Saad Argues Islam Not Radical Islam Is Root Cause of Political Violence

What was said

"So it's radical Islam. It's radical. Would you agree with that? No. No? Not at all. So political Islam and Islamism is an indelible inherent feature of Islam. Much of Islam is Islamism. If you do a content analysis of all of the canonical texts of Islam, which are the Quran, the hadith, the deeds and the sayings of Muhammad, and the Sira, which is the biography of Muhammad, you could do a quantitative analysis of how often is it preaching brotherly love, how often is it really concerned about the infidels. Islam in its nature is political."

Gad Saad rejected the term 'radical Islam' used even by Republicans, arguing that political Islam and expansionist ideology are core inherent features of mainstream Islam itself based on canonical texts. He claimed Islam is fundamentally a proselytizing religion designed to convert the entire world, contrasting it with Judaism's anti-proselytizing structure. Saad stated this ideological framework, not extremism, explains Islamic conflicts globally and that distinguishing 'radical' from 'moderate' Islam provides false rhetorical cover for an inherently political religious system.