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By Indradeep Bhattacharya
On February 1, journalist and former managing editor of Mail Today Abhijit Majumder tweeted a 43-second clip of a speech by Pirzada Taha Siddiqui of Furfura Sharif in West Bengal and wrote that the cleric was exhorting ‘Ms to prepare their children for war against Hs’. (Archive)
On February 1, journalist and former managing editor of Mail Today Abhijit Majumder tweeted a 43-second clip of a speech by Pirzada Taha Siddiqui of Furfura Sharif in West Bengal and wrote that the cleric was exhorting ‘Ms to prepare their children for war against Hs’. (Archive)
https://twitter.com/me_sourish_/status/1621199002011332609?t=sccXjeyLZ-Gh2doNyrifDg&s=19
Another Twitter handle, @RashtraJyoti, which describes itself as a ‘Gems of Bollywood initiative’, and is run by Sanjeev Newar and Swarajya Journalist Swati Goel Sharma as per the bio, shared the clip of Taha Siddiqui’s speech on February 2 and wrote that the cleric was ‘asking Muslims to prepare their children for a war against Hindus.’ (Archive)
https://twitter.com/RashtraJyoti/status/1620981429520961536?t=mpI0aactsMzdK7BxhhZwpQ&s=19
Quote-tweeting Majumder’s post, senior adviser, ministry of information & broadcasting, Government of India, Kanchan Gupta wrote, “Years ago I wrote an article headlined ‘How green is my Bengal?’ which fetched the usual cacophony of #LeftLiberal protest and snark. Sadly Bengali ‘intellectuals’ are collaborators in this hate project. Useful Idiots don’t realise the mob will devour them first.”
The same video and the same claim were also amplified by users such as Debjani Bhattacharyya, Rakesh Singh, Hindu Genocide Watch, among others.
Fact Check
On doing a keyword search on Twitter, we came across a video of the same speech posted by journalist Tamal Saha. This clip — running for 2.11 minutes — is longer than the viral one.
https://twitter.com/Tamal0401/status/1621482464312168448?t=0wrfY0moZiIvAoCL8bYVHw&s=19
In this clip, addressing a large gathering Siddiqui says in a high pitch, “O Muslims, wake up! teach your sons and daughters to fight. Be prepared. Fathers and mothers, prepare your children. We have to fight against the Hindus.” After saying so far, he says in an undertone apparently referring to another occasion, “When I said this, I noticed that the faces of the ministers seated on the dais had shrunk.. everybody was flummoxed..
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