The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - December 26, 2025


Islam and Islamism Are Peaceful - Islamismism is Dangerous (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_947)

Topics
Islamismism is dangerous
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Gad Saad
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Mordechai Rubenstein Allahu Akbar Wahhabism
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4 minutes

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Word count

627

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42

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In a quest to appear nuanced, many academics will posit that a given phenomenon like global jihad is due to a broad range of hyphenated and concatenated factors that represent a complex, multifactorial problem. The more nonsensical terms that you can strew together, the greater the illusion of explanatory profundity. The nuanced enemies of reason also like to use euphemisms to cover realities that are too politically incorrect to name.

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00:00:00.300 Hi everybody, this is Scott Saad. I hope that you had a good Christmas day yesterday and a early Happy New Year to all of you.
00:00:08.060 I wanted to read a passage for you from this book, The Parasitic Mind 2020.
00:00:14.820 If you haven't gotten your copy yet, go out and get it.
00:00:18.040 Or if you already have gotten your copy, gift it to other people.
00:00:23.160 Millions and millions of people deserve to receive the mind vaccine.
00:00:27.100 So I want to read for you page 133 of The Parasitic Mind.
00:00:34.540 This is the chapter titled Departures from Reason, Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome.
00:00:39.080 It's the part where I explain how typically Westerners, suicidally empathetic Westerners,
00:00:46.260 which is, the book is coming out soon, so you better pre-order it.
00:00:50.000 And they try to protect Islam by arguing that whatever you're seeing is something outside of Islam.
00:00:57.620 So it's not Islam, it's Islamism. 0.99
00:00:59.880 So let me read for you here this section.
00:01:03.480 In a quest to appear nuanced, many academics will posit that a given phenomenon like global jihad
00:01:09.720 is due to a broad range of hyphenated and concatenated factors that represent a complex, multifactorial problem.
00:01:19.000 I call this the concatenation strategy.
00:01:22.420 I have often satirized this form of intellectual duplicity wherever another terror attack takes place
00:01:28.940 with the perpetrators yelling Allahu Akbar.
00:01:31.280 I remind people satirically that the true motives of the terrorists may never be known,
00:01:36.700 but they are likely due to a confluence of paleobotanic, sociocultural, biopolitical,
00:01:43.600 neurophysiological, psycho-economic, hetero-historical, geo-organic, and ethno-ketogenic factors.
00:01:51.620 The more nonsensical terms that you can strew together,
00:01:55.080 the greater the illusion of explanatory profundity.
00:01:58.600 The nuanced enemies of reason also like to use euphemisms to cover realities that are too politically incorrect to name.
00:02:07.520 Hence, the West is not fighting Islamic terror. 0.98
00:02:10.320 Rather, we are combating radicalized, militant, violent, extremist, man-made fanaticism.
00:02:17.320 The dreaded RMVEMMF ideology. 0.87
00:02:23.240 Those who are a bit more honest will recognize that it is linked to Islam, 0.96
00:02:27.800 but they will use the ism algorithm to satanize the reality.
00:02:32.280 Hence, it is not due to Islam, but Islamism. 0.98
00:02:35.360 It's not Islam, but jihadism, Wahhabism, or Salafism. 0.99
00:02:39.620 Or they will place a qualifier to draw a distinction between Islam and radical Islam, or extremist Islam.
00:02:46.980 Many people have a strong aversion to directly blaming Islam because it feels gauche or intolerant to do so.
00:02:53.480 They would rather give Islam a pass and place the blame on some supposedly distorted version of the faith.
00:03:01.000 The reality, though, is that there are no codified holy books of Islamism that are distinct from those of Islam.
00:03:07.760 Islamism, the political element of Islam, is an integral element of the religion.
00:03:12.080 Fortunately, a great majority of Muslims ignore the unpalatable parts of their religion. 1.00
00:03:17.920 This does not mean that they are practicing some unicorn, gentle, true Islam.
00:03:24.780 If Mordechai Rubenstein chooses to eat pork and shrimps, he is not practicing a more liberal form of Judaism.
00:03:32.400 He is simply ignoring those elements of kosher laws that he finds too culinarily difficult to adhere to.
00:03:39.540 And then I go on explaining some of the other strategies that are used to, you know, protect Islam.
00:03:46.060 Today, I'd like to introduce a new strategy, which I hadn't introduced in the parasitic mind.
00:03:50.740 I feel that just adding one ism is insufficient so that if you Islam is beautiful, but Islamism is dangerous, that's still too close to Islam because it's only one ism. 1.00
00:04:05.600 And so I like to propose as a mathematical operator of suicidal empathy.
00:04:10.480 It's ism squared. 0.63
00:04:12.600 So what you do is you actually add two back to back isms.
00:04:17.740 So Islam is peaceful, Islamism is peaceful, but what we really should be worried about is Islamismism. 1.00
00:04:28.780 Quickly, we gallop.
00:04:30.000 Have a good day, everybody.