The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - September 11, 2026


Is Islam a Religion of Peace, and Is Islamophobia Equivalent to the Holocaust? (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1046)


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00:00:00.000 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad. Today is Friday, September 11th, 2026.
00:00:06.660 It happens to be Rosh Hashanah, the start of the Jewish New Year. 0.95
00:00:10.460 It also happens to be Shabbat, but unfortunately it also happens to be
00:00:15.480 the 25th anniversary of September 11th.
00:00:20.180 Earlier today I posted an article on X regarding some thoughts 25 years later.
00:00:27.580 but first I want to show you two clips of George Bush shortly after the 9-11 attacks where he
00:00:35.840 very proudly affirmed that Islam was a religion of peace and what what happened on 9-11 had nothing
00:00:43.060 to do with Islam and then 25 years later in a recent conversation with Condoleezza Rice he
00:00:50.840 reiterated that Islam is a peaceful religion. And then I have a clip that was shared
00:00:57.620 with me of a grade 8 lecture where the teacher was comparing the Holocaust, where 6 million Jews
00:01:12.060 were systematically erased in the most grotesque ways
00:01:16.740 to the supposed Islamophobia
00:01:19.480 that Muslims have faced since 9-11 in the United States.
00:01:24.880 The erasure of 6 million Jews,
00:01:29.560 the attempt to eradicate a people 0.99
00:01:31.880 with the fact that Mamdani's auntie
00:01:35.880 might not feel comfortable wearing a hijab
00:01:38.820 in the subway in New York. 0.88
00:01:40.360 i'll be back in a bit that's not what islam is all about islam is peace 0.96
00:01:48.200 these terrorists don't represent peace they represent evil and war 0.59
00:01:57.000 when we think of islam we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the
00:02:03.880 world. Billions of people find comfort and solace and peace. I want you to talk about a couple of
00:02:15.100 those events. You talked about going to the Islamic Center and trying to make sure that
00:02:21.640 our Muslim American citizens knew that we didn't blame them for what had happened. I also made it
00:02:28.020 clear that Islam was a religion of peace, not a religion of war, and that these people subverted
00:02:33.720 their religion people are also forced to leave when they face religious or political persecution
00:02:39.380 and so we will talk more about this when we talk about the holocaust in january or in the winter
00:02:45.720 but many jewish people during the holocaust were forced to leave their homes in cities
00:02:52.160 and even countries because they were facing religious persecution or discrimination
00:02:58.840 and same thing just recently or not recently but what we just talked about earlier this week
00:03:05.660 is 9-11 so many muslims in the united states faced mass discrimination after the 9-11 events
00:03:13.940 even though they were not responsible for the attacks that happened and so that could force
00:03:20.820 people to leave a city or a state because they they don't feel comfortable or safe to live there
00:03:27.420 Having watched the two George Bush clips and the clip comparing the Holocaust to the supposed Islamophobia that Muslims face in America as their population has increased many, many folds since 9-11 alone, where mosques have proliferated since 9-11 alone, but apparently they're too afraid to walk out. 0.52
00:03:55.260 It's just another Holocaust that they're facing in the United States.
00:03:58.860 Let me read for you the article that I posted earlier today on the anniversary of 9-11, 25 years later. 0.77
00:04:08.400 So title is Reflecting on 9-11, 25 Years Later.
00:04:12.760 When 9-11 occurred, I was a visiting professor at the University of California at Irvine from 2001 to 2003.
00:04:19.340 My sister-in-law was visiting us from Montreal. As I made my way to the downstairs den on that
00:04:25.240 fateful morning, I saw my wife and her sister staring at the television screen in utter shock.
00:04:31.280 As I watched the grotesque images, it took my brain a few seconds to catch up to the impossible
00:04:36.660 reality that was unfolding before my eyes. It quickly became evident who the culprits were
00:04:43.000 and which ideology animated their actions. Shortly thereafter, President Bush unequivocally stated
00:04:49.820 that this had nothing to do with Islam, in his words, a religion of peace.
