The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - The Dangerous Delusions Infecting the West (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_944)

00:00:00.000 We're here today with Dr. Gadsad. Dr. Gadsad is a scholar at the Declaration of Independence Center

00:00:05.880 for the Study of American Freedom at University of Mississippi. He's the author of many books,

00:00:10.920 including The Parasitic Mind and his forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy. Dr. Saad, welcome to the

00:00:17.200 show. Thank you so much for having me. I appreciate it. I want to speak about what happened at Bondi

00:00:21.340 Beach in Australia. What was your immediate reaction when you saw Jews murdered at a

00:00:27.840 Hanukkah gathering at Bondi Beach? And you also said that Jews lose the right to be angry the

00:00:33.800 moment a Muslim does something heroic. Why is there such a dangerous psychological trap over there?

00:00:39.940 Well, so first to your question about how I reacted, of course, I was very upset, very horrified. But

00:00:46.720 then I hate to say it, you become numb because let me, I now oftentimes will lead with the following

00:00:53.740 statistic because people unfortunately think it's a bit too hard to engage in thinking. You know,

00:00:59.640 thinking can be so hard, better to just watch a couple of TikTok videos to inform the world,

00:01:05.120 to inform my mind about what's happening in the world. There have been 48,000 plus terror attacks,

00:01:10.460 Islamic terror attacks, since 9-11 alone in nearly 70 countries. I've been a scientist for 32 years now,

00:01:18.520 right? I apply evolutionary biology and evolutionary psychology to study human behavior.

00:01:22.540 When we collect data, we analyze the data. And then the effect that we find is either statistically

00:01:29.920 significant or not. Yes? Well, it would be very difficult to think of any scientific study that's

00:01:36.780 ever been conducted that has data that is as compelling as what we are seeing around the world.

00:01:43.180 And yet people say, la, la, la, I don't want to hear it. So on the one hand, I'm horrified.

00:01:47.580 And on the other hand, I'm like, oh, it's just another day in the global mayhem and the global

00:01:53.640 jihad. So that's that. Regarding your second question, I actually put out a few tweets shortly

00:01:59.900 after the incident where I explained the following logic that regrettably not only Muslims espouse,

00:02:07.340 but all of the, to use a French word, les bien-pensants, the good thinkers, the politically correct

00:02:12.640 thinkers, the suicidally empathetic thinkers will engage in, which is whenever any act is committed

00:02:20.660 by individuals in the name of Islam, it can't be due to Islam because Islam is beautiful.

00:02:28.800 Whenever a good act is committed by a Muslim without invoking his religion, he jumped into a river 1.00

00:02:37.000 to save a drowning puppy. That must be due to Islam because Islam is good. So Islam cannot 1.00

00:02:44.500 epistemologically do anything wrong. And any good acts are by definition due to Islam. When you create 1.00

00:02:51.660 such an epistemological worldview in the West, then you can't end up implementing auto-correction

00:02:57.340 mechanisms because there is nothing to auto-correct. It was, those guys were not Muslim. They were 1.00

00:03:03.400 distorting the true beauty of Islam. You also came out with a video right after this, where you described 1.00

00:03:09.220 Islamophobia as a Gordian knot. What makes that accusation so effective at instantly silencing

00:03:16.220 outrage? So the Gordian knot is an ancient Greek legend whereby, you know, you twist something and make

00:03:24.840 it so difficult that it's impossible to extricate yourself from it. But it is now used as a metaphor

00:03:32.000 for, you know, contorting yourself into a pretzel. And so if you want to invoke your reason, you have

00:03:40.280 to cut that Gordian knot. Well, to my earlier point, what the West has done, it has created a shield

00:03:47.700 around any objective discussion of Islam that it becomes a Gordian knot. It's impossible to extricate 1.00

00:03:55.880 yourself into the world of reality. Because if I just say you're Islamophobic, that shuts it down.

00:04:02.880 That's it. There is nothing worse in the world than to be an Islamophobic, or at least that's what 0.95

00:04:08.980 they've convinced us that that's what's true, right? To be a pedophile is better than to be a 0.99

00:04:14.540 Islamophobe. To kill your wife is better. Nothing is worse than that. Therefore, it's once you internalize 1.00

00:04:22.340 this completely perverse value system, what you end up with is exactly what happened in Britain,

00:04:28.700 where for the past 30 plus years, up and down Britain in small towns and big cities and medium 0.75

00:04:35.840 sized villages, you've had several hundred thousand British white girls that have been gang raped by 1.00

00:04:43.120 largely one demographic group. But when the authorities came to this very difficult Herculean

00:04:49.980 conundrum, which is, do we protect the integrity and safety of our children and risk the possibility

00:04:57.780 of being called Islamophobic? Sorry, little girls, you need to take some more. 0.99

00:05:03.340 From what I'm hearing, Western societies are now prioritizing not offending Muslims over protecting

00:05:10.560 their victims. Is that correct assessment?

00:05:13.480 Exactly. And that's the whole premise behind my forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy, which people

00:05:19.300 have been nonstop writing to me for years. When is it going to come out already? Maybe I shouldn't

00:05:24.000 have announced that it was coming out so long ago, then people wouldn't be so frustrated. But let me

00:05:29.140 give you the background to this story, if I may. We are both a thinking and a feeling animal. Our thinking

00:05:35.360 is what's called our cognitive system. Our feelings, it's our affective system, right? So it's not we are

00:05:42.300 a reason-based animal and emotions are irrational. There are, as I explained in the parasitic mind,

00:05:48.080 which I'll talk about in a second, it's not that we should be always using our cognition over our

00:05:53.960 emotions. It's that you have to invoke the right system at the right context. When I go down a dark alley

00:06:01.800 and I see four young men loitering, I will have an affective-based reaction. My heart rate will start

00:06:09.960 going up. My blood pressure goes up. That fear-based response makes perfect evolutionary sense. On the

00:06:16.540 other hand, if I'm trying to do well on my mathematics exam, invoking my fear system is probably not going

00:06:23.360 to result in a good outcome on the exam. So the challenge is to invoke the right system at the right

00:06:28.960 time. Now, in the parasitic mind, what I did is I offered a framework to explain to what happens to

00:06:35.980 people's incapability to reason when their minds have been hijacked by parasitic ideas. And let me

00:06:44.580 explain where that came from, and then I'll come to suicidal empathy, if I may. The field of

00:06:48.940 neuroparasitology is a field that spans many, many animals. Even human brains can be parasitized by actual

00:06:57.460 physical brain worms. Toxoplasma gandhi would be one such example. So in the animal kingdom, there are

00:07:03.640 many instances where a parasite can cause you damage. Now, a tapeworm parasitizes your intestinal

00:07:11.980 tract, but a neuroparasite always looks to end up in the host's brain, altering its neuronal circuitry

00:07:20.040 to suit its reproductive interests. So the classic example that I give, but there are many, many

