Lionel Messi has broken the all-time World Cup scoring record after scoring twice against Austria. But his achievement has sparked controversy online, with claims that Algerian fans targeted him with an aggressive chant calling him the enemy of Allah. According to France 24, those claims are false. The audio circulating is actually a manipulated recording of an old Arab protest chant originally directed against Egypt's former president al-Sisi—taken completely out of context.

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