00:04:54.940 25 years later, he reiterated that statement in a recent conversation with Condoleezza Rice.
00:05:00.400 Those are the two clips that you saw a few minutes ago. I have long explained that most actions lead
00:05:06.140 to three possible outcomes. For example, if your goal is to lose weight, you will engage in a set
00:05:11.820 of choices on a given day that will result in one, weight increase, which is contrary to your
00:05:17.480 objective, two, no change in your weight, which is also contrary to your objective, or three,
00:05:23.700 weight loss, which will be consistent with your objective. Hence, every choice that you make
00:05:29.080 will contribute to the eventual tripartite set of possibilities listed above. Let us apply this
00:05:36.700 logic to the incursion of Islam across the West since 9-11. If the objective of the West and the 0.98
00:05:42.720 United States was to minimize the likelihood of being accused of Islamophobia, a nonsensical
00:05:48.420 concept, then the West has perfectly succeeded in its mission. All of the countries of the West
00:05:54.880 have dramatically increased Islamic immigration into their midst. There has been an astounding 1.00
00:06:00.400 increase of mosques across the West, the presence of Islam in our daily lives has
00:06:06.320 exponentially increased. On the other hand, if the objective of the West and the United States 0.99
00:06:12.040 is to preserve our foundational principles of liberty and freedom, then one must ask whether 1.00
00:06:17.340 the breathtaking increase of Islam in every nook and cranny of the fabric of our societies has 1.00
00:06:23.820 achieved that goal. Does more Islam mean greater safety for Jews, for gays, for freedom of speech, 0.99
00:06:30.400 for Christians, for our way of life? Are the cities of Dearborn, Patterson, and Minneapolis
00:06:36.560 more or less American given the demographic changes in those cities? Is electing Zoran 0.99
00:06:43.160 Mamdani to lead the city where the Twin Towers fell a good or a bad idea? Over the past 25 years,
00:06:51.960 I have repeatedly tried to warn the West about its parasitized suicidal empathy.
00:06:56.540 I wrote several international best-selling books, The Parasitic Mind and Suicidal Empathy,
00:07:02.600 that explained the dangers of unrestrained compassion, tolerance, kindness, and empathy
00:07:08.660 when drafting a broad range of domestic and foreign policies. The Islamic terrorists on 9-11 0.96
00:07:15.020 could not have hoped for a greater victory. I hate to admit this, but it is the truth. 1.00
00:07:21.060 We have decided that in our infinite largesse we are willing to commit civilizational seppuku
00:07:27.460 for nothing could apparently be worse in life than to be labeled an Islamophobe. The quest to
00:07:33.840 be infinitely empathetic whilst stroking our luxuriant hair in the mirror of moral preening
00:07:41.240 allows us to make the following statement proudly. We are happy to give up our children, our women,
00:07:47.860 our heritage, our culture, our civilization, our religion, our liberties, and our freedoms as long
00:07:54.660 as you do not call us an Islamophobe. Our survival instinct be damned. Demography is destiny. Our 0.84
00:08:03.420 grandchildren will live in societies that are radically different from the ones that their
00:08:09.040 ancestors built and defended. There are autocorrective procedures that the West could
00:08:14.760 implement to redress the issue, but I'm afraid that I see zero evidence that the West has the
00:08:21.180 testicular fortitude to implement an iota of changes that are contrary to its commitment
00:08:27.920 to continue bathing in the warm infinity pool of suicidal empathy. Individual Muslims may be 0.80
00:08:35.440 lovely, peaceful, and sweet, as is true of any group of individuals. The latter statement says
00:08:41.100 nothing about whether Islam is congruent with American values. May God protect us from those 1.00
00:08:48.000 who wish to harm us, to wish us harm. May the West find its inner honey badger soon.
00:08:54.040 We are running out of time. Shabbat shalom everybody.