YouTube2Text

Islamist Starts CRYING After Ayaan Hirsi Ali Crushes Islam! — Transcript

by J-TV: The Global Jewish Channel · 4,494 words · 668 segments · language en · Watch on YouTube

Full transcript

  1. 0:00I want to show you this clip of Ayan
  2. 0:02Hersy Ali destroying this Islamist
  3. 0:04sympathizing panel. I showed you another
  4. 0:07clip just a few days ago where she did
  5. 0:08that with a group of women. Have a watch
  6. 0:10this clip because she is just so good at
  7. 0:13debunking the the the politically
  8. 0:16correct nonsense. Watch.
  9. 0:17>> All three of you, I think, also
  10. 0:19acknowledge that the majority of people
  11. 0:21who identify as Muslims around the world
  12. 0:23are not engaged in violence. It seems to
  13. 0:25me that where there is some difference
  14. 0:27is this question of whether the acts of
  15. 0:30violence by a small minority define the
  16. 0:33faith or are a perversion uh and a
  17. 0:36hijacking of the faith. And I want to go
  18. 0:39um first to you Ayan Hercieli. We just
  19. 0:42heard uh Imam Fisel uh make the point he
  20. 0:45made an analogy to um uh episodes
  21. 0:48historical episodes of wrongdoing by by
  22. 0:51faith that are more familiar. for for
  23. 0:53example in Richmond Virginia Christian
  24. 0:55uh faith of course uh historically wars
  25. 0:57have been fought by Christians uh with
  26. 0:59each other and against uh other groups
  27. 1:02and yet there's no tendency in our
  28. 1:04culture therefore to say that there's
  29. 1:06fundamentally something wrong at the
  30. 1:08root of Christianity and its definition
  31. 1:10and I'd like to ask you why you make
  32. 1:11that leap in the case of uh Islam and
  33. 1:15Muslims.
  34. 1:17Um what I do is I sorry um what I do is
  35. 1:21I listen to the men mostly they are men
  36. 1:25there are some women most but mostly men
  37. 1:27who invoke the founding documents of
  38. 1:30Islam and the founding father of Islam
  39. 1:33and I look at what they say and um and
  40. 1:37then I think is that in the Quran uh for
  41. 1:40instance I as you probably all know I'm
  42. 1:43very much concerned about the subjection
  43. 1:44of women Um, so when I read a verse in
  44. 1:48the Quran that says that men are the
  45. 1:51maintenance of women and that husbands
  46. 1:54are allowed to hit their wives, I see I
  47. 1:58I look at that verse in a way and I
  48. 2:01think you can read that in context
  49. 2:03in its historical context or you can
  50. 2:05apply it to our times. And the men who
  51. 2:09are doing that, who are applying all of
  52. 2:11these verses and the example of the
  53. 2:13prophet Muhammad not to the seventh
  54. 2:15century but to our time
  55. 2:18um
  56. 2:20I find and it's very unfortunate but I
  57. 2:24find them to be far more influential in
  58. 2:27inspiring and mobilizing young men to
  59. 2:30see the religion of Islam the way they
  60. 2:32see it than the way either Imam Fisel
  61. 2:36says he sees it or Majid Noah says he
  62. 2:39sees it and and that's a fact. You know,
  63. 2:41you look at al-Qaeda, al-Qaeda does not
  64. 2:44use Bin Laden to recruit new people.
  65. 2:47Al-Qaeda uses the Quran and the Prophet
  66. 2:49Muhammad to recruit young men. So that
  67. 2:51we have to stop this denial and at some
  68. 2:54point try and address the influence of
  69. 2:58these documents. And the way to do it is
  70. 2:59to
  71. 3:01you know to look at what is in there and
  72. 3:04not not deny it. It's just the denial
  73. 3:07that is so incredibly frustrating.
