Asking Palestinians What They Think About Atheists
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Armin Navabi, Jeremy of Aurora Creative Media, and I went to Ramallah, Palestine recently and asked Palestinians what they think about atheists and atheism. Would they be friends with an atheist? Would they love and accept an atheist family member? Would they accept an apostate? Do morals only come from god? Although most, if not all our interviewees were Muslim, the responses definitely varied a bit. I hope you learned something! I know I did.
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Finally addressing this: The boys in the video are not and were never endangered by this video, and in fact asked not to have their faces blurred. Their faces were blurred purely to respect the laws regarding filming minors in Israel in Palestine. It was to protect my crew alone. One of the boys was in contact with me even after the video came out and was happy with the result. They come from a safe home. I’m sorry I didn’t address this sooner. There has never been a safety issue here.
Thank you for clarifying this.
As a middle-eastern (Jordanian) atheist, I really really appreciate this video that you made, and your videos in general.
I want to go to Palestine as an atheist: how did you get a visa? Don't you need to fill your religion on the landing card at Tel Aviv Airport?
@@footballclub1863 why don’t you just lie
Man, like in this video, everyone is taller than you.
thanks to Ullah, that mate ur alive.
That dude that said he'd kill a family member if they said they were atheist... Chills... Absolute chills...
Sometimes if the population at large is tolerant of differences it's easy to forget that people like this exist. This man believes he's doing a good thing considering he would only do it for a family member who is close to him. It's terrifying.
And he is 100% muslim
Based as fuck
I feel sad for muslims, living corupted morality.
i am arab and some people think it is like a betrayal
The attitudes of the younger people is hopeful.
The one that said that he'd kill them is like 28-30..
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They will probably be shot by Israel in no time
Azarello without a doubt internet opens minds!
The younger generation in Algeria is also speaking out against extremism.
When a religious person states that Atheists are "Misguided" 😆
I bet they say the same about h1tler
More like notguided.
secular ideologies like communism and maost socialism killed far more people than all religious wars in history combined
atheism isn't beyond criticism
@@emad3241please don’t tell me you are truly this big of an absolute fool
@SisterinIslam87 The 'blunt truth' that Atheists are misguided?
Hello, I am a Palestinian muslim born and raised in Ramallah. I have two friends who are atheists, for me they are like brothers. I stand for freedom of religion.
Do you support Hamas? What are their views on Atheists?
@aaa should Jews be allowed to pray on the Temple Mount?
How do you feel about homosexuals?
atheism is ingratitude and insanity, akin to "genius came from mindlessness."
Islam is an invention of the Jews as I proved in my series on itt.
@Sofie Dina S Gay racist flag you got there.
I'm a palestinian atheist and im actually pleasantly surprised by their responses, I expected way worse upon reading the title of the video, generally speaking palestinians in the west bank are pretty conservative, but recently there's been a new generation of open minded youth who do read and research and are not afraid to question religion, theres hope ! I wouldve loved to meet you in person Drew, I have been a fan of your channel for quite a while.
Just asking out of curiosity. Is your family muslim? How do they react to you being atheist?
@@gloriaklintI don't think her family knows she's an atheist.
You have my 100% heartfelt support!
I hope that you are safe with all of the terror that has been thrown at you!
As a Syrian Muslim
ANA DAMMI FALASTINIIIII ❤
Breaks my heart when people think you need religion to have a sense of common morality.
Me too ❤❤
You need God, trust me ,you based everything on empirical evidence, but majority of your beliefs are based on testimony, yet you need answers on how to deal with metaphysical issues
@@manestrengthandcourage7121 lol you need some science in your life. Most peaceful countries in the world are atheist countries and most dangerous countries in the world are the Islamic or religious countries with wars. You need science, logic, critical thinking in your life and not some stupid book from bronze age when people used to think earth is in the center of the universe.
The smartest people to ever exist were either scientists or atheists. Religion will eventually be wiped out in a few hundred years. Definitely it will take time but it will happen as technology develops and people are more exposed and educated to science and reality. I don't even blame you, people like you have been brainwashed since childhood and been less exposed to science and reality. There's a saying, if you exti guish religious books from this earth, it will never come back but if you burn every science book on this planet, it will eventuslly come back in a 1000years because there will be smart people.
@@thecryptohacker9976 your so called atheists countries " like the question 10:29 the atheist couldn't reply, you alluded to Muslim country in war just name one that wasn't orchestrated by the same "atheist country " ,mind you there's nothing like atheists country what we have is liberal, democracy, capitalism etc ,because if there was one atheist country we would have extinct by now.
In Iraq, an Iraqi official that I had a conversation with was quite shocked that I claimed to not believe in god(s). (He had asked me what religion I was, I said none, and he asked me to explain.)
He kept insisting that I must be Christian because I am American (and Black)... he didn't believe it was possible for someone to not believe in god(s).
Well done for shedding a little light in his world. Thats fascinating, that he couldn't comprehend what you were telling him.
My fear is how racist Islam is towards black people. The Africans travelling towards Europe are captured and sold in Slave auctions.
I saw a young man on a UA-cam video of an auction, he couldn't have been more than 18years old. He was sold for 800 dollars.
Their prophet Muhammad was actually a white man who was racist towards black people.
About a quarter of the Muslim population comes from Africa. Also how on Earth did you decide their prophet was a white man?
@@fathi573 in sahik al-bukhari muflihun.com/bukhari/3/63
It said a man came riding on a camel. He made his camel kneel down in the mosque, tied its foreleg and then said: "Who amongst you is Muhammad?" At that time the Prophet ﷺ was sitting amongst us (his companions) leaning on his arm. We replied, "This white man reclining oh his arm."
There are also more hadith that confirm that Muhammad was a white man you can look it up
danger noodle Do they mean “White” as in fairer skin, certain hair texture, etc.? Most Spanish-speaking countries have a word to describe people with fairer features (the word itself differs from country to country, but they all generally mean blondie/White), and they’re pretty misleading. You’ll have people with jet black hair and obvious admixture being called “Blonde”.
I had same experience with Arabs
In the Middle East it's pretty common to come across more liberal views from talking to young people. Iranians, the citizens, not the government, are becoming much more liberal.
They can go to hell, the decay of society starts with the increase in liberal thinking, just ask western europe
Geraldović of Slavia
Without liberal thinking the enlightenment in Europe would’ve never happened and our culture would be like in the Middle Ages
@@arabtrappers6934 :
I think that was his point, only he sees that as a good thing.
Håkon Kvande
Yeah let’s go back to the times of witch-hunt, pest and religious wars. The pinnicle of civilization
Iranians are always been more liberals. They're not arabs and most of them are not religious. The islamic government got into power with a trick, it wasn't chosen.
Beware! The guy's face appears twice in the video! If he does not wish to be identified, improve the editing!
@Faith Discussions Palestinian 15 years old boys that didn't wanted to have their faces filmed
I noticed that as well
I agree. Respect the guy’s wishes
You're allowed to record in public there.
Bit Stream
That’s not the point. He doesn’t want his face shown, but he was kind enough to stop and speak with them. The should respect his wishes and not show his face. He could have a very good reason to not want his face shown. Maybe his parents forbid him from speaking to strangers, or any other number of reasons that could get him in trouble.
2:51 "I have one Atheist friend, even myself I have some doubts, but I'm Muslim"
This is how you say I'm Atheist in the Islamic World.
Maybe,,, but be wary of labelling someone yourself.
