Ali Dawah - May 07, 2026


ALEX'S MAKES SHAPIRO VERY UNCOMFORTABLE AND THIS HAPPENS


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Would you rather your child comes to you and says, "I don't think I believe in God anymore"? Or, "Half of the Christian population in the United States are immediately going to convert today to atheism if you press this button, or to Islam if you pressed this button?" Which one would you press?

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00:00:00.000 Would you rather your child comes to you and says,
00:00:02.380 think I'm going to convert to Islam?
00:00:04.360 Or said, I don't think I believe in God anymore.
00:00:06.800 Half of the Christian population in the United States
00:00:08.460 are immediately going to convert today 1.00
00:00:10.140 to atheism if you press this button
00:00:11.940 or to Islam if you press this button.
00:00:14.120 Which one would you press?
00:00:18.280 As-salamu alaykum wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh,
00:00:19.920 dear brothers and sisters.
00:00:21.380 As we watch what is unfolding today in Gaza,
00:00:24.080 we have to understand that opposition
00:00:26.480 is counting on us to lose attention,
00:00:28.760 to become fatigued and to move on with the new cycle.
00:00:31.700 And just as we can't allow them to dictate our attention,
00:00:34.960 we also can't allow them to dictate the pace of our solidarity.
00:00:38.080 And part of that solidarity is going to be there
00:00:40.180 to rebuild Gaza short-term, long-term.
00:00:43.640 I am proud to give my support, my word of support
00:00:46.940 to trusted brothers and sisters in the United Kingdom
00:00:49.480 that have started a waqf, that have started an endowment
00:00:52.020 to make sure, inshallah ta'ala, that we're there for the long run.
00:00:54.720 It's going to be long-term and we will not forget our cause
00:00:58.440 in Palestine, we will not forget the cause of Al-Aqsa and we will not forget Bidn
00:01:02.580 and Na'i Ta'ana, our brothers and sisters in Gaza.
00:01:05.200 Jazakumullah khairah.
00:01:06.160 Wassalamu alaikum warahmatullahi wabarakatuh.
00:01:10.720 So Ben Shapiro was asked by Alex O'Connor if there was two buttons, one to turn America,
00:01:17.000 the civilization, the civilians in America, all to atheism or the other button to make
00:01:22.720 them Muslim, which one would he pick? 0.85
00:01:24.760 Let's find out for ourselves.
00:01:25.880 I wonder, and I hope it's not a crude question, and it's one sort of stemming from genuine interest.
00:01:30.400 Would you rather your child comes to you and says, you know, I think I'm going to convert to Islam,
00:01:38.640 or said, I don't think I believe in God anymore?
00:01:42.400 As a Jew, I'm fairly indifferent on the question, meaning that my priority is for my child to remain.
00:01:48.160 brother if they asked me and said would you rather them become a christian or an atheist i'll be like 0.76
00:01:56.960 the people of the kitab like from the evidence that we have from the people of the book at least
00:02:00.080 they believe in god even though we know there's trinity issue they believe in the hereafter the 0.66
00:02:04.320 day of judgment the angels the books the prophets they have so much in common atheists they have no
00:02:09.600 moral compass i mean i would incline towards christianity if they said to me atheism and
00:02:15.760 judaism i would go with judaism because they have more close to theology when it comes to who god
00:02:20.080 is but him as a practicing orthodox jew should we say found it very difficult to answer jew and
00:02:26.960 which direction they go from there is of is of much less interest to me than than staying inside
00:02:32.480 the religious tradition that i believe is correct okay maybe i should rephrase to say uh suppose
00:02:37.440 that you know half of the u.s population immediately right now and half of let's say the let's say half
00:02:44.320 of the christian population so it's not to do with judaism and it's and and it's not to do with your
00:02:49.200 own family half of the christian population in the united states are immediately going to convert
00:02:53.600 today to atheism if you press this button or to islam if you press this button which one which
00:02:59.360 one would you press so i'm going to ask for more specificity in line with the conversation so which
