What is the claim?
Social media user ‘Acharya Vivek Varun’ viral Video (Archive Link) Sharing it, it is written, ‘People in Pakistan have demolished a mosque and are selling its iron and bricks to eat. This is the third mosque recently broken. They are saying, ‘If Allah cannot give us food, then what is the need of mosques?’
A community that once destroyed temples, claiming that only Allah is great, is now demolishing his/her places of worship of Allah. According to the rule of karma, ‘The sins you committed should be paid in the same way as they were done. The meaning of Vedic religion has now become clear to everyone.
Many other social media users have shared this video in equal context on different platforms.
Scrutiny
This video has gone viral on social media earlier in the same context, when the situation of economic crisis in Pakistan had become huge. In his/her investigation, the claim made with this video was found wrong, whose fact check report Here Can be read.
Published on February 4, 2023 on Indian Express website in search Report I met, which mentions this incident. According to the information given with the report, ‘In a video going viral on social media, some people can be seen breaking the mosque of Ahmadiyya Muslims in Sadar, Karachi. Even before this attack, many religious places of Ahmadiyya Muslims have been attacked in Pakistan.
News agency ANI also tweeted this news from its official Twitter handle on 3 February 2023.
According to the report of the Indian Express, religious places of Ahmedia Muslims are often targeted in Pakistan, as they are seen as non-Muslims and the law of Pakistan also sees them like this. Other reports also confirm this claim. Indian Express written by news agency PTI on 16 December 2016 Report I am also reported to have filed a case against 3,000 people in the case of Ahmedia Muslims being attacked in Pakistan.
Pakistan -based journalist and fact checker Lubna Jarar Naqvi was approached for this video. he/she confirmed that this incident of demolition of the mosque has nothing to do with Pakistan’s economic crisis. About two thousand people follow the user who shares viral video with misleading claims. Fact check reports of international viral claims to the world of Vishwas News Section Can be read in
conclusion
The 2023 incident of demolition of the mosque of Ahmadiya sect in Pakistan is being shared with a misleading claim.
(This story was originally published Vishvas newsAnd reinstated by NBT as part of Shakti collective.)