The Ben Shapiro Show - Ep. 218 - Islamist Terrorist Attacks, Left Goes Silent

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

00:00:00.000 On 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.

00:00:12.000 Here's CNN's headline, quote, Students back in class at Ohio State, investigators search for knife attack motive.

00:00:18.000 Ohio 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.

00:00:28.000 I have a hot lead.

00:00:29.000 It is called Facebook.

00:00:31.000 Here was Artin's post just before entering into a personal jihad against Americans.

00:00:35.000 Quote, 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. 0.95

00:00:44.000 Seeing my fellow Muslims being tortured, raped and killed in Burma led to a boiling point. 0.86

00:00:47.000 I can't take it anymore. 0.99

00:00:49.000 Americans, stop interfering with other countries, especially the Muslim ummah. 0.99

00:00:52.000 We are not weak.

00:00:53.000 We are weak.

00:00:54.000 Remember that.

00:00:54.000 Wait, what?

00:00:55.000 If you want us Muslims to stop carrying lone wolf attacks, then make peace with Dawla in Al-Sham. 0.99

00:01:00.000 Make a pact or a treaty with them where you promise to leave them alone, you and your fellow apostate allies. 0.81

00:01:04.000 By Allah, we will not let you sleep unless you give peace to the Muslims.

00:01:07.000 You will not celebrate or enjoy any holiday. 0.93

00:01:09.000 Stop the killing of Muslims in Burma. 0.99

00:01:11.000 By the way, every single Muslim who disapproves of my action is a sleeper cell waiting for a signal. 1.00

00:01:15.000 I am warning you, oh America, and a message to the Muslims. 1.00

00:01:18.000 Don't listen to celebrity scholars who sold their dean

00:01:21.000 I'm talking about the likes of Yasser Oafi, Omar Suleiman, Nouman Mufti, and the list goes on.

00:01:26.000 Beware of Al-Maghreb Institute.

00:01:27.000 Listen instead to our hero Imam Anwar al-Awlaki.

00:01:30.000 Let me ask you this question.

00:01:32.000 If the Muhammad, peace and blessings upon him, and his Sanabah were here today, wouldn't the Western media call them terrorists?

00:01:38.000 To conclude, by Allah, I am willing to use a billion infidels in retribution. 1.00

00:01:43.000 I can't get it, guys.

00:01:45.000 How?

00:01:45.000 What drove this?

00:01:47.000 Encyclopedia Brown must be on the case.

00:01:50.000 Let's get him out there on his bicycle.

00:01:52.000 Maybe he can uncover a motive in the great Ohio State stabbing attack.

00:01:56.000 I don't know.

00:01:56.000 The clues are just not there.

00:01:58.000 I can't make the connection.

00:02:00.000 The hot lead wasn't so hot.

00:02:01.000 The media have decided to make this about discrimination against Muslims, of course.

00:02:04.000 Here is CNN again.

00:02:05.000 Quote, Back in August, Ohio State's student-run newspaper profiled Artan as part of its Humans of Ohio State series.

00:02:12.000 Obviously, they took humans a little too seriously.

00:02:14.000 He had just transferred from Columbus State and talked about his struggles to find a place to pray in peace on the large campus.

00:02:21.000 Unquote.

00:02:21.000 They 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.

00:02:27.000 As an Orthodox Jew, I pray three times a day.

00:02:30.000 In the mornings, I pray with the talus, which is the prayer shawl, and the tefillin, which is the phylacteries.

00:02:33.000 You wrap them around the arm and on the head.

00:02:36.000 I have never been bothered or even approached while praying in public, everywhere from campuses to airports.

00:02:40.000 This is America, the most tolerant country on planet Earth.

00:02:43.000 But the media have to pretend that Artin was a victim of the West, rather than a perpetrator against it.

00:02:48.000 That, by the way, springs from a deep-seated need to cast Western civilization in a negative light.

00:02:53.000 The media did the same thing after a spate of attacks in France.

00:02:56.000 An 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.

00:03:04.000 Because 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

00:03:14.000 All unhappiness and suffering, not with individual decision-making or bad ideology, but with the system.

00:03:20.000 And the system is Islamophobic, and that must be why Arton was so upset and went on a stabby spree.

00:03:25.000 Or, alternatively, we may never know why this Islamic terrorist self-declared committed an act of Islamic terrorism.

00:03:31.000 You wanna know why Donald Trump won? 1.00

00:03:33.000 Because of this sort of crap. 1.00

00:03:34.000 We all know why Artin committed an act of terrorism. 1.00

00:03:37.000 It 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. 1.00

00:03:45.000 It was because of radical Islam. 1.00

00:03:47.000 At least Trump will say the words, unlike cowards from both the left and the right. 0.99

00:03:51.000 I'm Ben Shapiro. 0.90

00:03:51.000 This is The Ben Shapiro Show. 0.90

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00:05:09.000 Let's begin with yesterday's attack at Ohio State University.