00:07:26.380 others, would be the wood cricket, the actual wood cricket. The wood cricket abhors water. It doesn't

00:07:32.140 want to do anything with water. Regrettably, it can oftentimes be infected by a neuroparasite called

00:07:38.600 a hairworm. The hairworm needs the wood cricket to jump to its death into water because then it completes

00:07:46.860 its reproductive cycle, which has to happen in water. So the brain of the hapless wood cricket

00:07:52.660 is literally parasitized. It is willing to commit suicide in the service of this supra entity that's 0.95

00:07:59.660 controlling its mind. So that was my eureka moment. I said, okay, well, I'm going to take this principle

00:08:04.620 and I'm going to demonstrate that human minds can be parasitized ideologically. So that was the

00:08:11.820 parasitic mind. But then for me to be able to fully hijack your brain, I need to also hijack 0.99

00:08:18.720 your emotional system. So now I come to this, the main part of your question, because for you to turn

00:08:24.820 into a wood cricket, all of your mechanisms of behavioral intent, I have to hijack, right? So now I need to go

00:08:33.640 to your emotional system. Now, why suicidal empathy? Because empathy is driven. I mean, there is a cognitive

00:08:40.400 component to empathy and an emotional component to empathy. Empathy when properly modulated is a

00:08:46.900 perfectly relevant evolutionary mechanism because we are a social species. For you and I to right now

00:08:52.840 have a meaningful conversation, we need to put ourselves at each other's minds. So that's perfectly

00:08:57.880 fine. So I'm not arguing that empathy is a bad thing. But as I've explained many times in many places,

00:09:04.760 Aristotle explained to us several thousand years ago that everything in moderation, right? Too little

00:09:11.440 of something is not good. Too much of something is not good. If you have too little empathy or no

00:09:17.000 empathy, you're called a psychopath. If you have too much empathy, you're called the West. And that's

00:09:22.820 what I called suicidal empathy. You're invoking empathy to the wrong people in the wrong occasions,

00:09:29.100 in the wrong amounts. You end up with hashtag refugees welcome. So is it Islam that's uniquely 1.00

00:09:36.180 protected from criticism through accusations of phobia? Is Islamophobia best understood as a

00:09:41.660 moral accusation, a psychological weapon, a political silencing tool? It's all of those things.

00:09:48.580 Absolutely. Certainly, it's not the only one that people are afraid of being accused of, right? So

00:09:55.320 let's do a slight shift in answering your question. Malcolm Gladwell is a very popular author who's

00:10:03.980 written many bestselling books. He's not an academic. He goes and he mines all of the research that folks

00:10:10.500 like me do. And then he spins them oftentimes into fanciful tales. And then he, you know, he's welcomed

00:10:16.540 in Manhattan parties for the right guy that he is. Because Malcolm Gladwell doesn't have neither a spine

00:10:22.780 nor testicles, nor testicles. Therefore, he's a member of the invertebrate castrati. He thought that 0.99

00:10:28.560 it was no longer acceptable to say something that until 15 minutes ago, we absolutely could navigate

00:10:36.980 through. All 117 billion people, this is a real estimate, roughly 117 billion people have existed on

00:10:44.240 earth as homo sapiens. They used to always be able to exactly navigate through the very, very difficult

00:10:51.100 challenge of identifying who is male or female. Because it turns out we are a sexually reproducing

00:10:56.540 species. So it might be that it makes sense that we can identify with whom we should be mating. Or

00:11:03.020 perhaps I was just lucky that I ended up finding a woman that didn't have a penis and I found a woman 1.00

00:11:09.060 with a vagina and I was lucky in that I was able to produce children with her, right? Well, Malcolm Gladwell 1.00

00:11:14.800 came along and said that it is no longer appropriate for him if he wishes to still be invited to the

00:11:20.860 cool kids parties in Manhattan to say that men do actually have a physical advantage over women

00:11:28.960 when playing sports. That it probably is not a good idea for, you know, women with nine-inch penises to 1.00

00:11:36.500 share the shower with your 13-year-old daughter. Because he knew that the cool kids in Manhattan 0.99

00:11:42.480 would not accept that. And therefore, he doesn't want to be called transphobic. So to your earlier

00:11:48.680 question, you see where I'm going, it's not just Islamophobia. You definitely don't want to be

00:11:53.160 called transphobic, although that's softening now. And he kept going around on shows. He's on record

00:11:58.500 as saying, this is ridiculous to argue that men are physically stronger than women. There's no evidence 0.99

00:12:05.400 of that. What evidence is there that men are stronger than women? Then the wind started changing,

00:12:11.460 right? Things were no longer acceptable for you to murder and rape reality in such an overt way.

00:12:19.060 So he came out on the record about two months ago to explain to us, to all of us simpletons,

00:12:25.380 that, yeah, I guess, yeah, I wasn't telling the truth then. But you have to understand there was a lot

00:12:31.860 of pressure on me to say that men are, you know, women can have penises, right? So to summarize what 0.99

00:12:40.080 I just said, no, Islamophobia is not the only thing that people are fearful of. But I have a quote

00:12:46.440 towards the end of the parasitic mind, where I say that the way these parasitic ideas are able to

00:12:53.760 proliferate so much is that there is kind of a gun pointed to you, a metaphorical gun, where you are 0.94

00:13:00.100 way more terrified of being called sexist or racist or transphobic or Islamophobic than to defend the

00:13:07.780 truth. People have to lose that reflex or you'll wake up in a hundred years and inshallah, it'll be

00:13:14.360 a different culture. What happens to a civilization when it can no longer name the ideology that's

00:13:19.540 harming it? For example, there are Arab countries that ban the Muslim Brotherhood. They realize the 0.90

00:13:25.000 danger. But in the West, they don't seem to see the danger of that. What happens to a civilization

00:13:30.940 that can't name that ideology that's, you know, destroying it? Well, I mean, that's exactly why

00:13:38.240 I came up many years ago with the concept of suicidal empathy, right? Because it is the first

00:13:43.240 time in recorded history that you have this unique phenomenon. I explained this recently and I explained

00:13:49.000 it in my forthcoming book. I'm going to summarize history for you, all of recorded history,

00:13:54.220 in exactly two minutes. You ready? Okay. There is a river. On one side of the river,

00:14:00.220 there is a tribe. On the other side of the river, there's another tribe. Both sides of the river are

00:14:06.720 looking with great covetousness at the resources of the other side. The resources could be anything.