Plausible deniability. Exactly
wolfdwarf To be honest, the same exists in the US if you want to be president.
Can you elaborate? Like do you just mean him saying doubts, or claiming he has friends like that? Like what part signals he is possibly an atheist?
@@Jrce11 The same thing happened to me.We don't prefer to confront society. Not because of fear as much as we don't want to establish unnecessary social pressure whether on us or on our families. So we rather to claim knowing atheist people and speak on their tongue.
I respectfully request that you carefully review this film and make a frame-by-frame effort to block the view of the faces of the two young men who impressed you so much. At least twice, I got a fairly good view of the face of one. Please attend to this task as quickly as possible.
Indeed.
I like Drew, but not reviewing and censoring his face carefully was rude and possibly dangerous to the boy.
Ita Pupu
Another 7 months later
**INTENSE CRICKETS**
it's also probably quite easy to figure out by his voice and mannerisms.
Showing the kids faces after they asked not to... This makes me uncomfortable. I hope they are ok but I'll never know.
That's a lot better reception than you would get in parts of America.
like where?
It's a lot better reception than you'd get in Israel as a Palestinian.
@@cockoffgewgle4993 20% of israeli citizens are so called "palestinian" im israeli and i work with arabs (who are far from religious)
tell me again about how israel is an apartheid state
@@dors.sc1 most of the bible belt. The south.
@Hank Chinaski Gaza and the West Bank have their own governments, shitty governments but governments nonetheless.
If you have any complaints about the way they live, write a complaint to their respective governments, tell me if you got any answers.
I think it’s funny when people say “misguided” as if their god is some sort of tour guide, guiding the religious through life. 😂
Allah doesn't guide anyone because he simply doesn't exist.
@SisterinIslam87yeah, sky daddy book will help but humans cant guide themeselves 😂🤣
@SisterinIslam87 A user manual for life and what comes after? Really?! I’m curious, what comes after? Let me ask you something, how do you expect to have an afterlife when you’ll have no active brain to use to experience said afterlife? This is, of course, after you pass away.
@@chrisgunn4741
Muslims believe they Will have a perfect seperiore body created for there soul in heaven
I see a trend here, the English speaking ones wouldn't have a problem with atheists. But the non-English speaking ones almost all had problems with atheists one way or another. This just shows that exposure to information and to different perspectives is really important when a child is growing up. It teaches them about tolerance and diversity.
"You say you have faith, for you believe that there is one God. Good for you! Even the demons believe this, and they tremble in terror."
James 2:19(NLT)
If you seek you shall find God. Why do you ignore him when he lives you so much? He sent his son to die for you. And you'll just do him like that? When you run away from God, Satan always gives you the first boat. Satan is a liar. Why do belong to the world? I didn't first focus on the rapture and sin, I first focused on his live. The understandings and answers will come after that. Ignore religion Jesus didn't die to start the Catholic religion or Ortodox. Just trust him personally, he want's a relationship not religion. You don't work for your salvation, it's free for y'all to receive. Amen.❤
I was sent from God.
He tells you today:
He is not religious.
He didn't put a bunch of rules you have to follow,
It was pwople that did.
Those are false.
Only way you can come to God
is you coming to his son.
His son died on the cross of calvary,
For YOU.
So you may come to God
and heaven with him.
God focuses on the individual,
you are that one.
He loves you so much,
He created you,
He shaped you,
He formed you.
Why don't you accept his love today.
All you have to do
is to come to the cross
Ask Jesus for forgiveness by saying
you're sorry.
That's where the journey of passing from death to life begins
Full of future blessings for you.
I hope your heart be open and touched.
God bless you, Amen.❤
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"I love you"
-God❤
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Jesus loves you!
He died for you!
Why do you ignore him?
Our Heavenly Father sent him for you!
He had you in mind!
And you do him like that...
Who cares how God created Earth;
Every painting has a painter,
Every book has an author,
There IS a hugher power,
It is God,
And the Holy Trinity only.
Has thou not seen blessings?
Gas thou not been blessed?
Come to Jesus!
Come to the Father!
Greet the Holy Spirit!
Amen.❤
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I pray your heart be open to receive this.
propagandization corresponds to the spread of the english language
Not really... Infact English has also allowed Islamists to contact each other worldwide
"information" Nope. Propagnada of atheists.
For all those who thinks atheism is good they should watch what China id doing to Muslim, they should watch what stalin did to Muslim and Christian as well, religion always there to guide us, every holy book is rule book of morals, when you don't have one any thing to guide us or a faith on something then you probably a wild animals, the interviewers of this video insulted allah, prophet Jesus pbuh, prophet muhammad pbuh, who has given true meaning to our life's when we have nothing they gave the hope, to every Muslim, Christian jews remember we created by one God and devil will never win in this world how much they try
“You’re on Reddit?”
“No.”
*Ah so that’s why they’re so accepting.*
Right? 😂
@@GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic blurr the 15 y/o's faces you fuck, you are ignoring people who are requesting you to blurr their faces.
@@GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic blur their faces pls
@@GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic Blur the face.
@@GeneticallyModifiedSkeptic blur their face you
Funny that the most tolerant and understanding were also bilingual.
it's because most religious figures in the islamic world paint the western world as evil and hate god because they know he exists
First thing I noticed.
Religious leaders speak more than 5 languages, but prefer to speak their own.
It's because understanding additional languages expands your world beyond your native language and opens your mind up for new ideas and new ways of thinking.
@@butterskywalker8785 what
I was starting to become a little bit encouraged until they said theywould disown / murder their family
well you can't have everyone agreeing
Is seriously no one gonna consider that this guy edited his video to give the single kind of response he wants so he can continue his anti- Muslim echo chamber?
@erni muja people who say that are very wrong to think islam is the most random religion. clearly, and far from what individual governments do nowadays, islamic laws have conditions that should be met before punishment are made (of course i don't believe in any of this, but i guess we should correct the false ideologies before we can condemn a religion).
for example, if someone steals something, the islamic law says they should have their hands cut, but that isn't an equivalence rule, it's a trial, there should be witnesses, proof that the person stole something he could easily access (that mean poor people shouldn't be affected by this), and thats just the tip of the iceberg.
most people think that a punishment is the equivalent of an act of immoral deed, and that's absolutely wrong. and let's not even dive in the "a true islamic society should be conditioned by several factors", like based on islamic countries nowadays, none of them actually fits the conditions of being able to work under islamic law. which means, nowadays all effort to bring that law (or the equivalent sharia) is nothing but an oppressive tool used by people in control to dominate their societies (exactly what happens in countries like Saudi Arabia, Iran and such)
erni muja + Qur'an say there is no consumption ( idk if that the word but bascillyy there is no force ) in religion
I have a small dick, but + ignore everyone and focuse on only one nice that just show how much of a hypocrite you are in pretty sure anyone from any religion some people would say the same thing but you like to always keep what serve your agenda
Guys, just because someone knows how to say "I don't speak English" doesn't mean they speak English. 😂 That's literally the first phrase I learn of any given language when I go to a different country, and sometimes the only phrase. I still tell people in some circumstances that I don't speak Chinese, because just because I can use it for shopping doesn't mean I can use it to discuss social issues.
same, in fact they're a bit dumb about that.
I learned that too, exactly to avoid people talking to me when i didn't know.
Now my english is almost native level but i still know the same sentence in japanese , because i wanted to tell japanese people i can't speak their language when i went to japan.
But its 2020 whenever you can point a finger you do it..
