{"id":17361,"date":"2016-12-16T05:12:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:12:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/?p=17361"},"modified":"2016-12-16T05:12:18","modified_gmt":"2016-12-16T05:12:18","slug":"muslim-woman-fabricated-report-trump-supporters-threatening-nyc-subway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.biphoo.com\/bipnews\/news\/muslim-woman-fabricated-report-trump-supporters-threatening-nyc-subway.html","title":{"rendered":"Muslim woman fabricated report of Trump supporters threatening her on NYC subway"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Muslim woman fabricated report of Trump supporters threatening her on NYC subway<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

Muslim woman fabricated report of Trump supporters threatening her on NYC subway:-<\/strong> A young Muslim woman in New York who said she was threatened on a subway train by Donald Trump supporters made the story up, according to police.<\/span><\/p>\n

New York police arrested Yasmin Seweid, 18, on Wednesday and charged her with obstructing governmental administration and filing a false report, according to a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seweid told police that on Dec. 1 that three drunk white men began shouting, \u201cTrump! Trump!\u201d to her while attempting to snatch the hijab off her head. The story was widely reported and was featured on the front page of the New York Daily News with the headline \u201cHate and the City.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

New York news media reported Thursday that Seweid made up the story to avoid being punished for staying out past curfew. She appeared in court with a shaved head, which the Daily News said was punishment by her parents for the incident. The Baruch College student faces up to a year in jail for each of the charges.<\/span><\/p>\n

The Daily News denounced Seweid for wasting the resources of the Police Department and for hurting fellow Muslims. \u201cThe next time a real victim of real hate comes forward, more cynics will scoff,\u2019\u2019 the newspaper wrote.<\/span><\/p>\n

Seweid\u2019s allegation was among a series of reported incidents after the election in which attackers invoked the president-elect\u2019s name. Since Nov. 8, civil rights groups such as the Southern Poverty Law Center and Council on American Islamic Relations have documented hundreds of incidents around the country that targeted Muslims, blacks, Jews, Latinos, immigrants and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people.<\/span><\/p>\n

Last month the FBI reported a 67% increase in hate crimes against Muslims in 2015 compared with the previous year.<\/span><\/p>\n

A few of the more recent reports have been proved to be false.<\/span><\/p>\n

In one case, police said a female Muslim student at University of Louisiana at Lafayette falsely reported that men attacked her on campus the day after the election, took her wallet and removed her hijab, or head scarf.<\/span><\/p>\n

In another incident, police said a 27-year-old African American man in Volusia County, Fla., taped a note with \u201cKKK\u201d and \u201cTrump\u201d written on it to his girlfriend\u2019s mailbox this week, then threw a brick through her car window and spilled gasoline on her back seat because he was mad at her over a child custody battle. The man made it look like a hate crime to deter police from investigating him, authorities said.<\/span><\/p>\n

In New York, Muslim students held a rally Dec. 6 to protest harassment of women in head scarves. Organizers were concerned that Yasmin Seweid did not appear, and thought she felt too anxious to show up.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWe will take a strong stand against false reporting,\u2019\u2019 said Rana Abdelhamid, one of the organizers, adding that she had not spoken to Seweid and wanted to hear an explanation of what happened.<\/span><\/p>\n

The group, Women\u2019s Initiative for Self Empowerment, said in a statement that it feared the incident \u201cwould make it more challenging for all the women we connect with, many of whom do not share their experiences of hate-based violence publicly, to report these crimes.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Kaleem reported from Los Angeles and Demick from New York.<\/span><\/div>\n

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