Old video from Dehradun is shared as recent hate speech against Hindus by Delhi Qazi - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
April 21, 2022
A video is being shared widely in the context of the recent violence in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri. It is being claimed that the video shows Delhi Qazi giving a hate speech against the Hindus. Let’s fact-check the claim made in the post.
Claim: Recent video of Delhi Qazi giving a hate speech against the Hindus.
Fact: It is an old video. The video is not related to the recent violence in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri. The person talking in the video is Mufti Raees Ahmad Qasmi (Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, Dehradun); he is not Delhi Qazi. The video is from 2019 when he spoke to the media in Dehradun in the context of the Tabrez Ansari lynching incident. A case was also booked against Mufti Raees Ahmad Qasmi after this speech. Hence the claim made in the post is MISLEADING.
When the screenshots of the video were run through Yandex Reverse Image Search, many similar videos were found to be published on YouTube in 2019. Some of those videos can be seen here, here, and here. One of the YouTube videos is titled – ‘#Moblynching के खिलाफ Mufti Rais Qasmi (Chief Mufti Uttarakhand) का बयान। Badri times’. So, it is an old video that is not related to the recent violence in Delhi’s Jahangirpuri.
The person talking in the video is Mufti Raees Ahmad Qasmi (Jamiat Ulema-e-Hind, Dehradun); he is not a Delhi Qazi. An interview of Mufti Raees Ahmad Qasmi regarding his comments can be watched here. The video is from 2019 when he spoke to the media in Dehradun in the context of the Tabrez Ansari lynching incident.
A case was also booked against Mufti Raees Ahmad Qasmi after this speech. The news reports that report the incident can be read here and here.
To sum it up, an old video from Dehradun is shared as recent hate speech against Hindus by a Delhi Qazi.