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Series footage circulated claiming to show Muslim women being kept superstitious in Somalia

Recently, a video has been circulated on social media claiming to show a scene of Muslim women being kept superstitious in the African country of Somalia. The circulated video shows a person wearing a skullcap and panjabi sprinkling water on women wearing burqas.

See such a video circulated on Facebook here (Archive).

See the same video circulated on X (formerly Twitter) here (Archive).

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The Rumor Scanner team’s investigation reveals that the video circulated with the claim is not from a real incident. In fact, it is footage from a Somali series titled CILAAJ.

Investigating the discussed video, the same video was seen being broadcast on August 5, 2025, on a YouTube channel named Nasiye. However, no detailed information related to the video was found there.

Subsequently, by reviewing that YouTube channel, multiple videos of the same place and the same person were found. See some such videos here, here, and here. By reviewing the videos, it is known that the discussed video is from a Somali series named CILAAJ. A trailer video of that series was also found on the channel.

Therefore, video footage of a series has been circulated with the claim of being a scene showing Muslim women kept superstitious in Somalia; which is completely false.

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