The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - February 14, 2025


Is Islam a Religion of Peace？ (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_794)


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Is Islam a religion of peace? This is a question that has been on the front pages of newspapers and books for a long time. And the answer to this question is a simple one: Yes. But what does the evidence say about this question? And what does it tell us about the nature of Islam? In this episode, I explain how to answer this question using a powerful epistemological technique called the Nomological Network.

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00:00:00.300 So what I thought I would do today is discuss in a formal manner the question of Islam, is Islam a religion of peace?
00:00:13.320 And if you look at the title of my X-Spaces, I basically say let's build the nomological network.
00:00:22.000 Now some of you may know what that is, others don't, so please forgive me if you already know what that is,
00:00:26.860 but I'm going to spend a few minutes explaining what that is.
00:00:29.280 So as I explained in Chapter 7 of The Parasitic Mind, a nomological network of cumulative evidence is a very powerful epistemological tool that tries to amass as much evidence from as many distinct lines of evidence in support of the veracity of your position.
00:00:53.180 So as I've explained in the past, and here you can go to a paper that I wrote in 2017 titled On the Method of Evolutionary Psychology and Its Applicability to Consumer Research.
00:01:10.060 It's published in one of the most prestigious journals in the field, Journal of Marketing Research.
00:01:16.800 And in it, I show three different examples of how to build a nomological network.
00:01:24.040 One is to demonstrate the biological basis of sex-specific toy preferences, meaning that the fact that little boys and little girls prefer certain toys is not due to social construction,
00:01:37.840 but is actually due to universal biological-based causes.
00:01:42.680 Then the second nomological network that I present in that paper is the men's evolved preference for the female hourglass figure.
00:01:54.240 And then the third example that I discuss in that paper is the biological and evolutionary roots of loss aversion.
00:02:06.900 Why is it that losses loom larger than gains?
00:02:12.900 It's relevant to something called prospect theory, which Kahneman won the Nobel Prize for with his work with Amos Tversky.
00:02:22.980 So a nomological network of cumulative evidence basically says,
00:02:26.400 if I have to try to convince the absolutely most hostile audience members of the veracity of my position,
00:02:39.600 how would I go about doing that?
00:02:41.460 And so again, some of you have heard me mention this before, but let me mention it again.
00:02:46.220 I'll take the example of toy preferences.
00:02:48.200 Well, I can get you data from developmental psychology showing you that infants who are too young to be yet socialized
00:02:57.240 already exhibit those sex-specific toy preferences.
00:03:00.040 So that already puts a death nail into the social constructivist view of toy preferences.
00:03:05.680 I can show you data from many other species, verva monkeys, rhesus monkeys, and chimpanzees,
00:03:13.000 showing you that they exhibit the exact same toy preferences as human infants.
00:03:17.440 I can get you data from many different cultures that are very different from Western cultures,
00:03:23.040 say sub-Saharan Africa, and showing you that they exhibit the same preferences.
00:03:27.940 I can get you data from 2,500 years ago, whereby an analysis of how children are depicted on funerary monuments,
00:03:37.820 say mausoleums, they're shown depicted in exactly the same way.
00:03:42.000 I can get you data from pediatric endocrinology, showing you that little girls who suffer from congenital adrenal hyperplasia,
00:03:48.700 which is a disorder that masculinizes the behavior and morphology of little girls.
00:03:54.520 Such girls who suffer from this disorder exhibit preferences that are akin to those of little boys.
00:04:01.400 And so bit by bit, I can completely drown you in a preponderance of evidence
00:04:08.080 that hopefully makes it clear that my position is veridical.
00:04:15.420 It's a very, very powerful technique.
00:04:17.020 And so what I'd like to do today is apply this exact methodology to is Islam a religion of peace?
00:04:26.560 So we can, you know, there is data.
00:04:28.480 And by the way, in chapter 6 and 7 of The Parasitic Mind, I exactly go into that.
00:04:33.760 Chapter 6 looks at ostrich parasitic syndrome, which are, you know,
00:04:37.340 the types of cognitive biases that people use to ignore the reality about Islam.
00:04:42.860 And then chapter 7, I actually provide the nomological network of cumulative evidence regarding whether Islam is peaceful or not.
00:04:53.120 But here, I posted a few minutes earlier this afternoon the actual nomological network.
00:04:59.600 So if you just scroll down in my feed, you will see the nomological network.
