On January 7th 2009, The Sun newspaper published a now notorious front
page article, which alleged that Islamic extremists were using an
online forum at Ummah.com to compile a ‘hit list’ of prominent British
Jews.
By the end of the following day, an investigation conducted by Tim Ireland (of Bloggerheads fame/notoriety) had successfully identified Glen Jenvey,
the self-styled ‘anti-terror expert’ who, according to the Sun, had
uncovered the ‘evidence’ of an alleged Islamist plot to attack a number
of prominent Jewish figures as ‘abuislam’, the author of the comment on
Ummah.com forum on which the entire story was based. A little over 9
months later, following a Press Complaints Commission investigation and
a full confession by Jenvey, who has converted to Islam and taken the name Omar Hamza Jenvey, The Sun finally apologised
to Ummah.com, while claiming that both they and Patrick Mercer MP, a
former Shadow Minister for Homeland Security and current Chairman of
the House of Commons Sub-Committee on Counter-Terrorism, who commented
on Jenvey’s allegations in the original (now withdrawn) story, had been
duped into their respective parts in the original story.
Tim’s
takedown of The Sun’s fake ‘hit list’ story gained a lot of attention
at the time, and has gained Tim a lot of unwelcome attention since. As
a result a second ‘celebrity terror threat’ story, which appeared in a
British tabloid newspaper in the same week as went almost unnoticed –
until now.
On Sunday 11 January 2009, the Mirror Group’s People newspaper published its own ‘exclusive’ celebrity terror threat story.
Like the story that appeared in the Sun, four days earlier, The People
alleged that threatening messages had been posted to British-run
Islamic internet forums in relation to a prominent celebrity with well
documented ‘Jewish’ connections, in this case Madonna, whose
involvement in the Kabbalah movement has been the subject of
considerable tabloid interest from some time.
More information here: http://www.ummah.com/forum/showthread.php?t=231260
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