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Daniel Haqiqatjou: Why Islam Is the Fastest-Growing Religion in the West | DSH #1614
10 Nov 2025
Chapter 1: What recent debate topics did Daniel Haqiqatjou engage in?
dissidents that we see today, Muslims were really targeted. Muslims were targeted after 9-11. So a lot of these kinds of restrictions that you see on banking, I've had relatives back 15 years ago, 20 years ago, actually, that were debanked. My own dad, he wasn't debanked, but his money in a bank, like this is even before 9-11 because I have an Iranian background. My dad is from Iran.
I was born in the US, but because of his background, his money was frozen for a while at one of the banks. It was very difficult for him to unfreeze that, even though like he's Wasn't charged with any kind of crime. Has been working actually in NASA, working for the space program as an engineer. But still, that's not enough because of suspicion. And you're kind of like a political outsider.
This fifth column, oh, you're Muslim, Iranian.
Chapter 2: How did Trump's policies impact universities and free speech?
Because of the whole conflict between the U.S.
Chapter 3: Why are women increasingly converting to Islam?
and Iran since 1979, his money was frozen for a period of time.
Okay, guys, we got Daniel here today in Las Vegas. Thanks for taking the flight over, man.
Chapter 4: What are the mental health implications of excessive freedom?
It's good to see you.
My pleasure. Thanks for inviting me.
I know we set this up a while ago. What's been new in your world lately?
Nothing much.
Chapter 5: How is transhumanism influencing modern society?
Just continuing with debating. I have a show that I do regularly talking about religion and politics and things related to what is happening in the U.S. with Israel and the Middle East.
Chapter 6: What dangers arise from a cashless society and surveillance?
So a lot of things.
Nice. You just debated David Wood, right?
Yeah, I had a debate. He's a Christian apologist, and I've debated him before, but we talked about different theological issues. But one of the debates we had was about the fact that the greatest base of support for what the US is doing in supporting Israel is from the Christian conservatives. And I was pointing out that there's a kind of hypocrisy
with Christians who claim that they love everyone and that they're so concerned with the poor and the destitute and the oppressed, but the Palestinians are the most oppressed in the world and their government with their mandate is giving major arms and bombs, 2,000 pound bombs to Israel to drop on poor women and children and the people of Gaza.
So he was very uncomfortable with that line of argumentation. And this debate was happening in a church. So it was like a Christian audience and they became very hostile.
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Chapter 7: What does the future hold for the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?
They started shouting me down, cursing me. And yeah, it became quite a zoo in the church.
He had home field advantage. Yeah. I wonder, did you want to have a more neutral setting or did you agree to that setting?
Usually when I do in-person debates, it's in a hostile setting. Oh, it is? It is. So I've been heckled pretty much in every in-person debate that I have because I debate atheists. I debate Christians. I debate all kinds of religions. And it can get pretty hostile when you're in person. Most of my debates are just virtually through like StreamYard or whatever.
But in-person debates is usually a hostile crowd because there's also fewer Muslims in the United States than compared to Christians or atheists or other groups. So it's always I'm on the, you know, I have the disadvantage. They have the home field advantage. Yeah. You might have to start rolling with security, man. Oh, there was one because there was an event that I did last year.
It was a talk at Queens College in Brooklyn, New York. And it was a lecture that the student group, the Muslim student group wanted me to give on Judaism and Israel. And there was a huge backlash trying to prevent me from having a platform to speak. And even the president of Queens College by name called me out and denounced me and condemned me. Holy crap.
we're going to have, there's going to be this speaker who's going to come, Daniel Hayratu on our campus. And he is like the worst of the worst. We completely disapprove, but because of freedom of speech, we can't, we can't cancel it.
So there was security at that event from the university, like the university, because there were Jewish groups who were protesting and even like picketing outside, like with a huge Israeli flag and like handing out flyers, like Daniel's a menace, like Daniel is this, whatever. So there was like four security guards surrounding me because I was sitting like at the front to give the lecture.
And there was like a huge police officer standing right next to me. That's nuts.
Some of these big universities seem to be very pro-Israel, right?
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