Abdul Razak Ali Artan, a 20-year-old Muslim, drove a car into a group of Muslim students at Ohio State University, then hopped out with a butcher's knife and began hacking away at the students. CNN can't find a motive, and Governor Kasich says we may never find out why Artan committed this act of terrorism. I have a hot lead. It's a post Artin made on his social media before he committed the attack, right before he went on a stabbing spree. But the hot lead isn't so hot. The media have decided to make this about discrimination against Muslims, of course, and that must be why Arton was so upset and went on an anti-Islamic, self-declared "jihad" spree. Or alternatively, we may not know why this Islamic terrorist committed an act of terrorist. Because unlike those who purposefully attempt to obscure the truth, it wasn't because of the lack of control, or the ignorance of the obscure words of cowards, it was because the words of the cowards were at least obscure, because unlike the words they use are not because they are cowards. Because the left's chief priority in life is to connect individual decision-making and equality, not with a bad ideology, and the system is Islamophobic, not Islamophobic And that s why the left has no good reason to be mad at Islam, at least in the eyes of those who don t understand the truth because they don t get it. . . . because unlike Donald Trump, because it wasn t named Bob Smith, because he s not a Muslim, . Why Donald Trump won this sort of crap? it s not because it s a good thing and that s a bad idea not a bad thing because the truth is better than the other way that s not good enough That s better than that than the only thing that s better or better than a better reason for being mad than a bad reason a better way to do better than you can t be mad than you know what, right the better way than a good reason than you better than you think you can be mad in a better place I ll tell you what s good than that s good than that, right here let me know what you think about it right here, right now
00:00:00.000On Tuesday, nearly a full day after Islamic terrorist Abdul Razak Ali Artan, also not named Bob Smith, ran a car into a group of students and then hopped out with a butcher's knife and began hacking away, CNN still can't uncover a motive.
00:00:12.000Here's CNN's headline, quote, Students back in class at Ohio State, investigators search for knife attack motive.
00:00:18.000Ohio Governor John Kasich, oh God no, please God no, not John Kasich, has now announced, quote, we may never find out why Artan committed this act of terrorism.
00:00:31.000Here was Artin's post just before entering into a personal jihad against Americans.
00:00:35.000Quote, in the name of Allah, the most merciful and the most gracious, my brothers and sisters, I am sick and tired of seeing my fellow Muslim brothers and sisters being killed and tortured everywhere.
00:00:44.000Seeing my fellow Muslims being tortured, raped and killed in Burma led to a boiling point.
00:02:21.000They neglect to mention that at the end of that profile, Artin admits he engaged in prayer in the open with no consequences, which is normal.
00:02:27.000As an Orthodox Jew, I pray three times a day.
00:02:30.000In the mornings, I pray with the talus, which is the prayer shawl, and the tefillin, which is the phylacteries.
00:02:33.000You wrap them around the arm and on the head.
00:02:36.000I have never been bothered or even approached while praying in public, everywhere from campuses to airports.
00:02:40.000This is America, the most tolerant country on planet Earth.
00:02:43.000But the media have to pretend that Artin was a victim of the West, rather than a perpetrator against it.
00:02:48.000That, by the way, springs from a deep-seated need to cast Western civilization in a negative light.
00:02:53.000The media did the same thing after a spate of attacks in France.
00:02:56.000An enormous series of stories broke about how France had not been tolerant enough toward new Muslim immigrants, you know, aside from giving them welfare and taking them in and the whole deal.
00:03:04.000Because the left's chief priority in life is equality of outcome, and because the left believes actions should have no connection with consequences, the left has to connect
00:03:14.000All unhappiness and suffering, not with individual decision-making or bad ideology, but with the system.
00:03:20.000And the system is Islamophobic, and that must be why Arton was so upset and went on a stabby spree.
00:03:25.000Or, alternatively, we may never know why this Islamic terrorist self-declared committed an act of Islamic terrorism.
00:03:34.000We all know why Artin committed an act of terrorism.
00:03:37.000It wasn't because of the lack of gun control, or the evils of income inequality, or any other stupid reason those who purposefully attempt to obscure the truth suggest.
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00:05:09.000Let's begin with yesterday's attack at Ohio State University.
00:05:13.000So, as I say, the media have completely gotten it wrong because this is what they do for a living.
00:05:18.000There was this interview that this attacker did with the Lantern, which is an Ohio State University publication, and here's what this interview said.
00:05:27.000It said, humans of Ohio State, and this is a direct quote from this guy who just wounded 11 people with a knife after driving a car into them, quote,
00:05:34.000I just transferred for Columbus State.
