Ridvan Aydemir: Islam: Religion of Peace or Political Ideology? | DSH #1463

Summary

Digital Social Hour – Ridvan Aydemir: Islam: Religion of Peace or Political Ideology? | DSH #1463

Date: July 25, 2025
Host: Sean Kelly
Guest: Ridvan Aydemir (‘Apostate Prophet’)
Setting: Student Action Summit

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Episode Overview

This episode features Ridvan Aydemir, known online as ‘Apostate Prophet,’ in a candid conversation about Islam and its role in society. Aydemir, an ex-Muslim and outspoken critic of Islam, discusses the distinction between individual Muslims and the political ideology embedded in Islam. The discussion covers his personal experiences, ideological and political elements of Islam, its historical application, treatment of women, limits on freedom of speech, and challenges faced by ex-Muslims. The tone is direct, occasionally provocative, and offers first-hand perspectives rarely addressed in mainstream discourse.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Distinction Between Muslims and Islamic Ideology

• Condemnation of Stereotyping
  • Aydemir notes that targeting all Muslims is wrong, as not every Muslim subscribes to extreme views.

    "It would be a wrong thing to do to go after innocent Muslims out there, to attack them, to slander every Muslim out there as a terrorist." (00:00)

  • Asserts, however, that Islam cannot be simply labeled as a religion of peace:

    "But to then say Islam is itself a religion of peace is just... pure nonsense." (00:21)

2. Islam as Political System vs. Religion

• Islam in Europe and the West

  • Aydemir speaks about Muslim migration to Europe and the rise of political Islam, noting activist aims for Muslims to attain heads of state positions in Western countries (01:22-02:52).

    "With Islam, what people need to understand is that it's not just a religion, it is a political system and it's dangerous." (02:52)

  • Cites attempts to create segregated Islamic communities in the U.S., e.g., in Michigan and Texas.

• Islamic History & Jizya

  • Explains the historical application of the Quranic command (Chapter 9, verse 29) to subjugate non-Muslims and impose the tax known as jizya:

    "The Quran orders Muslims in chapter 9, verse 29, to fight and to subjugate Christians and the others who do not accept Islam, except it gives them the right to stay alive under the condition that they pay protection money, which is called jizya." (03:55)

  • Draws a parallel to mafia-style protection money:

    "You know, it's like the Italian mafia." (04:22, interviewer)

• Demise of the Islamic Caliphate

  • Notes that these systems were practiced until the fall of the Ottoman Empire post-WWI.

3. Demographics and Growth of Islam

• Growth Dynamics

  • Emphasizes that Islam's projected rise to the largest religion is primarily due to birth rates, not conversion:

    "Muslims like to often claim that this is because people convert. It's not. It's because of very high birth rates among Muslims." (08:11)

• Role of Women

  • Criticizes the role of women in Islamic societies as being limited to childbearing:

    "Women are basically treated as baby making factories in the Islamic worldview." (08:22)

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4. Happiness, Satisfaction, and Submission in Muslim Societies

• Happiness Studies

  • Western nations consistently rank as “happiest”; Muslim-majority nations do not (12:06).
  • However, self-reported “satisfaction” in Muslim countries is high, due to internalized notions of submission:

    "Islam literally means submission...People raised within that faith... will learn that no matter how miserable they are, they are basically supposed to be okay with it and supposed to be in submission with it." (12:33-13:07)

• Consequences of Nonconformity

  • Outlines intolerance to criticism or satire, exemplified by the Charlie Hebdo massacre in France, where cartoonists depicting Muhammad were killed (14:05-14:30).

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5. Limits on Freedom of Expression

• Blasphemy and Apostasy

  • Aydemir recounts personal experiences of receiving death threats after destroying a Quran, making the point that offending religious symbols provokes greater outrage than harming people:

    "Killing a human is nothing to them, but ripping a Quran page to them is just unacceptable." (17:51)

  • Reveals he faces legal action in Turkey for ‘insulting Islam’, risking arrest if he returns (18:57-19:45).

