{"id":4098,"date":"2009-09-15T17:33:41","date_gmt":"2009-09-15T17:33:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tat.reddaisytrading.co.uk\/index.php\/2009\/09\/15\/extremist-jew-plot-story-was-wrong\/"},"modified":"2016-01-07T11:42:21","modified_gmt":"2016-01-07T11:42:21","slug":"extremist-jew-plot-story-was-wrong","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2009\/09\/15\/extremist-jew-plot-story-was-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Extremist Jew plot story was \u2018wrong\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Newspaper admits Muslim terror story was wrong, but offers no apology<\/h3>\n
A NATIONAL newspaper which ran a front page story claiming leading British Jews were being targeted by Islamic extremists have admitted they were duped by a \u2018phoney terrorism expert\u2019.<\/strong><\/div>\n

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The Sun newspaper today admitted the story, which carried the headline \u201cTerror Target Sugar\u201d was wrong \u2013 but did not offer an apology.<\/div>\n

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The article, which was published in January, quoted from the papers \u2018anti-terrorism expert\u2019 Glen Jenvey who claimed online Muslim forum Ummah.com was being used by extremists to target leading British Jews in revenge for Israel’s invasion of Gaza.<\/div>\n

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It named figures such as Lord Alan Sugar and singer Amy Winehouse as targets in the terrorist plot. <\/div>\n

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But just days after the Sun published the story, internet forums were abuzz over claims that Jenvey was responsible himself for the comments made on the website. <\/div>\n

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Today the Sun finally admitted their story was false after Jenvey confessed he had posted the extremist comments on Ummah.com in an interview with BBC reporter Tom Mangold, aired on Sunday’s edition of Donal MacIntyre’s Radio Five Live show.<\/div>\n

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\u201cGlen Jenvey has admitted making up stories about Islamic fundamentalism, including a faked list of prominent Jewish “targets”, which included Lord Alan Sugar,\u201d the paper wrote. <\/div>\n

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\u201cJenvey told how he fabricated the list of Jewish targets by posing as a fundamentalist on an extremist website where he urged others to suggest names. <\/div>\n

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\u201cHe then leaked the made-up list to a trusted news agency, used by The Sun, and online forum Ummah.com was wrongly accused of being used to prepare a backlash against UK Jews.\u201d<\/div>\n

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When the story was published, Ummah.com hit out at the accusations saying: \u201cIt is extremely difficult to believe that The Sun has not deliberately set out to deceive its readers into thinking that British Muslims on our website pose a physical threat to prominent British Jews, whilst knowing full well that this is an outright lie.\u201d<\/div>\n

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The forum added it had evidence to show that the user \u2018Abuislam\u2019 who had posted the comments was in fact Jenvey whose aims were to \u201ctwist\u201d the original intent of the forum discussion and to \u201cmake Muslims look bad\u201d.<\/div>\n

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Newspaper admits Muslim terror story was wrong, but offers no apology A NATIONAL newspaper which ran a front page story claiming leading British Jews were being targeted by Islamic extremists have admitted they were duped by a \u2018phoney terrorism expert\u2019. The Sun newspaper today admitted the story, which carried the headline \u201cTerror Target Sugar\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11753,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4098","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11753"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}