00:05:36.000We had prayer rooms, like actual rooms, where we could go to pray, because we Muslims have to pray five times a day.
00:05:41.000There's Fajr, which is early in the morning at dawn, then Dhuhr during the daytime, then Asr in the evening, like right about now, and then Maghrib, which is like right at sunset, and then Isha at night.
00:07:23.000Most people who were participating in the Holocaust thought that they were doing something good on behalf of the fatherland.
00:07:29.000Most people who participated in the mass killings in the Soviet Union, literally people got so tired during the mass killings in the Soviet Union, the soldiers got so tired from holding their arm out to shoot people in the head, that they actually had people on staff, masseuses on staff, who would massage the right arm and trigger finger of the people who were pulling the gun because they were murdering so many thousands of people at a time in the Soviet Union.
00:07:51.000They thought they were doing something good.
00:07:54.000People always have to think they're doing something good.
00:07:55.000There's not a person who's alive who doesn't have a way to justify their actions.
00:07:59.000It's just the way the human brain works.
00:08:01.000In fact, Jonathan Haidt, who's an ethicist and sociologist at New York University, he wrote a whole book called The Righteous Mind, in which he discusses the fact
00:08:09.000That the human brain is sort of like, we tend to think that the reasonable side of us is what controls the human brain.
00:08:14.000In reality, he likens the human brain to a rider on an elephant.
00:08:18.000The elephant is sort of your instinctive mind.
00:08:21.000The elephant really tells you where to go, and then the rider can sort of make small deflections as to the path of the elephant, but in the end, the elephant rules.
00:08:29.000We want to do certain things, and then we come up with justifications later for the things that we're doing.
00:08:33.000Well, one of the ways that you justify killing a bunch of innocent people at Ohio State University is not because you're a sadist and you want to watch people suffer.
00:08:40.000You do it because you think you're a victim.
00:08:41.000You built up in your own mind that you are the victim of an evil, evil system, that Islamophobia is targeting you, and therefore you are acting in response, right?
00:08:54.000Bin Laden, if you read his statements, it was always about, I'm taking revenge for X. It was always, I'm justified in doing what I'm doing because I'm reacting, right?
00:09:06.000And that's always what evil people say.
00:09:09.000It's what good people say, too, sometimes, but they're the ones who are telling the truth.
00:09:12.000So you have to build up the idea that you are a victim of Islamophobia.
00:09:16.000So the Islamophobia narrative that was promoted by this guy is point number one, which is you have to feel justified in order to kill innocent people.
00:09:24.000Point number two, and this is the part that's truly amazing, is that he says in there that the media portray this really terrible vision of Muslims and that's why people view me badly.
00:09:34.000No, actually, if people view Muslims badly,
00:09:37.000It's because people who say that Muslims ought not to be viewed badly drive trucks into groups of people and then stab them with butcher knives.
00:09:56.000But it is worthwhile noting that the same guy who's complaining about media coverage of Islam is the guy who drove a truck into the middle of a group of people and then started hacking away with a butcher's knife.
00:10:07.000It is also worth noting that the Islamophobia narrative is a way to shut down debate.
00:10:10.000It's a way for people to simply suggest that you can't have real questions about how radical Islam works, about the ideology of radical Islam, whether it's promoting violence.
00:10:19.000You just shout Islamophobia and that ends the conversation.
00:10:22.000There's this suffix that the left loves to add to things.
00:10:27.000And the reason they do that is because they want to suggest that your opposition to some activity is not rooted in reason or risk assessment.
00:10:35.000Your opposition to certain activity is rooted instead in an insane fear of things, right?
00:10:40.000So if you say that men are men and women are women, for example, and that men can't magically become women and women can't magically become men, the response of the left is not, that's scientifically false, let me explain to you how a woman is a man, because they can't do that.
00:10:51.000Instead, their response is, you're a transphobe, right?
00:11:20.000Fear of radical Islam is perfectly rational, given the record of radical Islam around the world, to women, to gays, to people of civilized nations, everywhere, to Jews, to Christians.
00:11:29.000There's plenty to fear from radical Islam, obviously.
00:11:32.000But the left slaps the phobia label on there to label you pathological.
00:11:36.000For having attitudes about people based on their own decision-making process.
00:11:40.000You don't want to be called pathological.
00:11:42.000You don't want to be called a weakling who lives in fear all the time.
00:11:45.000And so instead you say, okay, well if I see somebody who may be engaged in something bad, I'm not going to report it because I don't want people labeling me an Islamophobe.
00:11:53.000That's the danger of labeling people phobic.
