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It's living in the United States legally or not I have a question for you why do you support the same policies in the us that cause you to flee your home country the polish is on talking about are those that lead to a bigger and bigger Central government you know only too well that the more power the government has the more corrupted because my home country by most other Nations in Central and South America is very fourth 54 percent of the population lives in poverty and 13 for Percent live in extreme poverty have a Bowl children under five are chronically malnourished crippling government corruption is the norm opening a new business can take months even years because the multitude of regulations that are designed to line the pockets of bureaucrats so the cost is much too high for the average citizen White simply on less your politically connected and what the mala you're probably want to leaf and in the last 20 years many one of molly's have left or to put it more on this knee they flip the 14 and one This reach the United States the free as and wealthiest nation in human history there are least one million watermelons leaving in the us nearly every Mexican and Central and South American immigrant in the United States whether they immigrate the legally or illegally move or flip to the us for the same reasons economic opportunity in the freedom to shape their own lives in short you can to the United States to participate in what American school the America Dream but have you ever ask yourself why is the United States so free so much less grow up and so much more affluent than any Latin American country the answer lies first and foremost in the unique American belief in the myth of government why because the smaller the government the less the corruption and the smaller the government the more individual freedom and responsibility and giving those things along with hard work and talent you can accomplish your life schools so back to my Christian why would you support policies that keep expanding the power of the government when they are the very policies that doom your home countries is it because you think that when Democrats offer you free stuff it means they really care about you do you think that when Republicans talk about enforcing immigration laws it means they're going to seeing you back let's be honest you didn't come here for free stuff you can for the economic opportunity that allows you to work and earn in of course nation No obligation to enforce its borders certainly every country in Central and South America do's in fact much more so than that us perhaps you believe that your home countries for not because of phil socialism and grow up big government but because of the issues on related to ideology not enough natural resources in for a listen and so on or worst you believe that the us has got than rich on the backs foreign Nations but this narratives are fulls there Many Nations blessed with abundant natural resources that our port in their board overwhelmingly because of corrupt governments and policies that destroy incentives to produce look at that as well a which has bus oil and mineral reserves but has shortages of every basic necessity why because of socialist policies because of those same season politicians who promise to five for the people and give you free stuff in you're going to fall for this lies lives again in your adopted country do you think Electing politicians who will five for the people five for social Justice and raised taxes on the one percent who are exploiting the world of the 99 percent that you'll get ahead in other words will you support the same policies and both for the same types of politicians here who make such a mess back home the United States became wealthy because it's government state out of the way of its citizens the more power you give to the government then this power you have to control your own life fresh berry See an opportunity diminish as government growth so why did you like so many of my fellow watermelons constantly less because your society was broken you chose to make a new life in the United States you could have gone to another left in American country with a similar culture and the same language as your home country but you didn't because the United States is different please help keep it that way I'm laura alberts I'll for of the populace deception for prager University hi I'm This was very C m of prager you did you know that prager you is a non profit Organization we rely on donations to keep our videos free and keep reaching more people so consider a donation today we appreciate it I'm an American Muslim and I along with my mainstream Muslim brother and in America and abroad must come to terms with an ever more apparent truth that we are the only one who can lead a winning fight against the radicalism crippling our faith if there was ever Need out of this just look at the nature of the terrorist attack in San bernardino California in December of 20 15 what's most troubling about the San bernardino massacre is that side fruit the husband half of the terrorist couple seems to have been by almost all accounts an ordinary American his was not a crime born of poverty or lack of opportunity or an inability to integrate society just the opposite he was raised in a Middle class environment by first generation papa stoney immigrant parents he was at your Rated and earned a good living I too like many American Muslims come from a background that is very similar as the son of Pakistani immigrants which makes the attacker all the more concerning it seems seems on unthinkable that someone in such a position could be susceptible to radicalization yeah we've seen it happen time and again among younger Muslims in the Middle East Europe and now America attacks like San bernardino underscoring the importance of countering extremist propaganda while attacks by terrorist groups can be a actively prevented by law enforcement and National security measures the truth is There isn't much that can be done by any government not even stricter gun control laws to eliminate the possibility of a radicalized lone wolf freaking happen only defeating the ideology that inspires these attacks can do that a propaganda war