Transcript [00:00] Everyone, so in this video I want to [00:02] talk about the connection between Islam [00:06] and Marxism at the economic level. Okay, [00:10] if that sounds a little offthe-wall, [00:12] here's a clip of Bill Maher the other [00:14] day on Real Time calling out Zoran [00:17] Mandani. Now, Bill Maher is not exactly [00:19] an economist and he's not exactly a [00:21] theologian, but what he says in this [00:23] clip really got me thinking. That's what [00:26] I want to talk about here. So here, have [00:28] a look at this. Now, let me tell you [00:30] about the story that liberal algorithms [00:33] locked out. Her name is CIA Weaver. And [00:36] if you ask anyone in the blue sky bubble [00:38] who that is, they'll look at you like a [00:39] turkey looking up at the rain. [00:44] [clears throat] [00:45] [laughter] [00:47] But she's kind of important in New York [00:49] being Major Mandani's chief of the [00:52] office to protect tenants. And since mom [00:54] Donniey's big issue is the rents too [00:56] damn high. Yes, he stole this guy's act. [01:00] [laughter] [01:01] It's a very key appointment in the most [01:03] important city in the country, which is [01:05] also our financial center. It matters [01:07] that the mayor stands by and I so I [01:11] assume stands with someone who says [01:14] things like, "If you don't believe in [01:16] the government's sacred right to seize [01:18] private property, it's over. Seize [01:21] private property. Home ownership is [01:24] racist. Elect more communists. [01:27] Private property, especially home [01:29] ownership, is a weapon of white [01:31] supremacy. [01:32] Really, even among the 20 million black [01:35] Americans who own their own home, [01:37] Democrats seem to be having this debate [01:40] whether or not Mayor May mayor Mamani is [01:42] a socialist or a democratic socialist. [01:45] Let me settle it. He's a straightup [01:47] communist. How do I know this? [01:50] [applause] [01:53] Well, I'm reading between the lines when [01:56] one of his major adviserss says, "Elect [01:58] more communist." [02:00] [snorts] [02:02] >> All right. Um, so what Bill Maher was [02:05] talking about in terms of this Sea [02:07] Weaver, this is Sea Weaver, this uh [02:10] tenant advocate director. So, she's the [02:13] one who wants to abolish private [02:16] property. She tweeted out a few years [02:18] ago, "Private property, including any [02:20] kind of, especially homeownership, is a [02:22] weapon of white supremacy, masquerading [02:25] as wealthbuilding, [02:27] public policy." And of course, there's [02:30] this famous uh viral clip that during [02:33] the campaign was all over the place of [02:35] Zoran Mandani talking about private [02:37] property. Let's look at that. [02:38] >> My platform is that every single person [02:40] should have housed. And I think faced [02:42] with these two options, the system the [02:45] system has hundreds of thousands of [02:46] people unhoused, right? For for what? [02:50] And if if there was any system that [02:54] could guarantee each person housing, [02:56] whether you call it the abolition of [02:58] private property or you call it, you [03:00] know, just a statewide housing [03:01] guarantee, it is preferable to what is [03:03] going on right now. [03:06] the abolition of private property is [03:09] preferable to what is going on right [03:11] now. So look, so look, in January, this [03:15] past January when he was inaugurated as [03:17] mayor of New York, Mandani [03:20] was quoted as saying as part of his [03:22] address that we would replace the [03:29] frigidity [03:30] of rugged individualism with the warmth [03:33] of [snorts] collectivism. [03:36] Okay, this guy believes in collectivism. [03:37] So I want to zoom out now and and talk [03:41] about this whole issue of the state [03:44] having the divine right, the sacred [03:47] right to confiscate private property [03:49] which was actually C Weaver's statement [03:53] even though I don't to my knowledge [03:54] she's not Muslim so I don't know what [03:55] she means by a sacred right. [03:58] This is not really an economic debate. [04:00] That's what I want to share with you. [04:02] There's something ideological and even [04:04] religious about this debate because it's [04:06] a debate about what a human