00:00:00.000First, we're going to speak to Dr. Gad Saad, author of Suicidal Empathy, back with us tonight.
00:00:05.940Your reaction to September 11th and in this moment on the 25th anniversary,0.95
00:00:12.500what is budding so quickly in the West, the Islamic expansion we've seen in the West? Go ahead, sir.1.00
00:00:21.660Look, Islam is a dual religion in that it views the world in a duality.
00:00:28.220There is, I'm going to use the words in Arabic and then I'll translate them.
00:00:31.600There is Dar al-Harab and Dar al-Islam, which basically loosely means the house of Islam and the house of war.0.86
00:00:40.040Meaning any country that has yet to be conquered by Islam, by any means necessary, is existentially under the house of war.0.92
00:00:49.860Any country that used to be Islamic, that reverted to being non-Islamic, is under the dominion of the house of war.0.97
00:00:57.360So, for example, Andalusia in current Spain is under the house of war because there was once upon a time when the Muslims were ruling that region.0.93
00:01:08.720So being an expansionist religion, as you mentioned in your monologue, the ultimate fundamental tenet of Islam is to ensure that every millimeter of the globe is unified under the unifying flag of Allah.0.91
00:02:22.760They've told me in Arabic, not recently because now they recognize me, but 20, 25 years ago when I wasn't recognizable, they would tell me in Arabic, the West is a woman to be mounted, right?
00:02:35.940So all of our virtues, all of our empathy and compassion and tolerance and kindness and magnanimity is viewed as feminized weakness to be mounted.
00:02:46.060And to your point about Islamophobia, we had to escape Lebanon under imminent threat of execution.0.80
00:02:52.800My parents were kidnapped by Fatah.0.65
00:02:54.920My grandparents escaped Syria because of Islam.0.60
00:02:57.840My brother-in-law's family escaped Egypt because of Islam.0.76
00:03:01.400My wife's family were murdered during the Armenian genocide because of Islam.0.80
00:03:06.920And so if I share those realities across many generations and many different countries, I am apparently Islamophobic.
00:03:16.360So the only way to avoid being Islamophobic is if I just die quietly, then I'm tolerant.
00:03:23.300Anything short of that makes me bigoted because I wish to survive.0.68
00:04:25.620It's a place where people haven't seen a lot of opportunities,
00:04:28.480so they're very vulnerable to this kind of rhetoric.
00:04:32.060Isn't it amazing to see people just completely incapable of understanding that perhaps this culture, these people, don't want to just invite in such a dramatic change and just invite in all of the migrants and the poorest of the Islamic world into their nation.
00:04:50.160They just can't seem to comprehend how that would be possible.1.00
00:04:53.120They must just be idiotic racists.1.00