Photo depicting Sikh man as terrorist condemned

Photo depicting Sikh man as terrorist condemned

FPJ BureauUpdated: Friday, May 31, 2019, 08:46 PM IST
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New York : The US Sikh community has condemned a doctored photograph on social media that falsely depicted a Sikh-Canadian journalist as a terrorist involved in the November 13 Paris attacks. An old photograph of Veerender Jubbal holding an iPad was doctored to make it look like the photograph of a terrorist and was posted on social media shortly after the terror attacks in Paris, NBCnews.com reported.

Jubbal’s doctored photograph showed him wearing a suicide bomb vest and the iPad in the photograph was changed to look like a Quran. Media outlets in Europe published the photo dubbing him a terrorist.  “By photoshopping an image of a Sikh man to depict him as a terrorist, and, worse, amplifying it through social and print media in the guise of legitimate news, an entire group of people is subjected to discrimination and hate violence,” said Prabhjot Singh, director of a New York-based medicine school.

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