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تمثل هذه الخريطة مناطق النزاع الإقليمي حول العالم. الصين، على سبيل المثال، تحتل التبت. استولت تركيا على جزء من جزيرة قبرص. يطالب المغرب وموريتانيا بجزء من الصحراء. ومع ذلك، نادرًا ما نسمع عن هذه الصراعات، بينما يتصدر النزاع بين إسرائيل وعرب فلسطين عناوين الأخبار بانتظام، ويؤدي إلى إدانات منهجية في الأمم المتحدة، ومظاهرات تدعو إلى مقاطعة الدولة اليهودية.

من الهجمات الإرهابية إلى الانتقام، يعاني الناس، ويبدو أن هذا الصراع لا نهاية له. في حين أن الكثيرين في العالم الغربي يدعمون القضية الفلسطينية، وهي القضية التي أصبحت حتى موضة لها مفرداتها وملابسها وطقوسها الخاصة، إلا أن القضية الفلسطينية تحظى باهتمام أقل بكثير عندما، على سبيل المثال، تتعرض مدينة اليرموك الفلسطينية في سوريا للهجوم والقصف من قبل نظام الأسد، ولم يحتشد أحد من أجل الضحايا الفلسطينيين عندما نفذ الجيشان الأردني والسوري في عام 1970 مذبحة أسفرت عن مقتل 25000 شخص، وفقًا لمنظمة التحرير الفلسطينية. عندما يهاجم العرب العرب، تظل شوارع المدن الغربية فارغة. هل يمكن أن تكون القضية الفلسطينية قادرة على الحشد في حالة واحدة فقط: عندما يكون اليهود متورطين؟ هل من الممكن إذن أن تكون وسائل الإعلام والأمم المتحدة والنشطاء معاديين لإسرائيل أكثر من كونهم مؤيدين للفلسطينيين؟

وبدون معرفة بتاريخ المنطقة، ونتيجة لمليارات الدولارات التي ينفقها العرب في الدعاية، يصبح من السهل قبول روايتهم، والتي بموجبها غزا اليهود وسرقوا بلداً يسمى فلسطين. ومع ذلك، لم يتردد بعض قادة منظمة التحرير الفلسطينية، مثل زهير محسن، في التعبير عن معرفتهم بالحقائق: "الشعب الفلسطيني غير موجود. إن إنشاء دولة فلسطينية هو مجرد وسيلة واحدة لمواصلة نضالنا ضد دولة إسرائيل من أجل الوحدة العربية. في الواقع، لا يوجد فرق بين الأردنيين والفلسطينيين والسوريين واللبنانيين."

في منتصف القرن التاسع عشر، وعند عودته من إقامة طويلة في المنطقة الفلسطينية، نشر شخص يُدعى كارل ماركس المقال التالي في صحيفة نيويورك هيرالد تريبيون: "يبلغ عدد السكان المستقرين في القدس حوالي خمسة عشر ألفًا وخمسمائة نسمة، منهم أربعة آلاف مسلم وثمانية آلاف يهودي. يشكل المسلمون حوالي ربع المجموع، وهم بالطبع الأسياد في كل جانب. لا شيء يعادل بؤس ومعاناة اليهود في القدس. فهم أهداف مستمرة للاضطهاد والتعصب الإسلامي."

في الوقت نفسه، كتب مارك توين: "لم يكن هناك بالكاد شجرة أو شجيرة في أي مكان. حتى الزيتون والصبار، وهما الصديقان الوفيان لتربة عديمة القيمة، كادا أن يهجرا البلاد." ومن أين تأتي أسطورة الأرض المسروقة هذه؟

في عام 1947، قسمت الأمم المتحدة ما تبقى من فلسطين الانتدابية. قبل اليهود ذلك. ورفض العرب وهاجموا إسرائيل، آملين في دفع اليهود إلى البحر أو إبادتهم. لم يتوقع أحد أن تفوز إسرائيل بالحرب. في عامي 1967 و 1973، حاولت الدول العربية مرة أخرى تدمير الدولة اليهودية.

على الرغم من تفوقهم العددي، خسر العرب حربًا تلو الأخرى. دفعتهم هزائمهم العسكرية إلى تبني استراتيجية جديدة: استخدام الدبلوماسية وضغط النفط للقضاء على إسرائيل. لأن الأرض التي احتلها الإسلام يجب أن تنتمي للأبد إلى الإسلام. فالإسلام، وفقًا لنظرته الخاصة، جاء إلى العالم ليحل محل اليهودية والمسيحية، وليس للعيش جنبًا إلى جنب معهما، لأن الإسلام، وفقًا لمصطلحاته الخاصة، "دينه" يعني دين الحق، بينما اليهودية والمسيحية هما "دين الباطل". كان الإسلام منذ البداية تحت شكوك حول ما إذا كان دينًا أصليًا أم أنه مجرد نسخ ولصق لليهودية والمسيحية. وفقًا للإسلام، يحق لليهودي العيش، حيث إن مجرد وجود إسرائيل وخاصة القدس بأكملها وما نفعله في جبل الهيكل، يعني بالنسبة لهم أن اليهودية تعود إلى الحياة، وهذا تهديد لمجرد الوجود، ولنتائج الإسلام.

في عام 1929، أسس إمام أصولي مصري، وهو حسن البنا، جماعة الإخوان المسلمين، المعترف بها الآن كمنظمة إرهابية. هدفها: محاربة النفوذ العلماني لإنجلترا والغرب. وسرعان ما أصبح البنا صديقًا للحاج أمين الحسيني، المفتي الأكبر للقدس، الذي كان مسؤولاً بالفعل عن أعمال الشغب القاتلة في عام 1920، والذي شاركه كراهيته الدينية لليهود. كانت الذريعة لهذه المذابح: أن اليهود كانوا يستعدون لتدمير المسجد الأقصى، وهي كذبة تكررت بانتظام منذ ذلك الحين من قبل عرفات ومحمد.

أقنعت خطابات هتلر الحسيني بأن النازيين سيكونون حلفاء مثاليين ضد الاحتلال الإنجليزي واليهودية العالمية التي كان يحلم بإبادتها. في عام 1933، أجرى الحسيني اتصالات مع القنصل الألماني في القدس. في العام نفسه في سوريا، أنشأ أنطون [سعاده]، الملقب بالفوهرر السوري، حزبه القومي الاشتراكي، والذي يشبه علمه بشكل غريب الراية النازية. في مصر، أسس أحمد حسين حزب مصر الفتاة، وكان شعاره "شعب واحد، حزب واحد، قائد واحد"، مطابقًا لشعار الحزب النازي، الشعار سيئ السمعة "شعب واحد، إمبراطورية واحدة، قائد واحد."

وراء هذه التحالفات يمكن العثور في كل مرة على المفتي الأكبر. في عام 1938، كتب ألفريد روزنبرغ، وهو منظّر للحزب النازي: "كلما استمر الحريق في فلسطين لفترة أطول، زادت المعارضة لدولة يهودية في جميع الدول الإسلامية." وفقًا للأرشيفات الألمانية التي استولى عليها الحلفاء في فلنسبورغ، فقد أطلق الحسيني، بأموال نازية، ثورة عربية في عام 1936، والتي أدت إلى مذبحة مئات اليهود.

