In March 2022, a prominent Muslim preacher, Uthman Ibn Farooq, told the world he had been stabbed in downtown San Diego by a man shouting anti-Muslim slurs at him. He recorded the incident as it happened and subsequently posted the video to social media, garnering sympathy from his thousands of Muslim followers and leaving many wondering if they’d be the next victim of a so-called “Islamophobic” hate-crime.
IslamismNews Within hours, news of the alleged attack spread far and wide beyond San Diego. In the UK, the Muslim news organization 5Pillars offered their sympathies to Uthman and condemnations for the attacker. The story even made headlines in Muslim news outlets as far away as Nigeria and South Africa. Uthman’s own video of the incident has, to date, been viewed nearly half a million times, and a number of other prominent Muslim YouTubers have covered the incident including Eddie Deen, whose YouTube channel has more than 537,000 subscribers.
Soon after the attack, Uthman stated he had filed a report of the attack with the San Diego police. After an apparent months-long search, Farooq revealed in September that the alleged attacker had finally been caught and arrested.
In the minds of his supporters, the saga, which attracted a significant amount of attention, likely confirmed Uthman’s reputation as a tough and confrontational street preacher known for his verbal face-offs with Christians, Jews, and Hindus documented in hundreds of videos on his YouTube channel.
News of the stabbing was first reported in a March 23 tweet by the Muslim news outlet 5Pillars UK. The tweet included a photo Uthman took of himself in his car, bloodied by an apparent stab wound on his lower abdomen. The tweet mentioned that Uthman was stabbed at a public dawah stall and that he was targeted because of his frequent public proselytizing of Islam. His supporters were quick to offer sympathies, while others lamented the perceived double standards and hypocrisy of Western media for not reporting on this hate crime.
There’s just one problem. There is little, if any, evidence to indicate that this alleged “Islamophobic” hate crime against Uthman ever took place. Repeated inquiries to the San Diego police indicate that no report about the stabbing was ever filed and that no arrest has been made.
The next day, Uthman’s Islamic non-profit organization, One Message Foundation, posted the video of the encounter that he had taken on his phone on its YouTube channel. The video shows a white male in a baseball cap and a disposable face mask aggressively approaching Uthman’s car and shouting at him.
The very next day after the Uthman posted the video, the San Diego Union Tribune reported the attack in a story published under the headline “Local Muslim Imam says in viral video that he was attacked by man who called him a terrorist.”
According to the article, the San Diego Police Department could not provide details as to when or where the incident occurred, but that the SDPD was aware of the video and had been in touch with Uthman.
The San Diego chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) condemned “this apparently bias-motivated attack on Sheikh Uthman and pray for his full recovery.”
No record of the incident exists in a publicly accessible database of hate-crimes maintained by the police department.
With no luck searching through San Diego’s hate-crimes database for any additional information about the incident, FWI reached out to the SDPD’s records department to request any police reports or incident notes regarding the March, 23, 2022 attack.
Ater thoroughly reviewing the footage posted by Uthman, the location of the alleged incident can apparently be identified from rapid still frames of the video shown below.
The location of the incident appears to be a gas station located at 1606 Market Street in San Diego. A query based on this information was re-submitted to the SDPD on September 6, 2022, which also turned back inconclusive. An email from the police department reads as follows:
Good afternoon,
Thank you for your message. After a diligent search using the location and amended date of
March 23, 2022 provided, the San Diego Police Department has no responsive records.Kind regards.”
After the request to SDPD yielded no results, FWI reached out to Lieutenant Adam Sharki, the spokesperson for the SDPD who was quoted in the earlier Tribune article. In an email dated September 22nd, 2022, Lt. Sharki stated that Uthman had not filed a report to the San Diego Police Department after the incident.
Good morning,
This gentleman did not file a police report.
Thank you,Adam T. Sharki
Lieutenant
Public Information Officer
San Diego Police Department
Alleged attacker appears at 2:30 in video but no attack is ever seen:
Pray Hard says
Stabbed in his typical whiny islamic emotions probably.
Bubba Grump's Nutz says
We can blame iPhone 14 for all of this professional grade Bollywood crapola.
Linda Rivera says
It’s common practice for Muslims to perpetrate FAKE HATE HOAX Crimes. Muslims do this all the time.
Quran (8:12) “I will cast terror into the hearts of those who disbelieve. Therefore strike off their heads and strike off every fingertip of them”
MUSLIMS are MASTERS of DECEPTION
Mohammad’s Quran WAR Book instructs Muslims to LIE to, and DECEIVE Non-Muslims.
In Mohammad’s Quran, Mohammad’s God is called the GREATEST DECEIVER. It’s why it’s Committing NATIONAL SUICIDE for Christian and other non-Muslim nations to allow Muslims residency in their nations.
Quran (3:56) – “As to those who reject faith, I will punish them with terrible agony in this world and in the Hereafter, nor will they have anyone to help.”
Classy Infidel says
As usual, it is a bunch of crap. The said attacker is right-handed, he gestures with his right hand, no knife. And with the guy sitting down, it would be quite the exercise to reach into the car and bend down and cut through his clothing to reach his chubby stomach.
BareNakedIslam says
Good observation.
Classy Infidel says
Thank you.
Martelson says
Without actual real evidence (besides claims), I no longer give any time to these claims as having anything to them but being lies for some personal benefit.
Christian Sort Of says
It used to be so difficult to get into the USA. All those documents? All that anti Communism stuff. Any Nazi sympathies or erections? What happened? Now you had better be fully
bent over and stand for nothing. Mosques up and what used to be up. Islam is like AIDS. No wait,,,,,,
Alessandro says
Has all the hallmarks of a staged incident.