Louder with Crowder - March 17, 2026


Islam Is Violent & It's All America's Fault: Feat. Special Guest Ben Bankas


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1 hour and 7 minutes

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10,927

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160

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Josh and Josh are joined by comedian Ben Bankus to talk about Iran and Islam. They also discuss the latest in the latest episode of The Daily Show with Rachel Maddow, and Josh tries to figure out how to turn $250 into $14,000.

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00:03:48.000 Look, we have Ben Bankus on the show today, a comedian from Canada.
00:03:54.000 That's not Ben Bankus.
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00:03:59.000 Man, that picture looks so Russian.
00:04:01.000 It does.
00:04:02.000 He looks like he's the bad guy in a Cold War era film.
00:04:05.000 Like he should be descending from a chopper at Red Dawn, getting blown away by Patrick Schweze.
00:04:10.000 And then we're going to talk about, look, Islam.
00:04:14.000 Wherever you line up on Iran, and I think there are reasonable people on all sides here.
00:04:19.000 Like I said, three months, check back.
00:04:21.000 That's what are we at?
00:04:22.000 Three weeks now?
00:04:22.000 Three months?
00:04:23.000 Let's check back in and then we'll see.
00:04:24.000 That'll kind of gauge as to whether this was successful or effective or not.
00:04:27.000 I see a lot of people making the argument now that Islam is fine, that Islam actually isn't the threat. 1.00
00:04:34.000 It's not a threat to Western civilization. 0.96
00:04:36.000 And that if we didn't bother them or kill them, meaning Muslims or conflicts like Iran or insert whichever Middle Eastern country here, they wouldn't come after us. 0.99
00:04:48.000 That's about as about as sound of a basis for an argument as the chat that we took or I think that we acknowledged yesterday where someone said, why would we ever attack Iran? 0.93
00:04:59.000 They've never attacked us.
00:05:00.000 Thousands of Americans killed and multiple attacks by the Iranian regime.
00:05:04.000 Everyone can have an opinion.
00:05:06.000 We don't have to act as though all opinions are just as legitimate as far as their basis in fact.
00:05:12.000 If the opinion right now, many people out there, and I know it's always the opinion of the left, but some on the right, is that Islam is largely peaceful and we are responsible for instigating Islamic violence, conquest, or encroachment.
00:05:28.000 That's not a valid opinion.
00:05:30.000 And I'll go through the history, the founder of the feast, Muhammad, and real-world data in all situations that are being presented right now.
00:05:39.000 So I'll disabuse you of that, provide all the references. 0.91
00:05:42.000 We got to get going because we have that silly Canadian on the show on with the show. 1.00
00:05:47.000 Hey, Josh. 0.96
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00:08:22.000 It's your worst nightmare.
00:08:24.000 Oh, not this.
00:08:25.000 It's St. Patrick's Day.
00:08:26.000 You forgot to wear green, and your female assistant has hands like lunchboxes. 1.00
00:08:34.000 The worst nightmare.
00:08:37.000 Oh, I can't wait till we start doing those ads.
00:08:39.000 Carshield is going to be a sponsor.
00:08:41.000 Let's see if they drop out after two.
00:08:43.000 Exactly.
00:08:43.000 Imagine we do it, and then they're going to call it.
00:08:45.000 It's your worst nightmare.
00:08:47.000 Your star ambassador just saw one of your other guys doing blackface of me.
00:08:53.000 No, no, no, no, not blackface.
00:08:55.000 Just like body.
00:08:57.000 There are many directions this could go, most of them not good.
00:09:02.000 Quick question.
00:09:03.000 What's your favorite St. Patty's Day tradition?
00:09:05.000 What is it?
00:09:06.000 You guys let me know.
00:09:07.000 We'll take that in the chat.
00:09:08.000 Captain Morgan, CEO. 0.97
00:09:10.000 Silly green shoes. 0.90
00:09:11.000 How are you? 0.97
00:09:11.000 I'm doing fantastic. 0.97
00:09:12.000 My shoes are not silly.
00:09:13.000 They are green.
00:09:14.000 They're not silly.
00:09:14.000 You're right.
00:09:15.000 They are ugly. 0.99
00:09:16.000 You're colorblind. 0.99
00:09:16.000 No, they're not. 0.99
00:09:17.000 So what would you know?
00:09:18.000 Friday and Saturday, March 20th, 21st at Summit City Comedy Club in the bustling metropolis of Fort Wayne, Indiana.
00:09:26.000 Mr. Feierstein, how are you?
00:09:27.000 The Baton Rouge of Indiana.
00:09:27.000 That's right.
00:09:29.000 Yes, exactly.
00:09:31.000 It's the Shreveport in the Midwest.
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00:09:39.000 No, there's still tickets available.
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00:09:41.000 Yeah.
00:09:42.000 Also, still houses available for like $2.
00:09:45.000 Yeah, and a lot of.
00:09:46.000 Why is there so many trailer parks?
00:09:49.000 We'll talk about it when I go.
00:09:50.000 What's funny is you can have a really nice trailer home these days.
00:09:50.000 I would tell you this, though.
00:09:53.000 I was looking at a big acre lot, and I was like, man, I could get a really nice trailer home.
00:09:58.000 I tried to convince my wife Catherine to let us buy a trailer in California like 15 years ago, and she wouldn't do it. 0.99
00:10:04.000 Same place, the lots, $2 million trailers.
00:10:07.000 I bet you if you're not going to be able to get a lot of men, like, okay, there's a new law.
00:10:09.000 You cannot get married.
00:10:11.000 You would just see rows of single guys living in trailers on a big lot.
00:10:15.000 A lot.
00:10:15.000 Yeah, just living like Mel Gibson and Lethal Weapon.
00:10:18.000 Pretty much.
00:10:18.000 Yeah, except he was by himself.
00:10:20.000 Yeah, yeah, yeah.
00:10:21.000 And then what was that?
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00:10:22.000 Enough sugar tits. 0.99
00:10:24.000 We have a single dad's breakfast every week. 0.97
00:10:28.000 Before St. Patrick's Day, right?
00:10:29.000 So, hey, isn't that fun?
00:10:31.000 And you know this?
00:10:32.000 You think St. Patrick's, you largely think of Irish white ginger drunks who may get a little surly, but you know, it's usually a one-on-one fight. 0.99
00:10:40.000 However, new, modern St. Patrick's Day, diversity is our greatest strength, right?
00:10:45.000 Remember that.
00:10:46.000 And so nothing better represents St. Patrick's Day and its diversity now than this week's installment of Leprechauns in the Hood.
00:11:03.000 Oh, man.
00:11:04.000 I think it was an accident.
00:11:11.000 I should warn you if you guys are squeamish.
00:11:13.000 know it's not great how do you think that many people Yeah, the one guy wasn't even doing anything.
00:11:28.000 By the way, he could easily be killed on that car.
00:11:30.000 How do you get that many people to sucker punch random passersby? 0.99
00:11:34.000 That is not something that you typically see amongst white Americans. 0.84
00:11:39.000 Let's be honest.
00:11:46.000 Good on that guy for trying to de-escalate, but it's very different from the kind of bar fights that you're used to.
00:11:51.000 The kind of fights that you would see, you know, two people fighting, maybe a couple of buddies jump in.
00:11:55.000 But the fact that everyone in that group is so comfortable simply sucker punching folks who have nothing to do with the conflict.
00:12:03.000 That's like mass hypnosis takes place, you know, or you've heard the term mob mentality, but it doesn't always take place or sort of manifest itself in the same way.
00:12:16.000 It does in these communities.
00:12:19.000 You guys notice that?
00:12:20.000 Why does mass hypnosis always lead to you're not safe there, even if you are an innocent bystander?
00:12:25.000 How many videos do you have to see?
00:12:26.000 And by the way, Leprechaun in the Hood was a real film.
00:12:28.000 I did a watch one.
00:12:29.000 You can go back.
00:12:30.000 That was a real movie.
00:12:33.000 But before that, even more diversity, just as St. Patrick would have wanted.
00:12:39.000 This is all Dallas, by the way.
00:12:40.000 This is all one city.
00:12:42.000 Oh, you got to be tough to start a fight while on the back of a bike.
00:12:51.000 Yeah, of course it's going to dip. 0.99
00:12:52.000 Kind of dumb. 0.91
00:12:53.000 It's over the weight capacity. 0.99
00:12:55.000 Too many people on the bike, which is illegal.
00:12:57.000 Assaulting people, illegal.
00:12:59.000 Assaulting people on a moving vehicle, I would assume extra illegal.
00:13:03.000 All of this has inspired the latest installment of a Leprechaun 14 white flight.
00:13:08.000 So, yeah, he's just doing.
00:13:13.000 He's just doing basic white people things now. 0.50
00:13:18.000 Yes, watering her feet.
00:13:19.000 Is that Jill?
00:13:20.000 That's not Jill Biden, is it?
00:13:22.000 No.
00:13:24.000 No.
00:13:25.000 She's just like, no.
00:13:26.000 It's my first time in the suburbs.
00:13:28.000 I'm getting the hang of it.
00:13:31.000 That makes me happy.
00:13:33.000 Anyway, happy St. Patrick's Day, minorities.
