He stated he'd been harmed in other, more profound ways beyond the physical:
The physical wounds will heal with time, but the emotional scars -- the feeling of being targeted solely because of my physical appearance, heritage and beliefs -- are likely to linger.
CNN and AOL highlighted Omira's magnanimity with this headline: "Muslim student struck in Stanford hit-and-run calls for love, compassion, from hospital bed."
On November 21, Doug Emhoff (Mr. Kamala Harris) and U.S. Ambassador at Large Rashad Hussain met with Omira at Stanford to offer their support of Omira's "brave resolve." Emhoff somberly intoned, "No one should live in fear of being targeted for who they are. We must continue to fight back against Islamophobia and hate of every kind."
Note the crutch in the photo.
But there's a problem with the story.
Since the incident, if there was one, queries to police agencies investigating the hate crime have gone unanswered except for the statement that they're no longer overseeing the investigation or they're on vacation. We've heard nothing about arrests or witnesses. There is no information about CCTV confirmation of the attack, if such records exist. How many tips have come into the tipline on campus? No answer. An email to Omira's campus address went unanswered. Somewhere along the line ABC News changed its story about Omira, removing most of his bedside quotes included from its original story and truncating his heroic statements for some reason.
There's been only one storyline: that this brave and brilliant student is fortitude unblemished.
But there is another story told by his classmates that hasn't surfaced.
Omira's LinkedIn biography reveals that the AI enthusiast is also a humanitarian with a group in Syria called The White Helmets, which "is a community-based civil defense organization founded in 2013 to provide emergency management services in areas of Syria where state-run services had collapsed following the outbreak of the conflict."
They look like Antifa. Maybe they're Pallywood.
Joe Biden's secretary of State thinks the world of this group:
But why do Omira's fellow classmates think he's full of it?
Immediately after the drive-by Islmophobic attack, the Stanford Review, an alternative campus newspaper, reported that students offered a completely different take on our "brave" Stanford Islamist. They said that he was a "pathological liar" who had reported "another incident last year, which was also sent out in an email to the student body."
In other words, they believe Omira is at the very least a fabulist.
[T]he claim that he was a victim of a hate crime appears dubious. Students who know Omira personally refer to him as a “pathological liar,” and are deeply concerned that his story was fabricated. The Review confirmed this information with multiple students familiar with Omira.
tudents are increasingly concerned about the validity of the victim’s claims, and believe that Omira’s claim of a hate crime is likely fabricated. Multiple students describe Omira as a “pathological liar.” They also claim that he was also an alleged victim of another incident last year, which was also sent out in an email to the student body, in which “a stranger tapped a Middle Eastern student on the shoulder, called him a terrorist, and told him to ‘go home.’” The Review has confirmed these accounts with multiple students.
Those who know Omira also maintain that he has lied about and fabricated many other aspects of his life. In an Instagram post from 2019, a user who met him shared the life story that Omira had told him—the “craziest story” he had ever heard...
That "
craziest story" they'd ever heard involved Omira being kidnapped and held hostage by Syrian dictator Bashar Assad's henchmen, which, if you're in The White Helmets, doesn't seem so crazy.
