Thursday, February 6th, 2025

Fact Check: Were Hindus taken hostage in Bangladesh and converted to Islam? Know the truth of the viral claim


New Delhi: A video is going viral on social media amid the atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh. While sharing this, users claimed that people of Muslim community in Bangladesh are taking Hindus hostage and converting them to Islam. However, when this video was investigated the truth came out.

What are the claims of the users?

On social media, an ex-user @vickypshiva claimed that people of Muslim community in Bangladesh are holding Hindus hostage and making them convert to Islam.

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Whereas an ex-user named @GunjanShar48 claimed that the Hindus of India will call themselves big Muslims after 100 years from now. In Bangladesh, cowardly Hindus are ready to change their religion due to fear of sword. Death will come like this too, but if they had fought and died for their religion, history would have been proud.

What was found in the investigation?

To investigate these claims going viral on social media, Sajjak’s team first extracted keyframes of the video and reverse image searched, then Sajjak’s team found the video uploaded on 16th July 2024. Dhaka A report was received according to which common students protested at many places in Bangladesh demanding a logical solution to the quota system. After waiting there for an hour, when it was time for Zohar Namaz, the protesting students stood in a line and offered the mandatory Namaz, while other students standing nearby continued shouting slogans and protesting.

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There itself probashirdiganta A report related to this matter was also found on a website named. In which the image related to the viral video was attached. It was written in this report – After the demonstration, when it was time for Johar Namaz, all the students stood in a line and offered Namaz.

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conclusion: The claim on social media about religious conversion of Hindus in Bangladesh turned out to be false. During Sajjak’s investigation, this video turned out to be old and these students were Muslims. This video is being shared with false claims.

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