00:13:46.000 See, that was, he had it loaded, and it just happened to go off, and the person was there was a woman.
00:13:52.000 It's not supposed to be my favorite part, but it is.
00:13:54.000 It is.
00:13:54.000 It's terrible.
00:13:54.000 Now, here's something really important.
00:13:56.000 All the references available as we do every single show.
00:13:58.000 Here's how the media frames the Dallas crime issue.
00:14:00.000 That was all Dallas, by the way.
00:14:02.000 This comes from Latin Times.
00:14:04.000 Latinos and blacks comprise more than four in five of Dallas's assault victims' city data shows. 0.75
00:14:10.000 Oh, man, that sounds bad. 0.93
00:14:11.000 So you watch that, or you read that, you go, okay.
00:14:14.000 Now, the job of the media, and certainly, by the way, the source material, the job of those collecting data, would be to help you make more informed decisions, right?
00:14:23.000 To help you be safer.
00:14:26.000 Otherwise, there's no real purpose to crime data. 0.70
00:14:29.000 So you look at it, you go, okay, so black and Hispanics are more at risk, okay?
00:14:36.000 At the hands of whom?
00:14:39.000 In other words, are there any particular groups?
00:14:41.000 Because we've been told by the media you should be afraid in a white neighborhood.
00:14:43.000 Are there any particular groups of people that the four and five victims who happen to be black or Hispanic?
00:14:48.000 Are there any groups of people they should avoid or be concerned with if they want to avoid being physically assaulted?
00:14:54.000 What is the race of the perpetrators?
00:14:58.000 Four and five, Hispanic, black victims, right? 1.00
00:15:01.000 Four out of five victims are Hispanic or black. 0.86
00:15:04.000 Perpetrators, race. 0.71
00:15:06.000 I looked for a long time.
00:15:08.000 Here's actually a screen share so you can see what that looks like.
00:15:17.000 Okay, article.
00:15:19.000 Click on a link.
00:15:22.000 Next article.
00:15:23.000 All right.
00:15:24.000 Gotta click on that link.
00:15:28.000 Not here.
00:15:29.000 Victims.
00:15:29.000 Okay.
00:15:31.000 Okay.
00:15:31.000 Victims.
00:15:33.000 Victims.
00:15:33.000 Okay.
00:15:34.000 Perpetrator.
00:15:36.000 Let's start a crime overview.
00:15:41.000 Not there.
00:15:45.000 So let's be clear.
00:15:46.000 You have municipality, you have geography, you have age, you have sex, you have all of this information, by the way, on the victim.
00:15:55.000 Nothing on the perpetrator.
00:15:58.000 Doesn't that matter?
00:15:59.000 Also, this goes back to, we've informed you this, the rule change in 2008, the Bureau of Justice, right, their statistics, they stopped publishing data on interracial crime.
00:16:07.000 But for some reason, they still keep publishing data on the victims.
00:16:10.000 Well, maybe you could make an inference and go, okay, so four out of five victims of physical assault are Hispanic or black.
00:16:17.000 All right.
00:16:18.000 What about white people?
00:16:20.000 Who are they most likely to be?
00:16:22.000 Ah, we don't know the race of the perpetrator.
00:16:24.000 Well, you can look at those areas.
00:16:25.000 Hold on a second. 0.67
00:16:26.000 Are these crimes, these physical assault crimes, oh, they're taking place in areas where there is a majority of the population made up from black or Hispanic. 0.67
00:16:34.000 So the most likely, ah, okay. 0.75
00:16:36.000 Here's the truth. 0.92
00:16:37.000 Yes, black and Hispanic Americans are more likely to be the victim of assault because they live in close proximity to other black and Hispanics. 0.87
00:16:45.000 And if you are a white person who doesn't live in close proximity to majority black or Hispanics, you are still far more likely to have a violent crime committed against you by a black or Hispanic citizen or non-citizen of this country.
00:16:59.000 If we just put that information out there, wouldn't it help some folks? 0.96
00:17:03.000 Oh, it's racist.
00:17:05.000 You brought race into it. 0.86
00:17:06.000 It was your headline.
00:17:08.000 Why'd you only bring in half?
00:17:10.000 Is that fair?
00:17:11.000 You know, right?
00:17:12.000 Wouldn't you like to know that if your daughter's going to school, maybe has to walk home from the bus stop, or maybe your wife, she has to walk to her car in the parking lot at night.
00:17:23.000 Wouldn't it be nice to know where there's a greater risk?
00:17:27.000 They are deliberately hiding it from you.
00:17:30.000 You don't hate the media enough, and by the way, this is why you don't trust your institutions.
00:17:34.000 Also, it's not only leprechauns from the hood who can benefit from some gold.
00:17:38.000 Go to LWCGold.com, see if you qualify for a no fees for life IRA thanks to TrueGold.
00:17:44.000 It's gone up like 77% over the last year.
00:17:46.000 And just fun fact that we learned yesterday on air, everybody needs to get the word out, there is no gold in bald men's heads.
00:17:53.000 We don't know that yet.
00:17:54.000 They've only done five.
00:17:55.000 They've only killed five people.
00:17:56.000 No, I thought it was six.
00:17:57.000 Gerald, it's five arguments.
00:17:59.000 Well, you got to give it some time.
00:18:01.000 It could even out.
00:18:02.000 It could end up being five out of 10, which means it's half the time.
00:18:05.000 I just want to point out that article was from 2017.
00:18:08.000 It may have.
00:18:09.000 If at first you don't succeed, try, try again. 0.70
00:18:14.000 Through gold, don't kill people that are bald.
00:18:16.000 See, it's simple.
00:18:17.000 For those who didn't tune in yesterday, was it Zimbabwe?
00:18:21.000 Was it Mozambique?
00:18:22.000 No, it's Mozambique.
00:18:24.000 Mozambique.
00:18:26.000 Speaking of Africa, let's go to Islam. 1.00
00:18:30.000 A lot of Africa has been, a lot of the continent of Africa has been tainted by the evil poison that is the Islamic ideology. 1.00
00:18:40.000 So I'm going to get to a few kind of claims that are being made out there.
00:18:45.000 Like I talked about earlier today, you see some people, everyone on the left, and some on the right saying, hey, Islam is actually not the threat, okay?
00:18:52.000 That's propaganda.
00:18:54.000 And if we stopped bothering them, they wouldn't hate us so much. 0.94
00:18:59.000 It's because of our actions that those who follow the Islamic faith support attacking us, killing us, you know, to the tune of 198 million Muslims worldwide support violence against non-Muslims. 1.00
00:19:11.000 I want to disabuse you of that because I think a lot of people don't have their opinion rooted in basic history.
00:19:19.000 We'll also get to the founders, the reason for that history, Jesus versus Muhammad, and then real world data today to see if it's still following the historical trend line.
00:19:28.000 If you've been following the news or maybe even reading some tweets, scrolling, you might think now that Islam, well, half the country thinks it's fine, it's benign, and half thinks, well, it's not great. 0.99
00:19:40.000 Breaking news out of Texas this morning.
00:19:42.000 We are now learning law enforcement officials are investigating an overnight shooting as a possible act of terror.
00:19:48.000 The shooting outside a bar in Austin's busy East 6th Street area left three people dead, 14 others injured, three of them in critical condition this morning.
00:19:58.000 Tonight, a chilling terror attack thwarted in the backyard of New York City's mayor.
00:20:03.000 Chaos unfolding as demonstrators clashed and ran for safety.
00:20:07.000 This was not random violence.
00:20:09.000 This was a planned attack motivated by extremist ideology.
00:20:13.000 Sheer panic in Bondi.
00:20:19.000 Terrified benchgoers run for their lives as shot after shot rings out.
00:20:25.000 The two shooters used long-armed weapons to open fire from a bridge onto a park where members of Sydney's Jewish community had gathered to celebrate Hanukkah.
00:20:36.000 The new information coming in on the man with prior ties to ISIS who opened fire on an ROTC class at Old Dominion University.
00:20:43.000 Police in West Bloomfield, Michigan, now responding to an active shooter, we're told at Temple Israel.
00:20:50.000 The West Bloomfield Police Department set out an alert urging residents to avoid the area now. 0.62
00:20:57.000 Yeah, so to be clear, since March 1st alone, we've seen attacks from those who follow the ideology, the poisonous religion of Islam. 1.00
00:21:09.000 They have perpetrated crimes.
00:21:10.000 There was the shooting in Austin, the IED attack in New York City, the shooting at Old Dominion University, temple attack in West Bloomfield, Michigan.
00:21:17.000 And if you were to look at this and your starting off point would be, well, hold on, that's actually, that's retaliation.
00:21:25.000 That's because of what the United States has been doing in the Islamic world. 0.92
00:21:28.000 And there are many people who believe that.
00:21:31.000 I just have to tell you, and we'll go through again: history, founders, real-world data, everything you're saying.
00:21:39.000 You're wrong about everything.
00:21:44.000 Wrong.
00:21:46.000 All right.
00:21:47.000 And by the way, this is not a character judgment on people who have made these statements.
00:21:51.000 I just think it's important to disabuse you of a notion that is false.
