On Friday, a founding member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK, Asghar Bukhari, took to Facebook to get people to share his story about a missing shoe.
His post was shared but it didn’t get the response he hoped for.
The hashtag #Mossadstolemyshoe was trending on Twitter within hours.
Mr. Bukhari simply attributed the mockery to “intimidation of Muslim speakers” for which he blames Zionists.
In his original post he wrote:
“Are Zionists trying to intimidate me?”
“Someone came into my home yesterday, while I was asleep. I don’t know how they got in, but they didn’t break in – the only thing they took was one shoe.”
Bukhari claimed “they left one shoe behind to let me know someone had been there”.
He added: “Of course I can’t prove anything and that’s part of the intimidation. The game is simple – to make me feel vulnerable in my own home.”
He continued: “It is not the first time I have heard this happening. I have had another Muslim leader call me a year or so ago, in tears – she told me they had been coming into her house and re-arranging things – just to let her know they had been there.”
Then he said: “Share this widely, for if it is happening to me, I am sure it happening to many, many others who have not exposed it.”
One of his mockers on Twitter commiserated with Bukhari by suggesting their dogs were secretly working for Mossad.
Others suggested secret cameras or tying the laces together in order to keep shoe thieves at bay.
Bukhari retweeted various stories about his post going viral and posted a subsequent 15 minute repeating his claims.
On Sunday morning he tweeted: “Zionists organised over twitter over this campaign of intimidation of Muslim speakers. They really trying to hide something. Too late [sic].”
The Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK describes itself as a grassroots civil liberties organization that works to “expose and counter the sinister and toxic anti Muslim narrative that permeates mainstream politics and media”. It has been accused of being an extremist and anti-Semitic militant body and is banned from many universities as a hate group.
