The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - September 03, 2026


Is It Islamophobic to Ban Sharia Law? My Response to Abdul El-Sayed (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1041)


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00:00:00.000 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad, the individual who is running for the Michigan Senate spot,
00:00:08.080 Abdul El-Sayed, has said that prohibiting Sharia law in the United States is tantamount to
00:00:17.160 discrimination against Muslims. And so I thought this would be the fortuitous time to read for you
00:00:24.860 from this book 2020 a passage this is on page 136 and 137
00:00:35.480 is sharia law consistent with western legal standards you ready if one had to identify
00:00:44.180 the legal system most antithetical to the american one sharia law fits that bill and yet
00:00:50.380 many ostrich parasitic syndrome sufferers will argue otherwise. Many Westerners might be repulsed
00:00:57.920 by Sharia's extraordinarily harsh corporal punishments for theft, cutting off the hand,
00:01:04.600 and adultery, stoning. And you might think that the lower status of women when it comes to the 1.00
00:01:09.720 validity of their legal testimony on their bequeathing rights, half that of men, might be
00:01:15.740 grotesque to Western sensibilities. Surely most Westerners would find it astoundingly cruel and
00:01:21.580 unjust, if not insane, that under Sharia law, a female rape victim needs the eyewitness testimony
00:01:28.360 of four men to be believed. But Sharia law is even more fundamentally opposed to Western legal
00:01:35.220 standards because Islam rejects the Western idea of impartial justice applied fairly regardless of 1.00
00:01:43.640 an individual's identity. Did you hear that? So equality under the law is a non-starter in 1.00
00:01:51.560 Sharia law. It's the most fundamentally incongruent tenet when compared to American 1.00
00:01:58.820 jurisprudence. Let's go on. Under Sharia, punishments are applied as a function of the
00:02:04.060 identity of the victim and perpetrator. A Jewish man who kills a Muslim man is judged very 0.62
00:02:10.760 differently than a Muslim man who kills a Jewish man. Sharia law specifically states that no 0.64
00:02:17.840 retaliation can take place when a Muslim kills a non-Muslim and that indemnities depend on the
00:02:25.520 identities of the parties in question. And so here I'm going to read for you from Reliance of the
00:02:33.780 Traveler, the classic manual of Islamic sacred law in Arabic is Umdat al-Salik wa Udat al-Naseek.
00:02:43.100 This is from 1368. I'm going to read for you. I'll mention the actual clause. So 04.9a,
00:02:54.480 for the rulings below, one multiplies the fraction named by the indemnity appropriate
00:03:01.180 to the death or injuries type of intentionality and other relevant circumstances that determine
00:03:07.820 the amount of a male Muslim's indemnity. Definition 0.4-2.6 and 0.4 period 13. The indemnity for the
00:03:22.800 death or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man. Did you hear that?
00:03:30.960 That's Sharia law. The indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is one-third of the indemnity paid 0.96
00:03:39.560 for a Muslim. Not equal, apparently. The indemnity paid for a Zoroastrian is one-fifth 0.97
00:03:50.420 of that of a Muslim. They're even worse than the Jews. Well, at least we're not the most 1.00
00:03:56.340 disgusting ones. This is what identity politics does to a legal system, and this is precisely
00:04:03.100 the standard adhered to by progressives. This is why I always have mentioned that
00:04:08.600 progressive calculus is a new exemplar of Sharia law. Men can be sexist, but women can't be.
00:04:18.100 whites can be racist but blacks can't be permissible speech is governed by identity 0.99
00:04:25.060 and political allegiance a straight white christian man should shut his mouth and cede 1.00
00:04:31.160 the floor to the progressive muslim indigenous trans woman of color know your place white guy 0.82
00:04:38.780 don't speak out of turn hence it is true that both sharia law and progressive identity politics
00:04:46.660 adhere to the exact same principle. The repercussions of this fundamental attack on
00:04:53.360 individual rights manifest themselves differently across the two ecosystems, but the mindset is
00:05:00.300 nearly identical. The only difference is that progressives uphold the idea of equality,
00:05:06.100 which Sharia law does not. Still, progressive equality is a very special kind of equality. 0.69
00:05:13.600 It was best captured in the immortal words of George Orwell in his novel Animal Farm, quote, all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others, close quote.
00:05:27.640 This is from page 136 and 137 in The Parasitic Mind.
00:05:32.840 so banning sharia law is perhaps targeting muslims but we have a right to decide which
00:05:44.200 principles we wish to have organize our societies and sharia law is not one of them
00:05:50.020 take care everybody stop being suicidally empathetic cheers