Yep. How many gringos can say (poorly, I might add), "No hablo inglés"? 😂
@@WastedTalent83 I can also say it in Spanish and Chinese, doesn't mean I spak those languages
My favorite Spanish phrase is “Lo siento, yo no comprendo, no hablo espanol”
I know that phrase in like 10 different languages, I can pronounce them correctly and stuff but I can't speak the language just because I know that one sentence 😂
those 15 year olds at the end have a bright future ahead of them. Incredibly intelligent for their age.
The belief or non belief in God doesn't make you smarter or dumber it's how you choose to react
For all those who thinks atheism is good they should watch what China id doing to Muslim, they should watch what stalin did to Muslim and Christian as well, religion always there to guide us, every holy book is rule book of morals, when you don't have one any thing to guide us or a faith on something then you probably a wild animals, the interviewers of this video insulted allah, prophet Jesus pbuh, prophet muhammad pbuh, who has given true meaning to our life's when we have nothing they gave the hope, to every Muslim, Christian jews remember we created by one God and devil will never win in this world how much they try
Unless Hamas/ PIJ gets them, now that they have been outed here on your channel.
As a Palestinian, the 2 young guys at the end really blew my mind. Its great to see them use their critical faculties at such a stage in their lives. I hope more and more follow suit and not allow dogma to dictate their lives anymore.
I agree... unless it happens, the conflicts over there will never end :(
For all those who thinks atheism is good they should watch what China id doing to Muslim, they should watch what stalin did to Muslim and Christian as well, religion always there to guide us, every holy book is rule book of morals, when you don't have one any thing to guide us or a faith on something then you probably a wild animals, the interviewers of this video insulted allah, prophet Jesus pbuh, prophet muhammad pbuh, who has given true meaning to our life's when we have nothing they gave the hope, to every Muslim, Christian jews remember we created by one God and devil will never win in this world how much they try
I'm finally back! Lots more content to come from Israel and Palestine! How do you think people from where you live would answer these questions?
I would have like for you to ask the ones that are friend's with athiests how they feel about the fact that the government heavily persecutes them.
Can you do a comparison video in the bible belt of the USA? Would be interesting to see.
Most people in my country (Finland) would be tolerant. Here religion is really secularized for the most part and a lot of people are atheist/agnostic atheist. People also generally tend to give each other their own space and privacy to make their own decisions. Of course there are outliers like Jehovah’s witnesses, migrated muslims and the few really religious Christian families who can’t accept if their family members are not believers.
Cool video! GMS, are you aware that your video is preceded by an evangelical christian advert? It's horribly corny, so I don't think most people will take any notice. Tbh I thought it was a joke at first!
Where I am (Scotland), people would most likely be like "Naewan gees a shite."
I am a Palestenian atheist and i live in Ramallah. I wish we met there i really appreciate your content.
Love from Israel!
For all those who thinks atheism is good they should watch what China id doing to Muslim, they should watch what stalin did to Muslim and Christian as well, religion always there to guide us, every holy book is rule book of morals, when you don't have one any thing to guide us or a faith on something then you probably a wild animals, the interviewers of this video insulted allah, prophet Jesus pbuh, prophet muhammad pbuh, who has given true meaning to our life's when we have nothing they gave the hope, to every Muslim, Christian jews remember we created by one God and devil will never win in this world how much they try
We would have loved to hear what you had to say
Hope you're doing alright man.
Much respect brother..
Wow that guy really said he would kill a family athiest. I would have been scared! I feel so bad for his family
Pansexual Athiest
Yeah. I consider my friends family and some of them are atheists. If someone said that to me I’d take it as a serious threat.
Some comments said that the translation was hyperbolic and that he never actually said that.
@@alexanderbudianto7794 the word killed is kinda thrown a lot in Arabic countries and it differs from just a slap to literal murder,the way he said it kinda suggests not murder,but probably abuse in some way
@old Goat you do understand that people here are not all murderers who kill their children for not believing in a god,but I'm not saying there aren't
@old Goat you misunderstood me,it's kinda my fault for not putting the words in a proper way
Go to Saudi Arabia and ask the same questions lmao
you will probably get similar answers. the west just exaggerates by a huge margin of how bad the middle east is; it is not as bad everyone makes it out to be, it is filled with kind and civilized people unlike your imagination and media say so
@@hamzaimran771 Exactly!
Or Arizona
Go to Utah and ask the same questions lmao
Even if the Saudi's had similar answers, you'd probably get arrested and tortured for being a spy or something.
The guy with the agnostic friend seems really nice.
I'm an atheist from Palestine ❤✋🏻
I'm an Atheist from israel. Much love for you!
Atheist from Somalia in Norway. Much love and power ❤️✌️🤗
Atheist from Egypt much love 💕
May Allah save you. How could you forget Muhammad.
@@heaven.123 fuck allah and fuck muhammad
Wow, as an Arab (Jordanian) atheist, this video gives me a lot of hope for the future!
Funny enough, I actually lost my faith this morning; I was a Christian but I have been questioning my faith very heavily for a while now. I officially said to myself that I can't believe in God anymore this morning.
I am a Jordanian Muslim and I am surprised that Christians also have this wave of atheism in the Arab world, hope the best for you anyway
@@user-ii3mc5mt1x شكرا!! انا بتمنالك الخير و البركة كمان!
في عدد كبير من المسيحيين بالاردن عم بتركوا الدين. انا تخرجت من مدرسة مسيحية, و كان عدد كبير من الطلاب ملحدين.
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@@user-ii3mc5mt1x بس ما تعتبر الحكيتاك ايا حقيقة! انا بس عم بحكي عن تجربتي, مع عدد محدود من الناس و معظمهم من غرب عمان, ما عندي اي احصاءات او دراسات علمية عشان ادعم الي حكيتو
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I'm surprised, they're much more tolerant than I would've thought.
This is why you should see muslims for yourself, not through the media.
They also seem to like Atheists more than Jews. I wonder why...
Honkler Aretas neither are Jews you fucking moron
go there with a yammka we will see they're tolerance then after they tare your limbs apart
james earl
*tear
so divisive and all the double think of "it dont have an issue if someone wants to be athiest....as long as its not my family..."
What's wrong with that?
I can say that I'm okay with gay people, but I don't want it in my family. I think it's a fair point.
@@hawtsauz1950 I think that's also problematic. I mean, it sounds like you're actually not okay with gay people then.
Saturated So what? We’re forced to accept people now? I can’t tolerate gay people but that doesn’t mean I think it’s okay. If I don’t want my son to be gay I’ll teach him what I think it’s right. Not what the SJW community want me to teach them.
m lynn you can’t force your ideologies on people.
@@saturated3821 well I don't care how it sounds. Believe it or not, my best friend is gay, and i'm clearly not homophobic. It's not for your or any SJW community to decide what relationship I need to have with my family.
I often wonder how we humans would have advanced had we not suffered under the evil burden of religion.
we would simply say IDK instead of god did it,also we wouldn't have cool characters like Zeus,and of course we'd have to believe in something to satisfy our curiosity
@@butterskywalker8785 I'd rather think we'd be more further inclined to continue to search for the real answers instead of stop and settle for a "guess". Without religion being used to halt innovation and exploration in the sciences (more times then not for individuals interests of power and control) then we'd maybe be way ahead of our age in science today.
I think it has served at least some good. There are a lot of extremely selfish people who will only put on a good act of it benefits them, i.e not going to hell. I’ve watched many documentaries where people commit rape, murder, theft, etc, but turn to religion. Then they have the opportunity to blame their past deeds on “demons” and now turn to god to avoid consequence.
