“Muslim refugees in Switzerland burned the Swiss flag in a protest to remove cross symbol on the Swiss flag”
Social media posts
Claim dated 30 Aug 2020.
FACTLY rated thisFALSE
What FACTLY found
Photo in the post shows Pakistani Muslims burning the Denmark flag during a demonstration in Karachi on ‘23 February 2006’. Massive protests swept across several Islam countries in early 2006 following the twelve cartoons published in a Danish newspaper depicting Prophet Mohammed.
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In short
This claim spread on social media around 30 August 2020. FACTLY (India) looked into it and published its finding on 5 September 2020, 6 days later. Its rating was “FALSE”.
Where the claim appeared
- Facebook posthttps://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=121527332997461&set=a.101640621652799&type=3&thea…
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