British Muslim campaigner ridiculed after claiming 'Zionists' stole his shoe

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British Muslim campaigner claimed 'Zionists' stole single shoe as he slept
On Facebook, he said it was done to 'make him feel vulnerable in his home'
Asghar Bukhari encouraged people to share message to raise awareness
Twitter users responded by posting mocking memes and messages on site

By Stephanie Linning for MailOnline

Published: 17:58 EST, 13 June 2015 | Updated: 21:09 EST, 13 June 2015

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Missing shoe: Muslim campaigner Asghar Bukhari

A British Muslim campaigner faced online ridicule after he claimed 'Zionists' had sneaked into his home and stolen a single shoe.

In a public Facebook post, Asghar Bukhari, a founding member of the Muslim Public Affairs Committee UK, said someone had tried to intimidate him by taking his footwear as he slept.

He wrote: the 'game was simple - to make me feel vulnerable in my own home', before adding 'it is not the first time I have heard this happening'.

He ended by urging readers to share the message.

Within hours, the rant had prompted dozens of mocking tweets, with the hashtags #MossadStoleMyShoe and #ShoeishConspiracy trending on Twitter, with one user telling him to 'put a sock in it'.

In response, he issued a bizarre, 15-minute YouTube rant in which he said, 'they're stealing people's homes in Palestine. You think a shoe is a big deal for them?'

A number of readers also created memes mocking Mr Bukhari's assertions that a member of the Israeli Secret Intelligence Service, better known as Mossad, had rearranged his footwear.

The message, which was posted on Facebook alongside a black-and-white image of a boy wearing one shoe, is written under the head 'are zionists trying to intimidate me'.

It read: 'Someone came into my home yesterday, while I was asleep. I dont know how they got in, but they didn't break in - the only thing they took was one shoe.

'Now think about that, the only thing they took was a single shoe - they left one shoe behind to let me know someone had been there.

British Muslim campaigner claims MOSSAD stole his shoe

'Of course I cant prove anything and thats part of the intimidation. The game is simple - to make me feel vulnerable in my own home. Its Psychological. Neither can I do much about it.'

Rant: The Facebook message posted by Mr Bukhari, in which he claimed someone had stolen his shoe

The campaigner's Facebook message appeared alongside this dramatic image of a single shoe

It continued: 'It is not the first time I have heard this happening. I have had another Muslim leader call me a year or so ago, in tears - she told me they had been coming into her house and re-arranging things - just to let her know they had been there.

'There is one good thing that comes out of all oppression however - for those who are smart - from my misfortune, others can learn how they operate.

'Share this widely, for if it is happening to me, I am sure it happening to many, many others who have not exposed it.'

Mocked: Three of the dozens of mocking tweets that appeared online within hours of Mr Bukhari's message

Ridicule: Others transformed movie posters, or imagined the top secret meetings behind recovering the shoe

Readers did choose to share the message - but not in the way Mr Bukhari had hoped.

Dozens took to Twitter to ridicule the idea. One wrote 'Breaking News "Mossad Behind Theft of Cinderella's slipper"' while another said: 'Next time a sock disappears in my dryer, I'm going to blame the PLO. #MossadStoleMyShoe'.

Mr Bukhari hit back at the online criticism by writing a series of tweets in response. In one he said 'haters going to hate' and in others he asked for his missing footwear to be returned.