Hello and welcome, I'm Riz Khan.

This episode of the show continues my fascinating conversation

with the highly outspoken best-selling author and evolutionary behavioral scientist, Dr. Gad Saab.

In the first part, he took us through the risks presented by what he calls the parasitic mind, based on his widely popular book of the

same title, exploring how human thought processes can give up rational ideas to support irrational

ideologies. In this episode, the professor turns his critical lens to Islam,

a religion he considers to be a major threat to peace and stability in the world. As I spoke with him

in his hometown in Montreal in Canada, he justified his concerns, pointing to what he sees as a huge

influx of Muslim immigrants into the city. Could I have predicted, based

on the immigration patterns of Montreal, whether Jew hatred was going to go up or go down in Montreal,

it doesn't take a fancy professor to give you that prognosis, right, or that prediction. Well,

and the reality is there's been an orgiastic exponential increase in Jew hatred in Montreal,

and it's largely driven by the fact of these demographic changes.

So we have to be able to say that openly without being accused of Islamophobia.

Professor Sard also previewed the concept in his upcoming book, Suicidal Empathy,

where he posits

that irrational support for policies such as open border immigration is behind the increasing

destabilization of societal cohesion.

Talk a little bit about the ostrich parasitic syndrome.

Ah, yes, so that's chapter six. So there I'm using the metaphor of the ostrich that buries its head in the sand to avoid reality.

Which as you say they don't actually do. Which they don't do, but everybody now understands this as an apt metaphor of going, la, la, la, I don't want to hear it.

And so in the book, I say that that's a really very dangerous malady because to my earlier

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