European countries in general, and even in America, do not discriminate between religions. On the contrary, since the Enlightenment in 18th century Europe, equality between people has become a value that all Western countries try to uphold or realize. The second problem is in the discourse of the [Western] Muslims themselves, who say that they are oppressed and that there is a conspiracy against them. These Muslims live here, in Europe, and enjoy rights that they cannot enjoy in most of the Islamic countries. In addition, they are treated here, with some sort of equality. When you ask these Muslims if they accept, for example, churches being built in Islamic countries, they say: "No, it is haram.' At the same time, they say it is racism if we are forbidden from building mosques here, even though it is not forbidden in most European countries. […]
"They are given the freedom to curse [the West] every Friday in our mosques. When I visit a mosque, it always surprises me how an imam who lives here in Germany says every Friday: 'These are descendants of apes and pigs…Oh Allah, do this and that to them, make the earth quake under their feet…' We must remind him that we live on their land…Go easy on us with your supplications. It is considered within his freedom of speech to say this every Friday."
The commonest conspiracy theory in the Islamic world, of course, concerns the Jews, at whose behest a cornucopia of evils assails the poor Muslim.
See also the same Ibrahim Eissa pointing out that it's the West, and not the Arab world, that has been developing vaccines for COVID-19. The Islamic world, he says, complains that the West hates us, and wishes us harm, but then we sit back and wait for the West to send us the vaccine.
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