Using plane travel to China as a thesis, Sheikh Bandar Al Khaibari said that the Earth does not rotate. Unfortunately for the Saudi cleric, he was being recorded on video while explaining his theory.
Sheikh Al Khaibar's remarks were widely debunked on the Internet, causing a social media storm on Twitter, with the hashtag # داعية_ينفي_دوران_الأرض (Cleric rejects rotation of earth) .
However, perhaps more surprising than the cleric's claims, is that his remarks were called out on Saudi-owned Al Arabiya, as Lebanese journalist Habib Batah pointed out .
Watch the full video clip below.