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A video showing a man playing bagpipes during a Muslim call to prayer was widely shared on social media this week, after being boosted by accounts critical of Islam.
The short clip was posted on X numerous times, with accounts stating it showed a call to prayer in Scotland.
“The Scottish have started playing bagpipes during the Muslim Call To Prayer to combat the Islamization of their country.”
Ferret Fact Service looked into this claim and found it False.
The video itself appears to be real, and was originally posted on TikTok by an account called robinbagpipes.
The account regularly posts content showing the creator playing the bagpipes in various locations around the world, and he describes himself as a ‘cultural enricher’ on his social channels.
His video playing the bagpipes during the Muslim call to prayer, known as the Adhan, was originally posted on 13 December 2025.
Multiple accounts claimed the performance was an example of people playing bagpipes in Scotland to “combat the Islamization of their country”.
However, it was not taken in Scotland. It appears to have been taken in Tel-Aviv, Israel. The original creator, robinbagpipes, did not claim the video was from Scotland. It was captioned: "Bagpipes duting muslim call to prayer".
The video shows the bagpiper walking down stone steps in what looks like a grassy amphitheatre with stone seating. In the background is a notable white domed building, and the theatre overlooks a modern city and beach.
This appears to be the Tiroche amphitheater, which is in the ancient Old Jaffa area of Tel-Aviv. Images on and stock images show the same background, with the distinctive stone seating and domed building.
The call to prayer can be heard in a YouTube video taken from the same site in 2020.
A post on an Instagram account also appears to show the bagpiper in Tel-Aviv at the end of November 2025, which would fit with the video posted in December.
This video does not show a bagpiper in Scotland attempting to “combat the Islamization of their country”. In fact, the video is of a Scottish bagpiper and social media content creator playing the bagpipes in Tel-Aviv in Israel.
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