# Palestine’s 1936 Great Revolt: A lie that divided Muslims and Christians | Dr. Omar Suleiman

**Author:** Dr. Omar Suleiman
**Series:** Explained
**Published:** 2026-04-30
**YouTube:** https://youtu.be/Ybfp2j4QMw0
**URL:** https://yaqeeninstitute.org/watch/series/explained/palestines-1936-great-revolt
**Topics:** History, Politics & Practical Theology, Social Justice

## Summary
This video challenges the widely promoted narrative that Muslims hate America and Americans, arguing instead that anti-American sentiment in Muslim-majority countries stems from U.S. foreign policy rather than religious or cultural hatred. The presenter traces the concept of 'blowback' — the idea that harmful foreign interventions eventually produce domestic consequences — through voices ranging from Malcolm X to Ron Paul to Tucker Carlson. The video exposes a deliberate Islamophobia industry, citing a 2011 Center for American Progress report that tracked $42.6 million funneled by seven foundations to manufacture fear of Muslims, reinforced by Hollywood (over 300 films demeaning Arabs and Muslims) and a media landscape where attacks by Muslims received 357% more coverage than identical attacks by non-Muslims. It then documents U.S. military interventions — in Afghanistan ($2.3 trillion spent, hundreds of thousands of civilians killed, the same government left in power), Iraq (invaded on the false pretext of weapons of mass destruction, resulting in a million civilian deaths), and Gaza (ongoing bombardment funded by U.S. tax dollars with repeated U.S. vetoes of UN ceasefires) — as the true sources of grievance. The video argues that Islamophobia serves as a distraction from domestic failures including homelessness, $38 trillion in national debt, unaffordable healthcare, and elite corruption. It concludes by humanizing Muslim communities — describing them as a diverse, two-billion-strong global population responsible for founding the world's first universities and hospitals — and insisting that what Muslims hate is not American freedom or culture, but the injustice carried out against their children, schools, hospitals, and lives, often with American weapons, funding, and political cover.

## Key Points
- The narrative that 'Muslims hate America for its freedom' is a manufactured distraction from the real causes of anti-American sentiment: harmful U.S. foreign policy and military interventions.
- The concept of 'blowback' — that bombing people's homes and futures eventually produces consequences — has been acknowledged by figures across the political spectrum, from Malcolm X to Ron Paul.
- A 2011 Center for American Progress report traced $42.6 million from seven foundations deliberately funneled to manufacture fear of Muslims in America.
- Hollywood has produced over 300 films demeaning Arabs and Muslims, and between 2006 and 2015, attacks by Muslims received 357% more media coverage than identical attacks by non-Muslims.
- U.S. military interventions in Afghanistan and Iraq resulted in hundreds of thousands to over a million civilian deaths, with the architects of those wars facing no legal accountability.
- U.S. funding of Israeli military operations in Gaza, combined with repeated vetoes of UN ceasefire resolutions, is a primary driver of anti-American sentiment in the Muslim world.
- Islamophobia functions as a political distraction from domestic crises including 750,000 homeless Americans, $38 trillion in national debt, unaffordable healthcare, and elite corruption.
- Muslims are not a monolith — they are two billion people across Africa, the Arab world, Asia, Europe, and America — and are known for hospitality and warmth when encountered directly.
- Islamic civilization contributed the world's first universities and hospitals, and authentic Islamic teachings are characterized by peace, not hatred.
- Muslims do not hate Americans as people; they hate the injustice carried out against their communities with American weapons, tax dollars, and political support.

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