00:14:13.560 It could be they have more fresh water on the other side. They have more food sources. Their women are 1.00

00:14:19.640 really pretty. It could be a wide range of things. That's why in the 10 commandments, there is the

00:14:24.840 don't covet commandment. Yes. That's why in the seven deadly sins, we have envy as one of them. I'm

00:14:31.580 envious of what those guys on the other side have. So throughout history, the way we resolve this is the

00:14:38.100 following. The men on river, on tribe A will make the calculation. Can we now be in a position to take

00:14:46.320 by force everything we want from river, from tribe B? If yes, let's go for it. If no, let's hold off. 0.98

00:14:54.300 One of the things, the main things that makes them say, let's hold off is that both parties know that

00:15:01.720 the men of the other tribe is going to respond in very predictable ways to you taking all that's 0.97

00:15:10.080 ours. We're going to violently respond. And therefore, this is why we have to do the calculation.

00:15:16.360 Now, imagine how much life could be simpler if the members of tribe B decide, forget about 0.99

00:15:23.640 evolutionary history that I just described. There is nothing more laudable. There is nothing more

00:15:30.400 honorable than to give up your women, your children, your religion, your heritage, your

00:15:37.640 civilization, your culture in the name of infinite compassion, irrational altruism, and suicidal

00:15:46.640 empathy. This places me on a plane of moral preening that the world has never seen before. Convince

00:15:55.080 enough people of this disastrous value system, and you get the West. Let's say 99% of Muslims are 1.00

00:16:03.020 peaceful and 1% are, you know, violent. Why is that still an unacceptable civilizational risk? And how

00:16:11.180 do the remaining 99% indirectly empower the violent minority? Somebody's been reading my recent social 0.62

00:16:17.700 media content. Because the numbers seem to be exactly the ones I used. There are 2 billion Muslims,

00:16:25.640 give or take, one-fourth of humanity. So let's concede. Very, very, very few. Even the biggest

00:16:33.800 Islam apologist would say that if you take the percent, 1% are violent and 99% are not, that's a 0.98

00:16:42.160 very charitable position. The overwhelming majority are not violent. Okay, great. Let's concede that

00:16:47.500 point. That leaves about 20 million Muslims that are very violent. Now, 20 million is 5 million more 1.00

00:16:55.120 than the number of Jews on earth. So that seems pretty bad, right? But that's only capturing the 1.00

00:17:02.960 ones who say, I will be the Bondi Beach guy who will shoot those rat Jews. But there's still 99% to take 1.00

00:17:13.860 into account. What percentage knows of the attacks, but does nothing? Do they count as part of the 1%?

00:17:22.960 But they're not. They're never going to be the ones to shoot. What about the ones who went to the mosque 1.00

00:17:28.700 where the 1% went to, where they heard the exact same invocations, the exact same Quranic verses,

00:17:37.200 the exact same verses in the Hadith that say that the end of earth will only come when the tree says, 0.99

00:17:44.480 there's a Jew hiding behind me and we will kill all the Jews? Are they guilty at all or not at all? 1.00

00:17:49.860 What about the ones who don't want to do any of that, but are certainly willing to turn a blind eye?

00:17:55.620 They'll never stand up and say, I don't want to be a part of this. So therefore, once you start

00:18:00.940 creating the concentric circles of culpability, that number grows very much bigger than the 1%.

00:18:08.400 So what's the number that makes it okay? Now, to answer that, you have to then turn to this other

00:18:15.360 thing called the prefrontal cortex that human brains have evolved, which is when we're taking actions,

00:18:21.540 we calculate the cost and benefits of an action. Or as Thomas Sowell famously said, and I've said it

00:18:29.460 independently a million times, life is about a series of trade-offs. If we do this, what do we

00:18:35.540 trade off? So if you wish to have greater diversity in your societies by letting in millions and millions

00:18:43.680 of people who don't share your foundational values, what do you get in return for that? And what you get

00:18:50.760 in return, is it well worth the risk? If yes, then double down and bring in more. If no, maybe revisit

00:18:58.500 your immigration policies.

00:19:00.400 Well, some people might say that, you know, you need to vet these immigrants that come in. But why is vetting

00:19:06.400 fundamentally impossible when, for example, in Islam, the belief system permits deception? Or, you know, 1.00

00:19:12.940 you can't really tell, are these the violent ones? Are these the ones that are supporting them?

00:19:16.920 So I'm going to draw an analogy, then I'll come to that question. One of the methodologies that is

00:19:22.420 now often used in behavioral neuroscience is to put people through an fMRI, functional magnetic

00:19:29.780 resonance imaging. You put them through, you make them go through a task, and the machine,

00:19:35.980 the methodology, there are different ways to do it. It can look at oxygenation patterns in your brain

00:19:42.360 or blood flow patterns so that it can say this particular region of your brain was more active

00:19:49.320 when you were solving that math problem, right? So you do that. But the reality is that it's all

00:19:56.020 post-hoc bullshit theorizing. Like there is no meta framework that can help us understand why it is 0.94

00:20:02.860 that a particular region of the brain was more likely to get activated. So for diagnostic purposes,

00:20:09.140 you want to see that someone has, God forbid, a tumor, the fMRI might be good. To understand

00:20:15.300 behavior, fMRI is pure, utter bullshit, okay? All right? Now, why am I saying this? Because let's 1.00

00:20:23.460 imagine that the vetting system is exactly equivalent to putting you through this fMRI. So let's suppose I

00:20:30.940 ask you, now your name is not going to be Daniel, Ahmed. Let's see if you can game it. Ahmed,

00:20:36.260 do you believe in American liberties? What are you going to say? Ahmed, do you believe that Jews are 0.60

00:20:42.260 good people that deserve to live freely? Oh, yes, for sure. Hey, Ahmed, do you think that gays should 1.00

00:20:48.540 be thrown off rooftops? Never. Let me welcome, I just put your immigration papers, I put you through a 1.00

00:20:56.080 very, very rigorous vetting process, and it really looks like you're the kind of immigrant we want here. 1.00

00:21:02.280 We've vetted you, right? So don't listen to, you know, phobic Professor Dr. Gad Saad. He's phobic.

00:21:09.960 I just asked you the vetting questions, and just like they vetted very, very clearly the 80 interpreters

00:21:17.560 that came in under Biden. They're all vetted, right, through a very rigorous system. And it must have been

00:21:23.620 that he went mentally ill when he decided to kill people while invoking Quranic texts. There must have 0.96

00:21:31.120 been something that radicalized him, right? So to answer your question, no, there is no vetting. It's

00:21:37.020 a game of statistics. Look, there are many different surveys that have been done, but I'll cite one. And by

00:21:43.600 the way, those surveys tend to be more woke. They're not ultra-conservative organizations. They're

00:21:51.300 global organizations. So the Pew survey group that does many of these big global surveys, I think it

00:21:59.760 was in 2010, they asked people from a wide range of Islamic societies, what are your views on Jews? Yes?

