More misinformation is circulating about the World Cup A video of a girl purportedly reacting to the Islamic call to prayer during the tournament in Qatar was actually filmed in Dubai ten years ago
However, the video was filmed at a shopping mall in Dubai in October 2012, ten years before the Qatar World Cup.The video is titled"1st Call to Prayer" and the description reads:"Quick clip of our first trip into the city , and the first time hearing the Call to Prayer. Pretty cool."
It adds:"I may not be Muslim, but I continue to share my experiences with my American friends and family on what a beautiful religion Islam is and what living in the Middle East is like, in hopes of stopping the phobia of Islam that many Americans have." Below is a screenshot comparison of the video shared in a false context on Facebook and the original video :Visual features in the footage correspond to installations atAn exhibition stall of French jewellery firm Van Cleef & Arpels seen in the video corresponds to a photo of a stall that the firm"The Poetry of Time exhibition by Van Cleef & Arpels at the Grand Atrium in The Dubai Mall until October 20th, 2012," it said in the Facebook post from October 18, 2012.
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