The Michael Knowles Show - January 01, 2026


Michael Knowles REACTS To Thirst Trap Muslim Propagandist


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Is the US becoming a Muslim country now? Is TikTok going viral on TikTok? Is the U.S. becoming a Muslim country now? What are the dangers of Islam taking over the United States? What would the country be like if it was ruled by Muslims? And what would it look like if they were in power?

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00:00:00.240 Islam has tried a lot of ways to conquer the West over the last 1400 years. 1.00
00:00:04.800 By the sword, by the ship, by the bomb, by the knife.
00:00:10.840 Now just through the migration policies of the European Union and the United States.
00:00:14.940 Well, they're trying a new strategy, and I think it might be the most effective one of all.
00:00:22.020 Islam is embracing thirst traps. 1.00
00:00:23.560 Dancing in the moonlight, everybody's beating, walking, riding, it's a show.
00:00:31.780 Here is the Sharia thirst trap going viral on TikTok, trying to win converts to the religion of Muhammad. 1.00
00:00:39.240 Muslims taking over America. 1.00
00:00:41.340 Did you know there are over 2,500 mosques in the United States right now?
00:00:46.260 Muhammad is the top 10 most common baby name.
00:00:49.480 Why don't you pick a common name like a normal person?
00:00:51.620 Muhammad is the most commonly used name on earth.
00:00:53.200 Islam is the fastest growing religion, and has grown over 50% in the last 10 years.
00:00:58.980 Plus, the mayor of New York City is a Muslim.
00:01:01.520 The largest city in the whole of US.
00:01:04.180 So is the mayor of Michigan, New Jersey, Texas, and Minnesota.
00:01:08.800 The US ambassador for religious freedom.
00:01:11.740 That is literally the office that defends people's rights to practice their faith around the world.
00:01:16.560 It's led by a Muslim.
00:01:17.660 And on top of all that, there is more than 150 Muslim elected officials across 33 states.
00:01:25.820 Is the US becoming a Muslim country now? 1.00
00:01:28.200 What do you guys think?
00:01:29.120 Yeah, I guess it will be.
00:01:30.940 Gotta go.
00:01:32.140 Gotta go.
00:01:32.940 Get out now, please.
00:01:35.400 Because she's right about the fact.
00:01:37.380 She says, yes, the Muslims are coming here in huge numbers.
00:01:40.200 They're retaining political power.
00:01:42.340 They're having a ton of kids, in part funded by defrauding the welfare system.
00:01:47.340 And the Native American population, the Christian population, has many, many fewer children than the Muslims do. 0.96
00:01:54.560 So yeah, Islam is taking over America through mass migration and the strength of their political communities. 1.00
00:01:59.740 That's true.
00:02:02.780 Is that, that doesn't seem like a great thing.
00:02:05.040 Because then the promise is that America can be like Somalia, or Iran, or Iraq, or something like that. 0.96
00:02:13.200 And I don't, is that, I don't know.
00:02:16.540 To me, that TikTok would have the opposite effect of the one she wants.
00:02:19.980 Next one.
00:02:20.820 No wonder the West hates Islam.
00:02:22.420 Think about it.
00:02:22.980 What's the biggest money makers right now in the West?
00:02:25.100 You've got alcohol, gambling, weapons manufacturing, the sex industry, the financial system with the interest rates, cosmetics, fashion, music, Hollywood.
00:02:33.040 But Islam cripples these industries. 1.00
00:02:36.140 Gambling, forbidden.
00:02:37.200 Alcohol, forbidden.
00:02:38.380 Pornography, completely forbidden.
00:02:40.280 And the next interest is forbidden.
00:02:41.620 So if Islam was in power, the current banking system would completely collapse. 1.00
00:02:46.960 That's nothing to be proud of, Rusty.
00:02:48.880 At the end of the day, Islam has no commercial value. 1.00
00:02:51.660 They hate Islam because it threatens their profits and their power. 1.00
00:02:56.200 So she's right that a lot of those industries are bad.
00:03:00.020 Like gambling should be restricted.
00:03:01.880 On what ground?
00:03:02.600 I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here.
00:03:06.280 You're winning, sir.
00:03:07.240 Oh, thank you very much.
00:03:08.240 Again, you know, Islam takes this extreme stance which says that, you know, you can't consume alcohol at all.