00:22:08.340 Now, if you were to get, remember earlier we were doing 1% are violent, 99% are not, okay? Those are,

00:22:17.140 you know, they seem like charitable numbers. If you found out in those surveys that 10% of the

00:22:23.400 representative random sample of people from all of those societies harbor really nasty view of the

00:22:29.880 Jews, 10%, you'd say, that's disastrous, that's dangerous. Do you want to know what the numbers are, 1.00

00:22:36.300 Daniel? Can you give me what the numbers are? 50%. Try about 98%, okay? Now, depending on the

00:22:42.000 country, in some countries, they're very tolerant. It's only 96. In other countries, they're really,

00:22:47.020 really mean. It's 99. But for example, my beautiful country of Lebanon that was the Paris of the Middle

00:22:52.560 East, it's around 98. I don't remember the exact numbers, but you can send them to you and you could

00:22:57.340 post them in the description, okay? Now, let's see if we can connect the dots. If I let in millions of

00:23:04.700 people from societies where a wide range of data suggests that an astounding preponderance, not 50%,

00:23:15.020 not 10%, 97% are harboring really problematic views of Jews. Do you think when those people come in,

00:23:25.620 let's see if we can solve this conundrum. Every single day when I go on a diet, three things can

00:23:31.100 happen to my weight that day. There's only three possibilities. My weight could go up, my weight

00:23:36.080 can stay the same, or my weight can go down, right? There is no other option. True? Okay. So when we

00:23:42.700 let in millions of people that come from societies with 98% endemic Jew hatred, do we expect that now

00:23:51.220 the host societies will have an increase in Jew hatred, no change in Jew hatred, or a decrease in 0.87

00:23:57.660 Jew hatred? Well, it turns out very paradoxically, all of the bright thinkers in the West haven't been

00:24:04.180 able to connect those dots. It turns out that in Sweden, massive increase in Jew hatred, and in Italy,

00:24:10.500 massive, and in Spain, massive, and in England, massive, and in France, massive, and in Canada,

00:24:17.080 massive, and in the U.S. it's becoming massive. Is there a way that we can find the mystery that led

00:24:24.260 to this? I'm not smart enough. I can't put it together. Wow. Do you think the West is uniquely

00:24:29.720 bad at understanding the risk of these immigrants coming in because it is suicidally empathetic, 0.91

00:24:36.480 more so than the other countries that are not in the West? Yes. Because look, a society, it's not that

00:24:43.960 the U.S., yes, it has beautiful geography, and yes, the U.S. has beautiful coastline on the East Coast,

00:24:50.620 and in the Gulf of America now, it's called Gulf of America, not Gulf of Mexico, and it has a beautiful

00:24:56.100 coastline on the West Coast. But what makes America are the foundational values that defines

00:25:04.160 the American spirit, right? That's what makes you American, right? Now, you could say, what makes

00:25:10.020 the Japanese the Japanese? Well, partly, it's a racial identity, but also there might be unique

00:25:17.180 Japanese values that are not shared elsewhere. So, for example, the Japanese are very much

00:25:22.400 collectivists. In the West, we're very much individualists. So, that has a profound effect

00:25:28.260 on how you navigate through your daily life if you are in Japan or if you are in England or France

00:25:35.200 or Canada, okay? Now, what is it that makes the West the West? Part of it is that we have

00:25:43.080 internalized an ethos of openness, of tolerance, of non-judgment. That's beautiful. That's fine,

00:25:52.160 as long as it is expressed within adaptive modulated range, right? As I explained earlier, if you are

00:26:00.300 tolerant towards those who, once they have the power, will remove you, then, right, Karl Popper,

00:26:08.740 the famous Jewish philosopher of science had the paradox of tolerance, right? Well, the paradox of 0.92

00:26:15.920 tolerance stems from my suicidal empathy, right? Because it says, there is nothing worse than for

00:26:22.820 me to judge another. Who am I to judge? Don't cast stones onto the other if you live in a glass house.

00:26:30.560 But as I explained to the parasitic mind, that injunction from the New Testament is not a

00:26:36.060 deontological statement, never judge. It says, don't be a moral hypocrite, but you should judge, 0.96

00:26:42.240 right? I mean, Abrahamic religions are famously judgmental, but the West has internalized that 0.93

00:26:49.440 as, I will never judge. This is why, by the way, you have this astounding game of coming up. First of

00:26:56.760 all, you put an ism in front of the word, and then the word becomes innocent. So, Islam is gorgeous,

00:27:04.000 is beautiful. Islamism is mean, but that's not enough. Radical Islamism is really much worse than 1.00

00:27:11.080 Islamism. Extremist radical Islamism, now that, those are the bad guys. Jihadi extremist radical 0.99

00:27:18.960 Islamism, that's really the bad guys, okay? So, by putting many, many qualifiers before Islam and adding 1.00

00:27:28.060 the magical beauty of the ism suffix after it, that makes it more palpable to the very kind

00:27:36.340 Western mind, which is, you never judge another person's religion. Hey, bigot, don't you realize

00:27:43.620 that the United States was founded on freedom of religion? This is why it's really important to not 1.00

00:27:49.280 judge another person's religion, okay? That has as much cognitive acuity as the following statement.

00:27:58.040 You ready? Badminton is a sport, and it starts with the letter B. Boxing is a sport that also starts

00:28:06.600 with the letter B. Therefore, since they're both sports, and they both start with the letter B,

00:28:12.560 they're equally likely to cause brain damage. And the way I know this is because they're both

00:28:18.640 called sports, and they both start with the letter B. So, for me to say that boxing might have a greater

00:28:25.900 proclivity of resulting in brain damage because you're pounded on the head feels like it's a bit

00:28:32.320 of boxing phobia. And I don't want to be boxing phobic. That's why I believe that all sports are equal.

00:28:39.880 Could you give me a couple examples of Western policies today that are driven almost entirely by

00:28:45.560 suicidal empathy? Pretty much every single policy, both at the domestic level and at the foreign

00:28:51.980 level. Let's do domestic. So, immigration. We are a rich country. Why would you not want illegal 1.00

00:28:59.040 immigrants who need the health care for you to provide it? We're not such people, not under my 1.00

00:29:06.660 watch. Therefore, when 20 million people are led in by the noble Biden administration,

00:29:12.520 it is our responsibility now to grant them health care. Now, by the way, people try to rewrite history.

00:29:20.020 No, no, no. Democrats never said that. Well, unfortunately, there's this guy, Gassad, who does 0.99

00:29:24.520 this thing called research. And I can find the place where they said that. So, at the primary

00:29:31.700 process, and I think it was 2019, the Democratic primary process, there were, I think, 15 candidates.

00:29:39.880 And when someone, when the moderator said, who here would support free health care for illegal

00:29:48.000 aliens, all 15 put up their hand. That seems like relevant data. That seems like incontrovertible

00:29:55.580 data. Yes, all 15, not 13 out of 15, all 15 did it, right? So, that would be suicidal empathy because

00:30:03.060 there's this thing in life called a fixed budget, right? Unless you print money, in which case you

00:30:09.220 end up with runaway inflation. So, if you have a fixed budget, you have to make cost-benefit decisions.