00:05:07.080 So here what you have is in the middle of the figure, you have this, the sentence that I'm trying to prove to either be true or not.
00:05:14.580 Is Islam a peaceful, merciful, and tolerant religion?
00:05:17.880 And then I've got 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9.
00:05:23.240 There are 10 boxes labeled A through J that provide distinct lines of evidence that either prove that Islam is peaceful or not.
00:05:34.400 So let's go through these.
00:05:37.480 And I will also mention a few other things in a few minutes.
00:05:41.900 So before, I'm trying to decide how to do this.
00:05:46.580 Okay, let's go with the nomological network.
00:05:49.180 Okay, so what is the type of data that I would have to demonstrate to you that definitively answers the question, you know, is any religion peaceful or not?
00:06:00.420 So for example, let's say we were trying to build a nomological network for Jainism.
00:06:06.640 Well, we know that Jains are so pacifist, they are so peaceful, that truly adherent Jains, this is J-A-I-N, right?
00:06:18.200 Jainism is the religion of Jains.
00:06:22.200 They will walk on the sidewalk with a broom whereby they sweep the floor as they walk because they're so afraid that they might inadvertently step on an ant and kill it.
00:06:37.220 And therefore, the content of that religion certainly suggests that Jains are extraordinarily peaceful to the point of not wanting to even kill an ant inadvertently.
00:06:50.360 Okay, so let's go through this nomological network for Islam.
00:06:55.300 Hopefully, it can shed light on whether it is a peaceful religion or not.
00:06:58.540 Okay, so we can look at contemporary FBI data.
00:07:03.440 So this is box A.
00:07:05.360 And contemporary FBI data, we can look at, for example, an analysis of FBI terrorist lists to gauge whether a particular religion has a greater likelihood of contributing to that list.
00:07:18.720 Okay, and I offer that list for, you know, Islam versus other religions.
00:07:27.100 And as you might expect, it is that the most wanted international terrorists are almost exclusively Muslim, and they come from many different countries.
00:07:41.060 So it's not as though they're all from Yemen or all from the Palestinian territories.
00:07:45.000 They come from many, many different cultures where different languages are spoken, but what they share in common is that they are all Muslim.
00:07:52.940 Does that offer some insight?
00:07:55.160 Well, it certainly seems to suggest something.
00:07:58.180 I can get you similar analysis for governmental no-fly lists.
00:08:03.320 So, for example, do most people who are on the no-fly lists come from Laos?
00:08:08.280 Are they Vietnamese?
00:08:09.580 Are they Bolivian?
00:08:11.280 Are they Nigerian?
00:08:13.100 Is there anything?
00:08:14.360 Is there a great preponderance of a particular type of individual who is on the no-fly list?
00:08:21.420 So these two data sets would already tell us quite a bit about whether, you know, Seventh-day Adventists or Jains or Buddhists or Shinto adherents or Jews, who is most likely?
00:08:36.720 Well, so this first box, A, certainly suggests that, you know, we might be converging to something, but we're not going to stop here.
00:08:46.160 Let's go to box B.
00:08:48.460 We could look at historical data.
00:08:50.560 We could look at an analysis of the number of people that have been killed by adherents of Islam in its name since its founding.
00:08:59.160 Example, wars of conquest, conquest to spread the faith.
00:09:02.820 Now, there are different estimates.
00:09:06.280 One conservative estimate places that number at 300 million killed by Islamic military conquests and supremacy.
00:09:18.300 So when you're talking, for example, about colonialism and about Jews being colonialists in the land of Israel, a land of which they are truly indigenous to that land by definition, as defined by the most obvious historical record, you know, called Old Testament.
00:09:37.760 Okay, so if Israel is supposedly a colonialist state, there are 56 countries that today are part of the OIC, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, that once upon a time had 0% Islam.
00:09:55.720 And now most of those countries are almost exclusively Muslim.
00:10:00.560 Now, it is true that not in every one of those countries was it simply done via the sword, but in many cases, it very much was done strictly by the sword.
00:10:11.800 In some cases, it takes five minutes to conquer a country by Islam.
00:10:16.100 In other cases, it's a slow process.
00:10:18.960 It takes a while.
00:10:19.880 It's by forced conversion.
00:10:23.540 It's by Sharia law.
00:10:25.380 It's by imposing a dimmi status on all of the non-Muslims.
