January 6, 2025 • 31 mins
In this episode of the Ultraculture Podcast, I reflect on the recent attack in New Orleans, exploring its implications and the interplay of spirituality and cultural conflict. I critique the notion of universality in religion, highlighting significant disparities among belief systems, particularly regarding Islam, and discuss the historical role of the Western esoteric tradition in promoting free thought and the need for vigilance against ideologies that threaten individual freedoms.
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Yes, hello, it's Jason Louv. Welcome back to the Ultraculture Podcast.
Today's episode is a somber one.
In this one, I'm going to be talking about the attack that happened in New Orleans
in the previous week, which has affected me personally,
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thankfully not with anyone that I know being hurt, but it has affected me very
deeply because I'm very connected to New Orleans,
and also because of the ever-tightening feeling of creeping ideological death.
I have a lot to say and talk about how the attack relates to the future of America,
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of magical space in America and around the world.
And in general, this attack has left me feeling like I need to be much,
much harder and on point, because I fear it's just going to be conflict from here on out.
I know I've been posting about the Middle East a lot, but with this attack in
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New Orleans, now it's personal.
All right. So this is a somber episode, so I'm not going to go crazy on ads
or anything like that, but this is coming out Monday,
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I'm not going to say please enjoy this episode, but hopefully take strength
from this episode and take, I hope, a little courage and bravery because we're all going to need it.
This is the audio of a live stream that I did on YouTube, which I'm doing much
more now that I have a pretty sweet setup.
So you can also go to our YouTube channel, which is just Magic Me on YouTube,
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to check out the extended version of this,
where in addition to the talk presented here, I also do some Q&A sessions,
and we really got into it. The response was overwhelmingly positive.
And so while I do want to say that while I have taken a lot of heat for my views,
as have people who have publicly agreed with me, like for instance, Scarlet Imprint,
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the more I speak up about the encroaching threat of Islamization,
the more positive feedback I get.
The trolls have largely been shown the door and at this point,
I would say 95% of the comments that I'm getting are people saying thank you
for saying something and my hope is simply that this gives you and people around
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the world some courage to speak out as well.
Alright, as always, lots of love. Hang in there and here's the episode.
Music.
All right, let's roll. So we had another truck of peace attack in New Orleans.
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The truck of peace is the satirical term that people on the Internet use for
when the religion of peace drives.
So a representative of the religion of peace drives a truck through a crowd of people.
We've seen it in Europe, largely up till now, because they're a gun-free continent for the most part.
But a couple of days ago, we saw a combo attack where it was the truck,
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plus then he got out and started shooting.
There were improvised explosive devices. It was really bad.
Now, I live fairly close to New Orleans, and I visit there a lot.
I have friends and family there, and it's hitting me very hard,
particularly coming after 15 months of war in the Middle East.
Okay, so I have some thoughts about this, and I want to kind of just vent a
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little bit and give you thoughts about particularly how this relates to spirituality
in America and the future as we go into 2025,
a very futuristic sounding year. So.
Man, where do I start? I think that let me let me approach this a little bit from a side angle.
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OK, let's talk about the idea of universality and religion.
So there's this idea that is has largely been there's this kind of accepted
presupposition that nobody really challenges in occultism or spirituality of universality.
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This may go back to the unitarians the christian unitarians
but and i can't give you the exact
academic answer on when this started but for sure
the biggest people that pushed this idea were
the theosophists around the turn of the turn of
the 20th century they really they had their phrase was no religion higher than
truth and they even in their logo had this idea that there was kind of a super
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metaposition on religions that all religions are reflections of or lead towards.
The idea that there's one, you know, this kind of pluralistic idea that the
source is one, whether that's God or the universe, the creator,
whatever you want to call it,
The source is one, but the reflections are many. This is a very, very beautiful idea.
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It's one of the most profound, hopeful ideas, I think, that humanity has come
up with. And unfortunately, it is absolutely wrong.
It's just wrong. There's no universality in religion.
And while we can take what is essentially a Vedantic perspective,
which is what the theosophist did, the Vedantic or Hindu perspective that all
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religions reflect a single transcendental source. Let's say that's true, okay?
We don't want to take away monism, but let's say that's true just for the sake of argument.
Well, the details on the ground matter a lot.
You and I are reflections of the same source, okay?
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Us and that terrorist are reflections of the same source.
Theoretically, you and a car are reflections of the same source,
but if you walk into the street, the car is going to run you over and you're
going to be dead, and then you will return to source.
So religions are not the same. Let's talk street level.
I really try to approach things not from a high level, but from street level.
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Religions are not the same. They are demonstrably not the same.
They are different in doctrine, they're different in leaders,
and they're different in how their adherents behave in the world.
So even if like, let's say, even if human beings all descended from a common
ancestor, we're all different.
So the fact that we're united at some level, the level of breathing,
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I think is the one thing that all humans have in common.
The fact that we're united at some level does not mean we're all united,
does not mean we're all the same.
And down here on the ground, it's war.
And it always has been because competition for resources, it's competition for
ideological mindshare.
Religions are practically speaking hustles and they've been in competition for
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adherence and money and donations and real estate for a long time.
Islam is not like other religions. It's not even like the other monotheistic religions.
We have this other conceit that is, I think, been around since the 1960s,
this idea of Abrahamic faiths or the big three monotheistic faiths, or,
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also the idea of just taking out Islam, Judeo-Christian civilization.
Even the three monotheistic faiths are not the same. Although they all stem from Judaism,
Christianity was essentially a rip-off of Jewish ideas combined with ideas from
the Roman Empire in order to create an imperializing and totalizing force to
replace the Roman Empire after it fell.
