{"id":61090,"date":"2020-03-16T20:50:28","date_gmt":"2020-03-16T15:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=61090"},"modified":"2021-02-23T15:42:40","modified_gmt":"2021-02-23T10:12:40","slug":"fake-messages-claiming-himalaya-founder-funds-terrorists-viral-on-social-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/fake-messages-claiming-himalaya-founder-funds-terrorists-viral-on-social-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake messages claiming Himalaya founder funds terrorists viral on social media"},"content":{"rendered":"

A photograph of a man has been shared on social media with the claim that he is “the owner of Himalaya Ayurvedic products, Mohammed Menal”. The man is being accused of donating 10% of his income to “jihadists”.<\/p>\n

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\u2014 \u092a\u0941\u0937\u094d\u092a\u0947\u0902\u0926\u094d\u0930, \u0915\u0941\u0932\u0936\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0937\u094d\u0920 (@REAL___HINDUVT) February 23, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The tweet below by @REAL___HINDUVT garnered over 2,600 likes and close to 1,300 retweets.<\/p>\n

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It is also massively circulating on Facebook.<\/p>\n

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Viral since last year<\/h4>\n

Twitter user Bharat Sanghvi<\/a>, who is followed by prime minister Narendra Modi and home minister Amit Shah, had tweeted the photo with the accompanying claim in March 2020.<\/p>\n

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Twitter user Akash RSS<\/a> also shared the post.<\/p>\n

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A handle @Read_Bannaji<\/a>\u00a0wrote that Himalaya Drug Company should be avoided by all Hindus since its founder Mohammed Menal is a Muslim and Muslims donate 10% of their income to “terrorists”.<\/p>\n

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FACT-CHECK<\/h4>\n

A reverse-image search of the man’s photograph reveals that he is not the founder of Himalaya Drug Company. A 2016 article in The Economic Times<\/a>\u00a0identified him as Philipe Haydon, the CEO of the company.<\/p>\n

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The founder of Himalaya Drug Company is not Mohammed Menal but Mohammad ‘Manal’. The company website states that ‘M Manal’ found the company in 1930 in Uttarakhand’s Dehradun.<\/p>\n

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Manal passed away in 1986. Therefore, the claim that he has been giving away 10% of his income to “jihadists” does not hold water.<\/p>\n

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Moreover, Himalaya Drug Company called out the misinformation on Twitter.<\/p>\n

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pic.twitter.com\/s47SNxBFyn<\/a><\/p>\n

\u2014 Himalaya India (@HimalayaIndia) March 13, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A photograph of the CEO of Himalaya Drug Company has been used to falsely claim that he is the founder, Mohammed Manal, who donates a part of his income to fund terrorism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A photograph of a man has been shared on social media with the claim that he is “the owner of Himalaya Ayurvedic products, Mohammed Menal”. The man is being accused of donating 10% of his income to “jihadists”. \u092c\u093e\u092f\u0915\u093e\u091f \u0915\u0930\u094b \u0938\u0928\u093e\u0924\u0928\u093f\u092f\u094b, pic.twitter.com\/BB3QlFYmJO \u2014 \u092a\u0941\u0937\u094d\u092a\u0947\u0902\u0926\u094d\u0930, \u0915\u0941\u0932\u0936\u094d\u0930\u0947\u0937\u094d\u0920 (@REAL___HINDUVT) February 23, 2021 The tweet below by @REAL___HINDUVT garnered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":35,"featured_media":61122,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[141],"class_list":["post-61090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","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\/2020\/03\/Custom-dimensions-1200x628-px-82.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61090","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=61090"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":87036,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61090\/revisions\/87036"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/61122"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61090"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=61090"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=61090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}