The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - November 23, 2025


Islam and the West - Suicidal Empathy Will Destroy Our Civilization (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_922)


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In this episode, I talk about the problem of inter-religious co-existence in Western societies, and the root cause of this problem, which is the lack of a reflex of co-operation between Muslims and Christians. I also talk about a recent incident in which Muslims were heckled by Christian evangelists with a slice of bacon.

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00:00:00.000 All this ex-spaces because there was a recent horrific, forget about what we went through in the Lebanese Civil War,
00:00:10.200 what the noble Muslims in Florida just went through is simply unconscionable.
00:00:16.840 It puts the whole genocide of Nigerian Christians that is unfolding right now,
00:00:25.800 where hundreds of thousands of Christians are being slaughtered peacefully by Muslims to shame 1.00
00:00:33.180 because there were some guys praying in a public space in a parking lot 0.87
00:00:38.580 and some sort of Christian evangelists came up and started heckling them and showing a slice of bacon to them.
00:00:50.440 And the noble Muslims put together a press release, you know, a very, very austere press release, very serious,
00:01:02.680 where I don't know if it was an imam who was speaking,
00:01:05.540 where he tried to get through the part where he's explaining how he looked up from his, you know,
00:01:11.700 while he was praying to see the bacon slab,
00:01:16.120 but he couldn't get through the sentence because it was just too painful
00:01:21.440 because we know that eating pork is haram, forbidden.
00:01:27.100 And so he felt, you know, very threatened, very belittled.
00:01:32.060 He felt that his religion was being insulted.
00:01:37.740 And so, okay, fair enough.
00:01:40.560 Look, I saw the clip and those guys were being obnoxious.
00:01:45.340 This is not the way that I would typically engage this issue.
00:01:50.780 But we do live in a free society. 1.00
00:01:53.420 In a free society, as I've explained, we tolerate racists, assholes, morons, falsehood spreaders. 1.00
00:02:02.060 I'm Jewish. 1.00
00:02:03.420 I support the right of Holocaust deniers to spew their nonsense.
00:02:09.220 I support the right of people to stand up and say that the six million slaughter, 0.95
00:02:17.360 the slaughter of six million Jews did not take place.
00:02:20.880 Nothing could be more offensive.
00:02:22.420 And it's certainly a lot more offensive than some childish taunt of, you know, 0.97
00:02:29.660 showing a bunch of Muslims spraying bacon. 0.98
00:02:32.460 But yet I support that, right, because that's what happens in a free society.
00:02:38.500 But let us suppose for a moment that you come from societies where you are completely the majority.
00:02:47.480 And when I say majority, I mean in many Islamic societies out of the 56 countries
00:02:51.700 that make up the Organization of Islamic Cooperation, OIC,
00:02:57.420 you have 95, 98, 99.9% of the population is Muslim.
00:03:05.740 So you've never developed the reflex of coexistence
00:03:11.240 because you don't have to develop that reflex. 0.64
00:03:15.160 You don't have to accept the fact that there are other people who think that your religion is useless. 1.00
00:03:22.020 Many people think that Judaism is useless. 1.00
00:03:24.680 More power to you. Go for it. 0.99
00:03:26.560 Many people think out of the 10,000 different religions that religion X or Y is useless.
00:03:35.160 You have art pieces that mock religion. 0.71
00:03:39.080 Christianity is mocked all day long, every day.
00:03:42.660 You get National Endowments of the Arts grants if you mock Christianity. 0.70
00:03:49.160 You're hailed a progressive at Oberlin College and Harvard if you mock Christianity. 0.98
00:03:55.000 Heck, you can do a play mocking Mormonism.
00:03:58.820 It's called The Book of Mormon.
00:04:01.060 And you can have a run on Broadway for years
00:04:06.200 because baked into the DNA of Western society
00:04:11.860 is the recognition that, yes, there is freedom of religion,
00:04:17.820 but all religions must coexist.
00:04:21.040 By the way, and all religions are not equal in their ability to adhere to that dictum. 0.99
00:04:26.920 Hence, my book, Suicidal Empathy.
00:04:30.760 Right?
00:04:31.480 Badminton is a sport.
00:04:34.000 Boxing is a sport.
00:04:35.600 They're both sports that start with the letter B.
00:04:39.740 Yet, they're not equally likely to cause brain damage.
00:04:44.220 Boxing is more likely to cause brain damage
00:04:47.080 because inherent to the pursuit of boxing is punching in the face.
00:04:53.340 So, therefore, even though both are sports,
00:04:56.540 both start with the letter B,
00:04:58.860 they don't yield equal brain injuries.
00:05:03.260 So, Jainism is a religion.
00:05:07.680 Islam is a religion.
00:05:09.560 They're not equally peaceful.
00:05:12.620 Okay?
00:05:13.260 So now, if you take people who come to the West 1.00
00:05:16.400 from societies that are fully Islamic,
00:05:21.400 it's not a surprise that when the people come to the West, 0.99
00:05:25.640 they are not equipped with the right set of psychological tools
00:05:33.160 for interfaith coexistence.
00:05:36.200 If I have a child and this child,
00:05:41.540 I'm going to either raise him in one of two ways.
00:05:44.940 When the child acts with temper tantrums,
00:05:49.360 I'm going to correct him so that the child knows
00:05:52.500 here are the appropriate ways to behave,
00:05:55.300 here are the inappropriate ways to behave.
00:05:57.860 That's called parental education. 0.79
00:06:00.140 That's called parental socialization. 0.75
00:06:02.600 Now, imagine if in another society,
00:06:04.640 I raise a child so that anything that he does
00:06:08.000 in any time and any way,
00:06:10.080 when he wants to go to sleep,
00:06:11.680 when he wants to wake up,
00:06:12.980 when he wants to eat,
00:06:14.420 what he wants to eat,
00:06:15.740 what he wishes to watch,
00:06:17.960 anything is free for him to do
00:06:21.680 because I will never impose any expectations of him.
00:06:27.140 Do we have to be a fancy psychologist
00:06:29.580 to understand that those two types of parental rearing
00:06:32.560 is likely not going to lead to the same downstream outcome?
00:06:37.500 So now, if you have in the West
00:06:40.040 the baked reflex of interfaith coexistence,
00:06:46.380 but you have millions of people coming from societies
00:06:49.780 where that mechanism does not exist.
00:06:53.740 It has never existed.
00:06:55.560 I've never been exposed to it.
00:06:58.240 I don't need to ever acquiesce to someone else.
00:07:02.660 Therefore, I don't like if you mock my religion.
00:07:05.980 Therefore, I don't like if you criticize my religion.
00:07:09.720 Therefore, I don't like if there are people who exist
00:07:12.980 who don't share exactly all of my beliefs.
00:07:16.920 Now, we clear so far?
00:07:19.780 Now, there is a reality.
00:07:22.640 Life also has certain realities
00:07:25.020 whereby depending on the number of people
00:07:27.560 that constitutes the members that ascribe to my religion
00:07:32.520 will determine how I can implement
00:07:35.900 the fact that I don't appreciate you making fun of my religion.
00:07:41.280 If you come from a society where you are in the 99.9% majority
00:07:47.880 and someone who's intrepid stands up
00:07:52.000 and makes fun of your religion,
00:07:54.540 then we know what happens to you.
00:07:57.260 We have 1,400 years of data that supports that.
00:08:01.540 It's not going to go well for you.
00:08:03.580 If, on the other hand, you're in a society
00:08:06.500 where you're in the great minority,
00:08:11.280 you're only 1%, you're 0.5%, you're 2%,
00:08:17.740 well, what's going to be the reflex?
00:08:20.300 You're going to cry victimhood.
00:08:23.860 You don't have the numbers.
00:08:26.040 You don't have the might to severely punish those
00:08:32.000 who might criticize you,
00:08:34.180 who might have a viewpoint that is different than yours.
00:08:38.480 Therefore, you bide your time.
00:08:40.940 You hold off until, inshallah, you are more.
00:08:44.760 There is a place in the United States.
00:08:48.520 It's called Dearborn.
00:08:50.260 That's what's happened.
00:08:52.680 For the past three decades,
00:08:54.440 at great personal and professional costs and risks,
00:08:58.480 I have repeatedly warned you,
00:09:00.920 as have others.
00:09:03.840 Here is the blueprint.
00:09:06.060 Here is how it works.
00:09:07.640 It's very clear.
00:09:10.040 Diabetes, we know what the trajectory is.
00:09:14.340 Why?
00:09:14.780 Because we have the statistical regularities
00:09:17.600 and the proximate causation
00:09:19.740 that tells us that if you have diabetes,
00:09:22.540 here is how the disease will unfold.
00:09:25.480 That's what the scientific method allows us to do.
00:09:28.860 We look at patterns,
00:09:30.540 and therefore, based on these patterns,
00:09:32.820 we're able to be predictive
00:09:35.900 in navigating the world.
