Muslim couple marrying Hindu foster daughter to Hindu man shared with misleading claim – Alt News

Several social media users have shared a picture with the claim that Muslim parents in Kerala married their daughter into a Hindu family. “She will be safe in the Hindu household,” the claim says. (archived link)

[Hindi text: “केरल मे मुस्लिम माता पिता ने अपनी बेटी की शादी एक #सनातनी हिंन्दू लड़के से करा दी…बेटी #हिन्दू_घर मे सुरक्षित रहेगी.]

Several Facebook users have also shared the image of a Muslim couple giving blessings to a newly married Hindu couple.

Misleading claim

A reverse-image search of the photograph took us to a Facebook post from February 19, 2020. It says that Muslim couple Adija and Abdullah had adopted a Hindu girl when she was 10 years old. They got her married to a Hindu man as per Hindu customs when she turned 22.https://www.facebook.com/v2.8/plugins/post.php?app_id=298431377239806&channel=https%3A%2F%2Fstaticxx.facebook.com%2Fx%2Fconnect%2Fxd_arbiter%2F%3Fversion%3D46%23cb%3Df23b270d220a38%26domain%3Dwww.altnews.in%26origin%3Dhttps%253A%252F%252Fwww.altnews.in%252Ff31cd76e4222004%26relation%3Dparent.parent&container_width=300&href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fyedaanna01%2Fposts%2F496054177770616&locale=en_US&sdk=joey&show_text=true

https://www.altnews.in/the-woman-in-the-viral-image-is-hindu-and-not-muslim-a-kerala-couple-adopted-her-when-she-was-a-child/