في عام 1938، عندما جعل صعود النازية الهجرة اليهودية إلى فلسطين أكثر إلحاحًا من أي وقت مضى، كان من شأن نشر الكتاب الأبيض الإنجليزي أن يفتح أبواب فلسطين على مصراعيها أمام المهاجرين العرب مع منع وصول اليهود اليائسين للهروب من الاضطهاد النازي. ومع احتدام الحرب وانتشارها في جميع أنحاء العالم، فر الحاج أمين إلى العراق، حيث شارك في انقلاب مع رشيد عالي الكيلاني، وهو نازي في القلب مثله تمامًا. أطلقوا معًا "الفرهود"، وهي مذبحة منظمة ضد يهود العراق.

بعد العديد من التبادلات مع كبار القادة النازيين، بما في ذلك هاينريش هيملر، الذي أصبح صديقًا مقربًا، التقى المفتي الأكبر أخيرًا بأدولف هتلر في عام 1941. "الشرط الدقيق لتعاوننا مع ألمانيا كان الحرية الكاملة للقضاء على اليهود حتى آخر شخص من فلسطين والعالم العربي. طلبت من هتلر موافقته الصريحة للسماح لنا بحل المشكلة اليهودية. كانت الإجابة التي تلقيتها هي: اليهود لكم."

منحه النازيون فيلا فاخرة في شارع كلوبشتوك، والتي كانت تضم المدرسة اليهودية حتى مصادرتها في عام 1939، بالإضافة إلى معاش مريح سيحصل عليه حتى نهاية الحرب. في المقابل، كان مسؤولاً عن الدعاية الإذاعية باللغة العربية، والتجسس في الشرق الأوسط، وتنظيم المسلمين في وحدات عسكرية. "هذه الفرقة من المسلمين البوسنيين، التي أُنشئت بمساعدة ألمانيا الكبرى، هي نموذج للمسلمين في جميع البلدان. ألمانيا النازية تقاتل يهود العالم. يقول القرآن: سترى أن اليهود هم أسوأ أعدائك."

في عام 1942، أبلغ أيخمان المفتي بالأساليب التي وُضعت للحل النهائي، أي إبادة اليهود. أعجب المفتي جدًا، وطلب مستشارًا لمساعدته في تنفيذ نفس الأساليب في فلسطين بمجرد فوز النازيين بالحرب. كانت خطته هي إنشاء محارق جثث عملاقة بالقرب من نابلس، مثل تلك الموجودة في أوشفيتز، لإبادة اليهود من جميع الدول العربية الإسلامية.

عندما خطط أيخمان في عام 1943 لتبادل أسرى الحرب الألمان مقابل 5000 طفل يهودي وإرسالهم إلى فلسطين بموافقة الحكومة الإنجليزية، احتج الحسيني وقام في النهاية بإبادة الأطفال في غرف الغاز. في عام 1944، ومع خسارة ألمانيا للحرب تقريبًا، أقنع المفتي النازيين بتنظيم تسميم جماعي لليهود في فلسطين. هبطت وحدة كوماندوز بالمظلات جنوب أريحا، لكن البدو أبلغوا القوات البريطانية عنها وتم القبض على قائدها، كورت ويلاند.

بعد هزيمة ألمانيا، سُجن المفتي في فرنسا، ثم أُطلق سراحه سريعًا بفضل تدخل صديقه القديم حسن البنا. لم ينته تأثيره المعادي للسامية بانتصار الحلفاء. وجد المفتي ملجأ في مصر، حيث استُقبل كبطل قومي، بينما ضغطت جامعة الدول العربية على الغرب حتى لا يُحاكم على جرائم حرب. في عام 1948 وحتى وفاته، استمر في حملته ضد إسرائيل والدعوة إلى إبادة اليهود.

من بين أقاربه كان ابن أخيه، محمد عبد الرؤوف عرفات القدوة، وهو مصري ولد في القاهرة، وسرعان ما اشتهر باسمه الحركي، ياسر عرفات. كان الفيروس المعادي للسامية منتشرًا بالفعل في العالم الإسلامي، لكن الظاهرة اشتدت مع التحول الجماعي للنازيين السابقين إلى الإسلام ولجوء العديد من كبار الشخصيات النازية إلى الدول العربية، وخاصة في سوريا ومصر. قام الضباط النازيون بتدريب الفدائيين ليصبحوا إرهابيين. تم استخدام أساليب غوبلز الدعائية على نطاق واسع.

لكن العالم تغير بعد الحرب، وكانت شمولية جديدة مميتة مثل النازية تنتشر بسرعة. مثل النازية، احتاجت الشيوعية السوفيتية إلى دعم الدول العربية الإسلامية. بعد دعم تقسيم فلسطين، أدرك ستالين أن إسرائيل لن تصبح أبدًا تابعًا آخر للإمبراطورية السوفيتية، فانقلب ضد اليهود.

في عام 1964، وُلدت فكرة الشعب الفلسطيني، التي كانت مرفوضة حتى ذلك الحين، للتو في عقول ياسر عرفات والرئيس المصري جمال عبد الناصر، بمساعدة جهاز المخابرات السوفيتية (KGB). لم يكن هدفها توفير الاستقلال والازدهار لشعب ما، بل تأليب الرأي العام العالمي ضد إسرائيل. استغرق الأمر بعض الوقت، لكنه نجح.

في عام 1976، كان النازي السابق كورت فالدهايم يشغل منصب الأمين العام للأمم المتحدة. وتحت قيادته، وبضغط من العالم الإسلامي والدول الشيوعية، أقرت الجمعية العامة القرار 3379 الذي يعلن الصهيونية كشكل من أشكال العنصرية. "لقد أُطلق شر عظيم على العالم. الآن، أود أن يُفهم... أود أن يُفهم أنني هنا لتوضيح نقطة واحدة ونقطة واحدة فقط، وهي: مهما كانت الصهيونية غير ذلك، فهي ليست ولا يمكن أن تكون شكلاً من أشكال العنصرية."

كان ذلك نصرًا مؤقتًا للفلسطينيين، الذين أصبحوا الآن مدعومين من معسكرين: الحنين إلى ألمانيا النازية وأقصى اليسار. "بالتأكيد، وبكل تأكيد، نحن نعارض إقامة دولة يهودية في أي جزء من فلسطين." أُلغي القرار 3379 في عام 1991. ومؤخرًا، حاول محمود عباس، المعروف بمعاداته للسامية وخطابه المزدوج، استعادة هذا القرار القديم.

في جميع أنحاء العالم، أصبحت القضية الفلسطينية رمزًا لشعب يضطهده اليهود. من قال: "إذا كذبت كذبة كبيرة بما يكفي وواصلت تكرارها، فسيصدقها الناس في النهاية"؟

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This map represents territorial dispute zones around the world. China, for example, occupies Tibet. Turkey has seized part of the island of Cyprus. Morocco and Mauritania claim part of the Sahara. Yet it is rare to hear about these conflicts, while the dispute between Israel and the Arabs of Palestine regularly makes the headlines, leads to systematic condemnations at the United Nations, and demonstrations calling for a boycott of the Jewish state.