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At its very beginning, there was no Christianity. There was only Jesus, a Jewish heretic.
Islam came around later and took, stole all of its ideas,
just because it stole all of its ideas from Judaism and also from Christianity
and also from desert paganism,
Bedouins, and a bunch of other tribal superstitions, just because it stole ideas
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from other religions in the area does not mean it's an expression of the same thing.
So in theory, and I want to preface this by saying I've been a Muslim for a year.
I was a Sufi Muslim in New York, actually near ground zero.
I've kissed one of the hairs from the beard of Muhammad, allegedly.
I think that at a high level, Islam is a very beautiful and pure religion.
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The idea of one absolute that you submit to, and this is kind of like trip logic.
If anyone's had a big psychedelic trip, you know that it's surrendering and
letting go to the absolute, to higher power.
That is what helps your trip go well. And it's what helps your life go well.
Okay. Now that's all good and well, but the details matter.
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The details of Islam are horrific.
I recommend everyone go to, because it's not what they say, by the way,
because it's, it's permitted within Islam to lie to non-believers for,
to further the religion. It's not what they say. It's what they do.
And it's not even what's in the Quran or the hadiths, which are bad enough in
many cases, it's in all of their legal documents and all of the lesser-known
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documents that they actually operate out of.
This is a huge subject. I recommend everyone go to.
There's a website called thereligionofpeace.com, and you will find more facts, figures.
Scriptural quotations inciting violence, rape, stoning, child molestation,
genital mutilation, the torture of nonbelievers, anti-semitism,
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and just plain old paranoid schizophrenic insanity than I could possibly ever recite on this stream.
So definitely please check out that website, thereligionofpeace.com.
I just found out about it.
I've been reading it, and man, there's a lot there. So...
Islam is not just a religion. It's a totalizing, imperializing force that has
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one goal, and that is the Islamization of the world.
So this book is called Islamic Imperialism.
Ephraim Karsh. It's from Yale University Press. So this is a real academic text.
And I just want to read three quotes it opens with that show what the religion of Islam is. Okay?
Number one. Again, go to thereligionofpeace.com. They tell you everything in their own words.
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Number one. I was ordered to fight all men until they say there is no God but Allah.
Prophet Muhammad's farewell address, March 632.
I shall cross this sea to their islands to pursue them until there remains no
one on the face of the earth who does not acknowledge Allah.
Saladin, January 1189.
We will export our revolution throughout the world until the calls there is
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no God but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah are echoed all over the world.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 1979.
I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no God but Allah and
his prophet Muhammad. That's Osama bin Laden, November 2001.
So we need to drop the nonsense. I think for the last 20 years,
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since 9-11, which many of you probably lived through, I definitely did.
I was in my sophomore year of college when it happened.
And for a second, I was going to enlist in the military, but I was in college and I chickened out.
But we've had this lie for the last 20 years of extreme Islam,
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radical Islam, the idea that when terrorist events happen, that there's somehow
an aberration from Islam, that there are just a few isolated crazies.
I'm sorry we can't pretend that's the case anymore. We just can't.
There are tons of peaceful Muslims all over the world who never participate in violence.
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However, their religion incites them to participate in violence.
And if there are Muslims that have never participated in violence,
then they, if they're not participating, they're certainly not speaking out against it.
Okay. They're not speaking out against it and they share the same views.
So just because they don't act doesn't mean that on some level they don't tacitly
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approve. I think even, quote unquote, moderate Islamic groups can be extremely
anti-Semitic, extremely homophobic, anti-woman. It's a nightmare.
This is a seventh century desert religion, which has not reformed or updated
because the core tenet of Islam is that it's the final word of God.
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The Quran, which, by the way, I recommend I picked it up again recently and
started reading it for the first time since post 9-11.
The Quran, I recommend you read
it again because, you know, I opened it up expecting to see a holy text.
And it sounds like somebody screaming at you and throwing pots and pans at you
for the first eight pages. It just opens up with threats.
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Core tenet of Islam is that the Quran is the final word of God.
That is the final dispensation of the monotheistic religions.
How convenient is that? And that there will be no further dispensation ever.
Okay, well, when you start off on that foot, there's not going to be reform.
The West has had this idea since 9-11 that it can absorb Islam.
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And essentially, since the end of the Cold War, when Francis Fukuyama,
State Department philosopher, very famously came out with his text,
The End of History, which proved to be the overstatement of all history.
There's been this idea that the world has essentially,
the problems of the world, the ideology of the world, of the ideological structure
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of the planet has been decided upon,
that there was the great, the big war at the beginning of the 20th century between fascism,
communism and democracy slash capitalism and
democracy slash capitalism one it later
became globalization neoliberalism and
that that is the final totalizing ideology for
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the world and if anyone has not adopted it well
they just need a little bit more internet cable tv
playstation and porn and they'll come around
to our way of thinking that's not the case and the idea has been that islam
can be absorbed that islam can be reformed that reformers will emerge in it
much like happened in in catholicism then again the catholic church wasn't that bad compared to islam.
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And that somehow through some combination of
soft power media neurolinguistic programming
we can import islam and
that they will eventually become like us they don't
want to become like us we don't have anything
they want other than money and creature comforts okay
and land i can
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tell you as somebody who's explored the world's spiritual traditions and
including islam the what faith
gives people what certainty gives
people what a sense of submission to
the absolute gives people is more
profound and motivating than anything you
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can go buy at target than anything
you can go buy it i don't know whatever the
equivalent is in in the uk tesco or waitrose or one of the other ones those
are supermarkets but we don't have anything they want ideologically they want
our land they want our wealth and our resources but we don't have they despise
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our ideology They call us,
as the Ayatollah said, the great Satan, and they mean it.
