Image: CJ Werleman, Meena Harris, Twitter Screenshots

Blue Check Activist ‘Against Islamophobia’ Falsely Tweeted That Muslim Boulder Shooter is a ‘White Guy’

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Today in the aftermath of the King Sooper shooting in Boulder, CO it has come to light that yesterday’s shooting suspect is Ahmad Al Issa. Issa of middle eastern descent is speculated to be from Syria, living most of his life in the United States. Issa is a Muslim and reports are coming out that he may have sworn allegiance to ISIS right before the shooting.

However, before any of this was known many took to Twitter to spew their anti-white rhetoric in hopes that the shooter would fit their narrative of a white male. One such individual is writer CJ Werleman self-proclaimed activist against Islamophobia, without any evidence tweeted, “The suspect gunman in the Boulder, Colorado mass shooting is a white guy. Seven reported dead! Cue “mental issues,” “bad day,” “parking dispute,” or anything else other than what he most likely is a white domestic terrorist.” The irony in his statement is that now that we know this to be incorrect it is very unlikely Werleman would apply the same language to the shooter and call him an Islamic domestic terrorist.

Werleman was certainly not alone with the anti-white sentiment that came pouring forth on Twitter. Race and Inclusion Editor at USA TODAY Hemal Jhaveri tweeted “it’s always an angry white man. always.” Her tweet was screenshotted by another user and can be seen below. Jhaveri has doubled down on her anti-white rhetoric with another tweet even after it became clear she was wrong. “Yep. Not gonna happen.” with the retweet of another woman staying, “My in-box and DMs are full of extremely upset white men who don’t give a damn about mass shootings but are demanding I issue a blanket apology to white men. To which I say . . . NO.” Some may gather from her tweets that she has a strong dislike for white men.

Twitter user Alex Cole also took to Twitter to assume the shooter was a white man and decided to add on to the anti-white rhetoric with “Right down the street, police killed Elijah McClain while he apologized for not doing anything wrong”. All of this in the light that Yesterday one of the victims was also a Boulder police officer. Elijah McClain was shot in the town of Aurora Colorado a town approximately an hour away from Boulder. Cole adds his Instagram page requesting that people “Follow me on Instagram”.

“A white man walked into a grocery store in Boulder, killed 10 people, and was apprehended by the police and walked out of the building completely unharmed. Right down the street, police killed Elijah McClain while he apologized for not doing anything wrong.”

Another Twitter user David Hoffman who appears to be a white male himself decided to hone in on a more specific category of white men with his tweet. “I’ll bet anyone my salary right now that the shooter in boulder is right wing, MAGA, white male”. People may wonder who he will be giving his salary to.

Lawyer and Author from San Fransico Meena Harris appears to give an apology for a tweet she has since deleted but decided to blame it on the “majority of mass shootings in the U.S. are carried out by white men.” This sham apology doesn’t excuse her anti-white rhetoric or her attempt to justify it to herself to her followers.

National file has covered the suspected shooter in a story also claiming that Facebook has scrubbed his profile from the internet. The article reads, “Facebook has removed all access to the Facebook profile believed to belong to Ahmad Al Issa, the person identified by police as the King Sooper shooting suspect who killed 10 in the Boulder, Colorado shooting. Screenshots of the Facebook page take by Twitter users reveal that Al Issa was a devout Muslim who believed in conspiracy theories.

Ahmad Al Issa’s profile was abruptly removed from the website, internet archive websites including Archive.is and the Wayback machine, and Google’s cache nearly simultaneously.

On March 16, 2019, Al Issa shared a conspiracy theory that there was more than one shooter involved in the horrific Christchurch Mosque Shooting that occurred in New Zealand.

Similarly, Al Issa believed he was under attack from “racist Islamophobic people” who were “hacking” his smartphone. “Yeah if these racist islamophobic people would stop hacking my phone and let me have a normal life I probably could,” wrote Al Issa on June 5, 2019.” The article goes on to highlight other screenshots taken from the profile before it was scrubbed.

In a new article from National File, Laura Loomer claims that the shooting suspect swore allegiance to ISIS before committing the attack.

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