00:09:38.180 So we know what happens
00:09:40.760 when this particular religion
00:09:43.680 goes on the ascendancy.
00:09:46.960 Okay?
00:09:48.140 Let's go back to the start of Islam. 1.00
00:09:50.820 When Islam began, 0.98
00:09:52.780 it was in the Mecca period.
00:09:55.280 That's called the Meccan period.
00:09:57.540 When Muhammad started to proselytize, 0.99
00:10:00.200 he was in a very small minority.
00:10:03.160 Therefore, his message
00:10:04.760 was indeed one
00:10:06.760 that was a lot less
00:10:08.520 hateful and intolerant.
00:10:10.680 It was peaceful. 0.96
00:10:12.020 You have your religion.
00:10:13.420 I have mine.
00:10:14.680 No compulsion in religion.
00:10:17.120 When then he did Hijra, 0.64
00:10:19.080 when he immigrated
00:10:20.320 to Medina,
00:10:22.340 and altered his selling message
00:10:25.360 to one that was
00:10:26.640 a lot more intolerant,
00:10:28.720 a lot more aggressive, 0.92
00:10:30.620 a lot more supremacist,
00:10:32.260 he was able to draw
00:10:34.000 a lot more followers
00:10:35.500 so that the number
00:10:37.480 of adherents to the faith
00:10:39.120 exponentially grew.
00:10:42.340 And therefore,
00:10:43.540 now there was a canonical problem
00:10:46.000 in the religion,
00:10:47.060 which is,
00:10:47.800 how could you have
00:10:49.040 in the Quran
00:10:50.280 both the Meccan period
00:10:52.320 and the Medinan period
00:10:53.940 where Allah is prescribing 0.96
00:10:57.260 perfectly contradictory things?
00:10:59.860 Well, don't worry about it.
00:11:01.320 That's easily solved
00:11:02.840 by the tenet
00:11:04.220 of abrogation.
00:11:05.860 When there are
00:11:06.660 two principles
00:11:07.860 in the Quran
00:11:09.020 that are perfectly
00:11:11.560 incongruent
00:11:12.480 and contradictory
00:11:13.260 with each other,
00:11:14.720 the later verse
00:11:16.060 abrogates
00:11:17.360 the earlier verse.
00:11:19.220 Therefore,
00:11:20.220 it is baked
00:11:21.140 into
00:11:21.760 the DNA
00:11:23.320 of the ideology,
00:11:25.600 and it's literally
00:11:26.960 stated for 1400 years,
00:11:28.960 when in the minority,
00:11:31.540 be meek,
00:11:32.920 be submissive,
00:11:36.140 adhere to the local rules,
00:11:40.020 play victim.
00:11:41.560 But when in the majority,
00:11:44.100 smite at the neck, 0.85
00:11:45.260 show no mercy. 0.99
00:11:47.000 Now,
00:11:47.360 do we have any data
00:11:48.820 that supports that?
00:11:50.160 Well,
00:11:50.700 what happened
00:11:51.580 to the Coptic Christians
00:11:52.820 that constituted
00:11:54.060 100% of Egypt 0.93
00:11:56.160 for hundreds of years?
00:11:57.680 Now,
00:11:58.220 they're 10%.
00:11:59.040 How did that happen?
00:12:01.160 What happened
00:12:02.140 to the Syrian Christians?
00:12:03.680 What happened
00:12:04.360 to the Iraqi Christians?
00:12:06.420 Oh,
00:12:06.820 in my lifespan,
00:12:08.720 in my lifetime,
00:12:10.540 there were,
00:12:12.220 Lebanon
00:12:12.560 was a Christian
00:12:14.080 majority country.
00:12:15.760 Within
00:12:16.480 four decades,
00:12:18.320 Lebanon
00:12:18.640 is a
00:12:19.460 Muslim
00:12:20.140 majority country.
00:12:21.200 It didn't take
00:12:22.700 400 generations.
00:12:24.680 It didn't
00:12:25.040 take from
00:12:26.300 the Pleistocene era.
00:12:28.300 It doesn't
00:12:28.880 take long,
00:12:30.040 right?
00:12:30.580 Demography
00:12:31.260 is destiny.
00:12:33.000 Dearborn
00:12:33.600 is an
00:12:34.520 Islamic
00:12:35.080 enclave
00:12:35.980 where you
00:12:36.760 already see
00:12:37.660 the reflex
00:12:38.320 of intolerance.
00:12:39.640 Do you remember
00:12:39.960 the guy who went up,
00:12:41.680 the Christian guy
00:12:42.760 that went up
00:12:43.820 in a municipal
00:12:44.840 meeting
00:12:45.400 to say,
00:12:46.360 hey,
00:12:46.680 I don't want
00:12:47.540 the Islamic prayer
00:12:48.660 in the United States.
00:12:50.340 What did the
00:12:51.580 Muslim mayor say?
00:12:53.620 Now he feels
00:12:54.460 more emboldened.
00:12:55.800 Why?
00:12:56.360 Because within
00:12:57.220 his area,
00:12:58.640 it's 55%
00:13:00.220 Islamic.
00:13:01.400 Therefore,
00:13:01.760 I don't have
00:13:02.540 to have the
00:13:03.140 reflex of being
00:13:04.040 tolerant.
00:13:04.940 What did he say
00:13:05.640 to the guy?
00:13:06.900 You're not
00:13:07.500 welcome here. 1.00
00:13:08.620 I can't kill him 0.99
00:13:09.700 because he's 0.92
00:13:11.360 not in the
00:13:11.840 majority yet.
00:13:12.960 But if he's
00:13:13.580 in Syria
00:13:14.180 today, 0.99
00:13:14.860 he could kill 1.00
00:13:15.540 him. 1.00
00:13:16.540 Right?
00:13:17.180 Now,
00:13:18.420 let's keep
00:13:19.140 going.
00:13:19.480 Give me
00:13:20.480 a second
00:13:21.020 because I
00:13:22.120 had a bunch
00:13:22.600 of points
00:13:24.320 I wanted
00:13:24.720 to make.
00:13:25.660 All right.
00:13:29.200 My family
00:13:30.240 had to leave
00:13:31.060 Lebanon.
00:13:32.360 What caused
00:13:33.440 that to happen?
00:13:34.940 My parents
00:13:35.720 were kidnapped
00:13:36.400 by Fatah
00:13:37.220 and tortured.
00:13:38.640 What caused
00:13:39.340 that to happen?
00:13:42.200 My grandparents
00:13:43.480 had to escape
00:13:44.540 Syria.
00:13:45.620 What caused
00:13:46.720 that to happen?
00:13:47.540 my brother
00:13:50.380 had to leave
00:13:51.180 Lebanon
00:13:51.560 before the
00:13:52.320 civil war
00:13:53.140 because it
00:13:53.900 was no longer
00:13:54.760 okay for
00:13:55.560 Jews to win 0.97
00:13:56.640 the Lebanese
00:13:57.760 judo championship.
00:13:59.480 What caused
00:14:00.160 that to happen?
00:14:01.580 My eldest
00:14:02.540 brother had
00:14:03.280 to leave
00:14:04.000 Lebanon
00:14:05.000 before the
00:14:06.040 start of the
00:14:06.540 civil war
00:14:07.200 when he was
00:14:08.100 being harassed
00:14:09.060 by PLO
00:14:10.280 militia.
00:14:11.260 What caused
00:14:12.200 that to happen?
00:14:13.020 My brother
00:14:16.360 in law's
00:14:16.900 family had
00:14:17.740 to leave
00:14:18.560 Alexandria
00:14:19.380 Georgia
00:14:20.160 Georgia
00:14:21.080 Alexandria
00:14:22.000 Egypt
00:14:22.620 their Egyptian
00:14:24.520 Jews
00:14:24.980 in the 50s.
00:14:26.580 What caused
00:14:27.160 that to happen?
00:14:28.660 My wife's
00:14:29.680 family had
00:14:30.340 to leave
00:14:30.860 Lebanon
00:14:31.300 after a few
00:14:33.000 years of
00:14:33.460 the civil war.
00:14:34.280 What caused
00:14:35.420 that to happen?
00:14:37.480 Her
00:14:38.120 ancestors
00:14:38.780 had to
00:14:39.600 flee
00:14:40.340 the Armenian
00:14:41.160 genocide
00:14:41.900 100 years
00:14:42.640 ago.
00:14:43.080 What caused
00:14:43.840 that to
00:14:44.300 happen?
00:14:45.660 56 countries
00:14:46.880 today that
00:14:47.660 once were
00:14:48.260 100%
00:14:49.360 non-Islamic
00:14:50.440 are now
00:14:51.260 almost fully
00:14:53.220 Islamic.
00:14:54.420 What caused
00:14:55.400 that to
00:14:55.900 happen?
