{"id":115518,"date":"2022-04-05T20:11:00","date_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=115518"},"modified":"2022-04-05T20:11:35","modified_gmt":"2022-04-05T14:41:35","slug":"2020-pfi-unity-day-march-video-shared-with-false-anti-muslim-angle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/2020-pfi-unity-day-march-video-shared-with-false-anti-muslim-angle\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video of PFI rally falsely shared as Muslim army marching in Kerala"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a marching band parade is circulating on social media with the claim that it depicts a private Muslim army marching in Kerala. &#8220;This is what is happening in a Hindu majority country,&#8221; wrote a user.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is what\u2019s happening in a Hindu majority country\u2026<br \/>\nMuslim private army marching in Kerala. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UmsLVbou93\">pic.twitter.com\/UmsLVbou93<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Arjun Rajput (@Ap62Rajput) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Ap62Rajput\/status\/1509466978762821633?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 31, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The video is widespread on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=muslim%20army%20kerela%20filter%3Avideos%20&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a> with the above claim.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">This is supposed to be the Muslim Army, taking a procession in Kerala!<br \/>\nDoes anyone know more about this?<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/HMOIndia?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@HMOIndia<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ZVQ1dpzPO7\">pic.twitter.com\/ZVQ1dpzPO7<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Shiv (@Shivana05277794) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Shivana05277794\/status\/1508071337482350596?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 27, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It is also circulating on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/videos\/?q=muslim%20army%20kerela\">Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"566\" class=\"wp-image-115519 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/word-image-3.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/word-image-3.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/word-image-3-300x210.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/word-image-3-768x537.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><strong>Fact-check<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The same video was posted on February 17, 2022 as an <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mauna_adiga\/status\/1494301326851076099\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">SDPI rally<\/a>. SDPI is a political party affiliated with the Popular Front of India (PFI).<\/p>\n<p>Alt News also performed a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/results?search_query=popular+front+day+unity+march+2020+ERNAKULAM+kerala\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">keyword search<\/a> and found a video from February 17, 2020 that said the PFI took out a rally in Ernakulam, Kerala.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3t6Niws8vNs\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3t6Niws8vNs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>PFI Kerala had also shared a clip taken at the same rally.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"POPULAR FRONT DAY UNITY MARCH 2020 FEB.17  ERNAKULAM\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jvmcJxjWjoU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A poster seen in the viral video resembles the one in the PFI march video. It reads, \u2018Popular Front of India Unity March\u2019 in Malayalam.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"810\" height=\"424\" class=\"wp-image-115520\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/word-image-4.jpeg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/word-image-4.jpeg 810w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/word-image-4-300x157.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/word-image-4-768x402.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 810px) 100vw, 810px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Malayalam media outlet <a href=\"https:\/\/www.madhyamam.com\/kerala\/popular-front-unity-march-kochi\/665102\">Madhyamam<\/a> also covered the rally in a February 18, 2020 report. This was a unity day march held on February 17, 2020.<\/p>\n<p>PFI was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.popularfrontindia.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">established on February 17 in 2007<\/a> and members of the party annually celebrate the occasion.<\/p>\n<p>To sum it up, a 2020 video of a PFI rally in Kerala was falsely circulated as a private Muslim army marching in the streets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of a marching band parade is circulating on social media with the claim that it depicts a private Muslim army marching in Kerala. &#8220;This is what is happening in a Hindu majority country,&#8221; wrote a user. This is what\u2019s happening in a Hindu majority country\u2026 Muslim private army marching in Kerala. pic.twitter.com\/UmsLVbou93 \u2014 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":115521,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[693],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[664],"class_list":["post-115518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-featured","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2022\/04\/sdpi.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115518","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115518"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115518\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115524,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115518\/revisions\/115524"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115518"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=115518"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=115518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}