• Cases of Persecution

  • Cites real cases in Pakistan and Afghanistan where women faced death penalty or mob violence simply based on accusation or alleged disrespect to Islam (20:22-22:35).

    "She had a little public altercation...the person that she had an altercation with slandered her and said that she insulted the Prophet Muhammad...a mob of hundreds of people started forming and coming after her, wanting to lynch and kill her and burn her." (20:45-21:05) "So a large mob formed. They came after her, they started beating in on her. They started setting fire on her, stepping on her while she's burning..." (22:10-22:29)

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6. The West’s Misconception of Islam

• Critiques post-9/11 rhetoric, particularly George W. Bush’s popularization of "Islam is a religion of peace:"

  "...It is our president or the President of the United States that started this whole...who popularized the line, Islam is a religion of peace." (24:40)

• Asserts this phrase is a dangerous misrepresentation:

  "But to then say Islam is itself a religion of peace is pure nonsense. And we are dealing with the consequences of that right now. It's not a religion of peace. It's a religion of...of hate, of war, of bloodshed, of conquest. And we have to be able to say this without being afraid of some backlash, you know." (25:39)

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• On Misrepresentation:

  "We shouldn't be attacking every single random Muslim because they're not all in on this whole...stuff. But to then say Islam is itself a religion of peace is just...pure nonsense."
  (00:00–00:21, Ridvan Aydemir)

• On Political Islam:

  "What people need to understand is that it's not just a religion, it is a political system and it's dangerous."
  (02:52, Ridvan Aydemir)

• On Birth Rates:

  "Women are basically treated as baby making factories in the Islamic worldview."
  (08:22, Ridvan Aydemir)

• On Submission and Happiness:

  "Islam literally means submission...no matter how miserable they are, they are basically supposed to be okay with it and supposed to be in submission with it."
  (12:33–13:07, Ridvan Aydemir)

• On Cultural Sensitivity:

  "If you say something disrespectful about [Muhammad], you're going to get in trouble. So don't do it."
  (16:36, Ridvan Aydemir)

• On Violence and Blasphemy:

  "Killing a human is nothing to them, but ripping a Quran page to them is just unacceptable."
  (17:51, Ridvan Aydemir)

• On Freedom in the West:

  "America was built on freedom, on liberty here more than anywhere else...this religion or this political ideology that masquerades as religion is incompatible with the values that we have here."
  (18:28, Ridvan Aydemir)

• On Courage to Speak Out:

  "There should be more. And I hope that today we can start at this event to spread this to more people and to have more people speak up."
  (26:25, Ridvan Aydemir)

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Important Timestamps

• 00:00-00:21 — Introduction and main assertion: Islam is not a religion of peace
• 01:22-02:52 — Emergence of political Islam in the West
• 03:55-04:22 — Explaining the Quranic justification for subjugation of non-Muslims
• 07:49-08:22 — Demographics and birth rate discussion
• 12:06-13:07 — Happiness and satisfaction in Muslim vs. Western countries
• 14:05-14:30 — Consequences of criticism: Charlie Hebdo reference
• 16:36-17:51 — Blasphemy punishments and death threats for apostasy
• 18:28-19:45 — Restrictions on free speech for ex-Muslims; legal perils
• 20:22-22:35 — Cases of persecution for alleged blasphemy
• 24:40-25:39 — Origin and dangers of the 'religion of peace' narrative

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Where to Find Ridvan Aydemir

• YouTube: Apostate Prophet
• Twitter/X: @ApostateProphet

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Tone:
The conversation is frank, unfiltered, and often confrontational toward mainstream perceptions of Islam, blending Aydemir’s personal experiences, academic understanding, and passionate advocacy. The host and co-interviewers react with surprise, sometimes shock, as they listen to Aydemir's firsthand accounts about the real-world application of Islamic doctrine and the suppression of dissent.

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Conclusion:
This episode of Digital Social Hour takes listeners deep into the controversial and rarely-discussed realities of political Islam as described by a prominent ex-Muslim critic. It presents an uncompromising challenge to popular narratives, underscores the distinction between ordinary Muslims and the ideology of Islam, and urges greater scrutiny and courage in public conversation.

