Transcript [00:00] Everyone, I came across a clip of Glenn [00:02] Beck talking about Islam and Sharia and [00:05] you know, the problem in in America of [00:08] the lack of integration of Muslims into [00:12] American culture and the way Glenn [00:14] presented the argument raised a few [00:17] issues that I think have important [00:19] implications for understanding [00:21] Jewish-Christian relations and the whole [00:22] concept of people of different faiths [00:25] making accommodation with each other and [00:26] living as part of a shared society. So, [00:28] I have a fair amount to say about this [00:30] clip and you know, let's just hit the [00:33] clip and then I'll I'll let you know [00:34] what I have to say. I'll share my [00:36] thoughts with you cuz I think it's a [00:38] very he raises some very very big issues [00:40] here. [00:41] Let's take a look here. [00:43] Let me pull this up. [00:45] Here we go. [00:48] This is from the Washington Post today. [00:51] [clears throat] [00:51] Muslims shouldn't have to assimilate to [00:54] belong. [00:56] Wow. [00:57] Now, I want you I want you to read this [01:00] article. We have it I believe it's in [01:02] the daily newsletter today. If not [01:03] today, it'll be out tomorrow. Um [01:06] but it's a very well-argued conservative [01:09] feeling case for why Muslims shouldn't [01:11] have to assimilate into our culture or [01:14] leave things like Sharia law behind. [01:17] Okay? [01:19] It's argued [01:21] that [clears throat] [01:21] this is an electoral opportunity for [01:23] Republicans because we agree on social [01:26] issues. [01:27] And the message throughout the entire [01:29] piece in the Washington Post is that [01:33] Muslims will be more resistant to [01:35] assimilation than other religious groups [01:37] because of their commitment to Sharia to [01:39] Sharia law and political religious [01:41] practices and Christians [01:44] you know, don't make them assimilate cuz [01:47] you agree with so much. [01:51] Really? [01:53] Because we don't. We really don't agree [01:57] on a lot of things. This is the sickness [02:00] that we're all going through. We want to [02:02] say we agree on certain things. We do. [02:05] We both wish that our culture didn't [02:08] over sexualize our daughters and women. [02:11] We both wish that. [02:14] We both think that you know, our girls [02:17] could say a little more modestly, [02:19] perhaps. Okay? [02:22] But we don't agree [02:24] that they should wear burkas. [02:26] One does. [02:29] We don't agree that [02:32] under Sharia law that a young girl can [02:36] be married [02:37] at 90. [02:41] In this case cuz you would read it as [02:44] conservative you go like, I mean, you [02:45] know what? That's a really good case and [02:46] we have a lot in common and you know, [02:48] maybe they shouldn't have to. No, no, [02:50] no. This is how it happens, saying. This [02:52] is how it happens. [02:54] >> [snorts] [02:54] >> This author is making a case that [02:58] immigrants shouldn't have to agree agree [03:01] on foundational questions when they come [03:04] here. [03:06] Okay, wait. Wait, if you're going to be [03:08] an America in America and you are going [03:11] to be an American [03:13] we want you to be an America stronger, [03:15] right? So, what do you have to agree [03:18] with? [03:19] Well, you do have to agree with all men [03:22] are created equal and endowed by their [03:23] creator with inalienable rights. [03:26] So, [03:27] you you have to agree with it if you [03:29] want to become an American [03:32] that you agree that everybody has [03:34] inalienable rights. [03:37] That's not [03:39] that's not under Sharia. You have to [03:41] agree that our Constitution is the [03:44] supreme law of the land. [03:47] Not Sharia. [03:49] I mean, it is [03:53] it's so crazy. [03:55] Our statue of liberty says, "Give me [03:58] your tired and your poor." Doesn't stop [04:00] there, does it? [04:02] What does it say? [04:04] "Give me your tired, your poor, your [04:05] huddled masses [04:08] yearning to breathe free." [04:13] How many women and girls are yearning to [04:17] breathe free [04:19] in countries where there is Sharia law? [04:23] We were told everybody in Afghanistan [04:25] was fine with it until we went over and [04:28] toppled it and then we realized, "Oh my [04:30] gosh, look at all these women that want [04:31] to go to school. [04:33] All these girls that want to go to [04:34] school under Sharia law and they can't." [04:36] Look at what's happening in Iran. Those [04:38] are women. Those are homosexuals. Those [04:40] are human beings all endowed by their [04:43] creator with certain inalienable rights [04:46] that have lost their rights as a human [04:49] being and they are yearning to breathe [04:51] free. You cannot come here and become an [04:55] American citizen and agree with Sharia [04:57] law because you're not freeing people. [05:04] This is [05:07] this is so important. [05:10] You don't have to be against Islam. [05:14] You do have to be and I think that is [05:18] absolutely true for every single person. [05:22] If you want to be an American, you do [05:25] have to be against Sharia law. [05:28] If you want Sharia law in any of its [05:30] forms [05:31] out. You don't get to be a United States [05:35] citizen. [05:36] If you're coming here, you don't get [05:38] that. Sorry. [05:41] It is a dual It is a [05:44] it creates a dual system of law. [05:48] And you want the proof of it? Look at [05:50] Europe. [05:52] Look at what is happening. How is it we [05:55] are so blind to this that we can look [05:58] over at Europe and we can see Germany [06:00] can't raise an army. [06:02] They can't raise an army. They don't [06:04] have a enough young men who A believe in [06:06] defending Germany. [06:08] But they can't hand weapons to all of [06:12] these people that are living in their [06:14] country that believe in Sharia law. [06:18] So, they don't know what they're going [06:19] to do. [06:22] How is it we can see these things [06:25] but somehow or another we can't see [06:27] these things? [06:30] And we just think that, "No, no, no. [06:32] What National is doing, what Wapo posted [06:35] today, that's just the political [06:37] strategy. [06:38] That's just being good people." No, [06:40] you're not being a good person. I'm [06:42] sorry. [06:43] I'm sorry. If you are tolerating [06:46] something that does to women and [06:49] homosexuals and minorities the way [06:52] Sharia law perverts everything that this [06:56] country has ever stood for in its best [06:59] times [07:00] the things we say we strive for [07:03] anything that perverts those things [07:07] if you are standing up for it and you [07:09] think you're being kind [07:12] you're you're you're being [07:15] open-minded, you're strengthening our [07:17] country, you are dead wrong. [07:21] Okay. [07:23] Uh [07:24] so I want to start with the kind of [07:26] elephant in the room as we watch this, [07:28] which is what about Judaism? [07:32] Because Judaism has a system of law, [07:34] right? It has uh you only need to read [07:36] the Bible, need to read the book of [07:37] Exodus, book of Leviticus, book of [07:39] Deuteronomy and you see the laws. [07:42] What's more, there's the there's then [07:44] all the [07:46] all the oral law, all the [07:47] interpretations of those laws, the [07:48] applications of them. There's [07:50] there's law governing contracts, [07:53] governing business practices [07:55] governing how a court system operates, [07:57] right? Judaism has a law system. [08:00] So, why doesn't the same argument that [08:02] Glenn's making apply to Jews? [08:07] Let me explain. [08:09] There's one major major difference [08:12] between Jewish law and Sharia law as it [08:15] applies to living as a citizen in the [08:17] United States of America. Well, there's [08:18] a few differences. I'm going to get into [08:20] a a couple actually, but there's one [08:22] main one. [08:26] According to the Torah, according to [08:28] Jewish law [08:31] all of [08:32] the the way to govern society by Jewish [08:35] law [08:36] applies in the Jewish Commonwealth. [08:40] And Judaism as a faith [08:43] has a national aspiration. It does. [08:46] Christianity does not, right? [08:47] Christianity does not aspire to [08:50] governance. [08:52] Right? It's a it's it's really it's a [08:54] faith system which [08:56] you know, render unto Caesar what is [08:58] Caesar's. It believes that nation should [09:00] be governed morally and ethically, but [09:02] it does not aspire to govern, to rule. [09:06] Judaism aspires to govern and to rule [09:09] only in the land of Israel over the [09:10] Jewish people. [09:12] And whoever else wants to live in a in [09:14] the Jewish in the Jewish society in the [09:16] land of Israel. That's it. [09:19] While in the exile [09:23] there's a concept in in