  74. 3:09>> The terrorist groups such as al-Qaeda,
  75. 3:11they all come from the strand of
  76. 3:13Islamism that I described or the
  77. 3:15politicization of Islam. And then there
  78. 3:17are the fundamentalists. The governor of
  79. 3:20Punjab in Pakistan was assassinated by
  80. 3:22his own bodyguard because he attempted
  81. 3:25to reform the blasphemy law in that
  82. 3:27country. And the sad fact is that the
  83. 3:32very people the very phenomenon that
  84. 3:34have been the fiercest in opposing the
  85. 3:37the strand of Islamism in Pakistan also
  86. 3:41produced the assassin of the governor of
  87. 3:43Punjab because they are
  88. 3:45ultra-conservative and the one thing
  89. 3:47that fuels their fire and angers them is
  90. 3:51questioning the blasphemy law and that's
  91. 3:53the second strand I address which is the
  92. 3:54fundamentalist strand. So in Ayan's
  93. 3:57analysis of what the problem is, I would
  94. 4:00agree with her. But then when Ayan goes
  95. 4:02back to the cause and says the cause for
  96. 4:04that problem
  97. 4:06is somehow to be found only in the
  98. 4:10religion of Islam exclusively.
  99. 4:12>> No, no, no, no. We are talking the
  100. 4:14subject tonight is is the religion of
  101. 4:16Islam one of peace or one of violence.
  102. 4:19>> Right. So the debate is not on
  103. 4:22Christianity or other religions. I know
  104. 4:24that it is difficult to talk about the
  105. 4:27violence but I don't think it's right to
  106. 4:30continue.
  107. 4:31>> Let's let Maji
  108. 4:34either either [applause]
  109. 4:40either either we must be consistent
  110. 4:42either the problem is religion per se or
  111. 4:47if we don't want to say that if we don't
  112. 4:48want to say that every single religion
  113. 4:50and there are people that say that
  114. 4:51Richard Dawkins is one of them. Yeah.
  115. 4:53who is as consistent against
  116. 4:55Christianity as he is against Islam and
  117. 4:57Judaism and all faith will stop
  118. 5:00>> or we say okay if the problem isn't
  119. 5:02religion per se then it must be about
  120. 5:05the way that religion is interpreted and
  121. 5:08if that's if that's the point then I
  122. 5:09agree with Aam that today today there
  123. 5:12are serious challenges with the way
  124. 5:14Islam is interpreted and I wish Muslims
  125. 5:16were doing more to challenge those
  126. 5:18interpretations not just in the
  127. 5:19political sense but also in the social
  128. 5:21sense we need to hear more voices speak
  129. 5:23out.
  130. 5:24>> I've got to say that I I don't I I
  131. 5:26really struggle with this one because
  132. 5:29you're telling me that the problem is
  133. 5:32about how religion gets interpreted.
  134. 5:36Well, does anyone have any concerns,
  135. 5:39widespread concerns about how Buddhism
  136. 5:41gets interpreted? Because there's many
  137. 5:43ways in which it could get interpreted
  138. 5:44or Hinduism, how that could get
  139. 5:45interpreted.
  140. 5:49No, the concerns have been historically
  141. 5:51by the way Christianity there was a big
  142. 5:53some serious issues there in terms of
  143. 5:55how some bits were interpreted
  144. 5:56particularly for the Jewish community
  145. 5:57but they've dealt with that not entirely
  146. 6:00but many many segments have there's a
  147. 6:03specific issue with Islam so why are you
  148. 6:05broadening it out to religion when there
  149. 6:09are specific things within I would say
  150. 6:12the Quran that I just think are
  151. 6:16incomparably
  152. 6:18uh more insightful, violent, uh
  153. 6:22potentially inflammatory and and causing
  154. 6:24all the kind of problems we see today
  155. 6:26that you just that you can't necessarily
  156. 6:28compare in any same way to many many
  157. 6:32other faiths and and that I think is the
  158. 6:36the the conflation that's being made
  159. 6:37here that I just I I don't really
  160. 6:40accept. I think yes there is something
  161. 6:43about interpretation. Again I mentioned
  162. 6:45the you know in Christianity things have
  163. 6:47been interpreted certain things in in
  164. 6:49the New Testament that that did cause
  165. 6:51issues and they had to relook at that
  166. 6:54particularly uh you know in in the last
  167. 6:57century. Um, but uh at the end of the
  168. 7:01day to pretend that there isn't a
  169. 7:03specific issue here with Islam, I think
  170. 7:06is uh
  171. 7:08it's just not being intellectually
  172. 7:10honest because there is sadly a lot of
  173. 7:12subject material there that jihadists
  174. 7:15and the radicals draw upon. Danny
  175. 7:17Burawi, who I interviewed, a former
  176. 7:18Muslim from Jordan, said that it is the
  177. 7:20radicals who are interpreting it
  178. 7:22literally. There's lots more subject
  179. 7:24material in the Quran that lends itself
  180. 7:27to these kinds of problems. That's just
  181. 7:30the truth of it.
