Rape Gangs, Cover-Ups, and Silence—The West’s Failure to Confront Radical Islam

Jordan Peterson educates Piers Morgan on why islamophobia is a nonsensical word, how the West is incompatible w/ Islam, & how moderate islam is essentially a myth.

He points to the fact that 40/50 muslim countries are "authoritarian hell holes." (he's not wrong)

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Transcript:

Jordan Peterson: There’s another ugly issue, Pierce, that no one will grapple with, which is, you know, you described Robinson as anti-Muslim, let’s say. We don’t really understand the relationship between the religious doctrine, let’s say, and the fact of these crimes. I want to make two cases here.

You know, the first case: 40 out of 50 Muslim-majority countries in the world are authoritarian hellholes, and only three of them are democracies—Morocco, Indonesia, and Turkey. And, you know, I wouldn’t put them in the highest echelons of stellar states. So why is that? Is that a deviation from Islamic principles, or is it a consequence of them? Now, no one wants to have that discussion.

And it’s a wonder, you know. So that’s on the negative side, let’s say, and there are certainly doctrines in Islam that are very, very difficult to square with free liberal Western Christian democracies. And those differences aren’t just apparent—they’re deep.

Now, I would say on the optimistic side, we could turn to Islamic leaders like those who run the United Arab Emirates and, even to some degree now, Saudi Arabia, and the other dignitaries of the Abraham Accords to find a different pathway. There have been stellar leaders, both from Saudi Arabia and the UAE, who’ve come out and said—publicly, very publicly—that they’ve got their Islamic fundamentalists under control and firmly in hand. They are completely undeluded as to their danger.

But Europeans are virtue-signaling so hard on the progressive side that the fundamental danger from Islamic fundamentalism is going to come from Europe and the UK, not from the Arab states. Now, Tommy Robinson has been pilloried as anti-Islam. But there’s a discussion to be had here, and no one wants to have it.

You know, you said we need a national inquiry. It’s like we need more than a national inquiry; we need something like an international symposium on the relationship between the Christian West and the Islamic world. Because there are ugly things, and they’ve manifested themselves in the most hideous of all possible ways in the UK with regards to these rape crimes and the cover-up. But there’s something that needs to be sorted out at the bottom of all this.

One of those things is, like you talk about, moderate Muslims. I looked up the polling data today that Winston Marshall, for example, referred to when he interviewed Nigel Farage. It’s about three-quarters of UK Muslims who would be perfectly content if Sharia law happened to be, what would you say, the principle of the day for the UK as a whole. And it would be fine if Islam became the national religion. Now that’s 75%.

So, you know, a cynic would say, just exactly where the hell are these moderates? And, at minimum, their voice needs to be amplified. And then we can also point out that the participation in these rapes by members of the Pakistani Muslim community was staggering—like one in seven of the men in some of these communities was directly involved. That meant everyone knew about it. Absolutely everyone on the Pakistani Muslim side. And the moderates were certainly, you know, silent and complicit.

Now, obviously, so were the authorities, and so that’s a complete bloody catastrophe for everyone involved. But there’s a serious conversation to be had in the West, and particularly in the UK—maybe France and Germany in secondary places—about just exactly how it is that liberal Western democracies, with their emphasis on the rights of women, can live side by side with Islam in general. Especially the sort of Islam that’s transformed into enabling fundamentalism that allows this sort of criminality on the part of psychopathic, resentful sadists.

So here’s what I think: no one wants to have that conversation.