From terrorist attacks to retaliation, people are suffering, and it seems that this conflict has no end. While many in the Western world support the Palestinian cause, a cause that has even become a fashion with its specific vocabulary, clothing, and rituals, however, the Palestinian cause is of much less interest when, for example, the Palestinian city of Yarmouk in Syria is attacked and bombarded by the Assad regime, nor did anyone rally for the Palestinian victims when in 1970 the Jordanian and Syrian armies carried out a massacre resulting in the death of 25,000 people, according to the PLO. When Arabs attack Arabs, the streets of Western cities remain empty. Could it be that the Palestinian cause is able to federate in only one case: when Jews are involved? Would it then be possible that the media, the United Nations, and activists are more anti-Israel than they are pro-Palestinian?

Without knowledge of the region's history, and as a result of billions being spent by Arabs in propaganda, it becomes easy to accept their version, according to which Jews invaded and stole a country called Palestine. However, some PLO leaders, such as Zuhair Mohsen, never hesitated to express their knowledge of the facts: "The Palestinian people do not exist. The creation of a Palestinian state is only one way to continue our struggle against the State of Israel for Arab unity. In reality, there is no difference between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians, and Lebanese."

In the middle of the 19th century, on his return from a long stay in the Palestinian region, a certain Karl Marx published the following article in the New York Herald Tribune: "The sedentary population of Jerusalem numbers about fifteen thousand five hundred souls, of whom four thousand are Muslims and eight thousand are Jews. The Muslims, forming about the fourth part of the whole, are of course the masters in every aspect. Nothing equals the misery and the suffering of the Jews in Jerusalem. They are the constant objects of Muslim oppression and intolerance."

At the same time, Mark Twain wrote: "There was hardly a tree or a shrub anywhere. Even the olive and the cactus, those fast friends of a worthless soil, had almost deserted the country." And where does this myth of a stolen land come from?

In 1947, the United Nations shared what remained of Mandatory Palestine. The Jews accepted this. The Arabs refused and attacked Israel, hoping to push the Jews into the sea or exterminate them. No one expected Israel to win the war. In 1967 and 1973, the Arab countries tried again to destroy the Jewish state.

Despite their numerical superiority, the Arabs lost war after war. Their military defeats led them to adopt a new strategy: use diplomacy and oil pressure to bring Israel to an end. For a land conquered by Islam must forever belong to Islam. Islam, according to its own view, came to the world to replace Judaism and Christianity, not to live side by side, because Islam, according to its own terminology, its din means religion of truth, while Judaism and Christianity are din al-batil, religion of falsehood. Islam from the beginning was under the doubt whether it is an original religion or it is a copy and paste of Judaism and Christianity. According to Islam, a Jew has the right to live, as the mere existence of Israel and especially the whole of Jerusalem and what we're doing in the Temple Mount, for them it means that Judaism comes back to life, and this is a threat on the mere existence, on the result of Islam.

In 1929, an Egyptian fundamentalist imam, Hassan al-Banna, founded the Muslim Brotherhood, now recognized as a terrorist organization. Its purpose: to fight against the secular influence of England and the West. Very quickly, al-Banna became friends with Hajj Amin al-Husseini, the Grand Mufti of Jerusalem, who was already responsible for the murderous riots of 1920, whose religious hatred for the Jews he shared. The pretext for these massacres: the Jews were reportedly preparing to destroy the Al-Aqsa Mosque, a lie that has since been regularly repeated by Arafat and Muhammad.

Hitler's speeches convinced al-Husseini that the Nazis would be ideal allies against the English occupation and world Judaism that he dreamt of annihilating. In 1933, al-Husseini established contact with the German consul in Jerusalem. That same year in Syria, Anton [Saadeh], nicknamed the Syrian Führer, created his Nationalist Socialist Party, whose flag strangely resembles the Nazi banner. In Egypt, Ahmad Hussein founded the Young Egypt Party (Misr al-Fatat), whose slogan was "One people, one party, one leader," identical to that of the Nazi party, the infamous "Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer."

Behind these alliances could be found each time the Grand Mufti. In 1938, Alfred Rosenberg, an ideologue of the Nazi party, wrote: "The longer the blaze continues in Palestine, the stronger the opposition to a Jewish state in all Muslim countries." According to German archives seized by the Allies in Flensburg, it was with Nazi money that al-Husseini launched an Arab revolt in 1936, which led to the massacre of hundreds of Jews.

In 1938, when the rise of Nazism made Jewish immigration to Palestine more urgent than ever, the publication of the English White Paper would open Palestine's doors wide to Arab immigrants while blocking the arrival of Jews in despair of escaping Nazi persecution. As the war raged and spread around the world, Hajj Amin fled to Iraq, where he participated in a coup with Rashid Ali al-Kaylani, a Nazi at heart just like him. Together they unleashed the Farhud, an organized massacre of Iraqi Jews.

After many exchanges with the top Nazi leaders, including Heinrich Himmler, who became a close friend, it was in 1941 that the Grand Mufti finally met Adolf Hitler. "The precise condition for our collaboration with Germany was complete freedom to eliminate the Jews to the last from Palestine and the Arab world. I asked Hitler for his explicit agreement to allow us to solve the Jewish problem. The answer I received was: The Jews are yours."

The Nazis granted him a luxurious villa on Klopstock Street, which housed the Jewish school until its confiscation in 1939, as well as a comfortable pension which he would receive until the end of the war. In return, he was responsible for radio propaganda in Arabic, espionage in the Middle East, and the organization of Muslims into military units. "This division of Bosnian Muslims, established with the help of Greater Germany, is a model for Muslims in all countries. Nazi Germany is fighting world Jewry. The Koran says: You will see that the Jews are your worst enemies."

In 1942, Eichmann informed the Mufti of the methods that had been put in place for the Final Solution, that is, the extermination of the Jews. Very impressed, the Mufti asked for an advisor to help him implement the same methods in Palestine once the Nazis had won the war. His plan was to create giant crematoriums near Nablus, like those in Auschwitz, to exterminate Jews from all Arab Muslim countries.

When in 1943 Eichmann planned to exchange German prisoners of war for 5,000 Jewish children and send them to Palestine with the agreement of the English government, Husseini protested and finally had the children exterminated in gas chambers. In 1944, as Germany had almost lost the war, the Mufti convinced the Nazis to organize the massive poisoning of the Jews in Palestine. A commando parachuted south of Jericho, but it was reported to British forces by the Bedouins and its leader, Kurt Wieland, arrested.

After Germany's defeat, the Mufti was imprisoned in France, then quickly freed thanks to the intervention of his longtime friend Hassan al-Banna. His anti-Semitic influence did not end with the Allies' victory. The Mufti found refuge in Egypt, where he was welcomed as a national hero, while the Arab League put pressure on the West so that he would not be tried for war crimes. In 1948 and until his death, he continued to campaign against Israel and to call for the extermination of Jews.