00:14:57.360 What is
00:14:58.100 the greatest
00:14:58.980 colonial
00:15:00.240 project
00:15:01.800 that the
00:15:02.660 world has
00:15:03.160 ever seen?
00:15:04.960 What happens
00:15:06.020 to religious
00:15:06.720 minorities
00:15:07.480 in those
00:15:08.120 societies?
00:15:09.200 By the way,
00:15:10.300 pointing to
00:15:11.000 the fact that
00:15:11.740 your uncle
00:15:12.380 Waleed 0.99
00:15:13.020 was perfectly
00:15:14.540 happy living
00:15:15.940 his life in
00:15:16.840 Jordan as a
00:15:17.580 Christian
00:15:17.980 doesn't negate
00:15:19.300 those historical
00:15:20.080 realities
00:15:20.820 any more than
00:15:22.160 the fact that
00:15:22.940 John Wayne
00:15:23.560 Gacy
00:15:24.000 on 99.9%
00:15:27.840 of days that
00:15:28.640 he lived,
00:15:29.140 he did not
00:15:29.640 kill anyone. 0.62
00:15:30.760 But on those 0.99
00:15:31.580 other 0.01%,
00:15:33.140 he happened to
00:15:34.020 kill 30 plus
00:15:34.860 people. 0.96
00:15:36.280 So the fact
00:15:37.060 that churches
00:15:37.860 still exist in
00:15:39.020 Jordan today
00:15:39.760 Lebanon or
00:15:40.820 Lebanon or
00:15:40.840 the fact that
00:15:41.480 we existed in
00:15:42.380 Lebanon until
00:15:43.580 we had to
00:15:44.260 really run
00:15:44.780 quickly doesn't
00:15:46.460 demonstrate
00:15:47.320 tolerance.
00:15:48.880 It demonstrates
00:15:49.980 that I'm
00:15:50.580 tolerant until
00:15:51.680 the time that I
00:15:52.500 choose not to
00:15:53.680 be tolerant.
00:15:55.380 The story of
00:15:56.720 the myth of
00:15:57.420 Andalusia when
00:15:59.100 the Jews,
00:16:00.040 Christians,
00:16:00.540 and Muslims
00:16:01.040 lived in peace
00:16:01.780 together is not
00:16:02.840 true.
00:16:04.040 Read the book
00:16:04.780 the myth of
00:16:05.580 the Andalusian
00:16:06.480 paradise by a
00:16:08.200 very well-known
00:16:09.260 historian who
00:16:11.080 came on my
00:16:11.700 show.
00:16:12.800 You are
00:16:13.200 tolerated as
00:16:14.500 long as you
00:16:15.200 know your
00:16:15.740 place in an
00:16:16.840 Islamic society.
00:16:18.580 You're a 1.00
00:16:19.080 dimmi. 0.98
00:16:19.900 A dimmi is a 0.98
00:16:20.840 third, fourth
00:16:21.600 class citizen.
00:16:23.040 So when these
00:16:24.260 folks who were
00:16:26.200 praying in
00:16:27.940 Florida go up
00:16:31.980 and call a
00:16:32.980 press conference
00:16:33.900 and care the
00:16:35.140 quote civil
00:16:36.840 rights group
00:16:37.740 which now is
00:16:38.660 being designated
00:16:39.500 as a terror
00:16:40.440 organization if
00:16:41.760 I'm not mistaken
00:16:42.540 by the current
00:16:43.620 administration
00:16:44.360 calls together
00:16:46.180 a civil
00:16:47.380 rights meeting
00:16:48.340 the system
00:16:51.580 of the West
00:16:52.660 is being
00:16:53.240 gamed
00:16:53.880 because they
00:16:55.180 are using the
00:16:56.040 language of
00:16:56.740 civil rights
00:16:57.640 until they are
00:16:58.900 the majority
00:16:59.560 in which case
00:17:00.440 you won't have
00:17:01.480 any civil
00:17:02.120 rights anymore.
00:17:04.260 The Muslim
00:17:05.340 Brotherhood who
00:17:06.340 I'd like to
00:17:07.440 think you're not
00:17:08.040 going to call
00:17:08.620 them Islamophobic
00:17:09.980 not only the 0.74
00:17:11.360 Muslim Brotherhood
00:17:12.260 many other
00:17:13.220 Islamic
00:17:13.920 leaders have
00:17:16.520 said that we
00:17:17.680 shall conquer
00:17:18.280 the West
00:17:18.800 through three
00:17:19.480 means.
00:17:20.160 I've explained
00:17:20.620 this many times
00:17:21.440 already.
00:17:22.400 We are going
00:17:23.340 to conquer the
00:17:24.180 West through
00:17:24.740 the womb of
00:17:25.500 our women.
00:17:26.680 Demography is
00:17:27.640 destiny.
00:17:28.740 Therefore if
00:17:29.880 the West is
00:17:30.680 producing
00:17:31.240 children at
00:17:32.480 a rate that
00:17:33.080 is below
00:17:33.580 the replacement
00:17:34.280 rate but
00:17:35.640 Islamic women 0.99
00:17:37.340 are producing
00:17:38.180 at a rate
00:17:38.960 above the
00:17:40.380 replacement
00:17:41.240 rate, it'll
00:17:42.660 take a while
00:17:43.420 but then
00:17:44.200 demography
00:17:44.900 will create
00:17:47.200 a new reality.
00:17:48.480 So that's
00:17:48.840 number one.
00:17:49.580 Number two,
00:17:50.580 we will conquer
00:17:51.440 the West
00:17:51.980 through hijra,
00:17:53.120 through immigration
00:17:53.920 and we are
00:17:54.860 seeing that,
00:17:55.620 right?
00:17:56.780 Mass immigration,
00:17:58.380 open door
00:17:58.980 policies that
00:18:00.080 ultimately
00:18:00.880 change the
00:18:01.640 complete fabric
00:18:02.680 of the
00:18:03.700 host societies,
00:18:05.320 the suicidally
00:18:06.300 empathetic
00:18:07.020 societies, 0.90
00:18:08.600 right?
00:18:09.200 Again, I
00:18:10.360 hate to do
00:18:10.960 this because
00:18:12.220 I shouldn't
00:18:12.780 have to.
00:18:14.140 This doesn't
00:18:15.180 take away from
00:18:16.000 the fact that
00:18:17.020 I could now
00:18:18.520 point to more
00:18:19.500 lovely Muslims
00:18:20.300 that I have met
00:18:21.080 in my life than
00:18:21.920 I have hairs on
00:18:22.820 my head,
00:18:23.500 which is many,
00:18:24.600 many thousands
00:18:25.140 of cases.
00:18:27.080 That doesn't
00:18:27.900 take away from
00:18:28.620 everything that
00:18:29.580 I've just
00:18:29.980 said, right?
00:18:32.340 Individuals in
00:18:33.200 any group
00:18:33.940 come in many
00:18:34.840 sizes and
00:18:35.560 shapes.
00:18:36.260 There are nice
00:18:36.820 people and
00:18:37.420 mean people in
00:18:38.200 any group.
00:18:39.660 That includes
00:18:40.300 whether you're
00:18:40.740 Jewish,
00:18:41.220 atheist,
00:18:41.800 Muslim,
00:18:42.340 Hindu,
00:18:43.060 Shinto,
00:18:43.660 Jain,
00:18:44.220 doesn't matter,
00:18:45.000 Christian,
00:18:45.760 but we're
00:18:46.700 talking about
00:18:47.320 an ideology.
00:18:49.020 An ideology
00:18:49.920 exists as a
00:18:51.620 set of
00:18:52.020 principles.
00:18:52.600 Those
00:18:53.560 principles
00:18:54.300 result in
00:18:57.260 actionable
00:18:58.420 outcomes in
00:18:59.680 the real
00:19:00.200 world.
00:19:00.960 If the
00:19:02.020 world were
00:19:02.700 entirely
00:19:03.420 Jewish,
00:19:04.280 we can
00:19:04.860 make a
00:19:05.360 prediction as
00:19:06.560 to the
00:19:07.000 likelihood of
00:19:08.240 the males
00:19:09.100 in the
00:19:09.980 world being
00:19:10.940 either
00:19:11.360 circumcised
00:19:12.140 or not.
00:19:12.920 Is that
00:19:13.260 true?
00:19:13.920 Is that
00:19:14.580 Jewishphobic?
00:19:16.300 Or is it
00:19:17.220 true to say
00:19:17.960 that if the
00:19:18.760 entire world
00:19:19.900 were Jewish,
00:19:21.740 there would
00:19:22.300 be a lot
00:19:22.880 more
00:19:23.140 circumcisions.
00:19:24.280 Why?
00:19:24.900 Because
00:19:25.400 Judaism
00:19:26.080 dictates
00:19:27.540 that.
00:19:28.540 If the
00:19:29.560 world was
00:19:30.120 entirely
00:19:30.680 Jewish,
00:19:31.500 there would 0.95
00:19:31.820 be less
00:19:32.360 pork
00:19:32.740 consumption.
