Hasan Minhaj arrived just in time to witness the post-funny clapter comedy created by identity politics crybabies like Hannah Gadsby and social scolders like Jon Stewart and John Oliver. Being Muslim, but no Arab but an oppressed Muslim in Bush’s America, was the semi-unique offering of Minhaj. Bush had already left and arrived later to the party by the time he broke out, but Netflix still decided to air Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, long after the joke had yet been funny. However, Hasan Minhaj did have some fantastic tales of being terrorized by Islamophobes, which turned out to be just as true as the typical Muslim story. The distinction is that Minhaj’s comedy routine, career, celebrity, and overall life story revolved around these. Nobody at Netflix appeared to have any issues with him lying about not merely his life but also making up death threats in tweets. The lies have then been exposed. They are egregiously brazen and a criticism of Netflix, an overall subculture, and the media for allowing him to get away with it for so long. He tells the tale of an F. B. I. informant who broke into his family’s Sacramento-area mosque in 2002, when Minhaj was a junior in high school, in his 2022 Netflix standup special,” The Kings Jester.” This historical reflection on fame, vainglory, and his obsession with social media clout. According to Minhaj, Brother Eric, a muscle-bound light man who claimed to be an Islamic convert, won the respect of the mosque community. He attended Minhaj’s home for dinner and also offered to instruct the teen boys in the neighborhood in weight training.
However, Minhaj had Brother Eric pinned from the start. Brother Eric later made an effort to persuade the boys to discuss jihad. Brother Eric was the target of Minhaj’s prank, which he decided to play with in order to obtain his license as a pilot. Minhaj was slammed into a car hood by the police as soon as they arrived on the scene. Years afterwards, Minhaj was watching the news with his father when he came across a story about Craig Monteilh, who went on to become an F. B. I. informant in Arab communities in Southern California. Minhaj remembers telling his father,” Well, well, Well, Papa, look who it is.” ” It’s Brother Eric, our excellent friend.”
News footage from an Al Jazeera English report on Monteilh is flashed backstage on a sizable screen behind Minhaj. It appears that Minhaj’s teen-age hunch was proven correct. This is a more widespread misconception held by Islamists, according to which FBI agents have recently” entrapped” all Arab terror plotters in America. In any case, it should come as no surprise that this tale was untrue. Before I met Minhaj, Monteilh, also known as a. ” Brother Eric” had informed me that Minhaj’s account was untrue. Monteilh remarked,” I don’t understand why he would do that.” Monteilh was imprisoned in 2002, and it wasn’t until 2006 that he started working for the F. B. I. on counterterrorism measures. His covert actions were detailed in a court case that was appealed to the Supreme Court. Monteilh claimed that he had just ever worked in Southern California and certainly the Sacramento region. Minhaj claims that he made up the entire” police busting me because I claimed to be a pilot” incident based on an NBA game. According to Minhaj, the Brother Eric tale was based on a difficult foul he sustained in collegiate pickup basketball. Minhaj and another adolescent Muslims engaged in pickup matches with middle-aged men they believed to be police officers. Minhaj was pushed to the ground as one made a show of it. Although both stories were made up, Minhaj insisted that they were based on” personal truth.” The FBI’s decision to send an infiltrator into his mosque who claimed to be interested in terrorism was motivated by the fact that the man was playing a game with him while pretending to push him. According to slang,” personal truth” refers to” making up socially easy lies based on nothing.” A comedian being predicted to host The Daily Show using” Truthiness” as his only defense is ironic in some ways. But hold on. Then there was the incident involving his daughter who received anthrax from an Islamophobe. Threatening tweets that were sent to Minhaj are displayed on the large screen. The most unsettling part is when he describes a letter that was sent to his house and contained light powder. Unintentionally, the contents fell onto his younger daughter. The youngster was taken to the hospital quickly.