Among his relatives was his nephew, Muhammad Abdel-Raouf Arafat al-Qudwa, an Egyptian born in Cairo, who soon became famous under his war name, Yasser Arafat. The anti-Semitic virus was already widespread in the Muslim world, but the phenomenon intensified with the massive conversion of former Nazis to Islam and the refuge of several high-ranking Nazi dignitaries in Arab countries, particularly in Syria and Egypt. Nazi officers trained the fedayeen to become terrorists. Goebbels' propaganda methods were widely employed.

But the world changed after the war, and a new totalitarianism just as deadly as Nazism was rapidly spreading. Like Nazism, Soviet communism needed the support of Arab Muslim countries. After having supported the partition of Palestine, Stalin realized that Israel would never become another satellite of the Soviet empire, and he turned against the Jews.

In 1964, the idea of a Palestinian people, rejected until then, had just been born in the minds of Yasser Arafat and the Egyptian President Abdel Gamal Nasser, with the help of the Russian KGB. Its objective was not to offer independence and prosperity to a people, but to turn world opinion against Israel. It took time, but it worked.

In 1976, a former Nazi, Kurt Waldheim, was then Secretary-General of the United Nations. Under his leadership, under pressure from the Muslim world and from communist countries, the General Assembly passed Resolution 3379 declaring Zionism as a form of racism. "A great evil has been loosed upon the world. Now, I should wish to be understood... wishes to be understood that I am here making one point and one point only, which is: whatever else Zionism may be, it is not and cannot be a form of racism."

It was a temporary victory for the Palestinians, now supported by two camps: the nostalgic of Nazi Germany and the far-left. "Definitely, most definitely, we oppose a Jewish state in any part of Palestine." Resolution 3379 was canceled in 1991. Recently, Mahmoud Abbas, whose anti-Semitism and double talk are well known, has tried to restore this old resolution.

Throughout the world, the Palestinian cause has become the symbol of a people oppressed by Jews. Who said: "If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it"?

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I was born and raised as a Muslim in Cairo, Egypt, but I grew up as a child in the '50s in the Gaza Strip. The reason I was in Gaza was because Gaza, at that time, was part of Egypt. I attended Gaza elementary schools where we learned hatred, vengeance, and retaliation. Peace was never an option; the concept of peace was something foreign. Actually, the word "peace" was never even mentioned in the services of any mosque. We recited poetry every day in the school, wishing upon ourselves to die as martyrs. I used to see girls reciting this poetry while crying; they would wish upon themselves to die as a martyr. See, our value system was about victimhood: thinking of ourselves as victims or to be a martyr. To go kill everybody and die as a martyr, either a victim or a martyr, there is nothing in between.

Women don't go to mosques, but we used to hear the service of the mosque either on the radio or on TV. I remember every Friday prayer, the Sheikh would be at the end of the sermon and he would curse: "May God destroy the Jews and the infidels, and even the Christians and non-Muslims." He would call non-Muslims the enemies of Allah. If you grow up with cursing as a form of prayer, it can feel and sound normal. Hatred can be normal because who am I to judge? I never noticed that this is not holy. So, this is how I grew up.

Twenty-two Arab countries did everything they could to make life impossible for Israel to exist. The Arab League forbade absorbing the so-called Arab Palestinians and rejected giving them citizenship in any Arab country. So you could see a Palestinian born in Cairo, for instance, and never get citizenship, and die in Cairo. They are born and die in Syria as a Palestinian and they never get a citizenship. Why? Because the Arab League wanted the Palestinian problem never to be solved. This is not their agenda; the agenda is to keep them refugees from birth to death.

The culture was so for sacrificing. They encouraged women to stand up in front of the cameras and say, "I gave my son to the Jihad, and I want my other children to die in the Jihad." Women who are for life, for peace, were looked down upon. Women who would be radical, if not more radical than men, who will promote Jihad for their children were lifted up as honorable women to be respected in society. So for a woman to be respected in Islamic society, you have to be as radical, if not more radical, than men, and that is why a lot of women are silent. They are proud to give their children to Jihad; the only way to go to heaven is to go and kill the infidel and die in the process.

The Arabs of Israel were pushed constantly. They are rejected from being absorbed and constantly pushed against the borders with Israel in order to keep the problem alive. The Arab world doesn't have a shortage of land. If you look at the Arab world from the Atlantic Ocean (Morocco) all the way to Persia, from Turkey all the way to Sudan. At that time when I was a child, the Sinai was practically empty desert. Nobody lived in the Sinai like today where there is Sharm El-Sheikh, you know, all the nice beaches. This was a military zone, and there is absolutely no pressing need for Arabs to so dwell on wanting to throw the Jews in the sea. You know, this international conflict called the Arab-Israeli conflict really is a fabrication. This is not a conflict over land, and anybody who thinks it's a conflict over land is misguided because they don't see the truth. The truth is, there is something in Islam anti-Jewish, anti-Christian, especially anti-Jewish. And I will tell you why.

Those people calling themselves Palestinians who live in Gaza and the West Bank are the pawns of the Arab world. I don't believe that they care about their happiness or welfare. They are set up to live a miserable life on purpose in order to show the world that we're victims. Do you think Saudi Arabia, with all the money they have, the Gulf countries with all this oil money, they can't give them good roads and good homes and good police, and turn it into a productive area of the Middle East? They can, but that is not their objective. There is a hidden objective, and I don't understand why Western culture doesn't get it, why Western media doesn't get it. It's so obvious.

The unemployed people in Gaza and the West Bank, with all this high unemployment, where do they go to work? Do they stand on the border of Egypt to get a job? Do they stand on the border of Syria or Jordan? No, they line up on the borders of Israel, the very people they are supposed to kill. It's a very unnatural way of living, and nobody sees it, but they go and blame Israel. They compare the living standard of the West Bank and Gaza with Israel, a democracy, the only democracy in the Middle East. Why don't they compare the living conditions of Gaza and the West Bank with Egypt, with Syria, with Jordan? And if they do, they will find that the standard of living is even higher than many areas of the Arab world. But Western media are too lazy to compare apples with apples; they want to compare apples and oranges. I don't know how I can call Western media ignorant, but they should not be ignorant.

And then they go and ask Israel, "Why don't you do some concessions for the Palestinians?" I never hear them stand up to Arab leaders and ask, why doesn't Western media ask Arab leaders, "How about some concessions to the Israeli people?" We never hear that, and it's very convenient to blame all of this terrorism on, after 9/11 especially, they blame the terrorism, saying, "Oh, it's because we have this terrorism everywhere by Muslims, it's all because of the occupation. If it wasn't for the occupation of Gaza, if it's not for the occupation of the West Bank, we wouldn't have a problem. The problem is all because of Israel." That's what they want to give the impression of, and this is a big lie.

I lived in Gaza as a child, and I witnessed the terrorism against Israel before the occupation of Gaza, and before the occupation of the West Bank. Our media here doesn't even know that there was terrorism against Israel before the occupation. So Arabs who claim that they are doing terrorism now because they want freedom and democracy? No, there is no freedom and democracy in any Arab country, let alone the West Bank or Gaza. So we have to really call a spade a spade now. This is too serious to just take all these lies and look the other way. Because it's very, very hard to know the truth if you rely on Arab media, if you rely on the culture around you. And because of life in an oppressive society, I moved to America.