00:05:13.000 So, as I say, the media have completely gotten it wrong because this is what they do for a living.

00:05:18.000 There was this interview that this attacker did with the Lantern, which is an Ohio State University publication, and here's what this interview said.

00:05:27.000 It 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,

00:05:34.000 I just transferred for Columbus State.

00:05:36.000 We had prayer rooms, like actual rooms, where we could go to pray, because we Muslims have to pray five times a day.

00:05:41.000 There'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.

00:05:50.000 I wanted to pray Asr. 0.99

00:05:51.000 I mean, I'm new here.

00:05:52.000 This is my first day.

00:05:53.000 This place is huge, and I don't even know where to pray.

00:05:55.000 I wanted to pray in the open, but I was kind of scared with everything going on in the media.

00:05:58.000 I'm a Muslim.

00:05:59.000 It's not what the media portrays me to be.

00:06:01.000 If people look at me, a Muslim praying, I don't know what they're going to think, what's going to happen.

00:06:05.000 But I don't blame them.

00:06:06.000 It's the media that put that picture in their head.

00:06:07.000 So they're just going to have to have it, and it's going to make them feel uncomfortable.

00:06:11.000 I was kind of scared right now, but I just did it.

00:06:13.000 I relied on God.

00:06:13.000 I went over to the corner and just prayed.

00:06:15.000 And nothing happened because no one cares.

00:06:17.000 Because in America, you can pray however you want, and no one is going to bother you because, again, this is America.

00:06:23.000 But it does illuminate a couple of points that are pretty amazing.

00:06:26.000 Number one, in order for people to perpetrate acts of violence and terror, they have to feel like they're victims.

00:06:32.000 People like to feel justified in what they're doing.

00:06:34.000 Very few... TV makes all of the bad guys on TV people who are insanely barbaric and sadists.

00:06:42.000 Like if you watch Game of Thrones, the great

00:06:44.000 Villains in Game of Thrones.

00:06:45.000 People like Joffrey Baratheon or people like Ramsay Bolton.

00:06:48.000 These are all people who revel in other people's suffering.

00:06:50.000 It's something they enjoy, right?

00:06:51.000 They just like cutting parts off of people and they take a sick sort of pleasure in it.

00:06:56.000 The truth is, the vast majority of people who commit acts of violence on Earth are not sociopathic sadists.

00:07:01.000 They're not people who just sit around going, you know what I'd really like to do? 0.52

00:07:03.000 Cut a finger off somebody today.

00:07:05.000 The number of people who are like that is actually very, very small in the human population.

00:07:09.000 It's really small.

00:07:10.000 Hollywood likes to build those people up as the real villains.

00:07:13.000 The real villains are always people who just enjoy the sadism for the sake of the sadism.

00:07:17.000 But that's a really small group of people.

00:07:19.000 Most people who do evil things think they're doing something good.

00:07:23.000 Right?

00:07:23.000 Most people who were participating in the Holocaust thought that they were doing something good on behalf of the fatherland.

00:07:29.000 Most 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.

00:07:49.000 Those people

00:07:50.000 They thought that they were heroes.

00:07:51.000 They thought they were doing something good.

00:07:54.000 People always have to think they're doing something good.

00:07:55.000 There's not a person who's alive who doesn't have a way to justify their actions.

00:07:59.000 It's just the way the human brain works.

00:08:01.000 In 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

00:08:09.000 That the human brain is sort of like, we tend to think that the reasonable side of us is what controls the human brain.

00:08:14.000 In reality, he likens the human brain to a rider on an elephant.

00:08:18.000 The elephant is sort of your instinctive mind.

00:08:21.000 The 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.

00:08:27.000 That's how human beings really work.

00:08:29.000 We want to do certain things, and then we come up with justifications later for the things that we're doing.

00:08:33.000 Well, 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.

00:08:40.000 You do it because you think you're a victim.

00:08:41.000 You 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?

00:08:50.000 You're always punching back.

00:08:51.000 No one has ever been an offender, no one's ever an aggressor.

00:08:54.000 You're always punching back.

00:08:54.000 Bin 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?

00:09:04.000 I didn't start it, you started it.

00:09:06.000 And that's always what evil people say.

00:09:09.000 It's what good people say, too, sometimes, but they're the ones who are telling the truth.

00:09:12.000 So you have to build up the idea that you are a victim of Islamophobia.

00:09:16.000 So 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.

00:09:24.000 Point 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.

