Following reports of attacks in opposition to Hindus in Muslim-majority Bangladesh, a video spread in social media posts that falsely claimed it confirmed a Muslim mob vandalising an idol of a Hindu goddess in the South Asian country.
The photos, on the factitious hand, used to be filmed in neighbouring India’s West Bengal disclose. It exhibits villagers dismantling a statue of Hindu deity Kali as a half of a venerable ritual, one amongst the organisers told AFP.
“The day earlier to this in Bangladesh, Muslims attacked Kalibari i.e. Kali temple and destroyed the idols of Mother Kali and your total Hindu gods and goddesses,” be taught a Hindi-language Facebook put up that shared the video on 2 December.
“The Hindu devotees stamp within the temple were killed. More than 20 Hindus are badly injured. But your total world is quiet on the massacre of Hindus in Bangladesh.”
The video — shared by a Facebook user with extra than 111,000 followers — exhibits a neighborhood of men tearing down a statue.
Kali, on the total depicted as a four-armed lady in blue with a lengthy tongue protruding from red lips, is worshipped by Hindus because the goddess of death, destruction and time.