rabbinic law [09:26] called dina d'malkhuta dina, which means [09:29] the law of the land is the law. The law [09:31] of the state you live in in exile is the [09:34] law. You know, we're obligated to be [09:36] obedient to the law of the land. So, [09:38] that's within Jewish law there's a [09:41] there's this caveat that says that [09:43] Jewish law does not reign supreme [09:46] meaning civil law does not reign [09:48] supreme. It does not In fact, it doesn't [09:51] govern at all. It's not the It's not [09:53] dina d'malkhuta dina. The law of the [09:55] kingdom, the law of the land you're in [09:57] is the law. [09:58] Jewish law only applies to the Jewish [09:59] nation in the land of [10:01] in the land of Israel. [10:02] Now, privately, there are other aspects [10:04] of the law that would apply [10:06] um you know, to Jews [10:08] should they choose to follow them. [10:10] Um and uh [10:13] and there are Jewish courts that don't [10:14] have any real power. They don't have any [10:16] power to impose anything. They're just [10:17] kind of like um [10:19] uh [10:20] like when people go to uh you know, to [10:23] someone to um what's the word? [10:26] You know, if two people have a dispute [10:27] and they just want to choose um an [10:29] arbitrator. [10:30] So, you can have an arbitrator who's [10:32] going to follow who's going to follow uh [10:34] you know, the rabbinic [10:36] the rabbinic law, but that's just a [10:37] choice that they make. What makes this [10:38] different from Islam? [10:40] Islam [10:41] in in the in the faith itself, in the [10:43] religion itself, the goal of the [10:46] religion is governance. [10:48] That's the goal of the faith. It's not [10:50] just an aspect of Islam. That is its [10:53] goal. I've said this many times if you [10:54] watch this channel. I'll just say it [10:55] very quickly again. [10:57] Judaism's goal [10:59] is the restoration of the nation of [11:00] Israel in its in its homeland and that [11:03] all people on the earth should recognize [11:05] the God of Israel as the true God. Not [11:07] that they're bound by Jewish law in any [11:09] way. Jewish law is is a is a special [11:12] covenantal obligation that the Jewish [11:14] people have and that the belief of [11:17] Judaism is that through the Jewish [11:19] people fulfilling their covenantal [11:20] mandate in their land as a unique and [11:23] small people in their small land that [11:26] that will have an impact on influencing [11:28] the rest of the world and the whole rest [11:30] of the world ultimately will know the [11:32] God of Israel. That it will spread to [11:34] the to the nations of the world as well. [11:35] That's Judaism's goal. That knowledge of [11:37] God shall cover the earth like water [11:39] covers the sea. [11:40] The goal of Christianity is that all [11:42] people on earth recognize [11:45] uh Jesus as their Lord and Savior and [11:48] recognize him and and that brings the [11:50] kingdom of God to earth and that [11:51] everyone then follows the you know, the [11:54] ideas, the values of God. But it does [11:57] not seek to govern [11:59] anyone. [12:02] Islam's program is a program of [12:04] governance. It even relates to of [12:06] governance of the entire world to bring [12:09] the entire world to submit to Islam. [12:11] That is the very purpose of Islam. Just [12:13] like I'm I'm telling you the end game of [12:15] each of these three faiths. [12:17] It is the end game of Islam. [12:21] And that presents a problem. That's the [12:22] problem that Glenn is raising here. [12:25] The concept of dina de malchuta dina [12:28] that that the law, the religious law of [12:30] the faith is not relevant [12:34] when living in a foreign land that it's [12:36] not [12:38] that it's not the law it's only the law [12:40] of the land in the land of Israel, in [12:42] the Jewish society. [12:43] Um that doesn't exist in Islam. [12:46] And when you look back at the founding [12:48] of the United States of America, Jews [12:49] were involved in the founding from the [12:50] very beginning. Observant Jews were [12:52] involved in the founding. They were they [12:54] fought in the Revolutionary War. One of [12:55] the main financiers of the of the [12:57] revolution was Haym Salomon as a Jew. [12:59] Jews have been involved in it from the [13:00] very beginning. [13:03] Um so so there's that aspect. But the [13:05] real issue I wanted to talk about in in [13:08] what Glenn