

{"id":53646,"date":"2019-12-14T23:46:46","date_gmt":"2019-12-14T18:16:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=53646"},"modified":"2019-12-15T02:50:54","modified_gmt":"2019-12-14T21:20:54","slug":"how-multiple-twitter-handles-changed-their-religion-overnight-to-support-cab-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/how-multiple-twitter-handles-changed-their-religion-overnight-to-support-cab-bill\/","title":{"rendered":"How multiple Twitter handles changed their religion overnight to support CAB"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple Twitter users claiming to be Muslim took to Twitter and shared an identical piece of text announcing their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=I%27m%20a%20Muslim.%20I%20support%20%23CABBill.%20I%20strongly%20denounce%20the%20protests%20launched%20by%20my%20muslim%20brothers%20across%20the%20nation.&amp;src=typed_query&amp;f=live\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">support<\/a> for Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).\u00a0<em>&#8220;I&#8217;m a Muslim. I support #CABBill. I strongly denounce the protests launched by my muslim brothers across the nation. They either didn&#8217;t understand the bill and have been manipulated or they&#8217;re knowingly targeting the govt as a political move. But I&#8217;m very proud of it. Jai Hind\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3&#8221;,\u00a0<\/em>claimed the users.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53647\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-14-19_57_02-18-Im-a-Muslim.-I-support-CABBill.-I-strongly-denounce-the-protests-launched.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"602\" height=\"621\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-14-19_57_02-18-Im-a-Muslim.-I-support-CABBill.-I-strongly-denounce-the-protests-launched.png 602w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/2019-12-14-19_57_02-18-Im-a-Muslim.-I-support-CABBill.-I-strongly-denounce-the-protests-launched-291x300.png 291w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 602px) 100vw, 602px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;declaration of support&#8217; comes in the wake of the passing of Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) by the parliament on December 11, 2019. President Ram Nath Kovind on December 12 gave his assent to the Citizenship Amendment Bill, 2019, turning it into an Act. The opposition has criticised the bill as being discriminatory on religious grounds. The Act offers citizenship to refugees from all South Asian religions, except Muslims, fleeing oppression in neighbouring countries, namely Afghanistan, Bangladesh and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">I&#8217;m a Muslim. I support <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/CABBill?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#CABBill<\/a>. I strongly denounce the protests launched by my muslim brothers across the nation. They either didn&#8217;t understand the bill and have been manipulated or they&#8217;re knowingly targeting the govt as a political move. But I&#8217;m very proud of it. Jai Hind\ud83c\uddee\ud83c\uddf3<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud83c\udf3c\u0646\u0627\u0632\u06cc\u06c1 (@thegirl_youhate) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thegirl_youhate\/status\/1205787140698734592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 14, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>However, when Alt News looked up the profiles and previous tweets of people declaring support for the Act, we found that several among them used to identify as Hindus. The sudden shift to Muslim identities unsurprisingly happened in the wake of CAB.<\/p>\n<h2>Exhibit 1<\/h2>\n<p>Twitter handle <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thegirl_youhate\/status\/1205787140698734592?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>@thegirl_youhate<\/em><\/a> posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/thegirl_youhate\/status\/1104657434306535424\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a> on March 10, 2019, saying, <em>&#8220;I&#8217;m hindu bruh&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em>This handle has <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/search?q=from%3Athegirl_youhate%20arti%20pal&amp;src=typed_query\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">identified<\/a> itself as Arti Pal on multiple occasions.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-53654 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-kER46MulKUyX.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1473\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-kER46MulKUyX.jpg 1473w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-kER46MulKUyX-300x71.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-kER46MulKUyX-1024x244.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-kER46MulKUyX-768x183.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-kER46MulKUyX-990x236.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-kER46MulKUyX-1320x315.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1473px) 100vw, 1473px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Exhibit 2<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;Bhai mai hindu hu&#8221;<\/em>, <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ambersariyaaaa\/status\/1164593763999780864\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">replied<\/a> Twitter handle <a href=\"http:\/\/archive.is\/wV1VX\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>@ambersariyaaaa<\/em><\/a> when a user passed a communal slur. At the time of writing this article, a tweet where the handle claimed to be a Muslim who supports CAB has garnered close to 500 retweets.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53673\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-F5UUXYNgH6YkPs.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1606\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-F5UUXYNgH6YkPs.jpg 1606w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-F5UUXYNgH6YkPs-300x64.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-F5UUXYNgH6YkPs-1024x217.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-F5UUXYNgH6YkPs-768x163.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-F5UUXYNgH6YkPs-1536x326.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-F5UUXYNgH6YkPs-990x210.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-F5UUXYNgH6YkPs-1320x280.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1606px) 100vw, 1606px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Exhibit 3<\/h2>\n<p>On April 26, 2019, a Twitter user who goes by the handle <em>@NeecheSetopper <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NeecheSeTopper\/status\/1121720948682452992\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a>, <em>&#8220;i am hindu&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53662\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-lEvPp641Sant.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1660\" height=\"617\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-lEvPp641Sant.jpg 1660w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-lEvPp641Sant-300x112.