Goldie Ghamari - Robert Spencer： The History of Jihad

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00:02:25.160 Thank you for joining me for another episode of The Goldie Show.

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00:03:21.140 So today we have a very interesting episode. We're going to play a speech talk by Robert Spencer. Now, who is Robert Spencer? If you're not following him on X, make sure to do so. Here is his X profile at Jihad Watch RS.

00:03:43.100 He also does have a YouTube channel, which I'll share with you afterwards.

00:03:48.440 So he is the author of 32 books, including The History of Jihad, The Critical Quran,

00:03:55.600 Muhammad, A Critical Biography, The Palestinian Delusion, Holy Hell.

00:04:01.080 Here's a little bio that I found about him. 0.98

00:04:06.580 So I'm just going to share this with you guys.

00:04:08.080 So Robert Spencer is the director of Jihad Watch and a Shilman fellow at the David Horowitz Freedom Center.

00:04:16.980 He is the author of 30 books, including the bestsellers, The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam and the Crusades,

00:04:24.360 The Truth About Muhammad, The History of Jihad from Muhammad to ISIS, and The Critical Quran.

00:04:31.580 Spencer has led seminars on Islam and Jihad for the FBI, the United States Central Command, the United States Army Command and General Staff College, the U.S. Army's Asymmetric Warfare Group, the Joint Terrorism Task Force, the Justice Department's Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, and the U.S. Intelligence Committee.

00:04:56.980 He has discussed jihad, Islam, and terrorism at a workshop sponsored by the U.S. Department of State and the German Foreign Ministry.

00:05:07.400 He is a senior fellow with the Center for Security Policy and is a regular columnist for PJ Media and Front Page Magazine.

00:05:16.540 His works have been translated into numerous languages.

00:05:19.640 I was looking for different talks or videos about jihad and the history of jihad, and I found this one lecture.

00:05:31.060 So this is a video from seven years ago.

00:05:34.880 It's on the YouTube channel of the Westminster Institute, and this is from September 8, 2018.

00:05:44.960 So let's play this. And I'm hoping that this is going to give you all, I guess, you know, a Jihad 101. And hopefully it will help you to recognize some of the signs when it comes to Jihad, Islamic terrorism, and political Islam. 0.65

00:06:10.740 because again, my focus here is not necessarily on religion. I mean, you can practice whatever

00:06:18.200 you want. I don't care. You can believe whatever you want. I don't care. But the issue is when

00:06:25.040 people start weaponizing their religion and use it as a justification to murder, capture,

00:06:36.560 enslave others and to take over. And that's really what jihad is. So we're going to watch 0.57

00:06:43.560 this documentary. I'll provide my commentary as we go along. For everyone in the YouTube chat,

00:06:50.380 I noticed that my super chats had been turned off for some reason. So I did turn on the super

00:06:57.080 chats again. So yeah, there we go. All right, let's get started here.

00:07:01.560 uh robert spencer is the director of jihad watch and a shulman fellow at the david horowitz freedom

00:07:10.220 center he's the author of 18 books i won't name them all or half his time they'll be taken

00:07:18.140 a number of them are new york times seller new york you can tell it's an older video because

00:07:24.140 here he says he's the author of 18 books that was in 2018 of course it's 2025 now and i think

00:07:31.220 he's written like 30 books or something times bestsellers as i assume his new book will be

00:07:37.980 because it's already sold out on amazon and it was just listed and that is the history of jihad

00:07:44.000 from muhammad to isis i'd say they are available for sale on the table outside in the library but

00:07:52.240 they're already sold out but in case you haven't had a chance to get your copy signed i know that

00:07:58.900 that Robert would be happy to do so after his presentation.

00:08:09.980 Other books, just quickly name a couple,

00:08:12.460 Stealth Jihad, How Radical Islam is Subverting America, 0.82

00:08:17.000 The Complete Infidel's Guide to ISIS. 0.95

00:08:21.800 He's led seminars on the subject of jihad and Islam 0.52

00:08:26.800 Islam for many national security, government institutions, both domestic and foreign policy,

00:08:35.500 the FBI, United States Central Command, U.S. Army Command and General Staff College,

00:08:44.000 Justice Department, Anti-Terrorism Advisory Council, and so forth. He's a weekly columnist

00:08:51.320 for pj media and front page magazine he's written in addition to his 18 books hundreds and hundreds

00:08:58.200 of articles he's a contributing writer to the investigative project on terrorism and

00:09:06.440 as an adjunct fellow with the free congress foundation he has an m.a in religious studies

00:09:14.520 from University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill and he has been studying

00:09:19.520 about Islamic theology, history, and law in depth since 1980. Please join me in

00:09:28.260 welcoming Robert's country.

00:09:38.840 Thank you Bob and thank you everyone for coming. It's a great honor to me to speak

00:09:44.360 at the Westminster Institute, and I admire the great work that you've done here over the years

00:09:50.200 and all the resources you have provided. I hope in this book, The History of Jihad,

00:09:55.800 to fill a gap that has not been addressed thus far. My friend David Wood, the great skewer of

00:10:06.920 Islamic apologists, he told me not long ago that he knew about what was in the Quran,

00:10:13.720 that there were deeply problematic passages within it, and he knew about the life of Muhammad,

00:10:19.020 that Muhammad was not exactly, as Karen Armstrong says, a 7th century Gandhi, but

00:10:24.920 she really says that too, but he was actually a warlord who led armies, committed the assassination

00:10:33.560 of his enemies, and so on. But that after that, there's a gap until 20th century jihad terrorism

00:10:40.460 becomes part of our daily lives. And so the history of jihad, I wrote actually in this book

00:10:47.280 that I've wanted to write for many years in order to fill that gap and to give people a general

00:10:53.100 overview of what happened after Muhammad died and before the Saudis struck oil and started

00:11:00.900 financing Wahhabi terrorism around the world. And it is a story that I hope you will find 0.80

00:11:08.400 interesting. I think it is a pressing moment in many ways for American public policy and the

00:11:16.160 public policy of many other countries today. And I thought that tonight I would try to outline

00:11:22.380 some of that. One of the first things that I think is noteworthy about the 14th century history of

00:11:29.640 jihad is what you do not see in it. And that is, you do not see any Muslim resistance to jihad 0.87

00:11:39.320 activity, to jihad violence. You do not see ever in any country, at any time, in any place,

00:11:46.820 under any circumstances, some large Muslim organization opposing jihad violence.

00:11:52.620 He makes a very good point there. I mean, how many large Muslim organizations spoke out during the Yazidi genocide that happened recently in Iraq, right?

00:12:08.920 where ISIS terrorists were kidnapping Yazidis and they would execute the men and they would

00:12:18.380 basically, they forced Yazidi women and girls to become sex slaves. I don't know how many large 0.64

00:12:26.620 Muslim organizations spoke out against that. In fact, I don't think any really did. And so he

00:12:32.720 makes a very good point there as well no i mean even even to put it in context today um

00:12:42.080 in canada for example after the october 7 genocidal massacre um by hamas

00:12:49.920 no muslim organization in canada spoke out against it um no muslim organ like the national

00:12:59.180 council of canadian muslims uh did not condemn the attack um afterwards you know they i think put out

00:13:06.700 like a lukewarm message after there was a lot of pressure or something but um like as soon as that

00:13:12.540 happened all of these muslim organizations started talking about you know in gaza

00:13:19.020 why does that matter because nowadays western europe in particular the united states to a

00:13:30.800 lesser degree we are betting our futures on the idea that we can bring in large numbers of muslims 0.93

00:13:39.780 into the united states and we will not ever have any problem with jihad activity that that is all 0.85

00:13:45.340 a thing of the past that we need not be concerned about. But one thing we also do not see in the

00:13:52.360 history of jihad is any rejection, reformation, reconsideration, or other kind of mitigation

00:13:59.380 of the elements of Islamic texts and teachings that gave rise to jihad activity in the first

00:14:06.960 place. And so it is certainly true, it is undeniably true, that most Muslims today are not 0.98

00:14:16.380 waging jihad. That's great. And once again, we are betting our future on it. However, the idea that

00:14:25.420 most Muslims today are not waging jihad means that they are therefore democratic pluralists

00:14:31.800 who accept the principles of human rights that are enunciated in the Universal Declaration of

00:14:36.900 human rights of the United Nations of 1948 remains at best unproven and has no historical

00:14:43.480 antecedents whatsoever. There was all through state warfare in the Mohammed according to

00:15:06.900 and almost immediately after that, 0.99

00:15:15.380 and conquered the Middle East.

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00:15:36.900 the muslim conquest persia is something that happened yeah 0.99

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00:18:06.900 All right. Give me a moment here, guys.

00:18:22.280 Thank you. Thank you.

00:18:24.500 It's just, I don't know what's going on with my internet connection.

00:18:29.420 Okay. It seems like my internet, like I'm doing an internet speed test

00:18:33.100 and it looks like it's back up okay so i'm back up to my regular speeds yeah like my internet

00:18:43.960 connection just died all right sorry about that but we are back and uh we're gonna just power

00:18:49.920 through here um so maybe whatever internet connection issues they were having um has been

00:18:58.760 fixed. Nothing is going to stop us from our history lesson, guys. We are going to learn

00:19:06.040 about the history of jihad. So there we go. All right. So as I was saying, yeah, I wish I wish I

00:19:14.660 was on dial up these days. As I was saying, like when it comes to the Muslim conquest of Persia, 0.99

00:19:22.640 A lot of people who haven't studied history, they think that like, you know, Persia became Muslim through peaceful means, right? They just assume that like Muslims showed up with like brochures and chocolate and flowers. No, that's not how it happened.

00:19:39.600 it was incredibly bloody um and yeah like it was it was absolutely terrible and i have a lot to say 1.00

00:19:48.880 on that but i'm you know i'm gonna dedicate um a whole episode to the muslim conquest of persia 0.87

00:19:56.480 but essentially what we are seeing today in terms of how um islamists are going after

00:20:05.920 non-Muslim communities, whether it's in Sudan or whether it's in Nigeria or whether it's in the

00:20:15.320 Middle East or anywhere else in the world. In India, for example, this is not a bug. This is

00:20:24.020 a feature of jihad and this is how they have been operating since islam was invented 1400 years ago 1.00

00:20:36.260 i just wanted to to point that out there i'm going to go back just a little bit um okay

00:20:43.620 no historical antecedents whatsoever there was all through the history of jihad state warfare

00:20:55.620 by islamic entities against non-muslim entities solely because they were non-muslim

00:21:02.020 we see this right from the beginning and guys if you remember so in um in the live stream

00:21:09.540 last night the one with um sam shamoon um he spoke about passages in the quran

00:21:17.380 which basically commands muslims to um go after and attack um non-muslims

00:21:25.780 in the muhammad according to islamic tradition is supposed to have died in the year 632 and almost

00:21:31.780 immediately after that the armies came out of arabia and conquered the middle east and north

00:21:40.740 africa very soon they conquered persia which was one of the two great powers of the day

00:21:46.580 and they attacked the other great power of the day the eastern roman or byzantine empire

00:21:51.220 and um oh wow major thank you so much for thank you so much for the for the super chat really

00:21:57.780 appreciate that. And yeah, you make a very, very good point. So Major says, let's be clear,

00:22:05.020 both the Byzantine and Sassanid Persian empires were overrun only because they had exhausted each

00:22:11.920 other in a 30-year war. Islam lives only through war. It has no other purpose. That's an excellent 1.00

00:22:19.520 point. When people ask, well, how was Persia overrun? That's exactly it. It's because they

00:22:26.640 had um they were exhausted after a 30-year war and the arab muslim invaders took advantage of the 0.99

00:22:34.480 weakness of um of the the civilization of the time they took advantage of the weakness of the persian 0.94

00:22:43.440 empire and that's how they were able to invade otherwise they would not have had um any chance

00:22:51.520 whatsoever that that is an excellent point um and a lot of people uh don't know about that or you

00:22:58.480 know those that do and and you know try to deny it they try to to rewrite history and they say no

00:23:04.400 like islam is a religion of peace it's absolutely not um the only way it expanded was through

00:23:11.520 bloodshed and uh through conquering absolutely 100 thank you for that major and thank you so

00:23:18.400 much for the support really really appreciate that and by 732 100 years after the traditional

00:23:28.240 date for muhammad's death they were of course in central france fighting at poitiers or tour

00:23:36.400 against charles martel charles the hammer who stopped their advance and they besieged

00:23:42.560 constantinople the great city of the eastern empire in first in 675 then again in 7 717

00:23:51.360 all the while thus fighting against europe from both sides and and this book is the first to

00:23:58.720 discuss this at tremendous length in a narrative fashion the they were also pressing the jihad into

00:24:05.120 india and waging it with a special fury there because the indians were not people of the book

00:24:12.560 most of you i'm sure know that the quran speaks of jews and christians and zoroastrians and some

00:24:17.520 others as people of the book who have supposedly legitimate revelations from allah that they have

00:24:22.800 twisted and uh i'm not sure if the quran refers to zoroastrians as people of the book um i know that

00:24:36.480 uh in both Christianity and Judaism um you know Zoroastrian is is viewed as a as a monotheistic

00:24:45.200 religion um and you know there are some people you know I don't want to get into like religious

00:24:51.680 or theological debates but you know there is um you know a school of thought out there that

00:24:57.280 um certain elements of christianity um were inspired by zoroastrianism by mithraism um

00:25:07.760 but i don't know if if the quran says that zoroastrians are people of the book because

00:25:15.760 that they don't they don't view us that way whatsoever so um if anyone has any info on

00:25:21.760 that let me know like i'll i'll try to look it up as well i'll make a note um i'll look it up

00:25:26.160 I don't know if I agree with that particular point, but I mean, I could be wrong.

00:25:30.460 I don't know.

00:25:33.800 Changed out of their original meanings, and thus they, out of respect for this revelation, 0.92

00:25:39.940 they are given the opportunity to live in peace as non-Muslims within the Islamic State.

00:25:46.240 But they have to submit to various humiliating and discriminatory regulations,

00:25:50.740 most notably the tax, the jizya, that's specified in the Quran in chapter 9, verse 29.

00:25:54.540 yeah um i don't then zoroastrianism is definitely not they don't consider us one of the peoples of

00:26:01.680 the book absolutely not um because it's not an abrahamic faith for the demis the so-called

00:26:08.440 protected people now these humiliating and discriminatory regulations made life very very

00:26:14.780 hard for these populations such that you could ask for example what happened to the christians

00:26:20.700 of egypt egypt was 99 christian when it was invaded in the late 630s and conquered in the

00:26:27.880 640s now it's about 10 christian where did all the christians go did they move no they're still

00:26:34.780 there they're the muslims of egypt and what happened sorry yeah fairy fairy fiction you're

00:26:41.400 right absolutely um they refer to us as majus and majusi which is a very um uh very discriminatory

00:26:48.660 um derogatory term that's uh that's how they refer to to iranians yeah so yeah i don't we're

00:26:56.260 not they don't they don't consider us as people of the book and was life was so difficult to live

00:27:01.540 as a dimmi in egypt that ultimately over time the only thing that they had to do

00:27:07.240 to be out from under all this humiliation and constant harassment was to convert they converted

00:27:12.860 it's very hard to think that anybody faced with that kind of a situation would do anything 0.54

00:27:20.860 different. Although, of course, some did hold out and we should acknowledge their courage and

00:27:25.460 perseverance. At the same time, the Hindus in India did not even have that protection

00:27:31.520 because they were not people of the book. And consequently, the choice that Muhammad and the 0.98

00:27:37.300 Quran give for the people of the book to convert or submit to the rule of Islamic law or be killed 0.85

00:27:43.080 For the Hindus, it was only convert or be killed. 0.94

00:27:45.940 And as I show in the book, the history of jihad in India was especially bloody and especially violent. 0.97

00:27:51.580 At a certain point, actually, they had to grant them honorary people of the book status because it simply wasn't possible to kill them all.