must be wage against this radical listen and American Muslims have to be on the front lines for it to be credible merely condemning Islam is terror is not enough we must actively engage in counter extreme is a message am we must build an intellectual and theological case against radical is song I religious Years have to educate and warn our youth about the dangers of searching for spiritual guidance on the Internet they must make it perfectly clear that anyone who engages in any act of terrorism is not doing god's work they're doing the work of the devil and we in the most in community have to continue to be visual and if someone who regularly attends maus stops coming and disappears abruptly after mirroring a podcast on a woman in Saudi Arabia who me mad online it shouldn't take two years and 36 Americans getting shot including one from that very mosque Before we notice we have the benefit of living in a nation that protects freedom of speech and Association and nation that values the market place of ideas a nation that allows us all to practice our faith no matter our religion we have the opportunity to speak out and challenge radicalism in a way others abroad cannot there's a war going on that extend beyond Syria and American Muslims are under siege not by a friend group of bigoted Americans by a French group of Muslims abroad who seek to tear our communities apart and take away the freedom that we all cherish They're trying to target the disaffected among us hijacked the most pulpit and convince us that we're on welcome in our own country but if we're serious about leading this fight with unified support certain things will have to change we can call out prejudice against our own faith without also calling out the gender inequality and homophobia that we find in some of our own communities we can be champions of our own religious freedom without also championing the freedom of people of all religious traditions including all all the most nominations that we may disagree with we have Change the way we think about Islamic law and vilify the medieval judicial practices that persist in the Middle East and we must have the uncomfortable but necessary conversations about where much of the funding for this cancer is she promises ideology is coming from Saudi Arabia we carry with us a responsibility to our country our faith and our children the majority of us are here because our parents or grandparents emigrated from oppressive and eliminations for the promise of a Better life in America but the way things are heading our children maker up with less opportunity and freedom than we did I can think of no greater defeat and surrender to radical as a man that I'm current are a for prager University 32 views of this right in the tree what you hear most of the media and the truth but I'm gonna tell you the truth I was the commander of British forces in Afghanistan all have 14 combat zones around the world including northern island Bosnia macedonia and the rock Was also present throughout the conflicting god's in 20 14 based on my experience and my observations the Israel defense force the idea does more to safeguard the rights of civilians in a combat zone than any other only in the history of warfare why is this so firstly is rosa decent country with Western values running on Democratic principles Israel has no more interesting more than Belgium does in fact Real has never started a war the only reason it ever goes to war is to defend itself and it has to defend itself because unlike Belgian it is surrounded by countries and all groups that formed to destroy it secondly judaism with its unsurpassed moral standards remains a major influence on the citizens of Israel I say this as a non jew thirdly the all me Composed overwhelmingly of citizen soldiers israel's a small country with a small professional army to fight a war it depends on it's called scripts on its reservists these are ordinary citizens from professors diplomas cold upon to defend their homes they don't want to be fighting and they don't want to harm others know where was the essential morality and decency of the idea more evident than in the gods of war of 20 14 if Over there was a purely defensive war this was it the Wall was started by Mass the terror Organization designated as such by the us state Department the runs the Gaza Strip in the first six months of 20 14 how mash lord hundreds of rockets at Israeli civilians often repeated warnings from Israel to stop the Israeli ethel's finally conducted precision strike It's to hold the rocket five and the idea of advanced into garza to destroy network of terrorists on those that how Mass had constructed to attack Israeli communities near the Gaza border the idea took extraordinary measures to give golfers surveillance notice of targeted areas dropping millions of leaflets broad costing radium as just sending texts and making tens of thousands of phone calls let me repeat that the Israelis cold god's hands on the cellphones and told them to leave that Residences and move to safety never in the history of warfare has and all the phones it's enemy and told them where they going to drop them bones many ideas missions the could've taken out to mess Ministry capabilities were aborted to prevent civilian casualties increasing the risk to Israeli citizens and soldiers despite all of this course innocence of will killed every war It is okay to can confusing and mistakes a frequent but mistakes a not war crimes how Mass on the other hand committed war crimes as official policy come ask the liberty position that's military assets among the civilian population hiding weapons in schools and hospitals and placing rocket launches alongside apartment buildings then force those the villains to stay in a It is they knew what the attack but also instructed that people to report the law that every dogs and killed was a civilian even if they were actually fighters and if there were no civilian deaths how Mass made them up numerous Internet sites show Palestinians lot berkeley staging sniper victims and smash them to the test among all the phony horrors it's so common busy even a term for it polly would as empower Spin in Hollywood are running clean is the leaders of him ask themselves who best understand the extraordinary