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-lEvPp641Sant-1024x381.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-lEvPp641Sant-768x285.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-lEvPp641Sant-1536x571.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-lEvPp641Sant-990x368.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-lEvPp641Sant-1320x491.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1660px) 100vw, 1660px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Exhibit 4<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;Power of hindu. Proud to be a hindu,&#8221;<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NamanJa82028342\/status\/894289293274787840\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posted<\/a> Twitter handle <em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NamanJa82028342\/status\/1205827134998007809\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@NamanJa82028342<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>who now has declared support to CAB as a Muslim.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53664\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-alaz78OgqG4WkO.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1328\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-alaz78OgqG4WkO.jpg 1328w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-alaz78OgqG4WkO-300x67.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-alaz78OgqG4WkO-1024x228.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-alaz78OgqG4WkO-768x171.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-alaz78OgqG4WkO-990x221.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-alaz78OgqG4WkO-1320x294.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1328px) 100vw, 1328px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Exhibit 5<\/h2>\n<p>A Twitter user with the name <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NagpurKaRajini\/status\/1205819989241942016\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">BaashaBhai<\/a> posted a message on April 16, 2019, where he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NagpurKaRajini\/status\/1118096829600583680\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">said<\/a>, <em>&#8220;I am a Hindu have never looked at anyone as Hindu , Muslim or a Christian but there are many who show up their hatred for Hindus \/ Hinduism openly!&#8221;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53667\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-LjwcLln5dKQ1t3.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1426\" height=\"355\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-LjwcLln5dKQ1t3.jpg 1426w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-LjwcLln5dKQ1t3-300x75.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-LjwcLln5dKQ1t3-1024x255.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-LjwcLln5dKQ1t3-768x191.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-LjwcLln5dKQ1t3-990x246.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-LjwcLln5dKQ1t3-1320x329.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1426px) 100vw, 1426px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Exhibit 6<\/h2>\n<p><em>&#8220;I am a hindu, and I will not step back again. I am a hindu and this will be hindu rashtra again,&#8221;\u00a0<\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Netajispeaks\/status\/983897388635963393\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> a user named Dehati Intellectual who also supported CAB by <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Netajispeaks\/status\/1205845140268388352\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">posting<\/a> the same text on December 14, 2019.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53670\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-gJshsEsjtcFxg3cK.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1459\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-gJshsEsjtcFxg3cK.jpg 1459w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-gJshsEsjtcFxg3cK-300x62.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-gJshsEsjtcFxg3cK-1024x211.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-gJshsEsjtcFxg3cK-768x158.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-gJshsEsjtcFxg3cK-990x204.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-gJshsEsjtcFxg3cK-1320x271.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1459px) 100vw, 1459px\" \/><\/p>\n<h2>Exhibit 7<\/h2>\n<p>Twitter user &#8216;Khadija&#8217; also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blackdrug_\/status\/1205798871189770240?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweeted<\/a> the text and expressed her support as a Muslim. However, in a separate <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Blackdrug_\/status\/1176032409696886784?s=19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">tweet<\/a>, she declared herself as Arpita Gouttam.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-53682\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-RHowKIsctSVMgMD.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1406\" height=\"464\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-RHowKIsctSVMgMD.jpg 1406w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-RHowKIsctSVMgMD-300x99.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-RHowKIsctSVMgMD-1024x338.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-RHowKIsctSVMgMD-768x253.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-RHowKIsctSVMgMD-990x327.jpg 990w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2019\/12\/imgonline-com-ua-twotoone-RHowKIsctSVMgMD-1320x436.jpg 1320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1406px) 100vw, 1406px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A concerted effort was made on social media to project widespread support from the Muslim community for the Citizenship Amendment Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Multiple Twitter users claiming to be Muslim took to Twitter and shared an identical piece of text announcing their support for Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m a Muslim. I support #CABBill. I strongly denounce the protests launched by my muslim brothers across the nation. They either didn&#8217;t understand the bill and have been manipulated or they&#8217;re [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":53684,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[152],"class_list":["post-53646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-economics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>How multiple Twitter handles changed their religion overnight to support CAB - Alt News<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"noindex, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"How multiple Twitter handles changed their religion overnight to support CAB - Alt News\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Multiple Twitter users claiming to be Muslim took to Twitter and shared an identical piece of text announcing their support for Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB).\u00a0&#8220;I&#8217;m a Muslim. 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