Transcript

[Apostate Prophet]

I would say it would be a wrong thing to do to go after innocent Muslims out there, to attack them, to slander every Muslim out there as a terrorist. I would say. I agree with that. I would say we shouldn't be attacking every single random Muslim because they're not all in on this whole. This kind of stuff. But to then say Islam is itself a religion of peace is just. Is pure nonsense.

[Interviewer]

All right, guys, got Apostate Prophet here today. We're at Student Action Summit. How's the event been for you so far?

[Apostate Prophet]

Very nice, very nice. Seeing a lot of good people here.

[Interviewer]

Nice. What's the main. Main thing you're trying to get out of an event like this? Attending this?

[Apostate Prophet]

Well, I want to meet the good people that are here, do some networking. But also, primarily the main reason that I'm here is that I want to tell people about. About Islam, which is also why Charlie invited me here.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Apostate Prophet]

Because he wants to focus more on the whole Islam issue and what kind of a rising threat it is. And I want to do my best to help out with that, to point that out and to get something going, because I think that this is an issue that Americans are not very much familiar with, and they should be familiar with because Europe has suffered from it, and America can very quickly get there if America is not smart.

[Interviewer]

So when you say rising issue, what makes it. Consider that for your. In your eyes?

[Apostate Prophet]

So.

There is a lot there. But so in Europe, we had this whole issue of inviting guest workers from Muslim countries, from Muslim cultures over, and then having them stay in Europe and start spreading their Islamic ideology. Islamic beliefs, not simply as a religion, but also as. As a way of living and a social rule that is supposed to be imposed on not only the Muslims, but also on others. For example, Muslims arrive and start demanding that certain speech is censored, that their religious beliefs are respected. And that's where it starts. It gets more and more and more that you have them going to politics. We recently had a Muslim teacher in the UK who is very well known in the UK, say very publicly and openly that it should be a goal of Muslims within the next 50 years to have in at least three countries in the UK, in Canada and Australia, Muslim prime ministers. This means that they would be in charge, you know, and they would have influence and take over. In. In the US we already have similar trends. We have currents in. In. In Michigan, we recently had attempts to establish an Islamic community and society within Texas, which was gladly shut down, but there are still attempts to pick that up again. And with Islam, what people need to understand is that it's not just a religion, it is a political system and it's dangerous.

[Interviewer]

Wow. And you used to be part of this religion, right?

[Apostate Prophet]

I used to be. I grew up in a Muslim household. I. I was a believing in practicing Muslim myself. And I learned lots of very messed up things from my own parents and from my own. From their circles, from the mosques and all that. So things such as that the Jews and the Christians are evil and unreliable and we shouldn't befriend them. Wow.

[Interviewer]

They teach that?

[Apostate Prophet]

Yeah. This is directly in the Quran.

[Interviewer]

Wow, that's crazy.

[Apostate Prophet]

It is directly. I'm going to bring this up in my speech as well, but the Quran literally says that Christians are friends or allies of one another and Muslims are not to befriend them. Whoever befriends them is one of them. They are basically in hostility, in animosity toward the Muslims and toward Allah himself. God himself. So the Quran orders Muslims in chapter 9, verse 29, to, to fight and to subjugate.

Christians and the others who do not accept Islam, except it gives them the right to. To stay alive under the condition that they pay protection money, which is called jizya. This is what was historically applied. So Muslims would conquer them and would then subjugate them and take protection money from them. And as long as they pay protection money, they are allowed to stay alive. But they have to follow certain standards imposed on them as lesser people.

[Interviewer]

You know, it's like the Italian mafia.

[Apostate Prophet]

Yeah, pretty much protection money. Yeah, it's like. So it's called jizya. It's. Some will mistakenly call it a tax, but it's not really a text. It's like it is literally, it says that this is supposed to be imposed on the disbelievers in humiliation. And historically it was applied so that the Muslim army comes conquers a place, there is a sizable Christian population there, then the Muslims say, okay, you will pay us this amount of money on a yearly basis or a monthly basis, and you can then continue existing in your own quarters. But you have to follow our rules.