00:03:04.560 form of islam are we talking about and which form of atheism are we talking about because they come
00:03:07.760 in various strains but meaning like if if the reason he finds that hard to answer is because
00:03:12.560 his loyalty is to his land israel okay above his region i believe okay that's the reason why because
00:03:19.120 when he says islam is like yo anything but islam and this reminds me of the jews at the time of 0.80
00:03:24.320 the prophet muhammad bana quraida bana kainuka and bana these were hostile christian jews to the
00:03:28.720 muslims who when they went to the pagan arabs and said the pagan arabs asked him whose religion is 0.79
00:03:32.640 better us or muhammad's yeah they said yours i do worship is that their religion says that they 1.00
00:03:38.880 should be destroyed like amalek yes they said them and this is why you find it so hard for him to see 0.95
00:03:45.040 it's just the first thing you ask me out of straight judaism man all day every day starting 0.98
00:03:48.320 from the premise of no god or islamic god that actually is not enough information because as i
00:03:52.080 say i'm not judging people based on their faith propositions nearly as much as i am based on
00:03:56.640 their behavior okay i'm gonna not try to interrupt this thing as much but guys one is believing in
00:04:01.600 god and one is a denial of god what what context do you flipping need one believes in god the one
00:04:07.280 true god that you jews even believe that we will be we that that the prophet muhammad some believe
00:04:12.560 that he was a prophet to the gentiles he's like no what do you mean by the stomach god if you're
00:04:16.800 which i think they base on faith propositions say this is the only thing that changes uh you press
00:04:20.400 this button half the christian population become convinced that there is no real god of the
00:04:25.360 universe everything else is is is random whatever you might because what we're discussing here is
00:04:30.320 essentially what what are the implications of such a world what are the implications of atheism which
00:04:34.320 which is just the disbelief in God
00:04:36.340 or the belief that there is not God.
00:04:37.080 So people have memories?
00:04:37.820 Sorry, in this hypothetical,
00:04:38.960 do people have memories or they don't have memories?
00:04:40.080 Because this makes a difference.
00:04:41.120 Yeah, they have memories.
00:04:41.920 Okay, fine.
00:04:42.340 So then probably...
00:04:43.760 Look, there we go.
00:04:44.300 Now he broke it.
00:04:45.100 Alex O'Connor said,
00:04:45.600 okay, let me break that even more.
00:04:47.680 Let's see his reply.
00:04:48.500 In the West, atheism, 0.61
00:04:49.920 as opposed to a more radical form of Islam.
00:04:51.980 That's why I was asking for specificity
00:04:53.080 because they're more moderate forms.
00:04:53.720 The button on the right-hand side
00:04:54.480 was going to be that they just become convinced 0.52
00:04:55.900 that Muhammad is the final prophet of God. 1.00
00:04:58.080 Right, and again,
00:04:58.800 I was going to ask for more specificity on that
00:05:00.200 because I know many moderate Muslims
00:05:01.540 who are not radical in the implication of their faith
00:05:04.160 as opposed to some who very much are quite radical
00:05:07.220 in the implications of their faith.
00:05:08.760 So, but let's, if you don't mind,
00:05:10.700 I'm going to set up your hypothetical
00:05:12.240 in a way that I think is more clarifying for me anyway.
00:05:15.540 And that is version, button on the right is radical Islam,
00:05:19.120 like Taliban style Islam. 0.85
00:05:20.300 Okay. 0.69
00:05:20.640 And button on the left is don't believe in God.
00:05:23.800 Well, I mean, you can do that.
00:05:25.680 I mean, you see how he defines radical Islam.
00:05:28.760 He can't just say Islam. 0.98
00:05:29.800 He has to put Islam to radicalization 1.00
00:05:32.180 Islam equals radicalization 0.95
00:05:33.520 And where's your evidence for that? 1.00
00:05:34.980 Objectively, where?
00:05:36.060 Nowhere
00:05:36.420 So why does he keep saying radical, Taliban
00:05:38.360 Why are you putting those things?
00:05:40.100 I'm a Muslim 1.00
00:05:40.780 I'm an awful Muslim 1.00
00:05:43.260 That follows my religion 0.86
00:05:44.280 I'm not Taliban
00:05:44.800 I'm not these lunatics 0.89
00:05:46.440 Whatever you want to call it, etc. 0.68
00:05:48.120 Okay, like ISIS and etc.
00:05:50.420 So why is he afraid?