After that evening, his wife enragedly informed him that their second child was on the way. Minhaj recalls her saying,” You get to say whatever you want on stage, and we have to live with the consequences. I couldn’t care less that Time magazine considers you to be an” influencer.” I’ll leave you right away if you always put my kids in danger afterwards. The fact that Minhaj is a habitual liar may be the bigger problem in this relationship. Both the local hospitals and the New York Police Department, which looks into achievable Bacillus anthracis incidents, have no records of the kind Minhaj describes. Employees working in the front desk and mailroom at Minhaj’s former home, as well as those working for the” Patriot Act” security team or the security guard at the time, don’t recall such an incident.
During our conversation, Minhaj acknowledged that neither his daughter nor anyone else had ever exposed her to a light powder or been taken to the hospital. He claimed that he had opened a letter that had been delivered to his apartment and that it had contained some sort of powder. Minhaj claimed that he had told his wife a joke by calling her” Holy sh * t.” What if he didn’t take any action because this was anthrax? Sounds reasonable. But keep in mind those” threatening tweets” Additionally, Minhaj admitted to me that the ominous tweets on” The King’s Jester” were embellished for comic effect rather than being genuine. That implies that they were faked by someone, most assuredly a Netflix employee, indicating that show staff would have known about the scam. As repulsive as the Daily Show host was, Minhaj doesn’t make it a habit of making up events that didn’T happen to him in order to gain political points. Instead, he attempts to imitate Stewart’s” clown nose on / mool off” routine. Minhaj asserts that he was merely acting out characters, but the charade persisted in interviews. Without taking the chance to clarify that the events he describes live, including his daughter’s hospitalization, didn’t actually happen as told, Minhaj has discussed the white-powder incident in interviews. In 2022, he told the Daily Beast,” This isn’t a character, this is savage ,”” I remember in that moment going, Oh sh * t, sometimes the envelope pushes back.” It turns out that Minhaj is a prolific liar. concerning genuine people and actual events. He claims that he saw Jared Kushner enter the room and snobbishly sit in a seat that had been ceremoniously left unoccupied for an imprisoned Royal activist after receiving an invitation to the Time 100 Gala. Minhaj reprimanded Donald Trump’s son-in-law for his disregard for animal rights. Threats multiplied, Minhaj’s notoriety increased, and later we learned about the anthrax incident…
There was no royal seat designated for an activist, much less one that Kushner sat in, despite Minhaj’s public criticism of him at the Time 100 Gala for the Trump Administration ‘ inadequate response to Royal human rights violations. This, according to Minhaj, was yet another fabrication meant to emphasize the” emotional truth” of the moment. A touchy-feely version of Rather’s false but accurate is emotional truth. Political and philosophical truths are what Minhaj actually means when he refers to emotions. His” day-to-day life is not very interesting or compelling ,” according to Minhaj. This is ideology-tethered Munchausen nonsense, so my comedy storytelling has to be. I have to invent things because my life isn’t proving my points. However, this tale truly highlights what a miserable person Hasan Minhaj is. The main plot of his first Netflix special,” Homecoming King ,” which debuted in 2017, is about Minhaj’s crush on a white girl who accepted his invitation to prom but later humiliatingly declined. On the night of the dance, she showed up at her door to find another boy adorning her wrist. Live, Minhaj claims that his friend’s parents were worried about what their relatives might think if they allowed their daughter to photograph a colored boy. Minhaj claims,” I’d eaten off their plates.” I had given their daughter a kiss. In reality, the” bigoted” daughter gets engaged to an Indian man. I had no idea that people could be racist even as they were grinning at you. However, Hasan Minhaj makes the decision to doxx her and ruin her life while portraying her as a bigot who despises” brown” people. The woman, however, disputed some details. She admitted to me that she had personally rejected Minhaj, a near friend at the time, days prior to the dance. Although Minhaj acknowledged that this was accurate, he added that the two of them had huge held different perspectives on her rejection. He claimed that as a” brown kid in Davis, California ,” he had grown up being taught to” just take it, and I did.” The” emotional truth” of the tale he told on stage resonated and supported the fabrication of specifics. Minhaj is, in essence, lying. as regular But because he is a victim, the lies are true. not in this instance or any other real instance, but rather in a broader psychological sense. ” Truthfulness” once more. Who is the real victim in this situation? As usual, Minhaj is the ones whose lives he destroys with unfounded accusations of Islamophobia, not only a victim in his own mind. The woman added that Minhaj had not adequately concealed her identity, including the fact that she was engaged to an American British man, so she and her family had endured online threats and doxing for years. A source with knowledge of the production claimed that Minhaj had used a true image of her and her partner, with their faces blurred, projected behind him as he told the story during the Off Broadway run.