00:27:58.740 But they were still nonetheless extraordinarily harsh toward especially the Hindu temples.

00:28:05.400 The Quran speaks about protecting churches and synagogues because the name of Allah is spoken there.

00:28:10.760 That was often honored in the breach.

00:28:12.460 But there was no such protection afforded to the Hindu temples at all.

00:28:16.220 And thousands, tens of thousands of them were destroyed.

00:28:20.140 A great patrimony of human culture lost forever. 1.00

00:28:24.760 And in the middle of all this, you have this is mainstream Islam. 1.00

00:28:30.220 You have state actors doing this.

00:28:33.240 First, Muhammad unifying Arabia.

00:28:35.880 Then the so-called rightly guided caliphs, the four successors of Muhammad as the leaders of the Islamic community, Abu Bakr, Umar, Uthman, and Ali.

00:28:46.580 And then the Umayyad caliphate, the Abbasid caliphate, the Ottoman caliphate, and some of the outliers, the Umayyad caliphate of Cordoba in Spain, the Fatimid Shiite caliphate in Egypt. 0.53

00:28:57.500 all of these are Islamic states, and they all waged jihad against non-Muslims on the basis of 0.57

00:29:05.000 the Islamic imperative in the Quran and Sunnah to do so. The difference that we have nowadays comes 0.95

00:29:10.880 about at the beginning of the 20th century, because the last caliphate of the Ottoman Empire

00:29:18.040 was abolished by the secular Turkish government by Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern

00:29:23.240 Turkey in 1924. Now, Ataturk was no nobody to admire in any respect. He was just as brutal to

00:29:31.880 the religious minorities as the Ottomans had been, if not more so. But he objected to political Islam

00:29:37.800 and he was unique among the leaders of Islamic states throughout history. He was the first ever 0.58

00:29:45.700 to say the troubles that we're having come from Islam. And what we have to do is get rid of Islam 1.00

00:29:52.500 as much as we can, and then our country will prosper. And he consciously patterned Turkey 1.00

00:29:57.620 after Western secular models of governance. Of course, nowadays, all that's being rolled back

00:30:02.840 by Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey today. But for almost 100 years, Turkey was a 0.57

00:30:09.440 secular state, a relatively secular state, and the caliphate was no more. So what did the people

00:30:18.120 who believed that there was an Islamic imperative to wage war against and subjugate unbelievers

00:30:23.480 and that the caliph was the tip of this spear. What did they do when there was no more caliph?

00:30:29.240 They decided to form various international organizations that would work toward restoring

00:30:35.140 the caliphate. The first of these was founded in 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood. Hassan al-Banna,

00:30:41.720 the founder of the Brotherhood, made it very clear that what he was intending to do was to create

00:30:48.040 a movement that would restore the caliphate and thereby the unity of the muslims and that once 0.69

00:30:53.840 the unity of the muslims is re-established then they could wage offensive jihad again against

00:30:58.820 non-muslim states but in the meantime there is the concept of defensive jihad i should explain

00:31:04.560 in is sunni islamic theology and of course the sunnis are 85 to 90 percent of muslims worldwide

00:31:09.740 the caliph is the only one authorized to declare offensive jihad and he's not just authorized he

00:31:15.280 has the responsibility to do so. If he doesn't do it, he could be removed on that basis. He has

00:31:21.300 to declare offensive jihad on a regular basis against non-Muslim states. But if there's no 0.93

00:31:26.380 caliph, there's no offensive jihad. So since 1924, all jihad has been defensive. And you might think,

00:31:33.480 well, that's absurd. What was defensive about 9-11? If you read the communiques of Osama bin Laden

00:31:39.220 from the 1990s he lists a long list of grievances terrible things that the americans have supposedly 1.00

00:31:46.660 done that justify defensive jihad against the united states most it's true and you know you 0.99

00:31:55.620 see now a lot of this rhetoric where um people are blaming islamic terrorism on the united states and

00:32:06.420 Israel, which is just wild to me. I mean, jihad has existed for a very long time, well before

00:32:16.580 America, well before, you know, modern day Israel. And so it is just such a ridiculous 0.97

00:32:26.480 notion to me anyway and to to many people who understand jihad and how it operates um when 0.94

00:32:38.460 people blame the actions of islamic terrorists on uh the united states and israel um

00:32:49.400 So there's an element of anti-imperialism ideology there. There's also an element of Marxism and communism involved, because this is a very anti-imperialist narrative that's pushed not only by the Islamists, but also by the Russians and the communists as well.

00:33:14.820 And in fact, the Soviets back, you know, back in the 50s and 60s, the Soviets actually funded a lot of the groups that eventually became Islamic terrorist groups, and many of them were trained by the Soviets, by the KGB.

00:33:37.260 A good example of that is Yasser Arafat and, you know, his terrorist group that he created.

00:33:47.580 And that's why a lot of these Islamic terrorist groups have elements of communism within their ideology, within their imagery, within their flags,

00:34:01.480 because Islamists and communists are united in their anti-imperialist ideology against Western civilization.

00:34:14.380 Notably, Islamic theology specifies that if a Muslim land is attacked,

00:34:20.380 it is the responsibility of every Muslim everywhere to wage jihad to win it back and to repel the invaders.

00:34:29.000 So Osama bin Laden said, look, this is a little bit later. No, actually, it's not. I'm sorry. I'm thinking of the second Gulf War. The first Gulf War, the American troops go into Saudi Arabia, and Osama bin Laden said they're trampling down the sacred soil of the kingdom of the two holy places.

00:34:48.880 They have no business being there. This is an invasion that triggers this defensive jihad. And 9-11 was a defensive jihad in that respect. Every jihad has been defensive.

00:35:00.740 all 30 sorry i just wanted to um interrupt really quickly because someone was asking um who was it

00:35:08.020 uh keith was asking about my documentaries um on iran just very quickly yeah so if you want to

00:35:16.340 learn more about the history of um modern day iran and as well as what led to um the uh is

00:35:25.460 1979 islamic revolution right on my youtube page um the second playlist iranians rate documentaries

00:35:32.500 about iran you want to go here um i would recommend going to the first one here um i gave it a rating

00:35:40.980 of three out of ten but uh you know it was a one hour documentary and it took four hours for me to

00:35:50.340 live stream that so it's three hours worth of explanation um providing additional information

00:35:56.260 so uh anyone who wants to learn about um you know the history of modern day iran and what led

00:36:02.820 to the uh 1979 islamic revolution definitely check this um this video out right over here

00:36:10.900 um all right sorry about that let's get back to our regularly scheduled program i'll just go back

00:36:17.380 a little bit here soil of the kingdom of the two holy places they have no business being there this

00:36:23.860 is an invasion that triggers this defensive jihad and 9-11 was a defensive jihad in that respect

00:36:32.020 every jihad has been defensive all 30 000 jihad attacks since 9-11 around the world they're all

00:36:38.260 couched in this if you read the communicates of jihad leaders they always retail grievances it's

00:36:44.020 not because they're inveterate whiners although they are it is also they are it is also because

00:36:51.460 they have to list the grievances to justify what they're doing as defensive

00:36:57.300 if they don't then they have no authorization to wage jihad so what we see in that is although

00:37:05.860 there's a discontinuity at the beginning of the 20th century and no more state actors at least

00:37:11.140 directly declaring jihad and carrying it out. You could say that the Saudis certainly was spending

00:37:17.220 so many billions of dollars to spread Wahhabi Islam around the world, that that is a certain 0.99

00:37:22.340 waging of jihad that is just as unmistakable as any Ottoman invasion of Vienna or Eastern Europe 0.99

00:37:30.840 in general. Nonetheless, the fact remains that there was a change with the demise of the caliphate

00:37:39.400 in the approach to how jihad was justified, but there was no end in jihad. And above all,

00:37:46.540 there was no internal resistance. First, you have mainstream Islam carrying out the jihad 1.00

00:37:53.260 because you have the Islamic states of the world carrying out jihad, the Mughal Empire in India, 1.00

00:37:59.380 as well as the Ottomans, the Abbasids, the Umayyads, and so on. And then you have jihadis

00:38:06.560 justifying what they're doing on the basis of defensive jihad, which is a mainstream concept

00:38:11.080 in mainstream Islamic law. Nowhere do you find ever in history that jihad was only the province

00:38:18.200 of a tiny minority of extremists who were twisting and hijacking the true teachings of the peaceful

00:38:24.420 faith. That never happens anywhere. And anybody who would challenge that, I would ask you to

00:38:32.720 specify when and where was there this islamic movement against jihad activity under what

00:38:39.200 theological basis did it proceed and what became of it but there just isn't any such thing in

00:38:45.440 islamic history the second thing you do not see in the history of jihad is any let up any respite

00:38:55.520 it is something that people are taken by surprise about i was speaking to a marvelous group

00:39:00.880 not long ago and they were very well informed very committed very interested very involved

00:39:08.720 and i mentioned in passing this fact that there was never any let up and people were shocked and

00:39:16.000 said wait a minute what about the age of tolerance and pluralism in al-andaluz

00:39:21.920 what about muslim spain what about the paradise of tolerance and proto multiculturalism

00:39:28.000 that maria rosa metal call speaks about in her book the ornament of the world

00:39:32.160 everybody knows muslim spain was a paradise of coexistence right well unfortunately here again

00:39:40.720 you know what's really messed up is that there are some people who um invert

00:39:49.360 the the history of of you know the muslim conquest of spain and when spaniards were able to

00:39:58.640 reclaim spain and take control of it back from from islam um there's certain people who refer 0.88

00:40:08.320 to that as like the muslim genocide of al andalus which to me is like the funniest thing ever um

00:40:16.000 i haven't watched this this documentary so i mean i don't know if he's going to mention it or not

00:40:21.520 I mean, I have a feeling he will. But one of the things as well about jihad is that once a land has been conquered in the name of Islam, they view that land as Islamic forever.

00:40:35.180 So that's why you'll see certain Islamic radicals who still refer to Spain as Al-Andalus, and they still talk about, you know, reconquering and reclaiming Spain because it belongs to them. 0.50

00:40:53.120 And similarly, a lot of these Islamic radicals, you know, especially the pro-Palestine, pro-Hamas movement, one of the reasons that they want to eradicate Israel, even though Israel is the homeland of the Jewish people and Israel belongs to the Jewish people. 0.90

00:41:13.020 One of the reasons that these Islamic radicals want to completely eradicate Israel is because they believe that because they conquered Israel in the name of Islam, it always belongs to them no matter what.

00:41:34.120 And the fact that there is now a non-Islamic state there, that's a big affront to them. 0.86

00:41:42.400 And so that's why all of these like pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine Islamic radicals, they will never agree to a two-state solution because these are people who legitimately believe that they have like an Allah given right to the land. 0.95

00:42:03.160 just because they conquered it at some point.

00:42:06.780 And that's why even now, even though there's a ceasefire,

00:42:12.340 you still see pro-Hamas, pro-Palestine demonstrations

00:42:18.040 in Western countries where these people are still continuing 0.95

00:42:22.660 with the rhetoric of Israel must be eradicated completely. 1.00

00:42:27.460 There's no middle ground with Islamic radicals. 1.00

00:42:31.920 and this is how they've been able to expand, right? 1.00

00:42:37.340 This is a historical myth.

00:42:39.100 There are a great many of these things.

00:42:40.680 What I tried to do in this book actually was puncture some of the historical myths

00:42:46.800 that people take for granted nowadays,

00:42:48.440 and to do that went back to the primary sources,

00:42:53.580 sources that were eyewitnesses or, in many cases,

00:42:57.540 the Muslim court historians.

00:42:59.720 The Mukhals in India were especially careful to always have court historians. 0.98

00:43:05.460 These guys who at the time something would happen, they would write about how wonderful it was that the emperor so-and-so, he just demolished 325 Hindu temples. 0.97

00:43:13.600 He took all the gold and he strewed it in front of the mosque so people would trample on the idols as they went into the mosque. 0.92

00:43:18.620 Isn't he wonderful? Happy Hindustan. 0.99

00:43:22.380 That's a quote. It's true. 0.91

00:43:24.820 Anyway, people who think that Islamic terror tactics are newly minted should look at the reality of Muslim Spain.

00:43:33.980 And in particular, for example, the rule of the Cordoba Caliph Abd al-Rahman III.

00:43:40.700 This is the words of the 11th century Muslim historian Ibn Hayyan of Cordoba.

00:43:46.440 He says that on one occasion, Muhammad, an officer of Abdurrahman III, chose the 100 most important barbarians.

00:43:56.120 That could be you because there was a lot of Christians and sent them to the Alcassar of Cordoba, where they arrived on Friday, March 2nd, 939. 0.55

00:44:04.500 but since Abdurrahman was vacationing at another place

00:44:09.740 they took them there

00:44:10.580 and their marching coincided with the people coming out of the mosque

00:44:15.140 on this Friday afternoon

00:44:17.420 so that many gathered and followed

00:44:19.640 to see what end the prisoners would have

00:44:21.380 and it turned out Abdurrahman was installed on the upper balcony

00:44:24.920 over the orchard facing the river to watch the execution

00:44:28.420 all the prisoners one by one were decapitated in his presence

00:44:32.060 and under his eyes in plain sight of the people 0.99

00:44:34.380 and their feelings against the infidels, Allah alleviated.

00:44:40.520 You see, they were very happy to see this.

00:44:43.020 As a matter of fact, the Quran, remember in chapter 9, verse 14,

00:44:46.740 says fight them and Allah will soothe the bosoms of the believers. 1.00

00:44:52.960 And so if you are feeling sad and depressed, kill an infidel. 1.00

00:44:58.300 You'll feel better. 1.00

00:45:01.120 Allah will soothe the breasts of the believers. 1.00

00:45:04.380 in doing this, in fighting the unbelievers. 0.94

00:45:07.660 And this is something that you see actually recurring throughout Islamic history, Islamic

00:45:13.840 chroniclers making reference to that and taking it quite seriously, that through these acts 0.60

00:45:18.700 of savagery and violence, the Muslims were pacified and gladdened in their hearts. 0.85

00:45:25.460 And of course, the most notorious example of tolerance and pluralism in Muslim Spain 0.69

00:45:30.560 was in 1066 in Granada, when rules are often honored in the breach, you know, and just because

00:45:37.740 something is Islamic law, doesn't mean that every Islamic ruler has always observed it,

00:45:42.520 just as every rule is not always followed by every one of us. Some of us perhaps may have

00:45:47.580 had a speeding ticket now and again, or something of this kind. And so in Granada in 1066, there was

00:45:54.400 a Muslim ruler who had a Jewish friend whom he appointed the essentially the mayor of Granada.

00:46:00.560 And the local Muslims were furious because Islamic law specifies that a non-Muslim must not have authority over a Muslim, especially a Jew.

00:46:11.320 And so there was a Muslim poet and he wrote a very lengthy poem.

00:46:18.360 I won't. 1.00

00:46:19.680 That's such a weird thing.

00:46:21.480 I mean, I just want to point out, like, it's I don't know of any other religion that says something like that.

00:46:27.320 It's just like, it's just such a weird thing.

00:46:31.340 Like this was a revelation from God.

00:46:33.840 I mean, these are some of the examples that should make you think and wonder about, you know, some of the ideology behind this religion.

00:46:47.880 Like, I mean, it's just such a very bizarre thing to have in a religious book, right?