00:19:33.680 Why?
00:19:34.380 Because
00:19:34.860 Judaism,
00:19:37.020 the kosher
00:19:37.600 laws,
00:19:38.720 forbid the
00:19:39.920 eating of
00:19:40.440 pork.
00:19:41.020 So the
00:19:42.240 content of
00:19:44.640 a religion
00:19:45.360 is not
00:19:46.600 just love
00:19:48.000 everything and
00:19:49.480 there's a
00:19:50.320 God that we
00:19:51.000 pray to.
00:19:51.580 it has
00:19:52.560 very clear,
00:19:55.200 actionable,
00:19:56.760 deterministic
00:19:58.040 consequences.
00:20:00.120 So in
00:20:01.280 1400 years,
00:20:02.900 do we
00:20:03.360 have any
00:20:04.240 data,
00:20:04.860 historical
00:20:05.420 data,
00:20:06.900 demographic
00:20:07.580 data,
00:20:08.380 canonical
00:20:08.840 data,
00:20:11.260 epidemiological
00:20:12.420 data,
00:20:13.240 that says
00:20:14.160 whether
00:20:14.740 with the
00:20:16.420 advent of
00:20:18.420 Islam,
00:20:19.800 is there
00:20:20.300 more personal
00:20:21.400 liberties and
00:20:22.160 freedoms or
00:20:22.940 less?
00:20:24.380 There's really
00:20:25.000 two possibilities,
00:20:26.200 more or
00:20:26.820 less.
00:20:27.740 Do we have
00:20:28.440 data that
00:20:29.060 allows us to
00:20:29.840 know whether
00:20:30.540 Islam contains 0.99
00:20:33.840 doctrines that
00:20:34.600 are consistent
00:20:35.220 with Western
00:20:35.840 freedoms?
00:20:36.380 So what
00:20:37.180 you saw
00:20:37.920 a couple of
00:20:39.420 days ago
00:20:40.000 was an
00:20:41.200 obnoxious
00:20:41.860 bunch of 0.76
00:20:42.980 yes,
00:20:43.720 Christian
00:20:44.180 guys who
00:20:45.240 were trolling 0.97
00:20:46.740 these Muslims. 0.95
00:20:48.800 But now,
00:20:50.800 okay,
00:20:52.040 does it make
00:20:52.880 sense that
00:20:53.840 they be
00:20:54.680 charged with
00:20:55.540 hate crimes?
00:20:57.040 Does it make
00:20:58.020 sense that
00:20:58.680 there is the
00:20:59.600 enhanced felony
00:21:01.160 charges in
00:21:02.540 Florida because
00:21:04.260 you dangled,
00:21:05.900 you brandished,
00:21:06.900 not a weapon,
00:21:07.960 not a knife,
00:21:08.940 not a bomb,
00:21:10.040 not a threat,
00:21:11.440 not a physical
00:21:12.300 attack,
00:21:13.120 you brandished
00:21:14.260 bacon.
00:21:16.040 And with
00:21:17.280 zero self-insight,
00:21:20.200 the guy who
00:21:21.020 gets up,
00:21:21.900 the Imam,
00:21:22.880 and starts
00:21:23.560 crying,
00:21:25.260 right?
00:21:25.620 He's crying
00:21:26.760 because it's
00:21:30.040 unbearable the
00:21:31.240 amount of pain
00:21:32.060 he experienced
00:21:32.900 when they
00:21:33.720 brandished that
00:21:34.620 bacon in
00:21:35.180 front of
00:21:35.540 him.
00:21:37.320 Today,
00:21:38.040 there are
00:21:38.580 few people
00:21:39.420 that are
00:21:39.860 Islamic in
00:21:40.820 South Florida
00:21:41.540 and the
00:21:41.920 Tampa area.
00:21:43.000 Therefore,
00:21:43.420 his only
00:21:44.200 recourse is
00:21:45.720 to cry
00:21:46.520 and say,
00:21:48.760 but I'm
00:21:49.560 a victim.
00:21:51.740 Tomorrow,
00:21:52.600 inshallah,
00:21:53.580 when we are
00:21:54.220 many more
00:21:54.880 of us,
00:21:55.700 I won't be
00:21:56.640 crying when
00:21:57.800 the guy
00:21:58.300 brandishes
00:21:59.000 the bacon.
00:22:01.320 Okay?
00:22:02.180 Are you
00:22:02.680 following?
00:22:03.720 Are you
00:22:04.120 awake?
00:22:05.540 Are you
00:22:06.240 hearing me?
00:22:07.180 Give me a
00:22:07.760 thumbs up.
00:22:09.200 Okay.
00:22:10.740 I have
00:22:12.220 enough runway,
00:22:13.340 God willing,
00:22:14.380 that this
00:22:15.900 issue could
00:22:16.580 not affect
00:22:17.220 me.
00:22:17.680 I don't
00:22:18.000 have to
00:22:18.660 go out
00:22:19.100 on a
00:22:19.380 limb to
00:22:20.100 keep warning
00:22:20.700 people.
00:22:22.120 But I
00:22:22.700 do it
00:22:23.320 because I
00:22:24.160 view it
00:22:24.580 as my
00:22:25.020 responsibility
00:22:25.800 for liberty,
00:22:28.040 for decency,
00:22:29.600 for freedom,
00:22:30.380 to get
00:22:32.040 you to
00:22:32.440 wake up.
00:22:33.360 Now,
00:22:33.640 imagine
00:22:34.200 when I
00:22:35.040 go out
00:22:35.900 and I,
00:22:37.080 just as I
00:22:37.600 did today
00:22:38.200 on a
00:22:38.720 Sunday,
00:22:40.120 to try
00:22:41.240 to defend
00:22:42.000 those
00:22:42.380 Christian
00:22:42.900 guys who,
00:22:44.280 again,
00:22:44.640 admittedly,
00:22:45.840 they were
00:22:46.140 being
00:22:46.500 unnecessarily
00:22:47.580 antagonistic
00:22:48.820 and obnoxious.
00:22:49.820 but I
00:22:51.140 was defending
00:22:52.120 their right
00:22:52.900 to brandish
00:22:53.780 bacon and
00:22:54.780 then I
00:22:55.360 get messages
00:22:56.280 from
00:22:57.360 Christian
00:22:58.280 people
00:22:59.120 saying, 1.00
00:23:00.980 I fucking 1.00
00:23:01.760 hate you 1.00
00:23:02.800 Jews. 0.99
00:23:03.800 So the
00:23:04.620 Jew goes 1.00
00:23:05.400 out on a
00:23:06.100 Sunday and
00:23:07.120 says,
00:23:08.240 the United
00:23:08.920 States is a
00:23:10.180 Christian
00:23:10.720 country where
00:23:11.920 Christian people
00:23:13.060 have a right 0.95
00:23:14.200 to mock
00:23:15.200 those who
00:23:15.760 don't eat
00:23:16.420 bacon and
00:23:17.980 those Christian
00:23:18.920 people,
00:23:19.440 decide that
00:23:21.040 I am
00:23:22.240 the biggest 0.95
00:23:23.880 demon by
00:23:25.020 virtue of
00:23:25.720 my having
00:23:26.300 a Jewish
00:23:26.780 heritage,
00:23:27.800 then you
00:23:28.540 will lose
00:23:29.500 your freedoms,
00:23:31.000 United States.
00:23:33.020 I promise
00:23:33.800 you that.
00:23:34.600 But you
00:23:35.020 don't have
00:23:35.540 the imagination
00:23:36.580 to be able
00:23:37.780 to extrapolate
00:23:39.080 beyond the
00:23:40.040 myopia of
00:23:41.200 your current
00:23:41.960 time period.
00:23:42.980 It seems
00:23:43.540 unlikely.
00:23:44.520 There are
00:23:44.800 340 million
00:23:46.260 Americans,
00:23:48.540 of which
00:23:49.160 there are
00:23:49.540 only very
00:23:50.180 small group
00:23:51.040 that exhibit
00:23:52.100 those traits.
00:23:53.260 Come on.
00:23:53.960 I live in
00:23:54.520 Wisconsin.
00:23:55.280 I live in
00:23:56.140 Oregon.
00:23:57.120 I live in
00:23:57.940 Maine.
00:23:58.600 It's not
00:23:59.040 going to
00:23:59.440 happen here.
00:24:00.140 By the way,
00:24:00.800 go check out
00:24:01.480 some of the
00:24:02.080 small towns
00:24:02.800 in Maine
00:24:03.400 that have
00:24:04.120 been taken
00:24:04.560 over by
00:24:05.400 Somalis.
00:24:06.700 Is this
00:24:07.740 because I'm
00:24:08.260 racist against
00:24:09.080 Somalis?