00:30:15.020 You have to make trade-offs. Those trade-offs would be, how much money do I spend on Americans for their 0.98

00:30:21.960 health care versus noble MS-13 gang members from El Salvador? Well, if you're a Democrat, you think that

00:30:29.880 that's the type of bigotry that we don't believe in in the United States. Let's do it. Let's do

00:30:34.760 criminality. You know, this guy who was arrested for dousing a woman on fire, you know that the guy

00:30:41.560 had only had, I don't remember the exact number, so forgive me if I get it off by a few. He only had

00:30:46.380 17, 74 previous arrests. I mean, are we really going to be the type of intolerant society that doesn't

00:30:54.320 give a guy, by the way, who's black? So, first of all, are you going to blame him for his personal

00:31:00.260 agency when he comes from a history 300 years ago of slavery? So, first, he's a victim of slavery,

00:31:08.300 even though he lives in a world where there's never been any slaves, nor there's never been

00:31:14.060 any slave owners. He's still, through intergenerational trauma, he's a victim. So,

00:31:18.520 now you're going to doubly victimize him by saying, hey, Johnny, you have to pay the consequences of

00:31:25.040 your action. That would be the type of white supremacy that we won't have here. So, when he

00:31:29.980 has been literally arrested 74 times, why don't we give him another chance, right? So, I just gave you

00:31:36.320 open-door immigration policy. I just gave you the penal thing. How about this one? You decide you want 0.94

00:31:44.200 to go and get a lesbian dance therapy undergraduate degree at Oberlin College at $100,000 a year. Now, 0.93

00:31:53.000 as far as I know, when you went to get the loan, there wasn't someone with a gun to your head that

00:31:59.500 said, sign this thing, right? I'm pretty sure that's not how banks lend out money. So, you did it.

00:32:06.120 Therefore, you made the trade-off, the cost and benefit trade-off, and said, it's well worth the money

00:32:13.720 and I'm willing to take it. Okay. So, then you get your lesbian dance therapy degree, you're $400,000 0.97

00:32:20.440 in debt, and then now you're stifled with capitalistic, disgusting debt. Well, Joe Biden, 0.97

00:32:29.580 a man of the people, a kind person, an empathetic person, is going to erase student debts. Isn't that

00:32:36.820 kind? Because it really is like that. The way the monetary system works is if you just say,

00:32:43.540 don't worry about it, it's erased, it just disappears. Nobody will pay for it. Well,

00:32:49.280 actually, that's not true. The welders and the electricians and the farmers will have to do double

00:32:56.100 shifts to pay through their taxes for the lesbian dance therapy. But why are they such assholes? Why can't 1.00

00:33:03.680 they do the double shift so that they pay? That's empathy, right? You don't, when there are rapid

00:33:11.640 drug boats leaving a particular place where we know that's where drugs are sent, in the middle of the

00:33:19.180 night in a speedboat, right? And you bomb it. What kind of monster are you? Don't you know that those

00:33:25.660 are Venezuelan tourists who were going out for late night tuna fishing? And now you're just randomly

00:33:33.140 killing them. That's not good. By the way, if you see me being extra spicy and pissed, it's because I am 1.00

00:33:39.240 pissed. Because I am 61 years old. I escaped the biggest hell growing up with the childhood that I

00:33:46.940 have. And now we are all together recreating that which I escaped for our children and their

00:33:54.760 grandchildren. If we look at history, we can see a pattern that Jews just want to be left alone. 0.99

00:34:01.180 But for some reason, the world refuses to accept that. Could you elaborate on that? Maybe speak a little

00:34:07.080 bit about your childhood that you just brought up. So I'll start with the childhood and then I'll answer

00:34:11.940 your other part. I was, we were, my family, my immediate family was part of the last remaining

00:34:17.320 Lebanese Jews. Wow, it's funny. It's as if Jews have been in the Middle East forever. That's, I did. 1.00

00:34:22.700 Because I found out through my Columbia University class that Jews all come from Salt Lake and from

00:34:29.900 Vienna. But apparently they also, they've always been in the Middle East. But anyways, and way,

00:34:35.260 way before, thousands of years before Islam. But we don't want to worry about those kinds of pesky 1.00

00:34:40.340 details. So I come from Lebanon. I'm Jewish. Arabic is my mother tongue. We're Arabic in every

00:34:46.640 conceivable way with the food we eat, through the music we listen to, and so on. We happen to be Jewish.

00:34:52.100 My parents were part of the very last dwindling community of Jews that had steadfastly refused 1.00

00:34:59.680 to leave Lebanon. And I say my immediate family because my extended family had read the tea leaves,

00:35:07.180 had read the writing on the wall, and knew that it was getting increasingly precarious to be Jewish.

00:35:12.920 And they had left well before the Civil War. And so my immediate family, so my grandparents had already

00:35:18.640 left. Much of my aunts and uncle, everybody had already left. So there was just my parents. But

00:35:24.520 even my brothers and sisters had left Lebanon by the time the Civil War broke out. So there was just

00:35:31.080 me. When the Civil War broke out, I was 10 years old. And so I spent the first year of the Civil War in

00:35:37.160 Lebanon. And then luckily, we were able to escape and leave. And so I grew up in a country that I always

00:35:43.580 try to explain to people. It's not as though every day we were running for our lives because they were

00:35:48.660 coming to kill us. But the genocidal Jew hatred was everywhere. But it was kind of like the famous 0.97

00:35:57.600 maxim, the banality of evil, right? And I explain those examples in the parasitic mind. So for example,

00:36:04.000 the first time that I remember ever seeing, you know, baffling Jew hatred was when I was five years

00:36:10.520 old, almost six. 1970, Gamal Abdel Nasser, the president of Egypt, who was revered throughout

00:36:17.140 the Arab world because he was a pan-Arabist, trying to unify all the Arabs as sort of one entity,

00:36:23.140 passed away. And as often happens in the Middle East, and increasingly so in the streets in the West,

00:36:28.420 when you're upset about something, you take to the street and you do all this kind of

00:36:32.420 fervor, lamentations, you scream and all this kind of stuff. By the way, the word Hamas means

00:36:39.080 fervor, okay, in Arabic, okay? So as the people were going down the procession down my street,

00:36:46.140 what I could hear as a five-year-old was death to Jews, death to Jews, I mean in Arabic. And I turned

00:36:52.080 to my mother and I'm like, well, why are they screaming death to Jews? Shut up, put your head down, 1.00

00:36:57.560 don't let anybody see you, right? So that was the first vivid memory I had of being 0.99

00:37:02.320 exposed to that. When I was about eight years old, this is before the civil war starts,

00:37:06.440 the teacher says, each of us get up and tell us what you want to be when you grow up.

