00:00As a Sufi Muslim, I'm very ruffled by the title of your book.
00:03Did you have to settle for the literal negation of Allahu Akbar?
00:08Yes.
00:08I thought to...
00:09Thank you for that question.
00:10At the moment, it's very clear to me the most toxic form that religion takes is the Islamic form.
00:15The horrible idea of wanting to end up with Sharia, the state of religious law,
00:18and that the best means of getting there is Jihad, holy war,
00:21and that Muslims have a special right to feel aggrieved enough to demand this.
00:24I think it's an absolute obscene wickedness, and I think their religion is nonsense.
00:29God speaks to some illiterate merchant warlord in Arabia,
00:32and it contains the answers to all humans.
00:33Don't waste my time.
00:35It's bullshit.
00:36But you're saying this thing about...
00:37Also that God speaks...
00:40The archangel Gabriel speaks only Arabic.
00:41All religions claim to be revealed truth.
00:43When Islam dangerously says, ours is the last and final one.
00:46There can't be any more after this.
00:48This is God's last word.
00:49Now, that's straightaway a temptation to violence and intolerance,
00:51and if you note, it's a temptation they seem quite willing to fall for.
00:54Every Allahu Akbar reminds people that we're in a very serious struggle with a very depraved religion.
00:59in a very serious struggle with a lot of tyranny.
01:02It's a temptation that we think that lives in a very serious struggle with a way of being