00:46:57.000 like why are you um why is your book targeting jewish people like that it's just so weird

00:47:04.200 read all of it to you but the this is the tenor of it turn your eyes to the jews who are outcast

00:47:12.280 dogs why would you be different and bring them near when in all the land they are kept afar 0.87

00:47:17.880 i came to live in granada and i saw them frolicking there they divided up the city in

00:47:22.360 the provinces was one of their cursed men everywhere they collect all the revenues 0.97

00:47:26.600 they dress in the finest clothes while you wear the meanest and so on so hasten to slaughter them 0.98

00:47:34.280 as an offering sacrifice him for he is a precious thing do not consider it a breach of faith to kill 0.98

00:47:40.200 them the breach of faith would be to let them carry on 4 000 jews were killed in a pogrom in

00:47:44.920 granada after this poem was published and so this was a direct reaction to the muslim ruler

00:47:54.120 breaking Islamic law by appointing a Jew to have authority over Muslims.

00:47:58.560 So this was tolerant, pluralistic Muslim space.

00:48:02.200 What you see in the history of jihad is that wherever Muslims have gone,

00:48:08.680 there are among them, there have been among them,

00:48:11.700 jihadis who committed acts of violence against non-Muslims.

00:48:16.960 And they were never upgraded or rebuked or otherwise opposed by any Islamic authority

00:48:23.120 and were often rewarded for doing so so we see these two things that there was never any internal

00:48:31.040 resistance and there was never any respite these things this the the violence against unbelievers

00:48:37.360 is a constant of islamic history the third golden thread that we see in the history of jihad 0.98

00:48:44.080 is that non-muslims were often the best help to the jihadis which ought to ring a lot of bells today 0.93

00:48:51.600 but you take for example the conquest of spain now the conquest of spain is shrouded in legend

00:48:58.900 and i'm not vouching for the absolute historicity of any of this but these legends are alive among

00:49:04.840 the people of spain to this day and the story goes that there was a christian count julian of

00:49:11.840 ceuta who had a daughter and his daughter was very bright he sent her to the court kind of like

00:49:19.860 sending her to Bill Clinton's White House as an intern. And Roderick, the Visigothic king

00:49:26.820 of Cordoba, was an admirable predecessor of Bill Clinton. So the girl, her degree of guilt in this

00:49:37.800 is widely controverted in the Spanish legends. But in any case, Florinda is one of the most

00:49:44.000 common names that has come down to her. Florinda being thus outraged. Count Julian was even more

00:49:49.560 outraged and determined that Roderick had to pay. How could he get back at the King of Spain?

00:49:58.500 He decided to go to Tariq ibn Ziyad, who was a Muslim ruler in North Africa. And he told him,

00:50:06.960 you want to invade Spain? And Tariq said, sure, I'd love to. But every time they see us coming

00:50:12.600 in our boats, their defenses are prepared and we are repelled. So he said, I have a solution to

00:50:20.440 that. I'll give you my boats and they'll think it's me and no defenses will be up. And so Tarek

00:50:27.360 Ibn Ziad used Count Julian's boats, got across the strait and once on the beach, he burned Count

00:50:33.460 Julian's boats, which I think is not entirely sporting. They were after all a loner, but

00:50:39.800 he burned the boats and he told his men, we are going to take this land for Islam or we're going 0.97

00:50:46.720 to die here, but we're not going back. It's noteworthy in terms of how important it is to 0.99

00:50:52.300 know history. A few years ago, there was a big controversy in the Minneapolis area about a

00:50:58.120 charter school that was teaching Islam as fact. It was all Muslim in any case, but it was a public

00:51:05.620 school getting public funds, so there was a little bit of controversy over it being a public school

00:51:11.620 and being essentially a madrasa. And the name of the school, I noticed, and I was surprised to note

00:51:18.100 that nobody seemed to ever ask, wait a minute, why is this school called Tarek Ibn Ziyad Academy?

00:51:27.260 Who's Tarek Ibn Ziyad? Nobody seemed to care. Nobody ever looked it up, as far as I know. It was

00:51:32.860 Never in any of the Minneapolis coverage of this.

00:51:35.480 But you've got to wonder, why would a school in Minnesota name itself after this figure?

00:51:41.220 Could it have to do with maybe having the same goals?

00:51:44.620 I mean, this is what he's famous for.

00:51:45.800 He's the great conqueror of Spain. 0.99

00:51:47.100 And he was able to do it by means of the help of this Christian who was enraged. 1.00

00:51:55.940 That's actually insane. 0.94

00:51:57.920 um like there's there's a publicly funded muslim school in the united states named after the guy 0.95

00:52:06.920 who conquered spain in the name of islam and you know turned spain into an islamic hellhole for

00:52:17.460 several centuries before um the christians were able to to reclaim their country and you know 0.71

00:52:26.460 this is what I mean when I said earlier about how there's like still a bunch of radicals who

00:52:32.000 are upset by the fact that the Christians were able to reclaim and free Spain from Muslim rule

00:52:41.000 and they've never let it go. And I mean, just think of the symbolism and the imagery here, 1.00

00:52:51.540 right like you have um this group of muslims who go to the united states which is um you know 0.97

00:52:59.380 a christian country built by you know white christian people um and then they set up a

00:53:05.300 school and they name the school after the guy the muslim guy that conquered spain i mean

00:53:13.220 kind of makes you wonder what their intentions are, right? If they're promoting someone who

00:53:23.620 conquered Spain makes you wonder if maybe they want to conquer the United States. I mean, it's

00:53:30.140 just out of like all the names of all the people, they decided to go with that. And then apparently,

00:53:36.920 like he's just saying, it was a publicly funded school. So, you know, US taxpayer dollars,

00:53:43.220 are funding um a school that glorifies the muslim conquest of spain over his he had his own 0.96

00:53:53.220 grievances and i'm not saying his grievances were illegitimate but perhaps he didn't count

00:53:57.380 on the consequences that it would take 700 years to undo what he did there are so many other

00:54:02.980 examples of this in islamic history in 1345 the byzantine emperor john the sixth kanta kuzanos

00:54:10.100 He was in the midst of a dynastic dispute, and he invited the Ottomans to go and fight against his rivals and let them into Eastern Europe to do that.

00:54:24.840 And, of course, they're still there.

00:54:26.940 The Ottomans, at one point, of course, controlled all of Eastern Europe. 0.93

00:54:31.160 And now they just have that little bit of Europe that is so much trouble because it gives them a claim to be in NATO and everything else. 0.71

00:54:38.840 the Turks, that is. But it was John the Emperor, John VI, who allowed the Ottomans to enter Europe 0.91

00:54:50.560 in the first place in order to solve his dynastic dispute. And I don't think that he expected that

00:54:57.540 they were just going to stay, but he wasn't probably thinking about the whole of jihad

00:55:04.480 activity or the jihad doctrine, even though it was something that he and the emperors of his time,

00:55:11.080 the other emperors of his time, had ample reason to know all about. You may recall about 12 years

00:55:17.740 ago now, Pope Benedict XVI got in a lot of hot water. There were riots all over the world

00:55:22.660 because he quoted a Byzantine emperor, Manuel II Paleologos, and Manuel II said,

00:55:28.560 there is nothing new that Muhammad brought except what is evil and inhumane. 0.51

00:55:34.920 And this, of course, was terrible and Islamophobic, and Benedict had to apologize, and innocent 0.89

00:55:42.080 people were killed by those who were objected to their prophet being called evil and inhumane.

00:55:48.300 And nobody here again seemed to ask, well, wait a minute, who was this Manuel II of

00:55:53.660 Paleologos. Why did he say this? He's one of the tragic figures in this book. You will read about

00:56:00.260 how he was essentially a vassal of the Ottoman emperor. The Ottoman emperor actually even sent

00:56:07.560 him to put down uprisings among the Turks and kept him prisoner at the court where he was routinely

00:56:14.400 mocked and vilified, ridiculed. He had a very rough life and a sad and tragic life going also

00:56:21.980 to Europe when he was free, trying to get support for a new crusade to roll the Ottomans back and

00:56:29.040 preserve the Byzantine Empire, all of which failed. The Byzantine Empire fell. Constantinople

00:56:34.500 was entirely conquered nine years after his death. So he had direct daily experience of what he was

00:56:43.400 talking about. And that seems to me that should have been some part of the debate when the

00:56:49.040 Regensburg Address, controversy was raging. But here again, nobody seems to have any historical

00:56:54.240 interest. One final example of non-Muslims aiding the Jihad are the British, of course, 0.88

00:57:04.460 who in the latter part of the 18th century, there arose a reformer in Islam. A lot of people ask me

00:57:15.260 all the time well what about what are the chances of reform what we need is islamic reform another

00:57:21.180 thing you'll see in this book actually is that there's been there's been plenty of reform there's

00:57:26.460 lots of reform in islamic history now the thing about it is think about reform what is reform

00:57:32.780 whether you're a catholic protestant orthodox or none of the above the people most famously known

00:57:38.540 as reformers are those who said we're going to get rid of all the later editions and get back

00:57:43.420 to the basics that's what reformers generally do in whatever context and so the almohads who were

00:57:51.580 among the rulers of muslim spain they were reformers and the fellow who arose in arabia

00:57:56.460 in the 18th century to whom i referred muhammad ibn abdul wahab he was a reformer he uh began to

00:58:04.300 fight against the ottomans he said they were not islamic enough they had strayed from true islam

00:58:08.700 he was going to restore true islam he began to gain a following when he personally stoned

00:58:13.660 an adulteress to death to show how islamic he was and he did get a following one of the main

00:58:22.220 that's pretty much what happened um in iran as well if you go back and you look at the

00:58:27.100 documentaries um the the islamic radicals who uh ended up taking control of the country with the

00:58:35.660 the help of you know the communists and marxists and of course the soviets um their biggest um

00:58:42.460 claim was that um the country was not muslim enough and they did not like the fact that um in

00:58:52.560 1963 the shah of iran god bless his soul um he uh gave women the right to vote there was no like

00:59:02.480 women's guys here's the thing there was no women's suffrage movement in iran um the shah recognized

00:59:10.400 um that in order to modernize iran and you know bring you know bring iran up into to the first

00:59:17.440 world um women need to have same rights as men and so in 1963 not only did he give women the right

00:59:24.560 to vote without them even um like having to have like a women's suffrage movement or anything like

00:59:29.840 that. But in that same year, in 1963, Iranian women actually ran for office and were voted in.

00:59:40.200 This really, really pissed off the Islamic clerics at the time. They didn't like

00:59:46.500 where the country was going. And, you know, they were complaining that the Shah was not Muslim

00:59:53.700 enough so yeah like it's it's interesting how um robert spencer's referring to the reformers as

01:00:02.220 those who want to go like you know back to the basics um very interesting because that's pretty

01:00:08.560 much uh what happened um to to iran when it was occupied in 1979 main followers he got early on

01:00:16.720 was a chieftain in Arabia named Ibn Saud.

01:00:21.340 Ibn Saud and Muhammad Ibn Abdul Wahab

01:00:24.940 began to fight a jihad against the Ottomans,

01:00:28.200 against the other rulers in Arabia.

01:00:30.400 They began to gain a little bit of territory.

01:00:33.960 And by the middle of the 19th century,

01:00:36.020 the Wahhabi movement, the Saudi movement,

01:00:39.340 caught the attention of the British Empire,

01:00:41.180 which was in several hundred years of struggle

01:00:45.460 against the Ottomans.

01:00:46.720 Now, the Ottomans by this time had well-earned the nickname the sick man of Europe, and they weren't really a formidable force at all. 0.89

01:00:55.540 But the British wanted to administer the coup de grace, and they thought, this guy Saud, these Saudis, they could help us. 0.96

01:01:03.540 So they started bankrolling them. 0.91

01:01:05.920 They started giving them money. 0.88

01:01:08.260 And at the end of World War I, they favored the Saudis over the Hashemites and others to gain control of Arabia. 0.62

01:01:16.720 and helped to establish the kingdom of Saudi Arabia. 0.86

01:01:19.860 Of course, the rest is history.

01:01:21.100 The Saudis struck oil, and what did they use our oil money 0.98

01:01:23.460 to do but spread Wahhabi Islam around the world? 0.99

01:01:27.960 This reformist idea of Islam that is even more virulent 1.00

01:01:31.540 and violent than other forms. 1.00

01:01:35.120 So we have the British to thank for that, 0.97

01:01:36.960 as for so much else. 1.00

01:01:40.260 It is probably, they are probably, I would say, 1.00

01:01:42.760 the most responsible outside of the Saudis themselves 1.00

01:01:45.600 for the spread of Wahhabi Islam around the world. 0.99

01:01:48.220 When the Wahhabis did begin to spread 0.98

01:01:52.160 their version of Islam around the world, 0.98

01:01:54.660 there were many areas where jihad was essentially quiescent.

01:01:57.740 This doesn't mean it was reformed or rejected.

01:01:59.860 It was just ignored.

01:02:01.480 As a matter of fact, one of the pamphlets

01:02:02.860 that the Saudis distributed was called 0.58

01:02:04.940 Jihad, the Forgotten Obligation. 1.00

01:02:07.920 And they wanted to bring it all back, and they did. 0.97

01:02:11.300 So we can thank King George or whoever it was at that time

01:02:16.960 for this marvelous calculation.

01:02:20.380 But of course, in all of these

01:02:21.840 and so many other examples I could give you,

01:02:24.780 and perhaps the most stinging is George W. Bush

01:02:28.560 when six days after 9-11,

01:02:31.840 I wrote this book more or less chronologically.

01:02:35.760 I don't usually do that, but this was a book of,

01:02:38.100 as I said at the beginning,

01:02:39.020 I've wanted to write this book for many years.

01:02:41.120 I've had all this material and just haven't had the opportunity to put it all together.

01:02:45.520 Finally, I got the opportunity last winter to put it all together.

01:02:48.800 And I did.

01:02:49.880 And I just started at the beginning and went all the way through, essentially, most of the time.

01:02:55.500 And so what happened was I got to 9-11 after I'd written 14 centuries of jihad activity.

01:03:01.720 And I got to six days after 9-11 with all of this very much in my mind, just having set it down on paper. 0.75

01:03:07.700 and there's George W. Bush in the mosque in front of Nihat Awad of Care, which is tied to Hamas and

01:03:15.360 the Muslim Brotherhood, and Abdurrahman al-Mudi of the American Muslim Council, who is now doing

01:03:19.800 23 years in prison. Well, his sentence was reduced by Obama, but he was sentenced to 23 years for

01:03:25.980 financing Al-Qaeda. Did you guys catch that? So this guy, right? So now he's talking again about

01:03:33.480 CARE, right? The Council on American Islamic Relations. And CARE was actually just recently

01:03:42.420 designated as a terrorist organization, I believe, in Florida, and I want to say Texas.

01:03:52.520 I'll have to look into this. I'm going to do an episode on that. But yeah, so I mean,

01:03:59.320 it's, it's a long time coming. The Muslim Brotherhood operates on, you know, in various

01:04:07.540 Western countries under different names. They set up these like groups, you know, they call

01:04:15.920 themselves like, you know, in America, it's the, you know, Council on American Islamic Relations

01:04:21.680 and Canada, it's something else. And, you know, they're, they're incredibly litigious as well.

01:04:27.160 Um, but, uh, it's very interesting that a lot of people forget the fact that, you know, all these, all these people who are being convicted of terrorism, um, are linked to all of these so-called advocacy groups, right? 0.61

01:04:46.020 And I mean, this guy is literally funding Al-Qaeda, which is responsible for 9-11.

01:04:53.460 And he's linked with with all of these groups.

01:04:56.780 So, guys, I mean, where there's smoke, there's fire and pattern recognition is not Islamophobic.

