{"id":12464,"date":"2022-11-08T17:56:40","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T16:56:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/?p=12464"},"modified":"2022-11-28T12:47:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T11:47:47","slug":"drogba-debunks-viral-post-on-conversion-to-islam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/drogba-debunks-viral-post-on-conversion-to-islam\/","title":{"rendered":"Drogba debunks viral post on conversion to Islam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Former Ivorian professional footballer, Didier Drogba, has debunked the news of his conversion to Islam. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The football star took to his Facebook and Twitter accounts to make this known. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis story is going viral but I haven\u2019t changed my religion. This was just me paying respect to my Muslim brothers that I was visiting in the village. A moment of togetherness,\u201d a part of his post read.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recently, a Facebook Blog (Hope For Africa)<\/a>, wrote in a post that the former Chelsea star has converted to Islam.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIvorian legend Didier Drogba converts to Islam. He said he got a chance to know about Islam through his friend Yaya Toure,\u201d the Facebook post read. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Attached to this post were photos of Mr Drogba (some of which were blurred) with his former national teammate Yaya Toure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Screenshot of blog post by Hope For Africa.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The photographs, which appeared to have been taken on different timelines and occasions, led to Facebook users either commending the former striker or berating him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A screenshot of a blog post. Photo Source: Facebook.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Seeing how viral the narrative had spread, Mr Drogba who had previously uploaded a photo grid of himself and his former teammate<\/a>, Yaya Toure praying in a homestead, has now written both on his Facebook (Didier Drogba)<\/a>  and Twitter (@didierdrogba)<\/a> pages  that he hasn\u2019t changed his religion. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A screenshot of Didier Drogba\u2019s tweet.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
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A screenshot of Didier Drogba\u2019s Facebook post.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The photographs, which appeared to have been taken on different timelines and occasions, led to Facebook users either commending the former striker or berating him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12466,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"hannibal_claim_source":"","hannibal_source_label":"","hannibal_card_color":"blue","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","_wpscppro_dont_share_socialmedia":false,"_wpscppro_custom_social_share_image":0,"_facebook_share_type":"","_twitter_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type":"","_pinterest_share_type":"","_linkedin_share_type_page":"","_instagram_share_type":"","_medium_share_type":"","_threads_share_type":"","_google_business_share_type":"","_bluesky_share_type":"","_mastodon_share_type":"","_selected_social_profile":[],"_wpsp_enable_custom_social_template":false,"_wpsp_social_scheduling":{"enabled":false,"datetime":null,"platforms":[],"status":"template_only","dateOption":"today","timeOption":"now","customDays":"","customHours":"","customDate":"","customTime":"","schedulingType":"absolute"},"_wpsp_active_default_template":true},"categories":[1688],"tags":[3728,3726,3725,487,204,3730,3727],"verdict":[],"ppma_author":[3699],"class_list":["post-12464","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-converts","tag-debunks","tag-drogba","tag-dubawa","tag-fake-news","tag-islam-2","tag-viral-post"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8R6dE-3f2","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"authors":[{"term_id":3699,"user_id":0,"is_guest":1,"slug":"cole-praise","display_name":"Cole Praise","avatar_url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/7934b84f51e2c1f4c1e77cce93c223ac97cc2da29198aa9141fd944b0407bb2d?s=96&r=g","author_category":"","user_url":"","last_name":"","first_name":"","job_title":"","description":""}],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Didier-Drogba.png?fit=487%2C488&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12464","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12464"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12464\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12637,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12464\/revisions\/12637"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12466"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12464"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12464"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12464"},{"taxonomy":"verdict","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/verdict?post=12464"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dubawa.org\/dir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ppma_author?post=12464"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}