{"id":54214,"date":"2019-12-20T21:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T15:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=54214"},"modified":"2019-12-20T22:00:33","modified_gmt":"2019-12-20T16:30:33","slug":"man-holding-viral-placard-falsely-compared-with-a-twitter-user-with-muslim-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/man-holding-viral-placard-falsely-compared-with-a-twitter-user-with-muslim-identity\/","title":{"rendered":"Man holding viral placard falsely compared with a Twitter user with Muslim identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) have been met with massive protests across the country. A photograph of a protester holding a placard that says, “Hindu Hoon Ch***** Nahi”\u00a0<\/em>was shared by several people hinting that the man is a Muslim posing as Hindu during the agitation.<\/p>\n

Twitter handle (@TheBiongHead) juxtaposed<\/a> the man’s photograph with a screenshot of a Twitter profile of one Syed Mohd Yasir and wrote,\u00a0“any similarity in face?”<\/em><\/p>\n

\"\"Hemant Kamra<\/a> and Amrita Malhotra<\/a>, who are followed by the office of railway minister Piyush Goyal, also circulated the post.<\/p>\n

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FACT-CHECK<\/h2>\n

Twitter user Syed Mohd Yasir was among those who had tweeted the image of the man with the placard.<\/p>\n

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\ud83e\udd23\ud83e\udd23 pic.twitter.com\/TlgfSan8VA<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 syed mohd yasir (@syedmohdyasir3) December 19, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Another publically image of the man clearly shows his face.<\/p>\n

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Credit: Aastha Gulati\/The Quint<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

A comparison of their facial features makes it evident that the man with the placard is not Yasir. Their face-cut is different and so is the shape of their noses.<\/p>\n

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Other publically images of Yasir also show the distinction in facial features.<\/p>\n

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#NewProfilePic<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/nsuGD6WqRa<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 syed mohd yasir (@syedmohdyasir3) May 20, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Moreover, Yasir had tweeted that he is not the man holding the placard.<\/p>\n

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Thus, an image of a man holding a placard that says “Hindu Hoon Ch***** Nahi” is viral with a false claim suggesting that he is Syed Mohd Yasir.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) and the National Register of Citizens (NRC) have been met with massive protests across the country. A photograph of a protester holding a placard that says, “Hindu Hoon Ch***** Nahi”\u00a0was shared by several people hinting that the man is a Muslim posing as Hindu during the agitation. Twitter handle (@TheBiongHead) […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":54305,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-54214","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","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\/2019\/12\/Untitled-design-2019-12-20T203953.110.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54214","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=54214"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54214\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54326,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54214\/revisions\/54326"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/54305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=54214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=54214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=54214"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=54214"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=54214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}