He Tried to Kill His Dad. Now He Fights Radical Islamists | David Wood
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Why did David Wood try to kill his own father?
Why did you try to kill your father?
I hit him seven or eight times in the head. That might explain why I'm different.
He survived it. Any permanent damage?
Through my trial, if you didn't believe I did it. Oh wow. He knew there were things off about me. You are a psychopath. Officially, yeah. You start mimicking other people's reactions. You're also learning how to manipulate them. You're all puppets. You're all basically puppets to me. You conclude you're superior and everyone else is inferior. That's what psychopaths need to get to. Realizing they're defective and not superior.
What led you to Christianity? I went
to prison That made me start thinking of things. Is there some reason to be moral that's not just like society telling you what to do? I bowed down and I prayed, God, if you can do anything with me, you're welcome to it.
Right now it feels impossible I could ever believe
that. My best friend was Muslim. He left Islam and became a Christian. About a month later, he got his first death threat.
You've turned your attention to debating a lot of Islam is when you see what's happening in Britain, France, Sweden, do you think Americans can fully grasp what it's like over there and what might come over to here?
This is built into Islam, the three stages of
jihad. Doctor David Wood, welcome to the show. How's it going? It's good. Everything's good. Tell me we're gonna talk about a lot of things today, uh Christianity, Islam. But one of the things that has always attracted me to your work and you as a presence online is that you are a psychopath. Is that right?
Uh officially, yeah. Well, you're you you get diagnosed with antisocial personality disorder and uh psychopath and sociopath are like popular terms for people with the disorder.
Are those two synonymous? No one seems to agree. So uh psychopath and syn and
right no one seems to agree. They're they're Um, you basically like Jordan Peterson, he says, I don't draw a distinction. They're just they're just terms for the same disorder. Then you have people who um treated differently based on how it manifests. Um some people end up as like kind of social outcasts and they're hot heads, they flip out on people, whereas uh the psychopaths are that's the sociopaths and uh psychopaths are more like cold blooded and calculating and they can actually blend in, they'll they'll they'll adapt to imitate other people's emotions and so on. Um they they still lack empathy. They they share those characteristics, lack of empathy, don't no concern for other people's rights and so on.
So For people who dis who draw a distinction like that, I'm way more in the uh psychopath category. Um, but then there are people who view psychopathy as like a more extreme form of antisocial personality disorder where you have like a higher score on the s I but I I don't know my score. I know my diagnosis, I'd I'd never I don't know the score, so I wouldn't for those people.
Would that be the hair test, the score?
Uh yeah, yeah, so you yeah, you get a score based on, you know, Bob Hair's various various uh symptoms and so on. But yeah, I don't know my score. So for people who break it down like that, I don't know if I would be in the psychopath category for them.
I've also heard it differentiated as one of them is you're born that way and the other is you're made that way. Have you heard that?
Yeah, I seem to be born that way. So
Okay. So from the earliest memory you just never experienced empathy?
Yeah, and and you know, y young when you'd start seeing people react emotionally, then you'd think there's something weird about them. Like why are they reacting to something that it makes no sense to react to? And so I mean the the earliest memory I have of actually like really, really thinking about that. I was, um, like five or something and uh My we we were over at someone's house and my mom got a phone call telling her that my dog that I'd had since I could remember had been run over by a bus and she got tears in her eyes. She hated that dog. But her she got tears in her eyes when she's telling me and I my first thought was, So what it's a dog?
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
Why did David Wood try to kill his own father?
0:00–10:53
2
How does his diagnosis of antisocial personality disorder explain his lack of empathy and guilt?
10:53–20:02
3
What was the turning point that led him to Christianity while in prison?
20:02–31:04
4
How did his friendship with Nabil Qureshi and the resulting death threat shape his view of Islam?
31:04–42:00
5
What are the three stages of jihad that Wood describes and why do they matter?
42:00–53:00
6
How does Wood assess the rise of radical Islamism in Britain, France, and Sweden?
53:00–1:05:05
7
Why does Wood believe Western leaders and journalists misunderstand radical Islamism?
1:05:05–1:17:49
8
What does Wood predict for the future of Islam in Europe and America?
1:17:49–1:23:05
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