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schema:url	http://www.snopes.com/fact-check/muslims-cross-swiss-flag/
schema:text	In late September 2019, the anti-Muslim hate site Frontlines News published a bogus story reporting that "Muslims in Switzerland are demanding that the white cross be removed from the Swiss national flag because as a Christian symbol it 'no longer corresponds to today’s multicultural Switzerland.'" The story contains a thumbnail image of men holding up a flag and burning it. The image was not taken recently and it wasn't taken in Switzerland — in fact, the flag being burned is Danish, not Swiss. The photograph in question was taken by Agence France-Presse photographer Rizwan Tabassum in February 2006 in Karachi, Pakistan. According to the picture's caption, it depicts men burning a flag in response to outrage over cartoons in European newspapers depicting the Prophet Muhammad, the central figure of Islam. Generally, depicting Muhammad in images and statues is forbidden for observant Muslims. Frontlines News quotes and links to a story that was originally published by the Gatestone Institute, an anti-Muslim, non-profit organization that, as NBC News reported in April 2018, "promoted misleading and false anti-Muslim news, some of which was amplified by a Russian troll factory" in the lead-up to the 2016 U.S. presidential elections. The Gatestone story cited by Frontlines News quotes only one source, Ivica Petrusic, who was the vice president of the Swiss social justice advocacy group Second@s Plus. Petrusic was quoted saying the cross should be removed from the flag to reflect a separation between church and state and the country's growing cultural diversity. Petrusic makes no mention of Muslim people making that demand. The only element of the story linking to Muslims is Gateway's unfounded assertion that Second@s "represents mostly Muslim second-generation foreigners in Switzerland." Because the image took place at a different time and in a different place than Frontlines News reported, and because the underlying story originated in 2011 from an already-unreliable source, we rate this claim "False.
schema:mentions	Tabassum Islam Nonprofit organization Internet troll The Photograph (2020 film) NBC News Agence France-Presse Karachi Muhammad Switzerland Catholic Church Pakistan Russian language Danish language Swiss people Social justice dbpedia:Gatestone_Institute
schema:reviewRating	False
schema:author	snopescom
schema:datePublished	2019-09-26 (xsd:date)
schema:inLanguage	English
schema:itemReviewed	http://data.cimple.eu/claim/ffef9bbd56b36b889d602756f776730f34b6668cd83ffe139f18a08a

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