When I was in college, my freshman roommate had fled the Iranian Persian.
He'd fled the Islamic revolution in Iran with his parents and came to America
like many Persians did, many other Persians I've met since.
And he told me straight up, this is before 9-11, he told me straight up,
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every morning they would wake up and say, just like Americans say Pledge of
Allegiance, they would wake up and say, death to America, death to Israel, and curse the flag.
It sounds like it's something from a cartoon, but it's real.
They hate us. They're taught to hate us.
And in many ways, their critique of us, although they have nothing better to,
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they have something far worse, far, far worse, they want to replace us with.
Their critique of us is in some ways valid.
The West is decadent. The West is falling apart.
The West is godless. The West has no more guiding.
It doesn't even believe in anything higher than itself other than the pursuit
of individual pleasure, fleeting pleasure.
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And that's a recipe for societal collapse. And Islam is waiting in the wings
to fill in to take that role. And we're allowing it.
This is a slightly off-collar joke, but about five years ago I said on Facebook,
If it's possible to commit suicide by cop, is it possible for an entire culture
to commit suicide by Islam?
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And the answer, as we're seeing, particularly in the last few years in Europe
and particularly in the UK, the answer is yes.
Now, I pointed this out and I've been criticized immensely for it,
but I would rather be hated than dead.
In the words of Golda Meir, the former prime minister of Israel.
And I suggest that you might want to think about taking that attitude, too.
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I was criticized for this immensely. I did a podcast with Scarlet Imprint.
All of us came under a ton of fire and still are. But you know what?
I'd rather be right than popular, and I'd rather be hated than dead.
And it's not about being right. It's about surviving and doing what's best for everyone. one.
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So let me come at this from a couple other angles.
The historical goal of the Western esoteric teacher, of which I am a representative
and a teacher, and currently one
of the most prominent ones for the time being, until I'm dead, will be.
The historical role, there is a specific historical role of the Western esoteric
tradition. It's not just about spells and juju and all this stuff.
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That's largely backwash from it.
I talk about this at length in my John Dee book, The historical role of the
Western esoteric tradition was it was set up as essentially ideological special
forces to counteract the hold of the Catholic Church on Europe.
Because prior to that, the Catholic Church really put a blocked in many ways,
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preserved in many ways, higher learning, but also blocked inquiry and like classic
learning and things like that, but blocked access to science.
The Inquisitions was very anti-Semitic. The Inquisition had just happened and it was a nightmare.
After the Protestant Reformation, the Western esoteric traditions,
which include Rosicrucianism.
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Freemasonry, I'm also a 32nd degree Freemason, and then from that later on,
later, later, Golden Dawn Thulema, but primarily Rosicrucianism and then Freemasonry.
These were set up to counteract the effect of the Catholic Church on the mindshare
of Europe and to liberate people to think freely.
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To create spaces like Masonic lodges in which people could talk in an uncensored
way, speak their mind freely without fear of reprisal from the church.
And ultimately to act as a kind of counterbalance to the Jesuits in really,
really advancing the ideas that later became the Enlightenment, science,
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universal democracy, universal human rights, and manifested in many ways as America.
America was a Rosicrucian Masonic project set up to create a society that was not anti-Semitic,
that was not subject to torment by the Catholic Church, in which people were
free to follow freedom of confession, meaning the ability, freedom of religion.
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These are things we take for granted, but these were fought for and died for
throughout the Thirty Years' War, the Hundred Years' War, and every generation
must fight for its freedom again.
This isn't in the past. It's not a done deal.
So today, while the Catholic Church really is not, well, there's still a bit
of an issue at the Supreme Court, but compared to Islam...
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It's kind of no comparison. These days, obviously, we face tremendous censorship,
and the forces of control have perfected censorship by network,
meaning there's no top-down censorship.
They've encouraged a system in which everyone cancels everyone else,
in which everyone spies on everyone else and reports everyone else,
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which is essentially what Stalin did, although having this type of technology
would have been his wet dream.
So we're subject to cancellation on YouTube, cancel culture,
all of this. And people have gotten very sick of this.
But we're also subject to immediate physical danger by Islam.
And anyone who doesn't think that's the case after two days,
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after 9-11, anyone who didn't think that was the case is delusional.
So what i suggest is yes the
western esoteric tradition has been a kind of moribund for
the last hundred years or so the idea that you know since christianity does
not really pose any type of cultural threat anymore the fundamental fundamentalist
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christians yes okay but they're far they're not nearly as much of an issue we
have close to two billion muslims in the world And as I understand,
by mid-century, they may be the dominant group of people on the planet.
Although I've also heard that that's primarily because of conversion and high
birth rates in the developing world.
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And anywhere where they have internet, 24% of young Muslims are bailing from
the religion and becoming apostates because you have the internet.
They see that this is a ridiculous 7th century desert cult with essentially
no redeeming values, no redeeming qualities, that hates women,
that mutilates children, that encourages, in many cases,
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pedophilia all the way up to its founder, Muhammad, who was a pedophile.
Look it up Aisha his child bride Islam perpetuated slavery throughout Africa
for a thousand years before the Europeans ever got there in many cases Europeans
benefited from the slavery structures that had been set up by Islam starting in North Africa.
