One, the rubes on the internet need to know the difference between a Muslim and A Sikh, and two, HOW THE HELL DID HE TAKE A PHOTO WITH A QURAN?!
A Canadian Sikh man has once again been wrongly accused of committing terrorism after a fake photo of him wearing a suicide vest went viral on social media after the attacks in Nice, France on Thursday night.
Just after the Paris attacks last November, an unknown person photoshopped an image Veerender Jubbal took of himself in the bathroom to make it look like he was wearing an explosive vest and holding a Qur'an. A dildo has also been photoshopped into the background. In the original image, Jubbal, who wears a turban and lives in Toronto, is just smiling at his reflection in the mirror and holding up a black iPad, which he used to take the photo.
A number of mainstream media outlets picked up the image, and it spread widely on Twitter and Facebook.
Jubbal was accused of being responsible for the attack and received countless messages of hate. He took to Twitter to defend himself and quash the rumors. "Learn the difference between me being a Sikh, and a Muslim," tweeted Jubbal, who has identified himself as a journalist who covers gaming and entertainment.
The image resurfaced after the Brussels attack in March. And now Jubbal has once again been forced to clear his name after the exact same image began circulating online late Thursday night following a truck attack in Nice that killed more than 80 people and injured dozens more at a Bastille Day celebration.
But just last week, Jubbal spoke publicly again in a piece for the Guardian about his experience of being wrongly accused of committing heinous acts of violence over the last year.
Jubbal said he thinks he's been targeted by supporters of Gamergate, a movement against women in the video gaming world that took off in 2014. Jubbal started the #StopGamergate2014 hashtag against it. Cont.
Story from - Vice News
Image from - Twitter
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