00:05:52.180 And he's putting this in this category
00:05:53.920 I'm doing that is because that elucidates
00:05:55.460 That elucidates a difference
00:05:58.040 that I think is being obscured by the simple sort of belief in God, not belief in God question,
00:06:02.800 meaning that the cultural heritage of, that's why I asked if people have memories or people
00:06:07.180 don't have memories. If people have memories, then that looks very much like secular Europe
00:06:12.160 right now, which does have in the bloodstream a lot of Judeo-Christian values in a way that
00:06:16.780 would not be true if you're without memory, right? Would I rather that a child found in a forest be
00:06:22.660 raised in a moderate Muslim household or be raised in a secular communist household? 0.86
00:06:27.500 or a secular atheist household if i may say again from which tradition are we talking in the ussr
00:06:31.980 are we talking in britain like what are we talking about britain okay so we're talking about the us
00:06:35.980 but let's say britain in in in britain um depends on the strain of islam if we're talking about like
00:06:41.020 a a liberal form of islam which do exist and probably a liberal form of islam okay good fine
00:06:45.100 he's admitted liberal form of islam okay why does it have to be a liberal form of islam
00:06:49.100 what do you define as liberal form of islam i don't understand what do you mean by liberal
00:06:52.060 form of islam yeah and why is your category liberalism are you a liberal no you're not
00:06:57.420 you're not are you a liberal you're an orthodox you are an orthodox full-blown zionist yes you 0.84
00:07:02.860 are you are the terrorist version of judaism like jews extreme jews is you you are you don't even 0.97
00:07:10.060 class what's happened as a genocide in gaza my friend if anything you are more radical 0.99
00:07:15.900 then at least these nutters yes who have not committed genocide they've done crazy stuff
00:07:21.100 killing innocent people mostly muslims as well yes but they haven't committed a genocide just 0.85
00:07:25.180 the way your state does so when you talk about liberals where you where you get why are you as 0.64
00:07:28.540 a orthodox jew focused on liberalism i don't understand talking about a fundamentalist form
00:07:33.660 of islam then then probably a secular strain of britain fun so he would prefer instead of radical
00:07:39.260 form of islam which i don't know what that is practicing muslims who fear god and are stringent
00:07:43.660 in the in in the way they follow islam he would rather go for people who have no god no morality 0.89
00:07:50.300 you name it i'm a piano i'm this i'm that um and all of those things yes degeneracy rather that 0.98
00:07:57.580 than people who observe islam and who are saying that we should be just and have just wars against 0.76
00:08:04.620 oppressors that are killing innocent people he would rather go of atheists come itself i'm 0.96
00:08:07.980 telling you i'm saying these radical zionist jews radical ones they exist at the prophet 0.89
00:08:12.300 mohammed peace be upon him and there were those actual jews who were just they existed at the
00:08:16.140 time of the prophet mohammed peace be upon him they did not they stuck to their treaties with 0.81
00:08:18.860 the prophet mahmad the prophet mahmad peace be upon him protected them went to war for them
00:08:23.820 there you go now here alex o'connor pushes him further and gives him some very very troubling
00:08:28.860 disturbing immoral verses in the old testament that let's see what uh you know uh this radical
00:08:37.900 zionist drew will say about that let's hear when alex o'connor presses him let's see what he has to
00:08:42.060 say and so when i when i open the old testament or the hebrew bible and when i look at the texts
00:08:47.820 saying that you you if you lay siege to a city you can you can kill if the lord delivers it into
00:08:54.300 your hand you can kill the men and the women uh but keep oh you can kill the men and keep the 0.75
00:08:58.300 women and the children and the and the and the livestock as plunder as deuteronomy says and and 0.92
00:09:02.940 uh the in the very next verse uh sorry the very next chapter says that you know if um if you see
00:09:08.780 a good-looking woman and and i'm not i'm not interjecting that if somebody finds an attractive
00:09:13.500 woman, then they can take them for themselves. And if they want them as their wives and they 1.00
00:09:18.880 take them home, they shave their head, they cut off their fingernails, they give them 30 days to
00:09:23.320 mourn their old husband, who you may very well have just killed. And then you can take them as
00:09:28.760 your wife. When Numbers 31 has Moses instruct the slaughter of the Midianites saying, kill all the 0.99
00:09:33.880 men. And this time the women get killed too, but not the women who haven't slept with a man. 0.97
00:09:37.940 And why might that be? And it says that, you know, keep them for yourselves. And I hear all the time
00:09:41.920 that this is some kind of liberalizing process, maybe it's because, you know, these people
00:09:45.160 wouldn't survive on their own. It's some kind of protective measure to make sure that you're
00:09:48.500 looking after them. If that's the case, then why does it only apply to the virgins? That seems a
00:09:52.920 little bit suspect to me. You know, in, it's sort of, scripture is littered with these kinds of,
00:09:59.200 with these kinds of. Well, again, so to go back to the sort of oral tradition nature.