00:10:30.740 Dimmi is the term for a third-class citizen who lives under Islamic rule.
00:10:36.000 It's not a pretty life.
00:10:38.900 So the historical data is astoundingly clear.
00:10:43.460 So, for example, just in the conquests of Hindus, the Muslim conquerors, one estimate places it at 80 million killed.
00:10:56.440 Now, these are not things that, you know, you'd have to believe.
00:10:58.780 You just crack a book open.
00:11:01.540 Look at the history.
00:11:03.200 Over the past 1,400 years, has Islam conquered endless number of countries through violence and supremacy?
00:11:12.220 There is no ideology that has been more colonial and imperialistic and supremacist than Islam.
00:11:21.440 That's a fact.
00:11:22.360 Now, many people are very proud of that.
00:11:25.140 Hitler loved Islam because it was a masculine religion.
00:11:29.580 It took no shit.
00:11:31.600 It imposed itself.
00:11:33.580 It was virile.
00:11:34.420 And so, from that perspective, yes, Islam is a very macho, masculine religion, right?
00:11:43.240 So, as I said, we could look at the historical data and it places the number of certainly converted, subjugated, harassed, raped, murdered at many, many hundreds of millions.
00:11:59.700 So, that's number two.
00:12:00.780 So, the canonical, iconic symbol of Islam is the sword.
00:12:07.920 Why do you think it's the sword?
00:12:10.380 Is it because, as I satirically said, it is the sword because it's a culinary weapon to spread local cuisines to other lands?
00:12:20.480 Or does the sword suggest that there might be a violent military element to Islam?
00:12:27.620 You just have to listen to Islamic scholars, what they say about Islam.
00:12:32.200 Islam is meant to rule the world.
00:12:35.300 There will be peace on earth when Islam has conquered every inch of the world.
00:12:41.500 The world is divided into two.
00:12:44.500 It's a binary logic.
00:12:45.920 There is Dar al-Islam and Dar al-Harab.
00:12:50.040 Dar al-Islam is the house of Islam.
00:12:52.680 Dar al-Harab, Harab means war in Arabic, is the house of war.
00:12:57.720 Any land that is not yet ruled by Islam is under the official canonical status of being under the house of war.
00:13:07.020 Now, that doesn't mean that we attack the infidels at every turn, but when the time is right, that is what we must do canonically.
00:13:15.240 And by the way, once a land has ever been conquered by Islam, it is forevermore under the dominion of Islam.
00:13:23.200 That's why Andalusia, in Spain, the Muslims will say, inshallah, we will reconquer what is ours, which is Andalusia.
00:13:36.880 Even though it is in Christian Spain, it was once ruled by Islam several hundred years ago, and it must be rightfully returned to Islam.
00:13:46.780 That's why Palestine must be Islamic.
00:13:50.540 It doesn't matter that the Jews have ancestral claims to that land.
00:13:55.900 Once they are no longer the dominant force there in Islam rules, say, under the Ottoman Empire, it is Islamic forevermore.
00:14:04.600 So right now, I've showed you data from two boxes in the nomological network, FBI data, and I've given you several sources.
00:14:13.960 I've also given you historical data over the past 1,400 years.
00:14:18.000 Let's go on to box C.
00:14:23.040 We could do a content analysis of the canonical texts.
00:14:27.160 Now, what is a content analysis?
00:14:29.780 Content analysis is a way to quantify, using the scientific method, the extent to which Islam preaches love and brotherhood versus genocidal hate and supremacy.
00:14:40.460 So when, for example, you say, let's suppose I want to study whether, you know, how do romance novels depict the male hero in a romance novel?
00:14:54.640 Because I want to understand what is it that women fantasize about when it comes to male heroes.
00:15:01.120 Yes, because we know that almost all romance novels are exclusively consumed by women.
00:15:08.020 So if I want to get a window into women's fantasies, then I can study that product, which is specifically targeted to that which they fantasize about in romance novels.
00:15:19.780 Now, how would I go about doing that?
00:15:21.720 So I could do a content analysis where I code the types of descriptors that are used to describe the male protagonist.
00:15:30.740 So I can use an official, quantifiable, objective, unbiased methodology that lends itself to then testing hypotheses.
00:15:41.680 So does the Quran, does the seerah, the biography of Muhammad, do the hadiths, the sayings and deeds of Muhammad, do they preach love and kindness?