I moved to America at the end of '78 or '79, and my life completely changed. One time, I wanted to attend a synagogue and a church because I was curious. I thought they were going to curse the Arabs the same way we curse them in our mosque. But in the holiness of the place, they were praying for everybody. They were praying for peace on Earth: "How can we leave this earth a better place?" It was a totally different way of thinking. The opposite of what I grew up with.

That's when I went to a mosque here, also in Los Angeles, and I thought that because they allowed women that it was going to be different. Since it's in America, I was so glad thinking Islam in America must be so different. So I went to the mosque and I heard anti-Semitism again in the mosque. I was told, "Don't assimilate in America, we're here to Islamize America." They were looking down at American culture, they were looking down at this society, and I felt very uncomfortable. I said, "Oh my God, there is an agenda here," and I never went back again.

It hit me: how could we do this? How could we lie and accuse people of something we Arabs know very well we have done ourselves? How could this happen? What kind of value system allows a person, or allows a culture or a religion, to lie and accuse their enemies of something that they know they've done themselves? They know that Osama Bin Laden did that. They know that he was financed with Arab money, with oil money, until today. How could they accuse the Jewish people of that?

Look at the map of the Middle East; you can hardly see Israel. It's impossible to convince any person who has the IQ of a child that this problem is over the land called Israel. It's time for the West to understand this, because it's not just bad for Israel, it's not good for the Arab world. They are collapsing. A lot of people think that the Arab world is so strong and so powerful; it's rotting from the core. But they don't know their religious leaders are telling them to continue to hate instead of telling them to repent and find the true God, love, and friendship.

In the eyes of many Muslims, in the eyes of Islam itself, Jews and non-Muslims, they call them the "kafir", the infidels. They don't deserve the truth, they don't deserve justice, and they don't deserve mercy. How can this happen and we accept it, and we don't say no? The Arab world will never have freedom and democracy when hatred is number one, when Jihad is number one, when killing your enemy is number one. When you're fixated on lies and slander, you will never have peace and democracy.

Nobody asks this question: why all these lies and slander against the Jewish people, against America? They call America the "Great Satan" and Israel the "Little Satan." Do you know that on Syrian TV, and Arabic TV, on Egyptian TV, the constant day-and-night lies about the Jewish people are unbelievable? There was a show that was saying, and it was not just religious leaders, some of them were Arab scientists saying "Oh, do you know why Israel went to Haiti to help with the earthquake? You know why? Because Israel really wanted to harvest the organs of the Haitian people."

These are the intelligentsia of the Arab world. When the intellectuals of the Arab world say that, what do you expect from the man on the street? And you wonder why they hate. They are out there and are told this. I was told horrific things about the Jewish people. It took me years to extract it out of my mind, my heart, and my consciousness.

Join us for this fascinating episode as Joel Richardson explains the ideology of Twelver Shi'a Islam and why understanding it is essential for making sense of today's Middle East.

Many in the West are unfamiliar with the major branches of Islam.

Sunni Muslims make up approximately 85–87% of the Muslim world.
Shi'a Muslims account for roughly 12–15%, with significant populations in countries such as Iran and Lebanon.

While both traditions anticipate the return of Jesus and the coming of the Mahdi, Twelver Shi'a theology teaches something unique.

According to Twelver belief, the Twelfth Imam is a specific historical figure who entered occultation centuries ago and continues to guide events until his future return. Many Twelvers believe he will one day establish justice and rule the world.

Joel explains why this belief has had profound influence on Iran's religious and political leadership, shaping the country's vision, foreign policy, and regional ambitions.

In this episode, we discuss:

The differences between Sunni and Shi'a Islam
Who the Twelfth Imam is according to Twelver theology
Why this doctrine has shaped modern Iran
How religious beliefs influence geopolitical events in the Middle East
Why understanding ideology is essential for interpreting current headlines

Joel argues that the conflict in the Middle East cannot be understood through politics alone. Ideas, theology, and deeply held religious beliefs continue to shape decisions that affect the entire region.

As events continue to unfold, understanding these beliefs provides important context for anyone seeking to understand the modern Middle East through both history and biblical prophecy.

Also see: Chanting "Death To America": Hundreds of women offer babies as martyrs in Tehran ceremony

Explores the compatibility between Islamic theology and the theory of evolution, arguing that Muslims should not fear scientific inquiry. The speaker emphasizes that the Quran encourages observation and travel to understand the origins of life, aligning with the methods used by Charles Darwin. While the text accepts scientific concepts like natural selection and common ancestry, it distinguishes between the physical development of the body and the unique divine soul granted to humans. The discussion rejects the idea of randomness in creation, asserting instead that evolution is part of a complex, intelligent design orchestrated by God. Ultimately, the source advocates for a worldview where science and religion coexist, viewing the physical laws of nature as a subset of a broader spiritual reality.