had to say here [13:10] uh has to do with what he he mentioned a [13:13] few times about how we have this desire [13:16] to find common ground. [13:18] We want to say, "Hey, look, you know, [13:20] they believe in in you know, you know, [13:23] kind of conservative principles in terms [13:25] of the sexualization of our children or [13:27] avoiding that. [13:28] Uh and so do we. So, there's common [13:30] ground. We like to look for that common [13:32] ground. [13:34] And that's a very that's a very noble [13:36] aspiration. [13:40] And he's kind of saying, "Well, we don't [13:41] really exactly have that common ground." [13:43] So, I I want to take this to another [13:44] place, which I think is very important [13:47] uh when it comes to interfaith [13:49] relations. And this is I've been [13:51] involved in interfaith relations for a [13:52] very long time. And that has to do with [13:55] um [13:56] the most basic question of all [13:59] which is who is God? [14:02] Who is God and where do my values come [14:03] from? [14:05] Very basic question. [14:07] Because it's very popular to say that [14:10] Muslims and Christians and Jews, the [14:11] three Abrahamic faiths, all believe in [14:14] the same God. Right? We all believe in [14:16] the God you know, it's the same God. [14:17] It's the God of Abraham. [14:19] Uh we have different we have divergences [14:21] within that belief, but we all believe [14:22] in the same God. And I believe that that [14:24] is incorrect. [14:26] I'll explain. But I believe that that's [14:27] incorrect. [14:29] You know, before I go on with this uh [14:31] I would be remiss if I did not uh [14:34] if I did not uh [14:36] ask you [14:37] to please um [14:39] go to [14:42] the Israel Truth Network. I talked about [14:43] this before. The Israel Truth Network [14:45] was uh was born out of [14:49] out of Charlie Kirk's letter to Prime [14:52] Minister Netanyahu where he was [14:53] recommending a way that Israel could [14:55] really tell its story in a more [14:56] effective way putting out accurate, [15:00] concise information on all the hot [15:02] button issues that respond directly to [15:05] the anti-Israel charges being made in [15:07] media on daily basis [15:09] including an archive of material and and [15:12] uh and um more background information. [15:15] So, we created uh I [15:18] the team at Israel 365 before Charlie [15:20] was was was assassinated. We were [15:21] working Charlie was advising us [15:24] and we're and uh and we're working to [15:25] implement Charlie's ideas about what [15:27] Israel could do to tell its story [15:29] better. And we've launched the site [15:32] theisrael with with the word the [15:34] theisraeltruthnetwork.org. [15:36] And you can go there and you can sign up [15:38] for the truth in the top corner or you [15:39] can go down to the bottom and fill out [15:42] the little form, first name, last name, [15:43] email and you will get these concise [15:47] talking points on on all the different [15:50] uh important issues. When there's a [15:51] charge being made against Israel, some [15:53] slander against Israel in the media this [15:55] will give you the right or sometimes not [15:57] a slander, sometimes just some [15:58] misunderstood story about what was [16:00] happening in Israel. Um and uh and and [16:03] it will and will go through and and the [16:05] the talking points will give you you [16:07] know, kind of battle-tested information [16:10] that really gives you the accurate truth [16:12] about what's going on in Israel. [16:14] Uh so like for example, Israel's [16:16] treatment of Christians and religious [16:18] issues, that's one of the topics that's [16:19] been in the in the media lately. You can [16:21] go in there and you can see all the [16:22] truth. Israel theisraeltruthnetwork.org. [16:26] So, please go there [16:27] and sign up and to help spread the word. [16:29] Okay. [16:31] So, let me explain what I mean when I [16:32] when I talk about when I say that I [16:35] don't I don't believe that Jews, [16:36] Christians, and Muslims all believe in [16:38] the same God. And what I'm going to say [16:39] has a lot also has has impact on another [16:42] issue that comes up every time I post a [16:43] clip of of Glenn Beck, there are some [16:45] people, some some Christians [16:48] who [16:49] mention in the comments that Glenn is [16:52] Mormon. And and for most Christians, [16:54] they don't view Mormons