{"id":53834,"date":"2019-12-17T16:30:31","date_gmt":"2019-12-17T11:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=53834"},"modified":"2019-12-17T16:31:41","modified_gmt":"2019-12-17T11:01:41","slug":"unrelated-video-from-2017-shared-amidst-caa-protests-with-a-communal-spin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/unrelated-video-from-2017-shared-amidst-caa-protests-with-a-communal-spin\/","title":{"rendered":"Unrelated video from 2017 shared amidst CAA protests with a communal spin"},"content":{"rendered":"

On December 16, far-right British commentator Katie Hopkins tweeted a video of a man adorning a skull cap pelting a brick at a sedentary bus. She claimed<\/a>, “The mentality of the Islamists protesting against the Citizenship Bill”.<\/em>\u00a0She further opined, “Why would India want these types as citizens Hindus build. Islamists destroy. Keep going Modi. Hooray for #CAB2019”.<\/em> So far, the tweet has amassed close to 8,200 retweets. Hopkins has been featured on Indian media outlets like Republic TV<\/em><\/a>, India Today<\/em><\/a> and Times Now<\/i><\/a>.<\/p>\n

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The mentality of the Islamists protesting against the Citizenship Bill<\/p>\n

Why would India want these types as citizens?<\/p>\n

Hindus build. Islamists destroy.<\/p>\n

Keep going Modi. Hooray for #CAB2019<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/z59bByh0Ou<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Katie Hopkins (@KTHopkins) December 16, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The British commentator had quote-tweeted a video posted by Twitter handle @AhmAsmiYodha<\/a> <\/em>which was retweeted by Pakistani-Canadian author Tarek Fatah. This tweet has garnered close to 1,200 retweets.<\/p>\n

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2017 VIDEO CLIPPED AND SHARED ONLINE<\/h2>\n

With the help of digital verification tool Invid, Alt News broke the video into multiple frames and reverse searched these on the Russian search engine Yandex. We found the same video posted<\/a> on YouTube on August 31, 2019.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Ejw5MuMHOeU<\/a><\/p>\n

We then performed another reverse search of the above, better quality clip, on Yandex. A similar image of another person pelting a stone at the same bus was found in the search results.<\/p>\n

\"\"Further investigation revealed that the video is from Surat, Gujarat from almost three years ago. “\u0ab8\u0ac1\u0ab0\u0aa4:-\u0a89\u0aa7\u0aa8\u0abe\u0aae\u0abe\u0a82 BRTS \u0ab0\u0acb\u0aa1 \u0aaa\u0ab0 \u0a8f\u0a95 \u0aac\u0ab8 \u0a9a\u0abe\u0ab2\u0a95\u0ac7 \u0a8f\u0a95 \u0ab0\u0ab9\u0aa6\u0abe\u0ab0\u0ac0 \u0aa8\u0ac7 \u0a85\u0aa1\u0aab\u0ac7\u0a9f\u0ac7 \u0ab2\u0ac7\u0aa4\u0abe \u0a86\u0a95\u0ab8\u0acd\u0aae\u0abe\u0aa4 (Surat: Accident on Udhna BRTS road after a bus driver hits a pedestrian -translated)”<\/em>, reads the title of the video, posted by a YouTube channel News4India<\/em><\/a>\u00a0on January 28, 2017.<\/p>\n

In the video posted below, one can see that a group of people are pelting bricks at the bus, whereas in the viral video, the portion where a man donning a skull cap was throwing a brick was mischievously clipped.<\/p>\n