00:24:09.840 Or could
00:24:10.500 it be
00:24:10.960 that maybe
00:24:11.760 Somalis
00:24:12.320 come with
00:24:12.860 a set
00:24:13.300 of values
00:24:15.100 that might
00:24:15.940 be
00:24:16.240 inconsistent
00:24:17.360 and
00:24:17.760 incongruent
00:24:18.760 with the
00:24:19.520 250-year
00:24:20.760 history of
00:24:22.080 American
00:24:23.000 people that
00:24:24.000 have lived
00:24:24.480 in Maine?
00:24:27.000 Let's keep 0.77
00:24:27.800 going.
00:24:28.120 I want
00:24:30.300 to read
00:24:30.620 for you
00:24:31.120 before I
00:24:35.120 do that.
00:24:36.960 You all
00:24:37.640 are familiar
00:24:38.260 with the
00:24:39.180 boiling
00:24:40.380 frog parable.
00:24:41.720 What is
00:24:43.460 the boiling
00:24:43.800 frog parable?
00:24:44.920 If I put
00:24:45.720 a frog
00:24:46.280 into water
00:24:47.460 and I
00:24:48.360 start heating
00:24:49.200 it up
00:24:49.780 in such
00:24:50.780 a manner
00:24:51.220 that with
00:24:51.780 each increase
00:24:52.760 in heat
00:24:53.360 that increase
00:24:55.420 falls below
00:24:56.460 what in
00:24:57.320 psychology,
00:24:58.340 in psychophysics
00:24:59.120 we call the
00:24:59.660 just noticeable
00:25:00.420 difference,
00:25:01.380 then the
00:25:02.800 frog will
00:25:03.340 stay
00:25:03.820 until it
00:25:05.560 eventually
00:25:06.060 boils to
00:25:07.480 death.
00:25:08.100 Because each
00:25:08.840 incremental
00:25:09.460 increase
00:25:10.260 is not
00:25:11.700 passing the
00:25:12.760 just noticeable
00:25:13.520 difference
00:25:14.360 of the
00:25:15.320 psychophysical
00:25:16.160 system of
00:25:16.920 the frog.
00:25:18.280 By the way,
00:25:18.720 this is a
00:25:19.360 principle that
00:25:19.900 is applied
00:25:20.400 in consumer
00:25:20.920 psychology,
00:25:21.900 which I
00:25:23.400 can talk
00:25:23.780 about maybe
00:25:24.200 in a
00:25:24.460 different
00:25:24.780 setting.
00:25:25.400 I have
00:25:25.660 talked about
00:25:26.060 this in
00:25:26.320 the past.
00:25:27.540 But if
00:25:27.820 you increase
00:25:29.280 the heat
00:25:31.380 in the
00:25:33.100 pot
00:25:33.680 above a
00:25:36.120 just noticeable
00:25:36.620 difference,
00:25:37.340 then the
00:25:37.960 frog is
00:25:38.380 going to
00:25:38.780 try to
00:25:39.360 jump out
00:25:40.000 because it
00:25:41.100 has exceeded
00:25:41.680 the just
00:25:42.300 noticeable
00:25:42.580 difference.
00:25:43.500 Now that
00:25:44.700 is used
00:25:45.440 as a
00:25:46.000 fable,
00:25:47.420 as a
00:25:47.700 parable
00:25:48.080 for something
00:25:49.000 here that
00:25:49.400 I wish to
00:25:49.860 explain,
00:25:50.820 which is
00:25:51.380 the
00:25:52.280 incursions
00:25:53.340 of Islamic
00:25:54.240 demands
00:25:54.960 happen
00:25:56.000 below the
00:25:57.400 just
00:25:57.660 noticeable
00:25:58.080 difference.
00:25:59.440 So let
00:26:01.040 me give
00:26:01.300 you examples.
00:26:02.920 What's the
00:26:03.760 big deal
00:26:04.300 if the
00:26:04.680 teacher is
00:26:05.240 wearing
00:26:05.560 hijab? 0.89
00:26:07.240 Why are
00:26:07.900 you such
00:26:08.320 a bigot?
00:26:09.480 Why are
00:26:09.860 you such
00:26:10.180 an
00:26:10.300 Islamophobe?
00:26:11.260 What's
00:26:11.660 the big
00:26:12.040 deal if
00:26:12.540 the
00:26:12.780 police
00:26:13.340 woman, 1.00
00:26:14.620 as it's
00:26:15.120 happening
00:26:15.480 right now
00:26:16.160 in,
00:26:16.560 you know,
00:26:17.560 Zoran
00:26:18.040 Mamdani's
00:26:18.880 New York
00:26:19.260 City,
00:26:20.080 is trying
00:26:20.840 to teach
00:26:21.500 people as
00:26:22.620 part of
00:26:23.000 her outreach
00:26:23.760 how they
00:26:24.540 should wear
00:26:25.020 a hijab?
00:26:26.500 24 years
00:26:27.920 after the
00:26:29.300 Islamic
00:26:29.880 terror attack
00:26:30.860 on 9-11
00:26:31.800 that killed
00:26:32.660 3,000
00:26:33.460 innocent
00:26:33.860 people,
00:26:35.420 you have
00:26:36.140 hijabed 0.92
00:26:37.520 police
00:26:37.940 officers
00:26:38.740 engaging
00:26:39.880 in
00:26:40.700 outreach
00:26:41.800 programs
00:26:42.500 to wear
00:26:42.920 the hijab?
00:26:43.540 What's
00:26:43.800 the big
00:26:44.160 deal?
00:26:44.920 Why can't
00:26:45.480 you tolerate
00:26:46.200 that,
00:26:46.880 frog?
00:26:48.040 What's
00:26:48.620 the big
00:26:49.020 deal
00:26:49.440 if
00:26:50.220 that
00:26:51.080 hijabed 0.92
00:26:53.080 police
00:26:53.840 officer
00:26:54.500 says that
00:26:55.540 inshallah
00:26:56.160 my goal
00:26:56.880 is to
00:26:57.260 make sure
00:26:57.660 that there
00:26:58.020 are 100,000
00:26:59.140 police officers
00:27:00.100 wearing a
00:27:00.640 hijab? 0.89
00:27:01.720 What's
00:27:02.280 the big
00:27:02.620 deal if
00:27:03.060 the border
00:27:03.560 agent
00:27:04.060 greets you
00:27:04.640 in Arabic,
00:27:05.440 Gad?
00:27:05.720 for those
00:27:06.680 of you
00:27:06.880 who don't
00:27:07.280 know,
00:27:08.100 if a
00:27:08.760 couple of
00:27:09.100 weeks ago
00:27:09.640 I was
00:27:11.440 leaving
00:27:12.300 Chicago,
00:27:13.440 I had
00:27:13.660 just spoken
00:27:14.140 at the
00:27:14.440 University
00:27:14.780 of Chicago
00:27:15.420 on my
00:27:16.380 forthcoming
00:27:16.880 book,
00:27:17.200 Suicidal
00:27:17.520 Empathy,
00:27:18.660 and the
00:27:19.300 border
00:27:20.000 agent
00:27:21.180 officer,
00:27:22.260 whose name
00:27:22.980 was Muhammad
00:27:23.620 because it's
00:27:24.160 written on
00:27:24.640 his thing,
00:27:25.980 saw that
00:27:26.540 I'm from
00:27:27.020 Lebanon,
00:27:28.260 saw that
00:27:28.880 my name
00:27:29.360 is Saad,
00:27:30.560 he said,
00:27:31.500 Salam
00:27:32.100 Alaikum,
00:27:33.400 my brother.
00:27:35.020 Okay?
00:27:35.720 What's
00:27:36.740 the big
00:27:37.080 deal?
00:27:37.420 It's
00:27:37.600 just,
00:27:37.980 he's
00:27:38.180 just being
00:27:38.600 polite,
00:27:39.780 right?
00:27:40.400 Well,
00:27:40.820 let's
00:27:41.080 just see
00:27:42.160 how that
00:27:42.660 would go.
00:27:44.640 Should
00:27:45.160 then,
00:27:45.760 if the
00:27:46.080 border
00:27:46.880 agent
00:27:47.480 be
00:27:47.820 Mandarin,
00:27:48.740 also give
00:27:49.300 greetings in
00:27:49.900 Mandarin,
00:27:50.760 should it
00:27:51.200 be that
00:27:51.720 if his
00:27:52.240 name is
00:27:52.740 Jose
00:27:53.440 Rodriguez,
00:27:54.380 he should
00:27:54.860 start speaking
00:27:55.600 in Spanish
00:27:56.320 if they
00:27:56.840 see that
00:27:57.420 and so on?
00:27:58.180 Or,
00:27:59.040 should you,
00:28:00.280 once you
00:28:00.720 come to
00:28:01.060 the United
00:28:01.620 States,
00:28:02.440 adhere to
00:28:02.920 the fact
00:28:03.360 that this
00:28:03.740 is an
00:28:04.100 English-speaking
00:28:04.900 country?