00:09:34.000 No, actually, if people view Muslims badly, 0.97

00:09:37.000 It'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. 0.99

00:09:44.000 That would probably be it, right? 0.97

00:09:45.000 This guy who's saying, I don't understand why people see Muslims so badly.

00:09:50.000 If they do, it's because of people like you. 0.98

00:09:52.000 And we shouldn't paint, of course, all Muslims with the brush of this terrorist. 1.00

00:09:55.000 That's silly. 0.97

00:09:56.000 But 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. 0.95

00:10:05.000 I mean, that is worth noting.

00:10:07.000 It is also worth noting that the Islamophobia narrative is a way to shut down debate.

00:10:10.000 It'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.

00:10:19.000 You just shout Islamophobia and that ends the conversation.

00:10:22.000 There's this suffix that the left loves to add to things.

00:10:25.000 And that suffix is phobia.

00:10:27.000 And 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.

00:10:35.000 Your opposition to certain activity is rooted instead in an insane fear of things, right?

00:10:40.000 So 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. 0.67

00:10:51.000 Instead, their response is, you're a transphobe, right? 0.64

00:10:53.000 You're transphobic. 0.98

00:10:55.000 I'm not afraid of transgender people.

00:10:57.000 I don't know a lot of people who are afraid of transgender people.

00:10:59.000 I feel horrible for transgender people. 1.00

00:11:01.000 But the way that the left act, it's not, if you believe this, it's not because in any way you have science to back you. 0.97

00:11:08.000 It's because you are a phobe, right?

00:11:10.000 You fear.

00:11:10.000 So if you are concerned about radical Islam, the left's response is, well, yeah, that's because you fear Islam.

00:11:16.000 You have an irrational fear of Islam and radical Islam.

00:11:19.000 First of all,

00:11:20.000 Fear 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. 1.00

00:11:29.000 There's plenty to fear from radical Islam, obviously. 1.00

00:11:32.000 But the left slaps the phobia label on there to label you pathological.

00:11:36.000 For having attitudes about people based on their own decision-making process.

00:11:40.000 You don't want to be called pathological.

00:11:42.000 You don't want to be called a weakling who lives in fear all the time.

00:11:45.000 And 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.

00:11:53.000 That's the danger of labeling people phobic.

00:11:55.000 It's the danger of saying that somebody is pathological. 0.99

00:11:57.000 They have something wrong with their brain.

00:11:59.000 If they have a risk assessment about a group of people who engage with a certain ideology. 0.98

00:12:07.000 Again, no one ever said Nazi-phobic, right?

00:12:09.000 Because Nazism was an evil ideology. 1.00

00:12:11.000 Radical Islam is an evil ideology. 1.00

00:12:13.000 Not Islam itself. 1.00

00:12:14.000 Radical Islam. 1.00

00:12:15.000 The 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. 1.00

00:12:22.000 That sort of Islam is absolutely evil and should be fought. 1.00

00:12:26.000 And it's not phobic to say that. 0.99

00:12:29.000 Right?

00:12:29.000 No one's Nazi-phobic.

00:12:30.000 You just don't like Nazism because it's a bad ideology. 0.98

00:12:32.000 Radical Islam is a bad ideology. 1.00

00:12:34.000 Not mainstream Islam. 0.99

00:12:36.000 Not mainstream Islam. 0.99

00:12:37.000 Radical Islam. 0.99

00:12:38.000 And there is a distinction.

00:12:39.000 Westernized Muslims are not the same as Muslims who are living in Afghanistan. 0.50

00:12:43.000 You can see it by the polling data.

00:12:45.000 And 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?

00:12:55.000 I'm more interested in behavior, right?

00:12:56.000 There'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.

00:13:06.000 And so how people act matters more to me than what the Bible says, you know, in terms of assessing how people think and act.

00:13:13.000 The same thing is true of Islam. 0.96

00:13:14.000 If you meet a moderate Muslim, I judge them by behavior, not by ideology. 1.00

00:13:18.000 The only reason ideology matters is if the ideology actually produces more violent people. 0.93

00:13:23.000 Radical Islam does produce more violent people. 1.00

00:13:24.000 Nazism produces more violent people. 0.98

00:13:26.000 That makes a difference.

00:13:27.000 But I'm not going to sit here and analyze Quranic verses, because there are a lot of people who interpret the Quranic verses

00:13:32.000 In a moderate way, which is good, and there are a lot of people who don't, which is bad.

00:13:35.000 So I'd rather analyze the philosophy of the people who are doing the bad things than try and lump everybody together.

00:13:41.000 That's why I don't bother doing the Quranic analysis, which everyone's capable of doing and everybody has a different read.

00:13:49.000 In 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.

00:13:58.000 Instead, the media wanted to jump on the bandwagon about gun control.

00:14:01.000 So, here is what, as this thing was unfolding yesterday, there were reports that there was an active shooter at Ohio State.