  182. 7:31>> There are many reasons why they don't.
  183. 7:32>> What are the reasons?
  184. 7:33>> Well, you know, two of us on this stage,
  185. 7:36I don't know about the imam, and forgive
  186. 7:37me, but I hope I am mistaken, but Ayan
  187. 7:40and I both live with death threats over
  188. 7:41our lives. And and the reasons for that
  189. 7:43just last month after the Kenya mall
  190. 7:45attack, the Somali al-Shabaab added me
  191. 7:47to their hit list. You know, it's the
  192. 7:49fact that you're both under death
  193. 7:50threats for speaking the way you're
  194. 7:51speaking that raises the spectre of the
  195. 7:53notion of Islam as a religion of
  196. 7:55violence. It it's a very bad headline.
  197. 7:58>> Of course. Well,
  198. 8:02>> that's that's a that's a point that of
  199. 8:04course
  200. 8:04>> and that's really why we're here and to
  201. 8:06hear why that's not true.
  202. 8:07>> That's a point that would resonate
  203. 8:08except let's not let's remember one
  204. 8:09thing. It takes one person and their dog
  205. 8:13to issue a death threat. Frankly, you
  206. 8:15know, I mean, it's easy to issue death
  207. 8:17threat. That doesn't mean the majority
  208. 8:18of Muslims want to kill us. That means
  209. 8:20there are groups out there.
  210. 8:21>> I I I take that point completely and and
  211. 8:24and that this is the thing that I keep
  212. 8:26asking myself. If if you if you all
  213. 8:28agree if you all will stipulate that the
  214. 8:31majority of Muslims are not involved in
  215. 8:33violence and or interested in being
  216. 8:35involved in violence and if the
  217. 8:36behaviors of the people of a particular
  218. 8:38faith in my mind would define that faith
  219. 8:41then why does that not tell us by it by
  220. 8:43the virtue of the fact that most Muslims
  221. 8:45don't want to be involved in violence
  222. 8:46that Islam is not a religion of violence
  223. 8:48>> I think
  224. 8:49>> isn't it you you walk like a duck and
  225. 8:50you talk like a duck
  226. 8:51>> yes you walk like yes exactly quack
  227. 8:53quack
  228. 8:54>> because the [laughter]
  229. 8:57The violent ones are the ones that get
  230. 8:58the whole news headlines,
  231. 8:59>> right?
  232. 9:00>> I mean, I don't get, you know, you don't
  233. 9:02get news attention because of being
  234. 9:04being moderate or or promoting peace.
  235. 9:06>> I'm sure's going to speak in a second.
  236. 9:08I'll be quick in this point, but I have
  237. 9:09to say that there's there's a few issues
  238. 9:12here that they're conflating. Again,
  239. 9:14okay, yes, most Muslims are not violent.
  240. 9:17Um, but then the question is, what about
  241. 9:19who are the ones that are leading the
  242. 9:21cultural, civilizational, uh, religious
  243. 9:24world? That's what matters. Don't forget
  244. 9:26the Nazis um didn't get the majority of
  245. 9:29German support, but they led the agenda.
  246. 9:32And then secondly, how much sympathy is
  247. 9:34there? Not necessarily they would be
  248. 9:36themselves be violent, but how much
  249. 9:37sympathy is there for jihadist stuff and
  250. 9:40terrorism? And sadly, polling shows that
  251. 9:43there is widespread support for jihadi
  252. 9:46terrorist activities like kamas um etc.
