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  • 2017-05-31 (xsd:date)
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  • Did a New York Mosque Burn an American Flag to Protest President Trump? (en)
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  • On 30 May 2017, the web site The New York Evening published a fake news story claiming that a group of Muslims from a New York mosque burned an American flag in protest of President Trump: This photograph is real. However, it has little to do with President Trump and was not taken at a New York mosque. It is a photograph originally taken by Associated Press photographer A.M. Ahad on 21 September 2012, and it shows a group of people in Bangladesh burning an American flag in protest of the anti-Islam film Innocence of Muslims: The uncropped image, which is available here, shows that the flag was being burned on top of a coffin with the words Coffin of Obama, not Coffin of Trump, written on its side. The text of this article also has a dubious origin. Despite that, it has been copied by a number of disreputable web sites since it was first published by UndergroundNewsReport.com in February 2017. That iteration was accompanied by a different photograph, but its caption was no more true than the first: Again, this image has nothing to do with President Trump or a New York mosque. This image was taken by Reuters photographer Mohamed Abd El Ghany on 12 September 2012 and shows protesters outside of the United States embassy in Cairo: A statement at the bottom of UndergroundNewsReport.com identifies the web site as a news and political satire publication: (en)
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