Valuetainment - October 20, 2026


“They’re Not Invading, They’re Being Invited” - Historian on Islam vs. Western Civilization

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10 minutes

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1,929

Sentence count

140

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13

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00:00:30.000 Is Islam the problem, or has the West become weak and tolerant? 0.94
00:00:35.320 Wow. Well, I often address that specific question, and the answer is yes to both. 1.00
00:00:41.000 So Islam is inherently intrinsically not compatible with Western civilization. 1.00
00:00:46.080 Let's just be honest. As a religion, as an ideology, and again, this is not—I'm putting Muslims aside for now. 1.00
00:00:53.120 This is not an artificial distinction. I think I can speak about the religion,
00:00:56.220 and then we can talk about how Muslims fit into the religion. 1.00
00:00:59.120 But the religion in and of itself is inherently incompatible with Western civilization simply because it teaches and expects things of Muslims that are antithetical to Western norms. 1.00
00:01:10.020 Okay? 1.00
00:01:10.280 No religious freedom as understood in the West. 0.65
00:01:13.400 If you're born to a Muslim father, you're a Muslim. 1.00
00:01:16.320 If you in any way, shape, or form try to break away, especially by converting to a religion, say Christianity, you're an apostate and you are to be put to death. 1.00
00:01:24.140 That's the law. 0.99
00:01:25.300 Okay?
00:01:25.880 There's no nuance to it. 1.00
00:01:27.420 There is no, you know, the only nuance is one idea is that women shouldn't be killed. 1.00
00:01:32.820 They should be imprisoned and starved until they come back to Islam, okay, which doesn't make it a whole lot better. 1.00
00:01:37.660 Same thing with the idea of blasphemy. 1.00
00:01:39.200 If you speak against Islam, put to death. 0.98
00:01:41.860 This is all, this isn't radical. 0.99
00:01:43.500 In Muslim-majority countries, not if I'm a Muslim in a different country.
00:01:47.580 No, no, I'm now talking about what Islam teaches, okay, and then we'll look at it, how it manifests in various countries and epochs and how people treat it. 0.98
00:01:55.840 But what I'm trying to say is the religion itself, okay, as it is, it just doesn't work with the West. 0.98
00:02:01.400 There's no religious freedom. 0.96
00:02:02.540 So if you're a Christian or a Jew, you're called Ahl-e-Kittab, people of the book. 1.00
00:02:06.980 You have limited rights. 1.00
00:02:08.800 You don't – nowhere near the same rights of a Muslim. 1.00
00:02:12.380 So you can live in an Islamic country, but there's all sorts of restrictions on you about churches, about what you can do, what you can say, what you can wear. 1.00
00:02:19.900 Your word has no validity at a court of law against a Muslim.
00:02:23.840 So things that, of course, by Western standards would be considered completely discriminatory. 0.98
00:02:28.080 So that's why I say it's not compatible, Islam itself. 0.98
00:02:31.600 Now, we can talk about how different countries allow their Islam to be expressed, 0.99
00:02:37.760 how different people, the vast continuum, and we can talk about that. 0.92
00:02:41.120 But the religion itself, it's just simply, it's a black and white.
00:02:44.040 This isn't a hard question.
00:02:45.560 People try to complicate it, but it's just, it's not.
00:02:48.960 It's not compatible.
00:02:50.020 But the question is, is the West becoming too soft and tolerant and weak
00:02:56.080 where we're like, we lack paranoia.
00:02:57.980 So maybe the question is, are we too judgmental towards Muslims and Islam
00:03:05.020 or are we not paranoid enough and we're like, it's okay, nothing's going to happen here? 1.00
00:03:09.720 Much more the latter.
00:03:11.040 And so I forgot your original question, which was, is it this or is it that? 1.00
00:03:14.880 So first I said Islam is inherently a problem. 0.95
00:03:17.520 And yes, the other problem is the West is just like an ostrich, has its head in the sand, doesn't want to acknowledge it. 0.97
00:03:23.880 Like you said, we're not too judgmental.
00:03:26.220 We're actually trying to be too naive.
00:03:29.840 We don't want to acknowledge this. 1.00
00:03:31.220 Everything I just said about Islam, no mainstream source would ever want to say that openly. 1.00
00:03:38.100 This is horrible. 1.00
00:03:39.220 How dare you?
00:03:39.700 How can you say this about a whole religion of two billion people?
00:03:42.120 I get this all the time.
00:03:43.560 But it's the fact.
00:03:45.180 So the combination now is this, and we'll get into the history because it's relevant to what I'm going to say now, but just as a quick precursor. 0.89
00:03:55.380 So what Muslims did historically was they would invade and conquer all throughout the world, Christian lands, Persian, Persia, and Hindus, all around. 0.92
00:04:06.160 But the people fought back, the Christians, let's say. 0.96
00:04:08.520 The difference is now, and Islam was a powerful force. 0.99
00:04:11.620 Now Islam is really, believe it or not, a very weak force. 0.97
00:04:15.180 But it's being enabled and empowered by, let's say, the West. 0.98
00:04:19.260 Okay, so now when people, for example, in Britain, it's very common to hear people complain,
