Thread by @OpIndia_com

Reuters' journalist Rina Chandran has come up with a propaganda piece to whitewash the violence perpetrated by Islamists in Leicester.

To do so, she has pinned the blame on Indian Hindus for violence against Hindus, living in Leicester.

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“Rumour had it that a Muslim girl had been kidnapped and a Hindu temple had sent masked thugs into combat,” she wrote, without mentioning that both these rumours were conceived in Leicester and disseminated by the Islamists living there.
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Opindia reported how Islamists had blamed the RSS for supposedly trying to kidnap a 15-year-old Muslim girl.

A Hindu man was dubbed as a paedophile & his address was even leaked on Facebook. Later, it turned out to be fake news.

opindia.com/2022/09/leices…
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The ‘brown sepoy’ shrewdly pointed out the fake stories without specifying the group that spread it in the first place.

For the fake abduction story, she conceded that it was debunked by the police without mentioning that it was the handiwork of the Islamists.
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“…Police took to social media themselves, saying they had fully investigated reports of three men approaching a teenage girl in an attempted kidnap, and found no truth whatsoever to the online story.”

- Rina Chandran wrote in her piece

No mention of who spread it! (5/n)

Opindia also reported how Islamists tried to mainstream the conspiracy theory that ‘truckloads of RSS workers’ were brought to Leicester by a travel agency named ‘Angel Tours’, with the support of a local Hindu temple.

opindia.com/2022/09/leices…
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Guess how the Reuters journalist reported this episode of fake news?

“Fact-checkers also found no truth to claims that gangs of masked thugs were bussed into Leicester,” Rina Chandran wrote, again without mentioning the community that was at the helm of this fake news.
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She then relied on ‘experts’ who claimed that disinformation that supposedly led to the unrest in Leicester came from India.

“Some 80% of tweets with geographic coordinates, or geo-tagged information, were connected to India, Logically said,” the Reuters journalist wrote.
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Logically’s claim that ‘fake news’ was manufactured in India was based on the fact that the majority of the tweets about Leicester violence came from India.

BBC made a similar claim based on Indians posting tweets with hashtags #HindusUnderAttack and #HindusUnderattackinUK
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Duh?

Given that the Hindu population in India is close to a billion and that the community was concerned about the atrocities committed by Islamists in far-off Leicester, it explains why most tweets demanding justice for Hindus were from India.

web.archive.org/web/2022100412…

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Look how Rina Chandran cast aspersions about attack on Hindu temple by Islamists.

She wrote, “Many of the misleading posts alleging that Hindus and Hindu sites were being attacked came from India, the analysis showed.”

Check this video - (11/n)

https://twitter.com/pauldbowen/status/1571296419197190144

Not to forget how the Leicester police themselves acknowledged the desecration.

The same was conceded by a Muslim journalist too.
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The brown sepoy then went a step ahead and indirectly blamed BJP for Leicester violence.

“Some commentators and rights groups say India’s ruling Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party has a hand in the social-media warfare that targets religious and ethnic minorities.”
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Rina Chandran then cited Thenmozhi Soundararajan of Equality Labs (whose talk was cancelled by Google) and dubious ‘fact-checkers’ such as Pratik Sinha to further her claims.

opindia.com/2022/06/google…
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Nonetheless, her propaganda piece was republished by Scroll, which helped further amplify the disinformation.
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None of this is surprising,, given that Rina Chandran has a history of peddling fake news.

For years now, Chandran has been using social media platforms to vilify Hindus, India and make false allegations against them. (16/n)

Read more about it using this link:
opindia.com/2022/10/reuter…

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