00:11:55.000It's the danger of saying that somebody is pathological.
00:11:57.000They have something wrong with their brain.
00:11:59.000If they have a risk assessment about a group of people who engage with a certain ideology.
00:12:07.000Again, no one ever said Nazi-phobic, right?
00:12:15.000The Islam that says that honor killings are okay and that clitorectomies are worthwhile and that Jews ought to be slaughtered behind the rocks and the trees where they hide.
00:12:22.000That sort of Islam is absolutely evil and should be fought.
00:12:45.000And one of the things I don't like to do here on The Ben Shapiro Show is get into textual analysis of the Quran, because I'm significantly more interested in what people do than in what people feel, right?
00:12:55.000I'm more interested in behavior, right?
00:12:56.000There's lots of stuff in the Bible too that's pretty violent, but Judeo-Christian tradition has basically read a lot of that stuff as either obsolete or inapplicable to today's situation.
00:13:06.000And so how people act matters more to me than what the Bible says, you know, in terms of assessing how people think and act.
00:13:27.000But I'm not going to sit here and analyze Quranic verses, because there are a lot of people who interpret the Quranic verses
00:13:32.000In a moderate way, which is good, and there are a lot of people who don't, which is bad.
00:13:35.000So I'd rather analyze the philosophy of the people who are doing the bad things than try and lump everybody together.
00:13:41.000That's why I don't bother doing the Quranic analysis, which everyone's capable of doing and everybody has a different read.
00:13:49.000In other news from this Ohio State thing, the media is trying to ignore that Islam had anything to do with it, radical Islam had anything to do with it, or political Islam, more realistically, had anything to do with it.
00:13:58.000Instead, the media wanted to jump on the bandwagon about gun control.
00:14:01.000So, here is what, as this thing was unfolding yesterday, there were reports that there was an active shooter at Ohio State.
00:14:08.000And normally when these things break, the information is really, really spotty, right?
00:14:11.000You don't know very much about what's going on because usually there are several different accounts.
00:14:16.000Very often they'll say multiple shooters, when it's really just multiple accounts of the same shooter.
00:14:20.000In this particular case, there was no shooter.
00:14:22.000The shots that were being heard were from the cop who killed this terrorist bastard.
00:14:37.000The senator from Virginia and former vice presidential candidate, deeply saddened by the senseless act of gun violence at Ohio State this morning, praying for the injured and the entire Buckeye community.
00:14:47.000So he's jumping immediately to the gun control argument, right?
00:14:50.000Whenever the left says senseless act of gun violence, what they really mean is, let's ban guns.
00:14:55.000Number one, it wasn't an act of gun violence.
00:14:56.000Number two, it wouldn't have been senseless.
00:14:58.000It was obviously driven by an ideology, an evil murderous ideology.
00:15:13.000Except there was no school shooting at Ohio State University.
00:15:16.000It was a Muslim terrorist using a car and a knife.
00:15:19.000And Adam Feldman, who's a theater critic, and I know that when I'm looking for solid political analysis, I always go straight to the theater critics.
00:15:27.000What happened at Ohio State is terrible, but mass stabber leaves eight people with non-life-threatening injuries is why gun control matters.
00:15:34.000First of all, we have no evidence that this guy ever tried to even apply for a gun.
00:15:37.000He probably could have gotten one legally.
00:15:39.000There was nothing to stop him in the state of Ohio, I assume.
00:15:42.000Beyond that, you know, this is a real strained argument.
00:15:45.000So when your outcome is always the same to your argument, there's something wrong with your argument.
00:15:51.000So if somebody shoots people, that's evidence that gun control is necessary.
00:15:54.000And if somebody stabs people, that's evidence that gun control is working.
00:15:58.000Amazing, amazing how that operates, according to the left.
00:16:00.000The left had to jump to their narrative.
00:17:20.000I'm trying to hold myself to a higher standard on this.
00:17:22.000We should always try to wait till the facts are out, or at least base our opinions on the best available facts, before we jump to a conclusion that confirms our worldview.
00:17:33.000Because otherwise we're not actually analyzing the news, we're just hacks trying to bolster what we already think about the universe, and that's not really particularly useful to anybody.
00:17:41.000You should let the evidence lead you to a conclusion, rather than letting your conclusion lead you to the evidence.
00:17:47.000Okay, we're going to have to break there, but we have much more coming up.
00:17:49.000We're going to deconstruct the culture.
00:17:51.000In a little while we're also going to talk about Donald Trump and flag burning, which is, I have sort of an interesting take on it, maybe different than some of the ones you've heard today.
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