Pages on social media circulated a video and images whose publishers claimed they documented protests in the city of Hama demanding the reinstatement of ISIS hudud punishments under the banner of Salafi sharia.
The fact-checking team verified the claim by contacting field sources, and it emerged that the protests were held against the repeated cases of public cursing of the divine by drivers of public transport vehicles, and that they did not include any demands to reinstate ISIS hudud punishments, nor calls for excommunication or killing as the claim alleged.
Why is this claim misleading?
Changing the context: The claim relied on genuine footage of protests that took place in Hama, then attributed to them goals and slogans that do not match their actual motives, changing the context of the event and presenting it inaccurately.
