If Genesis is BS, what DID happen?

[Rokcet Scientist]

what do these fuckers have to do to convince you that their goal is the 11th century and not the 21st?

Nothing. I'm convinced. But "these fuckers" you're referring to don't represent all Arabs. At all! "These fuckers" are only your friends in the criminal regimes and mosques. I.o.w. the elites. As usual. I know that their goal is the 11th, or probably rather the late 8th/early 9th, century.
The great majority of the Arab masses, however, are not these exploitative medieval fuckers, but relatively simple people who nevertheless – now that most of them can read, write, watch TV, and communicate and organize via the internet – have seen the 21st century. And have realized how they have been oppressed, manipulated, and exploited all this time. And decidedly want their share of 21st century democracy and decent justice! So much so that they are sacrificing their lives in the thousands for that goal. Or hadn't you noticed? That should tell you plainly enough what they want. And how much they want it.

They are enacting Peter Finche's call to arms in the 1976 movie Network: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore!".