as as [16:56] as having a legitimate faith. They view [16:58] it as a kind of heresy. Uh there's [17:01] you know, and I don't want to get [17:02] involved in that in that issue. I have [17:04] no I have no skin in that game. [17:08] But I want you to [17:09] if that's your reaction when you see [17:11] Glenn Beck and you're still watching [17:12] this video, I want you to keep in mind [17:14] what I'm about to say. [17:19] Do Christians and Jews believe in the [17:20] same God? [17:24] Do Jews and Muslims do Christians and [17:26] Jews and Muslims all believe in the same [17:27] God? [17:28] Well, how do we know who God is? [17:32] What do we know about God? [17:33] And we are scriptural faiths. [17:37] Judaism has a scripture. [17:39] Right? A sacred scripture. [17:41] That we believe is the [17:44] is the inherent inspired word of God. [17:47] Various forms to prophets. [17:49] Not every book is the same. [17:51] Not every prophet is the same. That's a [17:53] separate issue. But we believe we are a [17:56] a faith that is not based on coming to [17:58] some understanding of God based on some [18:00] philosophical musing that we arrive at [18:02] some conclusion [18:03] based on some reasoning. [18:05] I mean, we have reasoning as well. We [18:06] have theology. But ultimately, we're [18:09] grounded in a text. [18:12] Christianity also grounded in a text. [18:14] Islam grounded in a text. And that's [18:16] where things diverge. [18:19] You see, Judaism and Christianity [18:22] are the only two faiths on earth that [18:24] share a foundational text. [18:26] What Christians call the Old Testament, [18:28] what Jews call the Tanakh, the Bible, [18:30] the Hebrew Bible. [18:32] Now, of course, Christians also have the [18:33] New Testament. Jews also have other [18:35] sacred writings that come later that [18:37] that Christians don't don't put any any [18:40] value in. That's fine. We have a point [18:42] of divergence, but we have a shared [18:44] text. And that shared text was not [18:45] rejected. The New Testament doesn't [18:47] reject the Old Testament. It's built [18:49] upon it. The Old Testament is quoted [18:51] frequently in it. The the mindset of the [18:54] writers of the New Testament, the Bible [18:56] they were working with [18:58] is the Hebrew Bible, the Tanakh, the Old [19:00] Testament. [19:02] So, there's a shared understanding of [19:04] who God is, what he wants, what is the [19:06] value system that God wants from the [19:09] world, what is the definition of good [19:10] and evil. [19:11] Right? What does God dislike? What does [19:13] he like? It it's all in there. Now, of [19:16] course, there's lots of different [19:17] interpretations, but we have a [19:18] foundational text. If I say something [19:20] about God that is directly contradicted [19:23] by scripture, so according to our faith, [19:25] it is incorrect. Right? Because I can't [19:27] because that's that's the that's the [19:30] unassailable axiomatic text that is that [19:33] that everything we have [19:35] all of our faith is based on. [19:38] Okay? [19:40] So the [19:41] we have this shared text and that gives [19:43] us a shared understanding of who God is [19:46] of the creation story of of Abraham, [19:48] Isaac, and Jacob and what they did and [19:50] what they said and who they were [19:52] and what and and what messages come [19:54] through the verses of Psalms and Isaiah [19:57] and [19:58] all of that is shared. [20:00] And all of that gives us a sense of who [20:02] God is and what he wants from us. [20:04] And then there's the points of [20:05] divergence. We are not the same faith. [20:08] We diverge. [20:13] Then let's look at Islam. [20:15] Now, many people will say, "Well, Islam [20:17] also believes in Abraham and believes in [20:20] uh you know you know all of the [20:21] prophets." They say that. They believe [20:23] in all the prophets of the of of the [20:24] Hebrew Bible. Sure. [20:27] Um [20:29] but what's the problem? The problem is [20:30] that if I open the Quran [20:32] I have stories about someone like [20:34] Abraham, about these people, and they're [20:36] different. [20:38] They're saying different things. God [20:40] does not want [20:41] and uh prohibit [20:44] the same things [20:46] in the Quran as he does in the Hebrew [20:47] Bible. [20:50] Abraham doesn't say the same things. He [20:52] doesn't do the same things. [20:55] Some of the things that he does [20:57] contradict [20:59] what it says in the Hebrew Bible. [21:02] They're not the same person. [21:03] Oh, they have the same name. [21:06] They're saying it's the same person. [21:07] Well, wait a second. [21:09] I don't have Abraham standing in front [21:10] of me [21:11] that I can look at and say we have a [21:12] dispute about what he did. What I know [21:14] of Abraham is what is in the text of [21:16] those verses in the Bible. [21:18] I'm using Abraham as an example, but but [21:20] this is I'm really talking about God. [21:23] What God wants, doesn't want, likes, [21:26] dislikes, what does he want from human [21:28] beings, what is our relationship to him? [21:32] That's all in the text of the Bible. [21:37] I'll give you an analogy. [21:39] Let's say someone says [21:42] um yeah, uh [21:44] I love baseball [21:46] and uh I love baseball history and you [21:48] know there was once this great baseball [21:50] player named Babe Ruth. [21:53] And according to the history books I [21:55] have at home, Babe Ruth was this skinny [21:58] little middle infielder playing for the [22:00] Philadelphia Phillies. [22:02] Now, if you're American or know anything [22:03] about baseball, you know that that's [22:04] absurd. Babe Ruth was this big burly [22:07] outfielder [22:08] who played for the New York Yankees for [22:10] well for most of his career. [22:13] And someone says, "No, no, no, no, no, [22:14] my book says that he was a skinny little [22:15] middle infielder playing for the [22:16] Phillies." [22:18] So, I would say, "Well, I you can call [22:19] him Babe Ruth, but it's not Babe Ruth. [22:22] It's not the same person. [22:25] Right? If you read two different [22:26] biographies of a historical figure and [22:28] they're different [22:30] they're I mean they're different in [22:32] many ways. They're just not the same [22:33] text. [22:36] Then you're not describing the same [22:38] person. [22:41] Now, [22:41] but more importantly when it comes to [22:43] God, who is God? How do we know God? We [22:45] know we know what he tells us, what he [22:47] commands us, what he wants from us, what [22:49] he wants us to stay away from. [22:52] How he defines goals and values, that's [22:55] all in the Bible. And if and according [22:57] to Islam, our Bible [22:59] is a forgery. [23:01] It's corrupted. It's incorrect. [23:04] And therefore the who God is is not the [23:08] same [23:09] for Muslims on the one hand and Jews and [23:12] Christians on the other. For Jews and [23:13] Christians, because we share a [23:15] foundational text. [23:17] And even if you're a Christian and you [23:18] and you view the Bible as the Old and [23:20] New Testament together, the vast [23:21] majority of it is the is the Hebrew [23:22] Bible, the Old Testament. And again, the [23:24] writers of the New Testament weren't [23:26] walking away from the Old Testament, [23:27] they were building on it. [23:29] So [23:31] Jews and Christians can say we believe [23:32] in the same God. We have some [23:34] disagreements about that God [23:37] that are reflected in the divergence of [23:39] our theology when you get to the New [23:41] Testament or the rabbinic text, etc. But [23:43] fundamentally at the level of values [23:46] at the level of ideas of who God is, [23:48] what is good, what is evil, what are [23:50] ethics and morality [23:52] in God's view, the those things are [23:55] identical. [23:56] So, we can say that we believe in the [23:58] same God. I reject categorically the [24:01] idea that Muslims believe in the same [24:03] God as Jews and Christians. [24:04] Because we are textual, scriptural [24:07] religions. [24:09] And therefore, if you have a different [24:10] text, we don't believe in the same God. [24:13] Now, this sounds very divisive. What do [24:14] you mean? You know, we all want to get [24:16] along, we want to find commonality, we [24:17] want to find common ground, but this is [24:19] what Glenn is saying, it's dangerous to [24:20] do that. Because when you do that, you [24:23] you stop identifying a threat. [24:27] You stop identifying something you know [24:30] a system that is actually a challenge to [24:32] your system. [24:34] And this brings us back to what he was [24:35] saying about Sharia law. [24:37] Because what does it mean to be an [24:38] American? [24:40] What does it mean? What does it mean to [24:41] be a citizen of a country? [24:44] Now in the old world, [24:46] nations often meant a an