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Slavery was already practiced in Africa prior to that too but this had been
going on for a long time before Europeans ever showed up Islam is consistently engaged in.
Terrorist attacks all over the world. Check out that site, thereligionofpeace.com
in Africa, in India, in Indonesia, in Bali, all over the world.
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It's not this idea of white colonizers or imperialism.
I was in India in 2010. I went up into the Himalayas. I was 10,000 feet up in
the Himalayas above Rishikesh at places that they were telling me this is the
birthplace of Ganesh. This is the birthplace of Shiva. Okay.
And what did they have there? They had priests walking around with shotguns
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because jihadis were coming in and trying to blow up these shrines.
And when I was there earlier at a prior time, I actually narrowly dodged getting
kidnapped by Maoist in Nepal only to get to India, where I was not there at the time.
But around the same time I was there, terrorists committed a very serious attack
in Mumbai, blew up a crowded area.
And this has gone on and on and on and on. Islam conquered India brutally,
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during the Mughal invasions raped, tortured, converted by sword this is a story
that involves the whole world and right now we have American college students
running around making it all about them,
making it all about western imperialism, it's not about western imperialism
it's not even about the crusades which by the way were a response to jihad and
incursions into Europe by Islam okay so even the issue of the crusades is a non-starter for me.
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This is a global issue that affects everyone.
It's Islam versus the world versus the world.
It is. It is.
And there's a lot of them. So I suggest that as a revitalized Western esoteric
tradition might want to consider playing the same role that it did with the
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Catholic Church in Europe with now the new colonizing force in Europe and hopefully not America,
but certainly terrorist force in America. of Islam.
It is the enemy. I'm sorry. It's not radical Islam. It's not extremist Islam. It's.
Read the texts, and also understand the concept of Dawah, D-A-W-A-H.
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Dawah, and I think there's other terms associated with it, are essentially permissible
lying by Muslims to infidels in order to misrepresent the religion,
in order to claim that it's a religion of peace.
Yeah, peace through submission to Islam.
And there's a lot of Dawah agents running around.
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There's a lot of Dawah agents in American universities trying to spread this
whole post-colonial anti-imperialist narrative,
which Yasser Arafat figured out was a great way to get the Islamic message into America.
We've got people like this idiot, Reza Aslan, who I hate, who is just a complete
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prick, essentially acting in the same way in the public square.
It's a problem. so it's not
lost on me and it shouldn't be lost on you let's talk like october
7th okay the october 7th attack
was a brutal massacre the worst massacre of jews since the holocaust that occurred
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obviously when people attacked israel the primary place they attacked they attacked
kibbutzes and they went into people's homes and slaughtered their children in
front of them it was horrible horrible, horrible, horrible.
But one of the primary places they attacked was the Nova Music Festival,
which if you go and watch the footage of, which will scar you, it's not pretty.
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And the worst has not been released, but there's footage online you can see.
That festival was people like us. You look at that festival and there's people,
it's ravers, there's people with There's psychedelic Buddhas up.
There's signs for shamanic healing.
Those people are us.
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They're there partying. Those are the best of society. There's things about
chakra balancing and things like that.
It was a magical event. This has not been discussed by the media because they
don't get this at all, obviously, but this was a magical space.
As many of you know, you go to these parties, people are taking ecstasy.
A lot of people were butchered on ecstasy, by the way, I can't imagine, and butchered.
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You have people on ecstasy, you have people on acid, or just doing yoga,
and everyone's kind of this group mind forms, and it's this bliss,
and everyone's having these heart-opening experiences and sharing.
And sometimes people share trauma and there's healing and crying and hugging
and where people are just dancing and having a good time, having breakthrough experiences.
It's wonderful, particularly for young people.
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These are some of the best experiences that young people in their twenties can have.
That was a magical space and it's not a mistake. It wasn't, it wasn't a,
uh, like an Orthodox Jewish space.
It was a magical space. It was a new age space. That's not a mistake that that was attacked.
And then two days ago, New Orleans is a magical space.
In fact, it is the magical space par excellence in America. It's a magical city
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where people believe in magical ideas, in paganism, in Catholic magic,
in Vudan, which I also have issues with, but it's nothing compared to this.
It's not, it's not, it doesn't even register as a blip on the radar compared to this.
It's a magical space. And I don't think it's a mistake, whether it's intentional
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or unconscious, that Islam would be attacking those first.
They're not attacking atheistic spaces.
It's representations of what they probably see as paganism at its worst,
infidels at their worst.
You know, you think about people partying in New Orleans.
So we're in a war, whether you like it or not. And I hate to say that because
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I hate war. I was raised by peace activists.
I was raised to believe that war is the worst word in the English language,
but we didn't start at this.
We're permitting it, or certain people are, not we. I hate the word we because
I didn't do it, but certain people are permitting it. They're allowing it.
Politicians are allowing it for whatever cheap labor, whatever it is,
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or replacement for low birth rates in Europe, whatever it happens to be.
People are allowing it, but we didn't start this war and we need to wake up
and take it seriously and simply this is what I'll end on. Take them at their word.
Listen to them. Read their texts.
Watch their speeches. You go look at Memory TV or any of these things.
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Memory TV is a YouTube channel that archives footage of crazy Imams from the
Middle East, television in the Middle East, talking about destroying America,
destroying killing Jews, is destroying Israel, all this.
Go listen to them. Don't listen to me. Listen to them.
Don't listen to Fox News or right-wing commentators or Tommy Robinson or Elon or any of these people.
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Go listen to them. Read their texts.
Read and look at what they do. Not just what they say, but what they do.
