Anti-India marketing campaign promoted by individuals linked to Muslim Brotherhood, says DisinfoLab

DisinfoLab has give you a report giving particulars of how Muslim Brotherhood has launched a marketing campaign in opposition to India focusing on India’s financial pursuits. According to the report titled Muslim BrotherHood Arrives In India, the #BoycottIndianMerchandise hashtag that was being shared on Twitter in the previous few days, was a part of this marketing campaign in opposition to India.
The #BoycottIndianMerchandise marketing campaign on social media was began after the eviction drive in opposition to encroachers in Assam just lately, which had turned violent after some encroachers had attacked the police. Holding the govt. chargeable for the incident, individuals largely from Pakistan and center japanese international locations together with Turkey, Egypt and Iraq had launched the marketing campaign to boycott merchandise made in India.
According to DisinfoLab, ‘news articles’ have been additionally revealed that promoted this anti-India pattern by a number of media homes linked to Muslim Brotherhood, together with Al-Jazeera. Most of the customers used the Arabic hashtag #مقاطعة_المنتجات_الهندية , however some additionally used the English model #BoycottIndianMerchandise. There was one other tag saying #IndiaIsKillingMuslims, and an unusually giant variety of individuals from the Islamic international locations had posted the tags, which creates the doubt that it was deliberate by somebody.
According to DisinfoLab, the Assam incident was simply an excuse to run the marketing campaign, because the conspirators have been already prepared with the plan, ready for a set off. Both nameless Twitter account and verified handles of well-known individuals from Islamic international locations had posted the hashtags calling for boycott of Indian merchandise.
Even although the marketing campaign was focusing on India, the report states it additionally focused Saudi Arabia and UAE, two center japanese international locations with shut ties with India.
The report by DisinfoLab states that a lot of the outstanding handles selling this marketing campaign have been associated to the Muslim Brotherhood (al-Ikhwān al-Muslimūn). Some of the Muslim Brotherhood ‘influencers’ who led this psy-war in opposition to India embody:
Mohamed Al Sagheer, Member of Board of Trustees of International Union of Muslim Scholars, a company of Muslim Islamic theologians and often called the “supreme authority of the Muslim Brotherhood.” Earlier he had appeared on Al Jazeera calling for the boycott of French merchandise.
Sami Kamal El Din, Egyptian Journalist based mostly in Istanbul, who has been listed as a terrorist twice by the Egyptian govt, and an skilled in propaganda. He had impersonated an Egyptian intelligence official to name a number of Egyptian celebrities asking them to help the US transfer to US mission in Israel to Jerusalem, the video of which was ‘leaked’ and the story was revealed in New York Times. His YouTune channel was deleted on request of Egypt for spreading pretend information.
Ahmad Muaffaq Zeidan, journalist who primarily covers Taliban and Al Qaeda. He has placed on watch record by National Security Agency (NSA) of the United States for suspected hyperlinks with Al-Qaeda and Muslim Brotherhood.
Yasser Abu Hilalah, former Managing Director of Al Jazeera Arabic News, who is understood to have ties with the officers of the Muslim Brotherhood (MB) and even shared platforms with them. Disinfolab says that Hilalah amplified the marketing campaign focusing on India and had retweeted a number of media articles which had highlighted the marketing campaign.
Omar Abdulaziz, activist who’s sympathizer of a number of terrorist teams in Syria and Iraq, particularly Daesh (ISIS).
The marketing campaign run by the Islamists have been coated by a number of media homes, largely in Arabic, and Dsinfolab says that the road between ‘report’ and ‘promotion’ was blurred in these studies. These studies offered the boycott marketing campaign as a real response to ‘atrocities to Muslims in India’, not giving actual particulars of the Assam incident, and never disclosing the character of individuals behind the marketing campaign. The media studies didn’t point out that most individuals posting the hashtags have been from Egypt, Turkey and Qatar and several other of them have been linked with Muslim Brotherhood, and several other movies and pictures posted by them have been from unrelated incidents, that are already debunked by fact-checkers in India.
The most outstanding media home that revealed studies on the marketing campaign, nearly selling them, was Al Jazeera. All the most important portals of the media home promoted the marketing campaign by tweeting from its numerous handles like Al Jazeera Global, Arabic, Kuwait, Turkey, Egypt and so on.
It is notable that the United States has already put a lot of Al Jazeera journalists in terrorism watch record. Ahmad Muaffaq Zaidan, the Islamabad bureau chief for Al Jazeera, was listed as a member of al-Qaeda and the Muslim Brotherhood by the NSA.
Other media homes that promoted the anti-India marketing campaign included the Turkish state-owned information channel TRT World. In truth, TRT World had launched a promotion of the information article via TRT Arabia, which ran a Facebook Ad. This media home has a historical past of working anti-India pretend information.
Some different media homes which actively pushed the marketing campaign included Rassd News Network (RNN) from Egypt, Arabi21 from Egypt funded by Qatar, Al-Araby News from UK funded by Qatar, US-based Arab-American newspaper Watan Serb and so on.
In the marketing campaign in opposition to India, the social media customers had used a number of pretend information. They had shared pictures and movies from outdated, unrelated incidents claiming these depicted assaults on Muslims by majority Hindus. And whereas reporting the marketing campaign, the center east based mostly media homes had failed to say that the campaigners have been utilizing pretend information within the propaganda.
Not simply customers from center japanese international locations, customers from Pakistan have been additionally not behind in spreading pretend information within the marketing campaign. They have been on the forefront in sharing a video of a Muslim household attacked by Muslims in India to assert that the Muslim household was crushed by Hindus.
The DisinfoLab report additional analyses how the boycott Indian product marketing campaign was pushed by numerous Twitter handles, and the way they helped improve the attain of the identical. The report says that such campaigns will improve sooner or later because of the concentrate on the subject. It additionally states that Twitter has repeatedly failed to use even most simple filtering and monitoring to fight pretend information and info-war.
It ought to be a wake-up name for the govt. of India in addition to for Indian social media customers, the report concludes.