00:15:54.200 Or do they preach conquest, intolerance, hatred, domination?
00:16:02.300 We can answer that question.
00:16:04.040 Well, there are many people who've answered that question.
00:16:06.620 But I'll turn you to Dr. Bill Warner, who is a physicist by training.
00:16:10.840 He's got a center that he founded many years ago called the Center for the Study of Political Islam.
00:16:17.440 You should all go check it out.
00:16:19.000 Dr. Warner was an early guest on my show, The Sad Truth.
00:16:22.520 He's done that work for you.
00:16:24.560 He applied the rigorous scientific method to study what does the trilogy of Islam, the Quran, the hadiths and the seerah of Muhammad,
00:16:37.360 are they filled with love and kindness, or are they filled with astounding genocidal hate?
00:16:43.780 Well, Dr. Warner quantified as there is more Jew hatred in the Quran, in those texts, than there is in Hitler's Mein Kampf.
00:16:56.000 Well, I didn't need that analysis to tell you that, because I grew up in that world.
00:17:00.800 I come from those cultures.
00:17:02.740 I could tell you what is quoted about the Jews from those books, because I heard them quoted to me.
00:17:09.200 So, we could study the content of these texts to tell us whether the religion preaches love and kindness.
00:17:17.620 Now, some of you might say, but wait a minute, I took in my Islamic intersectional feminism class at Oberlin College,
00:17:25.000 I was told of the quote, there is no compulsion in religion.
00:17:29.180 You have your religion, I have mine, and that's straight out of the Quran.
00:17:33.120 Isn't it peaceful, Dr. Sad?
00:17:35.200 Well, this is where you have what's called abrogation.
00:17:39.600 Remember these words.
00:17:41.260 Use this knowledge when you're speaking to people.
00:17:44.820 So, abrogation is the theological mechanism that allows the Quran to have contradictory statements.
00:17:55.300 So, if in one passage it says, no compulsion in religion, and in a later passage it says, smite the infidels,
00:18:04.040 everyone should be Muslim, kill, kill, kill everything in sight,
00:18:08.460 well, then how could God both say the kind thing and the less kind thing?
00:18:14.820 Well, that's where you have abrogation.
00:18:17.180 Whenever there are two statements that are contradictory, the later verse supersedes the early verse.
00:18:25.660 It abrogates it.
00:18:26.800 And if you want to temporarily mark it, it coincides with what's called the Meccan versus the Medinan period of Muhammad's proselytizing.
00:18:37.460 Namely, during the Meccan period, which was for many years in his early career as a supposed prophet,
00:18:47.820 he was only able to attract about 150 adherents through many, many years of proselytizing
00:18:54.000 because he preached a peaceful and kind message.
00:18:56.960 When later, through Hijra, migration, he moved to Medina, then he altered his message to one that was a lot more violent,
00:19:08.440 and suddenly the number of adherents greatly grew.
00:19:12.640 So, as he received these new revelations, they were increasingly intolerant and violent and supremacist and so on.
00:19:19.840 And again, you don't have to believe me.
00:19:22.680 You just have to go through the text and see for yourself.
00:19:26.400 All right.
00:19:27.200 So, so far we've looked at contemporary FBI data, and I've discussed several databases.
00:19:32.180 We've looked at historical record over the past 1,400 years of conquest.
00:19:36.900 We've looked at content analysis of canonical text.
00:19:40.360 Let's keep going.
00:19:41.020 Now, I'm going to box D in the nomological network.
00:19:45.440 That's data on converts.
00:19:47.840 So, we could do an analysis of all terror attacks involving individuals who are converts to their new religion,
00:19:54.800 and does conversion to one religion dominate the landscape?
00:19:59.820 Depending on how you define religions, there are well over 10,000 religions.
00:20:05.700 Now, this includes, for example, many denominations of Christianity.
00:20:09.500 So, you could talk about Seventh-day Adventists and Lutheran and Episcopalian and Protestants and Catholics and, you know, Southern Baptists.
00:20:20.200 Each of those would be, even though they're all Christian, would be counted as a different religion or denomination.
00:20:25.700 And there are well over 10,000 religions.
00:20:28.240 And so, we could look at every single case where the person who committed the terror attack was a convert from another religion,
00:20:39.940 and then see whether converts of any particular religion are most likely to commit terror acts.