00:21:57.000 If you start, if you look at the Iran conflict, and by the way, I think the conversation should center around really budget, national security, and the level of interventionism with which we are comfortable.
00:22:09.000 I do not believe that this conversation should take place around the topic whatsoever.
00:22:13.000 Well, is Islam really violent or is it our fault? 1.00
00:22:17.000 If you say, why are we doing anything with Iran?
00:22:20.000 That's factually inaccurate.
00:22:20.000 They've never attacked us.
00:22:22.000 If you say, well, the Islamic world was at peace with us until our intervention or interventionist policies, that is factually inaccurate.
00:22:30.000 That is an illegitimate opinion because it is based on a verifiable fallacy.
00:22:36.000 History, founders, real-world data.
00:22:38.000 Dave Smith's tweet went out, went viral yesterday. 0.99
00:22:41.000 Islam is such a violent religion, every time we murder a bunch of their children, they try to kill some of us. 1.00
00:22:47.000 Disgusting. 1.00
00:22:49.000 Okay, here's the truth. 0.93
00:22:53.000 And I get that it's easy for people to believe this out there if you just haven't opened the Quran or any other history book.
00:23:03.000 First, let's go through history.
00:23:05.000 Islam has been entirely spread through violence and conquest since its inception. 1.00
00:23:12.000 Every single century, with no exception, predating the United States.
00:23:18.000 And then it was our first real war or conflict once we had become a country after ratification as the United States.
00:23:26.000 Why?
00:23:27.000 Because of Muhammad. 1.00
00:23:28.000 You can go to the seventh century where you look at Muhammad besieging, executing, enslaving everyone who stood against him.
00:23:34.000 You can look at the conquest of Levant.
00:23:37.000 You can go to the 8th century, the, I mean, there's more Islamic conquests. 0.99
00:23:40.000 You can go to the 15th century, the sack of Constantinople, kind of a big one.
00:23:44.000 And this is the reason that it's important.
00:23:47.000 Of course, the Barbary Wars, like we talked about, that's the 18th, 19th century with a bunch of Islamic pirates. 1.00
00:23:51.000 That's really why we have the kind of Navy and Marines that we do.
00:23:54.000 And this, by the way, also brings us to just a few hours ago, suicide bombers carried out a series of attacks in Nigeria, 23 dead, over 100 injured, because in the 20th century, they actually conquered MI6.
00:24:11.000 Akbar, Allahu Akbar.
00:24:16.000 It's a quick movie.
00:24:18.000 Long credits.
00:24:19.000 And we'll get to the founders here.
00:24:21.000 So, history, the founders, which would be Muhammad versus Jesus. 0.85
00:24:25.000 But it's important to note: Christianity, Stephen, my name, first martyr.
00:24:32.000 If you were a Christian early on, you were killed, you were executed.
00:24:35.000 Christianity spread exclusively through proselytizing, missions works, and cultural conversion. 0.90
00:24:45.000 Islam, when it started, no known oppressors.
00:24:48.000 People go, I don't know, what was this?
00:24:49.000 Some kind of new thing.
00:24:50.000 Okay, whatever.
00:24:51.000 It wasn't globally known.
00:24:52.000 Exclusively spread through conquest, through violence.
00:24:56.000 Matter of fact, the perfect example would be the Reconquista there of Spain. 0.92
00:25:01.000 So Spain, I'm just using this a very clear example: in case you believe it's the United States, we are the reason that Islam is violent. 1.00
00:25:07.000 Spain became a Christian nation.
00:25:09.000 How did they become not through violence, through a literal saint and through people converting?
00:25:16.000 Then you had the Muslim onslaught who took over large swaths of land. 1.00
00:25:20.000 And the Reconquista was finally Christians saying, you know what? 0.90
00:25:23.000 We're going to take this back.
00:25:24.000 At first, we did it peacefully through conversion.
00:25:26.000 There were no acts, no notable acts of Christian aggression or expansionism until the advent of Islam, which was violent from the moment it was created. 1.00
00:25:40.000 Every single century since then.
00:25:44.000 It's the only way it has spread.
00:25:46.000 Muhammad was literally a warlord. 1.00
00:25:48.000 Yes, at the tip of a sword.
00:25:50.000 Which brings us to the founders.
00:25:52.000 Yeah.
00:25:53.000 Did Jesus Christ ever kill anybody?
00:25:55.000 Did Jesus Christ ever wage a war?
00:25:57.000 Did Jesus Christ ever call for never-ending war, jihad, or specifically to kill those who subverted the book, namely Christians and Jews?
00:26:07.000 I know you'll find some verses in the ground.
00:26:08.000 You'll say, actually, they say we respect the people of the book.
00:26:10.000 No, they don't.
00:26:10.000 And I'll get to that in a second.
00:26:11.000 Did Jesus do any of those things?
00:26:14.000 No.
00:26:16.000 Did Muhammad? 0.90
00:26:17.000 Yes.
00:26:19.000 Now take that.
00:26:20.000 Founder, go, okay.
00:26:21.000 Then how did Christianity spread? 0.99
00:26:22.000 Oh, they were murdering Christians. 1.00
00:26:24.000 They were executing them nonviolently is how it spread. 0.87
00:26:27.000 Islam, they weren't being executed.
00:26:29.000 They weren't being martyred exclusively violently.
00:26:32.000 The left wants you to start history with the Crusades and those on the horseshoe right, whatever the dissident right.
00:26:38.000 Anyone who believes that if you just left the Islamic world alone, if you never poked the bear, you'd be doesn't understand the actual ideology, theology, not about philosophy, political prescription.
00:26:56.000 Let's look at Muhammad. 0.99
00:26:58.000 This is from At-Taba 929.
00:27:01.000 Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the last day, nor comply with what Allah and His Messengers have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth from among those who were given the scripture until they pay the tax, willingly submitting, fully humbled.
00:27:15.000 So we have the history, every single century.
00:27:17.000 You will not find an exception.
00:27:19.000 No acts of notable Christian aggression until Islam. 0.86
00:27:23.000 Hey, have they changed their stripes? 0.95
00:27:24.000 Let's go to well, 88% of deaths related to terrorism, terror deaths are directly attributable to Islam. 0.94
00:27:31.000 97%, well, you talk about the United States, if they left us alone, 97% of terror attacks occur outside of the Western world.
00:27:38.000 So you may say the 3% is because of the United States.
00:27:43.000 And that doesn't mean, by the way, that we haven't screwed up in the Middle East. 1.00
00:27:47.000 I just believe that we screwed up for different reasons.
00:27:48.000 We don't know the enemy that we actually face.
00:27:51.000 It's barbarism.
00:27:52.000 It's Islamic barbarism. 1.00
00:27:54.000 Okay, that's 3%. 0.51
00:27:55.000 Now do the 97% of those dying at the hands of Islam today, today, more real-world data. 0.91
00:28:04.000 198 Muslims worldwide, it's just a small number, support the use of violence against civilian targets to defend Islam. 0.99
00:28:15.000 198 million.
00:28:21.000 The question wasn't if they're American.
00:28:24.000 The question wasn't whether they're isolationists or not.
00:28:28.000 Do you support the use of violence against civilian targets to defend Islam?
00:28:32.000 198 million Muslims say yes.
00:28:35.000 50-something million Muslims say often. 0.99
00:28:40.000 Still believe that if we left them alone, it's because we're killing their people. 0.99
00:28:46.000 Now also do them killing far more of their own women and children than we ever have.
00:28:53.000 We've got to have a basis in truth. 0.87
00:28:55.000 We can have disagreements.
00:28:56.000 But if you say, well, Iran's never attacked Americans, you don't know what you're talking about.
00:29:00.000 It doesn't justify, like you've said, a never-ending war.
00:29:05.000 Of course not.
00:29:07.000 Don't lie and say never attacked Americans.
00:29:09.000 They've killed thousands of Americans on many separate occasions.
00:29:11.000 And they've sworn to do so until their last dying breath.
00:29:15.000 You may not think that we should intervene.
00:29:16.000 I think that's appropriate.
00:29:17.000 In many cases, we shouldn't be intervening.
00:29:18.000 But don't say that the only reason any Muslims or any of these countries, these caliphates, are violent toward the West is because of something we've done.
00:29:27.000 You have to go back to every other nation pre-America. 0.59
00:29:31.000 What did we do?
00:29:32.000 The Barbary Wars. 0.79
00:29:32.000 What do we do to have a bunch of Islamic pirates attacking vessels? 0.79
00:29:37.000 It's silly. 1.00
00:29:38.000 And the people espousing this are hoping that you are dumb. 0.99
00:29:42.000 Here's another one that I think is interesting: that Caleb Hammer, who has the financial audit show, here he is with some Islamic guests. 0.99
00:29:49.000 And it's fun that he seems to be a bit on the spectrum because he just says it.
00:29:53.000 I always question the Bible.
00:29:54.000 And so, like, I don't.
00:29:56.000 Don't question the Quran.
00:29:57.000 Of course.
00:29:58.000 I think question everything.
00:29:59.000 I don't think you're allowed to question the Quran, especially as a woman. 1.00
00:30:01.000 No.
00:30:02.000 He likes it.
00:30:03.000 I mean, he's like, that's right.
00:30:05.000 No, it's not that.