[Sean Kelly]

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[Apostate Prophet]

You cannot build new churches. You cannot have like loud processions. You have to give your spaces, you have to open your doors to Muslims if they want to come in and so on. And if you fail to pay this money, you will become fair game and lose all kinds of protection. So this is how Islam was historically applied in lands that they conquered? Yeah, this was done until the 20th century when in the First World War the Ottoman Empire collapsed and was defeated by the west and the Caliphate, which was the Islamic leadership in the world was then destroyed and crushed and became non existent. Up until that time, Islam was an an imperialist force in the world and did everything by that rule, conquer, subjugate, take protection money and enforce Islamic standards on people. We don't have it right now in that, in quite that way because the Islamic empire was crushed a little than a little over a hundred years ago. But there are lots of people who want to bring that back and some people are quite open about it, such as the guy that I mentioned who says we should have a vision to be in charge of non Muslim countries again so that we can rise and bring some of these things back.

[Interviewer]

Wow.

[Apostate Prophet]

So lots of people don't understand much about Islam. They think it's just a religion like any other. It's like a connection between the person and God and it's just like any other religion. It's really not. It is a political system. Some people might be less political about it, some people might be more personal about it. But you can't separate the Islamism as it's called, from Islam itself. That's simply what it is.

[Interviewer]

Wow. You are changing my, my view on Islam right now. I am fascinated by all. It's one of the biggest religions. Right. Numbers wise, is it bigger than Christianity.

[Apostate Prophet]

It is, it's still smaller than Christianity so it's currently on number two. But so according to some research, it is projected to take over and to become the biggest religion within the next 50 to 800 years.

[Interviewer]

Wow.

[Apostate Prophet]

Which is. Muslims like to often claim that this is because people convert. It's not. It's because of very high birth rates among Muslims.

[Interviewer]

Yeah. They give a lot of birth out there.

[Apostate Prophet]

According to studies within the same neighborhoods, even in underdeveloped countries. Right in on the same street, Muslims make significantly more babies than Christmas Christians who live down the same road. It's because it's within the belief system that they're supposed to, you know, populate and increase in numbers as much as possible. There's also of course the role of women. Women are basically treated as baby making factories in the Islamic worldview. So that's how it takes over. And, and I'm sure that making lots of babies is something that appeals to some people in like the conservative circles as well.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Apostate Prophet]

But it's not quite the same thing. There is a healthy way of making, you know, creating families and of procreating. And then there is that way which is simply ideological, devoid of any of healthy relationships, devoid of knowledge and education and simply built on becoming a horde and taking over.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Apostate Prophet]

And there is a danger if you give into that.

[Interviewer]

You know, I've actually never talked to a Muslim woman. So from the hundreds of Muslim women you've encountered, entered and spoke with, do they seem happy? Do they seem fulfilled? Like what, what are they thinking and feeling?

[Apostate Prophet]

It depends. There are some. So there is a very interesting thing here. According to most studies which, which analyze happiness by country, you will see that Muslim countries are not very happy. So when you have countries, when you have studies or.

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[Apostate Prophet]

Maps where you have happiness ranked by color. You will see that Western nations are the happiest in the world. They are very green, whereas the Muslim nations are generally in the red. They are not happy.

[Interviewer]

Wow.

[Apostate Prophet]

However, if you ask them personally, according to some studies, whether they are satisfied with what they have, many Muslims will say, or are more likely to say than Western people that they are satisfied. If you ask them whether they are happy, they will not say that they are happy.

[Interviewer]

Interesting.

