Religion
1,606 claims on this topic checked by other fact-checking organisations. Topics are sorted by the words in each claim and cover English-language checks.
“Claim: kerala muslim women not asked hindus to wear burqa to travel in bus”
“Hindu women have to wear Burqa else they will not be allowed in the Bus. This is Communist rules KERALA”
“Claim: different news shared that a jew man disrespected the holy Quran in France”
“Photo shows a Muslim congresswoman at an Al Qaeda training camp in Somalia”
“A video showing a man named Baba Javed Hussain from Haridwar, making hateful comments about Hindus”
FACTLY says: The Uttarakhand police revealed that the man in the video is not Baba Javed Hussain but is actually a Hindu man named Dilip Bhagel. He was allegedly paid by an unknown individual to make these derogatory statements
“Why are A2B & starbiryaani almost always adjacent shops, in the same building? ADYAR ANANDA BHAVAN & A2B is bought over by Muslim group and they are distributing Quran in the Shop openly. They still exhibit the old owner couple’s photo and Hindu God’s pictures to hold on to customers”
“This is how CONgress leaders fool Hindus ! They forcibly wear Tilak when campaigning in Hindu dominated areas and coolly wipe it off when they are in Muslim areas. Golmaal Hai Bhai Sab Golmaal Hai ! ! !”
“Claim: Egypt not built 36 ft high fence to stop Palestine Muslims”
“An old man says Bharat Mata ki Jai and Indian Muslims are beating him after listening.”
“Video of Muslims marching a rally with Pakistan flags in Kerala”
FACTLY says: The video shows an Islamic rally conducted on the occasion of Eid-e-Milad un-Nabi near the Balla beach in Kanhangad, Kerala. The video shows Muslims marching to a rally holding a flag of Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ula…
“Golden Temple condemned Babbar Khalsa in a notice.”
“Video of a policeman raising religious slogans in Patna following an incident during a Ganesh Chaturthi procession”
FACTLY says: The incident took place in Hathua, located in Bihar’s Gopalganj district, not in Patna. According to the Bihar police SDPO Anurag Kumar, the policeman seen in the video, raised the ‘Jai Shree Ram’ slogans during a clash…
“Muslims vandalized a bus in Karnataka as the driver didn’t stop the bus when a Muslim women asked him for it”
FACTLY says: The incident took place during a rally against mob lynching in Surat in 2019. The viral video is of this incident where some Muslims pelted stones at buses on the road and destroyed them
“Video of Muslims in Jammu and Kashmir dancing to a song on Narendra Modi”
FACTLY says: The video shared in the post shows Muslims dancing to Rocky Mittal’s performance at a BJP political campaign meeting held in 2019, in Nuh, Haryana. The video shared in the post is old and not from Jammu and Kashmir
“A video of police spotting Muslim boys with Hindu girls during a raid at a hookah bar in Madhya Pradesh”
FACTLY says: The post shared an old video from Agra in Uttar Pradesh. Young men and women were caught in objectional positions during a police raid inside a café house in Sanjay Place in Agra. The video shared in the post is not fro…
“Circular issued by the Home Ministry to the chief secretaries of all states, instructing them to abstain from using the term ‘Hindu’ in official contexts”
FACTLY says: The Ministry of Home Affairs has not issued any such circular, and the government has officially confirmed that the viral circular is fake. Additionally, there is no record of the Supreme Court delivering any judgment o…
“Visuals depicting the accused Muslim men crawling, following the Yogi government’s action for the death of a Hindu girl.”
FACTLY says: While it is accurate that three Muslim youths were apprehended in connection with the tragic death of a young girl, who was run over by a motorcycle after they pulled her dupatta, the visuals currently circulating do no…