  253. 9:50Um, and this exists uh sadly throughout
  254. 9:53um throughout the Muslim world. Um,
  255. 9:57yeah. And that's part of the problem as
  256. 9:59well, is it not? Because once you, you
  257. 10:01know, you might not have the majority or
  258. 10:03even a substantial minority that are
  259. 10:06involved in violence, even though, by
  260. 10:07the way, a small minority is still
  261. 10:08millions and million millions of people.
  262. 10:10Um, but if you have a culture that's
  263. 10:12growing that supports this kind of
  264. 10:14stuff, that lends itself to this kind of
  265. 10:15stuff, that in of itself is a massive
  266. 10:17massive problem. uh you know you you get
  267. 10:20the attention when you commit acts of
  268. 10:22violence.
  269. 10:23>> Well, look, Yidsak Rabbine was shot by a
  270. 10:25fanatic Jewish extremist and nobody
  271. 10:30leaps from that to thinking that Judaism
  272. 10:32is an extremely violent religion even
  273. 10:35though that young man brought
  274. 10:38essentially brings the text to to his to
  275. 10:40his action. And yet with Islam the that
  276. 10:43leap is often made and I'm trying to
  277. 10:44understand why you think that is. I I
  278. 10:46want to point out we can't
  279. 10:48>> actually let me I I actually wanted to
  280. 10:50put the question to Imam Ruth first and
  281. 10:51then I'll come to you.
  282. 10:52>> Well it is made because that
  283. 10:55>> by the way there's so many causitive
  284. 10:56distinctions there that one has to make
  285. 10:58with the Sakurin assassination. Uh first
  286. 11:01of all this was a political targeting
  287. 11:03whereas terrorism is literally just
  288. 11:05targeting civilians indiscriminately.
  289. 11:08Um so there's a qualitative distinction
  290. 11:10there. Um and secondly the issue is you
  291. 11:14know again about uh frequency right and
  292. 11:18how widespread is this and how much
  293. 11:19widespread support is there for this
  294. 11:21kind of stuff that's the distinction
  295. 11:22>> that link is not made because as
  296. 11:24Christians and as Jews you you get it
  297. 11:25you understand the the political
  298. 11:27motivation behind it
  299. 11:29>> the vast majority of Muslims do not make
  300. 11:31that link either the vast majority of
  301. 11:34Muslims see these things as as not uh
  302. 11:39not legitimately interpreting the
  303. 11:40religion of Islam or something outside
  304. 11:42the state of Islam just like the
  305. 11:44majority of Jews would not consider the
  306. 11:47the assassin of Jakabin as legitimately
  307. 11:50expressing the Jewish faith. Uh this is
  308. 11:53very much the case in the in the vast
  309. 11:54majority of the Muslim world.
  310. 11:56>> So it's it's what you're really saying
  311. 11:59is it's our I'm talking collectively our
  312. 12:03culture here. It's our not knowing
  313. 12:05uh enough about Islam or enough about
  314. 12:08Muslims. It's it's about the way
  315. 12:09perceptions are shaped.
  316. 12:11>> Mhm.
  317. 12:12>> Perceptions are shaped by events very
  318. 12:15much for most people. And just like you
  319. 12:18know when I'm in Muslim majority
  320. 12:20countries they will say why is America
  321. 12:22attacking Islam. They view that. Why?
  322. 12:24Because when some major in in the US
  323. 12:27military says we're in Iraq because this
  324. 12:29is a crusade against Islam. That gets a
  325. 12:31banner headline in the Muslim world. So
  326. 12:33that shapes perception.
  327. 12:34>> And is it a very powerful way? Is it the
  328. 12:36view in the Muslim world that this
  329. 12:38country, our country is dedicated to
  330. 12:40destroying Islam?
  331. 12:41>> There are there are large numbers of
  332. 12:43people who feel that way based upon
  333. 12:45these types of headlines. This is why I
  334. 12:47said that the cycle of extremist actions
  335. 12:50and extremist statements get the banner
  336. 12:52headlines in each in each country. So
  337. 12:54when an Ayatollah in Iran saying death
  338. 12:57to America, this scares Americans and
  339. 12:59Americans get this image that the
  340. 13:01Iranians are out to destroy and Islam is
  341. 13:03about to destroy America. Then you have,
  342. 13:05you know, a a military general who says
  343. 13:08this and then somebody commits an act.
