The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad - October 03, 2026


Will the World Ever Wake Up to the Threats of Islam？ (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_1056)

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Gad Saad
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Norm Macdonald Elon Musk Benjamin Netanyahu Suicidal Empathy George W. Bush Gadsad Ahmad
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00:00:00.000 We know that he underwent Islamist radical indoctrination.
00:00:06.300 He's lying there now.
00:00:08.020 He's this attacker. 1.00
00:00:11.060 And he calls out to the aircrew, kill me. 1.00
00:00:16.600 Kill me, all right? 0.99
00:00:17.520 So it's clear he was suicidal.
00:00:19.640 If you couple that with what I just told you about, the Islamist tendencies, radicalization that are found in his background.
00:00:30.000 That was Benjamin Netanyahu confirming exactly what we reported on this show last night,
00:00:35.320 that the first officer of that fly Dubai flight who tried to kill 174 people, including four
00:00:41.040 Americans yesterday, was likely an Islamic terrorist from Oman. We know that. Oman is a 0.67
00:00:47.600 Muslim country. We know that. Sharia law is the law of the land in Oman. We know that.
00:00:53.200 We also know that he underwent radical Islamist indoctrination. But the media here for the last
00:00:58.980 two days are really confused about the motive, which is really confusing to me. In reality,
00:01:05.440 I don't think there's anything confusing at all about what happened yesterday.
00:01:10.300 Dr. Gad Saad is a visiting professor at the Declaration of Independence Center for the
00:01:14.840 Study of American Freedom at the University of Mississippi. He's also the author of a great book,
00:01:19.440 Suicidal Empathy. Gad, it's great to have you back. Here is this headline from CNN. This is today,
00:01:26.500 claiming the motive remains, quote, unclear, where to me the motive is crystal clear. 0.99
00:01:33.440 We've got another Islamic terrorist trying to kill as many Jews as possible on a flight bound for Israel.
00:01:41.100 Why is this so hard for the media? 0.98
00:01:43.060 Why is it so hard when it involves a Muslim and when it involves the word terrorism?
00:01:48.700 Yeah, so in chapter six of one of my previous books, The Parasitic Mind,
00:01:53.280 the chapter is titled Ostrich Parasitic Syndrome in reference to the fact that the ostrich buries
00:01:59.640 its head in the sand because it doesn't want to face reality. In reality, though, it doesn't do
00:02:04.100 that, but it's become an apt metaphor. So if an Islamic terrorist tells you that he's doing it 0.99
00:02:09.220 because of his religion, then Western intelligentsia will say it's due to climate change or beard 0.89
00:02:15.380 bullying or violent video games or the Zionist occupation. Anything is a valid motive other than 0.68
00:02:23.920 the one that the terrorists repeatedly tell you. And the reason for that is very simple,
00:02:27.680 because most people have been inculcated with the idea that Islam is actually peaceful, 0.95
00:02:32.900 but it's some misguided version of Islam that is really the problem. And we should tackle that. 0.76
00:02:40.400 But Islam is beautiful, as George Bush explained to us immediately after 9-11. 0.93
00:02:45.000 It's insane. 1.00
00:02:45.960 Such a good point.
00:02:47.600 To me, this is suicidal empathy.
00:02:49.460 Again, your book, but this is suicidal empathy from the media and the left in the Western world.
00:02:55.580 A couple more headlines.
00:02:56.680 This is all that same reporting.
00:02:58.340 CNN yesterday, a violent altercation between two pilots.
00:03:01.440 New York Times today, a plane diverted after an altercation between the pilot and the co-pilot.
00:03:06.320 Sky News, flight lands safely after a brawl between the pilots.
00:03:09.520 So that one was a little bit better. The BBC flight diverted after fight between the pilots.
00:03:14.340 But you know what I noticed? None of these outlets use the word hijacking or terrorism.
00:03:19.320 In fact, today, they continue to say that this attempted this was an attempted terrorist attack.
00:03:25.360 It wasn't attempted. The first officer stabbed the pilot and tried to ram the plane into the ground.
00:03:30.100 It wasn't attempted. Thank God for the pilot and the passengers and everybody else on board stepping in and preventing this tragedy.
