{"id":79561,"date":"2020-11-04T17:25:06","date_gmt":"2020-11-04T11:55:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/?p=79561"},"modified":"2021-10-18T19:42:32","modified_gmt":"2021-10-18T14:12:32","slug":"old-video-of-french-muslims-praying-on-streets-during-protest-shared-as-recent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-of-french-muslims-praying-on-streets-during-protest-shared-as-recent\/","title":{"rendered":"Video of street prayers: Neither from London nor linked to French teacher&#8217;s beheading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A video of Muslims offering prayers on the street has been shared with the claim that it&#8217;s from London. A provocative message accompanying the video reads, &#8220;If we do not become radical for our faith and our country, then our condition will be worse than other nations.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"hi\">\ud83d\udc46\ud83c\udffb\u0905\u0902\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0947\u091c\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0936\u0939\u0930 \u0932\u0902\u0926\u0928 \u0915\u093e \u0939\u093e\u0932 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u093f\u090f\u0964<\/p>\n<p>200 \u0938\u093e\u0932 \u092e\u0947\u0902 \u0905\u0902\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0947\u091c\u094b\u0902 \u0928\u0947 \u092d\u093e\u0930\u0924 \u0926\u0947\u0936 \u0915\u094b \u0924\u092c\u093e\u0939 \u0915\u0930 \u0926\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0905\u092c \u092f\u0947 \u092e\u0941\u0938\u0932\u092e\u093e\u0928 \u0905\u0902\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0947\u091c\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u094b \u0924\u092c\u093e\u0939 \u0915\u0930 \u0926\u0947\u0902\u0917\u0947&#8230;!<\/p>\n<p>\u0927\u094d\u092f\u093e\u0928 \u0926\u0947\u0902: &#8211;<br \/>\n\u0905\u0917\u0930 \u0939\u092e \u0927\u0930\u094d\u092e \u0914\u0930 \u0930\u093e\u0937\u094d\u091f\u094d\u0930 \u0915\u0947 \u0932\u093f\u090f \u0915\u091f\u094d\u091f\u0930 \u0928\u0939\u0940\u0902 \u092c\u0928\u0947 \u0924\u094b \u0939\u092e\u093e\u0930\u0940 \u0939\u093e\u0932\u0924 \u0926\u0941\u0928\u093f\u092f\u093e \u0915\u0947 \u092c\u093e\u0915\u0940 \u0938\u092d\u0940 \u0932\u094b\u0917\u094b\u0902 \u0938\u0947 \u092d\u0940 \u092c\u0926\u0924\u0930 \u0939\u094b \u091c\u093e\u090f\u0917\u0940..! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/h7Azum6bzx\">pic.twitter.com\/h7Azum6bzx<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Manjeet Bagga (@Goldenthrust) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Goldenthrust\/status\/1447144507670028305?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 10, 2021<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The same video was also shared last year after French teacher Samuel Paty was beheaded by a Muslim fundamentalist for showing Prophet Muhammed&#8217;s caricature in class.<\/p>\n<p>French President Emmanuel Macron had backed the display of the cartoon. Macron&#8217;s comments resulted in backlash from several Muslim countries. On <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2020\/11\/1\/muslim-group-calls-on-macron-to-end-assault-on-islam-muslims\">November 1, 2020<\/a>\u00a0over 20 European Muslim organisations called on Macron to end his \u201cdivisive rhetoric\u201d. In response to the controversy, <a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/world\/france-attack-emmanuel-macron-muslim-protests-6912021\/\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Macron said<\/a>, \u201cI understand the feelings this stirs, I respect them. But I want you to understand my role: my role is to calm things down as I\u2019m doing here, and to protect those rights.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This video was shared claiming that French Muslims came out on the streets to pray in protest and blocked traffic.<\/p>\n<p>Twitter user @kaushaldubey_kd posted this video on November 3.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"fr\">Situation in France \ud83d\udc47<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/France?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#France<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/IStandWithFrance?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#IStandWithFrance<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/4XtFnAFVic\">pic.twitter.com\/4XtFnAFVic<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \ud835\udd42\ud835\udd52\ud835\udd66\ud835\udd64\ud835\udd59\ud835\udd52\ud835\udd5d \ud835\udd3b\ud835\udd66\ud835\udd53\ud835\udd56\ud835\udd6a (@kaushaldubey_kd) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kaushaldubey_kd\/status\/1323529532813438981?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 3, 2020<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Several <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/search\/videos?q=Situation%20in%20France!%20Wait%20for%20it%20in%20India%20soon.%20*Ambulances%20will%20have%20to%20wait%20till%20the%20prayers%20are%20over!!*%20This%20is%20%22sickularism%22.\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook users<\/a> shared this video with the text \u2014 &#8220;<span class=\"d2edcug0 hpfvmrgz qv66sw1b c1et5uql rrkovp55 a8c37x1j keod5gw0 nxhoafnm aigsh9s9 d3f4x2em fe6kdd0r mau55g9w c8b282yb iv3no6db gfeo3gy3 a3bd9o3v knj5qynh oo9gr5id\" dir=\"auto\">Situation in France! Wait for it in India soon. *Ambulances will have to wait till the prayers are over!!* This is &#8220;sickularism&#8221;.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-79563 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/2020-11-04-14_50_02-1-Situation-in-France-Wait-for-it-in-India-soon.-_Ambulances-will-have-to-wai.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"858\" height=\"829\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/2020-11-04-14_50_02-1-Situation-in-France-Wait-for-it-in-India-soon.-_Ambulances-will-have-to-wai.jpg 858w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/2020-11-04-14_50_02-1-Situation-in-France-Wait-for-it-in-India-soon.-_Ambulances-will-have-to-wai-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/2020-11-04-14_50_02-1-Situation-in-France-Wait-for-it-in-India-soon.-_Ambulances-will-have-to-wai-768x742.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 858px) 100vw, 858px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Alt News had received several requests to fact-check the video on our WhatsApp helpline number (+917600011160) and <a title=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews\" href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=com.altnews\" data-from-md=\"\">official Android application<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-79561 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-of-french-muslims-praying-on-streets-during-protest-shared-as-recent\/img_20201103_170404\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1080\" height=\"1045\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201103_170404.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201103_170404.jpg 1080w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201103_170404-300x290.