TheReligionOfPeace.com.
We're going to have to deal with this for the rest of our lives.
And our children will have to deal with this and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
And if we don't do something about it now, all we do is kick the can down the
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road for our descendants to have an even worse problem. And I'm not willing to do that.
All right. I hope you really enjoyed that. You can go to our YouTube channel
to check out the full version of this with the Q&A.
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January 6th is the last day for that and add up tickets. All right, I'll see you soon.
Yes, hello, it's Jason Louv. Welcome back to the Ultraculture Podcast.
Today's episode is a somber one.
In this one, I'm going to be talking about the attack that happened in New Orleans
in the previous week, which has affected me personally,
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thankfully not with anyone that I know being hurt, but it has affected me very
deeply because I'm very connected to New Orleans,
and also because of the ever-tightening feeling of creeping ideological death.
I have a lot to say and talk about how the attack relates to the future of America,
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of magical space in America and around the world.
And in general, this attack has left me feeling like I need to be much,
much harder and on point, because I fear it's just going to be conflict from here on out.
I know I've been posting about the Middle East a lot, but with this attack in
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New Orleans, now it's personal.
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and we really got into it. The response was overwhelmingly positive.
And so while I do want to say that while I have taken a lot of heat for my views,
as have people who have publicly agreed with me, like for instance, Scarlet Imprint,
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the more I speak up about the encroaching threat of Islamization,
the more positive feedback I get.
The trolls have largely been shown the door and at this point,
I would say 95% of the comments that I'm getting are people saying thank you
for saying something and my hope is simply that this gives you and people around
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the world some courage to speak out as well.
Alright, as always, lots of love. Hang in there and here's the episode.
Music.
All right, let's roll. So we had another truck of peace attack in New Orleans.
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The truck of peace is the satirical term that people on the Internet use for
when the religion of peace drives.
So a representative of the religion of peace drives a truck through a crowd of people.
We've seen it in Europe, largely up till now, because they're a gun-free continent for the most part.
But a couple of days ago, we saw a combo attack where it was the truck,
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plus then he got out and started shooting.
There were improvised explosive devices. It was really bad.
Now, I live fairly close to New Orleans, and I visit there a lot.
I have friends and family there, and it's hitting me very hard,
particularly coming after 15 months of war in the Middle East.
Okay, so I have some thoughts about this, and I want to kind of just vent a
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little bit and give you thoughts about particularly how this relates to spirituality
in America and the future as we go into 2025,
a very futuristic sounding year. So.
Man, where do I start? I think that let me let me approach this a little bit from a side angle.
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OK, let's talk about the idea of universality and religion.
So there's this idea that is has largely been there's this kind of accepted
presupposition that nobody really challenges in occultism or spirituality of universality.
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This may go back to the unitarians the christian unitarians
but and i can't give you the exact
academic answer on when this started but for sure
the biggest people that pushed this idea were
the theosophists around the turn of the turn of
the 20th century they really they had their phrase was no religion higher than
truth and they even in their logo had this idea that there was kind of a super
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metaposition on religions that all religions are reflections of or lead towards.
The idea that there's one, you know, this kind of pluralistic idea that the
source is one, whether that's God or the universe, the creator,
whatever you want to call it,
The source is one, but the reflections are many. This is a very, very beautiful idea.
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It's one of the most profound, hopeful ideas, I think, that humanity has come
up with. And unfortunately, it is absolutely wrong.
It's just wrong. There's no universality in religion.
And while we can take what is essentially a Vedantic perspective,
which is what the theosophist did, the Vedantic or Hindu perspective that all
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religions reflect a single transcendental source. Let's say that's true, okay?
We don't want to take away monism, but let's say that's true just for the sake of argument.
Well, the details on the ground matter a lot.
You and I are reflections of the same source, okay?
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Us and that terrorist are reflections of the same source.
Theoretically, you and a car are reflections of the same source,
but if you walk into the street, the car is going to run you over and you're
going to be dead, and then you will return to source.
So religions are not the same. Let's talk street level.
I really try to approach things not from a high level, but from street level.
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Religions are not the same. They are demonstrably not the same.
They are different in doctrine, they're different in leaders,
and they're different in how their adherents behave in the world.
So even if like, let's say, even if human beings all descended from a common
ancestor, we're all different.
So the fact that we're united at some level, the level of breathing,
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I think is the one thing that all humans have in common.
The fact that we're united at some level does not mean we're all united,
does not mean we're all the same.
And down here on the ground, it's war.
And it always has been because competition for resources, it's competition for
ideological mindshare.
Religions are practically speaking hustles and they've been in competition for
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adherence and money and donations and real estate for a long time.
Islam is not like other religions. It's not even like the other monotheistic religions.
We have this other conceit that is, I think, been around since the 1960s,
this idea of Abrahamic faiths or the big three monotheistic faiths, or,
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also the idea of just taking out Islam, Judeo-Christian civilization.
Even the three monotheistic faiths are not the same. Although they all stem from Judaism,
Christianity was essentially a rip-off of Jewish ideas combined with ideas from
the Roman Empire in order to create an imperializing and totalizing force to
replace the Roman Empire after it fell.
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At its very beginning, there was no Christianity. There was only Jesus, a Jewish heretic.
Islam came around later and took, stole all of its ideas,
just because it stole all of its ideas from Judaism and also from Christianity
and also from desert paganism,
Bedouins, and a bunch of other tribal superstitions, just because it stole ideas
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from other religions in the area does not mean it's an expression of the same thing.