[Apostate Prophet]

So Islam has a very. A very interesting aspect where Islam literally means submission. That's that. That's the word. It literally means submission. And in Islam, people are supposed to internalize this mindset that they are in complete submission to Allah and they don't want anything else and don't need anything else. So people raised within that faith or within that political system will learn that no matter how miserable they are, they are basically supposed to be okay with it and supposed to be in submission with it.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Apostate Prophet]

What you end up with is a bunch of people who, if you Ask them, will say, I don't need anything else. I'm satisfied with what I have. But they are also not happy. And their lack of happiness and the fact that they are very frustrated will be seen in the social interactions that they demonstrate in their interactions with other groups, like, not non Muslims, like Christians and others, for example. They will be very often very hostile and much less accepting of disagreements and differences and so on. Which is why. Which is why, for example, nobody loses their mind when you have. When people make fun of Christian beliefs, of Jesus and all that. But I'm not sure how much you're familiar with it, but a little bit when somebody draws a cartoon of Muhammad, this is like people are. People completely lose it. People get over it.

[Interviewer]

What.

[Apostate Prophet]

And we had the Charlie Hebdo massacre, which was just in 2015, where in France, a satirical magazine, Charlie Hebdo, published a cartoon about Muhammad. And as a result of that, the terrorists went to their headquarter of the magazine and started shooting and killing the cartoonists.

[Interviewer]

Whoa.

[Apostate Prophet]

And this was a huge. A huge issue. And in the Muslim world, this was generally like.

Some condemned it as saying, which we shouldn't agree with direct violence like that. But then the general mood was also that, well, you shouldn't provoke Muslims, you shouldn't make fun of Islam, you shouldn't disrespect their beliefs, you shouldn't disrespect their prophet. If you do that, that's just what you get. This is the attitude generally. So to you, back to your question. If you ask a Muslim, I hope.

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[Apostate Prophet]

She will most likely say that she's satisfied with what she has, but is she really happy?

[Interviewer]

There's a difference. Yeah, there's a difference.

[Apostate Prophet]

She's not.

[Interviewer]

Wow, that's deep, man. Wow. So you cannot draw cartoons of Muhammad.

[Sean Kelly]

That's good to know.

[Interviewer]

I did not know that.

[Apostate Prophet]

Don't do it. Don't try it at home.

[Interviewer]

What's the reasoning, though, for that? Like. Like what? What's going on with that?

[Apostate Prophet]

Well, so in Islam, it is forbidden to have to draw cartoons of Muhammad or to draw cartoons. It's actually. It is considered forbidden to depict humans in general. There is even a Muhammad. The Prophet of Islam allegedly said that if you. If you draw humans, then. Or if you draw a living being, then this living being will appear in hell with you and will ask you to give it life and you will be tortured for Basically playing God because you drew something very silly, very stupid. But together with that, depicting Muhammad is considered unacceptable to Muslims. But then depicting Muhammad in a disrespectful way is just absolutely unacceptable because Muhammad, despite being simply a prophet in Islam, is basically on the level of a God to them. They will say that they are completely about monotheism and only, only worshiping Allah and not taking humans as deities or anything like that. But, but Muhammad is like so highly protected. If you say something disrespectful about him, you're going to get in trouble. So don't do it.

[Interviewer]

Well, you destroyed a Quran, didn't you?

[Apostate Prophet]

Yeah.

[Interviewer]

That probably got you in a lot of trouble. How many people came after you for that?

[Apostate Prophet]

Lots of people.

I mean.

I have generally said that I'm not in favor of ripping up a Quran or burning it or eating it or whatever it is, chewing it just for the sake of it, because I think it's kind of a stupid act. But in my case, for example.

I was attacked by an Islamist online who said that I, as an ex Muslim who left Islam, deserved to be executed. And he said he would proudly watch me. And he, he generalized it. He said, he said, we Muslims, we are proud that apostates like you who leave their religion and who spread it would get executed. He said, we are proud of that and we'll be watching. That's what he said.

[Interviewer]

Wow.

[Apostate Prophet]

In response to that, I said, people seem to be very. People seem to be okay with that, but when you rip up a Quran, they seem to lose their minds. So I tried to make a point of just ripping up the Quran, destroying it, throwing it around, and said, is. Is a page here really more valuable than human life?

[Interviewer]

Wow.

[Apostate Prophet]

And the funny thing is, after I did that, it went viral and people started attacking me and sending me death threats, thereby making my point. Killing a human is nothing to them, but ripping a Quran page to them is just unacceptable. Similarly, making fun of Muhammad will get you a death sentence.

