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      Video From Saudi Arabia Shared As Chinese People Converting To Islam

      Social media posts falsely claim people from China are converting to Islam because Coronavirus does not affect Muslims.

      By - AFP |
      Published -  1 March 2020 4:23 PM IST
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      Video From Saudi Arabia Shared As Chinese People Converting To Islam


      A video has been viewed tens of thousands of times on Facebook, Twitter and YouTube alongside a claim it shows Chinese people converting to Islam because the novel coronavirus epidemic does not affect Muslims. The claim is false: the video shows people converting to Islam in Saudi Arabia in May 2019, more than half year away before the novel coronavirus outbreak began in Wuhan, China in late 2019.

      This video has been viewed more than 1,900 times since it was posted on Facebook on February 16, 2020.

      The one-minute, 27-second video shows men standing in rows and raising their index finger, repeating words recited by a man holding a microphone.

      Below is a screenshot of the misleading post:

      Screenshot of the misleading post

      The post's Indonesian-language caption translated to English as:

      "Latest news. From a mainstream Mandarin channel.

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      "20 million Chinese converting to Islam after it is proven that the corona epidemic has not affected Muslims. God is Great, praise be to God for the blessing of Islam.
      #Islam is a truth".

      The novel coronavirus, or COVID 19, has so far killed more than 2,400 people, with about 80,000 infected globally, AFP reported on February 23, 2020.

      The same video has been viewed nearly 17,000 times after it was also shared with a similar claim on Facebook here and here, on Twitter here and on YouTube here.

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      The same video is also shared with a similar claim in Malaysian here, and in English here and here.

      The claim is false; the video shows an Islamic conversion that took place in Saudi Arabia in May 2019, about half year before the novel coronavirus emerged in Wuhan in late 2019.

      A reverse image search and a subsequent keyword search on Google found the exact same footage previously posted here on May 27, 2019, by a Facebook user named Ahmad Erandio.

      The caption of the post reads: "ALHAMDULILLAH WELCOME TO OUR BROTHERS IN FAITH".

      The people in the video, from the 0:05 to the 0:51 mark, can be heard reciting the shahadah, a declaration of faith in Islam required when someone converting to the faith. The declaration is in Arabic and it is normally followed by a translation. The English translation of the declaration passage is: "There is no god but God; Muhammad is the Prophet of God."

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      Starting from the 0:53 mark, the people in the video recite the shahada in Tagalog.

      Below is a screenshot comparison between the video in the misleading post (L) and the genuine Facebook video (R):

      Screenshot comparison between the video in the misleading post (L) and the genuine Facebook video (R)

      A banner with Arabic text can be seen behind the crowd. The same banner can be seen in this photo, posted with other pictures, on the same Facebook page on June 11, 2019.

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      Below is a screenshot of the photo:

      Screenshot of a photo showing the same banner

      The Arabic text in the banner translates to English as: "Iftar project in the industrial city of Jeddah (KSA)".

      Iftar refers to breaking the fast at sunset during the fasting month of Ramadan and KSA is an acronym for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.

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      According to Saudi-based daily Arab News, Ramadan in 2019 began on May 6, while Eid al-Fitr, which celebrated the end of Ramadan, started on June 4 – which matched the date the video was posted.

      (Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by BOOM staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)

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      Claim :   Video shows 20 million Chinese people converting to Islam because the novel coronavirus epidemic does not affect Muslims.
      Claimed By :  Social Media users
      Fact Check :  False
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