldn’t be the first time the mosque was targeted by vandals.” Really? Tell us more Mr. History. Mosques have been around for some one and a half millennia: yes, Cahill we are aware that this is not the first time in history.

Finally, there is the follow the money shot as “A GoFundMe page has been launched…The Islamic Center of Victoria is seeking $450,000 to rebuild.”

Now, let us play Tom Cahill’s game and see how he, at al., like it. This comes down to money so why not simply speculate that such was the end result: the Center needed repairs or an upgrade so burn it down, gain sympathy, get money and the scam writes itself.

Yet, this is not solely Cahill style wild speculation as it is more than probable. In 2015 AD a Muslim man named Gary Nathaniel Moore was brought before a court and pled guilty to charges of setting ablaze the Houston, Texas Savoy Masjid Mosque. This was a Mosque he attended and in which he practiced Islam for more than five years.

So, everyone should learn that which no one will learn: discern the “news,” demand factual follow-ups after the attention getting click-batting headlines and withhold conclusions until the facts are in: I know, I know who wants to do all of that bothersome waiting for inconvenient facts when you can just “like,” “forward,” “post,” with a one second click on a button?

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