01:05:05.520 Pattern recognition is necessary in order to be able to properly identify and deal with the threat of Islamic terrorism and jihad. 0.84

01:05:15.000 ...of jihad activity. And I got to six days after 9-11 with all of this very much in my mind, 0.81

01:05:21.620 just having set it down on paper. And there's George W. Bush in the mosque in front of Nihat

01:05:28.700 Awad of Care, which is tied to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood, and Abdurrahman Alamudi of

01:05:33.140 the American Muslim Council, who is now doing 23 years in prison. Well, his sentence was reduced

01:05:38.020 by Obama, but he was sentenced to 23 years for financing Al-Qaeda. And he stands in front of

01:05:44.500 them in the mosque in Washington and says Islam is a religion of peace. It really hit me. After

01:05:49.360 reading this uninterrupted, unmitigated, no let up jihad for 14 centuries, this guy says Islam is a 0.89

01:05:58.280 religion of peace. Now we know he had various political reasons for doing so, things that he

01:06:03.300 thought would make things easier for our allies or whatever. We don't have to go over all that,

01:06:09.360 least not um thank you major so major says it was the genteel racism of the 19th century european

01:06:19.120 drawing rooms that kept violent jihad alive as a concept long enough for saeed to enter the chat um

01:06:31.920 you make a very interesting point there and

01:06:34.960 And I mean, I have to look into that and I have to really try to understand why people in Europe thought that, how do I say this? 0.78

01:06:55.860 Like, I'm just trying to understand, like, what made people in Europe think that these Islamic terrorists would be beneficial to them in any way? 0.75

01:07:08.840 I don't know. 0.92

01:07:10.400 I wonder if there's maybe an element of racism or Orientalism there where, you know, they saw these people from the Middle East and they thought, okay, like, these people are, you know, savage, barbarians, whatever. 0.75

01:07:25.000 they're easily controlled. Maybe that's the mistake they made where they thought that

01:07:29.560 they can control these people. I mean, that's certainly why Jimmy Carter

01:07:35.140 backed the Islamic terrorists and backed Khomeini because he was stupid enough to believe that he 1.00

01:07:46.360 could control this old man, old religious man. And then of course, look how that played 1.00

01:07:54.980 out so yeah i wonder if there's like an element of just orientalism there or racism um and i just

01:08:03.360 it's so frustrating that people in the west make the same mistake over and over again where they

01:08:09.660 assume that they can either trust or control these islamic radicals and the end result is 0.92

01:08:15.400 literally always the same every single every single time yeah not right now maybe in the

01:08:26.000 question period if you like but uh george w bush was in a short-sighted manner actually

01:08:34.780 enabling jihad activity by foreclosing upon an examination of the motivating ideology

01:08:41.320 that gives fuel to it and he was doing so on the basis of short-sighted political calculations

01:08:47.940 just as much as count julian was when he invited tarik ibn ziyad into spain and just as much as

01:08:54.060 the british were when they funded the wahhabis and john the sixth kanta kuzinos was when he invited 0.95

01:08:59.000 the the ottomans to fight his rival it never ends up working out for the infidels 0.95

01:09:05.660 because the infidels have their own immediate goals but the jihadis always have the goal of 1.00

01:09:14.060 establishing islamic law over the world and will take and have taken throughout history 0.90

01:09:20.020 any advantage in which to do that so the history of jihad i think is one that

01:09:27.040 it is extraordinarily important for people especially in the government in the military

01:09:34.240 to be aware of. You cannot solve the problem unless you know exactly the dimensions of the

01:09:40.180 problem itself. And that is where we have drastically failed since 9-11, especially

01:09:45.740 with the advent of Obama and his forbidding of any mention of Islam and jihad and counter-terror

01:09:51.520 training in 2011. So it is imperative that we... Did you catch that? So one of Obama's policies

01:10:00.000 was actually forbidding, forbidding the, gosh, I think I just went by, but like, I need to catch

01:10:08.900 that again. Like Obama literally said, you can't talk about Islamic terrorism and jihad.

01:10:14.980 Obvious, of course, is immigration, the Trump travel bans. Is it really wise to bring in large 1.00

01:10:21.220 Muslim populations? Where was that? Oh, here we go. I went, here we go. Unless you know exactly 1.00

01:10:27.140 the demand but the jihadis always have the goal of establishing islamic law over the world and 0.94

01:10:35.380 will take and have taken throughout history any advantage in which to do that yep so the history

01:10:42.820 of jihad i think is one that it is extraordinarily important for people especially in the government

01:10:51.140 in the military to be aware of you cannot solve the problem unless you know exactly the dimensions

01:10:57.540 of the problem itself and that is so that's a very very important statement he just made that's

01:11:03.860 something that i'm constantly saying as well you can't solve the problem if you don't know what

01:11:10.100 the problem is i mean think about the example i like to give is um you know a a cancer patient

01:11:17.540 right if they go to their doctor to get a diagnosis you know and proper treatment a doctor

01:11:24.100 cannot properly treat their patient unless they know what's wrong with the patient like if the

01:11:30.340 patient has cancer and the doctor um you know decides to give them um i don't know treatment

01:11:38.100 for diabetes that's not going to solve the issue just because you know because you're giving the

01:11:44.580 wrong treatment because you haven't identified the cause of the problem and it's the same exact thing 0.61

01:11:52.020 when it comes to islamic terrorism and jihad and that's one of the reasons why um i encourage

01:11:58.660 people to make a distinction between iran which is you know the country where i'm from um versus 0.93

01:12:05.140 the islamic republic which is occupying my country of iran because prior to 1979 iran was a normal

01:12:13.540 secular, modernizing country. Women were equal to men. Women were in parliament. Iran was actually

01:12:22.560 the biggest ally of the United States in the Middle East. Iran was an ally of Israel. In fact,

01:12:30.240 Iran was an ally on friendly terms with everyone. And it was only when the Islamic 1.00

01:12:38.600 radicals took over in 1979 and imposed their Islamic jihadi ideology and basically turned

01:12:48.640 the country into a 7th century Islamic hellhole governed by Sharia law, that's when the anti-Israel,

01:12:57.020 anti-US rhetoric began. And that's when Iran essentially became the largest state sponsor 0.94

01:13:07.660 of terrorism in the world. And so that's why I always find it frustrating when people,

01:13:16.560 you know, they talk about getting rid of Iran or attacking Iran. Going after Iran in and of itself

01:13:24.820 isn't going to do anything. I'm Iranian. The, you know, like the country, I would say like 90%

01:13:32.680 of the population um are being oppressed by 10 that 10 uh is linked to the islamic republic 0.77

01:13:41.400 occupying it so the issue is not iran um or iranians the issue is that islamic jihadi

01:13:49.560 ideology um that is currently uh you know controlling the country um and iran is is

01:13:57.880 a brutal islamic dictatorship right um and so again like prior to 1979 iran was a normal country 0.91

01:14:06.680 and it was only when um the islamic regime came into power and imposed their uh you know islamic

01:14:14.200 sharia law that's when the problems started and so what uh robert spencer just said prior to this

01:14:22.200 is so critical right um where is it here we go he says you cannot solve the problem

01:14:31.160 unless you know exactly the dimensions of the problem itself such an important important um

01:14:38.920 statement here unless you know exactly the dimensions of the problem itself and that is

01:14:43.320 where we have drastically failed since 9 11 especially with the advent of obama and his

01:14:50.360 forbidding of any mention of islam and jihad in counter-terror training in 2011 so makes you wonder

01:14:58.680 um why obama would forbid that because to me that's pretty much treason um those of us who

01:15:09.080 are from the middle east understand very well um what islamic terrorism and jihad looks like

01:15:17.320 And yet, unfortunately, there are certain bad actors out there who are funding lobbyists in the United States and Canada and elsewhere to push their Islamist ideology.

01:15:35.800 And the fact that Obama just decided there should be no mention of Islam or jihad in counterterrorism training, that is a very, very dangerous way to think.

01:15:53.180 And to me, that's pretty much treason.

01:15:57.800 That's not in the interests of the American people.

01:16:01.140 It is imperative that we reacquaint ourselves with this history, that we ponder very carefully its implications for our stances toward various policy questions today.

01:16:18.020 I mean, one of the most obvious, of course, is immigration. The Trump travel bans. Is it really wise to bring in large Muslim populations into the country? Obviously, not every Muslim we bring in is going to be a jihadi, but among them there will be, or at least people who think that Sharia ought to be the law of the land.

01:16:36.020 how yeah i mean statistics show that um these are like studies done by fbi and like counterterrorism

01:16:42.820 organizations um roughly somewhere between 15 to 25 of muslims are considered radical jihadis um

01:16:54.340 25 of 2 billion is a significant number how uh how is that going to work out in terms of a tolerant 0.96

01:17:03.060 and pluralistic society when you introduce this radically intolerant force another one is of 0.76

01:17:08.180 course our alliances with pakistan with turkey where it's very clear that these entities are

01:17:15.460 now on the other side if they ever were not on the other side and we is it really prudent to

01:17:23.540 keep pouring money into these countries when we've known for 10 years for example in terms

01:17:28.100 in regards to pakistan that they've been turning around and taking a great deal of it and giving 0.91

01:17:32.260 it to the people they're supposed to be using it to fight so not only do we need a reconfiguration

01:17:41.060 of our international alliances but a general re-evaluation of our stance of also of course

01:17:47.700 ultimately towards states like saudi arabia it's very clear of course that the president is playing

01:17:53.460 a very delicate game a dangerous game but one that probably has to be played in working with 0.61

01:17:59.220 the Saudis against Iran. At the same time, we have to recognize that the Saudis ultimately 0.96

01:18:06.340 are only going to be our friends to a certain degree. And that after that, there is the Jihad 1.00

01:18:13.300 imperative that overrides any possibility of any longstanding or deeply fruitful cooperation. 0.74

01:18:20.980 But none of this can happen unless we recognize the problem to start with. It was because of this

01:18:27.060 that i wrote this book i hope that it will spark discussion on these issues

01:18:31.060 in places where it can make a difference and i thank you all for uh coming out to consider

01:18:35.620 these things with me if you have any questions comments death fought was whatever i uh i'm all

01:18:41.220 ears thank you very much that little comment about the death fatwa i mean this guy probably has like

01:18:50.740 I don't know, dozens of death thought was against him because he's speaking out and he's not afraid

01:19:00.520 to call it for what it is. We'll get to the question and answer period because I want to

01:19:07.600 hear that part as well. But what's really interesting is that everything that he just

01:19:12.560 spoke about. You know, it's based in history. It's based in fact. And yet some people would

01:19:20.260 accuse him of Islamophobia just for the crime of repeating history, right? So it makes you wonder

01:19:32.580 if just speaking out, if just speaking out about Islamic terrorism is considered Islamophobia,

01:19:42.560 um that that says a lot that says a lot about um jihad it also says a lot about um 0.80

01:19:52.280 how they have been silencing people who speak out for the last 1400 years right

01:20:01.280 as you please when you uh speak directly into the microphone

01:20:15.040 wait until jessica brings the microphone to you before you ask the question

01:20:20.160 so that the question may be more likely.

01:20:24.160 By the way, I wanted to also welcome

01:20:27.160 a late arrival of President Carlin,

01:20:30.160 President Rayman.

01:20:41.160 The immortal Dr. Hall.

01:20:44.160 Robert, you're a good friend and a great American.

01:20:47.160 Thank you.

01:20:48.160 I can't I can't hear at all what the question is being asked but hopefully hopefully Robert

01:21:03.320 Spencer will repeat the question because I can't I don't know what's what's being asked

01:21:08.400 right now.

01:21:09.400 What I wanted to ask you with respect to President Trump, what you would specifically recommend,

01:21:15.400 given the beginning of the administration and given the beginning of this campaign,

01:21:25.400 you talked so much about radicalism and then the dramatic decline with the dimensions of radicalism

01:21:33.560 terrorism as uh and as he went to south arabia what would you recommend to him in terms of

01:21:46.840 actually is for, how can we translate the understanding of Japan into victory for the

01:21:56.700 United States and for the peace of Westphalia, for, as my colleague said, for the free world

01:22:05.980 at large? Thank you. That's a great question. He doesn't really have to say anything as far

01:22:11.620 as I'm concerned. It's much more important what he does. And I just mentioned in passing

01:22:16.640 that obama's mandated that all mention of islam and jihad be scrubbed from counter-terror training 1.00

01:22:23.280 this is unbelievable people have trouble believing this but it's absolutely true you can go online

01:22:28.560 and look at the countering violent extremism program there is no mention there's no hint in it

01:22:35.600 that there's any problem with islamic jihad it doesn't exist it's actually an elaborate exercise

01:22:41.760 and pretending that it doesn't exist um major have to run but you might want to check out

01:22:50.000 bill warner's video why are we why we are afraid okay you know what i'm gonna make a note of that

01:22:58.000 and um i'll see if i can i'll see if i can pull that up here thank you so much major and thank

01:23:04.240 you for the support really appreciate that um hope you're doing better i think you mentioned

01:23:09.200 a few nights ago you were in a car accident i hope you're doing better make sure you get

01:23:14.000 a lot of rest and take care of yourself and thanks for for being here with us and thank

01:23:20.320 you for your comments much appreciated i'm gonna make a note of that and i'm gonna find it

01:23:27.920 that's what he should address what i've been so signally disappointed by and i hesitate to say

01:23:33.120 this because he's done so remarkably well and surprisingly well in so many ways moving the

01:23:38.960 embassy to jerusalem standing up to the violent intimidation that is hamstrung american foreign

01:23:44.080 policy for so many years in that and so many other things but i've been sort of surprised and

01:23:52.240 disappointed that he has not addressed this he needs to open up mandate perhaps by an executive

01:23:57.680 order or whatever engine would do it effectively mandate that the fbi that dhs that the cia

01:24:05.840 the pentagon all of them that they not only are allowed to study islam but that they must

01:24:12.960 and that it must not be from these smooth apologists from the council on american islamic

01:24:17.600 relations and so on that have demonstrable ties to our enemies but it has to be from people who

01:24:22.960 are going to speak about it honestly and realistically now he's going to catch hell

01:24:26.880 for that because of course all the people who speak about it honestly and realistically

01:24:30.960 our hate group leaders according to the southern poverty law center and so that has to be

01:24:35.600 directly opposed and rebuked and an unapologetic setting out of the necessity going back to sun

01:24:42.880 tzu that you have to know your enemy we have to understand this and he could even say you know i

01:24:49.440 i wouldn't have any objection at all if he were to say that this might be a completely wrong 0.79

01:24:54.000 understanding of islam i grant you this is this could be twisted hijacked false islam and real 0.73

01:25:00.720 Islam is as cuddly as it could possibly be. But we have to understand the motivating ideology of 0.91

01:25:08.840 the enemy, and this is what it is. And so we're going to study it in depth instead of pretending

01:25:13.140 it doesn't exist. And the Muslim Brotherhood elements, of course, in the U.S. government,

01:25:19.680 that has to be also addressed as well, that people like Hisham Islam, who made sure that

01:25:25.820 Major Stephen, Hisham Islam was the, I believe, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, advisor

01:25:33.840 to Gordon England, who was the Assistant Secretary of Defense in George W. Bush's administration,

01:25:38.760 that he obviously, he had ties to the Brotherhood and so on. And so why was he wielding this

01:25:45.720 influence? He's the one who got Major Coghlan fired when Major Stephen Coghlan, who I'm sure

01:25:49.680 many of you know, was the Pentagon's only expert on Islamic law. And so this is an issue

01:25:56.800 that he needs to be made aware of. But I don't know that there's anybody around him who is

01:26:00.880 telling him about it. I think we have to wait for the microphone. Sorry. Thank you.

01:26:19.680 I can't hear the question.

01:26:31.660 That's the one thing that I find very frustrating about these events.

01:26:38.600 I don't know why, but the microphone never works.