00:14:08.000 And normally when these things break, the information is really, really spotty, right?

00:14:11.000 You don't know very much about what's going on because usually there are several different accounts.

00:14:16.000 Very often they'll say multiple shooters, when it's really just multiple accounts of the same shooter.

00:14:20.000 In this particular case, there was no shooter. 1.00

00:14:22.000 The shots that were being heard were from the cop who killed this terrorist bastard. 0.99

00:14:28.000 So the left couldn't wait. 1.00

00:14:29.000 They immediately jumped to their narrative and they started tweeting.

00:14:32.000 Here's Tim Kaine.

00:14:33.000 Well, here's Shannon Watts.

00:14:34.000 We can start with Tim Kaine.

00:14:35.000 Fine.

00:14:35.000 Stick there.

00:14:35.000 So here's Tim Kaine.

00:14:37.000 The 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.

00:14:47.000 So he's jumping immediately to the gun control argument, right?

00:14:50.000 Whenever the left says senseless act of gun violence, what they really mean is, let's ban guns.

00:14:55.000 Number one, it wasn't an act of gun violence.

00:14:56.000 Number two, it wouldn't have been senseless.

00:14:58.000 It was obviously driven by an ideology, an evil murderous ideology.

00:15:02.000 He wasn't the only one.

00:15:03.000 Shannon Watts, who is a

00:15:06.000 gun control leader.

00:15:07.000 She tweeted, for school shooting victims, it's not too soon to discuss our nation's lax gun laws.

00:15:11.000 It's too late.

00:15:12.000 Ohio State University.

00:15:13.000 Except there was no school shooting at Ohio State University. 0.99

00:15:16.000 It was a Muslim terrorist using a car and a knife. 0.95

00:15:19.000 And 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.

00:15:26.000 Here is Adam Feldman.

00:15:27.000 What happened at Ohio State is terrible, but mass stabber leaves eight people with non-life-threatening injuries is why gun control matters. 0.64

00:15:34.000 First of all, we have no evidence that this guy ever tried to even apply for a gun.

00:15:37.000 He probably could have gotten one legally.

00:15:39.000 There was nothing to stop him in the state of Ohio, I assume.

00:15:42.000 Beyond that, you know, this is a real strained argument.

00:15:45.000 So when your outcome is always the same to your argument, there's something wrong with your argument.

00:15:51.000 So if somebody shoots people, that's evidence that gun control is necessary. 0.62

00:15:54.000 And if somebody stabs people, that's evidence that gun control is working. 0.64

00:15:58.000 Amazing, amazing how that operates, according to the left.

00:16:00.000 The left had to jump to their narrative.

00:16:02.000 It's very funny.

00:16:03.000 The left is talking a lot these days about fake news, this big fake news controversy, this idea that

00:16:09.000 That people were driven to their various political perspectives by news that confirms their bias.

00:16:15.000 There's truth to this, but this is an example of how the left did it, right?

00:16:18.000 So, the reality is we're always looking for confirmation bias.

00:16:21.000 It's one of the reasons why, on this program, I really strive to sort of give you what I think are the unbiased sets of facts.

00:16:28.000 I make my perspective clear, but I'm going to tell you the truth, whether it benefits me personally or not, right?

00:16:33.000 I mean, during the entire election cycle, I was very critical of Donald Trump.

00:16:36.000 That certainly didn't benefit me in any way.

00:16:38.000 You know, when it comes to his presidency, I'm gonna call it like I see it.

00:16:41.000 I think that most people have a tendency to find a piece of news and then try and fit it into the puzzle of their thinking.

00:16:48.000 So everybody's worldview has a set of holes that are to be filled by pegs.

00:16:52.000 Every piece of news is a peg.

00:16:54.000 If the peg doesn't fit, people try to ram it in anyway.

00:16:56.000 That's exactly what happened with the left on this story.

00:16:59.000 They wanted a gun control peg to stick in their gun control worldview.

00:17:02.000 It was a square peg. 1.00

00:17:03.000 They tried to shove it in the round hole anyway, and it ends up making them look stupid as well it should. 0.99

00:17:09.000 Here's my rule. 0.99

00:17:10.000 We should wait till all the facts are out.

00:17:11.000 This is true on police shootings.

00:17:13.000 It's true on Black Lives Matter riots. 1.00

00:17:15.000 It's true on all this stuff.

00:17:16.000 Okay?

00:17:17.000 You should always wait, and I don't always abide by this rule.

00:17:19.000 I should.

00:17:20.000 I'm trying to hold myself to a higher standard on this.

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The Ben Shapiro Show - November 30, 2016

Ep. 218 - Islamist Terrorist Attacks, Left Goes Silent

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