This video is in response to Richard Dawkins’ television documentary, The Root of All Evil?, which aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom in 2006.
The caption to the video reads:
A jew called Joseph Cohen, was living in USA then moved to Gaza in Palestine as a jew settler in the year 1998.. He met an Emarati (from UAE) Muslim Sheikh through the internet and discussed religion with him, which ended in Cohen converting to Islam and changing his name to Yousef Khattab.
A short transcript of the sections of the video relevant to our study is given below:
“My name is Yusuf Al Khattab and I am here today to clear up a few misquotes and misconceptions that people might have about myself and my family. The new world order is busy pushing secularism and doubts [?] in the minds of non-thinking […] both Muslims and non-Muslims alike. For this reason you’ll find that rather than focus on the truly amazing fact that indeed a Jewish family converted to Islam in Palestine and lived in perfect peace with the majority Muslim population and the minority Christian indigenous population of Palestine. Rather, the new world order focuses on cutting out my statements and replaying them in an order in which I didn’t say them, and making me and Islam look as though we are barbaric…”
“And the main point ladies and gentlemen is they want to make it seem like they are the civilized and the cultured people and we Muslims are the barbarians. You’ll never see the host talk about how Christians killed more people in one world war alone than Islam could have claimed in over 1400 years. Not even to mention the Crusaders, Hiroshima, Nagazaki, the Bay of Tonkin Vietnam, […] where over 55,000 United States soldiers were killed, and over one million Vietnamese, […] Abu-Ghraib prison torture, Guantamo, …”
[Scribe B: The new world order is most likely in reference to the West, not the conspiracy theory]