being is and [04:10] it it cuts right to the core of what our [04:12] relationship to God is and where [04:14] authority comes from. See underneath [04:16] every economic system is a deeper [04:18] question which is where do our rights [04:20] come from? Do they come from God? Do [04:22] they come from human dignity? Do they [04:24] come from the state? If you look at [04:26] Marxism historically, okay, not just the [04:29] theory of Marxism, I'm talking about the [04:31] implementation of it. Mar countries that [04:33] implemented Marxism, communist [04:35] countries, one thing that is consistent [04:38] is that Marxist and communist regimes [04:40] have almost always restricted, [04:44] suppressed or outright persecuted and [04:46] made illegal biblical faith, biblical [04:49] religion, meaning Judaism and [04:51] Christianity. Okay? [04:54] Why? Because biblical religion is [04:57] dangerous to their power structures. In [04:59] the biblical worldview, human beings are [05:01] created in the image of God. And that [05:03] means that every person has inherent [05:05] dignity. It means authority is limited. [05:08] Even in Deuteronomy when it talks about [05:10] having a king, [05:13] it says that the king has is only [05:15] appointed a king if the people say they [05:17] want a king. And then the Bible goes on [05:20] to talk about all sorts of restrictions [05:22] that the king has on his power. and [05:24] makes it very clear that he's subject to [05:26] all the same laws as everyone else. And [05:28] this was a huge thing, you know, back in [05:30] biblical times that you have a king [05:31] who's actually not all powerful. So the [05:33] Bible was actually limiting authority. [05:36] And most importantly, what you see in [05:38] the Bible is that the individual's [05:40] rights don't come from the king. They [05:42] don't come from the state. They come [05:44] from God. And that's a direct threat to [05:47] any system that wants total authority. [05:48] So totalitarian regimes have always [05:51] tended to especially collectivist [05:54] totalitarian regimes have always tended [05:56] to persecute biblical religion. Okay. So [06:00] the so like the communist regimes like [06:02] the Soviet Union and China. They close [06:04] churches. They arrest clergy. They [06:08] harass clergy. They ban religious [06:10] education. And they tried to replace [06:12] religion with their Marxist ideology. [06:14] Right? They saw faith in God as an [06:16] ideological threat to the Marxist [06:20] communist ideology. Now if you look at [06:22] Islamic political thought, not [06:25] necessarily individual Muslims, I mean, [06:27] but Islamic political theology, you see [06:31] something very different. Collectivist [06:32] thinking is not necessarily a threat [06:36] because Islam already begins from a [06:39] premise of submission. That's what the [06:41] word Islam means. Meaning the whole [06:42] posture of the human being visa v God in [06:45] Islam is one of complete submission not [06:47] empowerment. Right? In biblical faith, [06:50] God is empowering us. We're in his [06:52] image. In Islamic faith, we are [06:54] submitting to the total power of a of [06:56] God, to the divine authority. And what [06:59] that also translates into is that you're [07:01] also submitting to the religious [07:04] political authority. [07:06] Now to be clear, Islam has historically [07:10] allowed private property and free [07:11] enterprise. It had merchants. Islamic [07:13] civilizations always had merchants and [07:15] trade and and people becoming wealthy [07:17] and and markets. But the philosophical [07:20] viewpoint, the theological viewpoint of [07:23] what personal property is is very [07:26] different in Islam from biblical from [07:29] biblical thinking. So in the biblical [07:30] worldview, property is tied to your own [07:34] covenant with God. It's an inheritance [07:36] that you get parent a child and it's [07:38] given to you directly from God. It's [07:40] part of your identity and you also use [07:43] it in your own moral agency. You can use [07:45] it or misuse it, but it's yours. Let me [07:47] let me explain what I mean by that. The [07:49] Bible mandates giving charity or [07:51] tithing right? [07:54] And in the Bible, it's God telling you [07:57] to give. And here's