Praised by Prime Minister Modi for appreciating India's civilizational culture,

scholar at the University of Mississippi, author of the parasitic mind,

how infectious ideas are killing common sense and the forthcoming books,

suicidal empathy, dying to be kind,

joins us now to answer a few.

And I have to say this viewers blunt questions shown totally

of PR and I'm going to begin by asking these questions.

Mr. Sadd, thank you very much.

You've been praised by Prime Minister Modi for your admiration of India and its culture.

In your view, what is the single biggest threat to India's future to the external aggression,

internal decay or ideological subversion?

I mean, I would probably say that the latter in that I know that India has a very rich tapestry of cultures and languages and spices and foods,

but I know that there's a problem that the entire globe is facing and that's coming from an ideology

that may not be consistent with some of the liberties and freedoms that we take for granted.

So without knowing too much about the internal machinations of Indian politics,

I would say the same problem that the rest of the world faces is the one that India faces.

So clearly you're referring to the elephant in the room and I'm going to name it Islamism you

argue it's an ideology not a reaction why do so many still insist it's merely a

response to Hindu or Western assertion and why is that I would have to say and

ask you a dangerous lie well because we've evolved the prefrontal cortex here in the front of our brain

in order to be able to invoke our capacity to reason.

Part of our capacity to reason is to understand statistical regularities.

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