Q&A: Muhammad from Majdal Shams
Muhammad from Majdal Shams
Question
Hello Rabbi,
Do you know Muhammad O’Neil from Majdal Shams, who at the age of two and a half began speaking to his parents in fluent British English that would put Boris Johnson to no shame?
There was a TV piece about him a few years ago, and now I saw it again, and it made me think — if I really am doubtful about the truth of belief in reincarnation of souls, then what the hell am I supposed to do with this now?!
Does the Rabbi have another logical explanation that is satisfying?
Answer
I saw that piece, and I have no other explanation.
Discussion on Answer
Yishai, did you see the piece?
Even if you locked him up for a year on Wall Street, he still wouldn’t pick up that kind of rich language with such a crazy accent. He’s been like that since age two and a half.
A piece full of liars. It’s not hard to see that these are liars.
A. How do you know he really has been speaking like that since age two and a half? B. It could be that they taught him English and simply didn’t tell the TV reporters that.
I know it’s a stretch to say that, but it seems more reasonable to me than saying there is reincarnation.
https://mikyab.net/%D7%A9%D7%95%D7%AA/%D7%92%D7%9C%D7%92%D7%95%D7%9C-%D7%A0%D7%A9%D7%9E%D7%95%D7%AA
I looked into this in the past. The accent (and the words he uses) suspiciously resembles a children’s series called Peppa Pig that’s available on YouTube, see there.
Apparently a child who was neglected in front of a tablet for many hours (and you’d need some additional psychological abnormality of one kind or another for him actually to use it).
I heard this is a known phenomenon in autism… they pick up more of other languages they were exposed to.
Maybe they taught him and just fed the TV people some nonsense?