01:26:41.600 I mean, you would think that given how common these sorts of events and talks are,

01:26:47.280 the organizers would at least have um a microphone ready to go for for the questions especially if

01:26:54.560 it's something that you're videotaping to broadcast later because i mean

01:26:59.280 you'd think they would have figured it out by now

01:27:17.280 Yes, that's right.

01:27:31.080 Yes.

01:27:32.080 Yeah.

01:27:33.080 I'm supposed to go to Berkeley in a couple of weeks.

01:27:57.480 I'm really looking forward to that.

01:28:03.080 no when i get invited to speak at universities it's by the uh college republicans or young

01:28:14.440 america's foundation a group like that i've never been invited by the university administrators

01:28:19.720 ever and when i am invited to a university it's as if jack the ripper has has been invited and

01:28:26.040 there is an uproar like you wouldn't believe and uh it's very clear that what we see is the fruit

01:28:33.080 of indoctrination that these children have been told that islamophobia is a big problem and

01:28:38.840 islamic jihad terror is really something that's just a manifestation of a reaction to american

01:28:44.200 imperialism and the state of israel that's exactly what happened um after october 7. um so you have

01:28:53.560 you know hamas terrorists who go out and they wage war and they slaughter 1200 innocent israelis

01:29:01.160 you know in the name of allah in islam you know they're yelling aloha akbar while they're 0.76

01:29:05.320 murdering jewish people um and you know taking hostages and it wasn't even just hamas terrorists

01:29:12.680 it was palestinian civilians themselves who were getting involved and cheering and yelling and you 0.97

01:29:18.280 you know, spitting on the bodies of murdered Jews. And yet, instead of people pointing out 0.94

01:29:27.360 the problem with Islamic terrorism, all of a sudden, you had all these Muslim advocacy groups

01:29:33.320 in the West talking about, oh, Islamophobia, and oh, how is this going to affect, you know,

01:29:38.660 the Muslim community? And, you know, and then you had the others who were basically blaming,

01:29:44.920 blaming the United States and Israel for this violent genocidal attack by Islamic terrorists, 0.94

01:29:56.400 right? That's exactly what happened after October 7. And this is a speech from 2018. 0.88

01:30:07.160 And, you know, at that point, the pattern was already prevalent and people were noticing it.

01:30:15.420 And unfortunately, the situation hasn't gotten better.

01:30:19.520 I think, in fact, it's only gotten worse because, yeah, like this is this is so true.

01:30:26.640 Like I want to replay this part, but just think about it. 0.97

01:30:30.040 think about what sort of narrative all these like Muslim advocacy groups and all the communists and

01:30:41.040 socialists and progressives were putting out there after October 7. It's exactly the narrative that 0.85

01:30:48.840 Robert Spencer here is talking about back in 2018. That's why I wrote the book. I know that

01:30:54.620 Probably most college students will never hear about it.

01:30:57.500 Will I learn about it?

01:30:59.460 Some of them will, yeah, absolutely.

01:31:01.920 But, you know, I don't have any control over how much it's distributed or who reads it.

01:31:08.920 But this is one of the reasons why I wrote it as a contribution to try to correct this.

01:31:12.720 Wait, maybe I went back.

01:31:15.740 Here we go, sorry.

01:31:17.840 This is the part.

01:31:18.560 I've never been invited by the university administrators ever.

01:31:22.520 And when I am invited to a university, it's as if Jack the Ripper has been invited.

01:31:28.300 And there is an uproar like you wouldn't believe.

01:31:31.340 And it's very clear that what we see is the fruit of indoctrination, that these children have been told that Islamophobia is a big problem.

01:31:41.380 And Islamic Jihad terror is really something that's just a manifestation of a reaction to American imperialism and the state of Israel.

01:31:48.920 and this is this so this is one of the reasons why and that's exactly what we saw right after

01:31:55.160 the genocidal massacre um of 1200 israelis on october 7. i wrote the book i know that probably

01:32:02.700 most college students will will never hear about it some of them will yeah absolutely uh but uh i

01:32:10.560 you know i i can't i don't have any control over who how much it's distributed or who reads it

01:32:16.280 but this is one of the reasons why I wrote it as a contribution to try to correct this.

01:32:20.480 You're absolutely right that, uh, thank you. Really up until about 1970, everybody knew that

01:32:29.440 what I was, what I mean, I wasn't saying it then I was eight, but in, uh, everybody knew that what

01:32:35.100 I'm saying is true. Everybody knew that Islam was not a religion of peace. Winston Churchill says 1.00

01:32:39.860 this John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, despite the myth-making about Thomas

01:32:44.540 Jefferson nowadays. Everybody took these things for granted. It was obvious, but there has been

01:32:50.180 a concerted effort at disinformation and rewriting of history that has been remarkably effective

01:32:54.960 and that we need to be energetically counteracting. Thank you.

01:33:14.540 oh

01:33:28.540 Well, you know,

01:33:56.000 No, I didn't, but it's a good title.

01:34:02.340 Terrific title.

01:34:03.220 I wish I had.

01:34:04.500 In any case, what do we do?

01:34:08.440 That's right, Trevor Loudon.

01:34:10.240 What do we do about this?

01:34:12.180 Of course, we have to be true to our own principles.

01:34:16.380 And that means that something like mass deportation or something of this kind,

01:34:22.960 this is not even on the table, of course, nowadays.

01:34:25.080 What we need to do are some things that I think would be very simple and effective and ought to be common sense measures that would go a large way, a long way to solving this problem.

01:34:35.440 One is enforce our own laws and be consistent in that enforcement.

01:34:41.940 There should be one law.

01:34:43.560 It was actually the great achievement of Western civilization that there's one law for everybody, that this is the Magna Carta, people.

01:34:51.760 you know that there's not one law for the noblemen and the other law for the commoners.

01:34:56.080 It's one law for everyone. Everyone is responsible in the same way. And so if we were to enforce that,

01:35:02.740 then polygamists, for example, would be arrested. Those who practice female genital mutilation, 0.96

01:35:09.060 those who violate any number of other American laws that are already at variance with Sharia 0.69

01:35:13.860 principles. If we were to make it clear that those laws would be enforced, then the followers of 0.98

01:35:19.460 sharia would have the choice to either renounce those aspects of islam in a genuine and sincere 0.98

01:35:25.780 way or leave the country but they're not going to be able to have both also of course you have 0.99

01:35:33.520 laws against subversion and sedition which would mean that even this preaching that sharia ought 0.86

01:35:38.080 to be the law of the land eventually would be something that would be legally actionable

01:35:41.740 these things are already laws that are on the books it's just that they're not being applied

01:35:47.360 Ibrahim Hooper of Care, there was a house fire a few years back in the Bronx, and this guy was killed and his wives.

01:35:55.480 And so the New York Times rather blandly noted he had three or four wives.

01:35:59.280 He was a Muslim. And Ibrahim Hooper was trotted out from the Council on American-Islamic Relations to say, yeah, there are, I believe he said, 50,000 Muslims and polygamous arrangements in the United States.

01:36:10.880 And then the New York Times moved on, of course, to something else, probably Islamophobia backlash.

01:36:15.820 but wait a minute that's illegal in the united states the latter day saints church had to change

01:36:23.320 its doctrine to get utah admitted as a state and so why are we tolerating this now and these

01:36:30.340 questions remain unanswered why indeed why uh has there been no prosecution have you guys heard um

01:36:37.460 about that case in i think it's i don't know if it's in the uk it's like this one country in in 0.54

01:36:46.740 europe let me find it and this muslim guy is basically making um a human rights case for

01:36:54.900 why he should be able to uh bring it so so the guy has like four wives um he lives in okay you 0.90

01:37:04.580 You know what? Let me find it. Let me see if I can find it. Oh yeah, here we go. Here we go.

01:37:21.360 this is this is um get this wait close what is this okay yeah here i found it i found it so um

01:37:33.640 so speak like what robert spencer was speaking about um in 2018 about you know how you know

01:37:40.180 why is polygamy um in muslim communities being tolerated it's not just like a a fantasy or like

01:37:49.560 a made-up thing like it's it's first of all it's happening um in various countries there's lots of

01:37:54.620 people who've spoken about that but now they're even taking it a step further look at this so

01:37:59.040 this is a case um that's currently happening in um in europe right now so let me just read it for

01:38:05.300 you could polygamy become legal in europe a yemeni asylum speaker has taken his case to the european

01:38:12.460 Court of Human Rights after Dutch authorities refused to allow his children from his second

01:38:19.700 and third wives to join him. The outcome could set a precedent. The so-called right to family life

01:38:27.900 may open the door to legal recognition of polygamous family structures in Europe.

01:38:35.960 For the first time in its history, the Strasbourg-based European Court of Human Rights

01:38:40.400 is set to rule on a case directly linked to polygamy. Khalid Al-Anessi, a Yemeni lawyer who

01:38:47.860 was granted asylum in the Netherlands after the Arab Spring, claims that the refusal to permit

01:38:53.020 family reunification for his five children violates the right to respect for family life

01:38:59.680 under Article 8 of the European Convention on Human Rights. After fleeing Yemen, Al-Anessi

01:39:05.780 brought his first wife and their eight children to the Netherlands under family reunification

01:39:11.680 rules. First wife and eight children. So they're already in the Netherlands. However, he did not

01:39:19.640 bring his second and third wives as polygamy is illegal and not recognized in the country.

01:39:26.940 Later, he applied to have the five children born of those wives join him. Dutch authorities

01:39:33.180 rejected the request, stating that the children are safe and under protection with their mothers

01:39:38.220 in Turkey, where they hold refugee status, rendering the current application unwarranted.

01:39:45.380 Officials also suggested that Al-Anessi could divorce his other wives in order to allow

01:39:50.200 the children's family reunification-based entry, an option he flatly refused. So here's where it,

01:39:57.360 here's where it opens up the back door for polygamy. Alanessi now argues that the Dutch 0.97

01:40:04.440 state is violating his right to family life. The court therefore faces a fundamental question.

01:40:10.560 Should a European country in the name of human rights recognize a polygamous family structure,

01:40:15.640 even where polygamy is explicitly prohibited by law? From a legal standpoint, the issue is not

01:40:22.660 the formal recognition of polygamy itself, but whether children from such marriages have the

01:40:27.960 right to live with their father in the host country. However, if the ECHR were to rule in

01:40:35.280 Al-Anessi's favor, it could create a loophole. Children, and indirectly their mothers, might

01:40:41.700 invoke human rights protections to secure residents, thereby circumventing national

01:40:46.380 bans on polygamy without directly violating them. The court has accepted the appeal,

01:40:52.940 though the Netherlands has not yet submitted a response. A ruling in the Al-Anessi case is

01:40:57.920 expected in 2026. So yeah, this is how, you know, certain Muslims are taking advantage of laws 1.00

01:41:09.080 that were specifically created, you know, for a society that only recognizes marriage between one 0.84

01:41:15.980 man and and one woman um uh you know it doesn't it doesn't recognize polygamous marriages and uh 0.53

01:41:24.780 they're trying to take advantage of the system because if he's if if he's able to bring in the 0.54

01:41:32.460 children from his other wives then that means that the country is now um indirectly recognizing the 0.56

01:41:41.660 validity of uh polygamous marriages and then once those children come in those children could then

01:41:50.300 um bring in their mothers through visa applications right um so this is a big deal guys this is a big

01:41:57.900 deal and and you know this is happening today literally you know right now the case is set to

01:42:03.420 be heard in 2026 but robert spencer um here like he's he's talking about this back in 2018 so i

01:42:13.980 mean this is not a new phenomenon this has been going on for for quite a while um i have seen

01:42:21.580 videos now i don't know if this is true or not which is why i haven't really spoken about it

01:42:25.980 You know, I like to operate based on on facts, you know, things that are proven, essentially.

01:42:33.400 But I mean, I've seen people online, Americans, who have been complaining about, you know, certain families and not just Americans, but, you know, British people as well, who've been complaining about how apparently there are, you know, polygamous Muslim families who are living in the UK or in the United States.

01:43:03.400 and um they are getting benefits uh so i mean i'd have to do more research into that but it's not

01:43:11.040 it's not a far-fetched thing to to think about and yeah that's exactly what robert spencer here

01:43:16.460 is talking about about the threat of um of of of polygamous marriages right so

01:43:23.460 i'll go back a little bit here we go i'll go back a little bit

01:43:28.920 okay we have a comment here Canada for Israel Yeshua is salvation read your read your uncorrupted

01:43:42.760 Bible and blessings Isaiah 52 13 53 12 okay I will I'm not I'm not a big uh religious person

01:43:52.600 religious reader but I will definitely make a note of that and uh yeah I'll check it out for

01:43:57.880 Sure. Thank you for that, Canada for Israel. Appreciate that.

01:44:02.820 Even this preaching that Sharia ought to be the law of the land eventually would be something that would be legally actionable. 0.86

01:44:09.900 These things are already laws that are on the books. It's just that they're not being applied.

01:44:14.200 Ibrahim Hooper of Kerr, there was a house fire a few years back in the Bronx, and this guy was killed and his wives.

01:44:22.300 And so the New York Times rather blandly noted he had three or four wives.

01:44:26.100 He was a Muslim and Ibrahim Hooper was trotted out from the Council on American Islamic Relations to say, yeah, there are I believe he said 50,000 Muslims and polygamous arrangements in the United States.

01:44:37.960 Oh, OK. So so they've already admitted there's at least 50,000 Muslims where men have more than one wife and they're living in the United States.

01:44:49.020 okay good to know and this was 2018 guys this is 2018 so you can only imagine um how much the

01:44:56.140 number has increased since then especially due to mass migration um and again remember uh the

01:45:03.580 council on american islamic relations was recently listed as a foreign terrorist entity um i believe

01:45:10.300 in florida i think texas um yeah just like it literally just happened uh because of their ties

01:45:18.540 to the Muslim Brotherhood.

01:45:20.340 And then the New York Times moved on, of course, to something else, probably Islamophobia

01:45:24.700 backlash.

01:45:25.800 But wait a minute, that's illegal in the United States.

01:45:30.580 The Latter-day Saints Church had to change its doctrine to get Utah admitted as a state.

01:45:35.640 And so why are we tolerating this now?

01:45:38.940 And these questions remain unanswered.

01:45:41.120 Why indeed?

01:45:41.920 Why has there been no prosecution?

01:45:44.520 Why are there only two doctors now that it's only been since Trump took office that anybody was ever prosecuted for female genital mutilation?

01:45:54.160 These two doctors who are still on trial in Detroit.

01:45:57.000 You can't tell me they're the first ones that ever did it in the United States.

01:46:00.380 There are thousands of people who have suffered this in the United States, and nothing's been done.

01:46:05.820 So my first recommendation is enforce our own laws.

01:46:14.520 Thank you very much.

01:46:17.960 Thank you.

01:46:20.960 Yes.

01:46:24.220 There were other traders.

01:46:26.140 Lots of them.

01:46:31.540 Yeah, what's his name?

01:46:32.600 Opas?

01:46:34.220 I have him in the book.

01:46:36.200 Yeah.

01:46:37.820 Yeah, he's the guy who told Pelayo.

01:46:40.720 I don't mean to, if you were going to tell the story, go ahead.

01:46:43.960 No, no, no.

01:46:44.520 And Palayo was the last holdout. I hope you will all be Palayos if it comes to this. When all of Spain was conquered, there was this one guy and he wasn't going to play. And he went up on top of a mountain with a small band of followers and the Muslims tried to get at him, but he was up a mountain.

01:47:00.540 And so he was able to rain down stones from the jihadis and keep them from coming up. 0.88

01:47:06.100 And eventually they said, what do we care about this band of barbarians perched on a rock? 0.98

01:47:10.600 They'll die off.

01:47:11.980 But Opas was a bishop, a Spanish bishop in the tradition of Pope Francis.

