Dr. Gad Saad
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And it's in the Sira, which is the biography of Muhammad.
So we can go to those primary sources and see what is stated as the fundamental principles of Islam.
And if that's your question, then the foundational principles of Islam could not be any more incongruent with the foundational principles of Western societies.
Yeah, I don't stay up at night worrying that Christian nationalists are going to eradicate the rights of all other people.
Look, there are good and bad in every people.
There are Orthodox Jews.
I mean, not that they are violent, but they hold positions that I know, as an evolutionist, are perfectly inconsistent with scientific knowledge, right?
So the capacity for religious dogma to spew nonsense exists across all religions.
But...
The United States is founded on certain Judeo-Christian principles, and its founding fathers were called Christians.
And therefore, I don't stay up at night worrying that there'll be an uprising of Southern Baptists or Seventh-day Adventists who are going to kill the rest of us.
Islam, though, we have 1400 years of history that tells us very clearly what happens in a society.
if Islam becomes majority.
You don't need to guess.
You don't have to question.
You don't have to put on your optimistic hat.
We have tons of data.
So for example, currently,
There are 56 countries that are part of the OIC, the Organization of Islamic Cooperation.
Each of those countries once upon a time had 0% Islam, zero, none.