00:03:14.960 Whereas, coincidentally, in Christianity, it's, in a way, one could say that you can't practice Christianity without alcohol because of the Holy Communion, because of the sacred wine, which becomes the body and blood of Christ.
00:03:27.460 However, even beyond all of those points, yeah, yeah, I would be fine, you know, getting rid of the pornography industry.
00:03:33.300 That would be wonderful.
00:03:34.320 Those aren't the biggest money makers in the country, though.
00:03:36.460 The closest she gets to is the financial industry and interest rates, which, you know, Islam has that, too.
00:03:41.520 They just kind of circumscribe it in a little way.
00:03:43.200 But, I don't know, aren't bigger money makers, like the energy industry, for instance?
00:03:48.060 I don't know.
00:03:48.500 I guess, and the Muslim countries have a lot of oil, too.
00:03:50.640 So, that's all true.
00:03:53.500 Now, I'm not going to really, I'm not going to knock Islam for, you know, its circumscribing certain vices. 0.78
00:04:01.420 It just does seem to, as with all things, it seems to go too far.
00:04:04.800 You know, like, thinkers from G.K. Chesterton, all the way to Aristotle, point out that you can sometimes err in two ways.
00:04:13.440 You know, you can fall on two sides of error, and so you want to have a via media in the middle.
00:04:17.920 It's good, for instance, to encourage modesty among women.
00:04:21.580 It's bad to murder your daughter for not wearing a headscarf. 1.00
00:04:25.120 It's good to discourage drunkenness, but it is bad from, you know, totally condemning the fruit of the vine, which is, you know, an integral part of Western culture.
00:04:36.560 And, in fact, actually the centerpiece of our Lord's first miracle at the wedding of Cana.
00:04:40.960 But, yeah, we should get rid of pornography.
00:04:44.500 That's fine.
00:04:44.840 There we go.
00:04:45.340 I agree with Islam on something.
00:04:46.980 Next one.
00:04:47.700 Did you know Islam was the first leadership to allow women the right to inherit and own property? 0.80
00:04:53.320 Meanwhile, in England and USA, they saw women as property until the 20th century. 1.00
00:04:58.220 How does that work?
00:04:59.120 Women have had plenty of rights in England and throughout the West for a long time, long before feminism. 0.95
00:05:06.200 Now, I'm no expert on the rights that women are afforded within Islam, other than knowing that honor killings are prescribed by the Quran. 0.96
00:05:17.300 So, I'm not even one who really goes after, oh, the hijab is, you know, so terribly oppressive. 1.00
00:05:22.040 I think hijabs can look kind of tasteful. 1.00
00:05:23.760 But one thing I object to is when a woman doesn't wear the hijab and then her family murders her.
00:05:28.260 I actually just sat down with a lovely woman who left Islam.
00:05:31.800 She studied in Madrasa, Sabatina James.
00:05:34.300 And she explained that she was essentially a slave, very nearly forced into a marriage with her cousin,
00:05:40.680 and on the run because her family tried to murder her for deviating from Islam.
00:05:45.820 In my case, he said, we give you two weeks to come back.
00:05:49.820 And otherwise, please don't let us do what we have to do otherwise.
00:05:55.660 So, I don't know.
00:05:56.320 I think the Sharia thirst trap might have a few facts a little off. 0.98
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00:06:13.160 who are still churning out kids, raising kids, who can turn things around.
00:06:18.340 Here's the thing.
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00:07:33.040 Hey, Muslims and Christians, I have a question.
00:07:35.360 Yes?
00:07:35.740 Is the Bible the word of God?
00:07:37.640 Yes.
00:07:38.020 Christians believe the Bible is the word of God.
00:07:41.000 So Jesus wrote the Bible?
00:07:42.300 No, his disciples did.
00:07:43.940 Oh, and their names were Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John, right?
00:07:47.120 Actually, no.
00:07:47.980 We don't know their names.
00:07:49.360 Wait, so the authors of the gospel are anonymous?
00:07:50.480 Yes, we do.
00:07:50.940 It's Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.
00:07:52.020 Give me a break.
00:07:52.320 Yes.
00:07:52.700 Their names were added later.
00:07:54.240 There's actually no solid evidence that the Bible was even written by eyewitnesses or disciples.
00:07:58.900 When was the Bible written?
