my teacher chef a fellow in Veda argue
been walking to the iptr Venus at the
White House and Brookings Institute was
he said that in logic were taught to ask
questions in a certain order one of the
things that ill-trained minds do is they
ask questions in the wrong order and
then this results in the wrong answers
so for instance he said you should
always ask what before why so for
instance Newsweek has an article that
says why do they hate us instead of
asking do they hate us because when the
Gallup went out and actually pulled the
Muslims all over the world they found
that they did not hate us and so by
asking why before asking what we come up
with wrong answer so I want to look a
little bit at Islamophobia in the United
States and you see a lot of cartoons and
cartoons ok this homophobia is an
irrational fear of Islamist terrorism
interesting so what would you call the
rational fear of Islamist terrorism
sanity so then this is framing the
already is homophobia is being framed
here so they're telling you what it is
this is not what it's not focus but
cartoonists are actually very very
influential
if you
as many people read the funnies that
don't read any other part of the
newspaper and I've seen that on many
occasions so it's our phobia attorney
according to word net source of many
people's definitions was all phobias
prejudice against Muslims from the idea
prejudging Collins English dictionary
Tucson phobias hatred or fear of Muslims
or of their politics or culture and then
care is some focus in using carrier
Islam hope your person I'm found in fear
up in hostility towards Islam because
phobia according to the psychiatric use
phobia is an irrational fear because not
all fears are irrational like I think
it's it's valid to fear a terrorist
attack as as a possibility for people
that are involved in them but for the
average people you are more likely to
get struck by lightning or diving on a
dog bite in the United States the die
from the terrorist attacks with this
idea of having this fear of terrorists I
mean I always kind of base it at the
airports they say please report any
suspicious behavior everybody's
suspicious at the airport I mean just
start looking around their home
telephoning oh my god you know and they
there because they're going to lose or
they left something think you've got
people with backpacks that could have
bombs in them you know it's a type of
insanity when you create this
environment where people begin to fear
other people because if all of us have a
weapon of mass destruction we drove
you're in it there are millions of
weapons of mass destruction the United
States but people aren't driving their
cars into places some guy did it in
Scotland now those six billion people on
the planet that's not bad right
one guy drove remember that in the
airport crises there
and so there is an irrational fear but
if you want to look at the roots of this
and I think dr. earlier and he said you
know we failed to look at the sources a
lot of these things and I said like the
Crusades and he said even before that
and I would agree because if you I don't
know if they still use it anymore but
when I was in school we had to study a
book called Norton Anthology of
literature and and the first entry in
Norton's book is the Song of Roland
so Western literature begins with a
storm that celebrates the defeat of the
Muslims and this is very interesting and
if you look in if you look at the when
the Pope spoke in Germany he mentioned
men well ii men well ii was an emperor
who went around europe about fifty years
before the fall actually about thirty
years before the fall of constantinople
which is now istanbul and he argued that
the christians needed to help him defend
constantinople from this turkish
onslaught and he failed but if you think
about European identity Europe Europe
has two fundamental identities
historically one of them is a Christian
identity which is a positive identity
but they also have a negative identity
which is that they're not Muslims and
this is very important historically in
the Christian consciousness of Europe is
that they really saw the Muslims for
centuries as a serious threat to to the
European civilization so it's it's it's
important that we remember that the
Crusades are a major turning point in
your leading civilization one because of
a massive influx of Muslim culture into
the West the rise in colleges is a
to read from George magazine also we
forget st. Francis Assisi and the
Franciscans have a wonderful narrative
in their tradition state Francis Assisi
is actually according to Franciscans
ended the Crusades because he got a
papal dispensation to allow Crusaders to
get their explanation by making a
pilgrimage to Assisi in Italy where
where he had a monastery and and that's
part of their tradition there's actually
a book about saint francis the saint of
the sultan which narrates that story
it's a wonderful story now if you look
in the consciousness of America 9/11 now
has emerged like probably for my father
and mother's generation the the turning
point for them was Pearl Harbor and my
mother was actually at the University of
Berkeley when Pearl Harbor was bombed
this was an eternal one my father was
he's younger than my mother but my
father was 17 at the time he literally
got a dispensation from from his mother
he got permission to join at the airport
and so at 17 he did not finish his lives
here at high school but he actually went
into the Air Force as a young man from a
very very wealthy family but that was
the type of fervor that that event
created in the United States where