  344. 13:10>> You know, I get so frustrated by all of
  345. 13:12this because at the end of the day, this
  346. 13:14is just trying to whitewash and wash
  347. 13:16over, you know, the serious existential
  348. 13:19security threats and problems that the
  349. 13:21West and Israel America are facing. And
  350. 13:22they do it all in their kind of comfy uh
  351. 13:25couches and their smart suits. What are
  352. 13:27we really getting so worked up about and
  353. 13:29so worried about? But of course it costs
  354. 13:31lives this kind of naivity and uh
  355. 13:33distraction
  356. 13:34>> violence that gets the headlines over
  357. 13:35here. Then you have a pastor who has
  358. 13:37only 30 people in Florida saying he's
  359. 13:39going to burn the Quran and then it
  360. 13:41results in acts of violence. So the the
  361. 13:44the the media grabbing these extremist
  362. 13:46events helps shapes perceptions and
  363. 13:49creates this sense of revulsion that
  364. 13:51people have and the tendency to then
  365. 13:53whitewash all of those people and say
  366. 13:56well this America's against us or the
  367. 13:58west is against us. I only been very
  368. 14:00patient. Go ahead.
  369. 14:01>> Yeah, I've been very patient. Thank you
  370. 14:02very much. So, is it is it the
  371. 14:06packaging, the marketing, or is it the
  372. 14:10substance? Okay.
  373. 14:13In America, in the Western world, there
  374. 14:16are continuous debates about the place
  375. 14:18of Muslims. And yes, in amongst Muslims
  376. 14:22in the west and amongst Muslims outside
  377. 14:25of the West, there is this general
  378. 14:28belief that Islam is under siege and
  379. 14:30that Americans want to destroy Islam.
  380. 14:33That is a matter of perception because
  381. 14:35it's not supported by facts. Now we look
  382. 14:40at Islam and I look at Islamic countries
  383. 14:42like Pakistan and they have blasphemy
  384. 14:44laws. Part of the constitution of
  385. 14:46Pakistan is derived from or founded on
  386. 14:49the Quran or the hadith. Um the
  387. 14:51constitution of Iran is Islamic.
  388. 14:55The constitution of Saudi Arabia is the
  389. 14:58Quran. You look at movements like the
  390. 15:00Muslim Brotherhood and the Islamists in
  391. 15:02uh the countries that have sprung up
  392. 15:04after the Arab Spring and these
  393. 15:07movements want to organize society along
  394. 15:11religious lines. this conflation
  395. 15:15between politics and religion. This is
  396. 15:18not something that I am imagining.
  397. 15:20[clears throat] It's not a packaging
  398. 15:21problem. It's substantial. So when you
  399. 15:24give the example of the murderer of its
  400. 15:27Rabbin, uh he is a fringe. The state of
  401. 15:30Israel is not
  402. 15:32>> and he's in jail
  403. 15:33>> and he is in jail. And the Christian
  404. 15:35extremists here in the United States who
  405. 15:39take the Bible and then use it to um
  406. 15:43kill people and hurt people, they are
  407. 15:45the fringe. But unfortunately, what we
  408. 15:48are seeing in Muslim countries is that
  409. 15:50the people who feel that they should be
  410. 15:53governed under the Sharia law are not a
  411. 15:56fringe. In some countries, they are a
  412. 15:58mainstream.
  413. 16:00>> In some countries, they are a minority.
  414. 16:02But in any case, it's a huge obstacle
  415. 16:05that cannot be ignored. And Islam can
  416. 16:07become a religion of peace. If politics
  417. 16:11is divorced from religion, if science is
  418. 16:14divorced from religion and and for that
  419. 16:18we need a reformation.
  420. 16:19>> Specifically, why is there so much
  421. 16:21violence against and oppression of
  422. 16:24women? Is this a problem of substance or
  423. 16:27is it a problem of interpretation? Does
  424. 16:29the Quran specifically justify and
  425. 16:32condone it?
  426. 16:34Ayon, I think as the feminist, well,
  427. 16:36maybe everyone here is a feminist, but
  428. 16:38as you're the female feminist on the
  429. 16:40panel, [laughter]
  430. 16:41I'll give you first crack at that.
