Obama Declares November as National Muslim Appreciation Month - Hoax

Story:

U.S. President Obama Declares November as the National Muslim Appreciation Month.

Analysis:

Several messages spreading through social networking websites and others claim that the United States President Obama has declared November 2013 as the National Muslim Appreciation Month. The messages suggest that November would be the month to celebrate the Muslim community in America. That’s not a fact!

The messages spread widely because the source of them appeared to be like a genuine news article from the National Report website nationalreport.net. The article said that Obama held a press conference to announce that he is declaring the month of November as the ‘National Muslim Appreciation Month’. You can read the complete article from reference section below. However, not many readers knew that the National Report is a satirical news website publishing the work of “citizen journalists”. The website has a disclaimer which says National Report is a news and political satire web publication, and their articles are fiction and presumably fake news.

So the above claims are hoax, Obama did not declare November as the National Muslim Appreciation Month. The same website National Report earlier reported that the Japan’s Fukushima disaster has left hundreds of Whales radiated to death. It also said that the Pacific Ocean is Boiling due to radioactive waste from the Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant.