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Relawan Prancis yang mualaf, Sophie Petronin, mengirim pesan tentang Islam kepada Presiden Emmanuel Macron
Publisher’s rating: Keliru
అక్టోబర్ 2020లో ఫ్రాన్స్ లో ముస్లింలు నమాజ్ చేస్తుంటే వారికి వ్యతిరేకంగా అక్కడి క్రిస్టియన్లు ప్రేయర్ మొదలుపెట్టారు
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
Videos showing French people obstructing Muslims, who are offering their prayers
Publisher’s rating: MISLEADING
The claim concerns videos presented as showing French people obstructing Muslims as they prayed. FACTLY says the videos instead depict a 2017 protest over the closure of a prayer hall in Clichy, a suburb of Paris, and are unrelated to the later events in France following the beheading of a schoolteacher. Its conclusion is that the videos are old and misleadingly presented as connected to those later events. For the first video, the review reports finding a similar YouTube video uploaded on 8 June 2018, then locating a 2017 news article with similar visuals. It says that article identified demonstrators led by Clichy mayor Rémi Muzeau confronting Muslims praying in the street after their prayer hall was closed. For the second video, the review says it found similar 2017 news videos showing demonstrators singing the French anthem and confronting people praying in Clichy. For the third video, FACTLY reports finding a similar YouTube upload dated 23 March 2017 whose description places street prayer after an administrative closure of a mosque in Clichy on 22 March 2017. The review says it also found 2017 articles describing Muslims in Clichy protesting the closure of their prayer hall. Together, these findings support the review’s conclusion that the clips concern the 2017 Clichy incident, not the later events with which the posts associated them.
मुस्लिम युवक ने मंदिर में किया हिंदू देवी देवता का अपमान।
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
ఫ్రాన్స్ పార్లమెంట్ లో ఒక నాయకుడు ఖురాన్ గ్రంథాన్ని అవమానిస్తున్న వీడియో
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
அமெரிக்க கல்லூரி விழாவில் கமல்ஹாசன் பேசியதன் தமிழாக்கம்.. தமிழ்நாட்டில் பல வருடங்களாக கிறிஸ்தவம் மறைமுகமாக பரவி வர செய்துள்ளோம். ஆனால், அதற்கு முட்டுக்கட்டையாக இருப்பது இந்து கோவில்கள்.. இந்து கோவில்களை அழிப்பதற்காகவே ஏற்படுத்தப்பட்ட அமைப்பே இந்து அறநிலையத்துறை.. இதற்காக 60 சதவீதம் கிறிஸ்தவர்களை அறநிலையத்துறையில் பபணியில் அமர்த்தி துணை புரிந்தார் கலைஞர்.. !
Publisher’s rating: Fake
A French minister accusing the Quran as ‘the source of all evil’
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim attached a video of a man saying the Quran was “the source of all evil” to a discussion in the French parliament. FACTLY’s review identifies the speaker as Filip Dewinter, a Belgian politician, and says the footage shows his speech in Belgium’s federal parliament—not a French minister speaking in France. The review’s conclusion is that the post misidentified both the speaker and the setting. [S1]
फ्रांसीसी संसद में एक सांसद कहता है कि कुरान “बहुत दुख का कारण” और “हत्या करने का लाइसेंस” है
Publisher’s rating: False
यह तस्वीर अयोध्या में नव-निर्माणित राम मंदिर की है
Publisher’s rating: False
Photo of people holding ‘No to Islamophobia’ poster in Austria
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The review investigates a social-media post claiming that a photograph of people holding a “No to Islamophobia” poster was taken in Austria, in the context of the recent gun attack in Vienna. Its conclusion is that the image instead shows an event in London in 2017. The review also distinguishes the photograph from earlier pro- and anti-refugee rallies in Austria: their existence does not establish that this particular image came from one of them. To trace the image, the review says it used Google Reverse Image Search and found the same photograph in an Al Jazeera article, credited to Matt Dunham/AP. It then searched for the image on AP Images. AP’s caption identifies a Unity Vigil against racism and Islamophobia, held at Downing Street in London on Friday, March 24, 2017. As an additional location check, the review says the scene could be seen in street-view imagery of Downing Street. Together, the image match, agency caption and identifiable London setting support the finding that the photograph is not from Austria.
అయోధ్య ప్రభు శ్రీ రామ్ జీ ఆలయం యొక్క మొదటి చిత్రం
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
मदरस्यातील मौलवी साहेब कलमा शिकवताना. बंद करा हे अश्लील कृत्य, साधुसंतांवर टिप्पणी करणाऱ्यांनी या विषयावर पण बोलावे.
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
«Immagino che il presidente del Consiglio italiano sia al corrente del fatto che la Turchia finanzia il 50% delle moschee francesi, molte delle quali secondo i servizi di sicurezza di Parigi fomentano l’estremismo islamico».
Publisher’s rating: Pinocchio andante
The claim attributed to Forza Italia senator Andrea Cangini was that Turkey finances 50 per cent of French mosques. The review investigated that specific figure, drawing on help from Turkish fact-checkers at Teyit, the French news agency AFP and Le Monde journalist William Audureau. It reports that the figure does not describe the share of mosques funded by Turkey; the review does not assess the claim’s separate allegation about extremism. The investigation identifies a likely source of confusion in a French Senate report dated 6 July 2016. That report said foreign states played a marginal role in financing mosque construction and upkeep compared with local community donations. It also described Turkey’s support for mosques through sending imams rather than grants to religious associations. The review says the report counted 151 Turkish “detached imams” among 301 such imams in France in 2016—about half of that group, not half of French mosques. The distinction matters because detached imams were only a small subset of the religious ministers serving France’s more than 2,500 mosques. The investigation therefore concludes that the 50 per cent figure was likely distorted as it moved from a statistic about Turkish-supported detached imams to a claim about mosque financing. It also notes the difficulty of tracing mosque finances, so its account does not purport to establish a precise total for Turkish funding.
Images of Ram Mandir which is being constructed in Ayodhya
Publisher’s rating: FALSE
The claim concerned a social-media post presenting a set of images as showing the Ram Mandir then under construction in Ayodhya. FACTLY’s investigation identifies the images instead as showing the main complex of the Kashi Vishwanath Temple, which was also under construction. The review says the images are unrelated to the Ayodhya temple. To check the images’ provenance, the review reports conducting a reverse image search. That search led to a news article dated 03 October 2020 carrying the same image. FACTLY says that article identified the scene as the main complex of Kashi Vishwanath Temple in Uttar Pradesh and credited the image to “HT Photo.” The matching image and the article’s attribution are the review’s stated evidence for distinguishing the images from the Ram Mandir. The review also compared the post’s attribution with other material: it says it found no news articles or official government press releases attributing similar images to the Ayodhya temple. It points instead to images shared by the official Ram temple trust on 09 October 2020, describing work on moving carved stones from a workshop to the temple site. This supports the review’s conclusion that the circulated images were misidentified, rather than images of the Ram Mandir’s construction.