So in theory, and I want to preface this by saying I've been a Muslim for a year.
I was a Sufi Muslim in New York, actually near ground zero.
I've kissed one of the hairs from the beard of Muhammad, allegedly.
I think that at a high level, Islam is a very beautiful and pure religion.
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The idea of one absolute that you submit to, and this is kind of like trip logic.
If anyone's had a big psychedelic trip, you know that it's surrendering and
letting go to the absolute, to higher power.
That is what helps your trip go well. And it's what helps your life go well.
Okay. Now that's all good and well, but the details matter.
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The details of Islam are horrific.
I recommend everyone go to, because it's not what they say, by the way,
because it's, it's permitted within Islam to lie to non-believers for,
to further the religion. It's not what they say. It's what they do.
And it's not even what's in the Quran or the hadiths, which are bad enough in
many cases, it's in all of their legal documents and all of the lesser-known
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documents that they actually operate out of.
This is a huge subject. I recommend everyone go to.
There's a website called thereligionofpeace.com, and you will find more facts, figures.
Scriptural quotations inciting violence, rape, stoning, child molestation,
genital mutilation, the torture of nonbelievers, anti-semitism,
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and just plain old paranoid schizophrenic insanity than I could possibly ever recite on this stream.
So definitely please check out that website, thereligionofpeace.com.
I just found out about it.
I've been reading it, and man, there's a lot there. So...
Islam is not just a religion. It's a totalizing, imperializing force that has
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one goal, and that is the Islamization of the world.
So this book is called Islamic Imperialism.
Ephraim Karsh. It's from Yale University Press. So this is a real academic text.
And I just want to read three quotes it opens with that show what the religion of Islam is. Okay?
Number one. Again, go to thereligionofpeace.com. They tell you everything in their own words.
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Number one. I was ordered to fight all men until they say there is no God but Allah.
Prophet Muhammad's farewell address, March 632.
I shall cross this sea to their islands to pursue them until there remains no
one on the face of the earth who does not acknowledge Allah.
Saladin, January 1189.
We will export our revolution throughout the world until the calls there is
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no God but Allah and Muhammad is the messenger of Allah are echoed all over the world.
Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, 1979.
I was ordered to fight the people until they say there is no God but Allah and
his prophet Muhammad. That's Osama bin Laden, November 2001.
So we need to drop the nonsense. I think for the last 20 years,
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since 9-11, which many of you probably lived through, I definitely did.
I was in my sophomore year of college when it happened.
And for a second, I was going to enlist in the military, but I was in college and I chickened out.
But we've had this lie for the last 20 years of extreme Islam,
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radical Islam, the idea that when terrorist events happen, that there's somehow
an aberration from Islam, that there are just a few isolated crazies.
I'm sorry we can't pretend that's the case anymore. We just can't.
There are tons of peaceful Muslims all over the world who never participate in violence.
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However, their religion incites them to participate in violence.
And if there are Muslims that have never participated in violence,
then they, if they're not participating, they're certainly not speaking out against it.
Okay. They're not speaking out against it and they share the same views.
So just because they don't act doesn't mean that on some level they don't tacitly
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approve. I think even, quote unquote, moderate Islamic groups can be extremely
anti-Semitic, extremely homophobic, anti-woman. It's a nightmare.
This is a seventh century desert religion, which has not reformed or updated
because the core tenet of Islam is that it's the final word of God.
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The Quran, which, by the way, I recommend I picked it up again recently and
started reading it for the first time since post 9-11.
The Quran, I recommend you read
it again because, you know, I opened it up expecting to see a holy text.
And it sounds like somebody screaming at you and throwing pots and pans at you
for the first eight pages. It just opens up with threats.
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Core tenet of Islam is that the Quran is the final word of God.
That is the final dispensation of the monotheistic religions.
How convenient is that? And that there will be no further dispensation ever.
Okay, well, when you start off on that foot, there's not going to be reform.
The West has had this idea since 9-11 that it can absorb Islam.
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And essentially, since the end of the Cold War, when Francis Fukuyama,
State Department philosopher, very famously came out with his text,
The End of History, which proved to be the overstatement of all history.
There's been this idea that the world has essentially,
the problems of the world, the ideology of the world, of the ideological structure
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of the planet has been decided upon,
that there was the great, the big war at the beginning of the 20th century between fascism,
communism and democracy slash capitalism and
democracy slash capitalism one it later
became globalization neoliberalism and
that that is the final totalizing ideology for
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the world and if anyone has not adopted it well
they just need a little bit more internet cable tv
playstation and porn and they'll come around
to our way of thinking that's not the case and the idea has been that islam
can be absorbed that islam can be reformed that reformers will emerge in it
much like happened in in catholicism then again the catholic church wasn't that bad compared to islam.
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And that somehow through some combination of
soft power media neurolinguistic programming
we can import islam and
that they will eventually become like us they don't
want to become like us we don't have anything
they want other than money and creature comforts okay
and land i can
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tell you as somebody who's explored the world's spiritual traditions and
including islam the what faith
gives people what certainty gives
people what a sense of submission to
the absolute gives people is more
profound and motivating than anything you
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can go buy at target than anything
you can go buy it i don't know whatever the
equivalent is in in the uk tesco or waitrose or one of the other ones those
are supermarkets but we don't have anything they want ideologically they want
our land they want our wealth and our resources but we don't have they despise
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our ideology They call us,
as the Ayatollah said, the great Satan, and they mean it.
When I was in college, my freshman roommate had fled the Iranian Persian.
