{"id":45129,"date":"2019-09-02T21:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-09-02T15:30:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=45129"},"modified":"2019-09-02T21:12:59","modified_gmt":"2019-09-02T15:42:59","slug":"video-of-hindu-ritual-shared-as-cows-forcefully-made-to-run-over-muslims-in-india","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/video-of-hindu-ritual-shared-as-cows-forcefully-made-to-run-over-muslims-in-india\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of Hindu ritual shared as &#8220;cows forcefully made to run over Muslims in India&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On September 1, Sahibzada Jahangir, the spokesperson of Pakistani Prime Minister on Trade and Investment in the UK and Europe, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChicoJahangir\/status\/1168148574850486274\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> a video wherein a group of men are lying on the road while a herd of cows runs over them. Tweeting the video, Jahangir claimed that Indians are forcing Muslim men as well as children to lie on the road while <em>&#8220;dozens of heavy cows&#8221; <\/em>are run over their bodies.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Civilisation at its lowest. Indians forcing Muslims men &amp; children to lie on ground &amp; running dozens of heavy cows over their bodies while the spectators applauding the exhibition. Barbaric &amp; inhuman. Modi developing sick Nazi RSS ideology. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/ufUnqt2oHX\">pic.twitter.com\/ufUnqt2oHX<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Sahibzada Jahangir (@ChicoJahangir) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ChicoJahangir\/status\/1168148574850486274?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">September 1, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<h2>Fact-check<\/h2>\n<p>Listening to the audio of the clip carefully, the crowd can be heard saying, <em>&#8220;haathi godha palkhi jai kanhaiya lal ki&#8221;<\/em>, which refers to Lord Krishna and thus suggests that it is part of some ritual or tradition. With a keyword search on Google, Alt News found a video of the ritual, performed by villagers in Ujjain, Madhya Pradesh, wherein people voluntarily lie on the road while cows are made to run over them. <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6286821\/Indian-villagers-lay-face-stampeding-cows-luck.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Daily Mail<\/a> <\/em>posted the video of the same ritual in 2018 with the caption, <em>&#8220;Groups of men in India have voluntarily agreed to be trampled by a herd of cows in a bid to secure future prosperity for themselves and their villages&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Villagers allow stampeding cows to run over them during ritual\" width=\"1290\" height=\"726\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p_08CidOFxc?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>According to <em>Daily Mail<\/em>, the ritual is to mark the auspicious day of Ekadashi which follows the Hindu festival of Diwali. &#8220;<em>Though many participants are seriously injured by the ritual, it is thought their luck will grow as their ailments heal,&#8221;<\/em> stated the article.<\/p>\n<p>In conclusion, a video of a ritual where men voluntarily choose to lie on the ground while cows run over them was shared by Sahibzada Jahangir as Indians punishing Muslim men.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On September 1, Sahibzada Jahangir, the spokesperson of Pakistani Prime Minister on Trade and Investment in the UK and Europe, posted a video wherein a group of men are lying on the road while a herd of cows runs over them. Tweeting the video, Jahangir claimed that Indians are forcing Muslim men as well as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":45176,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-45129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","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\/2019\/09\/Pak-Spokesperson-2.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45129","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\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45129"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45175,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45129\/revisions\/45175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45129"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=45129"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=45129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}