Louder with Crowder - February 11, 2015


#ChapelHillShooting - Is It "Terrorism"?


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Length

4 minutes

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Word count

688

Sentence count

62

Harmful content

Toxicity

9

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Hate speech

8

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In this episode, I discuss the Chapel Hill shooting, and why the media is ignoring the obvious link between this attack and the fact that the shooter was not a Muslim. I also talk about the root cause of all evil and why religion is not the cause for all evil.

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00:00:02.000 Okay, so the Chapel Hill shooting, I'm learning about it at the same time as you're learning about it if you're watching this.
00:00:08.000 Right off the bat, an absolute tragedy, and my thoughts and prayers go out to the families of the victims.
00:00:17.000 That being said, the media's already started to circle.
00:00:21.000 And you're seeing this all over online, people saying, well, the media isn't talking about this because it's a white guy.
00:00:28.000 If he were a Muslim, it would be all over the place. 1.00
00:00:31.000 Of course they are.
00:00:33.000 They're covering it everywhere.
00:00:35.000 Don't believe that person. 0.99
00:00:36.000 They are covering it everywhere that a white atheist shot three Muslims. 0.91
00:00:41.000 This idea that only Muslim terrorism is covered is completely untrue. 0.84
00:00:44.000 Right now, go to any major news website.
00:00:48.000 This guy wasn't Muslim.
00:00:49.000 Actually, I'm looking at therightscoop.com right now.
00:00:51.000 By all information that we have, though we don't have enough information yet, he was a hardcore anti-religion atheist progressive.
00:01:01.000 He was a fan of HuffPo, Rachel Maddow, Freedom From Religion, Bill Nye, gay marriage groups, a bunch of anti-conservative groups.
00:01:07.000 That's what we know so far.
00:01:09.000 It's not conclusive.
00:01:13.000 So before we get into all the conjecture that you're going to see from the media, I think something that is an important takeaway here is that religion, despite what people have told you for years, is not the cause of all violence or wars.
00:01:27.000 Evil is.
00:01:28.000 We see that today.
00:01:29.000 The root cause for acts of evil is evil.
00:01:35.000 Now, I've argued for a long time that that's why since this incident has happened and you're watching this video, there have been many, many fold more attacks in the name of Islamic terrorism than this one attack globally, every minute of every day. 0.73
00:01:48.000 And I would argue because the root of Islam is Muhammad and Muhammad's evil. 1.00
00:01:54.000 That's an opinion.
00:01:55.000 If you disagree with me, you can comment below.
00:01:58.000 The root of Christianity, I would argue Jesus is good.
00:02:01.000 I know people say, the Inquisition, the Crusades!
00:02:04.000 Okay, but Today, a vast majority of charity and humanitarian work is carried out by Christians across the globe.
00:02:12.000 As to whether this guy, you can see the Chris Rock or Sally Cohn tweets, we'll put those up here saying, they're just calling him a white guy.
00:02:19.000 They're not calling him a terrorist.
00:02:20.000 They're calling him a man.
00:02:22.000 Okay.
00:02:24.000 It's not a Muslim thing. 0.99
00:02:26.000 It's not just because he's white and he's not Muslim. 0.71
00:02:29.000 I find it funny when they equate white with Muslim. 0.99
00:02:31.000 Muslim is not a race.
00:02:32.000 It's a religion and an ideology.
00:02:35.000 We don't know his motive.
00:02:37.000 It could be a senseless act of violence, but terrorism is not a senseless act of violence because, by definition, it's politically or ideologically motivated.
00:02:45.000 It's a means to a political end.
00:02:48.000 So why are Islamic murders generally referred to as terrorism pretty quickly?
00:02:55.000 Usually they're committed after the motive has been stated.
00:02:59.000 Allah Akbar releasing a beheading video saying we will bring Sharia to the world. 0.75
00:03:05.000 It's really easy to tell the motive when a guy says, this is my motive. 1.00
00:03:10.000 I want everyone who's non-Muslim to die. 1.00
00:03:12.000 That's terrorism. 1.00
00:03:14.000 By definition.
00:03:15.000 If this was a tiff over a parking spot, we don't know.
00:03:19.000 It's a senseless act of violence. 0.86
00:03:20.000 If he killed people solely because they were Muslim, it's wrong and I would have no problem calling it terrorism. 0.86
00:03:26.000 It has nothing to do with white or brown. 0.61
00:03:30.000 It has to do with the very definition of terrorism.
00:03:33.000 And for uninformed people to complain about it or to develop opinions on either side until we know the motivation behind this, it's media malpractice.
00:03:43.000 And you see that everywhere.
00:03:46.000 So again, we're learning this as it unfolds.
00:03:49.000 Follow me on Twitter.
00:03:50.000 Go to Ladder with Crowder.
00:03:51.000 We'll be covering more of it.
00:03:52.000 But the real takeaway here is, again, we've been told that religion is the cause of all wars and violence.
00:04:01.000 It's not.
00:04:02.000 Evil is.
00:04:03.000 The root cause for acts of evil is evil.
00:04:09.000 Is what I would tell you if I knew that you liked this video.