The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad


US State Department Lists Global Terror Groups - Any Unifying Theme？ (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_601)

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Gad Saad
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Abdullah Azam Brigades Harekat Al-Mujahideen Kataib Hezbollah Indian Mujahideen Danish Mohammed Jamaati Islami Haqqani Network Boko Haram

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The list of terrorist organizations listed by the U.S. Department of State covers a large part of the globe, but I'm unable to draw any specific link between these groups. I'm hoping that the collective intelligence of the people who watch and listen to me might be able to put it together.

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00:00:00.440 Hi everybody, this is Gadsad. I wanted to read for you the contents of a table. This is from pages 164, 165, and 166 of my 2020 book, The Parasitic Mind, How Infectious Ideas Are Killing Common Sense.
00:00:25.780 This is the U.S. Department of State's Foreign Terrorist Organization list. I'd like to read you some names which constitute the majority of groups that are on that list spanning a large part of the globe.
00:00:42.060 I'm unable to draw any specific link between these groups, but I'm hoping that the collective intelligence of the people who watch and listen to me might be able to put it together.
00:00:52.420 I've been racking my brain even now three years after writing the book, and I can't come up with a unifying theme.
00:00:58.880 So here we go. They're listed here. I'm going to read them in the list that they're shown in table 2, as I said, page 164 to 166 of The Parasitic Mind.
00:01:12.500 Abus Sayyaf Group, Gama'a Al-Islamiyya, Islamic Group IG, Hamas, Harekat Al-Mujahidin, Hezbollah, Hezbollah, the Party of God, Palestine Liberation Front, Palestine Islamic Jihad, Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine,
00:01:36.940 Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine General Command, Al-Qaida, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Jayshi Muhammad, Lashkar al-Tayiba, Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigade, Asbat al-Ansar, Al-Qaida in the Islamic Maghrib, Jam'a Islamiyya, Lashkar al-Jangvi,
00:02:06.800 Ansar al-Islami, Islamic State of Iraq and the 11th, formerly Al-Qaida in Iraq, Islamic Jihad Union,
00:02:18.360 Harekat al-Jihad i-Islami Bangladesh, Al-Shabaab, this is in Somalia, Katayb Hezbollah, Al-Qaida in the Arabian Peninsula,
00:02:31.560 Harekat al-Jihad i-Islami, Tahrik i-Taliban Pakistan, Jundalla, Army of Islam, Indian Mujahidin,
00:02:44.320 Jema'a Anshurut Tawheed, Abdullah Azam Brigades, Haqqani Network, Ansar al-Din, Boko Haram, Nigeria,
00:02:57.120 Ansaru, Al-Mulafamun Battalion, Ansar al-Shari'a in Benghazi, Ansar al-Shari'a in Darna, Darna,
00:03:12.120 I guess, Ansar al-Shari'a in Tunisia, ISIL Sinai Province, formerly Ansar Bayt al-Makdis,
00:03:21.140 Al-Nusra Front, Mujahideen Shura Council in the Environs of Jerusalem,
00:03:29.040 Jaish Rijal al-Tariq al-Nakshabandi, ISIL Khurasan, Islamic State of Iraq and the 11th branch in Libya,
00:03:40.140 that's ISIL Libya, Al-Qaida in the Indian subcontinent, Hezbo al-Mujahideen, ISIS Bangladesh,
00:03:48.840 ISIS Philippines, ISIS West Africa, ISIS Greater Sahara, Al-Ashtar Brigades,
00:03:59.940 Jema'at Nusra'at al-Islam wal-Muslimin, and finally, Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps.
00:04:09.040 It's a mystery. Take care, everybody.