  431. 16:43>> Um, well, thank you very much. Um,
  432. 16:47I find enough verses in the Quran and in
  433. 16:50the Hadith and in the practice of Islam
  434. 16:52to show that as a woman in Islam, you
  435. 16:55have to have a male guardian. you don't
  436. 16:57own your sexuality. Um, you know, all
  437. 17:00the examples that I mentioned. So, that
  438. 17:04is meat. It's substance. And when I call
  439. 17:09for a reformation, I am calling for an
  440. 17:13editing, a review of that so that uh men
  441. 17:17who do not want to oppress women um can
  442. 17:21find consistency within their scripture
  443. 17:24and the way they practice Islam. Right
  444. 17:27now what you see when it comes to
  445. 17:29violence whether it is against women or
  446. 17:31against religious minorities or even you
  447. 17:33know Shia and Sunnis what you see is
  448. 17:36there are peaceloving Muslims who are
  449. 17:39put in a position of cognitive
  450. 17:41dissonance. They want to live and they
  451. 17:44do lead lives that are not conssonant
  452. 17:48with what the Quran says and the example
  453. 17:50of the prophet Muhammad. And I think the
  454. 17:52way forward is to stop the denial, the
  455. 17:56evasion and to look at this and to
  456. 17:59modify it. We live in a country that
  457. 18:00allows us to do that. United States is
  458. 18:03founded on innovation and there's this
  459. 18:05enormous opportunity um today for
  460. 18:08Muslims. As we look at the world that we
  461. 18:11were born in and the world we come from,
  462. 18:13there's this enormous opportunity here
  463. 18:15in the US to look at scripture in the
  464. 18:17eye and to innovate and to reform. And
  465. 18:20unless that is done, that dissonance is
  466. 18:23going to be there. And the people who
  467. 18:24invoke the verses and the practice of
  468. 18:27the prophet to justify the subjection of
  469. 18:29women and to justify violence will
  470. 18:31always be there. So my message is right
  471. 18:35now there is an opportunity for reform.
  472. 18:37I have this printed out and I'm just
  473. 18:39waiting for that challenge that it's not
  474. 18:41in the Quran. You should go to a website
  475. 18:43called Islam a religion of peace and
  476. 18:46someone has documented 109 verses from
  477. 18:49the Quran and the hadith. So it's in the
  478. 18:53world we live the Quran is a small
  479. 18:56and everyone can see what it is.
  480. 18:57>> I'm only coming to you as the moderator
  481. 18:58on this question because I'm looking for
  482. 19:00clarity. But you could do the same thing
  483. 19:01with the Old Testament.
  484. 19:03>> Oh you can but the Christians have gone
  485. 19:05through that. The Christians have had
  486. 19:07their inquisitions and their crusades
  487. 19:08and the witch burnings and they are past
  488. 19:11that. So that violence is now an issue
  489. 19:14of the fringe. Islam is right in the
  490. 19:16middle of it and a true leadership. By
  491. 19:18the way, this topic for another time,
  492. 19:20but I would challenge the idea that in,
  493. 19:23you know, the New Testament things a
  494. 19:24different story, but the Old Testament,
  495. 19:28the things that may seem a little bit
  496. 19:30inflammatory or whatever, actually, once
  497. 19:32you understand them and the way they've
  498. 19:34also been interpreted through our oral
  499. 19:36law, which we've always had since Mount
  500. 19:38Si, that I I think they all become
  501. 19:42completely justifiable.
  502. 19:44um as evidenced by the fact that we
  503. 19:46don't see an example of from the Jewish
  504. 19:48side a crusade and inquisition or or
  505. 19:50jihadi or jihad or terrorism or that
  506. 19:53kind of stuff. Um but I think the big
  507. 19:55concern here is that there's just too
  508. 19:57much within the Quran that seems to lend
  509. 20:00itself to this kind of interpretation.
  510. 20:03Therefore, you want a reformation.
  511. 20:06How do you do that with so when there's
  512. 20:08so much subject material here?