TRANSCRIPT: hey the theory of evolution is a theory that still evokes a negative response i'm sure you'll all agree in religious circles in muslim circles in christian circles you'll find that people look at the theory of evolution with contempt they believe that you're questioning intelligent design and your questioning therefore god and revelation when you subscribe to evolutionary theory and so you find that certain muslim majority countries actually ban the discussion of evolution when i say they ban the discussion of evolution what i mean by that is that if you were to look in saudi arabia or algeria or even oman there was a period of time where the discussion of evolution of charles darwin and what was postulated was not allowed to be taught even i'm sure many of the listeners would agree that even when we were growing up as soon as you heard evolution you thought no i don't believe in this no this is haram we do not subscribe to evolution are you questioning god's creation are you saying that we evolved for example in our simple understanding that we evolved for example from the monkey or the ape and so on and so forth and so therefore when we discussed yesterday about religion's relationship with science we said that christianity had a major problem rehabilitating itself and recovering from the way it treated science and hence when we saw the renaissance and when we saw the reformation we saw a period where enlightenment was in some cases to be far away from what revelation was giving us the reality is that even if i'm going to discuss evolution whether it's evolution in the quran or evolution generally it's important for me to discuss it for a couple of reasons the first reason is because in the same way thermodynamics and gravity are accepted in the scientific community likewise evolution is accepted in the scientific community yes many muslims will turn around and say it's only a theory it's a theory that can be questioned it's a theory that can be debated whether we like it or we don't in the world today there are more people who are going to subscribe to what darwin has discussed when talking about the origin of species when talking about natural selection then what religion puts forward that's on the first level but on the second level there shouldn't be a problem discussing the physical world because the physical world to me as a muslim is a subpart of the whole system the physical world isn't the whole system it's a subpart of the whole system there are many other aspects of life that require discussion that which we observe of the natural laws or the natural sciences is one part of our understanding of what this life is all about we unfortunately when we get scared about discussing evolution it's as if we're falling into the trap of those who want us to believe that this discussion is the be-all and end-all for me discussing the development of primates the discussion of the development of different creatures in the plant kingdom in the animal kingdom in the human kingdom it's a wonderful discussion why would i shy away from it there are certain scholars in islamic history who people allude to their discussions about evolution for example so it's not like there weren't certain discussions about the development of the human being whether you looked at some works which are attributed to the likes of jahil or tusi or mascara even all of them in one way or the other have sought to understand our development as human beings when you hear terms such as homo erectus homo sapiens understanding the development of different creatures as well as using archaeological evidence using fossils this is something wonderful because look one thing we don't ever want to fall into is this trap that there's a war between the evolutionists and the creationists because the moment a creationist says i agree with the theory of evolution kill him burn him the moment someone who believes that the theory of evolution says listen there's a possibility of intelligent design here the likes of anthony flew who were avid atheists their whole life and then become deists right at the end where they recognize that you know what the aristotelian god may have some truth there needs to be an intelligent designer who's powerful this structure that we see in front of us too complex there may be randoms in this world but not enough for me to deny that there must have been an intelligent designer what we can never fall into is this trap that i'm purely a creationist and i'm anti-evolution or the other side i'm purely evolution and i don't want to hear about creation because the reality is that our knowledge of the physical world is still in flux do you agree even in the world of science what's it mainly about they want you to continue to observe continue to experiment hypothesis come back and forth and give your arguments back and forth even our knowledge of the world there are certain things we know about dna there's no way that even our own muslim scholars in some cases 500 years ago that no many of them didn't know about some of the things we know about dna many of them may have looked at certain aspects of natural selection or adaptation may have thought you know what darwin and wallace have a point over here there's something there's something true here in the same way if i turn that around if you were living in the time of for example the holy prophet peace be upon him as family and someone bought you an iphone you'd look at that as a miracle whereas today you look at it as the development of science if you were living in the time of the holy prophet peace be upon him and his family and at that time someone was showing you for example this idea that there one day will be a machine with wings that'll take you up above the seventh heaven you'll be like that's absurd but now we fly on them or we used to pre-call it so now we don't want to fall in this trap where we give conclusions about the natural world rather we want to enjoy the way darwin enjoyed now someone might call me um an apostate after i just said that line we should enjoy the way who enjoyed darwin how dare you say we should enjoy the way darwin enjoyed darwin loves to travel darwin loves to observe he does in reality what the quran wants him to do because the quran itself if you look for example surah 29 verse 20 of the quran my dear viewers at home today i'm going to make you move from one side of the quran to the other and i want a cut or a commission of your foreign surah 29 of the quran verse number 20 darwin when he travels to south america aboard hms beagle when he travels to south america and he travels to australia he's traveling to observe life to observe different forms of life do we agree because we have to admit there is a close evolutionary relationship amongst all primates we agree with those who espouse randomness one thing is that there is a close relationship between all primates darwin in surah 29 verse 20 when the quran says travel in the earth and see how creation was originated what's he doing because what's the lead up to his theory darwin doesn't just wake up one day and have a theory what's the lead up to his theory about how we came about or how we evolved or how we developed or how we integrated or how we adapt adapted darwin goes to south america and goes to australia he looks at all these different forms of plants and animals and it's so wonderful this is intriguing those who go deep sea diving 60 feet below they're seeing all these different forms of animals different creations of god creations that you know of creatures that you don't and he becomes intrigued by this why because what he looks at he sees finches he sees beaks of different shapes he begins to ask a question about these animals because the birds in this world are wonderful the birds are beautiful wherever you travel on the earth and you come across a new bird and you're looking at that bird and you're thinking to yourself wow some of us may think that this has come purely from intelligent design others might think it's randomness but darwin begins to look and he begins to ask the question these are all finches but they look different to each other how have they adapted to their environment and how do they survive because there must be something about how we've survived how if animals survived all this time there are certain aspects of what then is developed that i'm sure you'll all agree with me on species that are now exist are now extinct that existed a long time ago do we all agree on that so does islam believe in dinosaurs listen if fossils are showing me then why should i reject does islam believe in dinosaurs yes does evolution say that there are species that are now extinct that lived a long time ago yes does evolution say that the age of this earth spans billions of years yes do we agree with that as muslims yes i showed yesterday nabi adam father of this generation doesn't mean that there weren't generations before him do we also agree to an incredible diversity in life forms this is darwin there's an incredible diversity in life forms or there isn't also similarity across these species so diversity and similarity do we all agree there's only certain areas that we may differ but where we agree on with darwin is unless you travel on this earth and unless you observe go to solar 67 verse number three of the quran surah 67 verse number three many of you at home would have read this particular surah and verse you go to suratul mulk and when you go to surah allah subhanahu wa ta'ala wants you to be a scientist being a scientist is simply you studying the laws of the universe the constants you're not doing anything blasphemous he created the seven heavenlies above lays you will not see in the creation of god any defect or incringuity but the main thing is what does god want us to do to look at his creation do you agree no look again don't just look once don't just look and say yes it exists don't just look and start giving theories look again think back ask yourself how does all this come about someone says but do you know the problem with you religious people yes your quran we admit it says travel on the earth be like darwin that we agree with and your quran says look like darwin looked and no don't just look once keep looking again bring those eyes back and have a look again problem with you guys is you end up using rational and not always using the empirical and you end up using philosophy alongside science firstly if you're telling me that every conclusion i reach has to be something that i see or i touch or i taste or i smell or i hear the empirical even that that you're telling me comes from rational sentence that sentence can that be disproved in a science lab that you can only use your senses anything outside of the senses cannot be used no so even that is not something that i can even examine in a lab secondly they're right because i will use some philosophy because this is only a subpart of the world i live in not the violet and all when i'm gonna use philosophy in relation to all this creation it's because i come across certain moments where observation stops when i come across certain moments where observation stops after that what do i do you observe and i observe after that you describe and i describe we go in a world you want to call it philosophy or we'll call it speculation which moment do scientists across the board agree on is the moment that beef that before that we can't use scientific apparatus to know exactly what happened what do they call that moment planck's moment big bang is discussed if you go to and i'm not going to say the quran look i don't like falling into the strap of the quran discusses big bang what i do know is that the quran gives you certain guidances on then you doing further research with the tools that you have after big bang we're able to use apparatus mathematics science and so on planck's moment before that we go in a world of asking what's going on because let's all go surah 21 my dear brother sisters people always ask big bang in the quran it doesn't discuss the big bang doesn't it it certainly discusses something that's happening and the primordial soup let's go to surah 21 of the quran verse number 30. we've all agreed that the genetic code begins cells begin to form they're all increa incorporated in life on earth the metabolism energy is formed in body organisms okay um they utilize food like sugars carbohydrates all of this i see occurs in what's known in a water basin known as the primordial soup because they'll always say to you do you know yes sir do you know said do you know do you know how did we all come about randomly you know this genetic code and cells begin to form there's certain reactions and you the human being come about that's one angle and they say that what happens is all this occurs in a water base and known as the primordial soup i want everybody at home to discuss this with their families the water basin known as the primordial soup if sometimes now you ask online if you asked online how did life begin you'll see online that says life originated near a deep sea hyperthermal vent we have a water basin we have soup we have a deep sea hyper thermal vent water water water water water okay sula 21 30. do those who not believe in our theory of intelligent design the heavens and the earth were one piece and then we opened them up we expanded them we claimed them asunder what do we normally call this the big bang people normally call the big bang i don't want to fall in the strap of saying the quran is a science book the quran and so on so forth but heavens and the earth were one and then the world of science before this moment cannot give you any more discussion you ask hawking you ask others planck's moment before that it's either speculation or it's philosophy i really don't mind because that's the limitations of science science observe observe observe observe then what then how do i understand the meaning of this whole life because this is only a subset of life the quran says no no hold on observe the fact that the heavens and the earth at one moment everything that's alive is islam against evolution no why should it be if evolution is telling me about a genetic code it's telling me about the development from a single cell no problem no problem and it's talking about reactions according in this uh occurring in this primordial soup sorry if i'm making you guys hungry i know if that is only about an hour away water basin primordial soup the quran here says we created everything from from what water is the source of all creatures life and almost all creatures what are they made up of the most water muslims why have you got a problem with the theory of evolution if it says that there are adaptations because of those finches we agree if it says natural selection we agree selective types of breeding that how do we have antibiotics and certain vaccines you're trying to see survival who's going to survive some people survive some don't if you're telling me about a water basin and a primordial soup we agree you know many times when muslims say uh you ask a muslim how were you created they always say allah said so what's wrong maybe our understanding of intelligence design darwin had found better than we have said it says the um he wants something he says being it will be i have no doubt because i believe in a god where he is beyond the dimensions of time and space big bang is