00:20:48.440 And I think you know what the answer to that one is.
00:20:51.780 Because it is astoundingly pointing to a singular religion, right?
00:20:59.560 It's not Seventh-day Adventists.
00:21:01.760 It's not Orthodox Judaism.
00:21:04.140 It's not Buddhists.
00:21:05.960 It's not Hindus.
00:21:07.660 You know what it is.
00:21:09.540 So, now, you already have tons of data that suggests whether Islam is peaceful or not.
00:21:16.380 And I'm talking about Islam.
00:21:19.240 That doesn't say anything about the fact that we all know endless number of Muslims who decide not to follow the teachings of Islam and just live peaceful lives.
00:21:32.700 There are nice Muslims and mean Muslims.
00:21:34.820 There are nice Jews and mean Jews.
00:21:37.080 There are nice atheists and mean atheists.
00:21:39.460 We're talking about Islam as a codified set of ideas.
00:21:44.240 Does it promote peace or not?
00:21:47.860 It's a very easy question to answer.
00:21:50.840 Let's keep going.
00:21:52.280 Database Box E in my nomological network.
00:21:57.820 This is looking at databases of terror attacks.
00:22:01.660 So, for example, the University of Maryland has a global terrorism database.
00:22:06.800 This is a university database.
00:22:08.460 There is a religion of peace website that has kept track of every single terror attacks committed since 9-11.
00:22:19.440 And they provide you a link to the actual news story that reported that.
00:22:27.400 Right?
00:22:27.620 So, it's, I mean, it's all extremely well documented.
00:22:31.540 And then you could certainly go to Wikipedia.
00:22:34.060 There are other, there's a French database.
00:22:35.840 There are many, many different databases that track the totality of terror attacks committed by all religions.
00:22:47.440 If you added up the 9,999 religions combined other than Islam, it wouldn't add up to 0.01% of the number of terror attacks committed by Islamic terrorists since 9-11 alone in nearly 70 countries.
00:23:08.920 That number is rapidly approaching 50,000 terror attacks.
00:23:15.080 So, imagine if I told you that 9,999 religions almost have 0 terror attacks and one has close to 50,000 using different databases.
00:23:32.700 Would that suggest that we've got some sort of data that suggests that maybe there might be some violence linked to Islam?
00:23:41.560 Or are all of those Islamic terrorists completely misrepresenting, mistranslating, and misinterpreting their noble, peaceful religion?
00:23:52.560 Or is it that all those guys who call themselves Mohammed, Mahmoud, and Ahmad are really Zionist false flag operation guys?
00:24:03.660 Their real names are Mordechai, Moshe, and Solomon.
00:24:10.140 You judge for yourself.
00:24:11.700 Let's go on to box F.
00:24:14.300 Governmental lists of terror groups.
00:24:16.900 So, for example, Public Safety Canada has a list of terrorist organizations.
00:24:22.760 The U.S. Department of State's Foreign Terrorist Organization list also lists all the terror groups.
00:24:30.920 And by the way, in Chapter 7 of The Parasitic Mind, I list every single group that is on the U.S. State Department's terrorist list.
00:24:42.660 And they're almost all Islamic.
00:24:47.360 And they're not Islamic only from the Middle East.
00:24:50.240 Some are from Southeast Asia.
00:24:52.760 Some are African.
00:24:54.480 Some are in the Middle East.
00:24:56.140 Some are, they're everywhere.
00:24:57.860 So, again, it's not to a specific region.
00:25:01.280 It's not a specific culture.
00:25:02.960 It's not a specific ethnicity or race.
00:25:05.500 What unifies all of them is that they're united under the very peaceful flag of Islam.
00:25:13.460 Let's keep going.
00:25:14.460 Let's go to box G.
00:25:17.320 We can look at global surveys.
00:25:19.740 Global surveys, in many cases, by super woke and progressive organizations.
00:25:25.460 So, for example, Pew, right, the survey company Pew, Pew surveys track people's attitudes and behaviors towards foundational values of secular and liberal societies.
00:25:40.060 So, you could look at what are the views about freedom of speech, about blasphemy, about homosexuality, about women's freedoms, about attitudes towards Jews.
00:25:52.900 Well, if you look at attitudes towards Jews in Islamic countries, in many cases, 95 to 99 percent of the surveyed people hold deeply unfavorable attitude towards the Jews,
00:26:10.940 even though they've never met a single Jew in their life, because the Jews have long been exterminated and eradicated from those societies.
