Gad Saad
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If you're an extremist Jain, then you really take your, using the sweeping thing, when they walk,
they use a broom so that they inadvertently don't step on an ant and kill it.
So an extremist, extremist in quotes, Jane, someone who really takes his religion seriously, is someone who's going to be extremist in his pacifism, right?
Now, that religion has very, very different edicts about how to conduct yourself, even when you're walking on a sidewalk.
than maybe will an Abrahamic faith, whether it be Judaism or Christianity or Islam.
So the idea that ultimately all religions are simply preaching the same indistinguishable thing in slightly different ways is simply not true.
But it feels good to think that, right?
It's empathetic for us to think that.
We should never speak amongst mixed company about politics and religion.
So therefore, if I start saying something that might be
pejorative of another religion, that feels icky.
And that's why, by the way, earlier you mentioned that when we were talking about this, when I asked you, are Americans more likely now to talk openly about Islam, you said, well, the Democrats are more terrified to do so than the Republicans.
But even the Republicans are, to some extent, suicidally empathetic because if you watch, even the ones who very forcefully criticize Islam
as being incongruent with American values, they'll always use linguistic coverage to protect Islam.