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Photos claimed to depict Hindu atrocities against Muslims in India are actually old images from Syria and Bangladesh

Mar 9, 2020 11:00 am By Robert Spencer

If Muslims are or were really being subjected to wholesale violence in India, wouldn’t there be abundant images of this persecution? Why would images from elsewhere have to be presented as if they were from Delhi? Were images of actual anti-Muslim violence so rare that they had to be fabricated, as we have seen among the “Palestinians” and elsewhere?

“Old images from Syria, Bangladesh shared as Delhi riots,” Alt News, March 4, 2020:

More than 45 people have died in Delhi’s recent communal violence. As tensions deplete, misinformation continues to be shared rampantly on social media. The following pictures are being widely shared online.

Image 1: A photo of policeman wearing protective gear attacking a minor with a stick has gone social media with the claim that Delhi Police is beating a Muslim boy. This image is viral on Twitter and Facebook.

Facebook user Anil Kumar Yadav shared the viral image. It has been shared over 32,000 times.

On February 29, Udit Raj, former MP and Indian National Member (INC) tweeted (archive link) this image as well. However, he did not claim that the image is from New Delhi, instead, he posted a short poem.

Image 2: An image of children hugging a woman in despair has gone viral with the claim that it is also from recent communal violence in Delhi. This image was posted (archive link) by a Facebook user which was shared over 200 times. Just like the previous image, on March 1, Raj tweeted (archive link) this image with a short poem.

Fact-check

Image 1: Performing a reverse image search on TinEye, Alt News found the viral image on Getty Images. The caption states, “A Bangladeshi policeman threatens a child with a baton during clashes with garment workers in Dhaka on June 30, 2010. At least 15,000 protesting garment factory workers blocked key roads in the Bangladeshi capital Dhaka, the latest in a string of protests over low wages and poor conditions. Police fired tear gas and used water cannons to disperse the workers, who sew clothes for some of the top names in Western retail, after they blocked a major intersection in the north of the city.”

This image was also used in a 2010 report by The Guardian.

Image 2: This image too was located on Getty Images via reverse image search on TinEye. According to the caption, “A Syrian woman comforts her children after their house in the Sahour neighbourhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo was bombed in 2014.” The photograph is shot by photographer Zein-Al-Rifai.

This image was also used in a photo essay on Siryan war by CBS News, news division of US-based Columbia Broadcasting System….

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  1. Cicero says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 11:18 am

    The devastating aspect of making false claims regarding photographs of other conflicts and using it to defame India and by extension people abroad of Indian heritage is that there is a very sophisticated propaganda machin worldwide working over time to broadcast the lies and defamation . It is gobbled up and spewed out by the lazy mainstream media and swallowed wholesale by the gullible public

    • b.a. freeman says

      Mar 9, 2020 at 2:11 pm

      the reason that it was swallowed whole by the public is that the public has been uneducated for decades (at least in western nations, but probably in a lot of westernIZED nations like india as well, which suffer the same lying propaganda). nobody understands critical thinking, and nobody is willing to do even a google search to check on anything, all because they have been TAUGHT not to question authority by lying leftist educators. thus, we see stupid, horrible, evil lies spread just like viruses, infecting unprotected minds with bulls**t. this lack of education, and the civil wars and mass death which WILL follow, are the fault of the hard-core left.

      • James Lincoln says

        Mar 9, 2020 at 5:20 pm

        b.a. freeman says,

        “…nobody understands critical thinking, and nobody is willing to do even a google search to check on anything…”

        That is true.

        The other problem is that you have to dig a lot deeper than a cursory Google search. The engine is mostly run by leftists / muslim apologists. The results that you get reflects this.

        You can find the truth, but it takes more than a little bit of effort…

  2. Rarely says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 11:48 am

    They don’t care about the truth or origins of these images, of course. They are aiming these pictures at those who will be inflamed by them. Mission accomplished.

    • SJ188 says

      Mar 9, 2020 at 12:07 pm

      True. The article exposing these lies will not travel as fast and far as these lies themselves.

    • naveen gaur says

      Mar 9, 2020 at 1:08 pm

      Agree totally.

    • SAFI says

      Mar 10, 2020 at 9:39 pm

      Yep. We are the target if islamist psy-ops. Or as it was called it in the old days TAQIYYA

  3. mortimer says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 1:15 pm

    Islamic Faux-tography 101. This is visual TAQIYYA.

    It would be a great service if a talented photographer or experience researcher/archivist put together a book of Islamic Faux-tography over the years. Such a book would catalogue the dishonesty of Muslim propaganda and help to discredit Islamic Melodrama and Islamic Victimology.

  4. Hedge says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 1:46 pm

    Their game plan it to make India Islamic. No trick is too low, no lie too deceitful not to be told. They have long memories: they think (yes, these converts from Hinduism!) that they were the masters of India under the Mughals and want India reconquered. Just like Spain. And they are being helped by many, many Hindus who are all leftists. And leftists, I have come to believe, suffer from an incurable disease, just like Muslims. There is now an international cabal working to destabilise India. Remember: we have now less than five years before the next election. That could very easily see the defeat of the BJP (Indians are notoriously shortsighted and suicidal) and then its game over for India when a coalition of Hindu haters comes to power.

  5. SAFI says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 6:06 pm

    Taqiyya runs deep in these people. Disgusting but not unlike what you’d expect.

  6. marc says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 8:35 pm

    exactly the same playbook used in Israel by the palestinians.
    they know it works.
    While we put every effort into fishing out fake sources, that’s their choice.

    • gravenimage says

      Mar 11, 2020 at 12:59 am

      +1

  7. gravenimage says

    Mar 9, 2020 at 11:01 pm

    Photos claimed to depict Hindu atrocities against Muslims in India are actually old images from Syria and Bangladesh
    ……………….

    In other words, these are actually cases of Muslim-on-Muslim violence–not Hindus attacking Muslims.

    No surprise–this “Pallywood” is rife in the Muslim world.

  8. OLD GUY says

    Mar 11, 2020 at 6:20 pm

    Islam is a lie, so it will always present lies to enforce its positions. The whole Muhammad teaching and the koran are a total lie.

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