After all, said Zahar, a donkey can eat shrubbery and survive, but a human cannot.

“So, a donkey is more evolved than a human? No,” scoffs Zahar, seemingly satisfied that he has demonstrated the absurdity of Charles Darwin’s theory. Allah, not evolution, made man, he says, and Allah has made Gaza Islamic.

This pea-brain is a “surgeon”. May Allah keep him away from me with a knife.