{"id":22102,"date":"2018-11-06T12:34:02","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T07:04:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=22102"},"modified":"2018-11-06T12:34:02","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T07:04:02","slug":"tarek-fatah-tweets-morphed-image-claiming-madrasa-teacher-portraying-islam-superior-to-hinduism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/tarek-fatah-tweets-morphed-image-claiming-madrasa-teacher-portraying-islam-superior-to-hinduism\/","title":{"rendered":"Tarek Fatah tweets morphed image claiming Madrasa teacher portraying Islam superior to Hinduism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In June this year, Alt News had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/viral-photoshopped-image-of-madrasa-teacher-portraying-islam-is-superior-to-hinduism\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">debunked<\/a> a viral photo-shopped image of a Madrasa teacher portraying Islam as superior to Hinduism. Five months hence, Canadian author of Pakistani origin Tarek Fatah has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TarekFatah\/status\/1059662099935305728?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tweeted<\/a> the same image captioned as &#8211;\u00a0<em>&#8220;No, the Mullah is not playing \u2018knots &amp; crosses\u2019. He is teaching Muslim girls in an Indian Islamic school the comparative superiority of Islam over Hinduism.&#8221;\u00a0<\/em>In\u00a0less than two hours, his tweet was retweeted nearly 700 times.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22103 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tarek.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"608\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tarek.jpg 450w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tarek-222x300.jpg 222w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/tarek-311x420.jpg 311w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Original image\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>Alt News reverse searched the image and found that it was from an April 10, 2018 report that depicts a Madrasa named Darul Uloom Husseini in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Sanskrit taught at Darul Uloom Husainia Madrasa,Gorakhpur\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/299154468?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"638\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Many news organisations had reported the story and carried the original photograph, out of which an article from\u00a0<i><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outlookhindi.com\/photo\/general\/sanskrit-among-other-subjects-being-taught-at-darul-uloom-husainia-madrasa-26050\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Outlook<\/a><\/i>\u00a0reported,<em>\u00a0\u201cThis Madrasa has become a centre for modern education, where along with Arabic and English, Sanskrit is also taught (translated from Hindi)\u201d<\/em>. It further states,\u00a0<em>\u201cThe speciality of this Madrasa is that Sanskrit is being taught by a Muslim teacher. Probably, this is the first time ever that Sanskrit is also being taught in Madrasa\u201d.\u00a0<\/em>The original image can be seen below.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-22104 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Master.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"655\" height=\"490\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Master.jpg 655w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Master-300x224.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Master-80x60.jpg 80w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Master-265x198.jpg 265w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Master-561x420.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 655px) 100vw, 655px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em>ANI\u00a0<\/em>had tweeted a few other photographs of the Madrasa in April 2018.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Goarakhpur: Sanskrit, among other subjects, being taught at Darul Uloom Husainia madrasa. Principal of the madrasa says &#8216;It&#8217;s a modern madrasa under UP Education board &amp; subjects like English, Hindi, Science, Maths &amp; Sanskrit are taught here. They are also taught Arabic&#8217;. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/g2Lc6Hm6Pq\">pic.twitter.com\/g2Lc6Hm6Pq<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ANI UP (@ANINewsUP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ANINewsUP\/status\/983390655903883264?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 9, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Alt News has reported several instances in the past where Tarek Fatah has spread misinformation on social media. From claiming that a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/tarek-fatah-posted-video-claiming-girl-assaulted-not-wearing-hijab-whats-truth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">girl was assaulted for not wearing a hijab<\/a> to falling for fake news on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/ani-fall-whatsapp-forward-2000-rohingyas-planning-attack-nagaland\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2,000 Rohingya Muslims joining ISIS<\/a>, Fatah has contributed significantly to the online misinformation system.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In June this year, Alt News had debunked a viral photo-shopped image of a Madrasa teacher portraying Islam as superior to Hinduism. Five months hence, Canadian author of Pakistani origin Tarek Fatah has tweeted the same image captioned as &#8211;\u00a0&#8220;No, the Mullah is not playing \u2018knots &amp; crosses\u2019. He is teaching Muslim girls in an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":22112,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-22102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-photos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2018\/11\/Untitled-design-14-1.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102","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\/35"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22102"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22113,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22102\/revisions\/22113"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22112"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22102"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=22102"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=22102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}