for us before that before planck's moment we go to an intelligent designer that's only me but if you're telling me evolution is telling me that there's mutations that occur in the environment definitely why not if evolution is telling me that there's adaptations in the environment of course there are even us as human beings how did we survive in certain areas are there animals how do they survive in areas some their beaks are bigger some there you look at the moth at one time moths were all eaten up because they had different colors then when there was smog in london the darker the more the more it survived so even in the world of moths there is an adaptation to the environment there are some people who survive some oth don't we have people in our family genetically they survive others heart attack 38 41 47 yes survival of the fittest but there's a difference while we agree with survival of the fittest human a human who adapts a human who procreates a human who's so similar to other primates we agree primates where's the difference for us first and foremost is that this human is the most honored creation in this whole soup in the quran the human is honored in many ways first the spirit of the lord is breathed into the human that is not something we necessarily see when i'm discussing science but not the science need to take that leap no problem let science remain where science is the human when god says that we breathe our spirit into the human that takes you above being purely physical now you are soul and body and because of that what do you become because that first interaction of soul and body i mentioned yesterday chapter 7 verse 172 there is this discussion between god and souls do you remember that discussion i don't remember that discussion but the quran says there was a discussion where we aren't just evolved creatures bring me fossils and show me when i lived and show me all the laws of how i evolved i haven't got a problem with that but either human being according to islam first and foremost i'm honored because of the soul the lord gave me i'm not just physical there are animals who live in this world they can't recollect they can't appreciate history they can't appreciate art even language is a gift i've been given others haven't we used to have an african grey parrot at home casco african grey can speak but how much do you have to speak for it to speak aloe allo hello hello african grey can become shakespeare can become lao ju can become jibran the human being alone the language that they have god mentions as fundamental and differentiating with all other creatures famous sword 55 go quickly to surah 55 of the holy quran my dear brothers sisters all of you know the surah inside out but it reminds us that there is a difference between us and the other primates who i do not deny that we're similar to but there's certain differences which make me a human and which make you as crazy as a monkey sort of 55 verse number what verse number one read it for me please my dearest brother minhal read me the first few verses the merciful these translations i'm only using what's there i could go deeper into the original it's a molecule no problem in s who can write who can produce what the human has produced who can recollect and reflect on their history now do you see what i'm doing if i stick to science as the be-all and end-all i haven't described the human but if i say science is a subset let's observe let's appreciate let's look at the fossils then i'm open for more discussion about the greatness of that human being therefore how does allah talk about the human being in the quran surah 17 verse number 70 go to surah 17 verse number 17. if ever anyone asks you you know how does islam view the human being this ayah is wonderful surah 17 my dear brother sisters at home verse number 70 adam i don't even need to say anything else and we indeed have honored the children of adam i'm just going to stop there is there a better line that we have honored the children of adam further than that chapter which other can we refer to the human also different from other primates there's a primordial nature unique to them a primordial nature that recognizes the lord chapter 30 verse 30 go to chapter 30 verse number 30 and you'll see this discussion in islamic thought when it comes to the identity of the human honored by god god's caliph on earth with a soul and a primordial nature that makes them different to the world of animals set your face upright on the right religion a nature caused by god in which he has made people when we say god creates an islam stop focusing on just design focus on what is the make up of that creation what's the identity human caliph of god rep of god on earth soul primordial nature ability to express like no other primate has ever been able to that is the human in the eyes of world even if i go a bit further darwinism while many discuss it biologically one of its problems is what is social darwinism social darwinism i'm looking at the idea that good and bad right and wrong are not universal concepts good and bad right and wrong relative not universal concepts don't be utilitarian right and wrong ah again in the makeup of the human being in the quran allah will tell us for example which surah if you look in and i think probably uh sora shems you don't have to go to my dear sisters because there's so many verses to come but when f by the soul of the human of the self of the human and the one who perfected it means to literally force down the throat he inspired it to be able to either destroy itself through doing bad or cover itself through doing good successful successful is the one who purifies their soul so for us when we're looking at darwinism there is a social construct which we reject as well that there's no such thing necessarily and this comes later on and the way colonialism happens you can go into an anthropological discussion on this but the main point for us number one the identity of the human being an interaction through a primordial nature with a soul expression this is a different creature altogether i don't mind even if you say to me that we all came from a single cell where did that single cell come from because all we're going to go back is to infinite regression and that's why another area that we differ with so we said that the theory of evolution there's many parts of it we agree with we said parts of survival the fittest and mutations and adaptations and the environment the existence of the earth and for example certain species being extinct and others we agree we said however it doesn't offer me an understanding of a moral worldview not at all because empirically i can't test some of these moral constructs what else is a problem randomness look i don't mind if you want to believe that all this is random i don't know you want to go to a mathematician like penrose or you want to go to an ex-atheist like flu they're going to turn around to say listen i know there's some random stuff but not that random for you to reject that there must have been a a designer yes you can be a deist they'll say you don't have to believe in the lord of muhammad and moses because einstein or anthony flew couldn't conceive of or accept why there's evil so the god of moses or the god of jesus or muhammad they may reject but they'll say that there is a god and that's why in the quran god keeps on reminding us that look at the creation you know even where is the verse in the quran oh god i knew i should have done my research on this one you know how darwin observed the finches and it made him think even in the quran god tells us look at the creation of the birds i think in surah 16 it's 1679 i think or 1689 try and get there my dear brothers and sisters surah 16 is it 79 yes alhamdulillah otherwise that could have gone horribly wrong in surah 16 the quran verse number 79 god wants you to observe creation and the main point is that the randomness aspect of all of us emerging randomly and there's no purpose that is rejected surah 16 verse 79 do they know do they not look towards the birds these are signs for a people who believe i don't deny if you want to show me results of birds and their evolution birds and their survival but do not tell me that this bird was a creation in vain rather i am the one just look at it look at the poise and do you ever ask who looks after its journeys and who has structured it the way it's been structured if you look for example surah 31 verse 11 let's go 31 11. um in surah 31 verse number 11 you've got this wonderful discussion here again where allah wants us to reflect on this creation in surat lokman verse number 11 what does god say bismillah this is the creation of allah this is the creation of allah show me those who you call upon besides him what did they create what did they create another eye of the quran and surah 38 27 there is this wonderful ayah as well where god again takes us to his creation but this time you know what he's saying don't say it's random i beg you randomness we reject there is a purpose there is an intelligence there is a power verse 27 38 we created not the heavens nor the earth and what is between them in vain this is the imagination of those who disbelieve faway will be to those who disbelieve because of the fire i remember when when i when i was younger we i think frederick canute and nicholas and elka both converted to islam in a certain period and kanute was discussing his conversion and there was there was a stream of i think french players who had converted and of the verses that affected them was this we did not create all of this in vain don't say it's random of course if someone wants to say it's random i'm not here to compel someone to follow my worldview my worldview here is saying what is saying that darwin's theory there are many things we agree with but if we were to differ on certain things we differ maybe on where does it offer us more what does it offer us morally randomness and macrocosm evolution or microcosm evolution what do we mean species changing within one another we can see there's changes within a species i can see the beak is bigger the beak is smaller the beak is longer the legs are bigger the legs are smaller the feathers the wings and so on that we cannot deny microcosm microevolution on a microcosmic level we don't have a problem with but a change of an entire species into another macro evolution that's where the difference is so when someone turns around to you and says to you so do you guys for example believe in evolution you could say on what micro evolution or are you asking me about macro evolution micro evolution you can show me and don't just show me i want to see i want to enjoy i want to enjoy the development of the survival of these animals but you telling me of a complete species change not only is it so hard to replicate in the lab i think you'll agree with me has anyone replicated that whole species change in the lab yet no it hasn't been done someone might say yeah but you know science we keep looking okay keep looking there's no problem this is a sub part of my world view not my whole world view so you're not gonna really hurt me by showing me but for me going down the line that the human being with their morals with their potential with their capability yes i agree animals sleep we sleep animals eat we eat animals have sex we have sex but above that the rational intelligence and the level that the human can reach which animal can ever lay claim that it came near einstein's mind or it comes near the minds of many of the great philosophers and the great mystics that's where we have a difference so you see for us originally there was an important point and that is don't get thrown into the idea that this is the meaning of life the physical no rather this is a part of it and that's why when you look within the quran allah subhanahu wa ta'ala virtually concludes this whole discussion in a unique way and what way is that is that he actually tells you that listen you can look for many great artists because the reality is that when we're looking at the creation we obviously look for the creator and so when i'm looking at theories which are postulated and i wouldn't just say darwin i'd say those who come a lot later because darwin there is still a possibility of a discussion of observing the laws without denying the creator there is still that possibility whereas those who come later no you observe all of this there's no such thing as god this is all fairy tales in the quran and surah 27 verse number 88 god replies back to those who say there is no intelligent designer behind all of this this is just the soup it was brewing and it just came forth in front of all of us and surah 27 verse number 88 god wants to show you that those who are saying such things we don't lose any sleep why because just even look at the mountains even the mountains we wouldn't put in the world of randomness you will see the mountains which you think are firm solid but they pass away like the passing clouds what does it then say after that this is the artistry of allah who has made everything firm this is beautiful emmis last night we looked at the difference between insane and bashar when we created the human then we talked of the bashar called adam sometimes islam muslims say look here there's a difference from we have sana we have the idea of an artistry a sculpture you can't fathom creation then fathom the sculpture that i bring before you and many of you have not even laid eyes on that sculpture you've seen humans and some of the animals but many of you have not seen all of them and many of you not seen plants you will never see a sculpture you will never see an artist like allah so therefore for us we look at eyes in the quran which conclude this whole discussion and surah 82 of the quran look how many times allah just wants you to wake up to the reality of the fact that all you have to do is observe and you'll realize that this was from intelligent design and that the human being is the highest creation in many cases except when they misbehave in surah 82 verse number 6 what has beguiled you from your lord the most gracious the one who created we won't stop there and fashioned unjustly proportioned which ever formed he willed he casted you took the warning but you believe the day of judgment that means that those who had the debate about intelligence design versus randomness existed when the quran was around and it will continue to exist and there is no compulsion they want to follow what they want to follow it's up to them but for us as muslims the quran was open to discussion of biology it was open to discussion of the development of the human being it was open to development of the creation of the creation that we see around us all it said is that you know what there might have been an intelligence designer before this if before planck's moment you're able to continue to find continue to research there's no problem and that's why i love this one quote which i thought i'll read for all of you there is a grand jaw in this view of life with its several powers having been originally breathed by the creator into a few forms or into one and that was this planet has gone cycling on according to the fixed laws of gravity from so simple a beginning endless forms of beautiful and most wonderful have been and are being evolved that's the quotes of said no charles darwin was allah hey why