01:47:17.900 And oh, I see a comment from sorry, I can't I don't know how to pronounce your name.

01:47:26.620 but the UAE has also sanctioned CARE due to its ties with Qatar 100%. I've actually 0.60

01:47:32.800 spoken about this in the past in both my live streams and also in other short videos that I

01:47:42.520 have made. Yes, the United Arab Emirates has banned the Muslim Brotherhood. Saudi Arabia

01:47:50.340 has banned the Muslim Brotherhood, Egypt has banned the Muslim Brotherhood, Bahrain, and I

01:47:57.480 believe Jordan as well. They have all banned the Muslim Brotherhood, and the UAE is actively

01:48:06.120 fighting both the Muslim Brotherhood and Qatar as well. Qatar is, you know, one of the biggest 0.58

01:48:14.020 sponsors of the Muslim Brotherhood. Thank you for the comment and support. I appreciate that.

01:48:21.960 He went to Palaio and he said, I believe that you now understand how the entire army of the 1.00

01:48:30.160 Goths cannot resist the force of the Muslims. How then can you resist on this mountain? 1.00

01:48:35.460 Listen to my advice. Abandon your efforts and you will enjoy many benefits alongside the Muslims. 1.00

01:48:40.700 Pope Francis is, I mean, he had to have, he's the worthy successor of Opas, the bishop in Spain. 1.00

01:48:50.080 The question is, isn't it true that we will face such traitors here in the West?

01:48:59.600 Oh, yeah.

01:49:02.000 When push comes to shove, we will have this wrong.

01:49:06.680 Yeah, there's no doubt about it. 0.99

01:49:07.860 I mean, obviously, I am classifying Pope Francis as chief among them that in shaming the Christians of Europe and telling them that they're not good Christians unless they accept the Muslim migrants and saying that there should be no walls. 0.88

01:49:25.480 Well, tear down your Vatican walls, pal. But, you know, the Vatican walls were put up in the year 846 after the Muslims sacked Rome. 0.87

01:49:35.720 They couldn't actually get in because of the existing walls. 0.91

01:49:38.800 And the ones that are there are reinforcements of those because they made some breaches and they sacked St. Peter's, which was outside the walls at the time, and St. Paul outside the walls.

01:49:47.580 So he should think back on the example of his predecessors.

01:49:52.760 But he's the woke pope and he's not going to do that.

01:49:57.200 Yes, ma'am.

01:50:05.200 You play in sports?

01:50:33.520 oh my

01:50:35.780 their team is the bomb

01:50:38.380 I have no idea

01:50:54.320 what question she's asking

01:50:55.900 something to do with schools

01:50:58.640 I can't hear

01:51:03.520 well see these things are all allowed in america now because we're not enforcing the laws the aclu

01:51:16.840 fought for decades to get christian prayer out of the schools right and now in texas there's a public

01:51:22.780 school that has an islamic prayer room and the attorney general of the state of texas wrote to

01:51:27.660 them and said you know we have this thing separation of church and state you got to close

01:51:32.560 down the Islamic prayer room, and they refused. So what's he going to do? Call out the National

01:51:36.360 Guard? He didn't do anything. They still have their prayer room. And he ought to get police

01:51:42.080 and go in there and say this is illegal. But instead, it's happening all over the country.

01:51:46.460 I was debating a couple of imams a few years back in the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. And

01:51:53.620 I went into the men's room. It's a public university. There's a footbath for the Islamic

01:51:57.440 prayers. And I looked around. There were no holy water fonts. It was very strange. It seems as if

01:52:02.560 there's only accommodation at public expense of one religion only but yeah I 0.78

01:52:13.840 mean that's sort of how the creep sets in right like it starts small and then

01:52:17.980 eventually you have taxpayer dollars funding funding you know religious

01:52:27.640 accommodations where you know i am more of a secular type of person i mean i don't think there

01:52:34.760 should be anything religious um or religious accommodation in schools especially not for

01:52:41.800 religious minorities um you know when it comes to uh you know christian countries i mean it was

01:52:50.120 built and founded on christianity so i think anyone who immigrates to a christian country

01:52:55.240 you should become very comfortable um and familiar with christian traditions and you know the

01:53:01.560 christian religion um and maybe not be so offended and if you don't like it just you know go live in

01:53:08.840 a muslim country that caters to your religious needs i mean it it's just how i see it i mean 0.71

01:53:15.800 i remember when my parents first um immigrated to canada back in 1986 um you know and and i went to

01:53:25.000 to school um what was it i guess it would have been like i think it was 1989 i was like four

01:53:31.880 years old and um there's like video footage of me as like a four-year-old child um you know we'd

01:53:37.560 only been in canada three years at that point and um my kindergarten had like my junior kindergarten

01:53:45.000 basically had um it wasn't a holiday party it was a christmas party it was literally called

01:53:51.160 a christmas party um i remember well i don't remember it's the the video footage that my

01:53:56.200 parents took you know santa claus came and he was giving christmas gifts and you know we were all

01:54:02.040 dressed up like um christmas carolers and uh you know what actually i'll see if i can find it

01:54:09.560 i'll see if i can find that i'm sure i i think i made like a tongue-in-cheek comment about um

01:54:17.720 christmas let me see here

01:54:24.520 where was it i've spoken about this before um

01:54:32.440 i remember like what was it here we go here we go so okay so this is how um this is how like

01:54:41.000 ridiculous things have gotten in canada so um in 2023 the canadian human rights commission report

01:54:49.240 claimed that christmas is discriminatory um and observance of jesus's birth is an obvious example 0.67

01:54:56.680 of religious bias rooted in colonialism like this is just how ridiculous the the narrative has

01:55:04.600 gotten um and then i kind of you know responded with uh you know tongue-in-cheek comment

01:55:09.720 And, and I was, you know, and I just kind of said, according to Canadian human rights, here I am being discriminated against by Christmas in 1989. I was in junior kindergarten, four years old, you know, my immigrant religious minority parents were so upset. They dressed me up in a cute winter outfit and filmed the entire shocking incident.

01:55:31.720 So there you go. There's there's me as a as a four year old, you know, sitting in Santa's lap. You can see the the date there as well. 1989. That's my my kindergarten class. And yeah, like it's just so ridiculous that people immigrate to Christian countries and then they complain about being discriminated against.

01:55:54.220 i mean if you're immigrating to a christian country you're going there for a reason maybe

01:55:59.660 you should um actually try to assimilate and take part in the culture because it can be

01:56:06.300 very very fun to do so and uh yeah like if you know it it's if you want um certain cultures or

01:56:17.420 values you know find a country that has those cultures and values like don't go to a country

01:56:22.940 and then try to impose um your own beliefs on everyone else and certainly you shouldn't be

01:56:30.060 asking the government to spend u.s tax dollars i mean i just i think that's just absolutely um

01:56:36.780 ridiculous and i feel like it's it's gotten way too far to the point where now in canada

01:56:41.500 um you know in canada you literally have um you know this this canadian human rights commission 1.00

01:56:47.500 report claiming that Christmas is discriminatory, which is one of the most ridiculous and idiotic 0.99

01:56:55.300 things I have ever heard of. I'm not Christian. And yet, I have no problem saying Merry Christmas. 1.00

01:57:02.740 When I was a politician in Ontario, I sent out Christmas cards that specifically said

01:57:08.520 Merry Christmas on it. You know, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year. Yeah, and I just I just miss

01:57:15.460 being able to, to just, I just wish things would go back to the way they were before all of this

01:57:24.040 like DEI and woke nonsense and like mass migration started happening. I mean, the Canada of today

01:57:32.400 is not the same Canada that my parents immigrated to in 86, unfortunately. Certainly not even the

01:57:38.860 Canada the last 10-15 years, I would say. So, yeah, it's just, it's ridiculous how far the

01:57:47.200 rhetoric is going. So, you know, on one hand, you have people who are putting out these, you know,

01:57:54.560 human rights reports, saying that Christmas is discriminatory, and all of that. But then,

01:58:00.880 And at the same time, they're, you know, bringing in or like forcing all these other like holidays

01:58:10.260 and religions on people in the name of, you know, multiculturalism and diversity.

01:58:16.880 Like, it's just, it's the double standard is insane.

01:58:20.580 And I, quite frankly, am getting sick and tired of it. 0.73

01:58:23.460 I mean, my parents immigrated to a Christian country built by white people for a reason. 1.00

01:58:30.880 I'll tell you something there is I don't I doubt there's a single university in the 0.96

01:59:00.320 country that speaks honestly about these issues. I was at Cal Poly. I was speaking at Cal Poly

01:59:08.200 University in San Luis Obispo, California. Very pretty place. And I was speaking about this, how

01:59:14.800 universities today, they're one-party states, and there's only one point of view allowed.

01:59:20.300 And that's the far-left point of view and the corollary idea that Islam is a religion of peace

01:59:25.720 that has, as Hillary Clinton said, nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism.

01:59:31.440 And so I was at Cal Poly and I was challenging them about this.

01:59:37.880 And I said, for example, I'll bet that the point of view that I represent,

01:59:43.140 that there are texts of the Quran and teachings of Muhammad and rulings of Islamic law 0.77

01:59:49.020 that justify violence against unbelievers and have been acted upon by Muslims throughout history,

01:59:53.340 that is nowhere ever discussed in any of your classes that touch on Islam.

01:59:58.720 And this one girl said, oh, no, we talked about your book just last week.

02:00:03.140 And I said, oh, really? And what did you say?

02:00:05.120 And she said that hate speech is not free speech.

02:00:10.260 And see, what they taught them was that I was purveying hate speech,

02:00:14.760 which ought not to have First Amendment protection.

02:00:16.520 It ought to be forcibly suppressed by government agencies.

02:00:20.340 And this is very, very common in American universities today.

02:00:24.760 And I think that, well, of course, the corruption of the academy started in earnest in the 1960s with the long march through the institutions that the hard left began at that time.

02:00:33.820 And it becomes a self-perpetuating thing.

02:00:36.120 One leftist professor gets in and then he recommends his friend.

02:00:39.840 And then a little while later, they're the hiring board and they only hire their own people.

02:00:45.420 and now it's all completely closed off to any truth about these issues of course then also

02:00:50.640 there's the saudi money georgetown university has the prince al-waleed bin talal center for

02:00:55.900 muslim christian understanding they got i believe it was 12 million from al-waleed who's a saudi

02:01:01.020 prince to uh 20 i i thought it was 20 half to harvard and half to georgetown no 20 to georgetown

02:01:08.820 Great. And so, guys, I did a live stream on how corrupt bad actors and, you know, foreign governments who are hostile to the United States are funding American universities and indoctrinating young people.

02:01:29.540 So, uh, what he's talking about here, if you're interested in learning more, I actually did the

02:01:33.920 live stream, um, a couple of days ago. Um, let me find it here just really quickly so I can show it

02:01:40.700 to you guys. Um, if you're interested in, in learning more on that particular topic. So it's,

02:01:48.700 um, I still have to make like a title screen for it. Um, but this one here, Qatar 101 part two,

02:01:55.260 I still have to like put in the description there, but that's basically a two and a half hour live stream that I did where I played a whole bunch of different videos talking about bad actors that are funding American universities for nefarious reasons.

02:02:13.660 So you definitely want to make sure that you check that out because that goes more in depth into what Robert Spencer is talking about here right now.

02:02:25.400 So if you look at the Al-Balit Center and the bridge initiative that comes from it, it's all dedicated to fighting Islamophobia and got dossiers on all the people who are so evil who talk about how they get the crazy idea that Islam is not peaceful.

02:02:40.880 And they do bamboozle a lot of people in this way.

02:02:45.280 Of course, Georgetown is the worst, but there are many, many other universities that have taken the Saudi money. 0.51

02:02:52.260 Yes, sir.

02:02:52.940 oh sorry the microphone yes I forgot about hey I think I know you back in the dark

02:02:59.300 thank you thank you TFDX yeah I'm kind of happy you know I'm still kind of adjusting a few things

02:03:07.700 with my office in the background but I'm pretty happy with the way I have it set up but if you

02:03:13.800 guys have any suggestions let me know but yeah this is one of the reasons why I was away for

02:03:19.500 couple of weeks i was um changing locations i was um getting things set up and of course you can see

02:03:26.700 i have um my office here behind me and uh yeah i also you know what i also have this if you guys

02:03:33.260 haven't seen it so um my scales of justice but you can't really see it because um it sits right um

02:03:42.380 oops it sits uh right right behind me um in my chair but i'm glad you guys like it and let me

02:03:49.100 fix this a little bit here moved it around all right yeah if you have any suggestions

02:03:54.780 let me know but um no thank you for that and thank you for the support it's good to be back

02:04:01.580 how are you likewise

02:04:05.020 Sure. Linda Sarsour, of course, is one of the most interesting and paradoxical figures of

02:04:25.160 our time. I know she's really irritating. Linda Sarsour was also one of the main backers of 1.00

02:04:32.880 uh Zoran Mamdani and she basically admitted that um the vast majority of the funding for Mamdani's 0.57

02:04:42.880 campaign um came through her and her Muslim network so yeah like she has been a problematic

02:04:49.680 figure for a while and you know even here Robert Spencer is sounding the alarm on her back in 2018 0.98

02:04:56.000 and then you know look what they were able to accomplish in 2025 because people are not taking

02:05:01.600 the threat seriously just if just a minute if you ponder with me a feminist icon who wears a hijab

02:05:11.340 the leader of the women's march on washington the day after trump is inaugurated and she's 0.59

02:05:18.540 wearing this and says that's my choice and meanwhile there yeah hijab is not a choice 0.93

02:05:26.340 there are untold numbers we'll never know the number of women who've been brutalized and killed 0.99

02:05:30.700 for not wearing the hijab. We know that Aksa Parvez in Mississauga, Ontario in 2007 was strangled to

02:05:36.800 death by her father and her brother with the hijab she would not wear. We know, I have a long list

02:05:41.880 that I keep current at Jihad Watch. And of course, guys, the most recent example of that Syrian girl, 0.99

02:05:48.140 remember? Syrian girl killed by, it was like an honor killing, right? Like that's just the most 0.94

02:05:57.260 recent um example here ryan here we go um is it this one it was ryan al najjar um

02:06:12.860 yeah geez let me find it yeah this one here it's so sad right um so this this is the most recent

02:06:21.340 case of um a young muslim woman being murdered um by her family because she wanted to take off

02:06:31.340 the hijab um brothers drowned teenage sister in swamp and honor killing court here syrian father

02:06:39.580 allegedly ordered his sons to kill his 18 year old daughter in the netherlands after discovering 0.55

02:06:44.780 she had a boyfriend um yeah so there you go uh you can look that up her name is um uh ryan

02:06:57.180 her name is um uh ryan al najjar yeah it's just it's a very very sad story so

02:07:04.060 uh don't ever believe anyone who says that hijab is a choice it's not whenever i come across a

02:07:09.900 story now it's this long of women who have been threatened who've been killed who have been

02:07:14.540 brutalized for not wearing the hijab the very idea of the hijab is inherently misogynistic

02:07:20.860 do you know why women have to wear the hijab yeah so they don't get raped yes they have it's 0.74

02:07:27.500 it's a woman's responsibility to make sure a man is not tempted and so apparently the temptation

02:07:33.020 in here is in the hair so the hair has to be covered the harmful hair rays have to be extinguished

02:07:39.900 And if the man is still tempted, if the woman is raped or attacked, it's her fault.

02:07:49.020 She did not succeed in extinguishing the temptation. 0.98

02:07:53.360 And that is why we have the niqab and the burqa. 0.98

02:07:56.000 Because if the hijab doesn't do it, then cover the face. 0.99

02:08:01.820 If covering the face doesn't do it, cover the eyes.

