Half of disbelief in Allah in the world is caused by people who make religion look

ugly due to their bad conduct and ignorance.

A quote by Abu Hamid Al-Gazali.

It's quite unfortunate that there's lots of confusion today about Islam, what Islam fundamentally is about.

People in the West don't understand this very well.

And actually a lot of Islamic people don't understand this very well either.

It's kind of funny.

There's lots of ideological positions and political debates which take place which you see in the media,

which you can see videos of on YouTube and so forth and you can read about and people write about Islam and the problems of radical Islam and all this sort of stuff and what this turns into is this turns into a sort of like a mirror of the silly one-dimensional debate between science and religion.

It's like you got science on one side, religion on the other side, and then you pick a one side,

and you fight with the other side.

It's this sort of situation which is going on between the East

and the Middle East and it turns into this culture war and this is very unfortunate

because the core of what Islam is is lost on 99.9% of people. It's heartbreaking for me to see this

which is why I want to shoot this episode because we're just not taught about this. You're not taught about

this in school if you grew up in the West. And this of course stems from a couple of

factors. It stems from xenophobia. It stems from fear of foreigners it stems from this sort of tribalist mentality that also

goes on in the West just as it does in the Middle East but fundamentally it stems

from the problem of not really understanding religion,

not understanding the roots of religion and mysticism. And it's actually very simple to understand.

Islam, literally in the Arabic language means submission.

That's what Islam means.

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