Dave Smith

Like, I'm not saying Islam is all peaceful and there are no problems in the Islamic world or anything like that.

In fact, I don't think any religion is truly peaceful.

always been peaceful.

But, you know, for guys like, say like Sam Harris, who these kind of like pretend intellectuals who have spent, he spent his entire career talking about how violent and irrational the Muslims are and how you can't even draw a cartoon of Muhammad or Muslims will want to do violent stuff.

And like, hey, fair enough.

That's bullshit.

And we should all say, like, if you want to be over here in the West, our values are free speech and you cannot kill people for violence.

cartoons, but then like none of them ever also go, hey, you know, murdering an Ayatollah might be dangerous.

During Ramadan.

Yeah, like that is, you know, that is not just a political figure to Shiite Muslims.

So at the same time, it's like, okay, I'm fine with saying, okay, you don't want to have suicidal empathy.

My buddy Keith Knight, who's brilliant,

works over at the Libertarian Institute, he had, I forget what he said, but he said something like, okay, I don't want to have suicidal empathy.

Let's also not have homicidal empathy, you know?

And so like, maybe it also is like, as we were tying into that whole conversation with, no, I'm okay, thanks.

With the whole thing about the kids and women in Gaza, it's like,

It's also the fact that if you just view slaughtering Muslim children in the Middle East and in Northern Africa as just an acceptable political price, that's just collateral damage.

And unfortunately, that happens when we pursue this policy.

You're gonna deal with more and more of that.

And the combination of both, Joe, the combination of having open borders