The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - August 31, 2025


Jew-Hatred versus Criticism of Islam (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_866)


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7 minutes

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122.54902

Word count

925

Sentence count

33

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10

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Hate speech

7

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Gad Saad explains the difference between Critiquing an ideology and hating on individuals because they belong to a particular group or have certain traits. He also points out that while criticism of a particular ideology can be justified, criticism of individuals is not.

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00:00:00.480 Hi everybody, this is Gad Saad. I hope that you're having a good Labor Day weekend.
00:00:05.860 I wanted to spend a few minutes talking to you about the difference between critiquing an ideology
00:00:13.900 and hating on individuals because they belong to a particular group or have certain traits.
00:00:23.060 This shouldn't be something that I have to repeat, but the hatred is growing at such an exponential rate
00:00:30.000 that it's worth reminding people of this important lesson.
00:00:35.780 If, for example, you were to say, I believe that circumcisions as practiced by Muslims and Jews is wrong,
00:00:46.980 and here are the reasons why I think it's wrong, that's perfectly fine.
00:00:50.120 If you think there are particular tenets of any religion, take, for example, Judaism.
00:00:57.580 I don't like this particular tenet in Judaism, that's perfectly fine. 1.00
00:01:03.720 If you say, I don't like the fact that Israel is engaging in this particular policy,
00:01:11.600 whatever the policy is, that's perfectly fine.
00:01:13.920 However, that's not usually the type of hate that's thrown at me. 1.00
00:01:22.960 It's usually that there is something dispositional about Jews that makes them parasites, vermin, 1.00
00:01:32.200 child killers, robbers, thieves, you know, poisonous, and so on, right? 1.00
00:01:42.580 There's something inherent to them.
00:01:44.320 In the same way that I have green eyes, in the same way that I'm extremely sexy as a man,
00:01:50.620 in the same way that there are many traits that are dispositional about me,
00:01:55.640 they're part of my disposition, the people who hate Jews are making a statement about Jews 0.98
00:02:02.480 as an inherent characteristic of them, and therefore they are damaged, they are diseased, 1.00
00:02:10.680 they are parasites, they are vermin. 1.00
00:02:13.200 That is the definition of hatred, right? 1.00
00:02:16.440 If you say, of any particular group, I think that all blacks, because they have dark skin, 0.96
00:02:23.400 hence are black, are fill in the blank, that's what racism is, that's what bigotry is. 0.88
00:02:29.540 On the other hand, when you say, Islam has certain tenets that are incompatible with the West, 0.92
00:02:39.780 you haven't made any statements about individual Muslims.
00:02:42.800 You're not saying that Muslims have a dispositional trait that makes them pick the insult that you want.
00:02:54.040 You're saying that to the extent that Muslims accept certain tenets of their religion,
00:03:03.460 that could be problematic, for example, in the West, where we have personal liberties,
00:03:08.800 where we accept homosexuals fully, where we think that Jews should live as equal and free citizens,
00:03:19.560 where we think that any religion should be criticized, if you want to, forcefully.
00:03:25.900 There is no blasphemy law.
00:03:28.020 There is an innumerable number of tenets in Islam, which I don't need to go over here,
00:03:36.200 that couldn't be any more incongruent with Western traditions.
00:03:43.340 That doesn't take away from the fact that millions of Muslims don't pay attention to those parts of their religion
00:03:51.580 and are perfectly lovely people, right?
00:03:55.300 But when you have close to one-fourth of humanity who proclaim that they are members of a religion,
00:04:05.180 what would constitute the acceptable number of people who either take their religion very seriously
00:04:12.800 or are willing to sit idly while others take their religion seriously
00:04:17.920 for you to wake up and say, well, there might be a problem with this particular ideology, right?
00:04:23.920 The reflex of people to criticize, say, communism doesn't make someone communistic-phobic, right?
00:04:32.720 Communism says certain things about private property, about who can own production,
00:04:37.560 about whether an economy should be centralized or not.
00:04:43.640 And you can either agree with those tenets or disagree with them.
00:04:48.280 And accordingly, that will determine whether you wish to have your own society
00:04:54.440 infiltrated and dominated and governed by communism or not.
00:05:00.740 The same applies to anything.
00:05:02.340 So let's suppose, for example, that one-fourth of humanity were the most orthodox of Jews. 0.70
00:05:11.400 I could very easily argue that, well, if that were the case, then the world might look very differently.
00:05:21.000 It may not be interchangeable with what Islam looks like if it were to rule the world. 0.86
00:05:29.500 But while I can accept the fact that Hasidic Jews live a certain way, 1.00
00:05:36.280 that doesn't mean that I support all of the positions that Hasidic Jews take 0.95
00:05:42.760 and whether they should impose those views on others.
00:05:46.700 So there isn't an iota of hatred that I hold towards individual people.
00:05:55.120 Again, by virtue of being from Lebanon, by virtue of having grown up with tons of people from the Middle East,
00:06:02.580 playing soccer with people that come from the Middle East,
00:06:07.000 I know more people that are of the Islamic faith than most people will ever meet.
00:06:12.520 And none of them have caused me any harm.
00:06:16.160 But that's not what we're talking about.
00:06:18.160 If Islam becomes 20% of a society, 30%, 40%, 70%, 1.00
00:06:25.440 does that result in an increase in personal liberties,
00:06:29.540 no change in personal liberties, or a reduction of personal liberties?
00:06:34.480 So please try to find a way to recognize that the reflex of,
00:06:41.180 it is gauche for us to criticize someone's religious beliefs is precisely why we are currently facing the problem that we're facing in the West.
00:06:53.200 It stems, as of course I have repeatedly explained in The Parasitic Mind and in my forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy,
00:07:01.000 those two mechanisms to first parasitize your cognitive system and then to parasitize your emotional system makes you impotent against the possibility of defending your Western values.
00:07:17.920 It is really important that people wake up because it doesn't take long for us to lose the societies that we've created,
00:07:26.340 which, while not perfect, is the best model of a society that the world has ever known.
00:07:32.180 Take care, everybody.