Later, she claimed, Minhaj shrugged off her worries when she confronted him about the online threats sparked by the Netflix special.” I spent years trying to get threads taken down ,” she told me. He did, of course. While Obama hid her identity and Minhaj appeared eager to end her life, the latter was piggybacking on Obama’s unique fictitious memoir claims about an ex. Whether the Left is prepared to fully accept” truthiness” is the question. He told me that” the psychological truth comes second” when it comes to his stage performances. The truth is extra; Minhaj can rename The Daily Show to The Truthy Show if he receives it.
Hasan Minhaj was late to the party and Bush had long since left. Netflix decided to give him a show, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj, even though the joke was no longer relevant. Hasan Minhaj was late to the party and Bush had long since left office when he made his debut. Netflix gave him a show, Patriot Act with Hasan Minhaj. This was well after the joke became relevant. These stories were at the heart of Minhaj’s comedy routine, career, celebrity, and his entire life. Netflix didn’t seem to care that he lied about his life and even faked tweets of death threat. Now the lies have come out. The lies are blatantly shameless, and an indictment of Netflix, an entire subculture, and a media who let him get away so long. In Minhaj’s Netflix standup special “The King’s Jester”, a biographical reflection of fame, vainglory and Minhaj’s obsession for social-media clout, he tells a tale about an F.B.I. informant. In 2002, Minhaj, then a junior high school student, was infiltrated by an F.B.I. informant. According to Minhaj, Brother Eric was a muscular white man who claimed he had converted to Islam. He gained the trust of his mosque community. He invited Minhaj to dinner and offered to teach weight-training to the community’s teenage boys.
But Minhaj was on Brother Eric from the start. Brother Eric eventually tried to get the boys to talk about jihad. Minhaj decided that he would play a joke on Brother Eric by telling him he wanted his pilot’s licence. The police arrived and slammed Minhaj into the hood of the car. Years later, Minhaj was watching the news with father and saw a story on Craig Monteilh who posed as a personal trainer to become an F.B.I. Informant in Muslim Communities in Southern California Minhaj recalled telling his father, “Well, well well, Papa, look at who it is.” “It’s Brother Eric, our good friend.”
A large screen behind Minhaj shows news footage from a Monteilh report by Al Jazeera English. It seems that Minhaj’s teen hunch was right. This is a larger Islamist myth, which states that all Muslim terrorist plotters in America were ‘entrapped by FBI agents’. “Brother Eric” had told me Minhaj’s story was a fabrication. Monteilh said, “I don’t know why he did that.” Monteilh was in jail in 2002 and did not begin working for the F.B.I. until 2006. Counterterrorism measures were not implemented until 2006. Monteilh said that he had only worked in Southern California, not the Sacramento area. Monteilh claimed that he had only worked in Southern California and not in the Sacramento area. According to Minhaj he made this whole “police busting” me because I lied about being a pilot thing up based on an old game of basketball. The Brother Eric story was based upon a hard foul Minhaj received during a pickup basketball game in his youth. Minhaj, along with other Muslim teens, played pickup basketball games with men in their mid-twenties whom they believed to be officers. Minhaj insisted that, though both stories were made up, they were based on “emotional truth.” The “emotional truth” behind the FBI sending an infiltrator into his mosque who pretended to be into terrorism is that Minhaj was playing a game with some guy who pretended to push him. The “emotional fact” behind the FBI sending a man into his mosque who pretended he was into terrorism is Minhaj playing a game. “Emotional Truth” is apparently slang to “making up politically useful lies based upon nothing”. There was also the time when an Islamophobe sent Minhaj anthrax, which landed on his daughter. The big screen displays tweets that threatened Minhaj. He tells a disturbing story about a letter that was sent to his house and contained white powder. The contents of the letter accidentally spilled on his daughter. The child was rushed straight to the hospital.