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201103_170404-1024x991.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/IMG_20201103_170404-768x743.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1080px) 100vw, 1080px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-of-french-muslims-praying-on-streets-during-protest-shared-as-recent\/architt\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"821\" height=\"455\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/architt.png\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/architt.png 821w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/architt-300x166.png 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/architt-768x426.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 821px) 100vw, 821px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<h4>Fact-check<\/h4>\n<p>Alt News searched the keywords &#8216;Street prayer in France&#8217; on Facebook and found that a video was uploaded by the page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/737557252966261\/videos\/1589453164443328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frustrated Paul Revere.com<\/a> in 2018. The six-minute video includes scenes from the viral video.<\/p>\n<p>Next, we performed a reverse image search of frames from the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/737557252966261\/videos\/1589453164443328\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Frustrated Paul Revere.com<\/a> video and found that <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YVpBwj7SMy4\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">LDC News Agency<\/a> had posted it on YouTube in 2017. As per the title (written in French), the video shows street prayers in Clichy, a locality in Paris, after a mosque was closed by the city administration. Parts of the viral video can be spotted at different points in the longer clip\u00a0 \u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YVpBwj7SMy4?t=199\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3:19<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YVpBwj7SMy4?t=237\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">3:57<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YVpBwj7SMy4?t=247\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4:07<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/YVpBwj7SMy4?t=280\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">4:40<\/a>.<\/p>\n<div id='gallery-2' class='gallery galleryid-79561 gallery-columns-1 gallery-size-full'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-of-french-muslims-praying-on-streets-during-protest-shared-as-recent\/in-story-chart1-11\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1684\" height=\"713\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart1-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full 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decoding=\"async\" width=\"1743\" height=\"750\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart2-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart2-1.jpg 1743w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart2-1-300x129.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart2-1-1024x441.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart2-1-768x330.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart2-1-1536x661.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1743px) 100vw, 1743px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon 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https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart3-1-1536x662.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1633px) 100vw, 1633px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-of-french-muslims-praying-on-streets-during-protest-shared-as-recent\/in-story-chart4-4\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1618\" height=\"707\" src=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart4-1.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart4-1.jpg 1618w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart4-1-300x131.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart4-1-1024x447.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart4-1-768x336.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/In-story-chart4-1-1536x671.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1618px) 100vw, 1618px\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p>[embedyt] https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YVpBwj7SMy4[\/embedyt]<\/p>\n<p>In November 2017, Muslims in Clichy took to the streets to pray in protest against the closure of a local mosque.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Prayers in the street have taken place in Paris suburb of Clichy-la-Garenne since March to protest against the closure of a local mosque <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/vpTlvQxN9j\">https:\/\/t.co\/vpTlvQxN9j<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; AFP News Agency (@AFP) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AFP\/status\/932287840519680000?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 19, 2017<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Videos from the four-year-old protest were also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/old-video-of-protest-by-muslim-community-in-paris-revived-after-french-teachers-killing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">revived in the past<\/a> with false claims.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video of Muslims offering prayers on the street has been shared with the claim that it&#8217;s from London. A provocative message accompanying the video reads, &#8220;If we do not become radical for our faith and our country, then our condition will be worse than other nations.&#8221; \ud83d\udc46\ud83c\udffb\u0905\u0902\u0917\u094d\u0930\u0947\u091c\u094b\u0902 \u0915\u0947 \u0936\u0939\u0930 \u0932\u0902\u0926\u0928 \u0915\u093e \u0939\u093e\u0932 \u0926\u0947\u0916\u093f\u090f\u0964 200 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":79578,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"an_content_type":[739],"coauthors":[669],"class_list":["post-79561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-religion","fact_checks_claim_type-viral-videos","an_content_type-fact-check"],"blocksy_meta":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/10\/2020\/11\/FI-by-43.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79561","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\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79561"}],"version-history":[{"count":13,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79561\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":105302,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79561\/revisions\/105302"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79561"},{"taxonomy":"an_content_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/an_content_type?post=79561"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.altnews.in\/english-clone-2026\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=79561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}