measures the idea will take to protect innocent civilians they take full advantage of israel's decency and adheres adheres to the laws of Wall no on me take such risk in order to protect the villains as the Israeli only does I say this as a professional soulja I say Art because it's true and people who care about truth should know it on colonel Richard camper prager University can you name this country it is the fifth largest marks in the world it nuclear weapons and is home to millions of religious extremists is both a leading fighter against anna major supporter of terrorism the answer Your of courses pockets done it's unique makeup pose a question that you preoccupied everyone can to diametrically opposed formed a society of free one and one based on religious sharia Islamic law exist in one nation a very disturbing true story gives us a possible answer on January 42 thousand 11 so much to see her the former governor of punjab the nation's most populous province had lunch with a friend in Coast our market and upscale international series of stores and restaurants I lived on Few blocks away at the time throughout his career to see here was outspoken and his belief that freedom democracy and pluralism were inseparable and that all really just minorities should be protected such ideas however are anathema to extremists as a consequence over the year to see you had received numerous personal death threats I knew him I interviewed him I spent time with him he showed extraordinary courage by refusing to be silence after Launch the governor left with his age and a bodyguard and headed toward his car a small crowd gathered and to see your way to them as a driver opened up the rear door without warning a member to see your own security detail step forward at open fire with a machine gun dot more than 10 feet away so much as your was struck with 26 round and he died where you fell this is how extreme is deal with those whom they considered to be a threat they kill Um but our story doesn't end there when you sass and montage causerie enter the criminal court room and a spa bogged he was met by cheering crowds who showered him with flowers the cheering crowd believed that to see your head deserve to die too many pockets dani's hit insulted Islam by advocating democracy and freedom for all pockets on ease your respective of the religious views and by speaking out for the rights of women in a Long weeks pockets on just like parties led marches and demonstrations out upward of 40000 people honoring mom test causerie the assassin and celebrating to see your stuff was even more disconcerting with a pocket sounds moderate political leaders remain silent the issued statement technology to series it's ash Asian but not one stood up and cried the murder of this brave and honorable man The trial was held in Congress found guilty of murder but it gets worst after the verdict there was enormous uproar against the judge who receive so many death threats that the poor man had to go into hiding meanwhile behind the scenes pressure from extremist groups eventually force the government to suspend the case and definitely an essence the judges decision was on done and it's a serious funeral which I attended or organizers were unable to find a single religious leader to preside over the event the She was at send a clear message anyone who opposes them could be targeted for death anywhere and anytime stories like this are not uncommon in pockets on despite Western hopes democracy does not necessarily moderate Islam is party platforms and ideologies on the contrary as long as can become even more extreme and Democratic settings at least in the short term here's why this song is parties are not monolithic their diverse and must compete hardest against one another for political power to increase their appeal to electric each party claims to most authentically represent their religion this can lead Murder as a case of so much easier demonstrates ironically however this competition among the islamists this is sort of a blessing invent a unified Islam is front that make the odyssey possible to moxie survived a pox on in other words because you saw me as split the vote this split by the at the Mark C sometime but in order for to boxing pox and to prevail the moderates and that's don't mean the overwhelming majority pac sonny's must show the kind of courage that so much is here did they must stand up to this office and hold the country together until the flames are Extreme is a die out right now the numbers still strongly favorite those pox townies who believe in Western ideas of pluralism hopefully those numbers will grow is inevitable moral and economic failure of extreme ism becomes clear very hopefully because of the extremes prevail the world's largest moxie will become the world's largest terror state in her own hula magic professor at the George on your C school for in service for prager University What is the world's most dangerous ideology and the first part of the twentieth century the answer was fashions first manifest in Italy in the 19 twenties and the new Nazi Germany and imperial Japan it took a world war and 50 million dead stamp it out in the second half the twentieth century the answer was communism between the Soviet Union mouse China and their client States at least 100 million people were killed in its wake today the answer is is lomas am a radical and often violent form of is long like fat Using In communism Islam is a totalitarian in nature the state controls everything also like fascism communism there's lomas am is inherently expansion and it always seems to get bigger cross borders and bring as many people as possible under control and like trash them and communism many of Islam is here in prepared to kill to achieve its aims those aims are antithetical to everything Western and other free society stand for free speech free enterprise freedom to practice or not to practice in your legion freedom of the Sun Only a free press and course fundamental human and solar rights for all our citizens is limits and completely rejects the Western principle of separating religion from government and its view governments are legitimate only if they rule according to religious law and as long as I'm case sharia is long extensive body of