He'd fled the Islamic revolution in Iran with his parents and came to America
like many Persians did, many other Persians I've met since.
And he told me straight up, this is before 9-11, he told me straight up,
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every morning they would wake up and say, just like Americans say Pledge of
Allegiance, they would wake up and say, death to America, death to Israel, and curse the flag.
It sounds like it's something from a cartoon, but it's real.
They hate us. They're taught to hate us.
And in many ways, their critique of us, although they have nothing better to,
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they have something far worse, far, far worse, they want to replace us with.
Their critique of us is in some ways valid.
The West is decadent. The West is falling apart.
The West is godless. The West has no more guiding.
It doesn't even believe in anything higher than itself other than the pursuit
of individual pleasure, fleeting pleasure.
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And that's a recipe for societal collapse. And Islam is waiting in the wings
to fill in to take that role. And we're allowing it.
This is a slightly off-collar joke, but about five years ago I said on Facebook,
If it's possible to commit suicide by cop, is it possible for an entire culture
to commit suicide by Islam?
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And the answer, as we're seeing, particularly in the last few years in Europe
and particularly in the UK, the answer is yes.
Now, I pointed this out and I've been criticized immensely for it,
but I would rather be hated than dead.
In the words of Golda Meir, the former prime minister of Israel.
And I suggest that you might want to think about taking that attitude, too.
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I was criticized for this immensely. I did a podcast with Scarlet Imprint.
All of us came under a ton of fire and still are. But you know what?
I'd rather be right than popular, and I'd rather be hated than dead.
And it's not about being right. It's about surviving and doing what's best for everyone. one.
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So let me come at this from a couple other angles.
The historical goal of the Western esoteric teacher, of which I am a representative
and a teacher, and currently one
of the most prominent ones for the time being, until I'm dead, will be.
The historical role, there is a specific historical role of the Western esoteric
tradition. It's not just about spells and juju and all this stuff.
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That's largely backwash from it.
I talk about this at length in my John Dee book, The historical role of the
Western esoteric tradition was it was set up as essentially ideological special
forces to counteract the hold of the Catholic Church on Europe.
Because prior to that, the Catholic Church really put a blocked in many ways,
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preserved in many ways, higher learning, but also blocked inquiry and like classic
learning and things like that, but blocked access to science.
The Inquisitions was very anti-Semitic. The Inquisition had just happened and it was a nightmare.
After the Protestant Reformation, the Western esoteric traditions,
which include Rosicrucianism.
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Freemasonry, I'm also a 32nd degree Freemason, and then from that later on,
later, later, Golden Dawn Thulema, but primarily Rosicrucianism and then Freemasonry.
These were set up to counteract the effect of the Catholic Church on the mindshare
of Europe and to liberate people to think freely.
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To create spaces like Masonic lodges in which people could talk in an uncensored
way, speak their mind freely without fear of reprisal from the church.
And ultimately to act as a kind of counterbalance to the Jesuits in really,
really advancing the ideas that later became the Enlightenment, science,
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universal democracy, universal human rights, and manifested in many ways as America.
America was a Rosicrucian Masonic project set up to create a society that was not anti-Semitic,
that was not subject to torment by the Catholic Church, in which people were
free to follow freedom of confession, meaning the ability, freedom of religion.
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These are things we take for granted, but these were fought for and died for
throughout the Thirty Years' War, the Hundred Years' War, and every generation
must fight for its freedom again.
This isn't in the past. It's not a done deal.
So today, while the Catholic Church really is not, well, there's still a bit
of an issue at the Supreme Court, but compared to Islam...
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It's kind of no comparison. These days, obviously, we face tremendous censorship,
and the forces of control have perfected censorship by network,
meaning there's no top-down censorship.
They've encouraged a system in which everyone cancels everyone else,
in which everyone spies on everyone else and reports everyone else,
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which is essentially what Stalin did, although having this type of technology
would have been his wet dream.
So we're subject to cancellation on YouTube, cancel culture,
all of this. And people have gotten very sick of this.
But we're also subject to immediate physical danger by Islam.
And anyone who doesn't think that's the case after two days,
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after 9-11, anyone who didn't think that was the case is delusional.
So what i suggest is yes the
western esoteric tradition has been a kind of moribund for
the last hundred years or so the idea that you know since christianity does
not really pose any type of cultural threat anymore the fundamental fundamentalist
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christians yes okay but they're far they're not nearly as much of an issue we
have close to two billion muslims in the world And as I understand,
by mid-century, they may be the dominant group of people on the planet.
Although I've also heard that that's primarily because of conversion and high
birth rates in the developing world.
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And anywhere where they have internet, 24% of young Muslims are bailing from
the religion and becoming apostates because you have the internet.
They see that this is a ridiculous 7th century desert cult with essentially
no redeeming values, no redeeming qualities, that hates women,
that mutilates children, that encourages, in many cases,
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pedophilia all the way up to its founder, Muhammad, who was a pedophile.
Look it up Aisha his child bride Islam perpetuated slavery throughout Africa
for a thousand years before the Europeans ever got there in many cases Europeans
benefited from the slavery structures that had been set up by Islam starting in North Africa.
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Slavery was already practiced in Africa prior to that too but this had been
going on for a long time before Europeans ever showed up Islam is consistently engaged in.
Terrorist attacks all over the world. Check out that site, thereligionofpeace.com
in Africa, in India, in Indonesia, in Bali, all over the world.
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It's not this idea of white colonizers or imperialism.
I was in India in 2010. I went up into the Himalayas. I was 10,000 feet up in
the Himalayas above Rishikesh at places that they were telling me this is the
birthplace of Ganesh. This is the birthplace of Shiva. Okay.