00:37:11.040 I want to be a policeman, I want to be a doctor, I want to be a soccer player. A kid gets up,

00:37:16.040 a kid that knows that I'm Jewish, a kid that I've gone to school with for many years and says, 0.97

00:37:20.520 when I grow up, I want to be a Jew killer, right? To everybody's laughter and raucous applause 1.00

00:37:27.480 and so on, right? There are many, many of these stories. My brother, one of my brothers had been

00:37:31.820 Lebanese judo champion for several years in a row. And this is before the civil war, of course.

00:37:37.160 And one day he was visited by some men who said that it was time for him to, you know, retire,

00:37:42.780 which he wasn't willing to do. He realized that his judo career would now be over in Lebanon

00:37:47.440 because it's shameful for a Jew to keep winning the Lebanese championship. And so then he ended up 0.98

00:37:52.960 moving to Paris, France to pursue his judo career. When we then emigrated to Canada,

00:37:57.580 that same brother ended up representing Lebanon in the 1976 Montreal Olympics. So the same guy who

00:38:06.480 suffered from the fatal disease of being Jewish, we were able to look away from this problem because 1.00

00:38:12.940 now he could represent with the Lebanese flag at the 1976 Montreal Olympics. So, and there are many,

00:38:18.880 many other such stories. My parents were kidnapped and tortured by Fatah in 1980 on one of their return

00:38:25.800 trips. And I could go on for the next six hours. So the reality was that it was impossible to be

00:38:30.720 Jewish in Lebanon. So we ended up leaving. So my knowledge of the area doesn't only come from

00:38:38.340 having taken courses in the Middle East at Columbia University, in which case I would have learned 0.95

00:38:44.000 that the Jews are evil and Islam is peaceful. I lived and breathed it. And it's not that I was then 0.98

00:38:50.040 11, came to Canada and we stopped being Lebanese. At home, we speak Arabic, right? So until I became

00:38:57.900 famous enough that people were unwilling to speak to me openly in Arabic because they know who I am and

00:39:04.200 my positions, the stuff that I would hear from those very peaceful people that would speak to me in

00:39:10.780 Arabic in Montreal, right? So I'm 22 years old. I meet a guy, we're playing soccer. He doesn't know

00:39:17.060 my background. He doesn't know who I am. He knows that I'm Arabic. He speaks to me. The stuff that I

00:39:22.620 hear about the Jews would make Goebbels, Himmler, and Hitler say, this seems a bit too anti-Semitic for

00:39:31.320 me. Look, I'm Adolf Hitler. I hate the Jews. I mean, you can't find someone who hates the Jews more than me. 0.96

00:39:38.220 And even by my standards, some of the stuff I'm hearing, it's a bit too much. Can you tone it down,

00:39:44.300 Ahmad, with the Jew hatred? And this is why for many, many years, I've been warning the West as I saw 0.55

00:39:51.340 what was happening in every street corner. And now many people write to me and say, oops. And sometimes

00:39:57.320 the people who are writing to me are government people. It's not just a friend who played soccer

00:40:01.580 with me. They say, oops, I guess we should have listened to you. So to your point, there is something

00:40:06.380 unique in the mix of the Western ethos that turns out to be also its weakness. And I'll make one more

00:40:13.420 point. And thank you for giving me so much time to expand on my positions. Not just the Muslim 1.00

00:40:18.020 Brotherhood. Many, many Muslim leaders have said, we're going to conquer the West through three means.

00:40:24.560 And the third means is going to speak to your question that you asked. We're going to conquer

00:40:29.760 the West through the womb of our women, right? The West doesn't even produce enough women, 1.00

00:40:35.880 enough children for replacement rates. Replacement rates around 2.17. Depending on the country,

00:40:42.040 it's substantially less. So you could literally enter it into a demography equation to know what

00:40:49.000 the outcome of that will be in 20 years, 30 years, 100 years. The womb of the Muslim woman produces a lot 1.00

00:40:55.840 more. So we can actually know if nothing else changes when the lines will cross. Okay. So number

00:41:02.440 one, we're going to conquer the West through the wombs of our women. Number two, we're going to conquer 0.89

00:41:07.820 the West through hijra. Hijra is the Arabic word for immigration. Muhammad himself did hijra from

00:41:15.100 Mecca to Medina, right? So now how beautiful is it when you actually open the door to us in the millions,

00:41:22.680 right? Because you're kind and tolerant. Okay. So number two, number three, to your original

00:41:28.060 question, we will conquer the West by using your miserable freedoms against you. They're screaming

00:41:35.700 at that. They're not hiding it. They're standing on top of the mountain telling you, and then what

00:41:41.480 does the West say? Nah, come on. They don't, that's not, don't believe that. It's, it's really due to

00:41:46.980 climate change that this is happening, right? So that's the problem. And that's why maybe more

00:41:52.800 than in other interviews, maybe you caught me on a day when I'm even, you know, even though I'm

00:41:57.480 smiling, I'm so frustrated because look, if the, if your physician tells you, I'm very sorry, God,

00:42:04.240 God forbid this were to happen. You have cancer. We have to solve it. There is a way for us to solve

00:42:09.060 it. There is no such thing as cancer, doctor. And as a matter of fact, that's a Jewish plot. 1.00

00:42:14.300 And it's the Jews who put the cancer and they're the ones who've got the cure for the cancer, but 1.00

00:42:19.940 they won't give it to me. So I don't have a problem with cancer, doctor. It's the Jews that 1.00

00:42:24.700 are the problem. That's what you're seeing in the West. No amount of evidence that they could ever face 0.99

00:42:30.940 is even hinting at the possibility of them reconsidering some of their positions. If anything,

00:42:37.080 they're double and tripling down. And I hope God willing to live long enough, inshallah,

00:42:42.240 or maybe I shouldn't hope to live long enough. But I know that even if you and I avoid what's

00:42:47.380 going to happen down the line, our children won't and their children won't. Many, many years ago,

00:42:51.800 my wife had told me, well, why do you, it's, you don't have to be the one standing up always and

00:42:56.900 screaming while everybody else is, you know, you've done enough. You know, who can, let's just sit back

00:43:01.520 and enjoy our lives. I say, well, because now we have children, right? I could, within my lifetime,

00:43:07.300 I can go live in Bermuda and I'll be safe. But what about your children? So I'm doing it for

00:43:12.900 your children and their children. I want to speak a little bit about Israel. Is Israel's existence

00:43:17.940 an affront to Islam or is it merely a Palestinian-Israeli issue about land? Can you speak

00:43:25.660 about that a little bit? It's 100% the former, not 98 to 2%, 100%. Let me explain here the concept.

