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Example: [Collected via Facebook, November 2015]Those Syrian Orphans Obama told ya'll about lining up to come to the USA. Aren't they Precious? Origins: On 25 November 2015, Facebook user David Ables shared a photograph which purportedly showed a group of Syrian orphans holding guns and insinuated that the pictured children were among the refugees making their way to the United States. The above-displayed photograph, however, was not taken in Syria and does not show refugees. The claim that the children are orphans is also baseless, as well as the claim that the children are holding real guns. The photograph was taken in July 2014 on Al-Quds (Jerusalem Day) in Pakistan. The description accompanying the photo on Alamy states that the children are Pakistani Shiite Muslims and are holding toy guns during a protest:
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