In human chromosome speciation two of the 24+24=48 chromosomes from each parent fused into a big giant one, which gave us our 23+23=46 chromosome "human" configuration that goes back to a (first "human" couple) Chromosomal Adam and Eve. The ancestral 48's would have been almost human, but they went extinct right after, nothing now living exactly like them.

The 48 chromosome "closest relatives" bonobos and chimps are distant, not the population of 48's and transitional 23+24=47's (from other families to interbreed with instead of incest) we emerged from that right away made it impossible to reproduce with 48's, were on our own with no going back from that kind of genetic best guess for a whole new species, not tiny change.

The word "ape" is for the lineage of 48's and their descendents, which includes us, but we did not come from Chimps or Bonobos that's just what some of what the more distant 48's became over time.

For more on the process and how it can be intelligent I have theory that begins two different ways, either "Intelligent Evolution" that the co-discoverer of "Evolution by Natural Selection" Darwin usually gets all the credit for, Alfred Wallace, who peers thought went nuts for talking about something like this being possible but at the time there was no such thing as cognitive biology:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IntelligentEvolution/comments/xsmuuw/how_intelligent_evolution_works/

In the 1990's a Christian "Intelligent Design" movement made Alfred Wallace a hero in books about a Theory of Intelligent Design that the schools all needed to teach in science class, but they did not have the cognitive science to explain how their "intelligent cause" works. Left all that to religious imagination. In this version the first sentence begins with their premise/hypothesis that ends up testing true, in all that follows it:

https://www.reddit.com/r/IDTheory/comments/p2ukoa/formal_introduction_to_a_testable_theory_of/

It might not be what the Discover Institute first imagined but in 2026 that's what modern cognitive biology made possible, for science teachers to teach in class, about the evolutionary mechanism that exists in the behavior of matter explained in science textbooks.

After billions of years of learning our genetics are very good at sensing conditions and regulating our morphology, to get through another ice age or unimaginable scorching heat, by passing on changes in offspring that they need. After billions of years of learning it's incredibly intelligent, for what it does. I have faith in that being there for our descendents. Our purpose in each lifetime is to teach them well.

Is it ok for me to believe in evolution? Many Muslims ask this question because it is hard to reconcile reasonable scientific evidence with our belief in God. Yet, you might be surprised by the answer, watch to find out.