“दुबई में मुस्लिम ओरतो ने नई पहल करते हुए मस्ज़िद में राम भजन प्रस्तुत किया और उनके शेख पतियों ने ताली बजाकर लय बद्ध उनका साथ दिया l (Muslim women in Dubai mark a first, sing Ram bhajan inside mosque and their sheikh husbands applauded and joined them- translation).” Along with this message is a video, which shows burqa-clad women singing Hindu devotional songs.
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🚩🏹जय श्री राम*दुबई में मुस्लिम ओरतो ने नई पहल करते हुए मस्ज़िद में राम भजन प्रस्तुत किया और उनके शेख पतियों ने ताली बजाकर लय बद्ध उनका साथ दिया, हिन्दुस्तान में होता तो इस्लाम खतरे में आ जाता। शेयर किजिये और 125 करोड लोगो तक पहुचाये..*
👇👇👇 pic.twitter.com/8Nftq00iTX— Jitendra Kr Sharma(काँकौरिया)(जीतू भईया) (@JeetuSharma80) March 7, 2021
Viral since 2018
From a Facebook page Ankur Sigad, the video drew 73,000 views. It was shared on November 27, 2019.
दुबई में मुस्लिम ओरतो ने नई पहल करते हुए मस्ज़िद में राम भजन प्रस्तुत किया और उनके शेख पतियों ने ताली बजाकर लय बद्ध उनका साथ दिया,।
Posted by अंकुश सीगड़ on Sunday, 30 June 2019
The video was also circulating on Twitter. Among those who shared it was Indian film director Anil Sharma.
Wow .. music has no boundary no religion.. in Dubai mosk RAM bhajan pic.twitter.com/FA2Jx1qVui
— Anil Sharma (@Anilsharma_dir) November 27, 2017
The same video was earlier viral earlier in February 2019 and was massively circulated.
दुबई में मुस्लिम ओरतो ने नई पहल करते हुए मस्ज़िद में राम भजन प्रस्तुत किया और उनके शेख पतियों ने ताली बजाकर लय बद्ध उनका साथ दिया, हिन्दुस्तान में होता तो इस्लाम खतरे में आ जाता। शेयर किजिये और 125 करोड लोगो तक पहुचाये…
Posted by हिन्दू शक्ति महाशक्ति on Monday, February 11, 2019
In fact, Alt News found that this video along with this claim had been posted by a right-wing Facebook page Azaad Bharat in November 2018, and the share count exceeded 9,000.
What is the truth of the video?
A simple search on Google with the keywords ‘mosque bhajan’ reveals a YouTube video of ABP News, which had fact-checked this claim twice on its ‘Viral Sach’ programme, first in August 2016 and later in February 2018. This suggests that this claim has been circulating on social media for at least four years or more. The same had been fact-checked by The Quint.
The video is not from a mosque in Dubai as claimed, but from Prasanthi Nilayam, the ashram of spiritual guru Sathya Sai Baba at Puttaparthi in Andhra Pradesh. The event which took place in 2012 was attended by devotees from Bahrain, Iran, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates, according to a July 2013 report by Colombo Telegraph titled “Sai Baba’s Arabic-Islamic Flavour”. The entire video of the cultural event is posted below.
In conclusion, the video of burqa-clad women singing bhajans is not from a mosque in Dubai, but from a cultural event organised at Sathya Sai Baba’s ashram in Puttaparthi, Andhra Pradesh.