00:03:37.160 Exactly. And you're exactly right. I've got several chapters in Suicide Empathy where I exactly address sort of the whitewashing of Islam. I mean, Norm Macdonald, who's a fellow Canadian, the late Norm Macdonald, has a very famous tweet from 2016 where he basically says,
00:03:55.040 if there were a nuclear attack by Islamic terrorists that kills 50 million Americans,
00:04:01.560 my real concern would be the rise of Islamophobia. Of course, he was being facetious, but it 0.97
00:04:07.240 perfectly captures the zeitgeist, right? Death before Islamophobia. Take my children, take my 0.94
00:04:13.760 wife, take my civilization, take my heritage, take my religion, take my society, but please
00:04:20.160 never accuse me of Islam of Islamophobia. Nothing could be worse than that. That's a really good
00:04:25.240 point. Norm MacDonald was one of my all time favorites after the OJ Simpson verdict. So we're
00:04:30.100 going back to, I think, 1994, 95. He opened the weekend update on Saturday Night Live that opened
00:04:37.820 the show and he looked at the camera as only Norm MacDonald could. And he went, this just in murder
00:04:43.020 is now legal in the state of California. And I just thought that was like the best moment.
00:04:47.280 I want to play you a soundbite just to kind of point out this, again, suicidal empathy.
00:04:51.820 This is how CNN chose to cover the Taliban retaking control of Kabul in Afghanistan after we left in 2021.
00:04:58.320 Take a look.
00:05:00.100 They tell us they are here to maintain law and order.
00:05:05.340 Everything is under control. Everything will be fine, the commander says.
00:05:09.560 Nobody should worry.
00:05:17.280 they're just chanting death to America, but they seem friendly at the same time. It's utterly
00:05:22.660 bizarre. Okay. Like death to America is a picnic. That's suicidal empathy. How concerned are you
00:05:29.980 with the way our own media and the liberal left and the West are treating and pandering to and
00:05:34.620 catering to people who clearly hate us and our way of life? I'm existentially concerned, right?
00:05:42.660 Of all of the manifestations of suicidal empathy that I cover in my book, none are as dire as the one that argues that all immigrants are equally likely to assimilate within the American ethos.
00:05:55.220 And that's simply not true, right?
00:05:56.980 Fido the house cat is called a feline, and the wild lion is called a feline.
00:06:02.480 They're both called feline.
00:06:03.800 That doesn't mean that I'm equally likely to cuddle up with both of them, right?
00:06:07.280 Even though they're both called feline. 0.81
00:06:09.080 So Ahmad, who just came back from an al-Qaeda summer camp, might be an immigrant.
00:06:14.040 Elon Musk is an immigrant.
00:06:16.300 The fact that they're both called immigrants doesn't mean that they are equally likely to contribute to society.
00:06:21.320 The fact that we can't see something as trivially obvious that a three-day-old pigeon would get is exactly why we will die at the hands of suicidal empathy. 0.87
00:06:30.980 Really good point.
00:06:31.660 Elon Musk, by the way, I don't know why the left doesn't embrace him.
00:06:34.460 He's a trillionaire and he's African-American.
00:06:36.580 It makes no sense to me. 1.00
00:06:38.320 The Texas State Board of Education, so the school board in Texas, they did something that I was surprised all 50 states are not doing.
00:06:46.480 The states in 25 years have moved away from this.
00:06:49.140 They approve curriculum changes in schools that will now teach kids that radical Islam was what caused 9-11. 0.81
00:06:55.880 Why isn't this happening all over the country? 0.73
00:06:59.600 Because I guess some states have a bit more spines and testicular fortitude than others.
00:07:06.020 But by the way, I should correct one point there, notwithstanding the kudos that they deserve. It's not called radical Islam. It's called Islam. There is no Islamism. There is no militant, radical Islamism. There is no self-radicalized, violent extremism.
00:07:22.580 The reason why the West feels the reflex to do that is because it seems as though it is gauche and inappropriate for people to frontally attack a religion.
00:07:32.760 And therefore, we create these distinctions where if we add the magical suffolk ISM, it becomes so it's not cars that it's not cancer.
00:07:42.380 That's a problem. It's cancerism. That's the problem.
00:07:45.660 No, there's only Islam. Many Muslims choose to ignore the difficult part of Islam. That doesn't mean that they are practicing a more gentle Islam. There's only one Islam. The quicker we start putting all kinds of qualifiers, the better position we'll be in.
00:08:01.860 No, you're exactly right. And I'm glad you said that. And by the way, these are religious attacks. These are religious attacks, which is why it's important to highlight the religion. Gadsad, so glad you could be back with us. Good to see you again. Thank you.
00:08:13.640 Thank you, sir. Cheers.
00:08:14.760 All right.
00:08:15.220 When we come back, so we've got a lot of questions about the Cornell 7.
00:08:18.640 Now, you heard about this.