{"id":14510,"date":"2018-06-13T18:50:32","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T13:20:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=14510"},"modified":"2018-07-09T18:22:26","modified_gmt":"2018-07-09T12:52:26","slug":"did-1st-muslim-minister-of-british-cabinet-lambast-nehru-over-education-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/did-1st-muslim-minister-of-british-cabinet-lambast-nehru-over-education-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Did ‘1st Muslim Minister of British Cabinet’ lambast Nehru over education policy?"},"content":{"rendered":"

The person in the following clip is the 1st Muslim Minister of British Cabinet. He is blunt in saying that Nehru destroyed Hinduism in India systematically. Pls spare 2 minutes to see this video.\ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc\ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc\ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc<\/em>\u00a0The video accompanying this message shows an elderly gentleman criticising former Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru over his education policy.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=a7NQYYX251w<\/a><\/p>\n

The claim that this person is the first Muslim minister in the British cabinet and the video has been shared widely on WhatsApp.<\/p>\n

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In the video, this person is heard saying, “In India, for some very weird reason they decided to take Hinduism out of the syllabus. You can’t teach Hinduism in a single Indian school. And how did this come about? I will be very blunt and honest on camera. This came about with the compliments of Nehru. This foolish man thought Hinduism should be taken out of the syllabus as its a secular world. In India, which is supposed to be a secular nation, they took Hinduism out of the syllabus.”<\/em><\/p>\n

He goes on to say, “Now with Narendra Modi, I have been telling him put it (Hinduism) back in the syllabus. But there are lot of issues, political issues he has to fight before he can reintroduce it. But he will do it in his own time. He is a very clever politician. He will succeed.”<\/em><\/p>\n

From WhatsApp, this video and the accompanying message have found their way on to Facebook where many individual users have uploaded it. It has been shared on Twitter as well.<\/p>\n

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The person in the following clip is the ” *1st Muslim Minister of British Cabinet* “.<\/p>\n

*He is blunt in saying that Nehru destroyed Hinduism in India systematically.*<\/p>\n

Pls spare 2 minutes to listen to this video.\ud83d\udc47\ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc\ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc\ud83d\udc47\ud83c\udffc pic.twitter.com\/mjzkUSgEcG<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Senthil Andavan (@NatarajaMurthi) June 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Not the first Muslim minister in British cabinet<\/strong><\/h2>\n

We searched on Google with the key words ‘First Muslim minister of British cabinet’<\/em> and the result showed us that the first minister of the UK belonging to the Muslim community is Shahid Malik. He became a minister in 2007 after he was appointed by then Prime Minister of Britain, Gordon Brown. We looked for Malik’s photograph online and found several. He looks nothing like the person in the video.<\/p>\n

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Shahid Malik, first Muslim minister in the UK. PC: Reuters<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Who is the person in the video?<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Who then is the person in the video, if he is not ‘1st Muslim minister of British cabinet’<\/em> as claimed in the viral message? Alt News searched for the video on YouTube, since it is among the largest repositories for videos available online. Various combinations of words were chosen for the search. Finally, the key words ‘Nehru Hinduism Education’<\/em><\/a> revealed that this video had been posted six months earlier. We followed this link and found suggestions for more such videos which featured the same person. In this way, we found that the video now doing the rounds on social media was actually posted more than a year back, in February 2017.<\/p>\n