@@tylerx8848 spirituality also helped us stay more closely probably
@@butterskywalker8785 I think it's more probable that it kept us divided over the centuries and even today.
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Atheist from Egypt 🇵🇸❤️🇪🇬
@@Tom-yz3op it is cope
I got second hand anxiety at that footage of your friend getting rejected by everyone @0:51 lol... Thanks for going through that for us! Very interesting.
Goes to show that no country is a monolith and people have different views and opinions everywhere.
Yeah. As a introvert, its stressful to even watch people try and get a conversation started and rejected.
Valeria Vagapova wish that Americans were viewed the same way, damn secular media.
Same..but it's much less stressful if you're doing this with a friend. Doing it alone is .. not good. I've tried.
For all those who thinks atheism is good they should watch what China id doing to Muslim, they should watch what stalin did to Muslim and Christian as well, religion always there to guide us, every holy book is rule book of morals, when you don't have one any thing to guide us or a faith on something then you probably a wild animals, the interviewers of this video insulted allah, prophet Jesus pbuh, prophet muhammad pbuh, who has given true meaning to our life's when we have nothing they gave the hope, to every Muslim, Christian jews remember we created by one God and devil will never win in this world how much they try
That 15yo sounds very rounded beyound his years, accepting of people who's believe are different to his. may be there's hope for a much more tolerant future in the world ❤
Aater Berhane
Who was the 15 year old?
@@arandomuser9459 The ones which chose to not have their faces filmed
So that's where the radical and irrational and dangerous people live? Interesting.
Meanwhile, in US-allied Saudi Arabia, someone just got behead for some mudane reason.
Rodrigo Merlone this is the west bank its run by a moderate government the gaza strip on the other hand has a radical government
They're talking to atheists. Jews, on the other hand...
Diesel Dawg well at least in America, many(I think it was about less than half, but I don’t exactly remember) Jews actually do not believe in god or have doubts of his existence, they just follow the Torah’s teachings because it very much a culture and a way to live with laws and the such. That’s Jews are like a ethnoreligous group.
@@hatonhatsoff The Gaza strip is also under a constant state of siege. Hard to fight for civil rights when you have to fight to get clean water.
Meanwhile your country orders the bombing of inocent civilians killing thousands of them blowing up their buildings every day. i jeez i wonder how bad do you think that getting A COULPLE of building blow up must be like...
These two young men , brought tears to my eyes .... they took me back in time when I was their age , and I had so much hope for my people to become better , more tolerant, more accepting ... I am now 32 and been living in exile for two years now after having had to flee my country escaping persecution basses on my sexual orientation and religious believes ... I truly hope that they would not find them self in my shoes in 15 years
GMS is a very short man, I learned that today.
This is fascinating! Thanks for making this!
love the video , but you kinda showed the guys face one or two times, could u fix that with editing?
Yeah how do we make this comment more visible. Would be negligent not to fix this. Thier livelihood is at stake .
Gene Media it was about a year ago bruh. I don’t think he’s gonna fix it now
@@yosephbuitrago897 unfortunately now I must be skeptical about his agenda.
Just report the video.
12:40
As an atheist Turk, I can't really ask this myself out of fear of discrimination so I'd really like to see a video on Türkiye.
have Turks become less religious over time in Türkiye?
@@john.s probably, yeah. I mean it used to be 95+ percent now it's like 85
@@ultraplayz785 okay I wish your country the best and I believe with time and education, democracy and secularism can thrive again! greetings from Almanya
I really like how you personalized the people instead of just stating statistics. I think it really does provide a much needed perspective. I think sometimes its easy for us in the west to forget that there are real people behind these beliefs and that they may be similar to people we know in our own lives.
That was the main objective, regardless of their answers! 😊 Thanks for your kind words!
For all those who thinks atheism is good they should watch what China id doing to Muslim, they should watch what stalin did to Muslim and Christian as well, religion always there to guide us, every holy book is rule book of morals, when you don't have one any thing to guide us or a faith on something then you probably a wild animals, the interviewers of this video insulted allah, prophet Jesus pbuh, prophet muhammad pbuh, who has given true meaning to our life's when we have nothing they gave the hope, to every Muslim, Christian jews remember we created by one God and devil will never win in this world how much they try
Great video, man. Thanks for doing this. It's heartening to see evidence for the breakdown of the polarised views we are so regularly exposed to. I was in Thailand many years ago and there was an Israeli woman on a boat trip. She asked me where I was from. When I told her I was from Ireland, she said "Oh, that place full of terrorists". This has always struck me as evidence of the strength of etic perceptions of 'the other', while she was likely drawing parallels between Northern Ireland and Palestine. It's sad that people don't question the status quo more, but good to see there may be light at the end of the tunnel. Or at the very least a dimmer switch. Cheers.
5:46 huge mistranslation. What he actually said was that he can offer his “help” to his loved ones, but it’s none of his business to intervene if it’s just a friend or some random person. Not that he would intervene if it’s someone on the street and kill if it’s a family member. He said that he can give words of kindness to help guide his loved ones, not kill.
Is that true?
Will Mosse yea. I was shocked by the mistranslation because Arabic is my mother tongue. I had to go back and hear it again. Complete misrepresentation and mistranslation. Goes to show how important translation really is.
Lea B - yeah. I mean that should have a pinned correction or something. Completely changes the whole video
@@willmosse3684 I don't think it was his intention, he doesn't know the language after all, but I hope he sees it and corrects it asap.
Suleiman _38 I think it’s an honest mistake. He doesn’t know the language. But his interpreter should have known better. And I’m surprised no one pointed it out in the comments. - it’s probably because they don’t know arabic either. And about hate... I don’t think so, I’ve never heard him express that. He discusses ideology, logic, he doesn’t encourage hate as far as I can tell. So I won’t judge him for a rumor, just like I don’t judge muslims for the very rumor that this mistranslation gives the appearance of confirming. If- it’s an honest mistake. Just here to help both of you😅
I feel the girl translating is abit biased with her words, like she kinda changed some of the dialogue.
She wasn't specific and i think that has to do with her english , but she honestly gave the whole idea
@Gonzalo Araujo i cover sun with my hands every day, well on leas its cloudy.
@@brianbouf8303 you're covering the sun only from yourself,and partially then
@@brianbouf8303 not if you're using a giant swarm of sattelites spread across earth
@1misanthropist What do you base your morality on?
Watching you at the beginning trying to get people to talk to you was cracking me up. Reminded me of my Jehovah's Witness days.
Lol same. The rejection of people walking wide around you XD
@charly jarrett thanks! I am too
Am proud of you
12:29 you showed that kids face, hope it doesn't end up getting him hurt!
The translator was careless, erroneous and very misleading.
Al Hazen Care to explain?
@@SuaskyDanku
@5:50
Palestinian guy: "I am capable of disciplining my family; i am capable of guiding them. But an non-related person, i would just verbally advice them with positive"
Woman: "He's like if someone from the like the street or a friend of mine i would like try to guide them to the right path. For my family it's different; i would try [silence; nods to 'kill them']
The man said he would "kill" @5:17 - but he was being hyperbolic; exaggerating. He said he would disown them. She repeated the 'killing' part again without him reinstating it which he never meant. It thus comes off as though he's adamantly going to kill.
Al Hazen, could you possibly help translate the all Arabic bits? That would be awesome!