00:08:00.620 Well, the gospels were written decades after Jesus.
00:08:03.660 Also known as within living memory.
00:08:06.140 So what language was the gospels first written in?
00:08:09.560 Greek.
00:08:09.980 Did the disciples speak Greek?
00:08:11.540 Did Jesus speak Greek?
00:08:12.760 No, they didn't.
00:08:14.140 What language did they speak then?
00:08:15.360 St. Paul spoke Greek.
00:08:16.140 Aramaic.
00:08:16.560 So Jesus taught all these sermons in Aramaic, right?
00:08:19.240 Yes, because Jesus primarily preached to villages and rural areas, where Aramaic was the language spoken by the people of that region.
00:08:26.960 Hang on a minute.
00:08:27.800 Let me get this straight.
00:08:28.820 So the Bible we have today is written by unknown authors in a language that Jesus didn't speak in his sermons, and it was written years after his death?
00:08:38.460 It wasn't written before his death, lady.
00:08:40.300 What do you think?
00:08:40.640 So how can the Bible we have today be the word of God?
00:08:44.260 Can I please say something?
00:08:45.380 In the Quran, chapter 546, we believe that the original gospel of Jesus is, in fact, the word of God.
00:08:51.980 However, it has been changed and altered.
00:08:54.640 That's interesting.
00:08:55.780 What do you guys think?
00:08:56.960 Okay, so she says some right things, right?
00:08:59.240 Which is, yeah, the Bible's written in Greek, and, you know, Christ and the apostles spoke Aramaic.
00:09:04.380 That's true.
00:09:05.080 One point, though, she makes, it's kind of silly.
00:09:07.280 She says, did you know the gospels were written after Christ's death?
00:09:11.640 Well, yeah, they wouldn't have been written before Christ.
00:09:14.200 It's about that.
00:09:16.300 You don't write a narrative before the events take place.
00:09:20.560 Furthermore, she seems to understand what is meant by the word of God.
00:09:24.580 The Bible is written as an efficient cause by multiple authors, obviously.
00:09:30.080 You have the books of Moses.
00:09:31.280 You have the books of the prophets.
00:09:32.280 You have Psalms.
00:09:33.060 You have the gospels.
00:09:34.340 You have the epistles.
00:09:35.080 So, no, it's not, the Bible in no way purports to be written by a single author.
00:09:39.460 To say it is the word of God means that it is inspired scripture.
00:09:42.220 It's inerrant scripture.
00:09:43.280 But the efficient cause, the guy with the pen writing it down, are individuals throughout history crafting one narrative.
00:09:50.000 So, that, I don't know, she just seems to be a little confused about what is even meant by the Bible.
00:09:54.980 Then she goes on.
00:09:56.980 She kind of embraces the historical critical ideas that we don't really know anything about who wrote the Bible or whatever.
00:10:02.600 You know, it's kind of silly.
00:10:04.120 And furthermore, the notion that within the Roman Empire and the Greek world that people don't know how to translate is kind of silly.
00:10:11.460 There are lots of cultures butting up against each other, all within one empire.
00:10:15.200 And translation is not so difficult to think.
00:10:18.240 Even beyond all of that, you notice that claim there at the end.
00:10:21.380 She says, well, we believe in the gospel of Jesus.
00:10:24.160 We just think that it was totally corrupted.
00:10:27.260 And it took an Arab 700 years later to figure out what it really meant. 0.97
00:10:32.000 This is like every cult leader throughout history.
00:10:34.720 So, no, no, no.
00:10:35.560 We want the authority of Christianity.
00:10:37.320 We just don't believe what Christians have believed continuously since the age of the apostles and since the incarnation. 0.72
00:10:43.700 We just don't believe that because we know better.
00:10:46.200 We, a bunch of Arabs 700 years later, we know what was really going on in Jerusalem and in Bethlehem and Nazareth in the first century.
00:10:56.840 And what's our evidence?
00:10:58.040 It came to me in a dream.
00:11:00.040 That actually often is their evidence.
00:11:01.460 It came to me in a dream, bro.
00:11:02.760 So, if you're going to question the accuracy of the gospels because they were written a few decades after the events that they're describing,
00:11:13.040 wouldn't you have to question the Quran's account of the true gospel of Jesus that was written 600 years later or thereabouts in a totally different place?
00:11:24.120 In a totally different, also in a totally different language?