00:30:06.000 No, Islam is probably the most like feminist, Moros religion there is, like, very much protective of. 0.72
00:30:16.000 Yes, it is certainly Middle Eastern countries that are most well known for their feminism and freedom for women.
00:30:27.000 It is.
00:30:28.000 The Middle East.
00:30:29.000 If they're practicing Islam, yes. 0.98
00:30:32.000 So you're saying they're all practicing it incorrectly everywhere, including Mecca?
00:30:38.000 Yes.
00:30:40.000 We all remember those Islamic propaganda posters going around the Middle East for feminists.
00:30:45.000 Yeah.
00:30:49.000 That's taking it lately.
00:30:51.000 Here's the truth.
00:30:54.000 Of course, Tuaman, truth. 0.91
00:30:56.000 Of course.
00:30:57.000 Good.
00:30:59.000 And I'm not talking about traditional, you know, patriarchal systems that exist as they do with all the Abrahamic religions. 0.75
00:31:05.000 Islam subjugates and abuses women by mandate. 1.00
00:31:10.000 Okay, so let's go again through history, the founder, and then real-world data. 0.96
00:31:15.000 Let's look at the seventh century.
00:31:17.000 Muslim forces, they were capturing, taking sex slaves with permission from Muhammad. 1.00
00:31:21.000 Like, that was their calling card. 0.99
00:31:23.000 All the greats have their calling card.
00:31:25.000 8th century took a thousand virgins as slaves from Spain to Damascus.
00:31:29.000 21st century, ISIS kidnapped thousands of Yazidi women and forced them into sex slavery.
00:31:33.000 Let's go, okay.
00:31:34.000 This is, by the way, again, in a way that is not seen in the Western world. 1.00
00:31:39.000 I know people have told you that unconditional surrender means our guys are going to enslave your women and rape them. 0.98
00:31:45.000 It was actually a mandate policy and prescription from Muhammad during war to do that. 0.97
00:31:50.000 Spoils of war for the troops.
00:31:51.000 Also, outbreed.
00:31:51.000 Come on.
00:31:53.000 Take their women and outbreed them. 1.00
00:31:53.000 Yeah. 1.00
00:31:53.000 Right? 1.00
00:31:55.000 It was never reach people with the gospel.
00:31:59.000 Evangelize.
00:32:00.000 Evangelize means you present people with good news.
00:32:03.000 Hey, look, here are your benefits.
00:32:04.000 And here are the terms that you have to submit to if you want these benefits, like any other deal that you make, effectively.
00:32:13.000 Islam is called to subjugate. 1.00
00:32:15.000 It's all by force. 1.00
00:32:16.000 That's why women are sex slaves. 1.00
00:32:19.000 That's why they're called to do it. 1.00
00:32:20.000 Let's go back to the founder.
00:32:21.000 So we have history of the founder.
00:32:22.000 We have this from Siya al-Bukhari 5134, book 67, Hadith 70, that the Prophet Muhammad was married.
00:32:30.000 Sorry, the Prophet Muhammad married her when she was six years old, and he consummated his marriage when she was nine years old. 0.85
00:32:37.000 Hisham said, I have been informed that Aisha remained with the Prophet Muhammad for nine years, meaning until his death.
00:32:43.000 To be fair, he only humped her thighs from six to nine. 0.98
00:32:47.000 That is not in dispute.
00:32:48.000 All Islamic scholars or imams will have to tell you that's the case.
00:32:52.000 Yeah, but the bright side isn't she turned 18, she was free.
00:32:55.000 Right.
00:32:56.000 Effectively.
00:32:57.000 As used goods.
00:32:58.000 Come on.
00:32:59.000 Let's look at Quran 4:34.
00:33:01.000 Men are in charge of women by right of what Allah has given one over the other, but those wives from whom you fear arrogance, first advise them, then if they persist, forsake them in bed, and finally strike them. 0.85
00:33:14.000 And then you'll have the Muslims say, like, ah, well, that's really just because, you know, you can't strike them hard.
00:33:20.000 It's just enough. 0.99
00:33:21.000 Okay, when you put together the totality, child brides, arranged marriage, women being treated as sex slaves. 0.95
00:33:29.000 Let's add up on top of that. 0.99
00:33:31.000 You can have temporary marriages so you can have that loophole with the hookers. 1.00
00:33:34.000 You can marry someone, divorce, divorce, divorce. 0.54
00:33:36.000 It is all designed around not a union, but pleasure for the male and subjugation of women. 0.91
00:33:43.000 It's not the same as what people would say, red pill or traditional patriarchy relationships, where the man is the head of the household who is to protect, to provide for the wife.
00:33:52.000 And yes, she is to submit to him in all things because he's the leader of the household.
00:33:57.000 That's not the same as a sex slave to be taken and used at your convenience and beaten. 0.79
00:34:05.000 And it's okay if they're six or nine.
00:34:07.000 Let's look at the real world data: Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, Iran, Qatar.
00:34:11.000 You look at these different countries, they allow child marriage. 1.00
00:34:14.000 The girl has reached puberty.
00:34:15.000 And by the way, they're a little, you know, it's more of a guideline than a hard and fast rule.
00:34:21.000 You stay, women keep getting younger and younger, and Muhammad keeps staying the same age. 1.00
00:34:27.000 They require the women to marry whoever their male guardian tells them to. 1.00
00:34:32.000 These countries facilitate domestic violence through laws.
00:34:36.000 And then the other thing is, this is why you also see a lot of cousin marrying.
00:34:40.000 A lot of Pakistan, it's up to 70%.
00:34:43.000 Jeez.
00:34:45.000 UK Pakistanis are 59%.
00:34:46.000 And you know, that comes with a laundry list of hereditary diseases, right?
00:34:50.000 Now, why would that be?
00:34:52.000 Well, because a guy wants to bang his cousin, it doesn't matter if she doesn't want to bang her cousin back. 1.00
00:34:59.000 I mean, she's right there.
00:35:00.000 Yeah.
00:35:01.000 She's always around.
00:35:02.000 For people to say, oh, it's feminist. 1.00
00:35:04.000 Look, I hate feminists as much as the next person. 1.00
00:35:06.000 And I'm not going to say that Islam has us all wrong. 0.93
00:35:08.000 The shared ground that we would have as far as roles of men and women, by the way, that would be the same in Judaism.
00:35:14.000 That would be the same in Christianity. 0.65
00:35:15.000 They add a whole bunch, to be clear.
00:35:18.000 Also, this is another clip on that show where he was reminding them, these secular Western Muslims.
00:35:25.000 I mean, by Islamic standards, that they're not practicing Islam.
00:35:29.000 Well, it's actually what you say about Islamic principles as well.
00:35:33.000 They say they can say all they want.
00:35:36.000 That doesn't mean they actually do it.
00:35:39.000 The principles. 0.99
00:35:40.000 Okay, well, are we going to do the whole thing that Christians do with shellfish and a bunch of shit like that? 0.99
00:35:44.000 Where we pick and choose what we like depending on our world values. 0.99
00:35:48.000 No, but here's the thing.
00:35:49.000 This is what I'm going to say.
00:35:50.000 Okay.
00:35:51.000 Because I think what she's trying to say is this.
00:35:54.000 When we started debt, we're in so much debt.
00:35:57.000 Okay, then you're not following Islamic principles.
00:36:00.000 That's true.
00:36:00.000 And what are you going to tell me?
00:36:04.000 Wait, Muslims don't believe in debt? 0.99
00:36:07.000 Well, then how can Allah owe them 72 virgins when they martyred themselves? 0.96
00:36:11.000 That's really more of like a party favor.
00:36:14.000 Yeah, it's a different thing.
00:36:14.000 Yeah, it's not a debt.
00:36:15.000 Oh, it's not a debt.
00:36:16.000 It's not a debt.
00:36:16.000 It's like a reward.
00:36:17.000 It's just a good time.
00:36:18.000 Okay.
00:36:19.000 It's a bonus.
00:36:20.000 These six-year-old thighs are kind of like you'd reward them. 1.00
00:36:23.000 Oh, my gosh. 0.98
00:36:23.000 It's disgusting. 0.98
00:36:24.000 By the way, Caleb got one thing wrong. 0.98
00:36:25.000 Christians don't pick and choose.
00:36:27.000 The New Testament did away with the old dietary laws, so we follow the New Testament, not picking and choose.
00:36:32.000 But anyway.
00:36:33.000 Here's another claim that I see made a lot.
00:36:36.000 So if you start with the false premise, they won't attack you if you don't attack them.
00:36:40.000 Islam is not inherently a violent religion.
00:36:42.000 Matter of fact, it's actually a friend to Christianity because they like Jesus too.
00:36:48.000 Islam and Christianity, actually, we should be each other's best allies.
00:36:52.000 You see this from the guy named Sneeko.
00:36:56.000 He wrote, it is far past time we Christians and Muslims unite on our shared similarities rather than fight over our minor differences. 1.00
00:37:03.000 They, meaning Jews, spit on Christians and bomb the Muslims. 1.00
00:37:06.000 Why are we deceived into hating each other by those who hate the Messiah? 0.99
00:37:12.000 Okay, so here's the truth.
00:37:14.000 Again, we'll go through history.