  513. 20:09Ultimately, even if you want to have a
  514. 20:11whole new thing that says, "No, we don't
  515. 20:12interpret it that way." Anyone that just
  516. 20:15reads the text itself will see so much
  517. 20:17there that would encourage in their
  518. 20:20minds jihad.
  519. 20:21>> Compassionate leadership who love
  520. 20:22Muslims would be a leadership that would
  521. 20:25now modify, innovate, and and reform. So
  522. 20:28I have to say that ultimately um we
  523. 20:32can't get away from the fact that it is
  524. 20:34the uh Quran itself
  525. 20:37that is problematic
  526. 20:40and uh I in no way want to take away
  527. 20:43from the fact that Muslims have a there
  528. 20:47are many that just have a devout sense
  529. 20:48of wanting to be connected to God, lead
  530. 20:52a uh spiritual god-oriented life and
  531. 20:56that is absolutely commendable and
  532. 20:57that's Great. And there probably is a
  533. 20:59lot of overlap that we share as Jews
  534. 21:01with Muslims, but the Quran itself uh is
  535. 21:04a problem. And certainly from a Jewish
  536. 21:06perspective, in the end, it's going to
  537. 21:09have to go. Not connection to God, not
  538. 21:12connection to spirituality. And again,
  539. 21:14there's so much within the Quran that
  540. 21:16shares the narratives and stories of of
  541. 21:18of the Torah, but but but uh this uh you
  542. 21:24know, the the fact that there's quite a
  543. 21:26lot of textual distortion actually of
  544. 21:28what the Torah says in the Quran and
  545. 21:29also the inflammatory
  546. 21:31uh anti- non-Muslim stuff there uh and
  547. 21:35its political desires certainly to you
  548. 21:38know overtake um the uh the world
  549. 21:42politically.
  550. 21:43Um that is something that's uh going to
  551. 21:46be a major a major problem that
  552. 21:48ultimately uh is it means that that the
  553. 21:51Quran is a problem and it's going to
  554. 21:54have to be
  555. 21:56replaced
  556. 21:58with the Torah. That is the Jewish
  557. 22:01vision. Um and it's something that we
  558. 22:03believe is coming and it's going to be
  559. 22:04actually imminent. Um, but one thing
  560. 22:07that I want to get back to is that we
  561. 22:09saw on this panel discussion um too much
  562. 22:12of uh a desire to want to just
  563. 22:16uh labor under false illusions to
  564. 22:21convince themselves that no no we see
  565. 22:23this we see this problem and violence
  566. 22:24everything but no no it can't be because
  567. 22:26you know every religion gets interpreted
  568. 22:28this way and and you know it's only a
  569. 22:30tiny minority.
  570. 22:32It's so dangerous when we allow fancy
  571. 22:35arguments to cloud the actual problem.
  572. 22:40And the same thing has happened inside
  573. 22:42of Israel on another question. The whole
  574. 22:44issue of the Palestinian
  575. 22:47cause, thinking that we need to keep
  576. 22:49doing the whole two-state solution
  577. 22:51thing. We can't talk about any other way
  578. 22:54to resolve this conflict and say that
  579. 22:57the Palestinian thing is actually a lie.
  580. 22:59And actually I was trying to do some
  581. 23:01digging into where has this come from?
  582. 23:02Why are we so stuck? Why is Israel
  583. 23:04stuck,
  584. 23:06the world actually for that matter,
  585. 23:08stuck psychologically and politically in
  586. 23:10this trap where we can't get out of
  587. 23:13stating the bleeding obvious that the
  588. 23:14Palestinian cause is a lie and a cynical
  589. 23:17creation. And I think it all comes back
  590. 23:19to an agreement that was secretly
  591. 23:21negotiated and then signed in the 1990s.
  592. 23:24And so we made a documentary about this
  593. 23:27and it's about the Oslo Accords and how
  594. 23:31this laid the groundwork for the cage
  595. 23:33that Israel's been stuck in. But it also
  596. 23:35shows us how Israel can finally escape
  597. 23:38Oslo's trap. Have a watch the trailer
  598. 23:40for our new film that we've just
  599. 23:42launched on JTV Plus called The Oslo
  600. 23:44Trap. And if you want to watch it in
  601. 23:46full, just click on the link below in
  602. 23:47the video description. You've been
  603. 23:49watching this conflict for years now,
  604. 23:52maybe your whole life. The wars, the
  605. 23:54terror, the protests, the politics,
  606. 23:57and underneath all of it, a set of
  607. 23:59phrases that get repeated so often
  608. 24:02they've stopped meaning anything. And
  609. 24:03yet somehow they still shape everything.