00:11:26.540 That would seem to be the case to me.
00:11:27.940 This is why I find the Islam simping among Christians to be so odious. 1.00
00:11:34.460 Because sometimes they'll say, actually, you know, Muslims really admire Christ and they really admire Mary.
00:11:41.240 I say, no, they don't.
00:11:42.100 They lie about them.
00:11:43.420 The Quran says explicitly that they crucified him not.
00:11:48.580 The Quran denies explicitly the central event in the history of the world when Christ conquers death on the cross.
00:11:55.200 How could you say the Quran is respectful toward Christ?
00:12:00.000 They deny his divinity and his conquest of death.
00:12:03.700 And then they lie about him.
00:12:05.060 They have the audacity to, and really ignorance, to appropriate him and to make him into some false god of their own making.
00:12:12.800 It's not respectful at all.
00:12:13.940 I mean, St. Paul writes in the letter to the Philippians, I think it's 318.
00:12:18.040 There are many walking now, and I tell you, even weeping, who are enemies of the cross of Christ.
00:12:21.700 Enemies of the cross of Christ. 0.55
00:12:23.320 What does that describe?
00:12:24.160 Next one.
00:12:24.460 Muslims want to bring Shia law to the United States. 0.81
00:12:27.320 Do you even know what Sharia law is?
00:12:29.840 Feeding the poor.
00:12:30.840 That's Sharia. 0.98
00:12:31.700 Smiling at someone.
00:12:33.160 That's Sharia. 0.98
00:12:33.900 Being kind to your neighbor.
00:12:35.400 Education for every child.
00:12:37.220 Women's right to work. 1.00
00:12:38.720 Marriage must be between two consenting adults.
00:12:41.720 That is Sharia. 0.90
00:12:42.740 Respecting your parents.
00:12:44.180 Workers' right to fair pay.
00:12:45.980 No interest loan, so there's no poverty.
00:12:48.400 The current court system is derived from Sharia.
00:12:51.740 Democracy is Sharia. 0.99
00:12:53.160 Hospitals have been built on Sharia law. 0.81
00:12:55.880 We're already living under Sharia law.
00:12:58.140 So, what exactly are you fearing?
00:13:01.520 Okay, so some of that is entailed by Sharia law.
00:13:04.560 That's true.
00:13:05.240 Also, chopping the hands off thieves.
00:13:07.760 Also, flogging people for minor offenses.
00:13:10.900 And killing people for minor offenses.
00:13:12.380 And murdering people for converting from Islam to other religions, including the true religion. 0.99
00:13:19.220 That's Sharia. 0.98
00:13:20.240 That's also Sharia law. 0.61
00:13:21.460 So, it's true.
00:13:22.060 It's not that she's saying things that are totally untrue.
00:13:25.420 It's that she's giving a partial view of the truth, which is in itself a lie.
00:13:29.140 Though, she does say something that's untrue there.
00:13:30.740 She says, Islam believes in Sharia law prescribes no interest loans, which means there's no poverty.
00:13:36.240 And I say, okay, I guess it could prescribe no interest loans or it could take a strong stance against usury, which is fine by me.
00:13:43.060 But I'm pretty sure Muslim countries are pretty poor.
00:13:47.340 Have you not?
00:13:48.600 Like, is Yemen just a flourishing, material, abundant society?
00:13:54.280 Is that Somalia, because as far as I can tell, half the Somalian economy is just money that Somalis in America send back there.
00:14:01.460 Much of which is defrauded from the taxpayers.
00:14:03.280 So, I don't know.
00:14:03.600 That part doesn't make a lot of sense.
00:14:05.800 Is that a little partial view of the truth that tells you a whole big lie?
00:14:08.340 Okay, the thirst trap didn't work on me.
00:14:10.060 Did she work on you?
00:14:11.460 What's her name?
00:14:12.100 Lily J?
00:14:14.200 Yeah.
00:14:14.940 That's not the most Muslim sounding name I've ever heard.
00:14:17.460 I'm skeptical.
00:14:19.040 Is someone funding Lily J?
00:14:21.300 Maybe just the simps on TikTok.
00:14:23.100 The Sharia simps. 1.00
00:14:23.800 Okay, I'm Michael Knowles.
00:14:24.800 This is The Michael Knowles Show.
00:14:25.600 See you next time.