@@nuux1560 disowning is still quite bigoted but i can see how that would give an inacurately harsh impression
@5:17 I can possibly see that the Palestine speaker is saying he would disown and dislike a family member that has "left the path" to the extent he would kill them in the sense of how much he would dislike them, not that he would actually kill them. It would be like someone saying to a father his son has done something wrong for the umpteenth time and the father reacting angrily and saying, "Wait until I get my hands on him. I am going to kill him". The father in most cases would mean the son is going to be punished severely. In general they are many reports of Muslims that have killed apostates, so in a non-Muslim culture they would assume that to be an answer for all Muslims.
@5:50 I am not so sure. Is there an alternative on how to treat a family member that does leave Islam? And isn't disowning in a sense equivalent to death?
Not that this is unique to Muslims, it is an Abrahamic thing. The Abrahamic religion teaches division and enforcement of that division. It seems to me if there is only one creator god, one "abba", there would be only one family, but what do I know, being an atheist.
I do appreciate you bringing that up
(Its just my assumption but i think it is likely)
In these places, saying "I have an atheist friend" is code for "i am an atheist but hiding it because of the dangers of coming out"
same with "im muslim but have doubts"
Damn
You seem adorably happy that that guy had multiple atheist friends lol
This video it awesome. And off topic I love being able to peep their fashions in the background.
It is generally enjoyable to see and hear people of other cultures, religions, life philosophies, etc. to be openminded and accepting and to acknowledge that humans are quite similar in who we are as humans and what we want in life.
@@ThePathOfEudaimonia food and clothes are always interesting to see no matter where you are!
Yeah, they are a lot more modern and westernized than I would have thought. I really love how English is the international language.
@@Xx_Oleander_xX those count too
You did not do a good enough job censoring the young men in this video. For example, at 12:29, you literally can see his face. What if someone recognizes him at school and reports it to his parents? Given some of the responses you've heard, obviously that could be a bad outcome.
You should have paid more attention during editing: you should have blurred their faces and obscured their voices. It is the responsible thing to do.
well they did say their family was accepting
ur just dumb he didn't say anything wrong I'm 17 and I live their in fact afew kilometers where are they, and I would say things like this in front of them, it's just okay
BirdValiant not particularly, if you can’t see above the nose it’s not identifiable.
As someone who is studying Arabic, the Palestinian dialect sounds the best to me. It’s so crisp. Do other Arabs feel the same way?
i am atheist from palestine👋❤
what led you to that?
انا كافره
@@anonymous-cx7ng اجدع ناس
hope youre safe friend
@@osama8154نفسك
The comment regarding the “Bible Belt” comparison is very interesting to me. The majority of interviewees were reasonable and hopefully broke many stereotypes. Thank you for this 👍
One problem with this video is the selection bias implicit in your method of choosing people for interview.
I would argue the more moderate people were more likely to be willing to talk to you, a white, foreign, English speaking atheist, although they would likely assume that you were Christian.
@Veritas Nocet Et Foedari
The statement "bias implicit in your method of choosing people for interview" isn't a lie as I didn't intend for it to be false. I would argue that there is selection bias implicit in his method of choosing people for interview and virtually every scientist would agree with me on that. Interviews on the street have strong selection bias no matter what.
I'm not going into whether or not people in the middle East are white, but one thing that is true is that I was clearly using it to mean a light skinned western individual, distinct from somewhat darker skinned individuals from the middle East. This is semantics, an individual from Palestine can tell someone from the west apart from someone from Palestine.
The reason why I assume that more moderate people were more likely to talk to him is because the more moderate members of most religious groups are typically more willing to openly discuss their religion. This is also reinforced partly because of the Korans specific intolerance towards non-believers and partly because of the potentially justified Palestinian tendency to view themselves as victims and westerners as colonizers or Zionists.
I find your claim that I am a liar quite insulting so any evidence you could produce of that would be nice.
@Veritas Nocet Et Foedari I will respond to each paragraph in turn.
1:
I don't believe he was cherry picking, you have misunderstood what I was saying.
2:
Yes, street interviews are always affected by selection bias and this increases the more controversial the topic is, this is a fact. I have a background in developmental psychology and while we don't use street interviews, it's important for us to understand the massive issues with interviews and the implicit biases they suffer from. Most interviews, for example, suffer from social desirability bias as would this one.
3:
I said the tendency was potentially justified. None of my comments here have been political in nature but that one strayed far too close to the sun. I am happy to give you this point whether or not I agree with you.
4:
Yes, they have been. I said the tendency was potentially justified. See my response to 3
@Veritas Nocet Et Foedari I believe your misunderstanding may have come from my wording "choosing people for interview".
While this is correct wording, it doesn't mean that he was choosing them this way consciously. It's selection bias that is inevitable for his method of choosing people, as well as a host of other biases such as social desirability
@Veritas Nocet Et Foedari You are still misunderstanding what I am saying.
Science is man made as a whole, not just psychology.
He is not choosing people who happen to be friendlier or more hostile intentionally, it's just a problem with his methods. Random street interviews are unscientific and naturally impacted by biases.
I have been watching this person for quite some time and quite like him, this isn't a knock on him or his channel, just this video and more the people in the comment using it to back up their judgements of Palestine in any direction. The information gathered here is so tainted by biases that no scientist would use it.
I'm sorry but you don't seem to have any idea what you are talking about and so this conversation is sort of over
@Veritas Nocet Et Foedari Street interviews have strong bias. There you go, that is a universally accepted fact within psychology. You can deny this but it's like denying gravity or evolution, it's been proven to beyond disagreement.
The two boys sound like they go to an international school
The shirts they're wearing screammmsss international school. They're all about the pinstripe shirts.
I wish Palestinians find peace 💔
Bro I'm not joking, YOU NEED TO DO MORE OF THIS SHIT lol
Top notch, can't wait to see more. 👍🏻 👍🏻 👍🏻
well balancing being rational against not getting kill is hard these days. i admire what he's doing but it should be done in moderation.
Alberts stuff it's hard to get people
Yeah fair comments
Best video you have ever posted in my opinion. Thanks
Sad part is discriminated people also want to discriminate .
I'm an atheist and I support Palestine !
Hadi inandık tmm
I'm an atheist and I support Israel !
Those two young guys at the end made me cry, I wanted to give them a big hug. It’s the grandmother in me 😊 I hope they’re reflective of a generational change that’s coming and that the internet stays available for them so they and others can keep feeding their minds.
Imagine being a fan of Drew's in Palestine and never imagining you'll run into him but then you get to be basically featured in one of his videos 😂 I'm so glad they saw you, they seemed so open minded and smart and made me so happy for the future of our world honestly 💕💕💕
Yeah, the odds of meeting one of your viewers is Palistine are rather slim if I'd have to guess.
So this crazy coincidence really made my day 😊
Largely enlightened answers in a land of conflict propagated by older generations. There is hope for the future ...
The irony that when taking to the young open minded guys the old fella walks up in the background and gives the finger
To my Muslim brothers and sisters who respect and understand that all people are equal no matter what religion or lack of religion, I support your beliefs as well!
Im from Palestine /Bethlehem and im agnostic and every body around me knows that . I never ben threatened . I think in Bethlehem and Ramallah people r more open minded then other places but still no real danger on athiest people in Palestine in general .
Murad Elkhatib , thank you for your perspective. That is a good point you made- in larger cities people have to get along, so atheists are more likely to be accepted.
Misleading. It's not safe anywhere unless you keep it a secret. And of course if you had a good family.