people literally went just to sign up so
that's important to remember that this
mice my son my 17 year old is as an
artist and he's been drawing pictures of
buildings on fire since he was about 12
so this is in the consciousness of a
generation of Americans now and all of
us you know for people that are I think
over 50 to have when they all know where
they were when Kennedy
assassinated for Americans today they
know so there's a lot of forms of media
that are not being used cartoons and
departments again have this is a cartoon
from the type of the Greeks were
fighting the Turks and Lord Byron
actually went to fight with the Greek so
this was a very popular war for the
romantics to go and fight there's a
wonderful picture of him in in a turban
because the Greeks actually were lived
under Muslim rule for several hundred
years and they actually adopted a lot of
Greek clothing actually come from Turkey
and the Greeks have worried beatings and
also to call them think of the Greeks
problem worry I guess they were wearing
here we have hope anything and for the
Catholics excuse because I violence is
incompatible with the nature of God the
nature of soul are you calling us by the
look on your back that's right I think
wonderful caricature is there if you
look at Jewish that cartoons from the
Germans that very similar it's really
interesting jihad the devil's behind in
Islam I love this one is not a part of
America so that's Barack Obama the
official version but here's the Muslim
how to build a bomb right so this is the
Muslim top they do for Pope's words /
cartoons over the modern world Miami
dyspeptic / car bombing - the headings
dum-dum bodies and then I love this one
the West
I mean disagree with what you say but I
will defend to death your right to her
death right radical
and then here we see my hero zu infidel
kids are finally apologizing Danish
cartoon tank maja I was in therapy
because every day in the United States
people are reading this stuff outraged
by the cartoon husband and then books
written by Ron Wilson so this is is an
incredible industry that's emerging this
is and it's important because you play
all care as American don't be well talk
show radio goes read and then they in
turn you know this
I used to monitor this stuff the first
book that I bought was in 1994 I think
it was called that was just amazing
industry I'm actually in the Muslim up
here with you are you know I'm not a
Muslim mafia done according to Muslim
Brotherhood series and you know what
their evidence is I just want a cool
thing set and they actually caught in an
FBI agent who said mommy doesn't prefer
to live on cooked a sex because it's
harder to do drive-bys and it's harder
for the FBI to monitor them so that
doctor Bassin is on a cook they said
Iman's a typical taste all these moles
of Omar from care bazaar including I
suppose whistles how I have five kids so
that's what I was thinking about like
your car price low but this is
in another book Islamic infiltration I
was a stealth jihadist that infiltrated
the White House so the another one
actually said that I had information
because I said in a speech
two days before September 9th that
America has a Great Tribulation coming
to it so I had insider information and
this was put into a call here I grow so
water and he said well you're a public
defender cockblock
because we don't have good libel laws in
this country but my word means to reject
these dueling because when the freedom
of speech freedom of slaves was a law in
America when they wrote the Bill of
Rights right
they had Julian it wasn't a lot of 1830
so somebody said something nasty about
you you could actually send your ii like
i could send them out to business and
satisfaction jeweled it out but now you
just say whatever you want and since
Sullivan verses of the New York Times
which was a complete liberal
unfortunately it was a complete liberal
disaster because Sullivan was some races
and he was libeled
in the New York Times and he sued them
and because it was during Earl Warren
it was very liberal court system they
actually said because he was a public
figure that they have higher standard so
it's harder to prove like so now we have
two laws in the United States for public
figures and private figures so you can
say whatever you want about a public
figure and they have no recourse to law
to redress that but right so my wife has
protection under the Constitution for
being libel or slander but I don't have
protection and it's just not right but
this is what we're dealing with you know
these people can say with everything one
and they're here doing what is called
swift voting now these are the the
people that are writing moves now
from within Islam 30 degrees Palestinian
given what rock Pakistani leaving Islam
apostate speak out the God who behaves
worthless ohon voices behind the veil
why I'm not a Muslim under this law
origins of the Quran is showing that
it's all made up
why not that jihad and then I am her she
she's the poster child she's attractive
Ethiopia lady
so they love her and then why do so not
be sorry why do we want to kill you yeah
Ethiopians by the way I know a secret
about them they kill because you will
never see something I think they must do
something why do you want to kill you
look at that child and that we have
Muslim performance so you see these are
the ones that want to reform this all
from within changes troubles on today
and this my favorite one learn tolerance
from mr. Collins discussion between
committing adultery Lord show respect
your culture and sensitivity to your
religious values many that's mr.