00:26:21.900 And yet, you have 95 to 99 percent of the polled people in those surveys exhibit genocidal hate of the Jew.
00:26:36.400 We could look at global patterns of Jew hatred.
00:26:41.700 For example, the ADL report, the Anti-Defamation League.
00:26:45.400 And if you look at, you know, the top countries in the world that have the strongest Jew hatred, every single one is Islamic.
00:26:56.720 Let's keep going.
00:26:58.400 Now, we're going to get to box H.
00:27:00.700 We could look at infectious memoplexes and the plight of religious minorities.
00:27:07.200 What does that mean?
00:27:07.980 So, for example, we could do a longitudinal analysis of how well religious minorities fare in countries where Islam is the majority religion.
00:27:18.620 So, for example, Syria used to have tons of Christians.
00:27:22.500 What happened to them?
00:27:24.760 Egypt used to be a largely Coptic Christian country.
00:27:28.260 What happened to them?
00:27:29.800 Iraq used to have a huge Christian society.
00:27:34.600 What happened to them?
00:27:35.460 Of course, Iran used to have all sorts of non-Islamic indigenous people.
00:27:42.700 What happened to them?
00:27:44.320 Lebanon used to be a Christian majority country.
00:27:47.280 What happened to Lebanon?
00:27:48.600 And it goes on and on and on.
00:27:51.820 What happens to non-Muslims in Islamic countries is always the same.
00:27:58.560 They seem to magically and mysteriously disappear so that one day you wake up and that society is 99% to 100% Islamic.
00:28:12.180 How did that happen?
00:28:14.720 You could study a mimetic analysis to examine the spread of a religion.
00:28:19.540 This is something that I've been writing about independently for quite a while, but I recently shared one.
00:28:26.880 This is from Citizen Warrior, and I put the link in one of my recent tweets on X that looks at the terrifying brilliance of the Islamic Mimaplex, which what basically he's doing is exactly in line with what I've talked about for years about how you could apply a mimetic analysis to spread to study the spread of many things.
00:28:54.040 And in this case, take, for example, Judaism versus Islam.
00:28:59.020 Judaism, by definition, is a non-proselytizing religion, meaning it doesn't try to convert others.
00:29:05.660 As a matter of fact, it is viewed with great derision.
00:29:09.420 It is canonically forbidden to try to proselytize to others.
00:29:13.680 If someone wants to convert to Judaism, you're supposed to dissuade them from doing so because you're testing their spiritual resolve to actually want to become Jewish.
00:29:25.520 It takes many years before you can convert to Judaism.
00:29:29.780 You're not supposed to convert for ulterior motives.
00:29:32.520 Let's say your prospective spouse is Jewish.
00:29:35.920 You're not supposed to convert to Judaism because your wife is Jewish or so on.
00:29:40.460 That would invalidate the conversion.
00:29:42.620 In Islam, you just have to say the Shahada, one sentence, and voila, you're now Muslim.
00:29:50.000 And then you've got the, you can't leave Islam once you become Muslim.
00:29:56.060 Yusuf Al-Karadawi, the top leading Sunni cleric from Al-Azhar University, no one could say he doesn't know Islam.
00:30:05.180 He was the highest Islamic cleric until very recently.
00:30:10.500 He passed away.
00:30:11.200 He said were it not for the, you know, the penalty against the dissension from Islam, then Islam would not have survived.
00:30:23.520 So then it doesn't take much of a mimeticist to understand why Islam is profoundly successful.
00:30:31.140 Successful in the sense that 1.7 billion people are Muslim.
00:30:36.340 Nearly a quarter of all the world's population is Muslim.
00:30:39.760 So from a marketing perspective, from a mimetic perspective, Islam is very, very successful.
00:30:45.960 Judaism is not.
00:30:47.240 Judaism sucks at marketing.
00:30:49.260 Islam is brilliant.
00:30:50.380 And so I would urge you to certainly read my work.
00:30:53.760 And you can read here, Citizen Warriors, The Terrifying Brilliance of the Islamic Mimaplex.
00:30:59.660 He goes through, I think, 25 different items that point to why it is that Islam is so viral.
00:31:07.620 And, you know, I've independently discussed many of these as well.
