Today's lecture will be in shawlma informative and useful. I have just returned from a tour to Germany

first time I was visiting Germany as a tour and so I wanted to explain to you the reality of Islam and Muslims in Germany.

As you know, I do these types of series.

We talked about Islam in Nordic countries, Islam in Australia, Islam in multiple places.

The purpose is so that we broaden our horizons and benefit from their experiences they benefit from us

We realize the problems and the positives and the negatives and we feel a connection with our

UMA across the globe So a brief summary of this journey

that I had and also the reality of Islam in Germany. Germany, out of all of the

superpowers of the 18th century, actually has a unique history.

It was the only major superpower that did not colonize a Muslim land.

Italy colonize a Muslim land.

France colonize, England colonize, Germany did not colonize any Muslim land.

In fact, Germany, generally speaking, was far more sympathetic to Islamic Muslims in the 17, 18, 19th century than the other superpowers.

In fact, they were the ones who invented the term the Orient in order to kind of romanticize

the Orient meaning us Muslims and to put us on a pedestal.

Their most famous intellectual philosopher of the 17th century Gata, he actually has a book.

If you know your Persian history, The Devan of Hafiz, right?

So Gheta, who is the most famous German poet philosopher, wrote a book similar to the Dev of Hafiz and he called it the East-West

divan and in it he praised Islam and he mentioned that Islam out of all of the

religions is the most global religion.

So in the 17th century, one of the most greatest minds from this region

is actually praising Islam when England and other countries had nothing but disdain for Islam.

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