I saw this story last night, it’s from Tuesday and headlined, ‘Muslim Woman Reports Harassment, Pepper Spray Assault.’ CAIR (Council on American Islamic Relations) is involved and calling the incident a hate crime.
Here is the story at WBNS-10TV:
COLUMBUS, Ohio — Federal and local authorities are investigating a possible hate crime after a Muslim woman said she was verbally harassed and pepper sprayed on Monday outside of an Islamic center on the city’s west side.
According to a news release issued by the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the attack happened at about 1:30 p.m. near the Abubaker Siddique Islamic Center on Sullivant Avenue.
The woman, 20, who asked not to be identified, told authorities that she first noticed a man who appeared to be watching and following her, 10TV’s Maureen Kocot reported.
“I had a bad feeling about the man while I was driving,” she said. “He looked at me in a very strange way.”
According to the woman, the man followed her to the Abubaker Siddique Islamic Center, where he got out of his vehicle and approached her.
“He just started yelling at me, cursing me out,” she said. “Saying he’s going to kill me, and saying, ‘I’m going to kill all of you, all you guys. Tell the Muslims to go back from wherever they are from.'”
The woman, who was wearing Islamic attire, told 10TV News that the man then used pepper spray on her.
“He took the spray and just sprayed it all over me,” she said. “Like, all over me. My whole eyes, my whole face, everything.”
Fortunately there is a surveillance video posted with the story. Please watch it! Clearly she is seen driving very fast into a parking space with another vehicle hot on her tail. The man blocks her vehicle with his and is seen jumping out and running to the passenger door and shouting at her. Who knows what he said, maybe she had just cut him off on the highway and this was a road rage incident.
However, this is the questionable part: WHAT WOMAN IN HER RIGHT MIND WOULD HAVE OPENED THE CAR WINDOW TO ALLOW HIM TO DO ANYTHING TO HER? She was also completely covered with a hajib from head to toe, so that doesn’t jive with her description of him spraying her whole face. And there didn’t appear to be anything in the man’s hands nor did he make any motion of spraying anything.
CAIR sure got involved fast wouldn’t you say!
Readers, if you see more on this fishy story please send it my way.
Endnote: It is not clear if the woman was an immigrant, a refugee, or an American convert to Islam. I was just interested in the story.
Update! Now I see they are saying she is a Somali immigrant. Please go listen to her speak in the interview in the above story then read this below.
You gotta laugh if you watched the surveillance tape, this is how the story is being told in a Somali publication. They say she was beaten up by men!
A Somali women was attacked by men with pepper spray in COLUMBUS Ohio, on Monday.
The men attacked Ms.Saida Said as she was leaving a Mosque in the city, they used pepper spray while they were beatening her up, say eyewitnesses.
It is not yet known the reason behind the attack on the 20 years old female from Somalia.
The mosque officials reported the assualt and provided security camera recordings to the police.