WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A ZIONIST “KOW” PLAY SCRABBLE

Below is a complaint forwarded, upon an urgent request from MM, to the Scrabble Administrative Committee of a certain province in a country on planet Earth:

On 12 May I was disturbed to notice a player cheating with tiles in one of the rated games.

JM was playing Mohammed Hegazi, and I was seated behind Mohammed My game had finished so I was watching play on their board, when Mohammed made a move leaving 2 tiles on his rack. JM took a fairly long time to respond, and while he was doing so Mohammed slipped one of his tiles onto his chair, under his leg. That enabled him to go out on the last move.

He won the game, but he was far enough ahead to win anyway, unless JM went out with a bingo.

I was uncomfortable about saying anything at the time, aware of etiquette in not commenting on other competitors’ plays at rated tournaments, but I was distressed to see it, given the frequency with which Mohammed accuses other players of cheating.

Perhaps I should have reported this earlier. I apologise for not doing so.

Irate Kow
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Copy of an email forwarded to Kow in response to the above complaint:

Dear Kow,

If you really have seen such an incident, why didn’t you report it to the TD at the time? Cheating is a very serious matter. Why did you have to wait for four months before telling anybody? You should have at least told JM, being the victim in your fictitious story. Luckily, JM who knows me very well, would be the first person to refute your lie. Also, a number of other players were watching the game at the time. I can remember JW being among them.

Kow, please seek psychiatric attention as soon as you can.

Mohammed
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Final Comment:

It is really difficult to catch a cheat in the act; you would have no tangible evidence to offer. However, in this fabricated story, the hypothetical cheat could have easily been caught red handed. The game was finished, with the cheat still sitting on a missing tile. All you had to do is to call the TD and tell him of what you witnessed and ask him to see for himself that the culprit was still sitting on a tile. The TD was actually watching the game. He was quite handy and should have been informed.

However, if a liar is not intelligent, the lie would have serious weaknesses in it. Watch how the liar is telling us how she was worried about etiquette in such a silly manner: The liar believes that it is bad etiquette to ask the TD to catch a cheat in the act on the spot, but it is good etiquette to spin a yarn accusing a person of cheating four months after a game, with no proof to offer. Watch also how the blatant liar is so emotionally distressed! This emotional fatigue will come again and again in other flimsy Shylockian complaints. It is reminiscent of all the terrible Hollywood Holohoax stories attributed to the poor German people during WW2.

Like all humans, I do have my shortcomings, but cheating is not one of them. I had a personality clash with this Kow, some time ago. This does not justify such a heinous lie. She probably had taken the "Kol Nidre Oath", for Jehovah to forgive her lies, free of charge, for a whole year.

MM grabbed this fable and incorporated it in a dossier of similar fables forwarded by distressed Shylockian players, which I will be discussing later, together with the resulting farce that ensued. MM wasted no time planning and conniving. She contacted JM and tried in vain to convince him to support the wild fabrication of Kow. The most she could extract from him was a report of an insignificant incident that presumably occurred during that particular tournament.