No, Pakistani Flags Were Not Displayed at Prophet's Day Rally in Kerala

This video does not show Pakistani flags, it shows Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama, Islamic organisation’s flag.

Fact-Check: An Islamic flag was misidentified as a Pakistani flag being displayed at a rally in Kerala on Prophet's day.

(Photo: Altered by The Quint)

A video showing Eid-e-Milad-un-Nabi rally from Kerala is going viral on social media to claim that Pakistani flags were waved at the rally.

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What's the truth?: The video does not show Pakistani flags.

• The flag represents an Islamic organization in Kerala, Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama (All Kerala Ulama Organization).

• The rally was organized on Prophet's day or Eid-e-Milad un-Nabi on 28 September.

How did we find out the truth?: We noticed 'Balla Beach' text on the video and also a board with the same name.

• We also found this beach on Google maps at Kanhangad, Kerala.

The location is Balla Beach, Kerala.

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• We then performed a reverse image search on some of the keyframes of the video and came across a similar version of the video on YouTube.

• This video was uploaded on 28 September and it showed the same rally at a different location in Kerala.

• The title stated that it showed a rally conducted in Kanhangad on Eid-e-Milad un-Nabi.

• At the start of the video, we also found a few people with a poster that mentioned it was Prophet Day's rally at Balla Kadappuram, Kanhangad.

Prophet Day's rally at Balla Kadappuram, Kanhangad.

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• We spotted a shop named 'Western Paints and Hardwares' and found this at North Kottachery, Kanhangad in Kerala on Google maps.

More about the flag: On performing relevant keyword search, we found out that this rally was organised by Samastha Kerala Jem-iyyathul Ulama and their youth organisation called Sunni Yuvajana Sangham (SYS).

• Samastha has different zone and their Facebook accounts namely SYS and SSF Malayorameghala and Muttumthala Muslim Jamath had also uploaded videos of their respective and similar rallies from 28 September.

• However, we couldn't find an active and official account of Balla Kadappuram Muslim Jamath which was mentioned on the poster.

• We then compared three flags: of Samastha, flag from the viral video and Pakistani flag.

• We found Samastha's flags on their website, their Facebook pages and photostock website of Samastha Kerala Sunni Students Federation.

An Islamic flag was misidentified as a Pakistani flag.

(Source: Altered by The Quint)

Conclusion: An Islamic flag was misidentified as a Pakistani flag being displayed at a rally in Kerala on Prophet's day.

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