@@absolutecorrupt9983
"Facts" not in evidence.
deenman23 it *would* be if it actually happened.
Pretty hard to believe, though, isn’t it?
It’s a very common meme among religious apologists to claim they used to be an atheist, I think it’s because they believe it will give their arguments more authenticity.
I’m currently speaking with another religious apologist who claims they used to be atheist. When I asked her, “what did being atheist mean to you?”
She said “that the universe comes from nothing and that god was evil for the cruelty in the world.”
Now does that sound like something an atheist would say, or something a religious apologist would say if they were pretending to be atheist?
Murad Elkhatib im atheist and have openly criticized religion yet 98% of the hate i get are from christians. Barely any muslims have ever said anything negative to me whenever i tell them i question islam.
If they taught basics about evolution in their schools, it could inspire them to want to learn and discover more.
I wonder if in the future we'd have advanced realistic evolution simulators sold for the public the same way most games are now
kteer ktar yes evolution is taught in most Middle Eastern countries. I myself learned about it in Dubai. No one actually believes in it but we still have to know that it is a thing.
@@aqsashock219 you're lucky,in my country they just mention evolution as one of the main theories for how life started,aka strawmanning evolution to make it conflict with our believes,and then nobody talks about it at all
Butter Skywalker that’s sad. There are so many immature Muslims who call evolution “just a theory” and don’t actually look into it.
We Muslims agree with almost everything the general theory evolution has to say. The only thing we have to accept is that God made Adam special, which is indeed true.
@@aqsashock219 yeah,the Quran doesn't explicitly say Adam was the first human,he could've been the first prophet or something
The seeds of truth are planted in the young. They are nurtured with hope. Bless them with courage and kindness.
This video made me so hopeful! Best wishes to Palestine from Israel.
If athiests was our leaders in both sides . We will make a real peace for a very long time . Beat wishes from Bethlehem Palestine .🤝
@@muradelkhatib3979 Netanyahu is definitely an atheist. yet he could not care less for peace
love Israel from palestine ❤️🇮🇱🇵🇸
@@muradelkhatib3979 That doesn't make any sense at all...
Dahom yasser Netanyahu is probably atheist or agnostic. He certainly has never been a religious person. But, undoubtedly, on the Israeli side of things, without so much religion, a peace agreement would be easier to reach as Israel wouldn’t have the settlers and their party - Habayit Yehudi and Otzma Yehudit and before that, the National Religious Party, standing in the way of a reasonable agreement
greetings from a 21-year-old Moroccan atheist I became atheist 4 years ago when I learned English it opened to me a huge door of information without bias and reliable sources
Ban lia ma kayn gha richard dawkins o lawrence krauss xD
You got brainwashed due your prior ignorance .
@@CStrik3r sam harris tahwa
@@maxmudxareed1345 Wow nice argument you got there. You really got him. What you said is very ironic since it very much applies to you. Religion is the epitome of brainwashing.
Dont believe
“Do not believe in anything simply because you have heard it. Do not believe in anything simply because it is spoken and rumored by many. Do not believe in anything simply because it is found written in your religious books. Do not believe in anything merely on the authority of your teachers and elders. Do not believe in traditions because they have been handed down for many generations. Don't even believe that i say. But after observation and analysis, when you find that anything agrees with reason and is conducive to the good and benefit of one and all, then accept it and live up to it.”
Buddha quotes (Prince Gautama Siddharta, the founder of Buddhism, 563-483 B.C.)
this dude living in the future a long time ago
Free Palestine! Greetings from California
That guy in the background at 9:44! 🤣
Lmao
Damn, the fact you bumped into subscribers into Ramallah is kind of amazing.
I'm an Iraqi atheist struggling here with Islamic laws.. in Ramadan they forcing me me to pretend that I'm fasting because if I don't I'm gonna be in prison and even died,
In school they forcing me to study Sharia law and the religion even if I don't believe in it that's very brutal for me
Now I'm isolating myself because the religion of peace??!
You need to leave your country, for your physical and mental sanity and integrity.
You poor thing. Is there another part of the country you can go to where these strict rules are not enforced?
Must be tough. I also have to live in a country where people have different values from mine. I'd like to leave it, but it's not so easy...
I am lowkey amused by Drew’s attire versus the locals. He looks summer and they look winter.
Oh wow, this video turned out to be a very emotional experience for me! Although the sample of people being interviewed was rather small, I have the impression that being better educated (speaking foreign languages / having experiences living abroad) and / or having free access to the internet is correlated to the degree of being open minded. Please keep up your exceptional work!
hi I'm a Palestinian atheist most of my friends here in Palestine are also atheist i think younger people are much more open minded than older ones here
The future is bright and that is to be expected, because of freedom and technology where information are easy to get from every angles.
@@Hero4fun77 exactly i would've been a homophobic, sexist, relegious person if i had no access to the internet
@Clerical Orthodox Fascist يا زم كل خرااا
Good for you man!
Triggered.
I'm Atheist from Sweden. ✋🇸🇪
May the jedi bless all Atheists.
May the Force be with you, have you accepted Yoda as your Lord and Savior?
I like to see young people like me being open-minded. We have plenty of life ahead and we wanna learn and accept everyone, and we have the resources.
We’re in an awesome time! We meet and learn about the people that other generations couldn’t.
I saw someone comment that “It’s Judah and Samaria, not “Palestine” and it irked me so rather than comment directly, I’m just going to leave this here:
First off, it’s Judea and Samaria, not Judah and Samaria. Second, for the longest time it was referred to as Palestine. By the ancient Greeks, the Philistines who lived there. While the Philistines don’t have any relation to the Palestinians today, the name carried over all the way into the 1800s and 1900s with British Mandatory Palestine.
Here’s the thing. I’m Jewish too. Israel is the Jewish homeland. But the reality is the Middle-East has been embroiled in so much conflict that it’s hard to tell who’s who and who should own what. I think Benjamin Netanyahu’s treatment of Palestinians is horrible. Palestine and Palestinians are not the enemy. They live there too. Terrorism is the enemy. Terrorism and terrorists are not and could never be synonymous with the term “Palestinian”. Anyone who says so is a racist. While it is a good thing that the Jews are living in their ancestral homeland, many people were uprooted. You can make the argument that the Palestinians living there should’ve gone back to Jordan or Egypt or their native countries in ‘48, and it is those countries’ fault because they refused to take them back, but the reality of the matter is that people are living there. They already had their life uprooted once.
I don’t think with the way Benjamin Netanyahu is running Israel that a two-state solution would be feasible. He continues to be embroiled in corruption charges and bribery. He’s a crook. He’s a fascist. He’s incorrigibly racist
Instead, I’d like to see an Israel where all Jews, regardless of whether or not they are Orthodox, are treated with respect and dignity, and the Orthodox stepping back and realizing they aren’t the most important people in the world. If it’s possible, I’d want to see a greater Israel where every Palestinian is given full Israeli citizenship, no strings attached. No caveats, no “buts”. Complete and total citizenship. I’d also implement stronger civil rights for Arabs. While Arab Israelis have full citizenship and many have served on the Knesset, they are still a minority and minority rights are important to me. I’d also want to see gay marriage legalized. While Israel recognizes and while foreign same-sex marriages are legal under Israeli law, it is not legal in Israel because the Orthodox rabbinate are pieces of shit and hold too much power, even if Israel isn’t a theocracy. I hope Israel’s constitution is strong enough to not let that happen. Just as a note, I’m not opposed in any way to a two-state solution. But if a one-state solution were to be the only way to achieve peace, that’s how I’d do it. But I’m not a pessimist and I do think a two-state solution after Netanyahu is out of power could happen. Netanyahu is just making it way harder.