secret laws should be is based on the teachings of the koran and the sunnah the koran is believed to be the literal words of a has revealed his prophet muhammad in the seventh century and the sunda consist of the words and deeds attributed to mohamad this long as Interpret sharia to hold that anyone born Muslims must remain Muslim and face execution of they convert any other religion that adulterers must be stoned to death that anyone who insults Islam or Mohamed miss either be severely with their executed and that the should have a limb cut off in addition is long as condone polygamy and child marriage these beliefs are being put into practice right now in among other places here on the Sudan Saudi Arabia the Muslim parts of Nigeria parts of Pakistan Syria Iraq and Afghan And wherever else you reestablish the foot hole it as long as we're content to live under strict sharia law in their own communities and leave everyone who doesn't want to live that way alone they wouldn't be a threat to the rest of world but that will not used them as long as I'm once the entire world governed by sharia and anyone who opposes as lowest expenses and is the enemy and must be destroyed that of course includes United States all of Europe and Israel but it also includes fellow Muslims indeed as long as of killed far more Muslims than members of any other group so I News llamas are there nobody knows for sure but we can make some conservative calculations there are approximately one and a half billion Muslims in the world how many of these are as longest the two thousand 13 pew research poll offers some clues eighty six percent of Muslims in Pakistan eighty percent of agents in 65 percent in Jordan support the stoning of adulterers 79 percent in Afghanistan 62 percent of Palestinians and 58 percent in Malaysia considered a moderate Muslim country support the death penalty for Muslims who convert from as long if only 10 percent of the world's Muslims are islamists and the percentage is likely higher that's a hundred and 50 million people Among these how many are willing to take violent action to enforce there is limited I'm here we're talking about all kinda the Islamic state the Taliban a mosque has below a local whore um well she bad and other groups that sense whose side bombers into markets explode car bombs at funerals throw acid in the faces of girls who attend school murder sisters or daughters who defy the will of a brother or father or who fly hijacked airplanes into buildings this is a very hard number to pin dog so let's again be Luscious and say the figure is only two percent of that 150 million a still three million people three million potential terrorist organized by common ideology and supported by many more the good news is that hundreds of millions of Muslims are not radical Islamist just to cite one example use lamas Muslim brotherhood government Egypt for one year and two thousand 12 but enough options were so outraged by the brotherhood harsh imposition of sharia law that the stage for half the largest demonstrations in human history against the Muslim brotherhood and brought the governor Down since the beginning of the twentieth century every generation has been confronted with a lethal threat to freedom and fundamental human rights three people to few to the last to totalitarian threats fascism communism if we want to preserve freedom we non-muslims and Muslims alike will have to defeat the threat of our time is limited from I'm running to bring author of the all kind of reader for prayer University hi I'm Morris astride ceo of prayer you did you know that trigger use a non profit every dollar you give will go towards making more videos and marketing them so please consider making a donation today Let's talk about one of the most emotionally charged subject there is a portion book in an emotional way also let's not touch on the question that most preoccupied discussion of the subject whether abortion should be legal or illegal the only question here is the moral want is ending the life of a human fetus moral let's begin with this question those the human fetus have any value and then he writes now It's a scientific fact that the human fetus is human life those who argue that the human fetus has no right say that a fetus is not a person but even if you believe that it doesn't mean the fetus has no intrinsic value or no rights there are many living beings that are not persons that have both value and rights dogs and other animals for example and that's moral argument number one a living being doesn't have to be a person in order to have intrinsic moral value and rights we The challenge with this argument people usually change the subject to the rights of the mother meaning the right of the mother to end her fetuses life under any circumstance for any reason and at any time in her pregnancy is that moral it is only if believe that the human fetus has no intrinsic worth but in most cases nearly everyone believes that the human fetus has a centrally infinite worth and then all Most absolute right to live when when a pregnant woman wants to give birth then society and its laws regard the fetus is so valuable that if someone were to kill that fetus that person could be prosecuted for homicide only if a pregnant woman doesn't want to give birth to many people regard the fetus as worthless now does that make sense it doesn't seem to a human fetus has worth or it doesn't Me and this is moral argument number two on what moral grounds does the mother alone decide a fetus is worth we certainly don't do that with regard to a newborn child it is society not the mother or the father that determines whether a newborn child has worth and right to live so the question is why should that be different before the human being is born why does one Person a mother get to determine whether that being has any right to live people respond by saying that a woman has the right to control her body now that is entirely correct the problem here however is that the fetus is not her body it is in her body it is a separate body and that's moral argument number three no one ever asks a pregnant woman how's your body when ask About the fetus people ask how's the baby moral argument number for virtually everyone agrees that the moment the baby