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How did we find out the truth?: Under one of the claims, we found a post by Bangladeshi journalist and fact-checker, Shohanur Rahman, which said that the video showed not a Hindu temple, but a Sufi temple.
We then divided the video into multiple keyframes using InVID, a video verification tool, and ran reverse image search on some of them, supplementing the search with the keywords ‘Sufi shrine’ (সুফি মাজার) in Bengali.
We found this out through Google reverse image search same videoShared on Facebook on August 29, 2024, containing details about the incident.
The translated caption states that it shows the shrine of Hazrat Baba Ali Pagla in Sirajganj, Bangladesh.
Taking a cue from this, we did a Google search using the saint’s name in Bengali (Hazrat Ali Pagla ki Mazar).
This led us to a verified YouTube channel named ‘The Metro TV’, which had shared the video with the title ‘Ali Pagla’s Dargah is being demolished in Kazipur, Sirajganj’.
We also got news reports daily sun And new age bd Mentioning the name of the temple, it was said that it was one of several Sufi temples that were vandalized or demolished in a series of similar targeted attacks across Bangladesh.
a report of bdnews24 Told that the incident took place on 29 August 2024.
conclusion: An old video of a Sufi shrine being demolished has gone viral with the false claim that it shows a Hindu temple being demolished in Bangladesh.
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