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| - Fact Check: Cash for conversion? No, this notice from Bangladeshi Islamic group is FAKE
India Today Fact Check found that the purported notice making rounds on social media allegedly offering a monetary reward for conversion into Islam is fake.
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India Today Fact Check
This circular is fake. The original one is from February 7, 2022, and was digitally altered.
A Bangladesh-based Islamic organisation, the Bangladesh Jamiyat Ahl-Al-Hadith, is allegedly offering monetary rewards for converting Hindu women to Islam.
Many on social media shared what appeared to be a Bangla-language notice issued by the group that reads, "Thank you to all of you who are participating in the invitational work. May Allah's mercy be upon you. As per our team's new decision for all camps, a new reward has been set. It is as follows: Brahmin girl: 3,00,000 Taka. Indian Bengali Girl: 2,00,000 Taka, Namshudra (Backward Class): 50,000 Taka. Entire family: Rs.5,00,000 Taka."
This post first originated from an X account called “Voice Of Bangladeshi Hindus”, which claimed that its cyber team hacked into the Islamic group and found this document.
Subsequently, this post was shared by others. Archives of such posts can be seen here and here.
India Today Fact Check found that the entire notice is fake. New text was added to the original notice, which is over two years old.
OUR PROBE
A keyword search in Bangla and English yielded no news reports about such a notice. We observed that two different Bangla fonts were used in that notice — one for the reference number, date, and the names of the signatories and a different one for the announcement and the reward amounts.
A subsequent search with keywords took us to the original circular published on the official website of the Bangladesh Jamiyat Ahl-Al-Hadith on February 7, 2022. It was also shared on this organisation's Facebook page.
A comparison between the viral circular and the original one makes it clear that the controversial text was digitally added to it.
The text in the original circular in Bangla was addressed to all district officials of the organisation, informing them of the decision to make arrangements to start Dars of Quran and Sahih Hadith regularly in more than six thousand mosques in Bangladesh.
We also contacted Alhajj Aulad Hossein, the vice president of the Bangladesh Jamiyat Ahl-Al-Hadith, who said that the viral circular is fake. He also clarified that they have ever issued no such circular.
Thus, it’s clear that the viral circular is not real.
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