There is an Islamophobe hoax circulating the internet which showcases a Hamas mass wedding celebration and claims the brides were all prepubescent girls. A couple of key picture the Islamophobes use in this “Hamas pedophile” hoax:
Now then, the Islamophobes allege the prepubescent girls in this picture were being married off to the men and subsequently move seamlessly onto their sinister agenda of painting Muslim men as paedophiles and rapists. The reality is the girls in the picture were not the brides but were family members of the brides/grooms who were getting married– the girls pictured were NOT getting married.
It was simply a bunch of pictures (and video footage) from a Palestinian (Hamas) mass marriage celebration. This fact is confirmed by a SKY NEWS reporter, Tim Marshall, who was present at the marriage celebration; Tim Marshall was indeed livid at the sinister nature of the hoax as a result he came out to expose the hoax.
Tim Marshall went to the extent of leaving comments on the sites which ran with the hoax “paedophile marriage” claims:
“Dozens, and I mean dozens, of websites took the video of the event and wrote lurid stories about Hamas mass paedophilia with headlines about '450 child brides', and endless copy about how disgusting this was…I spent a few hours visiting websites and leaving comments where I could. To little avail.
Instead I received a steady stream of vitriol. The best response was on a site run by a Debbie Schlussel . The guy who posted it said he wasn't interested in the detail. The detail being the fact that the girls weren't the brides.
It showed how much some people want to believe nonsense like this, as it re-inforces their prejudices.. "[1]
In fact, Hamas also denounced the hoax and confirmed most of the girls who were married were above the age of 18 and the youngest was 16. [2]
Summary
There was no mass marriage of prepubescent girls (or any rape for that matter). The girls pictured were NOT the brides but were actually the family members attending the wedding celebrations.
Somebody started this hoax off deceptively or through a lack of research and scrutiny. Sadly hateful, ignorant and unwise people spread this hoax all over the internet.
Herein lies the problem, people are willing to throw aside scrutiny and in some cases even fabricate plus invent in a malicious capacity in order to have a dig at Muslims and mudsling at Islam.
My dear friends learn about Islam from the Muslims rather than anti-Muslim hate sites. A funny quote I recently heard from a YouTube user (qwertyfshag): “don’t visit retarded anti-Muslim sites because they will make you retarded”
For further information on the concerning this hoax see hoax slayer:
http://www.hoax-slayer.com/mass-muslim-marriage.shtml
References
[1] Tim Marshall from Sky News http://blogs.news.sky.com/foreignmatters/Post:dcc9d723-8046-4857-b618-5c1135ba6417
[2] http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=106002
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6 comments:
where are all the christianofascists? is anonymousing takin a little vacation? haven't heard from him in awhile. he kinda challeneged me to a debate on the verse philippians 1:18 where you can lie, cheat and decieve for Christ then ran away.
you know there's something about anonymousing. he's a die-hard defender of david wood and nabeel quereshi. he often pastes links from there onto this blog. i never found a user with that name on answeringmuslims before i got blocked. i still visit it, and i STILL find no user with the name anonymousing. it's obvious, this guy's undercover. he has an actual user name.
PS if you want something on "child brides", i found 5 pastors who were charged for indecent relationships with minors from july to september ALONE. this is a serious problem. this happens VERY often. and i haven't yet heard christians condemning this.
@Ali,
Salam.
Yes, I did see one of those posts and it does highlight the hypocrisy of Christian Islamophobes who have been spreading this hoax against Muslims whilst child sex and other sex crimes are reported within many ministries (not just Catholic).
Yet for some reason they remain silent and present hoaxes in order to have a dig at Muslims!
As for anonymousing, he knows the anonymous shield protects him from the full force of the rebukes he receives. I have a few suspects in mind with regards to his true identiity
cont..
Are they lying and fabricating because of the Bible?
Initially when people would come to me and ay Christians are allowed to lie to further Christianity I was always unresponsive but it does seem as though this issue need to be discussed becasue there are sooo many ministries on the internet and in the real world who are presenting misinformation.
BTW, I have been informed Bill Keller's ministry use this mass child wedding hoax to attack Muslims and evangelise!
Philippians 1:18 (New International Version)
18But what does it matter? The important thing is that in every way, whether from false motives or true, Christ is preached. And because of this I rejoice.
This phrase is key:
"whether from false motives or true"
Ali, if you have any posts on this verse then please send the links over here.
thanks
Ali - i have already answered your claims about Phillippians 1:18.
In no way shape or form is Paul telling anyone to lie.
Paul talks about peoples MOTIVES, and not the HAQQ words about Jesus coming from their mouthes.
I did not challenge you to anything, it would be a waste of time.
But if you want, we can talk about Muhammad telling his followers to lie:
"Who is willing to kill Ka'b bin Al-Ashraf who has hurt Allah and His Apostle?" Thereupon Muhammad bin Maslama got up saying, "O Allah's Apostle! Would you like that I kill him?" The Prophet said, "Yes," Muhammad bin Maslama said, "Then allow me to say a (FALSE) thing (i.e. to DECEIVE Kab). "The Prophet said, " You MAY say it." ... [Bukhari Vol 5 Book 59 Num 369]
I havent been here for a while sicne yahya is a NAZI CENSOR and disables comments on his more "controversial" posts (ie Hogwash posts)
Cheers.
@anonymousing,
Please go over to thegrandverbalizer's blog and read his latest posts as you will get receive some humbling insight
Peace
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