00:37:16.000 Allah and Muhammad disagree.
00:37:18.000 They don't think that we're greatest friends.
00:37:20.000 Within 10 years of Islam's inception, they went to war with Christians and Jews. 0.98
00:37:25.000 Now, let's, and then forevermore thereafter.
00:37:29.000 Islam is okay with Christians so long as they can violently conquer all of the lands that you culturally converted of their own free will. 1.00
00:37:39.000 As long as you don't mess with their violent conquering, they can be buds.
00:37:43.000 Yeah, who was Jesus in Islam?
00:37:46.000 Yeah.
00:37:46.000 Who's the Messiah?
00:37:47.000 You don't believe he's the Son of God.
00:37:49.000 We don't have that much in common.
00:37:51.000 Well, let's go back to the founder.
00:37:52.000 This is, I think it's Al-Ma'idah, Ma'idah 551.
00:37:57.000 Oh, believers, take neither Jews nor Christians as guardians. 1.00
00:38:00.000 They are guardians of each other.
00:38:02.000 Whoever does so will be counted as one of them. 0.97
00:38:05.000 Surely Allah does not guide the wrongdoing people. 0.95
00:38:09.000 And what Muslims will do, and they're allowed to do this to mislead you, is they'll try and say, well, you know, we actually respect the people of the book. 0.99
00:38:18.000 We believe the Old Testament and the New Testament.
00:38:22.000 We add to it.
00:38:23.000 We just don't believe the parts that were lied about and subverted.
00:38:26.000 Whoa, what was that part?
00:38:27.000 You know, we just don't believe the part since because it was warped.
00:38:29.000 But by whom?
00:38:30.000 Well, the Jews, going back to when? 1.00
00:38:31.000 The blessing of Abraham.
00:38:32.000 So pretty much all of it. 0.99
00:38:34.000 So pretty much 98% of the book, you really just used to point to and say, Jews and Christians are liars. 0.99
00:38:40.000 They're okay. 0.97
00:38:41.000 They are people of the book and they are your friends if they allow themselves to be subjugated by you. 1.00
00:38:46.000 If not, kill them until your last dying breath. 0.99
00:38:49.000 Now let's go to the real world. 1.00
00:38:52.000 Muslims and Christians should be each other's greatest allies.
00:38:55.000 They never have, but they should be.
00:38:57.000 Here are Muslims obeying Muhammad and the commandments of Allah.
00:39:06.000 He looks like a Jew. 1.00
00:39:19.000 Yeah, it's a more Jewish terrorist. 0.95
00:39:30.000 Holy f ⁇ Now, I've searched, and there may be one somewhere of someone who happens to be Jewish at some point in time, couldn't find one example of comparable Jewish acts of terrorism against the church, tearing it down. 0.88
00:39:47.000 Now, I know what people like Sneeko will argue. 0.74
00:39:49.000 Well, like, that's because everything the Jews do is covert. 1.00
00:39:53.000 They do it covertly.
00:39:54.000 It's Masada.
00:39:55.000 Okay, so would that mean that Muslims also don't do covert ops? 0.86
00:40:00.000 They only do the overt, where they destroy churches and attack Christians and execute them in public? 0.96
00:40:05.000 The Jews don't do that, but they exclusively do the covert. 1.00
00:40:08.000 The Muslims don't also do the covert because I'd be willing to bet that they do both. 0.99
00:40:13.000 And let's look at why this is the case.
00:40:15.000 Look, I believe, obviously, Jesus Christ is the truth, the one and only truth, and I believe that hell is real.
00:40:22.000 And I believe that if you reject the divinity of Christ, that's your cross to bear and it's probably going to suck. 0.98
00:40:27.000 Jew, Muslim, Buddhist, Tao, whatever it is. 0.98
00:40:31.000 That's the belief of all Christians.
00:40:32.000 That shouldn't be offensive, right?
00:40:34.000 Well, it's not worried about Jews being offended when I say that. 0.74
00:40:38.000 So, with that being said, Jews deny the divinity. 0.94
00:40:44.000 They don't acknowledge the divinity of Christ.
00:40:45.000 Okay, we disagree there. 0.97
00:40:47.000 Here's why Islam is a unique problem. 1.00
00:40:50.000 Okay? 0.99
00:40:51.000 Jews, Old Testament.
00:40:52.000 That's the basis of Christianity.
00:40:55.000 They reject the sequel, right?
00:40:56.000 The New Testament.
00:40:57.000 Jesus came to fulfill the law.
00:41:00.000 Okay?
00:41:01.000 So, when Jews have created societies, there are differences, but we still follow the same generally foundational law.
00:41:10.000 It's not foreign to Christians because we genuinely do use and respect that part.
00:41:16.000 The basis of the law, where Jews and us will find common ground where we can actually live in societies together, even if they're a little too Jewy sometimes. 0.99
00:41:26.000 Muslims, no, it's the opposite. 1.00
00:41:29.000 They completely destroy the foundations of the law because the Jews and Christians lied about it. 1.00
00:41:34.000 Let me give you the analogy that I've used before.
00:41:36.000 Judaism is Halloween one. 1.00
00:41:39.000 Christianity, like, okay, Old Testament, we get it.
00:41:42.000 Moses, all right, blessing of Abraham, we got it.
00:41:43.000 Okay, Messiah is going to come.
00:41:44.000 Christianity is Halloween two. 0.92
00:41:47.000 Takes place the same night.
00:41:48.000 It's still canon, right?
00:41:49.000 Halloween two in the hospital.
00:41:51.000 We're like, ah, Mike Myers continued.
00:41:53.000 It's still the same storyline.
00:41:54.000 And then Islam, they say they're an Abrahamic religion, but it's like Halloween three, where you just go, Halloween one, okay, it's continued Halloween two. 0.91
00:42:02.000 The Jews are not Halloween two. 0.90
00:42:03.000 But Halloween three, what, masks as a form of mind control, and there's no Michael Myers?
00:42:08.000 The hell is going on?
00:42:12.000 Christianity and Judaism share the same core laws.
00:42:17.000 Christ came to fulfill the law, and I would make the case that adds an element of grace that to me is sadly lacking in Judaism. 0.98
00:42:24.000 That's why you have Jewish people. 0.97
00:42:26.000 They tend to be very letter of the law, right?
00:42:29.000 The dietary laws, the Sabbath laws, which we should honor and respect, but Sabbath was unclarified to be more of a gift for you to rest.
00:42:38.000 And that means that if you work with your hands, you may want to do sudoku, that if you work with your brain, you may want to go out and chop wood, right?
00:42:44.000 But we still view the Sabbath.
00:42:46.000 We still have the same core basis of laws.
00:42:49.000 Islam rewrote all the laws. 1.00
00:42:56.000 And said, by the way, kill the people who argue with you on the new rewriting of the laws. 1.00
00:43:00.000 Jews, let's just take this. 1.00
00:43:02.000 Jews deny the divinity of Christ. 1.00
00:43:04.000 Okay. 0.78
00:43:04.000 Because they don't believe it fulfilled prophecy. 0.78
00:43:06.000 All right.
00:43:07.000 People want you to believe that that's the greatest evil.
00:43:09.000 Plenty of people deny the divinity of Christ, including in your church.
00:43:14.000 They'll say, oh, you know, Jesus was a great moral teacher.
00:43:16.000 You know, I think it's allegorical.
00:43:18.000 There are plenty of people who do.
00:43:19.000 So Jews deny the divinity of Christ. 1.00
00:43:20.000 Okay. 0.90
00:43:20.000 So do Muslims. 0.90
00:43:22.000 So does Islam. 0.99
00:43:23.000 Jesus did not die and raise from the dead.
00:43:28.000 To be clear.
00:43:29.000 In other words, that didn't happen. 0.92
00:43:31.000 They add the element of, and people who wrote that are in on a plot to deceive you, and that's why they need to be subjugated or killed.
00:43:41.000 Big difference. 0.96
00:43:42.000 Jews go, but we just don't think he's the guy.
00:43:44.000 We're still waiting for a guy.
00:43:46.000 Islam says, well, a lot of people think he's the guy, but that's because these people, the Jews and Christians, lied about it. 1.00
00:43:51.000 And that's why we have to subjugate them or kill them because we know he's not. 0.98
00:43:55.000 By the way, we have a whole new system of laws and prescriptions that we are going to give to you. 1.00
00:44:01.000 This is actually, hey, Christians, Jews, you have to believe this now because of this serial-killing pedophile who spoke to a demon in a cave. 0.97
00:44:09.000 You have to believe this because we're just like you. 1.00
00:44:10.000 And if you don't believe exactly this, we're going to kill all of you. 1.00
00:44:17.000 Here's some dumb shit bonus. 1.00
00:44:19.000 Sneeko said, they don't really hate Islam. 1.00
00:44:23.000 They are just jealous.
00:44:27.000 What?
00:44:28.000 I'm jealous of what?
00:44:29.000 I have white bed sheets.
00:44:30.000 Yeah.
00:44:31.000 I got three pairs.
00:44:33.000 Jealous of, yeah, that's a what?
00:44:36.000 There's literally nothing to be jealous of.
00:44:36.000 Here's the truth.