the key point, to [08:00] give from what is yours. In Islamic law, [08:04] there's also rules about giving and [08:06] similar to tithing and certain amounts [08:08] of charity that have to be given. But [08:11] wealth ultimately belongs to God and [08:13] humans are only temporary custodians. So [08:16] the policies in the mandate in Islam to [08:20] give it can actually be taken from you [08:23] by force because it's not really yours [08:26] to begin with. Okay? Okay. So when you [08:28] combine that with socialist thinking, [08:31] you get something that can feel very [08:33] natural together. Right? Socialism says [08:35] property belongs to the collective or to [08:38] the state. Right? Islamic political [08:41] thinking says property belongs to God [08:44] and you are merely the custodian of it. [08:46] Again very similar to the view of [08:48] property according to socialists, [08:49] Marxist people like SA Weaver and Zoran [08:51] Mandani that really it's the states and [08:53] the state allows you to use this [08:56] property but therefore the state can [08:57] take it away from you at any time [08:58] because it's not really yours. Okay, [09:00] it's very similar to the Islamic [09:02] framework. It's different language. It's [09:04] different theological [09:06] u it's different you know different [09:08] theology obviously socialists don't [09:10] believe in God but structurally as an [09:13] idea it's the same. the individual is [09:15] not the actual owner of his land or his [09:18] possessions. Okay, that's the point that [09:20] matters. [09:21] You see, once property is not really [09:23] yours, once it's only yours because the [09:26] the state or the authorities, the powers [09:29] that be allowed you to have it, then [09:31] your freedom becomes conditional also. [09:33] And that's what history teaches us. [09:36] First, property is taken away because of [09:38] fairness. Um, and then it's, you know, [09:41] in order to bring about some sort of [09:43] security situation and there's political [09:45] control involved in taking property. [09:48] Once that line's crossed, it's very hard [09:49] to go back. And that's why Marxist [09:52] regimes [09:53] traditionally, historically, have always [09:55] seen biblical faith as a threat. Right? [09:58] Biblical religion says power is limited. [10:02] Authority, even the highest authority, [10:04] the king, is held accountable. Humans [10:06] are individual, independent, autonomous [10:09] moral agents and their use of their own [10:13] property is part of that moral agency. [10:16] In a collectivist system, whether it's [10:19] Marxism, like the secular collectivism, [10:22] or it's what we'll call religious [10:24] collectivism, the Islamic model, they [10:26] see the individual differently. They see [10:28] the individual as part of a larger [10:30] structure. [10:32] And that larger structure is what has [10:34] priority. [10:36] And that's that larger structure [10:38] actually owns everything. And that's why [10:41] we're seeing this blend of Marxism, [10:45] socialism, communism, whatever you want [10:46] to call it, with Islam. See, once a [10:50] society decides that ownership is really [10:53] only in the hands of the state, then [10:55] that society is already moving away from [10:58] freedom. So this is where you see again [11:00] another consistency between Islamic [11:03] thinking and Marxist thinking. And what [11:05] I'm trying to show in this video and [11:07] some others that I've made on on similar [11:08] topics is that the bond between [11:12] the red and the green in what we call [11:14] the red green alliance, the alliance [11:16] between the Marxists, the socialists, [11:18] the progressives and the Islamists is [11:21] not only politically pragmatic. Okay, [11:24] they actually agree on some fundamental [11:27] ideological ideas [11:30] that really underpin how they, you know, [11:34] how they think about the world. Okay, so [11:36] Zoran Mani is really the ultimate [11:38] example of that blend of Marxism and [11:41] Islam, which again, for the reasons I [11:43] just laid out, are actually quite [11:45] comfortable with each other. Okay, I [11:47] hope you found this video interesting. [11:49] Uh, if so, please share it. 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