  610. 24:06Two-state solution. Two solution.
  611. 24:09>> Occupation. Palestinian statethood. But
  612. 24:12if you want to understand where all of
  613. 24:14this comes from and why things seem so
  614. 24:16stuck, there is one moment you need to
  615. 24:19know about. One agreement signed 30
  616. 24:22years ago that created the world we're
  617. 24:24living in now. It's called the Oslo
  618. 24:26Accords.
  619. 24:29A peace agreement, or so the world was
  620. 24:31told,
  621. 24:33secretly negotiated,
  622. 24:36in the Norwegian city of Oslo, and
  623. 24:39signed on the White House lawn in 1993
  624. 24:42between the Israeli government and the
  625. 24:44Palestine Liberation Organization, the
  626. 24:46PLO, a Palestinian political movement
  627. 24:48that had spent decades waging a terror
  628. 24:50campaign against Israeli civilians. Most
  629. 24:53people have never heard of the Oslo
  630. 24:54Accords, or they've heard the name and
  631. 24:56moved on. But Oslo is the reason Israeli
  632. 24:59occupation dominates the news bulletins.
  633. 25:02It's why two-state solution is the only
  634. 25:04diplomatic language anyone speaks. It's
  635. 25:07why Israel left Gaza in 2005 and why
  636. 25:10that withdrawal handed Hamas the
  637. 25:12launchpad for October [music] 7th. It's
  638. 25:14why Israel, even after the largest
  639. 25:16massacre of Jewish people since the
  640. 25:17Holocaust, found itself in the dock at
  641. 25:20the International Court of Justice
  642. 25:22rather than unequivocally backed by the
  643. 25:24[music] world. Oslo didn't just fail as
  644. 25:26a peace process. Oslo built the
  645. 25:28framework, the moral, political, and
  646. 25:30military framework inside which Israel
  647. 25:32has been trapped ever since. And until
  648. 25:34you understand what it actually was and
  649. 25:36why it was [music] built, you cannot
  650. 25:38understand what is happening today. In
  651. 25:40this JTV Plus documentary, we're going
  652. 25:42to show you what Oslo was really
  653. 25:44designed to achieve. How it handed a
  654. 25:46terrorist organization the space to
  655. 25:48build the machine that carried out
  656. 25:50October 7th. how it trapped Israel in a
  657. 25:53moral framework it can't win inside and
  658. 25:56why the world is still reaching for
  659. 25:58Oslo's language today because Oslo
  660. 26:00didn't just shape the conflict, it
  661. 26:02shaped how the entire world thinks about
  662. 26:04it. This film is going to show you where
  663. 26:06it all began, why it still hasn't ended,
  664. 26:08and how Israel can finally escape Oslo's
  665. 26:10trap. To watch this JTV Plus documentary
  666. 26:14and access much more premium content,
  667. 26:16click on the link in the video
  668. 26:18description.

About this transcript

This page contains the full transcript of Islamist Starts CRYING After Ayaan Hirsi Ali Crushes Islam! by J-TV: The Global Jewish Channel, generated from the public captions YouTube serves with the video. The transcript has 4,494 words across 668 segments, with the original timestamps preserved so you can click any line to jump to that moment in the embedded player.

What you can do with it

Use the transcript to take notes, quote the speaker, build a study guide, generate a summary with ChatGPT or Claude via the YouTube Summary tool, or export it as a timed subtitle file with YouTube to SRT. You can also re-open it in the transcriber to choose a caption track available on the video.

Free YouTube transcript tool

YouTube2Text is a free YouTube transcript generator — no signup, no daily limit. Paste any YouTube link and get the full transcript instantly, with timestamps, click-to-jump, caption language selection, AI prompts for ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini, and exports to TXT, SRT, VTT, or Markdown.