In the original photo, a teacher in a UP madrasa is seen teaching Sanskrit lessons and not what Fatah has shared.

New Delhi: Controversial author Tarek Fatah has once again peddled misinformation by sharing a morphed image of a madrasa in Uttar Pradesh.

Earlier this year, Fatah had posted a Saudi road rage video that was three years old.

On Monday, Fatah tweeted: “No, the Mullah is not playing ‘knots & crosses’. He is teaching Muslim girls in an Indian Islamic school the comparative superiority of Islam over Hinduism.”

The actual image is of Darul Uloom Husainia Madrasa in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh, which started teaching Sanskrit to its students earlier this year.

However, the morphed image shows that a madrasa teacher was explaining the “comparative superiority of Islam” over Hindu religion to his students.

Words such as janeu (sacred thread worn by Hindu pandits), yoga and mangalsutra (necklace worn by married Hindu women) were cross-marked whereas words such as halala (Muslim marriage tradition), khatna (circumcision process) and burqa were tick-marked.

The tweet posted by Fatah was retweeted by around 800 account holders overnight.

The original photo shows that the Muslim teacher was teaching the second chapter of the school’s Sanskrit curriculum and not what Fatah had shared.

Previous controversy

However, this is not the first time that Fatah has courted controversy. In July, Fatah had shared a three-year-old video in which two Saudi women could be seen engaged in what looked like a road rage incident. He had shared the video in response to Saudi Arabia’s removal of the ban on women drivers in the country.

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