ethnic group, a [24:48] nationality, but you could you know you [24:49] could marry in and become part of it. [24:52] You live in a certain land. [24:55] America of all countries, of all of all [24:57] nations, is a set of ideas that was [25:00] implemented by people. [25:02] And to become an American, it means that [25:03] you're buying into that project, you're [25:05] buying into that set of ideas. [25:08] You're buying into that set of values. [25:10] So, if you come into America and you say [25:12] from the outset [25:14] that I do not view those values as [25:16] supreme. So, what makes you an American? [25:19] You know, when Ruth [25:20] the the the uh the the famous biblical [25:24] convert who joined the Jewish people, [25:26] what did she say? [25:27] "Your people are my people. [25:29] Your God is my God." [25:33] "Your God is my God." What does that [25:34] mean? What is God? It says it [25:36] "Your God" meaning that with the whole [25:38] package that that brings, with all of [25:39] those values, all of those ideas. [25:42] Jews and Christians can safely say and [25:45] and the entire history of the United [25:46] States from its founding till today is [25:48] proof positive of that. I mean [25:50] Jewish people, observant Jews, have no [25:53] contradiction [25:55] in their values with being American [25:57] citizens. [25:58] None whatsoever. It's not a challenge or [26:00] a threat to America at all. [26:02] And first of all, because we share the [26:04] values [26:05] that America was founded on. America was [26:06] founded on Bible-believing people. [26:10] Secondly [26:12] as I said at the beginning, Judaism has [26:15] no program [26:16] that's that that that desires in any [26:19] way, even theoretical [26:21] to implement a different legal system in [26:23] the United States. [26:25] And therefore, it's not it it it there's [26:28] no there's no there's nothing seditious [26:30] about it in its definition. [26:33] That's [26:35] that's why Judaism and Christianity [26:38] or Judaism and America [26:41] can coexist the way they do. [26:43] But Islam is built differently. The [26:46] entire faith [26:48] assumes as its goal [26:51] governance [26:53] under a certain set of laws that are [26:55] supreme, not only over believers in [26:58] Islam, but over everybody [27:01] over everybody including non-believers [27:04] of Islam. [27:06] And therefore, it's fundamentally [27:07] incompatible. [27:09] So, something's got to give. [27:11] So, yeah, if a Muslim wants to become an [27:13] American citizen, they [27:15] I'm sorry, there's certain tenets of tr- [27:18] fully faithful Islam that they're going [27:19] to have to leave at the door if they [27:21] want to be loyal American citizens. It's [27:24] just the way it's going to go. Now, I'm [27:25] not I don't live in America. I'm not [27:26] going to make the rules there. What I [27:28] wanted to point out is something more [27:29] much deeper. And that is that the [27:31] Jewish-Christian relationship is unique. [27:34] It's built on shared scripture, which [27:36] also leads to the fact and that it's [27:39] built on shared values. Historically, [27:41] it's built one Christianity emerges from [27:44] Judaism. [27:45] So, uh of it it [27:47] naturally, it's a given that there's a [27:49] certain overlap in values and teachings [27:52] and ideas about who God is and what is [27:55] good and what is evil that are that are [27:57] just simply common. Again, Christianity [27:59] emerges from Judaism. It started out as [28:01] a branch of Judaism. And it never [28:03] rejected those fundamental texts [28:06] and those fundamental teachings. [28:09] Whereas, Islam is a different system. [28:13] And that means that again, that type of [28:17] um you know, think of it this way. If [28:20] we're looking for commonality with [28:21] different groups of people [28:23] the point of divergence [28:25] between Jews or Christians and Islam [28:28] comes very quickly much quicker than it [28:32] does for Jews and Christians [28:34] with each other. [28:36] Uh [28:37] who who really are part of each other's [28:39] story in a different type of way. All [28:40] right, this is what I wanted to share [28:42] with you. I hope it made some sense. [28:44] Uh let me know what you think in the [28:44] comments um cuz I think I I need to [28:47] explore this uh this idea more in some [28:50] other videos. All right. God bless. [28:52] [clears throat]