00:43:35.100 In Islam, the world is a duality. By the way, there is this thing for your viewers called Google. 1.00

00:43:42.740 If you don't like Google, there's this thing called ChatGPT. You don't like that, you can go to

00:43:46.680 Grok to check the things that I'm saying. So in Islam, there is Dar al-Harb and Dar al-Islam. Dar is 0.88

00:43:54.600 like the salon, the house of. There's the house of war. Harb in Arabic is war. There's the house of war

00:44:01.200 and house of Islam. Any country that's under the dominion of Islam is under the house of Islam. 0.99

00:44:08.700 It's good. Any country that's not under the dominion of Islam is literally, canonically, 1.00

00:44:15.800 under the house of war. And we know what happens with war. Remember the river with the two sides of

00:44:21.360 the tribes? Okay. Now, it's actually more than that. Any land that has ever been under Islamic dominion, 0.89

00:44:30.280 but then was lost, is canonically Islamic land and must be returned to Dar al-Islam, right? And why? 0.99

00:44:40.640 What are examples of that? Inshallah, we shall reconquer Al-Andalusia. Al-Andalusia is today 0.98

00:44:48.700 in Spain. Spain, that's a Catholic country, isn't it? So why are those guys, I can look at a million

00:44:55.440 articles and clips where they're saying Al-Andalusia is ours, because there was a time where Islam ruled

00:45:03.400 Al-Andalusia. And therefore, once it is under our dominion, it's an affront to God, to Allah, 1.00

00:45:10.820 that it is now no longer under Islamic rule. Now, this land called Israel, while ancestrally,

00:45:18.040 if we go back to the original provenance, we can point to the Jews. But then there was, there were 0.92

00:45:23.480 many, many periods where it switched hands to many different groups. And at one point, it was under

00:45:29.520 the dominion of Dar al-Islam. So now, I can't accept that there is a thing called the Jewish entity here, 0.91

00:45:37.780 right? Now, you don't have to listen to what I say, right? You can just go to, by the way,

00:45:44.160 one of the problems that people have in trying to, if it's Joe Smith that says, check out this clip by 1.00

00:45:51.200 this Hamas leader, then somebody rises and says, but you're a moron. You don't even speak Arabic. 1.00

00:45:56.220 It's a bit more difficult to say that with me, right? And therefore, I'm a bigger problem, because

00:46:00.920 it's going to take a lot more of your bullshit before you get to delegitimize me, right? So I can 1.00

00:46:07.300 confirm that what the Hamas guy is saying, and there are 74 million of them, when they say,

00:46:13.740 wait, this has got nothing to do with land. We cannot have the Jews there. There cannot be a 1.00

00:46:19.280 single Jew. All the Jews have to be killed. Even if they're not in Palestine, we will kill them, 1.00

00:46:25.620 because this is what's in our noble Quran. So when this guy is saying that, and he's an imam 0.99

00:46:31.680 from Al-Azhar University, for your viewers who don't know, Al-Azhar University is the center of

00:46:38.960 Sunni Islam. It's the place where the biggest Islamic scholars would have been trained. It's the

00:46:45.240 formerly Harvard, now Harvard sucks, but we would say it's Harvard and Oxford, right? Of the 0.97

00:46:51.860 jurisprudence and Islamic theology. So when that guy is saying that, is he misunderstanding Islam?

00:46:59.120 Is he not a true representative of Islam? But your friend in the Democratic Party called Joe Smith

00:47:06.640 is the real representative of true Islam? So to answer your questions, to summarize it,

00:47:12.200 no, there can't be any Jews in that land. We want the entire land. Now, there are periods of time 1.00

00:47:20.280 where we will tolerate Jews, yes? Because imbeciles will write to me and say, well, if it was so 1.00

00:47:26.720 tough for you, how come you lived there for 11 years? Wow, what a brilliant comment. I mean, 1.00

00:47:32.800 if the guy died of a heart attack, how come all the previous days before the heart attack,

00:47:38.780 he hadn't died of a heart attack, right? I mean, how could you say you're going to die of cancer today

00:47:44.280 when 10 years ago, you hadn't died from cancer? That's brilliant. John Wayne Gacy, the serial killer,

00:47:51.160 is really not a bad guy. Because if you count the total number of days that he's lived, it's only a

00:47:57.180 minuscule 0.01% that he killed 30 people. So if you look at the totality of John Wayne Gacy,

00:48:03.540 he's actually a very nice guy. So that's what we mean by Islamic tolerance. Of course, minorities have

00:48:10.260 existed under Islamic rules, but they exist as dhimmis. They exist. Be quiet and know your place, 1.00

00:48:17.860 Jew. Be careful with that Star of David. Don't antagonize me with it, okay? So that's what we 0.83

00:48:24.280 mean by it. So it could well be that you could have one beautiful land shared by Palestinians and Jews,

00:48:32.320 but that peaceful coexistence will only be something that I accept as long as I have my 0.95

00:48:39.520 boot on top of your neck. Always know your place, Jew. You mentioned that you speak Arabic, 1.00

00:48:44.520 of course, and you understand what they're saying in Arabic. From what I hear, Al Jazeera,

00:48:48.980 for example, in Arabic, they say something, and then on their English channel, they have something

00:48:54.020 else. What do they say in Arabic over there? And why is it so different than what they say in English?

00:48:59.580 Well, I mean, Yasser Arafat, right? The guy who created the whole illusion of Palestine would do 1.00

00:49:06.460 exactly that, right? It's this side of the mouth and that side of the mouth. When I'm with my

00:49:12.740 folks, then the real stuff comes out, the real goal, the real objective, the real plan. But I know

00:49:21.160 that that's not going to be palpable to Western ears. So I modulate. I mean, to that general question

00:49:28.740 you're asking, this is how you turn it into love Jews. I just hate Zionists, right? Because by the way, 1.00

00:49:38.040 it's now very, very quickly changing that it is becoming increasingly permissible to openly hate 0.83

00:49:46.460 Jews. So for example, I came to the West in 1975. It went many, many years where you would never see

00:49:55.900 publicly, openly a proud hatred of Judaism, of Jews. Now it's returning, but not fully, right? 0.87

00:50:05.820 Therefore, that's why we always say, no, no, no, no, no. As a matter of fact, I have Jewish friends

00:50:11.520 myself. I love the Jews. I just hate Zionists. What do you mean by you hate Zionists? Well, 0.86

00:50:17.000 do you mean that Jews can't live on their own land and be able to? No, no. Zionism is much worse than 0.97

00:50:23.440 Islam. It's conquering the world. Zionists are devils. They're worse than Nazis. So that's what we mean 1.00

00:50:29.740 by two sides of the mouth. That's being Machiavellian in your intelligence, right? You realize that

00:50:36.160 different audiences expect different modalities to how you deliver your message and you adjust

00:50:42.340 accordingly, right? And so there are many fluent Arabic speakers that are not, many of them are

00:50:48.640 Muslim or ex-Muslim, but that hate that stuff, that will exactly explain this, right? Where they 1.00

00:50:55.000 will go to a site where it's all in Arabic, they'll take it, and then they take the same person as you

00:51:01.200 said and show you how it's just utterly, completely different, right? And so all that I can say about