tolerance for having respect for my
religious values you are indeed an
amazing infidel
so say okay examples may not be high but
commentators read these books and
amplify the effects so you have people
like Michael Savage is this one religion
values so many in America sent an arrest
center themselves when it comes to
evaluating fun is it just beer yeah
absolutely absolutely forget their about
that because they threaten us
that's the cellmate
Meredith decided that the suicide
bombers were Methodists market slices
Massacre types included the problem is
is long and but let me play get back
that water naturally relevant once
between art to mind the middle each in
any any you know that a folder we can't
heal so we have in some of the moment
this quote and the fact that in Mohammed
in law every woman that must belong to
some man as his absolute property either
as a child a wife or a concubine must
delay the final extinction of slavery
until the faith of Islam has ceased to
be a great power among men pretty
outrageous stuff yeah you didn't say
that though I didn't say that Winston
Churchill said that yeah Winston
Churchill as a matter of fact in the
book and the 50s also Mena comparisons
like public in Italy with also Winston
Churchill the comparison between might
come and the Koran one of the reasons
that I'm being prosecuted I don't
remember with intuitive over a Nobel
price for this circle and we would have
been persecuted and I have nothing
against people I have nothing against
Muslims with my point is that Islam is a
totalitarian ideology that should be
compared not so much the power religions
but the power of the determinant
ideologies like communism or fascism
well if we don't stop covering up what
Islam is Islam is a violent no
cigarettes if I start with admissible
as a political system bet on the
overthrow of the governments of the
world at the end and world domination
now see what you have to realize from
this this is going on constantly
I have watched in my lifetime the 700
club I think five times every single
time there was anti-muslim statements so
I have to assume they must do that all
the time and these people reach large
numbers of people you can say Oh only
20% of Americans hate Muslims right well
it's actually compute polls are showing
it's more than 47 percent
but you're dealing with millions of
people in a country that is is rooted in
civil society and if anything should
threaten the stability of that society
because of my personal view is after
9/11 my estimation of the American
people went up considerably
I remember the meanest because I was
convinced that there was going to be a
tax on mosque there was going to be
costing the Muslim women I really
thought it was going to get very bad
that was my initial feeling I was
overwhelmed by the amount of goodwill
that came out of average people we got
for everyone I hate you call we got to
the mosque we got a hundred people
saying we're really troubled by what
we're hearing people
attacks against your religion flowers
were actually set to several of the moms
do you notice a look you're part of
America and and many many people came
out in real solidarity and support with
the American Muslim community despite
the fact that that you know they thought
that Muslims did this horrible thing and
so that to me is a testimony to the one
they make goodness of a lot of people in
this that society but also to the fact
that many of the ideals of this country
that may be at the founding of the
country were not fully realized or even
partially realized that a lot of these
haven't really been imbibed by people
because Jefferson was a philosopher and
Jefferson wanted to see America as a
neutral religious ground a safe place
and he actually says for Christians Jews
muhammadans Hindus and atheists of every
stripe so that was his vision the vision
of the founding fathers was to see a
pluralistic society in IR tunes in the
debates the constitutional debates in
North Carolina that she debated whether
if they didn't have religious tests
there there could be a possibility of a
Muslim president this is 230 years ago
they're debating the idea of a Muslim
president and the debate was worn by
those who did not want religious tests
and one of the things they argued was if
there ever was and Muslim elected to