00:44:39.000 Not only to be found in the religion of Islam, but the history of Islam or any Islamic country or really any impact Islam has had on the world.
00:44:53.000 None.
00:44:55.000 None. 0.98
00:44:56.000 Islam enslaves people by command. 1.00
00:44:59.000 Christians freed slaves, basing it on their theology, basing it on their view that they thought needed to be corrected that we can't do this. 0.82
00:45:10.000 Yep, slavery existed for a long time. 0.59
00:45:12.000 Islam continues to enslave people. 1.00
00:45:14.000 Christians freed more slaves than any other religion ever. 1.00
00:45:16.000 Islam, of course, you're called to war. 1.00
00:45:19.000 Christians, you're called to peace.
00:45:23.000 You're called to fight when necessary, but you are called to be peaceful. 0.98
00:45:27.000 Islam, pro-pedophilia. 1.00
00:45:30.000 Be pretty tough to argue against Muhammad humping thighs from six to nine. 0.95
00:45:33.000 I still think nine is a little green for my taste, but you know, six certainly is.
00:45:38.000 That's not borderline.
00:45:39.000 Can we agree on that?
00:45:41.000 Christian nations prosecute pedophiles. 0.81
00:45:43.000 Not enough.
00:45:44.000 But when people complain about Epstein, you go, yeah, now do Muhammad. 0.98
00:45:47.000 Now do Islamic nations. 1.00
00:45:48.000 Now do child brides. 1.00
00:45:50.000 Islam doesn't just abuse women, it revels in it. 1.00
00:45:56.000 I don't believe that a woman submitting to the authority of her husband or a woman having a traditional role is abuse, to be clear. 0.99
00:46:05.000 I do believe that a woman being used as nothing more than sex cattle and being stoned to death if she only has two out of four witnesses after being gang raped. 0.80
00:46:14.000 I think that's abuse. 0.98
00:46:15.000 That's no longer a first, second, third wave feminism. 1.00
00:46:19.000 It's just a religion that abuses women. 1.00
00:46:21.000 Christianity, not the same at all. 1.00
00:46:24.000 Also, Islam, they eat with their hands. 1.00
00:46:25.000 We use forks.
00:46:27.000 Oh, that's a big one.
00:46:30.000 That's a that to me, it just like they don't use toilet paper.
00:46:34.000 I'm pro-toilet paper.
00:46:37.000 I know somebody's going to say, bideta, I'm all about that bidet life in tandem with the appropriate toilet.
00:46:41.000 Exactly.
00:46:42.000 Pro-bideth, also pro-dry the bidet.
00:46:45.000 Remnants with some just not treating your left hand as the sharman.
00:46:45.000 Right.
00:46:51.000 Some people reuse their TP.
00:46:53.000 That's disgusting.
00:46:54.000 Well, imagine reusing your left hand. 0.98
00:46:57.000 I do it every day.
00:46:58.000 Yeah.
00:46:59.000 Islam doesn't even let women drive in many cases. 0.95
00:47:04.000 And I will say as a Christian, okay, they may have a point.
00:47:21.000 All right, a caliphate may have prevented that.
00:47:25.000 You know.
00:47:26.000 By the way, we're live weekdays, 11 a.m. Eastern.
00:47:28.000 So I just want to make sure that we're really clear.
00:47:30.000 We need to figure out when people talk about the civil war on the right, we need to figure out where the disagreements are.
00:47:36.000 And if it is, if the starting off point, the springboard is, well, hold on a second, yeah, but we all know that the Islamic world only hates us because of what we do. 0.88
00:47:45.000 You are going to be so far off target in the real world that wherever you are will not be, you wouldn't be able to recognize reality from your placement in the geopolitical spectrum.
00:48:00.000 It's nonsensical.
00:48:02.000 You have centuries.
00:48:04.000 By that I mean every century since its inception.
00:48:08.000 History, the reason for that history being remarkably consistent when you go to the words of the founders, and then you have real world data today that shows you it's not getting any better.
00:48:19.000 In many cases, it's getting worse.
00:48:22.000 You have to do away with all of that to say that it is exclusively a Jewish problem and we should be buddies.
00:48:32.000 Jewish community has problems. 1.00
00:48:35.000 I get that. 0.98
00:48:36.000 Israel has a lot of problems.
00:48:37.000 Bibi Netanyahu has a lot of problems.
00:48:39.000 I understand he might want to keep his conflict going.
00:48:42.000 That has no bearing on the reality of Islam.
00:48:47.000 And anyone embracing it cannot be America first.
00:48:51.000 Why?
00:48:52.000 Because Islam does not allow for America. 1.00
00:48:56.000 It's that simple. 0.95
00:48:58.000 Islam does not allow for the United States of America. 1.00
00:49:01.000 As a religion, it demands our subjugation, period. 1.00
00:49:06.000 The only reason that we are not at that phase yet is because unlike all of the other centuries prior, we're not weak enough to be subjugated.
00:49:16.000 When you have this conversation based on truth, is that fair?
00:49:19.000 By the way, speaking of freedom, your true financial freedom, download the Rumble wallet, wallet.rumble.com today, where you can tip your creators and just sort of divest from big banks.
00:49:30.000 You can flick them off.
00:49:31.000 Yeah, yeah.
00:49:32.000 Anything you want to add?
00:49:33.000 Sorry, you know, this was my a long time ago, and I'm like, oh, we're back here now where people on the right are going, Islam's religion to beat. 0.97
00:49:40.000 I believe it's flip them off, not flick them off.
00:49:42.000 Well, whatever, either way.
00:49:43.000 Flick them, flip them.
00:49:44.000 You know, it's all the same.
00:49:45.000 He's talking about his boogies.
00:49:46.000 Yeah.
00:49:49.000 No, I think you did a great job encapsulating it.
00:49:51.000 It doesn't make any sense.
00:49:52.000 It's one of the most incoherent religions that I've ever seen, and it is absolutely not peaceful. 1.00
00:49:57.000 And unfortunately, Dave Smith is so anti-war that he can't see that sometimes people will do stuff no matter who you support.
00:50:03.000 Whether Israel exists, whether it doesn't exist, whether we care about them, whether we don't care about them, whether we fight their wars, whether we don't fight their wars, whatever it just doesn't matter.
00:50:12.000 He just assumes it's our fault.
00:50:14.000 And of course, they're just responding to us.
00:50:16.000 How far back do you want to go, Dave?
00:50:18.000 Are we responding to them or are they responding to us?
00:50:20.000 Yeah.
00:50:20.000 Because just keep moving the date.
00:50:21.000 We'll figure it out.
00:50:22.000 Yeah.
00:50:22.000 They want you to believe that, you know, if we didn't have any type of alliance with Israel, then the Muslim world would be fine.
00:50:28.000 Well, I don't know. 0.98
00:50:29.000 Maybe you think about this, like maybe a big reason for the geopolitical history of modern Israel is because we had constantly been facing the bullshit of Islamic caliphates. 0.99
00:50:40.000 Maybe that's why. 0.97
00:50:41.000 And then if you go back to, you know, 600 something, you go, oh, wait a second, it's been non-stop.
00:50:47.000 That to me is the biggest delineation.
00:50:49.000 Christianity, you're martyred. 1.00
00:50:52.000 You will be killed. 1.00
00:50:53.000 Spread through word of mouth for centuries, centuries, peacefully. 0.99
00:50:56.000 Conversions, actual saints going out.
00:50:58.000 Islam, no known oppressors.
00:51:00.000 You weren't martyred.
00:51:01.000 Spread by the sword in conquest immediately.
00:51:04.000 Yeah.
00:51:05.000 Doesn't get much clearer than that.
00:51:07.000 You don't hear about a lot of Islams, you know, dropping a grudge. 1.00
00:51:12.000 No.
00:51:13.000 They tend to hang on.
00:51:14.000 They tend to hang on.
00:51:14.000 Yeah.
00:51:15.000 So it's like, well, okay, let's we stop.
00:51:17.000 We never leave alone forever.
00:51:19.000 Yeah.
00:51:20.000 How long do we have to deal with this?
00:51:22.000 Because it's pretty tough.
00:51:23.000 They won't drop the grudge.
00:51:24.000 No.
00:51:24.000 It's pretty tough to say, all right, it's time to let cooler jihads prevail.
00:51:28.000 Okay.
00:51:31.000 All right.
00:51:31.000 We do have actually, I believe we have our guest on the show.
00:51:33.000 And before we bring him on, I actually wanted to bring up this ties right in.
00:51:38.000 Not easy to criticize Islam.
00:51:39.000 And I will tell you this.
00:51:40.000 Far harder to do in the cesspool of Canada where free speech does not exist.
00:51:47.000 But our next guest, he's willing to do it anyway.
00:51:50.000 I think part of it is that the Muslims, they pray for such big things.
00:51:54.000 And I think that pisses God off. 0.96
00:51:57.000 I really do.
00:51:58.000 You got to thank God a lot.
00:51:59.000 And you got to pray for small stuff first.
00:52:02.000 You know, just little stuff.
00:52:03.000 You know, please, God, let grapes be on sale at Farm Boy tomorrow.
00:52:11.000 Then you go to Farm Boy and grapes are on sale.
00:52:13.000 You're like, thank you, God.
