⚠️ Posts share old footage to falsely claim 'four men converted to Islam at Qatar World Cup'
Social media posts have shared a video alongside a false claim that it shows"four men converting to Islam" at the opening ceremony of the World Cup in Qatar with an Islamic preacher. But the footage -- which has been viewed thousands of times -- has circulated online since at least 2016 in posts about an Islamic conversion in the Qatari capital Doha that year. Reports from the time identified the man who led the ceremony as Dr Zakir Naik, a controversial Indian Islamic preacher.
The man in the black suit can be heard in the video reciting Shahadah, the Islamic declaration of faith, and the four men on the right appear to repeat the same words. The post's Bengali-language caption translates to English as:"Praise be to God. Four non-Muslims have accepted Islam after the speech of Dr Zakir Naik in the opening ceremony of the Qatar World Cup."
Dr Zakir Naik is an Indian physician turned radical television preacher who in recent years has attracted
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