Islamism versus Islam (The Saad Truth with Dr. Saad_649)

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🗓️ 3 March 2024

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From one of my appearances several years ago on The Rubin Report. I was differently-weighted back then. Original link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5685KJmphFs #Islam #Islamism #religion #politics #progressivism #politicalcorrectness _______________________________________ My book The Saad Truth about Happiness: 8 Secrets for Leading the Good Life is available for order: https://www.amazon.com/Saad-Truth-about-Happiness-Secrets/dp/1684512603 _______________________________________ If you appreciate my work and would like to support it: https://subscribestar.com/the-saad-truth https://patreon.com/GadSaad https://paypal.me/GadSaad To subscribe to my exclusive content on Twitter, please visit my bio at https://twitter.com/GadSaad _______________________________________ This clip was posted earlier today (March 3, 2024) on my YouTube channel as THE SAAD TRUTH_1660: https://youtu.be/feJiYRmbqwo _______________________________________ Please visit my website gadsaad.com, and sign up for alerts. If you appreciate my content, click on the "Support My Work" button. I count on my fans to support my efforts. You can donate via Patreon, PayPal, and/or SubscribeStar. _______________________________________ Dr. Gad Saad is a professor, evolutionary behavioral scientist, and author who pioneered the use of evolutionary psychology in marketing and consumer behavior. In addition to his scientific work, Dr. Saad is a leading public intellectual who often writes and speaks about idea pathogens that are destroying logic, science, reason, and common sense. _______________________________________

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0:00.0	I think it is a misnomer to constantly come up with qualifiers before the
0:07.1	word Islam and let me explain why that is there is no Islam there is no
0:11.1	Islamism is part of Islam. Islam is a set of codified ideas that
0:16.9	has a spiritual element and it has a political element. That political element is Islamism. The manner in which now people are talking about Islamism
0:26.1	is it's something that is outside of Islam. And I understand the reason why people want to do
0:31.6	this is because they feel as though it's too
0:33.4	gosh to frontally attack a religion. So if you attack something that has magically ISM at the end of it,
0:40.4	Islamism, that's okay. If you attack Islam, that's not okay. But the reality is if we're
0:45.6	truly going to have a serious and honest conversation about this topic, we have to recognize
0:49.7	it's not radical Islam, it's not Islamism, it's not militant violent extremism. not choose to practice a cafeteria version of Islam. They pick the parts that they
1:05.2	like and they ignore the endless parts that they don't like and that becomes their
1:09.7	personal relationship with Islam. That doesn't...
1:13.0	But most people do that with most religions, right?
1:15.0	Most people do that with most relationships, but you and I and everybody else don't stay up worrying
1:18.5	about seventh they added this.
1:19.9	So to the extent that Islam is now on the radar and we have to talk about it honestly
1:24.8	we have to stop trying to give a free pass to Islam but the real problem is
1:30.6	something else some variant of it?
1:32.8	Yeah.
1:33.8	Islam is codified in the Quran, it's codified in the hadis, it's qualified in the
1:37.4	Syria, the biography of Muhammad.
1:40.0	That's it.
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