00:52:16.000 And God's like, yeah, grapes, easy, done, nothing.
00:52:22.000 But you know what the Muslims are praying for.
00:52:24.000 You know, they're in their mosque, you know, inshallah, please let Islam and Allah take over America and Canada and the UK and France and Germany. 1.00
00:52:36.000 And God's listening to this, looking at the Jews like, level it. 0.99
00:52:44.000 Please welcome to the show the very funny and actually brave Ben Bacus.
00:52:57.000 Oh, hey, Ben.
00:52:58.000 I didn't, I was, I was good.
00:52:59.000 I thought you were just doing a mic check.
00:53:01.000 Sorry, I was in the middle of my morning prayer.
00:53:05.000 Well, that's allowed in Canada.
00:53:06.000 And by the way, your tour dates are at benbankus.com where people can go check them out, right?
00:53:12.000 Yes, sir.
00:53:12.000 B-E-N-B-A-N-K-A-S.com.
00:53:15.000 I'm in Texas right now, luckily.
00:53:17.000 Oh, good for you.
00:53:18.000 Are you planning to move stateside or is it a tough kind of move to pull off?
00:53:23.000 Because I'll tell you, starting stand up in Canada, I know what that's like.
00:53:28.000 And it's far more risky than people here realize.
00:53:32.000 Well, I want to thank God.
00:53:34.000 I want to thank my God, our God, one of the gods, for the good God.
00:53:40.000 I've been living stateside since 2024, April 2024, when I got my visa.
00:53:46.000 And just know looking back, man, I've just been hit the ground running and been going back and forth to Canada to do shows and doing shows all over the U.S. for the last two years.
00:53:56.000 So it's been amazing.
00:53:58.000 And what's it like going back to Canada to do shows?
00:54:02.000 Because that's always a risk.
00:54:03.000 I mean, I know you're from Toronto.
00:54:04.000 By the way, is Toronto?
00:54:05.000 Is it still a Yuck Yucks in Toronto or is that just Ottawa?
00:54:08.000 Yeah.
00:54:09.000 Yeah.
00:54:09.000 Shout out Yuck Yucks.
00:54:10.000 They are the best.
00:54:11.000 And they always, no matter what, they'll press delete on the craziest of emails coming in to try and get my shows canceled.
00:54:19.000 Well, I'm glad to see that because when I was in Canada, 2004 or maybe five was a year I remember doing the Just for Laughs.
00:54:27.000 And I was banned from quite a few colleges there in Montreal because of some pretty benign jokes looking back on Muhammad. 1.00
00:54:35.000 What's it like now?
00:54:36.000 Because all the comics were by default liberal back then.
00:54:39.000 It was a comedic witch hunt when George Bush was president.
00:54:42.000 Do you think a lot of the comedians have woken up to the threat against free speech there?
00:54:47.000 Well, I think, I mean, being banned from universities or colleges is pretty easy to do.
00:54:53.000 And I mean, for the last 20 years, of course.
00:54:55.000 I mean, I think one of my first sets, I got kicked off of an open mic at my university, Queen's University in Kingston, Ontario.
00:55:02.000 I've been there.
00:55:03.000 And I was doing a joke.
00:55:05.000 I was just doing some toilet humor, to be honest, but they couldn't even handle that back then or swearing, I think.
00:55:11.000 But Canada needs it.
00:55:14.000 They need the comedy.
00:55:15.000 And when I'm there, they're very thankful.
00:55:17.000 I mean, the audiences, of course, love it.
00:55:20.000 Is there a risk?
00:55:21.000 I don't really think so.
00:55:22.000 I mean, you come into the country, you push a button on a machine and they let you in.
00:55:28.000 Some Indian guy goes, Where do you go?
00:55:30.000 Do you have tobacco or banana?
00:55:32.000 And that's it.
00:55:34.000 So there's not really, there's not really, there's barely a border to begin with.
00:55:40.000 So going back to do comedy is pretty chill.
00:55:43.000 And honestly, I've crossed the border and had people recognize me at the border.
00:55:48.000 Like I've had border guards be like, I love your stuff.
00:55:50.000 I saw you in London, Ontario, buddy.
00:55:53.000 So it's weird because there's like this underlying, you know, conservatism in Canada.
00:55:59.000 Same with, I mean, the U.S. was lucky enough to elect Trump, but Canada still has a ton of left-wing people, but it just makes the appetite for what I'm doing so much more.
00:56:12.000 Yeah.
00:56:12.000 Yeah.
00:56:14.000 There's been a shift for sure in the comedy community where that wasn't always the case one time.
00:56:19.000 I think it's just because people always took for granted, like they'd be able to speak freely.
00:56:22.000 I met that Indian guy, by the way, going through customs.
00:56:25.000 I met him.
00:56:26.000 I used to do the Amtrak from Montreal to New York, which would take place, you know, it would only take a mere 15 hours.
00:56:31.000 And they go through and they do have produce.
00:56:33.000 I'm like, I have my lunch on the train.
00:56:35.000 What am I supposed to do?
00:56:38.000 Yeah.
00:56:39.000 Yeah.
00:56:41.000 It's an interesting thing.
00:56:43.000 I mean, the comedy community itself, like, that's a different thing from me selling tickets and being allowed to do what I'm doing.
00:56:52.000 Yeah.
00:56:52.000 The community, they'll always hate it.
00:56:55.000 The communities generally hate anybody that's getting any success unless it's, you know, unless it's left-wing, then they have to pretend like they like the success.
00:57:05.000 But, you know, generally, they're not happy.
00:57:08.000 Yeah.
00:57:08.000 No, it's true.
00:57:10.000 It's very much.
00:57:10.000 I mean, Josh, who's here, he was.
00:57:12.000 Yeah, I hate it.
00:57:13.000 I hate it that you're successful. 1.00
00:57:14.000 It sucks. 1.00
00:57:15.000 Yes. 1.00
00:57:15.000 Yeah. 1.00
00:57:16.000 I'm sitting over here one weekend a month and I hate you, buddy. 1.00
00:57:20.000 You suck. 1.00
00:57:20.000 He said, you having that son of a bitch on? 1.00
00:57:22.000 I said, come on. 1.00
00:57:23.000 He's all right.
00:57:26.000 Walk us through, though.
00:57:27.000 So I know recently, too, this Renee Good joke, you had some shows that were canceled.
00:57:34.000 Run us through the joke and the aftermath because that's one of those things that, you know, it wouldn't even be on my radar where someone would cancel you over a joke about someone who clearly deserved to be shot.
00:57:46.000 Well, I mean, your words, not mine.
00:57:50.000 Anyway, so the joke was about how she deserved it.
00:57:55.000 And the joke, well, the first of all, you know, getting shows, like having any disruption when you're getting, you know, I'm doing my job.
00:58:11.000 I'm on a stage telling a joke.
00:58:12.000 It's not like I'm doing, I'm not out of Walmart screaming at somebody or whatever.
00:58:17.000 You know, I don't know what could get me, you know, in trouble.
00:58:20.000 But the idea that doing a joke itself is actually problematic, a joke that's really popular.
00:58:26.000 And yeah, of course, something really popular is going to also be really hated, as with any artist, doesn't matter what side of the political spectrum.
00:58:35.000 Anyway, so the joke was that, you know, I basically just said, you know, so good.
00:58:40.000 She was shot.
00:58:41.000 Good.
00:58:41.000 Renee, good.
00:58:42.000 The name, that was the whole point of the joke.
00:58:45.000 Sorry, I hate to put you on the spot, but it's because I know there's fallout.
00:58:47.000 I know it's never fun to explain a stand-up joke on a show, but I get shot.
00:58:51.000 Good.
00:58:52.000 Yeah.
00:58:52.000 That's fun.
00:58:53.000 Yeah.
00:58:54.000 Right.
00:58:54.000 But her last name was good, so that's why the joke made sense.
00:58:58.000 And I do a bit about it.
00:59:00.000 How I say, like, you know, if her last name was bad, I would have said, you know, bad day to be a female driver or whatever. 1.00
00:59:05.000 Right.
00:59:06.000 But, you know, it's just the last name is, it's, this happened to be that.
00:59:11.000 So that was the joke.
00:59:14.000 And, you know, and then I do it.
00:59:16.000 I've been doing another bit.
00:59:18.000 You know, I talk about the fallout in my act.
00:59:21.000 Yeah.
00:59:21.000 So I won't give too much away.
00:59:23.000 But yeah, essentially I said good.
00:59:27.000 And people couldn't believe that I said that.
00:59:30.000 And then people were stealing my joke, trying to harass me, emailing me, your show was canceled.
00:59:37.000 Good.
00:59:38.000 It's like you're still, you're still slandering your name.
00:59:40.000 Yeah, but it feels good.
00:59:41.000 They're insulting you with your own joke, which means it works.
00:59:45.000 Yeah, which means it's a great joke.
00:59:46.000 Yeah.
00:59:47.000 So the perfect joke is where someone who wants to kill you still has to use it anyway.
00:59:54.000 I don't even remember the rest of the joke.
00:59:56.000 What was it?
00:59:57.000 I said, good.
00:59:58.000 Can we play it?
00:59:59.000 No, I'm just kidding.
01:00:00.000 I don't have it.