00:51:07.760 that is that they know how to play the game. And contrary to the West, that doesn't know how to play

00:51:13.160 the game. And I'll mention here a point from Suicidal Empathy. I have a chapter which I call

00:51:18.220 cultural theory of mind. And let me explain what that means. Theory of mind is a part of cognitive

00:51:25.820 empathy. Theory of mind is what I mentioned earlier. For me, you and I have to have a meaningful

00:51:29.960 conversation. I need to put myself in your mind and vice versa. The way that you diagnose a child

00:51:35.800 as being autistic is you give them a theory of mind test, which they fail. There is no blood test that

00:51:42.420 you can give to diagnose autism. It's done through actually completing a task. And autistic children 0.53

00:51:50.880 fail on theory of mind. Why am I saying all this? Because I took this principle of theory of mind and

00:51:56.720 the lack of theory of mind, and I applied it at the cultural level. So the unit of analysis is rather

00:52:03.380 than an individual, it's a culture. And I argue that part of the cluster of suicidal empathy is to lack

00:52:11.220 theory of mind. What does that mean? It means that you're unable, you, the West, are unable to

00:52:18.700 modulate a message, not understanding that the way your interlocutor will understand it to mean

00:52:26.320 what you meant it to mean. Example, the West is going to be magnanimous, compassionate, kind, tolerant,

00:52:34.720 generous, and empathetic. You ready? Here is how we're going to hear it in Yemen and in Iran.

00:52:41.220 Iraq and in Algeria. Weakness, weakness, weakness, weakness, weakness, weakness. So you see how we 0.59

00:52:48.160 spoke parallel to each other, not simply in that we speak different languages, because we're not

00:52:54.340 speaking different languages. We're both speaking in English now. But we're speaking at different

00:52:58.580 modalities of cultural theory of mind. And therefore, what I'm saying as a beautiful virtue,

00:53:05.080 you're interpreting as feminized weakness. This is why in Arabic, they would tell me the West is a 0.97

00:53:13.720 woman to be mounted. They don't tell me anymore because they recognize me. But in the past, we're

00:53:19.620 sitting together after soccer, and they're making fun of the West and all of the things that they're

00:53:25.660 pulling off. And they say the woman is a woman to be mounted. The Arabic expression is quite colorful,

00:53:32.280 but I'm sanitizing it in this way, right? Because their mindset, to your point, they're not reading

00:53:39.480 the cues that you're sending them. So that's what those guys are doing.

00:53:42.980 We see that Qatar, on the one hand, like you said, they're partners with Hamas, they're helping them. 0.97

00:53:48.640 And on the other hand, they're the mediators, peace mediators. On the other hand, they're,

00:53:52.680 you know, friends with America. And they're like speaking from all sides of their mouth. Is that,

00:53:57.740 to what you said before, is that the game that they're playing?

00:54:00.820 It is the game that they're playing, of course. What amazes me, it's, I don't want to presume,

00:54:06.120 I mean, it would be really pessimistic to presume that every single Western leader is that idiotic, 1.00

00:54:12.000 but I almost can't help but think that they truly are this idiotic, right? Because I often, I mean, 1.00

00:54:17.600 I obviously have connections in very high places, and I will speak to them. And as I speak to them,

00:54:23.980 it's as if their world has been revolutionized. And I'm always thinking, what world do you live in?

00:54:31.460 Like, how are you not able to connect those dots? Well, it's because their brains have been hijacked

00:54:38.560 by parasitized ideologies, bathing in suicidal empathy. Now, the good news is, some of them,

00:54:45.560 I could administer a mind vaccine, and I can bring you back. But boy, it's getting late in the game,

00:54:51.900 right? Because how many more things have to happen before it becomes an untenable situation? So yes,

00:54:59.000 of course, Qatar is doing this. But maybe we ended on a positive, optimistic note. There are also a lot

00:55:06.440 indicators that suggest that other folks in that region are waking up themselves. They want to,

00:55:14.200 you know, join the global family. They want to somehow stay true to their heritage while, you know,

00:55:22.220 defanging some of the craziness. So there is, I think, hope. I've always said that there is a richness

00:55:30.160 in the Middle East in terms of some of the values of the Middle East, honor, hospitality, right? Truly

00:55:38.460 deep friendship, that if we can eradicate some of the ideological obstacles that have turned this

00:55:47.720 gorgeously rich region, and I don't mean because of the beautiful topography. There are unique

00:55:55.360 cultural elements to the Middle East that are so uniquely beautiful that, my God, we would unleash

00:56:03.160 so much goodness from that region. I mean, one of the things that I've always fantasized about

00:56:08.620 is to return to Lebanon, is to show my children which school I went to, is to have them learn to be

00:56:17.880 fluent speakers of Arabic, right? I don't fancy, I mean, I would love for them to also speak fluent

00:56:23.840 Hebrew. But my first instinct is not to say, I want to take them to Hebrew University so they learn

00:56:29.820 Hebrew. Because while I'm Jewish, I'm not Israeli. I'm from Lebanon. So Arabic is my tongue. So if we

00:56:36.620 can get rid of all this nonsense and hate, I think the Middle East would be one of the richest cultural

00:56:43.560 regions that you could ever have.

00:56:45.520 Just I want to thank you for your time and thank you for everything that you're doing for, you know,

00:56:49.780 the world. Where can people find you and more about you and find your books? Anything you want to plug?

00:56:55.660 Go ahead.

00:56:56.220 Thank you. I appreciate that. So I'm all over social media. On X, just my name, Gad, G-A-D-S-A-A-D.

00:57:04.500 I have a show called The Sad Truth. I posted both on YouTube and Sad Truth, S-A-A-D, not, right?

00:57:12.400 Also, I posted on podcasts. I uploaded on X. In terms of books, of course, they're all available on Amazon.

00:57:19.520 My forthcoming book, Suicidal Empathy, they've now, they, meaning my publisher, have put the placeholder

00:57:25.300 so it should be available for pre-order probably in the next month. And so I hope that you go out

00:57:31.980 and get it. It really is important if I could just make one final plug. People think, well,

00:57:36.180 I'm going to buy it when it comes out. That's great. Wonderful. But if you actually pre-order,

00:57:41.480 there is a unique benefit that you provide in doing so because all of the pre-orders are held

00:57:48.840 until the first day of the book's release. And then when the book is officially released,

00:57:53.500 all of those count as sales. So let's say 10,000 copies had been pre-ordered. So then on day one,

00:58:01.740 there are 10,000 sales. Now it enters very quickly the bestsellers list and that then becomes an

00:58:07.320 avalanche. So pre-ordering your copies really helps to make sure that the book receives its due

00:58:12.880 attention. So thank you.

00:58:14.180 Everybody go ahead and get your copy. Thank you again.

00:58:16.840 Thank you, sir. Cheers. You too.

The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - December 18, 2025

The Dangerous Delusions Infecting the West (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_944)

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