Later that evening, his wife told him in fury that she was expecting their second child. Minhaj recalled her saying, “‘You can say whatever you like onstage, but we have to deal with the consequences.'” The New York Police Department which investigates possible Bacillus Anthracis incidents has no record of the incident Minhaj describes. Neither do local hospitals. The front-desk staff and mailroom workers at Minhaj’s former residence do not recall such an incident. Neither do employees of “Patriot Act”, who were involved in the show’s security, or Minhaj’s security guard.
During our conversation Minhaj admitted to me that his daughter hadn’t ever been exposed a white powder and that she had not been hospitalized. He said he had opened a letter that was delivered to his apartment and it contained some kind of powder. Minhaj claimed that he made a joke about it to his wife by saying, “Holy sh*t.” What if it was anthrax? And he did nothing about it? Sounds plausible. But remember those “threatening Tweets”.Minhaj acknowledged to me that the tweets displayed during “The King’s Jester”, were not authentic, but heightened for comedic effects. That means that someone, likely Netflix staff, faked them, which means that show staff would have known about the fraud. Minhaj claimed he was playing characters, but kept up the charade during interviews. He told the Daily Beast in 2022, “I remember thinking, oh sh*t, sometimes the envelope will push back.” This isn’t just a character. It is a con. He was invited to the Time 100 Gala where he claims that he saw Jared Kushner enter and sulk in a seat which had been reserved for a Saudi activist imprisoned. Minhaj criticized Donald Trump’s son in law for his inaction regarding human rights. Minhaj’s fame grew, threats multiplied, and we eventually heard about the anthrax incident.
Minhaj criticized Kushner for the Trump Administration’s ineffective response to Saudi human rights violations at the Time 100 Gala, but there was no seat reserved for an activist or Kushner. Minhaj said this was a fabrication to bring home the “emotional reality” of the time.Emotional Truth is just a touchy feely version of Rather’s fake but accurate. Minhaj isn’t talking about emotional truths. He means political and ideologic truths. His “day-today life” isn’t very interesting or compelling, Minhaj said. This is Munchausen nonsense tied to ideology. I can’t make my point with what I see in real life, so I have no choice but to make up stories. This story shows how miserable Hasan Minhaj really is. The central story of “Homecoming King,” his first Netflix special released in 2017, was about his crush on his friend, a young white girl who accepted his invitation to the prom, but then reneged on it in an embarrassing manner. Minhaj arrived at her door the night before the dance to find another boy placing a corsage around her wrist. Minhaj claims on stage that his friend’s family didn’t want her to take photos with a brown guy because they were worried about what their relatives would think. Minhaj claims that he ate off their plates. I kissed their child. I didn’t realize that people can be bigoted while smiling at you. In reality, the “bigoted’ daughter ends up getting engaged to an Indian. Hasan Minhaj decides to doxx and ruin her life by portraying her as a ‘brown-hating’ bigot. But the woman disputed some facts. She told me she had rejected Minhaj in person days before the dance, even though he was a close friend. Minhaj said that this was true, but that they had always had different interpretations of her rejection. He said that as a “brown child in Davis, California,” Minhaj had been conditioned to “just accept it” and “put his head down.” And he did. The “emotional reality” of the story Minhaj told onstage resonated and justified the fabrication. As usual. But his lies are justified by the fact that he is a victim. Who is the real victim? It’s not Minhaj who is the victim in his mind, but those whose lives are destroyed by his false accusations of Islamophobia. The woman said that her family and she had been subjected to online threats and doxing over the years because Minhaj did not sufficiently disguise her identity. Sources with knowledge of the production claim that during the Off Broadway run of the show, Minhaj projected a blurred picture of the woman with her partner behind him while he told the tale.
He told me that the emotional truth was the most important thing in his stage performances. The factual truth comes second. If Minhaj wins The Daily Show, then he can rename it The Truthy Show.
