{"id":56044,"date":"2020-01-13T20:44:05","date_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:14:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=56044"},"modified":"2020-01-13T20:44:05","modified_gmt":"2020-01-13T15:14:05","slug":"morphed-tweet-of-shehla-rashid-calling-for-boycott-movie-of-movie-on-kashmiri-pandits-viral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/morphed-tweet-of-shehla-rashid-calling-for-boycott-movie-of-movie-on-kashmiri-pandits-viral\/","title":{"rendered":"Morphed tweet of Shehla Rashid calling for boycott movie of movie on Kashmiri pandits viral"},"content":{"rendered":"

The trailer of Bollywood film ‘Shikara – The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits’ released on January 7, 2020. Journalist Aditya Raj Kaul shared the trailer and tweeted<\/a>, “In tears. I am unable to move. For the first time someone has had the courage to narrate my story of forced exodus by Islamist terrorists in Kashmir without monkey balancing. Thank you @rahulpandita for writing this for us all. Thank you @VVCFilms for sharing this brutal truth.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Since January 8, several social media users shared a screenshot of Shehla Rashid allegedly quote-tweeting Kaul’s tweet and asking people to boycott the movie.\u00a0“Plese boycott this anti Kashmiri Muslim movie Shikara. There is no need to bring up the past…What is bygone is bygone…”\u00a0<\/em>reads the purported tweet.<\/p>\n

Facebook page Puffington Post shared<\/a> the viral screenshot and wrote, “Ohh yes. Same reason we shouldn’t talk about 2002 again.”<\/em> This post has been shared over 180 times.<\/p>\n

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On January 10, Twitter user @rohinikaul posted<\/a> two screenshots and said, “@Shehla_Rashid is this tweet shared by you? I couldn’t find it. If it is then it pains me to see this.I have been pretty vocal about how two wrongs can’t make one right being a Kashmiri pandit.(screenshot) But why boycott a movie which is on our history? Aren’t we all against d terrorists? #Shikara”<\/em><\/p>\n

Here, instead of Kaul, Rashid is allegedly quote-tweeting one Rohit Arya.<\/p>\n

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@Shehla_Rashid<\/a> is ds tweet shared by u?I couldn’t find it.if it is then it pains me to see ds.I hv been pretty vocal abt hw two wrongs can’t make one right being a Kashmiri pandit.(screenshot) Bt y boycott a movie which is on our history?Aren’t v al against d terrorists? #Shikara<\/a> pic.twitter.com\/S36RxZgoIi<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Rohini Kaul (@rohinikaul) January 10, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Several social media users have shared viral screenshots on Twitter<\/a> and Facebook<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Doctored screenshot goes viral<\/h1>\n

The alleged tweet could not be located on Shehla Rashid’s Twitter timeline, hinting that it was either deleted or was never made in the first place.<\/p>\n

Alt News picked up a random quote-tweet<\/a> by Rashid (right) and compared it with the screenshot shared by Puffington Post (left). It is noticeable that both the viral images show different text alignments.<\/p>\n

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  1. The quote-tweet is perfectly aligned – Rashid’s profile picture, the text and Kaul’s tweet do not cross the red line.<\/li>\n
  2. In the screenshot, the red line also crosses over Rashid’s profile picture<\/li>\n
  3. A part of Kaul’s tweet also crosses over the red line in the screenshot.<\/li>\n
  4. The quote-tweet carries a time-stamp which is missing from the screenshot.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    The screenshot shared by @rashmi21044 has similar alignment issues. Moreover, Arya’s tweet looks like a Facebook post as the ‘public’ and the ‘send friend request’ icons are visible.<\/p>\n

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    Speaking with Alt News Rashid said, “This seems like a very mischievous attempt to incite communal tensions. I’m shocked by the deliberateness with which this screenshot has been doctored. I didn’t know about the movie till last night when this fake screenshot came to my notice. Kashmiri Pandits are part of Kashmir, and it is ridiculous to suggest that I would call for a boycott of a movie or a book by a Kashmiri Pandit.”<\/em><\/p>\n

    The claim on social media that Shehla Rashid asked people to boycott ‘Shikara – The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits’ is false and was made using a doctored screenshot of a tweet that the activist never made. Earlier, former BJP MLA Paresh Rawal<\/a> had targetted Congress leader Rahul Gandhi in a similar fashion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    The trailer of Bollywood film ‘Shikara – The Untold Story of Kashmiri Pandits’ released on January 7, 2020. Journalist Aditya Raj Kaul shared the trailer and tweeted, “In tears. I am unable to move. For the first time someone has had the courage to narrate my story of forced exodus by Islamist terrorists in Kashmir […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":56340,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[],"coauthors":[682],"class_list":["post-56044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","fact_checks_claim_type-economics"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/01\/Untitled-design-2020-01-13T203812.774.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56044","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\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56044"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56044\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56342,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56044\/revisions\/56342"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56044"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=56044"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=56044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}