And what did they have there? They had priests walking around with shotguns
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because jihadis were coming in and trying to blow up these shrines.
And when I was there earlier at a prior time, I actually narrowly dodged getting
kidnapped by Maoist in Nepal only to get to India, where I was not there at the time.
But around the same time I was there, terrorists committed a very serious attack
in Mumbai, blew up a crowded area.
And this has gone on and on and on and on. Islam conquered India brutally,
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during the Mughal invasions raped, tortured, converted by sword this is a story
that involves the whole world and right now we have American college students
running around making it all about them,
making it all about western imperialism, it's not about western imperialism
it's not even about the crusades which by the way were a response to jihad and
incursions into Europe by Islam okay so even the issue of the crusades is a non-starter for me.
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This is a global issue that affects everyone.
It's Islam versus the world versus the world.
It is. It is.
And there's a lot of them. So I suggest that as a revitalized Western esoteric
tradition might want to consider playing the same role that it did with the
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Catholic Church in Europe with now the new colonizing force in Europe and hopefully not America,
but certainly terrorist force in America. of Islam.
It is the enemy. I'm sorry. It's not radical Islam. It's not extremist Islam. It's.
Read the texts, and also understand the concept of Dawah, D-A-W-A-H.
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Dawah, and I think there's other terms associated with it, are essentially permissible
lying by Muslims to infidels in order to misrepresent the religion,
in order to claim that it's a religion of peace.
Yeah, peace through submission to Islam.
And there's a lot of Dawah agents running around.
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There's a lot of Dawah agents in American universities trying to spread this
whole post-colonial anti-imperialist narrative,
which Yasser Arafat figured out was a great way to get the Islamic message into America.
We've got people like this idiot, Reza Aslan, who I hate, who is just a complete
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prick, essentially acting in the same way in the public square.
It's a problem. so it's not
lost on me and it shouldn't be lost on you let's talk like october
7th okay the october 7th attack
was a brutal massacre the worst massacre of jews since the holocaust that occurred
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obviously when people attacked israel the primary place they attacked they attacked
kibbutzes and they went into people's homes and slaughtered their children in
front of them it was horrible horrible, horrible, horrible.
But one of the primary places they attacked was the Nova Music Festival,
which if you go and watch the footage of, which will scar you, it's not pretty.
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And the worst has not been released, but there's footage online you can see.
That festival was people like us. You look at that festival and there's people,
it's ravers, there's people with There's psychedelic Buddhas up.
There's signs for shamanic healing.
Those people are us.
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They're there partying. Those are the best of society. There's things about
chakra balancing and things like that.
It was a magical event. This has not been discussed by the media because they
don't get this at all, obviously, but this was a magical space.
As many of you know, you go to these parties, people are taking ecstasy.
A lot of people were butchered on ecstasy, by the way, I can't imagine, and butchered.
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You have people on ecstasy, you have people on acid, or just doing yoga,
and everyone's kind of this group mind forms, and it's this bliss,
and everyone's having these heart-opening experiences and sharing.
And sometimes people share trauma and there's healing and crying and hugging
and where people are just dancing and having a good time, having breakthrough experiences.
It's wonderful, particularly for young people.
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These are some of the best experiences that young people in their twenties can have.
That was a magical space and it's not a mistake. It wasn't, it wasn't a,
uh, like an Orthodox Jewish space.
It was a magical space. It was a new age space. That's not a mistake that that was attacked.
And then two days ago, New Orleans is a magical space.
In fact, it is the magical space par excellence in America. It's a magical city
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where people believe in magical ideas, in paganism, in Catholic magic,
in Vudan, which I also have issues with, but it's nothing compared to this.
It's not, it's not, it doesn't even register as a blip on the radar compared to this.
It's a magical space. And I don't think it's a mistake, whether it's intentional
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or unconscious, that Islam would be attacking those first.
They're not attacking atheistic spaces.
It's representations of what they probably see as paganism at its worst,
infidels at their worst.
You know, you think about people partying in New Orleans.
So we're in a war, whether you like it or not. And I hate to say that because
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I hate war. I was raised by peace activists.
I was raised to believe that war is the worst word in the English language,
but we didn't start at this.
We're permitting it, or certain people are, not we. I hate the word we because
I didn't do it, but certain people are permitting it. They're allowing it.
Politicians are allowing it for whatever cheap labor, whatever it is,
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or replacement for low birth rates in Europe, whatever it happens to be.
People are allowing it, but we didn't start this war and we need to wake up
and take it seriously and simply this is what I'll end on. Take them at their word.
Listen to them. Read their texts.
Watch their speeches. You go look at Memory TV or any of these things.
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Memory TV is a YouTube channel that archives footage of crazy Imams from the
Middle East, television in the Middle East, talking about destroying America,
destroying killing Jews, is destroying Israel, all this.
Go listen to them. Don't listen to me. Listen to them.
Don't listen to Fox News or right-wing commentators or Tommy Robinson or Elon or any of these people.
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Go listen to them. Read their texts.
Read and look at what they do. Not just what they say, but what they do.
TheReligionOfPeace.com.
We're going to have to deal with this for the rest of our lives.
And our children will have to deal with this and grandchildren and great-grandchildren.
And if we don't do something about it now, all we do is kick the can down the
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road for our descendants to have an even worse problem. And I'm not willing to do that.
All right. I hope you really enjoyed that. You can go to our YouTube channel
to check out the full version of this with the Q&A.
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