By Ben Shapiro
In the aftermath of the Syndey terrorist attack on a Lindt chocolate café by an Islamic terrorist, the hashtag #Illridewithyou trended worldwide on Twitter. The hashtag was dedicated to the notion that Muslims in Australia were in some sort of grave danger from the surrounding population, and required protection from good-hearted non-Muslims to feel comfortable.
The woman whose tweets launched the hashtag, Rachael Jacobs, is a lecturer at Australia Catholic University. She posted on Facebook that after the news broke, she saw a Muslim woman sitting on her train, unpinning her headscarf with tears in her eyes. “I ran after her at the train station,” Jacobs explained. “I said, ‘put it back on, I’ll walk with you.’ She started to cry and hugged me for about a minute, then walked off alone.”
Jacobs then refused all media interviews, supposedly because she didn’t want to capitalize on her own saintliness. But sympathetic Aussies picked up on the story and pushed the hashtag trend to the top of Twitter.
Now, Jacobs admits that she made up the story, magnified her own heroism, and didn’t even know if the woman with the headscarf was Muslim.
Read more at Truth Revolt.
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