00:31:11.480 And I certainly discussed some of these ideas in The Parasitic Mind.
00:31:15.680 All right, let's go to box I, data from global indices.
00:31:20.300 So how do Islamic majority countries score on a broad range of well-being, freedom, and equality metrics?
00:31:28.520 There are all sorts of global organizations that track, using very sophisticated metrics, the quality of life, the quality of values, the liberties, the freedoms,
00:31:44.080 economic freedom, sexual freedom, journalistic freedom, freedom of women, freedom of gays, you know, every imaginable value that we would consider as laudable in the West,
00:32:00.560 we can rank countries on that.
00:32:03.700 And then we could see, does the West provide higher scores on such metrics, or do Islamic societies?
00:32:11.940 Well, it may not surprise you to know that on almost all of the metrics, Islamic societies score the worst.
00:32:19.420 So if Islam is such a beautiful, you know, freedom-promoting feminist religion,
00:32:25.240 then you would like to see all of those countries that are Islamic scoring the best on those metrics,
00:32:32.780 and yet they seem to score the worst.
00:32:36.040 We could look at ISIS membership.
00:32:40.000 So, for example, ISIS, which is the Islamic state that, you know, was defeated by Trump during his first term,
00:32:52.460 but there are still remnants of it all over the world.
00:32:55.820 It had individuals from 80-plus countries that joined it.
00:33:00.700 What is it that they had in common?
00:33:02.920 Because a lot of people say, oh, no, no, no, ISIS.
00:33:05.040 ISIS is not Islamic.
00:33:06.440 The Islamic state is not Islamic.
00:33:08.860 The Islamic state, which was a caliphate, which was run by a guy that had a PhD in Islamic theology,
00:33:19.240 is not Islamic, and yet the 80, the people, the individuals who came to ISIS from 80-plus countries,
00:33:27.480 some of them were very light-skinned, with blonde hair, some of them were Asian,
00:33:32.180 some of them were black, some of them were white, some of them were, you know, multiracial.
00:33:39.620 They had one thing in common.
00:33:41.400 They were all Muslim.
00:33:42.900 So, is there enough data here to suggest that maybe Islam might not be the great religion of peace
00:33:56.420 that all of our presidents and prime ministers tell us?
00:33:59.960 Well, I think the data is pretty clear.
00:34:02.620 There's almost no data that one could ever make up that could answer this question in a clearer
00:34:10.340 and more unequivocal manner, and yet people are very, very tepid to ever say these things
00:34:20.000 because people are taught that it is simply impolite to ever discuss people's political choices
00:34:26.740 or politicals' religion.
00:34:28.660 This is not something that you do.
00:34:30.560 But it's precisely this parasitic mind and then suicidal empathy, my next book,
00:34:37.360 that leads us to this problem because we may love individual Muslims,
00:34:43.860 and I know more Muslims than probably all the people that are listening to this X basis combined,
00:34:51.060 and I've never had any problem with any of them, and they're all lovely,
00:34:54.620 but that's a silly, infantile argument.
00:34:58.720 We're talking about whether when an ideology comes in and starts taking over a society,
00:35:05.260 whether that society will result in the flourishing of Western values or not.
00:35:11.080 If it does result in increased liberties and freedom,
00:35:14.240 then we should increase the Islamization of the West.
00:35:17.240 If it doesn't, then maybe we need to reconsider our deep Islamophilia.
00:35:23.560 Maybe we need to reconsider the fact that all immigrants are equally likely to assimilate.
00:35:30.680 There you have it, folks.
00:35:33.240 I harbor, I hate to say this, it actually, it demeans me to say this.
00:35:37.920 I harbor zero hate towards any individuals.
00:35:42.760 I judge people by their individual merits.
00:35:45.580 I am more friendly and affectionate towards Imam Tawheidi, who is an imam, as you know.
00:35:53.160 Some of you know him as the imam of peace.
00:35:55.940 Because I actually share many values with him, despite the fact that I'm Jewish and he's Muslim.
00:36:02.220 So, this has nothing to do with loving or not loving individual people.
00:36:06.680 It has to do with an honest, sober, reasoned analysis of the content of particular ideologies
00:36:16.460 and whether those ideologies are consistent with our Western values or not.
00:36:21.840 The quicker we're able to understand these types of analyses,
00:36:26.280 the quicker we can hopefully ensure that your children and mine and their children will live in free societies.
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