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  • 2017-05-11 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a Muslim Man Rape a 13-Year-Old Girl and Get Beaten by Trump Supporters? (en)
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  • On 26 April 2017, RedInfo.us posted a grisly picture of a badly battered man in a hospital bed with the inflammatory headline, BREAKING: This is American Muslim who rape 13 years old girl in Ohio he was beaten by Trump supporter. Do you support this? The story contains only one line of text, written in poor English: The short story is a total fabrication, and in fact, the man in the photograph is not Muslim. He is Amir Ayad, a Coptic Christian who, according to reports, was beaten by Islamic hardliners in 2013 in the Egyptian capital city of Cairo. Ayad was featured in several news stories about the incident, a riot in which members of the Muslim Brotherhood and their opponents clashed on 22 March 2013 near the Brotherhood's headquarters in Cairo. A reporter from Mideast Christian News (MCN), an agency that covers the Copts and other Christian minority communities in the Middle East, took the photograph of Ayad as he was recovering in a hospital. The MCN report and photograph was subsequently used by Fox News for their story on the incident. (A caption that reads MCNdirect can be seen in the lower right corner of the photograph.) Fox reported on 26 March 2013: Ayad recounted the experience to reporters from the Associated Press: The web site RedInfo.us is based in the Veles, a small city in the Eastern European nation of Macedonia, according to the domain lookup took WhoIs. Veles serves as a curious hub for web sites that spread fake news, often with an slant favoring U.S. president Donald Trump. As BuzzFeed News reported in November 2016: Despite the fact the story is completely fake, it was shared by numerous Facebook users, often with vengeful, misspelled comments like, He is a pig monster America should cut off his winnie and No, I do not support this . They should have beheaded him, then sent him back to where he can from. Ironically, before it was employed by RedInfo.com, Ayad's story and image in the hospital bed had been circulated in 2013 by numerous far-right and anti-Muslim blogs like BareNakedIslam.com and GatewayPundit.com to drum up anti-Muslim sentiment against his attackers. (en)
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