America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from it s society the race problem. But the plants and animals are also lower and this implies how to achieve human rights. The Qur an tells us the Creator made the earth because certain spirit creatures refused to follow the Creator s laws of eco-system. The Creator made humans from matter, from dust, and told both light and fire to submit to humans. So The Creator said We will make a place of clay or matter and make a time period.
Humans are higher than angels, jinn, plants or animals because of only one thing.
But even simple logic would point out, that the highest form of submission is would be a voluntary submission which submits with the greatest struggle. Thus Qur'an says compete instead in righteousness, good deeds or piety. Seldom in history do large numbers of the victorious side convert to the religion of the people they have just defeated. But this happened repeatedly with Islam, including among the Crusaders, the Turks and the Mongols. The great Indian poet Tagore says that on the face of each newborn child is a message from God that he will never give up on man.