Tarek Fatah tweets doctored photo making false claim about madrassa teacher

[INDIAPOSITIVE]

CLAIM
Canadian author Tarek Fatah, known for his anti-Islam views, tweeted a photo that shows a Muslim man standing in front of a blackboard. Judging by the content on the board, the idea that one would get from the photo is that the man is teaching the kids how Islam is superior to Hinduism.

Tweeting the photo, Fatah said, "No, the Mullah is not playing ‘knots and crosses’. He is teaching Muslim girls in an Indian Islamic school the comparative superiority of Islam over Hinduism."

The tweet was made five hours ago and has already been retweeted 1,200 times and favourited by over 1,400 Twitter users.

TRUTH
The photo Fatah tweeted is a fake. Many Twitter users responded to Fatah's tweet with the original photo and fact-check articles from April this year, but Fatah has not deleted the tweet yet.

VERIFICATION AND METHODOLOGY
A simple reverse-image search on the photo Fatah tweeted will lead you to many fact-check articles debunking the fake news propagated using the same fake photo earlier this year, in June.

Browsing through the search results, we found a report on Indiatimes.com from April, 2018 titled “To promote communal harmony, this madrassa in UP is now giving Sanskrit lessons to students”, carrying the original version of the photo Fatah tweeted.

The photo is credited to news agency ANI. We found the photos tweeted by the verified Twitter account of ANI UP. The tweet made on October 9, 2018 said, "Goarakhpur: Sanskrit, among other subjects, being taught at Darul Uloom Husainia madrassa. Principal of the madrasa says 'It's a modern madrasa under UP Education board & subjects like English, Hindi, Science, Maths and Sanskrit are taught here. They are also taught Arabic'."


Here is the tweet:

https://twitter.com/x/status/983390655903883264

Here is the original version of the photo Fatah tweeted:

VERDICT
Times Fact Check has found that the photo tweeted by Tarek Fatah claiming that a madrassa teacher was teaching his students that Islam is superior to Hinduism is fake.


https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com...superior-to-hinduism/articleshow/66524103.cms

 

[Zhukov]

Petty and Pathetic person Tariq Fateh. Being Critical is one thing. HE takes Total Hate mongering Low lifer to another level

 

[Areesh]

Well what else can you expect from a gandu like TF

PS: We fully and firmly believe that Islam is far superior to Hinduism but a random gandu shouldn't use forged image for that

 

[FalconStar]

Can we finally get him banned from twitter for tweeting a doctored image?
This is a clear violation of twitter rules, he used a doctored image to spread hate against Muslims.
Please people report this tweet.

 

[war&peace]

Tarek is a pathetic liar but despite this, he will get a raise from Modi and other Islamophobes in India. So that's why he does not need to worry or delete the tweet.

 

[Path-Finder]

why is an indian news paper debunking this swine? he is india's darling.

 

[Jaanbaz]

If I looked like him I would hate the world too.

 

[Imran Khan]

Someone follow this clone on twitter too

 

[Moonlight]

Burden on earth.

 

[YeBeWarned]

Burden on earth.

Dharti ka boojh ..

 

[Moonlight]

Burden on earth.

Pe bojh* :p

 

[Indus Pakistan]

We fully and firmly believe that Islam is far superior to Hinduism but a random gandu shouldn't use forged image for that

You don't need to disparage other people's religion to make your look better. It's faith. Practice it. Don't use religion as measuring tape or contest.

 

[Sully3]

his C*nt daugther has changed her name to Natasha Fatal on candian news channel because she was worried people would complain to CBS network about why facists daughter had been given this platform.

 

[Areesh]

You don't need to disparage other people's religion to make your look better. It's faith. Practice it. Don't use religion as measuring tape or contest.

Not using as contest or something but yeah that is what i believe in

 

[Yaseen1]

school condition in india is so poor walls are not painted properly and they claim to be strong economy