November 26, 2022, marked the 14th anniversary of the Mumbai terror attacks. In New Jersey, Indian Americans demonstrated outside the Pakistan community area. People still get shivers thinking about the 26/11 incident, which killed 166 people and wounded over 600 more. The 2008 attack was carried out by the terrorist organisation Lashkar-e-Taiba. During the attack, ten members of Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistani Islamist terrorist organisation, carried out 12 synchronized shooting and bombing strikes across Mumbai over the course of four days.
A mobile billboard truck bearing billboard commemorating the 26/11 attacks went across the state of New Jersey. However, it has harmed the so called sentiments of the Muslim community.
Azad Essa‘s report in Middle East Eye played down the grievousness of the Mumbai 2008 terror attack and stated that the Council for American Islamic Relations, New Jersey (Cair-NJ), has alleged that a mobile billboard truck displaying the Mumbai terror assault entered the parking area of the Muslim Center of Middlesex County in Piscataway and the New Brunswick Islamic Center last Saturday with the purpose of maligning the Muslim community.
The mobile billboard displaying the 26/11 terror attacks was accompanied by a sign that said, “We will not forgive, we will not forget.” Another sign stated, “No one was spared by the Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorists who invaded India through sea on a boat, men, women, children, or the old.”
The name of the Muslim community was not stated anywhere on the poster. The truck bore the names of LeT terrorists as well as images from the fatal terror attack. The mobile billboard truck displayed nothing controversial except the facts.
Instead of acknowledging the horrors of 26/11 terror attacks, The Council for American-Islamic Relations reverted to the old victimization narrative and began playing the Islamophobia card. Assad’s report added more to the pretense of Islamophobia.
| Claim | A mobile billboard displaying 26/11 images was done with an intention to hurt the sentiments of the Muslim community |
| Claimed by | The Council for American-Islamic Relations |
| Fact check | Fake |
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