Transcript
Kai (0:00)
Are you really buying a car online on Autotrader right now? Really? I can get super specific with dealer listings and see cars based on my budget.
Jay (0:07)
You can really have it delivered or pick it up.
Kai (0:09)
I think kid is walking up the slide.
Jay (0:11)
Really?
Kai (0:12)
Autotrader, Buy your car online. Really? Sa. Sam.
Jay (4:03)
All right, what's up? Welcome, everybody. It's another amazing live stream back with my good buddy Kai of Orthodox Shahada. And Kai had a great idea a while back to do a series on Islamic geopolitics. Of course, Orthodox Shahada has done a tremendous amount of work in the last few years focusing on refuting Muhammadanism, Islam, Islamism from both the internal critiques and the internal textual critiques of the Quran, the philosophical critiques, biblical critiques, etc, as well as our ongoing series against the Monophysites. So we're going to start another series as well, dealing with a. A set of geopolitical texts. So we won't be getting into all of those books today, but we could be kind of giving an introduction, an overview. Kai and I have both read several of the same text. As you guys know, we have put a good bit of time and effort into this topic in the last several years. Of course, I was reading some of the Islamic geopolitical stuff before I knew anything really about the religion. So it's nice to be in this position where both Kai and I can kind of overlap and kind of read some of the same texts and get into some of the same information. So we're going to kick it off today. Of course, Kai has a great series of slides and whatnot that we're going to go to. But Kai, what made you think that this would be a good idea to do? I think it is. What keyed you into this, and what are some of the texts that you chose that we're going to be talking about and what made you select those for today's lecture?
Kai (5:40)
Right. So thanks for having me, Jay. I'm really excited to do the series. So one of the things that I think is very relevant to look at this topic in particular is up until now we've really been covering Islam in a more kind of theoretical level, trying to understand it through the lens of Christianity, specifically Orthodoxy, trying to understand it from within the Islamic lens itself with its own paradigms. And it was really kind of like just a theoretical exercise, just looking at things intellectually. But now things are getting very serious with regards to the geopolitics on the world stage. A lot of things changing in Europe, in North America, the influence that Islam is having societally, the influence that Islam is having politically in all of these countries that are traditionally not Islamic, and the ghettoizations that you're seeing popping up in basically wherever Muslims are migrating to. And then the, the trend to want to start basically Islamicizing much of the rest of the world. And now it's to the point where it's like, okay, we need to start putting aside the theoretical understandings of what Islam teaches with regards to monotheism or whatever it may be, and actually look at what Muslims are doing. What is Islamic law? How are Muslim societies functioning? What are they doing in the West? How are they basically altering the landscape within the west and other non, traditionally non Islamic countries, seeing how the powers to be are manipulating Muslims for their nefarious purposes, for global dominance, global control, the whole geopolitical landscape in this. And I think it's now about really informing people before it's too late. So one of the things that I want to aim with these, with the series is to really inform people to know how their countries are undergoing drastic changes and what the prospect looks like once Islam becomes dominant in these, in these countries. To answer your other thing with regards to the types of books, really I'm kind of just doing a big net to just catch whatever is written on, on the subject. In the presentation there, you just saw a sampling of books. Those are great books for people just getting into the topic to wet their feet in. It's kind of though they're really good at opening your eyes to see how non Muslim governments and agencies utilize Islam and utilize Muslims for their own purposes, whether it's like the CIA or whatever it may be and why they would support Muslims, why they would support a seemingly Islamic cause. And it couldn't. Books can be on like the Muslim Brotherhood, for example. I haven't really put those up on the screen, but those are very relevant. So really I'm just trying to read everything that is within reasonable accessibility on the topic. But I'm also supplementing it with a lot of Islamic sources directly from within Islam itself to justify my analysis, to justify why I think the geopolitical geopolitics is unfolding the, the way that it is. And I'll talk about that as we progress through, through the presentation and through the series.