01:00:02.000 But I do have a clip from a fan of yours, Ali Hassan, who had this to say on CBC, which just for those people who don't know, I tell Americans, like, you don't have to go to Pravda or Venezuela to see government-run media.
01:00:14.000 I grew up under government-funded media, the CBC.
01:00:18.000 Here he is talking about your unacceptable joke.
01:00:23.000 This is a statement that we got, the CBC got from him.
01:00:25.000 Ben Bankos has proven that following your dreams and speaking your own truth resonates with millions of people, even if that truth is seen as harsh or abrasive.
01:00:33.000 As a comedian, what do you make of that?
01:00:35.000 You know, I think Ben, people of his ilk, and there are many other comedians like him.
01:00:40.000 They believe they're speaking truth to power and they believe at some level that they are some type of, you know, George Carlin, Bill Hicks type of, you know, reincarnation.
01:00:50.000 And this has been said by many people many times: dude, George Carlin would hate you.
01:00:54.000 George Carlin would absolutely despise you and everything.
01:00:57.000 Those were men who actually spoke truth to power.
01:01:00.000 Power felt ashamed hearing the jokes that George Carlin made about them.
01:01:03.000 He exposed people in power and talked about how they were corrupt.
01:01:06.000 This is all punching down.
01:01:08.000 This is easy, easy pickings, low-hanging fruit.
01:01:11.000 I don't consider it good comedy.
01:01:13.000 There's no actual joke writing going into the bulk of it.
01:01:17.000 Look, Ben's roots are racist from the beginning.
01:01:21.000 I didn't realize that that was, I was thinking of a different Ali Hassan.
01:01:24.000 I remember him at Comedy Works in Montreal and Comedy Nest that used to be in the old forum.
01:01:29.000 I was thinking of that other commentator who has a name similar to their names all sound to the other terrorist sympathizer.
01:01:37.000 It's funny, I always do this, right?
01:01:39.000 It always comes down to like, my cool guy wouldn't like you.
01:01:42.000 George Carlin wouldn't like you.
01:01:45.000 What do you say to people like the brotherhood of comedy to someone like that?
01:01:51.000 Yeah, the Muslim Brotherhood of Comedy. 1.00
01:01:55.000 They kill. 0.99
01:01:58.000 I mean, it's, yeah.
01:02:00.000 I mean, you know, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is having on jihadists and Islamists.
01:02:09.000 I don't know if they're jihadists fully, but they are Islamists to critique comedy. 0.57
01:02:14.000 I mean, that's government-funded, by the way.
01:02:17.000 So technically, I paid for that on my own slandering.
01:02:24.000 That's like divorce court.
01:02:25.000 You pay to sue yourself.
01:02:28.000 Yeah, it's basically living in Canada's divorce court, pretty much.
01:02:35.000 Look, you know, I feel bad for these people that, you know, if your career ends up at the place where you're being brought in and you have like 1,100 followers and they're asking you to, you know, slander a comedian with millions of followers.
01:02:50.000 I mean, it's just, it's a sad day for that guy.
01:02:54.000 I mean, you could kind of tell on his face he didn't sleep that night and he was up all night being like, I'm going to do it.
01:03:00.000 I'm doing it tomorrow.
01:03:01.000 I'm going to say this.
01:03:03.000 I'm ending.
01:03:03.000 Yeah, I'm going to say this.
01:03:04.000 I'm going to say that.
01:03:05.000 What I always noticed, too, is, and, you know, coming, I didn't, I wasn't, I wasn't a conservative, right-leaning comedian.
01:03:12.000 I was just a comedian.
01:03:13.000 I was 18 when I started in Canada or 17.
01:03:16.000 I just was inherently more conservative.
01:03:18.000 And it was brought to me that I wasn't allowed to say those things.
01:03:22.000 That's how I kind of, I was like, what, really?
01:03:24.000 I can't.
01:03:24.000 I just heard someone make a joke about a gangbang at a truck stop.
01:03:27.000 And I can't make like a joke about Muhammad.
01:03:30.000 I can't make a joke about, you know, my school being largely Middle Eastern during 9-11.
01:03:34.000 I remember these conversations.
01:03:36.000 What warning would you have to, because a lot of Americans watch you and they go, okay, they just, which is a great thing.
01:03:41.000 It's purity.
01:03:42.000 They go, you're funny.
01:03:44.000 But they may not know the actual background of the contrast.
01:03:46.000 What warning would you issue to Americans who don't know how bad Canada is, how bad it can get?
01:03:54.000 They take it for granted.
01:03:56.000 I mean, if Kamala had won, I think it would have been in a lot more similar state or at least trending that way.
01:04:06.000 And I do think that if you watch the Oscars, that is a representation of what Canada has become.
01:04:14.000 It is, and it's what they want.
01:04:16.000 Oh, thank you.
01:04:16.000 Thank you, man.
01:04:18.000 They want Canada or they want America to become what the Oscars was as mainstream.
01:04:24.000 And that's all you're really allowed to like or enjoy.
01:04:28.000 So the Oscars, to me, it's almost basically it's government funded at this point.
01:04:33.000 I mean, it's not because, you know, they have a box office, all that.
01:04:38.000 But, you know, if you look into it, I'm sure that most of the money, there's grants, there's this.
01:04:42.000 They got a grant because they had six transgenders and two blacks and a, you know, and a Chinese guy.
01:04:48.000 So that's, they got another million bucks there.
01:04:51.000 Whatever it is.
01:04:52.000 And even if you look at the Oscars, you're not even allowed to submit if you don't have a certain requirement of DEI.
01:04:59.000 So that's kind of what they're making into like law in Canada.
01:05:03.000 It's not just like, you know, well, you can make your movie, but it'll never be in the Oscars.
01:05:07.000 There, it's you can't make your movie.
01:05:09.000 Right.
01:05:09.000 Or you can't, you know, and that's their hope.
01:05:12.000 Have they accomplished it 100%?
01:05:14.000 No, they're still fighting for it.
01:05:16.000 I mean, you know, these people are having conversations, you know, that conversation that, you know, my fans are sending me.
01:05:25.000 And, you know, they're talking about how, you know, well, it should be hard for you for Ben to have the ability to perform these sold-out shows.
01:05:34.000 It should be difficult.
01:05:35.000 Why?
01:05:36.000 As a Canadian citizen who's getting success in Canada and America and has fans all around the world, that should be celebrated.
01:05:45.000 You don't agree with the politics?
01:05:46.000 You think the jokes are too harsh?
01:05:48.000 Okay, well, it's, you know, what about the economies of all the small, any small town where I was doing a thousand seats and they reverse it a week out and cancel the show, all the hotels that were booked, all the, I mean, the dinner plans, the restaurants, the bars afterwards.
01:06:08.000 And we're talking a town of, you know, maybe 30,000 or 40,000, 50,000.
01:06:13.000 That's a good night for everybody.
01:06:14.000 And it's a memorable boost to the economy.
01:06:18.000 So it just seems like because when you have everything government funded, you don't have to care about making money.
01:06:25.000 And, you know, capitalism is about, unless tell me if I'm wrong, but if the product is good, it will sell.
01:06:33.000 Yeah.
01:06:33.000 Well, I actually think you just touched on something very insight.
01:06:35.000 So we, the last time that I was, and I haven't, and I don't know, when I retire from this, I'll probably go back to stand up.
01:06:41.000 It's kind of tough to juggle going morning to nights.
01:06:43.000 But the last time that I did it, we picked venues.
01:06:46.000 So like for example, instead of Manhattan, we said, you know what, we're going to do two shows in Red Bank at like an 1800 seat theater and we'll do two.
01:06:52.000 We'll do it in a place that we know is friendly and we'll do it in a place where we know people will want it.
01:06:56.000 We would do a small town outside of a large Midwestern town where they just had a big enough venue and it would be a real infusion and you'd see it with the local hotels.
01:07:04.000 So you do have that sway for sure.
01:07:06.000 I also find it fun.
01:07:07.000 You mentioned that.
01:07:07.000 I remember Jay Bearshell, the exact opposite, right?
01:07:10.000 Blissfully in a way tone.
01:07:11.000 In Canada, we actually, our government, it's a beautiful thing.
01:07:14.000 They fund our films.
01:07:16.000 So it's not just corporate slop.
01:07:18.000 It's like, yeah, it's propaganda.
01:07:19.000 It's propaganda.
01:07:20.000 You're a tool of the propagandist government.
01:07:23.000 Ben, I want to.
01:07:24.000 It's making it cheap.
01:07:25.000 How do we make the propaganda cheaply?
01:07:27.000 Oh, we get people who have a dream but are never going to accomplish it to make it by giving them money because they would never be able to make it on their own because they're not that talented.
01:07:37.000 Yeah, that happens.
01:07:38.000 And a lot of, we see the best here in the States.
01:07:40.000 People are like, oh, trailer park poison. 1.00
01:07:42.000 But I go, yeah, but if you watch a lot of Canadian TV, it is crap. 0.99
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01:07:49.000 And I want to, it's benbankus.com for your tour dates.
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01:07:55.000 I want to ask you your material on Iran.
01:07:57.000 That'll be fun.
01:07:58.000 We got some Iran jokes, 0.98