00:04:23.420 Muslims are invading our land, to which I often say they're not invading, they're being invited.
00:04:28.040 It's a whole different ballgame. 1.00
00:04:29.360 They're not coming with swords and forcing their way in while, you know, your police and your armies are trying to hold them back.
00:04:35.140 It's quite the opposite.
00:04:36.180 They're bringing them in, they're giving them everything they want, and they're shutting you down when you speak and they put you in jail.
00:04:41.100 So that's, it's a double whammy. 1.00
00:04:43.200 yes, Islam is inherently what it is. And the West, for whatever reasons, which we'll get into, 1.00
00:04:48.580 is doing everything possible to enable and empower it. So your decaf oat milk extra but
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00:05:19.180 1-866-531-2600 to visit connectsontario.ca okay so when did we become soft what was the turning
00:05:26.300 point of us becoming soft and no longer you know being paranoid was it because of how powerful
00:05:33.380 we became was it because how strong the military is the paranoia went away but when did we become
00:05:38.360 the soft? Yeah, that's a good question, and it's multi-layered, depending on when. I would say,
00:05:44.540 you know, first of all, it starts in many ways with the Protestant Reformation in the 16th
00:05:48.720 century, and the reason for that is, and this is well-known, it's a historical point. A lot of
00:05:53.440 people get upset. They think I'm attacking Protestantism. I'm not. I'm just saying as a
00:05:56.100 historical development, because the Protestants broke away from the Catholics, everything that
00:06:01.840 the Catholics did at that time was seen as bad, and all of Catholic history is bad, and one of
00:06:05.820 the main things that, for example, the Protestants would point to were the Crusades. So all of that
00:06:11.220 was completely demonized in Western countries, Protestant nations. So that was the first 0.91
00:06:16.400 kernel. And oftentimes, hand in hand with that came a sort of rehabilitation of Islam amongst
00:06:22.040 Protestants. In fact, Protestants during the wars with the Catholics would often side with Muslims
00:06:26.160 against the Catholics. So there became a sort of a softening towards Islam. So that's the beginning.
00:06:32.080 Then you have all sorts of other things that are also the Enlightenment and kind of rising above, seeing things through a religious prism.
00:06:40.600 And you keep moving fast forward with this sort of secularization, the more secular you are. 0.84
00:06:45.260 Because when we talk about the history, you will see when Christians were actually Christians, they would not do what we're seeing today, which is basically capitulate before Islam. 0.84
00:06:53.860 I mean, a day doesn't pass when I don't hear about or see a video of a church, Catholic, Anglican, Protestant, inviting Muslims in and having them declare Quranic verses that actually condemn Christianity. 0.90
00:07:07.140 That would have not happened, okay? 0.63
00:07:09.420 But I think also it really revs up and really speeds up around the 60s because that's where everything kind of starts.
00:07:16.700 The sexual freedom, everything, the liberalism, that's what we call it, right?
00:07:22.320 Liberalism, leftism.
00:07:23.860 All those thoughts come, and you see it also in the academic world and how books are written.
00:07:28.740 So I deal with history, and when you read books from that era on, okay, what we call 0.97
00:07:33.220 woke history, it's all there, where all of a sudden Muslims are the good guys, oh, it 0.98
00:07:37.600 was Europe's medieval Christian ancestors who were horrible because of what they did, 0.98
00:07:41.740 and if anything, we need to learn from Islam, and we need to be good to them, and we need 0.85
00:07:45.880 to make up for the sins of our ancestors.
00:07:47.700 That's become the sort of, you know, general mood amongst many Western people, including
00:07:52.580 Christians, okay?
00:07:53.480 Even in movies, a lot of times, if you look at movies, it's like, you know, the West is the enemy, the Muslims were innocent, you know, we came and took over their land, and that's not fair what we did to them.
00:08:03.700 So you think the root of it, of us becoming soft, is liberalism?
00:08:08.560 If you want to call it that, that's, you know, for lack of a better word, but liberalism goes hand in hand with secularism, and secularism in many ways is a sort of abnegation of religion.
00:08:19.920 In this case, it would be Christianity.
00:08:21.880 So in other words, what I'm saying is when Christianity was a dominant force in Europe, none of this would have happened. 1.00
00:08:27.460 You can't – Christians were wise to Islam.
00:08:31.980 They weren't cruel to them, but they knew what it was about.
00:08:36.460 They got it.
00:08:37.100 They understood it.
00:08:37.900 They resisted it.
00:08:39.000 They fought it.
00:08:40.160 But once that left and it was supplanted with this idea that, oh, religion is bad, especially Christianity, because as you mentioned, that's the main thing.
00:08:48.400 It's in the movies always. 0.83
00:08:49.560 and movies of course are intentionally made to mold how we think that's always the case people
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