02:08:05.140 and what you have then is an inherently misogynistic 0.98

02:08:12.120 garment that is a symbol very neatly and clearly of the oppression of women and the second class

02:08:20.420 status of women in islamic law so you have this woman who's wearing it very proudly and lying 0.52

02:08:24.600 about it she's openly pro-sharia she's got familial ties to hamas she has said that she 0.99

02:08:32.460 She wants to mutilate the women who are opposing jihad.

02:08:37.460 She named Brigitte Gabriel and Ayaan Hirsi Ali.

02:08:40.800 And this is somebody who celebrated.

02:08:43.700 I've featured interviews by both Ayaan Hirsi Ali and Brigitte Gabriel in my previous live

02:08:51.640 stream.

02:08:52.640 So you make sure to check those out as well.

02:08:55.020 As a great hero.

02:08:56.300 She was just arrested a couple days ago at the hearing for ... She wanted to get arrested.

02:09:04.120 It was a stunt that she was showing again how terrible this Kavanaugh is and how ... It's

02:09:10.960 part of the breakdown of the civility in the American society and the extreme polarization.

02:09:17.500 But what she's trying to do actually is normalize, tell them I'm not here, is normalize the idea that, just snub them.

02:09:33.000 I wouldn't answer either. 0.69

02:09:33.800 anyway normalize the idea that uh hijab is completely ordinary is something that we're

02:09:42.220 going to have to get used to seeing that it is something that represents the marvelous diversity 0.90

02:09:47.500 of american culture and you notice that this diversity is in favor of this radically oppressive

02:09:53.760 and intolerant belief system you also have you asked about the kaepernick how do you yeah i mean

02:10:00.360 like at some point, we need to take a step back and ask

02:10:03.440 ourselves, is it really diversity to normalize an 0.99

02:10:10.240 ideology that says women need to cover their hair in order to

02:10:14.200 prevent themselves from being raped? I mean, that's literally

02:10:19.200 victim blaming mentality. And I don't think that has, you know,

02:10:23.880 any sort of of of place um i don't know like it's just uh 0.97

02:10:32.200 i mean i don't let me put it this way i don't have um an issue per se with with women

02:10:39.240 covering their hair it's more so when they cover their face and their eyes at that point i'm like

02:10:45.720 okay so why are you in in western society why are you um in western culture um there are a lot of

02:10:53.240 religions where men and women cover their hair for various reasons. Now, of course, um, in Islam,

02:11:01.160 uh, the reason that women cover their hair is because basically to, to avoid, you know,

02:11:06.740 tempting men or whatever the case might be. I don't know of any other religion, um, that says

02:11:13.340 you have to cover your hair in order to prevent being raped. But, you know, again, like you do 0.96

02:11:18.300 you if that's what you want to believe, fine, go ahead. But I

02:11:21.540 definitely do have a problem with the face covering and the 1.00

02:11:26.280 burqa. And I don't think that that is appropriate at all. Not 1.00

02:11:31.200 just in Western society, I don't think that's appropriate in any

02:11:33.600 society. It is definitely a tool of oppression. And it's really

02:11:39.780 unfortunate that you have women who have been indoctrinated and 0.84

02:11:43.960 brainwashed into thinking that they need to cover their faces in order to, you know, prevent them 0.97

02:11:54.240 from from being raped. It's just a very, very backwards mentality. And I think we do need to 0.96

02:11:59.280 call it out the same way that we call out other harmful practices against women, you know, for

02:12:05.480 example, female genital mutilation, and other, you know, harmful things, you know, child marriage,

02:12:10.920 things like that like at some point we have to stand up and be like okay just because you think

02:12:17.700 that's culturally appropriate doesn't mean that it's okay right like just just because someone

02:12:22.680 says this is my culture this is my belief doesn't doesn't make it okay doesn't make it appropriate

02:12:27.900 if that was um how we always operated then we as um you know humanity would never have evolved and

02:12:37.840 gotten to the place where we are today and that's because we have specifically um modernized our way

02:12:45.980 of thinking when it comes to a lot of you know issues how do you say his name i don't know i

02:12:53.200 don't follow football but i know i looked it up the other day that uh the the 49ers when he was

02:12:58.180 quarterback in 2016 were one in ten and not uh it's it's interesting to note that um the great

02:13:05.120 football fan Mahmoud Ahmadinejad tweeted the other day that this is the best quarterback

02:13:12.080 in the league and he doesn't have a contract. Obviously, this is the Iranians want to exploit 1.00

02:13:19.020 the divisions in American society. And so they take this anti-American. 0.99

02:13:23.360 By Iranians, he of course means the Islamic Republic occupying Iran, not us Iranians who

02:13:28.880 are fighting against the regime to reclaim our country.

02:13:32.640 figure and exalt him and of course everything is so confused and polarized in america today

02:13:37.920 you even have nike exalting him and it's good to see that night oh i have i have a question

02:13:45.160 from uh from the audience let's see um be careful who you trust a spencer can be a bit wild

02:13:52.720 douglas murray is a superior commentator oh yeah i definitely want to like i'm definitely going to

02:13:57.900 be playing Douglas Murray as well. Let me just make a note here. I literally have like a list

02:14:04.760 of like all these things that I want to do and all these people that I want to play. Douglas Murray

02:14:10.880 is definitely on the list. I actually got to meet him a couple of years ago. Fantastic person. And

02:14:17.420 yeah, like I have so much respect for him and what he's doing as well. His book is quite good.

02:14:25.720 stay safe also what's your next big move canadian political podcast oh wow um well i'm definitely

02:14:34.440 working on this youtube channel of course i'm doing a lot of live streams and my youtube channel

02:14:40.660 has actually grown significantly thanks to you guys and all of your support when i started my

02:14:46.960 live streams, um, on October 1st, I was at less than 2000 followers. I think I was like at like

02:14:55.640 1600 followers. And right now I think I'm, um, just over 27,000. Uh, my videos are getting a lot

02:15:04.300 of views. I'm getting a lot more subscribers. So yeah, like there, there seems to be a lot of

02:15:08.940 interest, um, in my content, in the videos I'm putting out. If you follow me on Instagram or,

02:15:16.180 um, on, on Tik TOK, you might've also seen my very viral, you know, Iranian here with another

02:15:22.280 pro tip videos. I also post them on YouTube, but it's really strange because they haven't gotten

02:15:28.060 a lot of views or reach on YouTube. I mean, a video that I post on Instagram, like one of my

02:15:35.280 Iranian here videos, um, I get like, it gets anywhere from like half a million to a million

02:15:43.140 views on average. Whereas on YouTube, it's stuck somewhere around 30, I don't know, 20 to 50,000.

02:15:52.160 I have one which is now starting to go a little bit viral. But it still hasn't reached my YouTube,

02:15:58.420 it still hasn't reached my Instagram or TikTok numbers. But I am, I think I have to play around

02:16:06.920 with the SEO a little bit on YouTube, I think I have to make them more search friendly. So I'm

02:16:14.380 going to be, you know, working on that, going back and redoing some of my old videos with the

02:16:18.920 description and things like that. But yeah, right now I'm focused on growing this channel because

02:16:24.700 there seems to be a lot of interest, a lot of appetite in learning more about Islamic terrorism

02:16:31.740 and jihad and of course my experience as an Iranian. And I just want to thank all of you

02:16:36.900 guys for your support. I mean, you're helping me do all this. I'm also working on a book.

02:16:42.120 It was supposed to come out this past weekend, but it's been pushed back mainly because all of

02:16:51.020 a sudden I was presented with an opportunity to grow. And that's why you see me in a new space

02:16:56.000 right now in a new office. So I decided to push my book back a little bit, but I am working on a

02:17:03.980 book that's going to be coming out on January 4. And yeah, at this point, it's just, you know,

02:17:10.980 seeing how much interest there is. So if you guys are, you know, interested in supporting me and

02:17:16.680 supporting this channel, you're also welcome to become a paid member. Membership is, I think

02:17:23.300 membership is about $10 a month and very, very soon I'm going to start doing members only live

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02:17:37.080 opportunity to, you know, uh, that will give me an opportunity to be able to, uh, be more active,

02:17:43.260 um, in the chat as well. Um, Oh, thank you so much. So the book is called pro tips from an

02:17:52.880 Iranian. I mean, I can, I can pull it up for you if you want. It's okay. No, I think I think it was

02:18:03.460 yeah, I have to go back and I have to fix fix it on Amazon. Oh my gosh, I don't know why it's not

02:18:10.900 there. But it's called pro tips from an Iranian. It's going to be out in a little bit. And yeah,

02:18:17.180 I'm very, very excited about that. So definitely want to stay tuned for that. And yeah, thank you

02:18:25.200 so much for the support. And yeah, for everyone who's watching, you know, like, subscribe,

02:18:31.920 share my videos. And yes, the membership option is open. We have members only message board. And

02:18:39.140 very soon I'm going to be doing members only live streams. All right. Thank you. Thank you so much

02:18:46.480 for that. Appreciate the support. Nike lost $3.5 billion today. There are still some people who

02:19:00.160 object. But these are directly anti-American initiatives. The exaltation of these people

02:19:05.980 is directly anti-American. And in service, I think Ahmadinejad's tweet about Kaepernick,

02:19:10.980 It shows vividly that what this is about is in service of the jihad to weaken American society so that ultimately it collapses and can be replaced by a Sharia state. 0.84

02:19:21.960 That may be fanciful, but the efforts to destroy American society in service of that fanciful goal is not fanciful at all. 0.98

02:19:30.720 Yes.

02:19:31.960 First of all, thank you for a super good question.

02:19:34.380 Thank you.

02:19:34.760 One you mentioned in the 1960s, the change in academic study for exposition of Islam.

02:19:45.520 Who were some of the leading purveyors of ultimate business, like a better phrase?

02:19:51.320 And I'll leave it at that.

02:19:53.920 I have another question in the back.

02:19:55.120 Okay, sure.

02:19:56.260 The primary person that you can credit, although his influence has to come from other sources, the fact that he became so wildly influential, but the primary person responsible for the obfuscation in Middle East studies, for the extinguishing of true teaching about Islam, and the introduction of all these politically correct falsehoods is Edward Said.

02:20:23.540 Edward Said, of course, was a Christian Arab who was the author of a book called Orientalism, in which he explained that it was essentially a colonialist enterprise to criticize Islam, that if you were criticizing Islam, it was only in service of destroying the Islamic world such that it could be colonized by the West.

02:20:48.400 and that, therefore, all criticism of Islam essentially had to be rejected

02:20:53.700 by anybody who was against imperialism.

02:20:57.960 So it sounds like it was more ideological than theological on his part.

02:21:02.220 Yeah, it wasn't theological at all on his part. 0.84

02:21:04.600 I mean, you can't really sustain the idea that Islam is a religion of peace 0.97

02:21:08.040 in any honest manner. 1.00

02:21:10.640 I tell you something. 0.99

02:21:11.780 Sometimes, I mean, I get people telling me I'm an idiot all the time, 1.00

02:21:15.220 and maybe they're true, right? 1.00

02:21:16.920 but um tahir al-qadri is a pakistani theologian who wrote a 512 page fatwa

02:21:24.920 proving that islam is a religion of peace and i get people

02:21:30.920 i find it very funny when um non-arab muslims are even more like radicalized than than arab muslims 0.82

02:21:44.120 um like do they not understand that the only reason they're muslim is because they were 0.83

02:21:49.720 invaded and colonized by the arab muslim invaders it's just it's wild to me it's wild to me

02:21:55.560 people even even now especially when it came out i would get people writing me every couple days 0.99

02:22:01.480 saying why don't you retire our country and then you will see that you are islamophobe and

02:22:07.640 And so I read it, and it was very helpful that it was available in a PDF that was searchable.

02:22:18.220 So I searched. 0.98

02:22:19.820 I searched for 2-191, which is kill them wherever you find them. 1.00

02:22:25.120 I searched for 489, which is kill them wherever you find them. 1.00

02:22:28.800 I searched for 9-5, which is kill the idolaters wherever you find them. 1.00

02:22:33.300 I searched for 929, which is fight against those who don't believe in Allah on the last day 0.77

02:22:37.340 and do not forbid what he has forbidden, even if they are of the people of the book,

02:22:41.300 until they pay the jizya with willing submission and feel themselves subdued.

02:22:45.280 I searched for 47.4. 1.00

02:22:46.880 When you meet the unbelievers, strike the necks. 1.00

02:22:48.700 I searched for 860. 1.00

02:22:50.560 Strike terror in the hearts of the enemies of Allah. 0.91

02:22:53.260 I searched for 351. 1.00

02:22:55.660 Soon we will strike terror, we meaning Allah, in the hearts of the unbelievers. 0.98

02:23:00.120 And on and on and on. 1.00

02:23:01.680 Not one of them was mentioned.

02:23:03.880 So 512 pages of Blather, where he never even addressed the passages of the Quran that jihadis used to justify violence and make recruits among peaceful Muslims.

02:23:16.100 That's how they convince people that Islam is a religion of peace.

02:23:18.920 And so some non-Muslim reads Tahir al-Qadri and thinks, oh, well, this is a respected Islamic theologian who's showing that Islam is a religion of peace.

02:23:26.780 He doesn't know what's in the Quran. He doesn't know those verses to search for. They fall for it.

02:23:31.000 And there are many, many examples of expositions of that kind. You don't find, you can't find, because Islam is not a religion of peace, any honest appraisal of how the Quran's violent verses don't really have any force in the modern age. 0.83

02:23:48.500 you will find people saying, oh, that only applies to the seventh century, which in the first place

02:23:52.520 contradicts the idea that the Quran is the perfect book. That's the perfect guide for human behavior

02:23:57.740 for all time. And then we hear, oh yeah, but large portions of it only apply to 1400 years ago.

02:24:03.360 I would say that the Yazidis would have an issue with that statement. I would say that Iraqi

02:24:14.260 christians would have an issue with that statement in fact i would say um everyone in iran would have

02:24:19.620 an issue with that statement given that um those exact principles are being used to um 0.71

02:24:27.620 colonize oppress and murder iranians in the last 47 years in the name of allah and islam

02:24:34.660 it doesn't make any sense but secondly if you say that the quran's passages only apply

02:24:41.780 to a very strictly circumscribed period of time,

02:24:46.320 then you've got to deal with the fact

02:24:47.660 that all throughout history,

02:24:49.440 Muslims misunderstood that

02:24:50.920 and behaved violently on the basis of these passages. 0.97

02:24:54.400 And so you've got the most spectacular failure

02:24:56.440 to communicate the truths of the religion

02:24:58.380 that has ever been in the history of the world

02:25:01.580 in any religion.

02:25:03.120 And so it just doesn't make any sense either way.

02:25:07.160 I don't know.

02:25:07.860 Yes, yes, sir.

02:25:08.840 Thank you.

02:25:38.840 You might ask that you really don't want to know.

02:25:41.340 Yes.

02:25:42.180 Do you care to give us your assessment

02:25:45.120 of the role of the intelligence community

02:25:47.720 to becoming a doctor of association?

02:25:51.560 Well, the intelligence community has done a grave disservice

02:25:54.060 to our understanding of the threat

02:25:55.920 by partnering with people

02:25:57.960 who represent aspects of the threat.

02:26:00.460 I mean, you have the extraordinarily strange situation

02:26:04.700 of the Justice Department determining that care,

02:26:08.780 the Council on American Islamic Relations,

02:26:10.920 and ISNA, the Islamic Society of North America,

02:26:13.420 are tied to Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

02:26:15.800 And then you have the FBI having them to lunch

02:26:17.700 and consulting with them.

02:26:20.640 And the amount of interaction is actually extraordinary.

02:26:25.220 People don't know.

02:26:26.700 We did, Pamela Geller and I did a Freedom of Information Act

02:26:29.700 years ago, way back in 2011 or 12.