Also, we don’t need to separate men and women at the western wall. If women are distracting you from praying, you’re not doing it right. At my synagogue, we never believed Jews to be chosen. We remove all mentions of chosen-ness from our prayers. We add in our prayer for peace “And on the whole world” (v’al kol yoshvey tevel). We don’t even believe god is an actual being. God is something that’s inside us all. That idea of creation, that power is residual in all humanity. God is midi-chlorians. We invited a black pastor as a guest speaker after the shooting a few years ago at the COR church. We’ve invited Muslims to pray with us. We invited the heads of this Israeli tech company (the name escapes me, sorry). One of the heads is an Israeli Jew, the other is a Palestinian Muslim woman. And they work together and hire different people to help bring peace. Interfaith activity is the fastest way to dismantle prejudice.
When I was in Israel in 2014 during the war, I was struck by how dismissive people were. It is true that the Arab nations in 1948 said “No peace, no recognition, no negotiations with Israel”, but that was years ago. It is true that when Israel withdrew unilaterally from the Gaza strip in 2005 and destroyed all Jewish settlements, Hamas was democratically elected and installed an education system of indoctrination of hatred toward Israel and uses children as human shields during protests. It is also true that the PLO and Hamas pay stipends to terrorists and use UN funds build terror tunnels into Israel.
But that doesn’t mean that Palestinians don’t desire peace. They do desire peace, just as Israelis do. It is the terrorist organizations and the people who run them that don’t desire peace. It is those people who want Israel obliterated. While religious indoctrination is a serious issue, and learning hate should not be tolerated, we cannot conflate Hamas with the average Palestinian, and those who do are blatantly racist. That’s what’s great actually about online communication. You don’t have the pressures of face-to-face communication. If it ever gets too heated to the point where you stop listening to each other and there isn’t dialogue happening, you can pause and respectfully excuse yourself from the conversation. I’d like to see Israelis and Palestinians have more of that.
The big question that I’ll end on is “Is it anti-Semitic to criticize Israel? Short answer: No. Not at all. Long answer: Depends. Israel is a country and no country is perfect. It deserves to be called out and criticized for its mistakes. Here’s the difference though. If you criticize Israel based on what you heard without doing research yourself to confirm the veracity of those claims, you’re probably not a bigot. Ignorance is different than bigotry. Though I would strongly recommend you do your own research rather than believe “claim x”. If you intentionally do not research because it is more acceptable in your social circles to use buzz words like “apartheid” and “genocide” and remain willfully ignorant, then you’re probably a bigot. Criticism of Israel is not anti-Semitic. Criticism of Israel based on ignorance isn’t anti-Semitic. Intentionally remaining ignorant while at the same time calling Jews “Nazis” and refusing to listen to any opposition makes you a bigot. Anyway, I know that’s long, but it sparked a lot in me. Agree? Disagree? Let me know.
Amen. I couldn't agree more.
Great comment.
The Illumination I’m a little confused. Are you disputing a few things I’m saying. I know that Iraq was where a lot of Jewish history started and Ur of the Chaldees was where Abaraham was born. I’m not arguing that. I apologize for not being super specific.
It sounds like we’re in agreement though. You called for a secular state where all those who reside have equal rights under law. I advocated for the same thing. Israel is currently a “secular state” by law. (In practice, it’s somewhere in between religious and secular). I think we’re on the same page.
Also, I never said that the state had to be called Israel, I used the term greater Israel because that’s what it’s called now.
@The Illumination Those millions of refugees you mentioned : They HAVE realized that they were just pawns in a chess game...thats why they sought refuge in less shitty countries...
If you could escape oppression and violence, without actually risking your life fighting against it, wouldnt you choose refuge instead of choosing to stay and fight and risk your life and your family's lives?
"The solution to That place 's problem is with abolishing both israel and palestine with Creating new one country with new name implanted with seclaure political regime where everybody is equal under The law.
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...should we wave a magic wand, or do you have an actual realistic suggestion to offer that isnt fantasyland nonsense?
@The Illumination I don't think Zionism in its purest form, as in it's literal definition, is necessarily a bad thing. The belief that the Jews have a right to self-determination in their homeland isn't one I disagree with. However, I think that right should also be given to the Palestinians as well. I feel we're saying the same thing, with a few minor disagreements. Are we?
AMAZING video! Love you GMS, been subscribed since 21k subs :)
Hell yeah! Thank you!
Your videos are so amazing. Scary too. The man who said he would commit murder over belief was horrifying but its good to know it's out there
I was born and raised as a Muslim in Syria
I converted to atheism when I was 16
Welcome to the club
welcome to the cool kidz club
Why it happens between in that age because I'm 16 right now I'm somehow athiest
@@Marvin2003s probably I think because of information being spread recently,and around these ages is when a person starts to think like an adult
You are just awesome! GMS and Armin, I wish you all the best and many many more of these interactions with people of all colors and all beliefs. This is exactly what we need, as a global species and as atheists in particular.
With a few exceptions people are more open minded in Palestine
than I had thought. This video gives me hope for the future. Thank you Drew for being brave and putting yourself out there.
Palestinians are some of the most well educated arabs in the middle east, comes from a centaury of hardships they had to endure, hardships teach alot and creates a need for education
One thing I've noticed is that most of the english speaking people seemed to have no problem with atheism. So I'm wondering if religion's so ingrained in their culture that they didn't really open up to the idea of atheism until they learned more english and spoke to more people other than those around them?
Brilliant stuff.
You are confirming my observation that there are more places in the Middle East where I can have open discussions and where I was met with genuine curiosity than in some areas of Europe or the US where many Muslims seem to be more fundamentalist.
Thank you for doing this and showing that followers of Islam are not just mindless robots constantly in an aggressive defence mode.
I really hope that what you guys did here will soften the bigots and open paths to communication and discussion.
I mean im still pretty dang weary about Islam as a whole it's just nice to see some that are moderate
Stop
Me too, but not very hopeful-
Except many of younger set coming up gives me SOME hope.
you have no hope John, but you do have prayers to your prophet's Hitchens and dawkins! at the end of your life you believe in a pine box, nothing else, hell is exited about you, waits at your comming
@@mikehobson2163
Profiteering prophits.
That's your bag, not mine.
Rotsa ruck, hell.
@@mikehobson2163 lol if you think youre in a good spot wishing hell on strangers you got another thing coming
Their language sounds so beautiful
It has to do with word derivation and gramatical structure, words are derived from stem combinations through a set of master formulas, leading to related words with similar sounds being used quite often in the same sentance, itself also derived by a set of gramatical equations, but that is more common in other languages
However, arabic in general, leventine arabic in particular is quite pleasent to hear and as a veichle for sung poetry and the such, leading to all the arab foundness with poetry for example
Sure in the West Banks a bit easier but what about the Gazans. You have seen what they think of gay people...
60% of the West Bank support HMS
11:00
I'm from Kashmir and I also want to meet you and say something similar. You're among the reasons that lead me out of Islam. Thank you very much.
@Tom Harry Go to historians.
