Muslim Student Made Up Story About A Man In A Truck Wearing Camo Threatening Her With A Gun

A Muslim student at the University of Texas, Arlington admitted she lied when she claimed that a man followed her to school on Wednesday and threatened her with a gun.

The student posted the claim on Facebook and made reference to Tuesday’s triple murder of three Muslim students in Chapel Hill, N.C.

Numerous Muslim groups are alleging that that shooting was a hate crime.

The UTA student claimed that at around 9 a.m. on Wednesday a white man driving a white pickup truck with a Texas flag on the antenna followed her for six miles to campus.

After arriving at the school, the student said that the man, who she claimed was wearing a camouflage baseball cap, got out of his truck, threatened her verbally, and then pointed a handgun at her.

The university issued a campus-wide bulletin about the incident on Friday. And the president of the school’s Muslim Student Association, Amneh Jafari, advised students to walk in groups and to utilize campus security escorts to avoid danger, according to The Shoehorn, the school’s newspaper.

But later in the day, campus officials told reporters that the student admitted she fabricated the story and that she wasn’t even at the school at the time of the alleged incident, The Dallas Morning News reported.

It is unclear whether the student will be charged with filing a false report.

The student’s reference to the North Carolina shooting suggests that her goal in making the false claim may have been to draw awareness to anti-Muslim bias.

Craig Hicks, 46, murdered Deah Shaddy Barakat, 23; his wife, Yusor Mohammad Abu-Salha, 21; and her sister Razan Mohammad Abu-Salha, in their condominium near the University of North Carolina on Tuesday afternoon.

The shooting has sparked outrage from Muslims in the U.S. and throughout the world over concerns that it was a hate crime and that the media has failed to properly cover it.

The FBI and Department of Justice are investigating the shooting to see if Hicks violated any federal laws. President Obama endorsed the federal investigation on Friday and lent support to the claim that the shooting was a hate crime.

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