Latest Fact-Checks In Islam

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Threads posts
Threads posts
stated on July 16, 2024 a Threads post
Switzerland “no longer recognizes Islam as an official religion.”
False
July 31, 2024
X posts
X posts
stated on May 9, 2024 an X post
Video shows Muslim migrants in Sweden destroying property because an Israeli singer took part in Eurovision.
False
May 15, 2024
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on January 25, 2023 a Facebook post
Video shows a “man burning the Quran in Sweden.”
False
January 31, 2023
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on July 4, 2021 a Facebook post
A Canadian mayor said Muslims must integrate after they “demanded removal of pork in all school canteens in Montreal.”
False
July 9, 2021
Viral image
Viral image
stated on January 16, 2020 a Facebook post
Says if you take the oath of office on the Koran, “then you have committed treason.”
False
February 20, 2020
Bloggers
Bloggers
stated on January 30, 2020 a blog post
“Colorado school forces students to wear hijabs.”
False
February 14, 2020
Facebook posts
Facebook posts
stated on August 19, 2018 a Facebook post
Says "Muhammad owned many slaves" while Robert E. Lee was "against slavery."  
False
By Samantha Putterman • August 27, 2019
Ilhan Omar
Ilhan Omar
stated on March 23, 2019 a speech
Says that the Council on American-Islamic Relations was founded in response to 9/11.
False
By Angie Drobnic Holan • April 15, 2019
Volusia County Republican Party
Volusia County Republican Party
stated on April 2, 2017 in an email
"The United States Department of Education has introduced an Islamic indoctrination program for the public schools, called ‘Access Islam.’ "
False
By Amy Sherman • April 5, 2017
American Unity PAC
American Unity PAC
stated on August 30, 2016 a campaign ad
Says Ted Strickland supported giving $150 billion to Iranian regime that persecutes women, Christians and gays.  
False
By Nadia Pflaum • September 15, 2016
Ben Shapiro
Ben Shapiro
stated on October 15, 2014 a YouTube video
"We’re above 800 million Muslims radicalized, more than half the Muslims on Earth That’s not a minority. That’s now a majority."
False
By Jon Greenberg • November 5, 2014
Rush Limbaugh
Rush Limbaugh
stated on March 6, 2014 a segment on 'The Rush Limbaugh Show'
President Barack Obama shut down NASA space flights and turned the agency "into a Muslim outreach department."
False
By Katie Sanders • March 12, 2014
Newt Gingrich
Newt Gingrich
stated on December 12, 2011 a foreign policy debate with Jon Huntsman in Manchester, N.H., Dec. 12, 2011
"The Obama administration just issued instructions that terrorism training should not involve any reference to Islam."
False
By John Gregg • December 14, 2011
Herman Cain
Herman Cain
stated on August 11, 2011 the GOP debate in Ames, Iowa
Says that he did "not exactly" say that communities have the right to ban mosques.
False
By Willoughby Mariano • August 17, 2011