[Interviewer]

Wow.

[Apostate Prophet]

But killing people is apparently no big deal. I'm an ex Muslim. If I leave Islam and make it public, they will say that I deserve the death penalty and they will be okay with that. If I, on the other hand, just rip up a Quran page, this is like, this is much worse to them. It's a very sick ideology.

[Interviewer]

So fascinating.

[Apostate Prophet]

And we are in America. America was built on freedom, on liberty here more than anywhere else. I think it's very important to notice that this religion or this political ideology that masquerades as religion is incompatible with the values that we have here. We wouldn't be able to have this discussion in a Muslim country. We would be in big trouble.

[Interviewer]

So no freedom of speech?

[Apostate Prophet]

Basically, yeah.

I lived in Turkey for a while. Turkey is supposedly a secular country that was westernized at some point. But I have lawsuits against me in Turkey because of my. Because of things I said about Islam. Simply because I said things like the Quran is a book of ignorance, or Muhammad was, you know, deluded. Because of things like these. I have. The government of Turkey sued me. If I go to Turkey now, they will. They will arrest me and want me to go to court and possibly even prevent me from leaving the country because I still have a Turkish citizenship, aside from my American citizenship, which is why I find it very difficult right now to take a trip to Turkey.

[Interviewer]

Wow.

[Apostate Prophet]

My parents are still, so.

[Interviewer]

Oh, that sucks. Your parents are there.

[Apostate Prophet]

It's pretty messed up.

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[Apostate Prophet]

Yeah, it's. That's what Islam does.

[Interviewer]

And there's a lot of countries like that. Right. You say the wrong thing. As soon as you land there, you're arrested.

[Apostate Prophet]

And this is a very mild example. Turkey is a very mild example. Pakistan is a. Is a big one. I have known lots of people from Pakistan who left Islam and who went to different countries. I have met women who. Who had to flee and change their identity and seek protection from different countries because their own parents were coming after them and wanting to kill them.

[Interviewer]

Jeez.

[Apostate Prophet]

In Pakistan, for example, you will have. There was a woman. I don't want to mention her name because she has been trying to. Although it is publicly known, she has been trying to kind of get rid of all the public backlash because she wants to live in peace.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Apostate Prophet]

But she. Because she is a Christian woman, she had a discussion with somebody in public in Pakistan. She had a little public altercation.

And the person that she had an altercation with slandered her and said that she insulted the Prophet Muhammad. She never did it. She never did any such thing. Just because of that slander, because of that accusation, a mob of hundreds of people started forming and coming after her, wanting to lynch and kill her and burn her.

[Interviewer]

Oh, my gosh.

[Apostate Prophet]

They had to arrest her and put her in prison and give her the death penalty in Pakistan for defending Islam. And she spent 10 years or so in prison with the death penalty. Eventually, the government, under pressure, had to release her and not execute her, but they had to, in the middle of the night, fly her out of the country. Now she lives in a different country in the West Somewhere.

[Interviewer]

Jeez, it's like the witch trials in the 1800s.

[Apostate Prophet]

Yeah. And this is Islam. It's very normal. They, in order to satisfy their own population, they had to put her in there and give her the death penalty or release her so that they can publicly lynch and kill her.

[Interviewer]

That's insane.

[Apostate Prophet]

They had to fly her out to save her life. So other nations had to step in and do this. We have Afghanistan. We have a very, a very infamous case. Her name was Farkunda something. A woman who was accused of disrespecting the Quran was attacked by a large mob. And.

You might want to censor my speech when I, when this comes out, but. So a large mob formed. They came after her, they started beating in on her. They started setting fire on her, stepping on her while she's burning.

They, they did really, really messed up things to her. I'm not going to go into all the details, but this is, It's a very messed up culture.

[Interviewer]

That's disgusting.