comes out of the womb killing the baby is murder but deliberately killing it a few months before birth is considered no more morally problematic than extracting a tooth how does that make sense and finally moral argument number five are at their instances in which just about everyone even among those who are pro choice with a can What's that in the borscht might not be moral for example would be moral to aboard a female fetus solely because the mother prefers boys to girls as happen millions of times in China and elsewhere in one more example let's say science developed a method of determining whether a child in the womb is gay or straight would it be moral to kill a gay fetus because the mother didn't wanna gay child People may offer practical reasons not to criminal eyes or abortions people made different about when person who'd begins and about the morality of abortion after rape or incest but with regard to the majority of abortions those of healthy women of boarding a healthy fetus let's be clear most of abortions just aren't moral good societies can survive people doing immoral things but a good society cannot survive if it cole Immoral things moral I'm dennis prayer which is the most persecuted religious group in the world today the answer in terms of sheer numbers and share heart might surprise you its Christians specifically Christians living in Muslim majority countries countries where Christians often preceded Muslims by centuries I'm not talking about war on Christmas type President I'm talking about no your place or going to kill you persecution astonishing The Western main mainstream stream media barely acknowledge what is happening let's look closer at this issue can tells us a lot about the world we're living in 100 years ago 20 percent of North Africa and the Middle East the birthplace of christianity Christians today Christians make up four percent of the population much of that decline has occurred in the last decade and essence Muslims are rendering North Africa and the Middle East free of Christians taking Egypt for example my ancestral homeland in just the past two years tens of thousands of Christian cops Of Egypt and many others want to leave with they simply cannot afford to why they want to leave is no mystery a new year's day two thousand 11 the two saints church knowledge and re was bombed we can 23 cops dead and 97 injured in recent years dozens of coffee churches of and attacked many burn to the ground in August two thousand 13 alone the Muslim brotherhood and supporters attacked and destroyed some eighty churches unfortunately it is more the rule the exception hundreds of Nigerian churches have been destroyed in recent years with the specially deadly attacks Reserve for Christmas and easter church services leaving dozens dead or mutilated church As of been bomb they're burned in Iraq Syria and just about every place in the Middle East where churches still exist except Israel Christian businesses have been torched Christian girls have been kidnapped sold as child brides are slaves and had acid thrown in their faces for not being veiled anyone born a Muslim who converts to christianity faces jail and possibly execution the list of fresh atrocities by Muslims against Christians grows longer almost everyday even in Muslim countries often portrayed as moderate more ocho Indonesia Malaysia cassock stain is becca stand Christian minorities under legal pressure not to build churches or event lies the Christians in As Muslim countries are often identical to their Co citizens in race ethnicity National identity culture and language there's no political dispute between the Christians and Muslims no land dispute vastly outnumbered and politically marginalized these Christian simply wish to worship in peace instead they are hounded and attacked so then why is this happening and why is the media making so little mention of it the first question is easy to answer Christians are being in Muslim countries because they're Christians or as a cra and puts it infidels that is non As long as we're regarded by many fundamentalist Muslims as inferior as a fundamentalist interpretation of the holy books of Islam has grown in the last 50 or so years Christians have suffered and in recent years I have suffered terribly I document this in my book crucified again exposing islam's new on Christians if this were happening to any other group besides Christians it would be the human rights tragedy of our time there will be loud worldwide calls for action but the silence in the mainstream Western media is as they almost deafening why be Was Muslim persecution of Christians throws a wrench in the media's narrative that Muslim violence is a product of muscle grievance that grievances first and foremost portrayed as the sin of European colonialism and alleged American imperialism and the Muslim world's mind those two sins are personified by the Jewish state of Israel a nation the Muslim world believes was forced upon it by the colonial powers of Europe following world war two and is currently supported by the United States much of the Western world in the Western media have largely bought at least some of this narrative here's how it works because Israel The back in the United States is stronger than it's muscle neighbors the media while not defending Islamic terrorism often portrayed turn against Israel America and even Europe has the actions of understandably angry underdogs fighting for what they deem Justice but what happens to this media narrative when Islamic terrorism directed against a minority weaker than them in this case the millions of indigenous Christians throughout the Islamic world the answer is that rather than abandon this narrative the media just don't report Muslim persecution of Christians except for the most sensational cases that's why you Probably don't know that there are barely any Christians living in algeria tunisia and Libya Nations where christianity once thrived or that this is happening in Egypt Iraq Iran and even loving on so yes Christians are indeed the most persecuted religious group in the world today but reporting it would violate the media's narrative of Christians as as and Muslims as victims I'm raymond ibrahim author of the all kind of reader for prayer University