Islam , chritianity are fake
@Tom Harry Woa bro!! I heard all of them you mentioned, and I also heard new atheists, I heard Apostate prophet, I thought about it, and I just couldn't prevent myself from disbelieving it. And you're saying that I should be Muslim because Islam is threatening of hell? Lol. Bro, I request you to watch the debates, atleast. Look both sides of the picture because IF YOU WANT TO KNOW IF YOU'RE WRONG THEN LISTEN TO THOSE WHO DISAGREE WITH YOU. Islam doesn't stand a chance against reason.
And please stop portraying ex-muslims as bad or evil, WE ARE NOT.
@Tom Harry The arguments in favor of existence of God in no way point towards the truth in Islam. Do you really believe that God, if exists, sends people to hell and orders their execution just because they failed to believe in him (due to lack of evidence), or sends people to hell if they're born in non-muslim family (since most people, by default, believe in their parents religion and are biased towards it; just like you) or allows wars on non-muslim lands sex slavery, etc. (I don't want to waste my time, just watch apostate prophet and find out what the heck is there in Islam)
And I am not talking about these kinds like cosmic skeptic or GM skeptic, I asking you to listen Richard Dawkins, Christopher Hitchens, etc. like people, and their debates.
And you're saying that I should be Muslim because India did something bad to them, lol. What kind of argument is this? I guess I understood why you're still a Muslim.
And if you really care about me coming back to Islam, then GIVE ME ONE GOOD REASON WHY I SHOULD BELIEVE THAT QURAN IS WORD OF GOD. Don't say scientific miracles in Quran, that argument is refuted, even muslims like Hamza tzortzis(whatever) also has confessed that. Don't say poetry, because many can do, and have done, very good poetry. Pluse, Quran is not very poetic either, Abdullah Gondal often refutes it.
@Tom Harry And don't say preservation of Quran, because:-
"Standard narrative has holes in it."
~ Yasir Qadhi
@Tom Harry Awa. Behan chui na? Cxe ti chuka? Kaesir hekan na English samjith?
I’m coming back to this in Nov 2023, I wonder how these folks would respond now, with so much more conflict currently happening.
I wish in reality the situation is as good as its shown in the video, the problem in this video is that most Muslims when confronted with a camera and an obviously foreign person who does the interviewing will definitely seem more tolerant and accepting towards other beliefs (you can see that clearly by the hesitated tone in some of them when answering the questions), I actually was surprised by the honesty of the guy who said he would kill his own family if they were Atheist! As an Atheist who leaves in an Islamic country I can guarantee that most answers will be similar to that guy's answer, if there wasn't a camera and a foreign guy who does the interview.
PS. That doesn't mean that all Muslims are intolerant towards Atheists, but rather the majority of them are. I myself know some open minded Muslims such as the two guys at the end of the video, but unfortunately such people are a very rare.
Im an ex muslim and I could tell you, that what you are saying is bullshit.
I think that your anecdotes are all about personal situations which do not allow to make assumptions on the totality of Muslims in Arab countries. So no one should try to discredit each other based on anecdotes which vary from place to place and from social groups to social groups. Again, there is no definite answer on how Muslim people would treat atheists since it really depends on social circles and therelike. Absolute answers are not really possible in this kind of circumstances.
Edit: I mean both of you btw
@@Remake5182 just because you're an ex Muslim doesn't mean that what I said is bullshit, the degree of tolerance varies from country to another, maybe you live in Turkey or Tunisia where there is many open minded people, but if you live in Afghanistan or Pakistan that's different. Even Palestine is not high in the ladder of tolerance, I live in Yemen where the law here is based on Sharia law, the Sharia law articles in the constitution are considered red lines here that no one can touch. In 2014 a famous secular politician here criticized those articles, guess what happened to him?! He got assassinated two days later, they blow up his car while he's inside it. The punishment of apostasy is death here, now, if what I'm saying is bullshit and Muslims aren't pretending in front of a foreign guy, then:
Why the majority of people here and even in Palestine support Sharia Law?!
Why Omar Batoeel (a 17 years old kid in my country who criticized Islam on a Facebook post) got shot and killed and left to bleed to death in the street?! And the city refused to give him a proper burial because due to Islam teachings a 'murted' should not be buried in the graveyards of Muslims.
Why when my mother knew I was an Atheist she begged me not to tell anyone about it?
I hope you Mr. Ex Muslim can answer these questions.
So unless I see my fellow Palestinian Atheists speak up openly about there beliefs, without the fear of being prosecuted or killed, it's considered mostly a pretending of tolerance in my opinion.
ModiGrey what’s wrong being supporter of sharia law ????
Will there be something from rural areas too?
Excellent point. Could be a big difference between city-dwellers and those living in the country where there may little access to information outside of the local community.
@@MRayner59 ya me being from jordan their is a difference but they won't go as far as attacking you physically
Meh rural areas in judea and samaria / west bank are very modernized and a lot have access to the internet, from my experience at least they are as chill as city dwellers.
I mean you have to keep in mind the west bank is a very small place, even i from israel have visited most of israel and i come from a small town
@@cossaizy6309 most if not all of all rural jordan have access to the Internet the problem is the amount of toxic arabic content that are targeting atheist fortunately there is alot of youtube channels who are speaking aginst these people starting to pop up .
@@abdullahmoh3031 yeah i know, ive watched some arabic content relating to religion out of curiosity (i watch and read english only since i was 7) and the amount of toxicity is stagaring, and its quite ironic how they attack athiest arabs with insults the same way muhammad was attacked and insulted
I even once watched their views on jews and the hate they showed in such a calm manner would give nazis a run for their money
I love the dude face when he said “I’ve studied in the Soviet Union”
His face be like : yea, I’m a real man of culture. Proud bruh 😎
free palestine !
From Hamas? From Islamic jihad? From fatah? From who? Israel gave Palestine autonomy and they decided to declare war on Israel several times.
@@lllllliiillllllfrom the Israeli government which is currently trying to colonise them. That isn't hyperbole by the way, ever since the beginning of this war Israeli officials have used the word colonise to describe what they are trying to do.
"Israel gave Palestine autonomy" you mean after they stole their land and killed thousands of their people?
@@stuffynosepatrol there’s no such thing as “palestine”. Only Israel ☺️🇮🇱
@@vondas1480 thats funny considering Palestine was there for hundreds of years before Israel existed. It's also funny because Israel only exists because Zionists colonised part of Palestine (their words, not mind, they specifically called it colonisation)
It always puts a smile on my face that no matter what happens in a place, you can usually find a spectrum of opinions
Unless its north korea or a cult or something
@NoLongerHuman saying something like ''most brainwashed people live in the U.S.A'' sounds kind of like simple stereotyping to me, do you have any solid sources, like say scientific studies, reputable journalism, or at least polling from within the u.s or similar to actually indicate that this is fact? For all I know this might in fact be true but I would really like to see some proof if you have any?
Sara3346 most Americans listen to mainstream media. The American media is the most propagandizing media in the whole world. Therefore, Americans are brainwashed.
@@advenco344 I'd argue that most is a stretch considering the mainstream media has opposed popular opinion on at least a few occasions and lost.
Devouring_One I'll admit I haven't caught up with current statistics but last time I checked most Americans listen to some form of mainstream media with FOX being the highest viewed.
@NoLongerHuman North Korea is a normal place.... yeah no... it is a totalitarian nightmare.
It seemed to me that the younger the person you questioned was, the more understanding and tolerant they were. Also, I just want to say ty for this. I thought it was very insightful.
You can tell that the younger generation is tired of all the craziness that comes from religious conflicts whether they are within the household or concerning Nations.
fun to watch as a Palestinian atheist.