Tristan Tate
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Nobody ever thought those people were a problem because those are people from a first world nation or, I mean, technically not, but an extremely well-developed nation.
And I live in an extremely well-developed nation.
And guess what I do every Sunday?
In the heart of the Middle East, in Dubai, I drive 33 minutes from my house to an Orthodox church, which the Muslim state built for people like me who live there to go and worship in.
And when we talk about coexistence, you can rank the various religions.
And I do have prejudices against some religions more so than others.
And although I believe the Muslims are wrong about Jesus Christ, of course I do, because I'm not a Muslim.
I would say that if our foundation for our faith
is a belief in Jesus Christ, then I should at least rank the other faiths who believe different things from me from a perspective of love and respect for Jesus Christ in one way or another.
And I think by that metric, you would have to argue that Muslims come in second place.
No, the religions can't coexist in the way that we all believe everyone's going to heaven.
That's not what I meant.
I meant I live in a Muslim country and I go to a church that the Muslims built for me to go and worship in.
And they're perfectly happy for me to go there and worship Christ.
Yeah, France's politics, I'm telling you, it's more about third world and first world integration.
If you flooded Paris with Emirati Arabs, Paris would be perfectly fine today.
Many of them.
Many of them are extremists, and I think it was the –
The former minister of culture to the United Arab Emirates, who is a Muslim man, gave a speech that's still on YouTube to this day.
You should watch it.