02:26:32.300 we did a FOIA request on the interaction of the FBI with Care and ISNA. And we got a stack of

02:26:42.940 documents this high that they said, this is the first volume. We'll get you the rest later. They

02:26:49.180 never did. But in that, there was nothing much that was explosive and there was a great deal

02:26:56.840 was redacted but what came through was the friendly daily interaction and eric trein and

02:27:02.840 the department of homeland security and others uh writing to these emailing these care and isna

02:27:09.320 operatives and saying uh lunch is on us today and what are you guys having and and and they're they're

02:27:16.200 sorry someone in the chat asked me if um i'm in support of zionism or the state of israel

02:27:21.640 The answer is 100%. I support the state of Israel. I am a Zionist. I believe that Israel

02:27:27.320 does have the right to exist. The Jewish people have a right to self-determination.

02:27:32.040 I think Palestine is fake. There is no Palestine. I actually think that Gaza and Judea and Samaria 0.98

02:27:39.720 both belong to Israel. And if anyone has an issue with that, they can go to Jordan,

02:27:47.160 which was the original arab palestine israel belongs to the people of israel bringing them

02:27:53.480 in to consult on a regular basis and this is like if if fdr had had the german-american bun fritz

02:28:01.880 kuhn come into the white house and chat after the united states declared war on germany

02:28:12.280 yes well you've got a point there there are precedents

02:28:17.160 Yes, hi. How are you?

02:28:47.160 it's just more of the same short-sighted real politic that we think that we can deal with

02:28:56.500 these people on the basis that we deal with France or Germany. That it really comes from

02:29:03.420 the postmodern notion that everybody's good at heart. And if we just sit down and talk about

02:29:09.400 our differences, we'll be able to find common ground. And that really, of course, guides so

02:29:15.200 much of Western policy that the Ayatollah Khamenei and Hassan Rouhani, they're just

02:29:26.340 guys like us. And we can strike a deal. We just have to come to an understanding. The

02:29:32.340 idea that there might be people who have radically different values, radically different priorities,

02:29:38.900 no interest really in being pals, it doesn't enter their minds.

02:29:42.900 but this is the reason it doesn't enter their minds is because there are a number of um

02:29:48.260 organizations in the united states who are constantly trying to normalize and whitewash

02:29:55.700 the crimes of islamic dictatorships for example the um there's a there's an islamic regime lobby

02:30:04.500 group in the United States called the National Iranian American Council or NAIAC. NAIAC is

02:30:12.500 funded by the Islamic Republic and it is one of the ways the Islamic Republic has pushed its agenda

02:30:21.460 and tried to normalize relations, right? And so we call them the reformists because NAIAC

02:30:29.540 tends to push um this ideology exactly what robert spencer just spoke about nyack pushes the

02:30:38.260 the ideology that um you know the the islamic republic isn't really the enemy um you know they

02:30:44.900 can be negotiated with they could they can be rationalized what they can be reasoned with

02:30:49.380 they're rational actors so they push that lie um basically as a way to just um 0.92

02:30:55.780 keep keep Americans away and to allow the Islamic Republic to just continue spreading its Islamic 0.94

02:31:05.240 Jihad not just in the Middle East but in North America as well you know a lot of the destabilization 0.96

02:31:11.760 that you're seeing happening in Western society is being funded by the Islamic Republic which is 0.82

02:31:16.720 occupying my country of of Iran and it's being done through these organizations like the National

02:31:25.280 Iranian American Council, which again, is the political lobbying branch of the Islamic Republic.

02:31:33.260 I would love it if, you know, in the same way that, you know, CARE is being sanctioned and

02:31:42.020 being labeled as a terrorist organization in the United States, I really wish that

02:31:46.860 the US government would do the same thing with the National Iranian American Council. And for all

02:31:54.880 the um iranian americans or just americans in general who are watching this um i don't know

02:32:01.100 maybe maybe you guys should should get on that and get get started because uh yeah that that's

02:32:06.220 another group um that's another you know lobby group that's pushing and promoting this islamist

02:32:12.680 ideology and this islamist narrative which is exactly what robert spencer here is is speaking

02:32:18.360 about this is a deeply entrenched state department idea that goes back to the the hearts and minds

02:32:25.240 initiatives that we pursued in the third oh sorry and amir thank you so much for the super sticker

02:32:30.760 i appreciate that thank you for the support all right i'll go back a little bit here just so that

02:32:35.640 now we can listen to what robert spencer is saying um after my explanation about all these um pro

02:32:42.440 pro-Islamic regime lobby groups that are impacting U.S. policy.

02:32:47.260 That we think that we can deal with these people on the basis that we deal with France or Germany. 0.58

02:32:54.140 That it really comes from the postmodern notion that everybody's good at heart.

02:32:59.920 And if we just sit down and talk about our differences, we'll be able to find common ground.

02:33:05.320 And that really, of course, guides so much of Western policy that the Ayatollah Khamenei and Hassan Rouhani, they're just guys like us.

02:33:20.500 And we can strike a deal.

02:33:22.260 We just have to come to an understanding the idea that there might be people who have radically different values.

02:33:29.260 Yeah, as an Iranian, I can tell you, do not negotiate with terrorists.

02:33:32.940 You cannot rationalize with them.

02:33:34.400 you cannot deal with them. These are people that literally want to murder Americans. 0.98

02:33:39.880 Different priorities, no interest really in being pals. It doesn't enter their minds. But this is a

02:33:46.880 deeply entrenched State Department idea that goes back to the hearts and minds initiatives that we

02:33:53.560 pursued in the third world in the Cold War. And it's just been transposed now to a new context

02:34:00.600 where it's even less effective because there's no way with a certain kind of Islamic mindset.

02:34:08.240 Now, people are people everywhere, and human nature is always the same. 0.98

02:34:11.200 You might be able to win over some hearts and minds somewhere. 1.00

02:34:14.160 But generally, you've got also to deal with Muslim clerics who will tell you that the infidels will come and try to seal your Islam away 1.00

02:34:21.040 by giving you roads and hospitals and basketballs and such. 1.00

02:34:25.720 And you have to hate them all the more when they come to you with all their largesse.

02:34:29.900 but take it. And so it's ultimately just a waste of time and a waste of money. And it's not going

02:34:37.020 to get us anywhere. And I can guarantee you that. And if I talked to those guys today, they would

02:34:41.280 say, well, you don't know anything. You've never been a diplomat. You've never been in the

02:34:47.080 foreign service. You have to leave this to the experts. But the fact is, what they have done

02:34:53.400 and the basis on which they have done it has failed again and again and again and again and

02:34:57.480 again. And I am advocating here for some very simple and obvious truths that if they were to

02:35:04.380 base their actions upon rather than their wishful thinking and fantasy-based policy making that

02:35:09.240 they're pursuing today, they might end up being more successful. And I would submit that when we

02:35:14.880 look back on this, when our children's children look back on this after they've paid the jizya,

02:35:20.340 they will see that this whole establishment, foreign policy establishment, was wrongheaded.

02:35:27.480 And I hope that we wake up to that before it's too late.

02:35:57.480 yes

02:36:27.480 93 Republicans are running in the office now.

02:36:34.480 Knowing things have been broken, what's going on?

02:36:38.480 And how is that a new trick?

02:36:40.480 They don't leave, they don't know anything.

02:36:43.480 Yeah, so consider Keith Ellison.

02:36:46.480 I don't really know the story about why he's leaving Congress.

02:36:49.480 It would seem to me that being a member of the House of Representatives is better than being attorney general of the state of Minnesota.

02:36:55.480 My immediate guess as to why he's moving down is because perhaps of the allegations against him.

02:37:01.000 I don't know.

02:37:01.880 But imagine, but think about what damage he can do as attorney general of the state of Minnesota, which has been a hotbed of jihad activity and Ash Shabab recruitment, ISIS recruitment right in Minneapolis among the Somali community.

02:37:14.520 If he puts an end to investigations of that, it can proliferate and he could be in a position to do that very easily.

02:37:26.200 We have to be able to speak forthrightly about these issues.

02:37:29.440 But right now, that's why they've been so indefatigable in making sure that speaking forthrightly about these issues has been so terribly stigmatized. 0.98

02:37:39.300 And anybody who speaks out about this or raises concerns or says, wait a minute, do we really want a hijab wearing Muslim in the United States Congress?

02:37:48.900 What are the implications of that?

02:37:52.200 And then, of course, you have to deal with the charges of racism and bigotry and Islamophobia.

02:37:57.340 Well, if you are willing to brave that, then you can speak about the nature of Sharia and of women's rights

02:38:03.340 and the implications of wearing a hijab, such as I outlined a little while ago with Sarsour,

02:38:08.340 and try to frame Ilhan Omar, the hijab-wearing congressional candidate.

02:38:14.300 Of course, he's running unopposed, so it would just be...

02:38:17.300 We all know what's happening now with Ilhan Omar.

02:38:20.880 I haven't even spoken about what's going on in Minnesota because there is so much information

02:38:30.240 coming out. So I'm going to give it a little bit of time there, but I'm definitely going to be

02:38:38.960 speaking about Somalia and what's happening in Minnesota. Of course, I'm going to be focusing

02:38:49.780 more on what the government said. I'm just waiting for more details from the U.S. government

02:38:56.520 about this because they have said that a lot of the money that was scammed

02:39:08.360 was sent back to fund al-Shabaab. Al-Shabaab is an Islamic terrorist group in Somalia. It's

02:39:17.680 actually the somalian branch of the muslim brotherhood so again hamas is muslim brotherhood

02:39:24.080 al-shabab is muslim brotherhood care is muslim brotherhood um and right now care is going to

02:39:29.280 the defense of of what's happening in minnesota so as you can tell there's definitely a connection

02:39:36.480 here and um yeah like it based on what u.s officials have said it seems as if you know the

02:39:44.000 the $8 billion fraud conducted by people within the Somalian community, which allegedly was

02:39:53.920 also facilitated by Ilhan Omar, a lot of that U.S. taxpayer money has gone to Al-Shabaab,

02:40:03.820 which is crazy, crazy, right? So I'm actually looking into that. I'm waiting to get more

02:40:11.500 information but i will definitely be doing an episode on that um and i'll be speaking about

02:40:17.500 that and guys it's this isn't just something um that's happening in the somalian community there

02:40:23.500 are numerous um organizations that funnel um money to uh islamic terrorist groups um under the guise

02:40:34.620 of of charity or whatever so um what's happening in minnesota guys it's not a one-off um it happens

02:40:43.020 in a lot of places through through various means a matter of trying to call attention to these

02:40:49.660 issues she's going to congress but frame what show her to be what she really is as an instrument of 0.99

02:40:58.060 oppression and somebody who is trying to make the world worse for women. And we have to go on the

02:41:04.840 offensive in this regard. The problem is then all these problems become interrelated. And then the

02:41:10.200 problem of our being deplatformed and not being able to have a voice in social media becomes a

02:41:16.280 very salient issue. So we can only hope that some of this is going to break our way. But the

02:41:22.180 deplatforming is very serious because if we can have the best arguments in the world, but if we

02:41:26.940 can't get them out, then we're done for. And the social media giants today control the means of

02:41:32.680 communication to a greater degree than any totalitarian state ever did.

02:41:36.300 I don't actually. I haven't heard anything. Maybe Claire knows or Chris, but

02:41:56.000 I haven't heard anything about what

02:41:58.180 Grover Norquist has been doing

02:41:59.400 many of you know I'm sure that

02:42:02.040 he was involved with Abdurrahman

02:42:04.320 Alamudi the Al Qaeda financier

02:42:06.100 he had connections

02:42:08.060 to other people who were very questionable

02:42:10.080 in regard to their own

02:42:12.040 connections to Hamas and the Muslim

02:42:14.020 Brotherhood and so on and he's

02:42:16.160 always been very very

02:42:18.160 dismissive to anybody notably

02:42:20.260 Frank Gaffney who has

02:42:21.760 called attention to this and

02:42:24.240 just accuse them of racism and Islamophobia. And that's the end of the story. And this kind of

02:42:28.600 thing is, I think, emblematic of the fix that we're in, that these kinds of discussions that we need

02:42:35.260 to have. If Grover really is compromised with all his power and influence, then that's a very

02:42:40.140 important question. But we can't even ask it. Just like when Michelle Bachman asked for an

02:42:47.260 investigation of Muslim Brotherhood infiltration into the United States government, St. John

02:42:51.220 McCain denounced her on the floor of the Senate and shut it down yes I do think 0.99

02:43:06.880 that Sunnis and Shias are certainly cooperating mm-hmm I don't know where 0.99

02:43:18.100 the ultimate orchestration comes from, but there is orchestration. I could tell you that because

02:43:23.100 I'm constantly trying to answer their arguments on an intellectual basis at Jihad Watch, my website

02:43:31.260 and various articles and such. And I noticed that there are certain times when many, many Muslim 1.00

02:43:39.400 spokesmen say the same thing. You know, Ibrahim Hooper will make a statement, the Muslims are the

02:43:45.080 new Jews. And then three days later, Riza Aslan will say, the Muslims are the new Jews. And a 0.65

02:43:49.780 couple of days after that, Keith Ellison will say, the Muslims are the new Jews. And I think,

02:43:53.200 okay, who told them to say the Muslims are the new Jews? And I don't know who's coordinating it,

02:43:58.520 but there is coordination. It seems to me to be clear. And yes, the Sunnis and Shia are

02:44:03.500 cooperating. Of course, the most obvious example of that is 9-11, when the Saudis and Iran

02:44:08.540 collaborated in working with the 9-11 hijackers. There's documentation of this, much of it thanks 0.99

02:44:14.780 to Claire Lopez in the book, The History of Jihad.

02:44:18.260 And, of course, the Iranians, the Islamic Republic of Iran,

02:44:22.700 which is Shiite today. 1.00

02:44:24.280 Thank you for finally calling it out, the Islamic Republic of Iran, 0.99

02:44:28.620 not the Iranians, because I'm Iranian, 0.97

02:44:30.840 and just like the other 80% of Iranians, 80 to 90%

02:44:34.780 were fighting the Islamic Republic.

02:44:37.300 So finally, like literally, it's a one-hour,

02:44:40.860 you know, I think it's like a, I don't know, one, one hour, 20 minute long video. And literally in

02:44:48.260 the last, like the last 20 seconds, he finally called it what it actually is, which is the

02:44:54.740 Islamic Republic of Iran. Thank you, Robert. Thank you for that. Today funds Sunni Hamas

02:44:59.460 and Islamic Jihad as well. Let's go back a little bit. Okay. Who told them to say the Muslims are

02:45:04.680 the new Jews? And I don't know who's coordinating it, but there is coordination. It seems to me to

02:45:10.180 be clear. And yes, the Sunnis and Shia are cooperating. Of course, the most obvious example

02:45:15.120 of that is 9-11, when the Saudis and Iran collaborated in working with the 9-11 hijackers.

02:45:22.740 There's documentation of this, much of it thanks to Claire Lopez, in the book, The History of Jihad.

02:45:28.280 And of course, the Iranians, the Islamic Republic of Iran, which is Shiite, today funds Sunni Hamas

02:45:35.140 and Islamic Jihad, as well as having also funded Al-Qaeda and the Taliban, which are Sunni. 0.61

02:45:40.580 There's an old proverb, my brother against my brother, but both of us against our cousin. 0.98

02:45:44.960 And Sunnis and Shia hate each other, but they'll always collaborate against infidels. 1.00

02:45:52.440 Thank you. 1.00

02:45:53.740 That's very true.

02:45:55.820 Wow.

02:45:56.440 So that was very informative.

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Goldie Ghamari - December 10, 2025

Robert Spencer： The History of Jihad

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