[Apostate Prophet]

When this culture takes over and when its rules are imposed on society, really bad things happen and people shouldn't have this. And when I left Islam, which was 10 years ago or more, I found myself at a very strange spot because on the one hand I left this religion behind that I practiced and studied and that I really didn't want to have in my life anymore. On the other hand, I saw, I looked into the world and I saw that in the west there is this trend of, of creating this false narrative that Islam is a misunderstood religion, that it's actually a religion of peace and all that. And I look into this, into the world, and I think this is, this is nonsense. Yeah, I know that this is a lie. They know that this is a lie. So I have to go out there and I have to. Have to speak against it.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, because you have firsthand experience with it. The people saying that it's full of peace have never been to these countries probably.

[Apostate Prophet]

And this was a narrative that developed after 9 11. On 9 11.

Islamists took over a plane or several planes and flew them into the Twin Towers and several other locations. You have lots of delusional people nowadays denying that or blaming it on others. We have it all confirmed. Islamists did it. The very same Islamists in charge of it later on also acknowledged it, took credit for it, openly propagated it. And Islamic organizations like Hamas, for example, which is currently fighting against Israel, even praised the terrorist organization that did it. Yeah, after this happened, there were lots of. There was lots of, There was a lot of Backlash against Islam and Muslims in America in order to subdue the masses. George W. Bush himself went out and gave a speech in which he said that this is not about Islam because Islam is a religion of peace. It is our president or the President of the United States that started this whole. This public, that. Who popularized the line, Islam is a religion of peace.

[Interviewer]

That's nuts.

[Apostate Prophet]

It was around a little bit before that, but he popularized it. And he's a. He was a Republican, the party that shouldn't be doing this. You know, it is the. The Democratic Party that. That is usually the one that, you know, stands up for the. For the really messed up people and defends them.

[Interviewer]

I wonder what.

[Apostate Prophet]

Yeah, it was our Republican Party that protected Islam and it said Islam is a religion of peace.

[Interviewer]

I wonder what Bush's angle was on that.

[Apostate Prophet]

I mean, I guess he was trying to. There were real concerns that people are. Because of 9, 11, that. That people will start going after Muslims here in America.

[Interviewer]

Right.

[Apostate Prophet]

And I guess as a. In order to resolve that problem and not have, like, people attack innocent Muslims.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Apostate Prophet]

He went out to give such a speech.

[Interviewer]

I could see that, because they're still being judged this day. You know what I mean? In America especially.

[Apostate Prophet]

But he could have given a speech without saying Islam is a religion of peace, you know.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Apostate Prophet]

And you could say, I can agree with one aspect. For example, I would say it would be a wrong thing to do to go after innocent Muslims out there, to attack them, to slander every Muslim out there as a terrorist. I would say. I agree with that. I would say we shouldn't be attacking every single random Muslim because they're not all in on this kind of stuff. But to then say Islam is itself a religion of peace is pure nonsense. And we are dealing with the consequences of that right now. It's not a religion of peace. It's a religion of. Of hate, of war, of bloodshed, of conquest. And we have to be able to say this without being afraid of some backlash, you know.

[Interviewer]

Well, a lot of respect for you for speaking out on this, because there's not many people that are willing to do this, you know.

[Apostate Prophet]

Thank you. Thank you. There should be more. And I hope that today we can start at this event to.

To spread this to more people and to have more people speak up. I'm very thankful to Charlie that he invited me here.

[Interviewer]

Yeah.

[Apostate Prophet]

So it's a very good opportunity.

[Interviewer]

It's big time, man. I had no idea it was like this, to be honest. And there's going to be a lot of people I'm sure coming up to you after that will say the same thing.

[Apostate Prophet]

So. Yeah, yeah.

[Sean Kelly]

Opening up a lot of eyes.

[Interviewer]

Where can people support you, man, and follow you and everything?

[Apostate Prophet]

So I mainly on YouTube, apostate profits. I also post on X Twitter, same Apostate Prophet. That's where I usually am. Yeah, that's where you can find me.

[Interviewer]

Awesome.

[Sean Kelly]

We'll link it below. Thanks for coming on.

[Apostate Prophet]

Yeah, thank you so much, John.

[Interviewer]

Yeah, check him out, guys. See ya.