Jacob Goldstein
Daily Stormer
March 25, 2017
A lot of racists assumed that the main victims of the London terror attack were the people who got run over by the truck, some of whom died, or the guy that was stabbed.
They would be wrong, as racists always are.
The Guardian has found the true victim of this attack.
And it’s someone who is, unsurprisingly, a member of a group of eternal victims.
A woman whose image became an Islamophobic meme after the Westminster terror attack has told of her horror and distress at the incident and the abuse she suffered afterwards.
The picture shows the woman wearing a hijab and looking at her phone on Westminster Bridge as people gathered around an injured person nearby. It was circulated on Twitter and by anti-Islam blogs as supposed evidence of her lack of concern. One social media user posted it alongside a photo of the Conservative MP Tobias Ellwood performing CPR on a victim with the caption “the main difference between Muslims and Christians”.
Another picture in the sequence made clear that she was distressed when it was taken. Now the woman has approached Tell Mama, a group which monitors anti-Muslim incidents, and asked them to circulate a statement on her behalf in response.
“I’m shocked and totally dismayed at how a picture of me is being circulated on social media,” she said. “To those individuals who have interpreted and commented on what my thoughts were in that horrific and distressful moment, I would like to say not only have I been devastated by witnessing the aftermath of a shocking and numbing terror attack, I’ve also had to deal with the shock of finding my picture plastered all over social media by those who could not look beyond my attire, who draw conclusions based on hate and xenophobia.”
She said her feelings at the time were of sadness, fear and concern, and added that she had talked to other witnesses to try to find out what was happening and see if she could offer help. She then called her family and helped a woman get to Waterloo station. “My thoughts go out to all the victims and their families,” she said.
She sent her gratitude to Jamie Lorriman, who took the picture, for speaking in her defence.
Tell Mama said the woman was distraught and that the use of the image “has undermined the confidence of an innocent young woman who was also caught up in the melee after the attacks”.
The woman has requested that the media stop circulating the image. She agreed to the Guardian’s use of the picture to illustrate a story clarifying the circumstances under which it was taken.
So, there you have it.
Even in her time of greatest need, having probably just escaped a Crusade or a brutal civil war in Syria or whatever, people on the internet thought it was okay to make fun of her.
Internet trolls are the real terrorists.