Viral video is false, Rahul Gandhi didn’t credit Mahatma Gandhi’s non-violence only to Islam

The video, which did the rounds earlier too, was trimmed from a speech Rahul Gandhi made in Dubai in January this year.

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New Delhi: A trimmed clip of a speech made by former Congress president Rahul Gandhi, implying that he said Mahatma Gandhi picked up the idea of non-violence only from Islam, has gone viral on social media.

The clip has been used by several Twitter users to attack Rahul Gandhi.

However, Gandhi’s complete sentence was shortened to generate this clip. In the original video, posted by the Congress on its official Youtube channel, he said that Mahatma Gandhi drew inspiration for his ideas on non-violence from many religions, not just Islam. He made the speech in Dubai to the Indian community living there, in the run-up to the general elections in January this year.

 

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Several posts with this video clip have proliferated across Twitter and Facebook, garnering thousands of views.

One such tweet has been retweeted over 400 times and viewed over 2,000 times since 11 October.

महात्मा गांधी ने अहिंसा का विचार,इस्लाम से लिया था-राहुल गांधी

अब समझ मे आया,ये बुड्ढा दोगला क्यो था pic.twitter.com/yUZW8z3jv5

— ?Prakash Singh बब्बर ? (@aadi_hindu) October 11, 2019

Another tweet with the video has been retweeted 477 times and viewed over 4,200 times. The tweet is in Hindi, and states that according to “Pappu” (a demeaning nickname for Rahul Gandhi), Mahatma Gandhi learned non-violence from Islam and that “Pappu” forgets that lessons of terrorism and violence also come from the same place (meaning Islam).

सुनिये पप्पू के मुताबिक महात्मा गाँधी को अहिंसा की सीख इस्लाम से मिली थी,

शायद पप्पू भूल गया की आतंकवाद और हिंसा की सीख भी सबसे ज्यादा वहीं से मिलती हैं ।।#वंदेमातरम ????#जय_हिंद ?????? pic.twitter.com/YG9EXFDvpr

— राष्ट्रभक्त अनुज सिंह ?? #SSB परिवार ?✊ (@Anuj_Singh34) October 11, 2019

According to SM Hoaxslayer, the original video of the speech shows that the full sentence uttered by him, starting at 24:20, was as follows:

“Mahatma Gandhi was a great exponent of non-violence. But Mahatma Gandhi ji picked up the idea of non-violence from our great religions, from our great teachers. Mahatma Gandhi picked up the idea of non-violence from ancient Indian philosophy, from Islam, from Christianity, from Judaism, from every great religion, where it is clearly written that violence will not help anyone achieve anything.”