00:28:06.040 Could you
00:28:06.560 see anything
00:28:07.680 problematic?
00:28:08.880 By the
00:28:09.200 way,
00:28:09.600 it's not
00:28:10.200 true that
00:28:10.700 it's an
00:28:11.160 Arabic
00:28:11.560 greeting,
00:28:13.820 as many
00:28:14.500 degenerates 0.95
00:28:15.200 said on
00:28:15.800 social media
00:28:16.560 when I
00:28:17.760 posted it.
00:28:18.920 I know
00:28:19.820 tons of
00:28:20.580 Christian
00:28:21.120 Arabs.
00:28:22.040 My family
00:28:23.040 is Arabic
00:28:23.860 speaking.
00:28:25.020 We speak
00:28:25.520 Arabic at
00:28:26.320 home.
00:28:27.180 We don't,
00:28:28.120 when we
00:28:28.440 say each
00:28:28.920 other,
00:28:30.340 see each
00:28:30.880 other go,
00:28:31.460 Salam
00:28:32.400 Alaikum
00:28:33.180 Ya
00:28:34.280 Albi.
00:28:35.340 We don't
00:28:35.820 say that.
00:28:36.960 I've never
00:28:37.460 heard it
00:28:37.840 said.
00:28:38.360 Not once.
00:28:39.240 I'm 61
00:28:39.820 years old.
00:28:40.840 It's an
00:28:41.200 Islamic.
00:28:42.100 And as a
00:28:42.440 matter of
00:28:42.620 fact,
00:28:42.800 there are
00:28:43.120 edicts that
00:28:43.680 say,
00:28:44.060 don't do
00:28:45.240 that greeting
00:28:46.280 when it's a
00:28:47.200 non-Muslim.
00:28:48.580 Okay?
00:28:49.020 So no,
00:28:49.940 I don't want
00:28:50.780 the border
00:28:51.320 agent to
00:28:52.380 greet me
00:28:52.940 in an
00:28:53.500 Islamic
00:28:53.920 way.
00:28:55.420 Okay?
00:28:57.080 What's the
00:28:57.760 big deal if
00:28:58.520 the non-Islamic 1.00
00:28:59.460 stores have
00:29:00.140 halal?
00:29:00.940 Why can't
00:29:01.520 you be
00:29:02.020 accommodating
00:29:03.400 to our
00:29:04.140 noble Muslim
00:29:04.920 neighbors?
00:29:05.920 What's the
00:29:06.400 big deal if
00:29:06.960 the cafeteria
00:29:07.500 at school
00:29:08.520 now at the
00:29:09.200 university is
00:29:10.080 halal?
00:29:11.040 Even though
00:29:11.780 Muslims are
00:29:12.740 still a
00:29:13.160 minority at
00:29:14.360 my university,
00:29:15.520 why can't
00:29:16.440 you accommodate
00:29:17.960 that?
00:29:18.860 And it
00:29:19.180 doesn't change
00:29:19.860 anything for
00:29:20.480 you, right?
00:29:22.380 Be a 0.95
00:29:22.900 frog.
00:29:23.860 What's the
00:29:24.540 big deal if 0.92
00:29:25.340 Muslims block 1.00
00:29:27.300 the streets for
00:29:28.020 their prayers?
00:29:28.620 I used to
00:29:29.960 get a lot
00:29:30.640 of emails
00:29:31.120 from people
00:29:31.540 saying,
00:29:31.940 well,
00:29:32.100 why do
00:29:32.360 you object
00:29:32.820 to that?
00:29:33.780 Isn't it
00:29:34.300 good that
00:29:34.820 they're pious
00:29:35.720 and they
00:29:36.080 want to
00:29:36.400 pray?
00:29:36.760 Can't you
00:29:37.140 just go to
00:29:37.640 the other
00:29:38.000 side of
00:29:38.460 the sidewalk
00:29:39.500 when they're
00:29:40.040 passing by?
00:29:41.320 But now
00:29:41.820 Quebec wants
00:29:42.720 to pass a
00:29:43.400 law forbidding 0.94
00:29:44.560 Muslims because 0.99
00:29:45.700 they didn't 0.67
00:29:46.360 have the
00:29:47.380 capacity to
00:29:48.460 forecast into
00:29:49.800 the future
00:29:50.500 of what being
00:29:52.040 this suicidally
00:29:53.100 empathetic might
00:29:54.040 lead to.
00:29:54.600 They don't
00:29:55.780 have the
00:29:56.960 imagination
00:29:57.900 to engage
00:29:59.420 away from
00:30:02.320 their temporal
00:30:03.160 myopia.
00:30:05.480 What's the
00:30:06.440 big deal if
00:30:07.240 the new
00:30:07.640 Canadian
00:30:08.120 citizen wears
00:30:09.120 a niqab 0.98
00:30:09.860 during the
00:30:10.440 induction
00:30:10.900 ceremony?
00:30:11.860 That's their
00:30:12.600 religion. 1.00
00:30:13.480 Shut up, 1.00
00:30:14.240 bigot. 1.00
00:30:15.220 What's the
00:30:15.940 big deal if
00:30:16.640 students decide
00:30:17.520 that they
00:30:18.800 don't wish
00:30:19.600 to write
00:30:20.080 exams during
00:30:21.460 the entire
00:30:22.620 month of
00:30:23.540 Ramadan?
00:30:24.020 because they're
00:30:25.100 fasting.
00:30:26.460 They can't
00:30:27.300 be expected
00:30:27.920 to be able
00:30:29.020 to study
00:30:29.700 and be able
00:30:31.080 to be at
00:30:32.440 their maximal
00:30:33.080 intellectual
00:30:33.740 acuity.
00:30:35.300 Let me
00:30:36.040 compare that
00:30:36.900 to how I
00:30:38.020 handle my
00:30:39.160 Judaism in
00:30:40.640 a secular
00:30:41.720 nation.
00:30:42.620 When I was
00:30:43.620 a young
00:30:44.600 man, I was
00:30:45.480 playing in
00:30:46.760 a Quebec
00:30:47.540 Cup.
00:30:48.880 This is sort
00:30:49.420 of the Premier
00:30:49.920 League of Quebec
00:30:50.880 at the time.
00:30:51.800 I think it was
00:30:52.240 maybe a
00:30:52.660 semifinal
00:30:53.220 game.
00:30:54.020 The game
00:30:54.760 happened to
00:30:55.560 be on the
00:30:56.680 eve of
00:30:57.540 Yom Kippur,
00:30:58.380 which is the
00:30:59.040 highest Jewish
00:31:00.180 holiday, which
00:31:01.700 means that if I
00:31:03.140 want to play
00:31:03.720 that day in
00:31:04.600 that match, I
00:31:06.200 have to go into
00:31:07.240 that game having
00:31:08.320 started my fast.
00:31:09.460 By the way, it's a
00:31:09.980 25-hour fast.
00:31:11.500 It's a full fast.
00:31:12.700 No drinking, no
00:31:14.220 eating, no
00:31:15.080 water, nothing.
00:31:16.460 So I'm going to
00:31:17.520 play a game
00:31:18.240 around late
00:31:19.540 September where it
00:31:20.460 could be still
00:31:21.100 hot and I
00:31:22.640 will not
00:31:23.180 even hydrate
00:31:24.440 for another
00:31:25.140 25 hours.
00:31:27.000 Right?
00:31:27.480 I mean, it's
00:31:27.940 literally dangerous.
00:31:29.600 I didn't seek to
00:31:31.020 have the game
00:31:31.720 changed to
00:31:32.880 abide to my
00:31:33.640 schedule or
00:31:34.580 my religious
00:31:35.220 heritage.
00:31:36.060 I abide by
00:31:37.780 the secular
00:31:38.420 nature of
00:31:39.660 the society
00:31:40.400 that was
00:31:41.220 kind enough
00:31:41.880 to accept
00:31:43.120 me in
00:31:43.760 1975.
00:31:44.540 At my
00:31:46.100 university, there
00:31:47.920 are religious
00:31:49.000 accommodations
00:31:49.740 for everyone.
00:31:51.380 Yet I never
00:31:52.260 canceled a class
00:31:53.460 because it was
00:31:54.680 a Jewish
00:31:55.060 holiday.
00:31:56.000 Because most
00:31:57.300 of the students
00:31:57.980 who are not
00:31:58.720 Jewish should
00:31:59.880 not have to 0.72
00:32:00.740 abide by the
00:32:01.560 fact that I'm
00:32:02.300 Jewish and
00:32:02.960 therefore I
00:32:04.000 impose my
00:32:05.560 dictum on
00:32:06.580 them.
00:32:07.560 Therefore, that's
00:32:08.460 my problem.
00:32:10.300 You see the
00:32:10.980 difference?
