The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - September 13, 2026


Islam, 9⧸11, and Suicidal Empathy (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1048)


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00:00:00.760 And with us now is visiting professor at the Declaration of Independence Center for the Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi, Dr. Gad Saad.
00:00:09.820 Dr. Saad, it's great to have you on. I appreciate you being here tonight.
00:00:13.460 How important is it to tell the full story about what happened that day 25 years ago and not try to sanitize the truth because it might offend somebody or might offend people of one particular religion?
00:00:26.220 Look, the truth is a deontological process, meaning that it's an absolute statement.
00:00:33.220 We don't massage the truth in order that there not be any downstream negative consequences to a particular group, right?
00:00:40.940 So we could support the right of trans people without then murdering truth by saying, yes, men too can menstruate. 0.80
00:00:48.040 So on 9-11, it was Islamic terrorists who committed those catastrophically grotesque acts. 0.98
00:00:56.820 That doesn't mean that every Muslim is a bad person, but it was animated from their Islamic faith. 1.00
00:01:02.640 By the way, even in cases where we don't directly mention Islam, the West has come up with all sorts of euphemisms to sort of differentiate it from Islam. 0.68
00:01:12.980 So it's Islamism. It's radical Islamism. It's militant, self-radicalized Islamism. 0.88
00:01:20.400 All of these terms are nonsensical.
00:01:22.840 As Erdogan, the president of Turkey, said himself and many other Islamic scholars and leaders, there is only Islam.
00:01:30.540 It's a manufacturing thing of the West to try to put ways to soften the blow of Islam. 0.99
00:01:37.640 Islam is Islam. There's nothing else. 1.00
00:01:39.400 Yeah, that's such a good point. These were Muslim terrorists. 1.00
00:01:42.100 That's not being mean. I'm being honest. That's what happened. I thought this was a very important 0.99
00:01:47.680 moment. The police commissioner in New York City said this right in front of Zoran Mandami. Take a
00:01:53.220 look. The men who attacked this city were terrorists. The men and women who ran into the
00:01:59.980 towers to save innocent lives were heroes. 25 years cannot be allowed to blur that distinction
00:02:08.120 and shame on those who do now. She looks like a mayor to me, not Zoran Mandami. I don't know
00:02:13.960 how long she's going to have that job now, but what'd you make of that? Well, it's good. But
00:02:18.720 again, I didn't hear the M word Muslim. I didn't hear Islam. Again, we cannot react properly if
00:02:26.080 we don't name what the problem is. Millions of Muslims are perfectly lovely and peaceful.
00:02:32.900 Islam contains tenets that are perfectly incongruent with our American values. 1.00
00:02:38.240 Both of those statements are perfectly true. 1.00
00:02:40.740 That's such a good point.
00:02:41.780 I'm not sure if you saw this video today.
00:02:43.740 We've played it on Newsmax throughout the afternoon.
00:02:46.920 Not surprising.
00:02:48.000 Zoran Mandami, AOC, while the names of the 2,977 people who died on 9-11 are being read,
00:02:55.340 and the people at Gran Zio, they're laughing, having a ball, flirting with each other, it looks like.
00:03:01.460 Just your reaction to that.
00:03:03.220 Shocking, but not surprising, sadly.
00:03:05.920 Part of being a politician is to know how to control your affect in particular situations.
00:03:11.620 I need to, as Machiavelli explained to us, you need to know when to put on a solemn face,
00:03:17.580 when to put on a smiley face.
00:03:19.400 But apparently psychopaths have shallow affect.
00:03:22.040 They don't know how to control their emotions.
00:03:23.660 And so I'll let the audience decide whether Mondani and AOC fits the psychopathic appellation.
00:03:30.840 Yeah, great point. The newly single AOC, we should add. Dr. Gadsad, great to see you. Enjoyed the book, Suicidal Empathy. Appreciate you being here. Thank you.
00:03:39.320 Thank you, sir.