00:02:44.080But now us became Muslims, the ummah, as it's known, and them became the kuffar.0.99
00:02:49.620And it didn't matter if they're your relatives or not.0.87
00:02:52.060You know, many caliphs and companions of Muhammad in the various wars were praised because they killed their relatives who were not Muslim.0.89
00:02:58.980Because that's what made them enemies.0.79
00:03:01.100So that idea became very popular and very, it resonated with tribal peoples.0.79
00:03:06.380So first the Arabs, but then the Turks also who came from the steppes, like I said.0.78
00:04:10.620And then, you know, sometime around, I think, 610, he starts getting revelations.
00:04:18.120So he supposedly goes to a cave where the angel Gabriel appears to him and tells him ikra, which means recite.0.72
00:04:26.540Okay, now it means read, but it meant basically recite because he was ignorant or illiterate.
00:04:33.000And he would supposedly recite what Gabriel was telling him, which became the Quran.0.81
00:04:37.720I'm giving you the Muslim version because the non-Muslim version, the scholarly Western version, says all of that is nonsense.
00:04:43.520There's even one theory that Muhammad never existed, that he was made up by Arabs because they needed some backstory for themselves.
00:04:51.140I personally believe, by and large, I believe the Islamic traditional.
00:04:54.700So what is the Western, if you want to go a little bit deeper, what is the Western idea of who Prophet Muhammad was?
00:05:01.640Well, it's not consistent. Some would agree with the traditional Muslim. I think most people would.0.99
00:05:06.280But there's different theories about, okay, well, actually, because if you look at the traditional Islamic canon, we have so much information about Muhammad.
00:05:15.480The hadith is supposed to be what he said and what he did, and people recorded it through oral traditions, and then it gets sifted for its authenticity.
00:05:23.660And there's, like, literally volumes, thousands and thousands of pages of what he said and what he did, okay?
00:05:28.600And there's the seerah, which is the biography of Muhammad, also very thick and compendious.
00:05:34.200Now, if you take all that at face value, then we know more about Muhammad than anyone from the 7th century, that's for sure.
00:05:41.580But modern Western historians will tell you a lot of that is just not accurate.
00:07:54.300And I don't think you are, but we, as in Westerners in general, again, it's the, our blind spots is,
00:07:59.480Okay, I think, again, the main premise is this total misunderstanding of history and seeing the opposite of the truth.0.70
00:08:07.760Okay, so the idea is, okay, if there's anyone bad, it's Christianity.0.61
00:08:12.060Okay, this has been ingrained in our thoughts, as we mentioned earlier.
00:08:15.080And if any, you know, it's also connected, are you familiar with the noble savage myth?
00:08:19.740So this comes into being, it's basically when Americans or Europeans are entering America and colonizing it.
00:08:27.160And before long, the natives, the Indians, Native Americans, become romanticized.
00:08:34.020And amongst people, they're the noble savage, which is, yes, they're impoverished, they're poor, but they live off the land, they're honorable, they're clean, they're not corrupt.
00:08:45.740And I think that, so that idea has also come to, I think, apply to every non-Western person.
00:08:51.360if you're brown or black or yellow, you have this sort of romanticized veneer, which I think also
00:08:57.120applies to Islam, the way it's presented often. So all of these, you know, like I said, these
00:09:02.020warped ideas have just become solidified in our head. And, you know, we, in 1999, a group,
00:09:08.800because it was the 1000, it was, I think, the 1000 anniversary of the conquest of Jerusalem
00:09:15.520by the crusaders, which was in 1099. And so I don't know, I guess I would make it 900 years.
00:09:23.040Anyway, a bunch of Germans, Christians, did a mass walking pilgrimage to the Islamic world,0.75
00:09:28.700wearing shirts in Arabic saying, I'm sorry, okay, because they're apologizing for the first crusade.0.72
00:09:33.920And again, so that just shows you they have no idea what the first crusade is. I didn't get into
00:09:37.940the point that the first crusade was actually a response to one of the worst emanations of
00:09:43.200Islamic atrocities against Christians that were going on at the time. Okay. So people don't know0.66
00:09:47.660that. And they feel we have to be accommodating to the other. We have to be nice to Muslims. Look
00:09:52.320what we've done to them historically. And it's actually the opposite. It's Muslims did horrible
00:09:56.440things to you historically. And those evil crusaders were actually trying to right that1.00
00:10:00.980wrong. So a lot of it, like I said, is historical amnesia, but it's also these warped philosophies
00:10:06.620that come especially into the 60s, you know, what we call the left, okay,
00:10:11.220which is just this, you know, kind of Western civilization, Christianity,0.96
00:10:16.680that's the source of all evil, and everyone else is good,0.96
00:10:19.440and now it's our job to make up for it and apologize.
00:12:01.800Okay, you're probably familiar in Europe of all the problems that Western Europe is having with Muslim migrants and Muslims in general, in Great Britain, in France, in Sweden, in Germany.0.98
00:12:13.840Sweden has become like the rape capital of the West.1.00
00:12:16.980And in all those countries, crimes have just skyrocketed based on the influx of Muslims, okay?1.00
00:12:45.580Imagine if the Western world had a jihadist mentality and said, okay, we are, I know, but I'm saying if they did, they could obliterate the Islamic world.
00:12:54.420I know, and I don't want it to happen.
00:12:56.020So, your decaf oat milk, extra but not piping hot, four pumps of caramel, no sugar, small latte, and a large cup.