00:32:11.780 Because I have
00:32:12.940 internalized the
00:32:14.120 fact that I
00:32:15.620 have to abide
00:32:16.740 by the
00:32:18.000 majority of
00:32:18.760 that society
00:32:19.460 without ever
00:32:20.220 imposing one
00:32:21.540 millimeter of
00:32:23.180 my heritage on
00:32:24.460 anybody else.
00:32:26.560 Hey, what's
00:32:27.440 the big deal
00:32:28.120 if you hear
00:32:28.800 the call to
00:32:29.480 prayers five
00:32:30.260 times a day?
00:32:31.060 After all, there
00:32:32.040 are church bells
00:32:33.120 that ring.
00:32:34.900 Right?
00:32:35.380 You've heard that
00:32:36.200 often.
00:32:37.140 Well, now
00:32:37.780 they're trying to
00:32:39.000 pass noise
00:32:40.880 ordinance laws
00:32:42.140 to get around
00:32:43.440 that issue.
00:32:44.740 But again, you're
00:32:45.900 not understanding
00:32:47.000 the mechanism.
00:32:48.300 Today, I can't
00:32:49.920 impose my
00:32:51.380 wish to have
00:32:52.640 the Adnan call
00:32:54.060 the call to
00:32:54.700 prayers five
00:32:55.420 times because I'm
00:32:56.620 in the minority.
00:32:57.680 But in Dearborn,
00:32:58.760 where I'm in the
00:32:59.420 majority, I can.
00:33:01.240 If you now have
00:33:02.480 60 cities in the
00:33:04.400 United States that
00:33:05.620 replicate the
00:33:06.400 demographic realities
00:33:07.560 of Dearborn,
00:33:08.640 would the United
00:33:09.480 States be the same 0.74
00:33:10.640 place?
00:33:11.060 Does that make
00:33:12.460 me bigoted to
00:33:13.780 think so?
00:33:14.880 Does Japan have 1.00
00:33:16.100 a right to
00:33:16.680 remain Japanese?
00:33:18.460 Does Saudi 0.93
00:33:19.180 Arabia have a 0.59
00:33:20.020 right to remain
00:33:20.880 Saudi and
00:33:21.960 Islamic?
00:33:22.940 Do the Finns have 0.98
00:33:24.400 a right to
00:33:25.160 retain their 0.79
00:33:26.120 Finnish culture? 0.78
00:33:28.120 If yes for
00:33:29.160 every society,
00:33:30.680 why can't the
00:33:31.680 West say,
00:33:33.060 I don't wish
00:33:34.000 to abide to
00:33:35.840 Islamic
00:33:36.520 sensibilities?
00:33:37.580 I don't wish
00:33:39.380 one millimeter
00:33:40.620 of my societies
00:33:41.760 to abide to
00:33:43.040 anything other
00:33:43.880 than that which
00:33:45.240 our society is.
00:33:47.960 Right?
00:33:48.840 If you're unable
00:33:50.140 to see that,
00:33:50.980 then you are
00:33:51.680 suicidally
00:33:52.780 empathetic.
00:33:54.260 Let me go on. 1.00
00:33:57.440 Why are you so 0.88
00:33:58.880 mean and lacking 0.88
00:33:59.980 in empathy? 0.90
00:34:01.060 Why can't you
00:34:02.020 just adhere a
00:34:03.220 bit?
00:34:03.380 By the way,
00:34:04.160 and I discuss
00:34:04.920 this in
00:34:05.280 Suicidal Empathy,
00:34:06.160 in 2011,
00:34:08.820 my university
00:34:09.780 in Montreal
00:34:10.520 called for
00:34:13.040 a university-wide
00:34:16.960 meeting,
00:34:17.600 and they were 1.00
00:34:18.340 stupid enough 1.00
00:34:19.680 to invite me 1.00
00:34:20.760 to that meeting
00:34:21.520 because they
00:34:23.060 wanted to see
00:34:23.920 how we can
00:34:24.620 alter the
00:34:25.740 religious
00:34:26.180 accommodation
00:34:27.140 dictum
00:34:31.300 or policy.
00:34:33.480 By the way,
00:34:33.920 I joined
00:34:34.280 Concordia in
00:34:34.820 1994,
00:34:35.700 and so for
00:34:36.160 many,
00:34:36.580 many decades,
00:34:37.500 we never
00:34:38.040 had to worry
00:34:38.660 about that.
00:34:39.500 What changed
00:34:40.440 so that by
00:34:41.140 2011,
00:34:42.540 we now had
00:34:43.420 to have
00:34:43.980 a university-wide
00:34:45.460 meeting to
00:34:46.780 see how we
00:34:47.460 can be more
00:34:48.280 pliant,
00:34:49.640 right,
00:34:50.960 in the
00:34:51.800 demands of
00:34:52.660 certain
00:34:53.420 students?
00:34:54.620 Can you at
00:34:55.520 all guess
00:34:56.500 who those
00:34:58.500 students were?
00:34:59.840 Now,
00:35:00.120 this was in
00:35:00.600 2011.
00:35:01.440 in 2025,
00:35:03.660 the demographic
00:35:04.640 realities have
00:35:05.640 changed.
00:35:06.660 Has it led
00:35:07.660 to more
00:35:08.580 tolerance,
00:35:09.500 more kindness,
00:35:10.760 or less?
00:35:12.240 Hey,
00:35:12.820 I took a
00:35:13.620 two-year leave.
00:35:15.000 I'm a
00:35:15.420 grown man
00:35:17.120 who's been a
00:35:18.100 professor for
00:35:18.820 32 years,
00:35:20.080 who's lived
00:35:20.900 proudly and with
00:35:22.020 dignity.
00:35:22.880 I took a
00:35:23.900 two-year leave
00:35:24.740 from my home
00:35:25.500 university.
00:35:26.220 why?
00:35:28.260 What led
00:35:29.240 to my
00:35:29.880 taking that
00:35:31.140 leave?
00:35:32.900 I'll leave
00:35:33.440 it for you
00:35:33.920 to decide
00:35:34.520 what it
00:35:35.620 might be.
00:35:36.560 So,
00:35:36.960 the same
00:35:37.540 gentleman
00:35:38.220 who cried,
00:35:39.600 who couldn't
00:35:40.120 finish a
00:35:41.040 sentence
00:35:41.720 because bacon
00:35:43.200 had been
00:35:43.740 brandished in
00:35:44.580 front of him,
00:35:45.660 didn't cry
00:35:46.820 and come to
00:35:48.000 see me and
00:35:48.660 say,
00:35:49.340 I can't
00:35:50.260 believe that
00:35:51.260 my co-religionists
00:35:52.660 have sent you
00:35:53.460 so many
00:35:53.980 threats
00:35:54.460 that you
00:35:55.340 were forced
00:35:56.340 to take
00:35:56.860 a leave
00:35:57.440 from your
00:35:58.200 university
00:35:58.980 in Montreal,
00:36:00.400 Canada
00:36:00.780 in 2023.
00:36:03.220 That's when
00:36:03.460 I,
00:36:04.540 two years
00:36:06.280 ago when I
00:36:06.700 began taking
00:36:07.640 the leave.
00:36:08.680 He's not
00:36:09.540 sympathetic to
00:36:10.840 that.
00:36:11.640 He's not
00:36:12.300 crying at the
00:36:13.320 hundreds of
00:36:13.900 thousands of
00:36:14.860 Nigerian
00:36:16.240 Christians
00:36:16.820 who are 1.00
00:36:17.960 killed.
00:36:18.760 He's not
00:36:19.240 crying at
00:36:20.040 the Druze
00:36:21.560 who've been
00:36:22.000 killed in
00:36:22.640 Syria recently.
00:36:23.840 He's not
00:36:24.280 crying at
00:36:24.840 the Alawites
00:36:25.460 that have
00:36:25.800 been killed.
00:36:26.820 He's not
00:36:27.300 crying at
00:36:28.180 what's
00:36:28.580 happened in
00:36:29.180 Sudan to
00:36:30.300 the South
00:36:30.760 Sudanese
00:36:31.380 Christians. 0.51
00:36:32.480 He knows
00:36:33.280 that he
00:36:33.740 faced a
00:36:34.800 terrible act
00:36:36.020 of bigotry
00:36:36.760 where
00:36:37.640 bacon
00:36:40.700 was brandished
00:36:42.780 in front of
00:36:43.420 him.
00:36:44.960 Do you see
00:36:45.720 it?
00:36:46.440 Are you able
00:36:47.260 to connect
00:36:47.800 the dots?
00:36:50.620 Let me
00:36:51.340 explain it
00:36:51.880 again one
00:36:52.320 more time
00:36:52.920 and I
00:36:53.620 pray.
00:36:54.640 I truly
00:36:55.180 pray.