00:10:02.180 And I don't think God would permit a proactive immorality, even if he can't, for some reason,
00:10:07.560 abolish the practice altogether. Well, I mean, the, well, no, that last point I don't see.
00:10:11.920 So when you say even if he can't abolish the practice altogether, well –
00:10:16.620 Which already I think he would be able to do.
00:10:18.340 Right.
00:10:18.540 So the question is whether he can or whether he can't.
00:10:21.080 If he can't abolish the practice, then the idea of wooing people away from a particular type of sin through a gradualistic process is known throughout societies across human history.
00:10:30.840 I mean the gradualistic processes are the way that most things get done across human history.
00:10:35.120 And by the way, the universal practice, unfortunately, up till today in many places in the world, is, in fact, the extreme version of what you're talking about.
00:10:42.760 Raise everything, kill everyone.
00:10:44.380 That sort of stuff, unfortunately, does take place. 0.98
00:10:46.480 It does, by your government.
00:10:48.200 Hello?
00:10:49.920 Yes, it takes place by your government, quoting scripture and acting upon it.
00:10:57.120 Prescriptive.
00:10:58.300 Even on planet Earth, even in the year 2023.
00:11:00.480 And so the idea of a culture arising.
00:11:02.360 I mean, is this guy for real?
00:11:03.360 Yes, he's talking about Israel.
00:11:04.700 Yes.
00:11:05.120 Israel has been committing that act from the Bible that not only abolished slavery on its own
00:11:09.800 shores but then abolished slavery literally everywhere else which is what Great Britain did 0.65
00:11:12.800 that again to separate that off from a tradition that also says that every human being is made in
00:11:17.300 the image of God right to the verse from Genesis or or that you have to treat the stranger well
00:11:21.940 right which is repeated more than any injunction in the Bible right there are these these traditions
00:11:27.060 that are that are at war with each other inside the Bible which is why there is this hotly fought
00:11:31.280 kind of argument inside biblical circles about all this stuff which again is one of the reasons
00:11:36.160 why i said right up top that when it gets to i can't just open the bible and interpret the text
00:11:40.320 as i would see fit well i mean there you go guys you can clearly see he would rather his children
00:11:47.040 be atheist than be radical muslim and then when it's got radicalization look at the scriptures
00:11:51.760 that he's defending and he believes in and not only that they enacted on that and what's happened
00:11:56.720 in gaza where else can it be said it just shows you misguidance the misguidance is so severe the 0.78
00:12:03.040 hatred for islam is so severe they would rather their children be atheists than muslims who
00:12:08.960 uphold abraham moses jesus and i believe if you were to ask this question to christians not all 0.94
00:12:15.120 not all like people like no logic rotten wood fake christian money uh money man who put his 0.95
00:12:22.640 wife in hijab after saying hijab is uh bad uh apos the pusillanimous weasel who cheated on his wife 0.96
00:12:27.760 the adulterer yes uh i don't even know who he would even like that that that is zionist woman 0.84
00:12:33.280 his handle that was given to him she must have cried that night oh no give me another project
00:12:36.320 please not apos anyways so the claim is what you can see they would rather see a world in atheism 0.87
00:12:41.200 than islam and this shows you how islam is the haq and it is the truth i would all day every day 0.95
00:12:46.960 Want my children 0.93
00:12:47.780 Like
00:12:48.180 If they were to give me two options 0.98
00:12:49.540 Atheist
00:12:50.940 Or Christian 1.00
00:12:52.340 They're like 1.00
00:12:53.040 Shirk 1.00
00:12:53.460 But
00:12:53.880 That
00:12:54.980 To their theology
00:12:55.880 Like even the Sahaba 1.00
00:12:56.800 They rejoice when the Romans 1.00
00:12:58.280 Beat the Persians 1.00
00:12:58.920 Because they are close to us 1.00
00:13:00.380 That's what I'm going to say
00:13:01.300 Until next time 0.99
00:13:01.860 Assalamualaikum
00:13:02.460 Wa Rahmatullahi wa Barakatuh