 I came across a video by Sam Harris where he's trying to understand why young western people are chosen Islam over other religions. I thought it was worth reacting to however just two minutes into the video I was disappointed. In one of his books Islam and the future of tolerance he demonstrated that understanding Islam requires a spiritual perspective. Have you been keeping abreast or have you noticed this trend that's happened of westerners choosing to convert to Islam in adult life? But in this video he suggests that what attracts young western people to the faith is what he calls the martyrs' tower of Islam. I found this very unfair given the theological philosophical and historical evidence supporting Islam's credibility. Obviously you spent a lot of your career criticising Islam and now we have, I don't want to accuse it of larping these people very well may truly believe in the doctrine but Andrew Tate is one of them and downstream from that there's on-street interviews with young British youths with these Islamic scholars or imams or whatever who are converting them on the street and they're like doing the thing on the street. I haven't seen those Vox Pop conversions but I saw Andrew Tate's conversion. Islam is just mimetically it's perfect for a specific audience. It's a explicitly macho religion. It's a no-pussies religion. With Christianity you have to pretend to be happy to be losing for the longest time and you're basically just waiting for Jesus to come back and rectify this grave injustice. The meek shall inherit the earth. There's no putting this place right. We're not going to win until we see Jesus arrive on trailing clouds of glory. So it's all going to be fucked up for the longest time and there's no imperative that we really do anything. There's no expectation that we're going to win before anything good happens. I guess there's one Christian sect where they do have an expectation of winning a thousand years of millennial glory and then Jesus comes. But for most Christians it's a story of failure and then they get to say look we were right. Jesus came back. With Islam there's an expectation that they're going to conquer the world and there's an imperative to conquer the world for serious Muslims. You don't have to be impatient necessarily. You can take as long as you want but we all know this is moving in one direction and you need to be a spiritual warrior and if you take this really far, if you become a jihadist especially doctrinaire, militant, true believer, well then you're a kind of spiritual James Bond. I mean it's like you get to be jaco. Asalaamu alaikum ladies and gentlemen, welcome to another episode of the Open Mind Thinker Show. Please like and share to help us reach more people and subscribe if you haven't already. It's essentially logical to judge the spiritual grace of becoming a Muslim by looking at the misdeed of a few violent individuals among over one billion Muslims. This approach is unfair even from the perspective of intellectual analysis. The Quran doesn't suggest that those who truly worship Allah in truth and in spirit follow the sunnah and observe the pillars of faith are less than those who take up arms to fight for Allah. This is not accurate just like in other Abrahamic religion, faith and a single God and love for humanity are prerequisite for true worship. So Harris, you are mistaken. You're a kind of spiritual James Bond. I mean it's like you get to be jaco and care about and know that you're going to go to paradise. So you get all the tools like it's this first person shooter that literally get all the good guns. It's not this boring. I'm pretending to just, I'll turn the other cheek. Thank you, sir. Can I have another? It's a high-T religion and that's why a Shmuk like Andrew Tate thinks he's had a real insight in embracing it. People are seeing it as a redress to women of the West who have been conned by feminism into believing that these things are good for them. They're not good for them. We need, you know, no one's happy. Look at the divorce rates. Look at the 60% of U.S. teen age girls age 12 to 16 have regular or persistent feelings of hopelessness. Everyone's only fans pathologically fapping themselves into an early monster energy hole or whatever it is that they're doing. The answer is a return to something that's got a bit more lindy nature to it. That's the claim that I want to deny. I mean, it's explicitly retrograde. I mean, it is regressive. It is backward looking. It is not using all of the good ideas we've had in the meantime, right? It's a disavowal of the present and the near present. I mean, the modernity in the case of Islam is a disavowal of nearly 1400 years of wisdom and insight. Harris rejected the host's example of Western moral and societal degradation, you know, similarly because he believes Islam is inferior to Western wisdom, which in his view has advanced significantly. Yes, of course it has. It does. While I respect this opinion as an atheist, I disagree with him on recognizing the rise of Islam as a divine intervention. Without this foundation, it will be challenging to engage in further discussion because I am a passing of faith and can only defend things related to my spiritual convictions. Again, Harris, you are mistaken. It's a claim that in the seventh century, somebody was so smart and so wise and so prescient and so had his shit together that everything we're thinking about and talking about happened then. So we should confine ourselves to the products of that conversation. That's just, I mean, it's imbecilic on its face. Again, there's nothing useful to come out of Islam. But whatever is useful, we can use without believing that Muhammad was visited by the Archangel Gabriel and got the last download from the creator of the universe. This is not to deny any of the cultural problems as someone like Andrew Tate, or lots of people we've dragged into the conversation here, but all of these people who I've criticized to some degree, Tate or RFK or you could add Elon to this. All these people are living out the consequences of their dissatisfaction with the present on the public stage and winning a lot of followers as a result. They like the way these guys are complaining about the obvious excesses of the left. All right, Harris has not abandoned his Islamophobia despite what he claimed. He seems deeply entrenched in it. But the message I want to converse is that many people now see Islam as their last remaining counterbalance to the excesses of the left and the west, just as it has been throughout history. After the degradation of Christianity by Paganism, Islam emerged as a final message to humanity. Islam would continue to address the world's problem for all eternity. Please like and share this insight. Until next time, Asalaamu Alaikum.