I was surprised to see this on Aljazeera Arabic. I had read the story of Adam and Even in 1990/1991 in a book published in Syria. مفاجأة بالنسبة لي أن أعثر على هذا على موقع الجزيرة Translation from Arabic: “The story of Adam and Eve is a purely human invention. Its origins are Sumerian – one of the oldest civilizations known to man. It is a story like all distorted stories, but its peculiarity is that it is a story that changed the course of the entire world, established the principle of male superiority and legitimized the inequality between human beings and the injustice that women are subjected to today.” Aljazeera Arabic, 2016
“The West won the world not by the superiority of its ideas or values or religion (to which few members of other civilizations were converted) but rather by its superiority in applying organized violence. Westerners often forget this fact; non-Westerners never do.” —Samuel P. Huntington, The Clash of Civilisation and the Remaking of the World Order, 1996, p. 51