The head of the Central Council of Muslims, Aiman Mazyek, has reinterpreted an apparently Islamist-motivated attack as an act of anti-Muslim racism. On Monday, he commented on an article in the German magazine Der Spiegel with the words: “Muslim-read victims – also a classic Islamophobic attack. Who doesn’t understand that; first think, then write.” To this he posted the hashtag #AntimuslimischerRassimus, as reported by the newspaper Die Welt.
The official police report, however, suggests otherwise. According to the report, a man was attacked in a Neukölln bar on Monday evening because he was wearing an Islamic prayer cap as a fashion accessory. When he ordered a beer in a bar in the Schillerpromenade, two unknown persons allegedly approached him, hit him several times in the face with their fists and snatched his headgear.
The attackers allegedly asked him to think about which hat he would wear in the future. The perpetrators fled with the headgear in an unknown direction. The victim was taken to hospital by emergency services with a broken nose, a laceration to his lip and a loosened tooth.
After the circumstances became known, Mazyek deleted his post without comment. Critics have long accused the Central Council of Muslims of cultivating contacts with Islamist currents within Islam. The largest member association of the Council is the Union of Turkish-Islamic Cultural Associations in Europe, which is classified by the Office for the Protection of the Constitution as belonging to the Turkish right-wing extremist Grey Wolves.
Mazyek deutet islamistische Gewalttat zu antimoslemischen Angriff um (jungefreiheit.de)
The problem here is that you are not thinking correctly about this at all.
Wearing a Muslim prayer cap is a clear example of cultural appropriation and an evil sin against minorities when the one appropriating is from the majority.
So act is Islamophobic, racist (probably sexist, misogynistic, white supremacist too though I can’t think why).
Hence the Muslims who reacted to this outrage by beating the aggressor were unbearably provoked to violence by his hateful act.
At least, that is – I suspect – something like how typical leftists / “progressives” / identity loons, DIE specialists etc. would (ir)rationalise it.