{"id":1494758,"date":"2022-05-27T13:29:48","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:29:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494758"},"modified":"2022-05-27T13:29:55","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T17:29:55","slug":"fact-check-no-this-clip-does-not-show-muslims-praying-in-the-streets-of-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-no-this-clip-does-not-show-muslims-praying-in-the-streets-of-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"FACT CHECK: No, This Clip Does Not Show Muslims Praying In The Streets Of Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ffact-check-no-this-clip-does-not-show-muslims-praying-in-the-streets-of-paris%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1494758&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>A video <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.ph\/bd4Kf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">shared on Twitter<\/a> purportedly shows a massive crowd adhering to Muslim prayer in the streets of Paris.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Believe it or not, this is Paris. Yes, the fashion city Paris in SECULAR France. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/XkM1cE81Cr\">pic.twitter.com\/XkM1cE81Cr<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mini Razdan (@mini_razdan10) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mini_razdan10\/status\/1522915402749259777?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 7, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span><strong>Verdict: False<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The footage was filmed in Moscow, not Paris.<\/p>\n<p><span><strong>Fact Check:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The annual three-day Islamic holiday of Eid al-Fitr was observed in early May to mark the end of the Ramadan fasting month, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/gallery\/2022\/5\/2\/photos-muslims-around-the-world-celebrate-eid-al-fitr-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">according to<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2022\/4\/28\/infographic-when-is-eid-al-fitr-2022\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Al-Jazeera<\/a>. A widely shared May 7 tweet claims to show hundreds of Muslims praying in the streets of Paris near a golden-domed mosque, perhaps in recognition of the holiday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBelieve it or not, this is Paris,\u201d reads the tweet. \u201cYes, the fashion city Paris in SECULAR France.\u201d\u00a0A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Shailja28\/posts\/pfbid02iGqWzYmGN72edwyzt7yr2jbiGjEmCqtbnBzAs4dscgCGKuBKUEJCBfTpsXxSsPQ5l\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Facebook post<\/a> showing the tweet associates the scene with Eid al-Fitr in that country. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/checkyourfact.com\/2020\/05\/31\/fact-check-cleaner-praying-mecca-kaaba-coronavirus-pandemic-police-officer\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Image Claims To Show Cleaner Praying At Mecca\u2019s Kaaba During The Coronavirus Pandemic)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The video was not filmed in Paris. An internet search revealed the same footage was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yenisafak.com\/video-galeri\/dunya\/binlerce-musluman-moskova-sokaklarinda-bayram-namazi-kildi-2234546\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">published<\/a> by the Turkish Islamist newspaper Yeni \u015eafak on May 4 with a caption that explains it shows Muslims praying in Moscow. \u201cThousands of Muslims who could not fit into mosques in Moscow, the capital of Russia, performed their Ramadan Feast prayers on the streets,\u201d reads a translated version of part of the video\u2019s caption.<\/p>\n<p>The golden-domed building visible in the video appears to be the Moscow Cathedral Mosque, which can be found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/Moscow+Cathedral+Mosque\/@55.778809,37.6269493,186m\/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x46b54a72be2c9e49:0xe075ed513f18947c!8m2!3d55.779125!4d37.6269339\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Google Maps<\/a>. Russian President Vladimir Putin oversaw its ceremonial opening in 2015, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2015\/09\/23\/europe\/huge-mosque-opens-in-moscow\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CNN<\/a>. Large-scale Eid al-Fitr prayers have been held on the streets close to the mosque before, as can be seen in photos found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/muslims-pray-outside-the-central-mosque-in-moscow-on-june-news-photo\/800679960?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Getty<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/news-photo\/russian-muslims-pray-outside-the-central-mosque-in-moscow-news-photo\/545018972?adppopup=true\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Images<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A video shared on Twitter purportedly shows a massive crowd adhering to Muslim prayer in the streets of Paris. Believe it or not, this is Paris. Yes, the fashion city<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":1494806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1494758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1494758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1494758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1494806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1494758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1494758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1494758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}