00:36:55.600 Not because
00:36:56.100 I'm going
00:36:56.540 to get
00:36:57.000 the book
00:36:58.220 royalties
00:36:58.860 for the
00:36:59.380 sales of
00:36:59.760 the book
00:37:00.140 but because
00:37:01.780 I dare
00:37:03.400 say that
00:37:04.220 suicidal
00:37:05.260 empathy is
00:37:05.980 going to
00:37:06.420 be as
00:37:07.260 big if
00:37:07.680 not much
00:37:08.120 bigger than
00:37:08.540 the parasitic 0.99
00:37:09.100 mind. 0.99
00:37:09.980 I hope
00:37:10.920 that you
00:37:11.480 will pre-order
00:37:12.420 it when it
00:37:12.860 comes out.
00:37:13.320 I'm not
00:37:13.760 doing this
00:37:14.220 because I'm
00:37:14.700 trying to
00:37:15.320 shamelessly
00:37:15.940 plug my
00:37:16.700 book but
00:37:17.740 because many
00:37:18.780 people,
00:37:19.240 many very
00:37:20.500 powerful
00:37:20.920 people have
00:37:21.480 written to
00:37:21.820 me both
00:37:22.160 publicly and
00:37:22.840 privately and
00:37:23.500 said the
00:37:24.480 two words
00:37:25.120 that you've
00:37:25.520 come up
00:37:25.920 with,
00:37:26.280 suicidal
00:37:26.720 empathy,
00:37:27.800 explain
00:37:28.440 everything.
00:37:31.360 Empathy is
00:37:32.720 a beautiful
00:37:33.400 virtue.
00:37:35.060 It is a
00:37:35.880 virtue that
00:37:37.920 has been
00:37:38.720 evolutionarily
00:37:39.960 selected in
00:37:41.360 a highly
00:37:42.020 social species
00:37:43.140 like Homo
00:37:44.280 sapiens.
00:37:44.940 but just
00:37:46.980 like endless
00:37:48.300 psychiatric
00:37:49.220 disorders that
00:37:50.660 I can get
00:37:51.240 into if
00:37:51.740 you'd like,
00:37:53.060 what happens
00:37:54.980 with suicidal
00:37:56.260 empathy is
00:37:57.600 it's
00:37:57.880 dysregulated,
00:37:59.160 it's
00:37:59.460 hyperactive,
00:38:00.880 it targets
00:38:01.620 the wrong
00:38:02.280 people.
00:38:03.400 It makes
00:38:04.060 perfect
00:38:04.480 evolutionary
00:38:05.000 sense for
00:38:05.920 me to
00:38:06.380 exhibit greater
00:38:07.400 level of
00:38:08.600 protection for
00:38:10.500 my biological
00:38:11.400 children than
00:38:12.720 children far
00:38:14.740 off in
00:38:15.600 Papua New
00:38:16.300 Guinea.
00:38:17.040 This doesn't
00:38:17.700 make me evil
00:38:19.140 or callous.
00:38:20.480 I would
00:38:20.800 love for
00:38:21.400 every child
00:38:22.400 of every
00:38:23.200 religion to
00:38:23.960 be protected
00:38:24.660 but evolution
00:38:26.120 has endowed
00:38:27.020 me with the
00:38:27.700 calculus to
00:38:28.860 ensure that
00:38:30.020 my biological
00:38:31.060 children are
00:38:32.420 to be
00:38:32.780 protected so
00:38:33.560 that if a
00:38:34.100 lion is
00:38:35.320 attacking them
00:38:36.200 I'm willing to
00:38:37.220 give myself
00:38:37.940 up to
00:38:38.560 protect them.
00:38:40.160 So the
00:38:40.880 cognitive,
00:38:41.900 emotional,
00:38:42.620 and behavioral
00:38:43.200 systems that
00:38:44.640 make up my
00:38:45.460 personhood are
00:38:46.740 such in
00:38:48.060 order to
00:38:48.540 ensure the
00:38:49.740 survival of
00:38:51.180 my kin in
00:38:51.960 this case,
00:38:52.880 right?
00:38:53.380 That's why
00:38:54.140 people jump
00:38:55.020 in front of
00:38:55.540 moving buses
00:38:56.200 to save
00:38:56.740 their children.
00:38:58.180 By the
00:38:59.000 exact same
00:38:59.820 logic,
00:39:00.680 empathy is
00:39:01.600 not indiscriminate
00:39:03.160 in who it
00:39:04.340 targets.
00:39:05.840 There is
00:39:06.780 endless studies
00:39:07.840 that demonstrate
00:39:09.020 this.
00:39:10.100 Now imagine
00:39:11.000 if I can
00:39:11.920 have a 0.99
00:39:13.320 brain parasite 1.00
00:39:15.440 that completely 0.99
00:39:17.100 hijacks my 1.00
00:39:18.480 emotional system
00:39:19.720 in general
00:39:20.520 and my
00:39:21.380 empathy system
00:39:22.620 in particular
00:39:23.480 such that
00:39:24.800 every single
00:39:26.680 evolutionary
00:39:27.500 mechanism
00:39:28.860 that should
00:39:29.880 regulate how
00:39:30.820 empathy is
00:39:31.620 modulated
00:39:32.300 is now
00:39:33.080 gone.
00:39:34.380 Therefore,
00:39:35.980 even in
00:39:36.780 Florida,
00:39:37.820 even in
00:39:38.360 Red Florida,
00:39:39.380 even in
00:39:39.960 Governor
00:39:40.360 DeSantis'
00:39:41.340 Florida,
00:39:42.380 we decide
00:39:43.040 to enhance
00:39:44.820 the felony
00:39:45.640 charges for
00:39:47.220 brandishing
00:39:48.100 bacon to 0.97
00:39:49.960 Muslims
00:39:50.620 because in
00:39:51.900 the United
00:39:52.420 States we
00:39:53.440 will not
00:39:54.100 tolerate hate 0.71
00:39:55.940 towards Muslims. 0.98
00:39:57.900 Keep at it
00:39:59.240 and I promise
00:40:00.600 you,
00:40:01.720 keep this
00:40:02.400 X spaces,
00:40:03.960 save it, 0.93
00:40:04.980 share it with
00:40:05.640 your children.
00:40:06.740 You will
00:40:07.220 wake up
00:40:07.740 one day
00:40:08.200 and it
00:40:08.880 will be
00:40:09.880 Minneapolis
00:40:10.660 but all
00:40:11.780 over the
00:40:12.180 United States.
00:40:13.240 It will be
00:40:13.680 Dearborn all
00:40:14.940 over the
00:40:15.460 United States
00:40:16.260 just like
00:40:17.320 there are
00:40:17.720 56 countries
00:40:18.860 today that
00:40:20.240 once had
00:40:21.280 0%
00:40:22.160 Islam,
00:40:23.220 today they
00:40:24.180 are 100%
00:40:25.360 Islam.
00:40:26.780 Let me
00:40:27.360 end on a
00:40:27.920 positive note.
00:40:28.680 There are
00:40:31.640 endless
00:40:32.320 qualities
00:40:33.280 in
00:40:34.180 Islamic
00:40:35.140 societies,
00:40:36.520 in Arabic
00:40:37.080 societies that
00:40:38.380 are beautiful
00:40:39.060 and laudable.
00:40:40.420 Friendship,
00:40:41.620 hospitality,
00:40:44.060 individuals
00:40:44.720 come in
00:40:45.540 all sizes
00:40:46.580 and shapes
00:40:47.300 and forms.
00:40:48.340 There are
00:40:48.740 some of
00:40:49.780 the loveliest,
00:40:51.300 warmest people
00:40:52.060 I've ever been
00:40:52.860 friends with.
00:40:53.740 I mean,
00:40:54.080 I'm Arabic 1.00
00:40:54.860 for fuck's 0.99
00:40:55.580 sakes. 0.99
00:40:56.820 I go to
00:40:57.440 places where
00:40:58.100 we speak
00:40:58.600 Arabic,
00:40:59.320 the people
00:40:59.660 who I speak
00:41:00.160 Arabic with 0.74
00:41:00.720 are not
00:41:01.420 Jewish.
00:41:02.400 They're Muslim.
00:41:03.220 They're lovely.
00:41:04.080 They're kind.
00:41:04.980 They're fans.
00:41:06.040 That says
00:41:06.960 nothing about
00:41:08.300 Islam.
00:41:10.720 I'm trying
00:41:11.760 to get
00:41:12.920 you to
00:41:13.240 think straight.
00:41:15.320 Frankly,
00:41:16.240 I fear
00:41:17.300 that the
00:41:18.000 death spiral
00:41:18.880 of the
00:41:19.440 West is
00:41:20.260 one that
00:41:21.340 it won't
00:41:23.020 be able to
00:41:23.640 extricate
00:41:24.180 itself from.
00:41:26.780 I wish
00:41:27.620 you all
00:41:28.040 a good
00:41:28.320 day.
00:41:28.720 I wish
00:41:29.040 you all
00:41:29.780 a good
00:41:30.380 day.
00:41:30.720 I wish
00:41:30.980 you all
00:41:31.440 a good
00:41:32.160 day.