{"id":30846,"date":"2019-03-19T17:05:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-19T11:35:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=30846"},"modified":"2019-03-19T17:23:32","modified_gmt":"2019-03-19T11:53:32","slug":"old-video-and-images-shared-as-individuals-converting-to-islam-after-christchurch-massacre","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-and-images-shared-as-individuals-converting-to-islam-after-christchurch-massacre\/","title":{"rendered":"Old video and images shared as individuals converting to Islam after Christchurch massacre"},"content":{"rendered":"

On March 15, at least 49 people were killed in a horrific massacre at two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand. Two days later, a claim started circulating on social media that 350 people have converted to Islam, after the Christchurch massacre, in New Zealand. “Did you know? The terrorist attack in #Christchurch killed 51 Muslims, today approximately 350 people have converted\/reverted back to #Islam in New Zealand. Stop fearing\/hating Islam, please try to understand it.”, <\/i>tweeted<\/a> Zain Khan, a broadcast journalist based in UAE, on March 18. The tweet included three pictures of women wearing a hijab.<\/p>\n

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Did you know?
\nThe terrorist attack in #Christchurch<\/a> killed 51 Muslims, today approximately 350 people have converted\/reverted back to #Islam<\/a> in New Zealand.
\nStop fearing\/hating Islam, please try to understand it.#NewZealandShooting<\/a> #Islamophobia<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/X02TditdBI<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Zain Khan (@ZKhanOfficial) March 18, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

One Facebook user Javed Shaikh<\/a> has posted these photographs with the same narrative. The post has garnered over 2000 shares so far.<\/p>\n

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Multiple people on Twitter<\/a> have shared the claim based on a blog<\/a> published on March 17, 2019. “50 Muslims were killed on Friday in New Zealand & 350 people accepted Islam today in New Zealand”, <\/i>states the title of a blog according to which 350 people have converted to Islam after the mass shooting in Christchurch. The blog also carried a photograph of a couple, where the woman was seen donning a hijab. It has garnered close to 3.8 lakh shares on Facebook alone.<\/p>\n

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A website named KashmirGlacier.com<\/a><\/i> had also used the same image featuring a couple with an identical narrative. A tweet by @ibrocan2007<\/a><\/i>, an individual user was one of the earliest that Alt News could trace back to on social media. This was several hours before a blog was published by Loveforislamic<\/a><\/i>.\u00a0<\/i>The archived version of the blog can be accessed here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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ALHAMDULILLAH…<\/p>\n

They killed 50 Muslims while praying yesterday and today over 350 accepted Islam in New Zealand \ud83d\ude4c\ud83c\udffd\ud83d\udc9d\ud83c\udf39 pic.twitter.com\/QhRQ6LHlmU<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 ABOKI MX CITY (@ibrocan2007) March 17, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Viral video<\/h2>\n

A Facebook page, Sajid Hashmat<\/i><\/a> has shared a video with an identical narrative, which has gathered more than 38,000 shares and 4 lakh views so far.<\/p>\n

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50 Muslims were killed on Friday in New Zealand & 350 people accepted #Islam today in #NewZealand.<\/p>\n

Posted by Sajid Hashmat<\/a> on Monday, 18 March 2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

Several other individuals and pages have posted<\/a> the same video claiming that 350 people have converted to Islam after the christchurch massacre.<\/p>\n

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Fact-check<\/h2>\n

The video now viral on social media with a narrative that 350 people have been proselytized to Islam in New Zealand is at least 10 years old and unrelated. It was posted <\/a>on YouTube on September 27, 2009, while the video stated that it dates back to 2007.<\/p>\n