What an incredibly caring soul. A man of strong faith, with a heart filled with love. An endearing conversations, thank you lex and Omar.<br><br>Hour. Stamp 2.09. Omar refers to AlFarabi, Ibn Sina, Al Gazali - incredible polymetic Islamic theological and scientific thinkers who profoundly shaped the Spanish golden   Age between 10-12century.<br><br>Hour stamp 2.23:<br>We dehumanise our victims...<br>‘they are attacking us because they hate us’<br><br>Some thoughts:<br> <br>1) Islam is clearly a religion of peace. It’s distorted by a few with a political agenda for power.<br><br>2) Some of his comments seemed naive. Theologically I struggled to understand his routes eg where in early Islamic Theology he found teachers:<br><br>Sunnī and Shīʿa Muslims history: <br><br>Shīʿas believe ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib is the true successor to Muhammad, while Sunnīs consider Abu Bakr to hold that position.<br><br>Kharijites broke away from both the Shīʿas and the Sunnīs during the First Fitna (the first Islamic Civil War)<br><br>Sunnī Islam is separated into four main schools of jurisprudence, namely Mālikī, Ḥanafī, Shāfiʿī, and Ḥanbalī;<br><br>Shīʿa Islam, on the other hand, is separated into three major sects:<br>Twelvers, Ismāʿīlīs, and Zaydīs. vast majority of Shīʿa Muslims are Twelvers<br><br>This all related to Islamic schools of jurisprudence, known as madhhab, differ in the methodology they use to derive their rulings from the Quran (rule of law that became accepted)<br>the Ḥanafī school, founded by Abū Ḥanīfa al-Nuʿmān (8th century CE);<br>the Mālikī school, founded by Mālik ibn Anas (8th century CE);<br>the Shāfiʿī school, founded by Muḥammad ibn Idrīs al-Shāfiʿī  (8th century CE);<br>the Ḥanbalī school, founded by Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal (8th century CE);<br>the Ẓāhirī school, founded by Dāwūd al-Ẓāhirī (9th century CE).[41]<br><br>This is important because it will better inform your audience of the foundations of his current belief and provide more nuance to a deeply rich religion.<br><br>The story of his parents is heartbreaking and the impact clearly directs his entire narrative. I hope people don’t just focus on his perspective on Israel Palestine," there is much more here. His framing around the topic is true to him which is crucial to accept despite my inclination to strong disagree with his narrative. <br><br>A good reference for this conversation is available in Arabic; <br><a href=""https://www.letterstomyneighbor.com/arabic-download-page-letters-to-my-palestinian-neighbor/"">https://www.letterstomyneighbor.com/arabic-download-page-letters-to-my-palestinian-neighbor/</a><br><br>@LEX <br>Difficult conversations are the most important type: I live in Israel and hearing his perspective was informative.<br><br>Would have loved if he dived deeper into the routes of Islam and the ideas it embodies and its historical development", schools and traditions.