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[00:00:00] Thank you, sir, for taking my question. [00:00:02] I want to preface that I'm a devout [00:00:04] Christian as well as not a racist, which [00:00:06] feels like something I shouldn't even [00:00:08] have to say in America. But my question [00:00:10] or maybe topic for debate uh for you [00:00:12] today is I do not believe that Islam and [00:00:16] those practicing this religion are [00:00:18] compatible with institutions of the [00:00:20] West. uh considering their long track [00:00:23] record and the fact that their core [00:00:26] book, the Quran, most literally says to, [00:00:28] for example, kill the unbelievers. Uh [00:00:30] and then once again, just the combative [00:00:32] nature. [00:00:33] >> I don't think you're going to get much [00:00:35] debate out of me on that particular [00:00:37] question, [00:00:38] although there are some who do want to [00:00:41] debate that on the right. And I I think [00:00:43] there are some people who think that we [00:00:44] can form some kind of enduring alliance [00:00:46] with Islam. there can be some synthesis [00:00:49] say between Islam and uh the liberalism [00:00:52] that came out of Christianity and maybe [00:00:55] Christian civilization itself and to [00:00:57] them I would just say seems like wishful [00:01:00] thinking because to your point uh [00:01:03] Christendom which we now call the west [00:01:05] has been in conflict with Islam for [00:01:07] roughly uh 1,400 years. So uh this began [00:01:12] very shortly after the invention of [00:01:15] Islam. Uh you know the the first real [00:01:17] clash between the Christian West, [00:01:19] between Europe and Islam took place in [00:01:22] 732 and it didn't take place in Arabia. [00:01:25] It didn't even really take place in the [00:01:26] Levant. It took place 150 miles outside [00:01:29] of Paris. So Islam has endeavored to [00:01:32] conquer the West many times over the [00:01:34] course of history. The Battle of Leanto [00:01:36] 1571 is a good example. The Battle of [00:01:38] Vienna after that. Now we just sort of [00:01:40] welcome them all in and allow them to [00:01:42] defraud our welfare systems and [00:01:45] create their uh you know religious [00:01:46] rituals and buildings all over all over [00:01:48] the world. Uh so uh no it's not going to [00:01:51] work. What do we do about that? Well, we [00:01:54] have to recognize a very important word [00:01:57] for conservatives and the word is no. We [00:02:00] have to we we've had a lot of trouble [00:02:02] with the word no in recent years, [00:02:04] haven't we? [00:02:07] Even the conservatives have had trouble. [00:02:09] We used to say, "Look, we want endless [00:02:10] migration as long as it's legal. Flood [00:02:13] the country with totally unassembleable [00:02:15] cultures, but make sure they fill out [00:02:17] the right paperwork before they come [00:02:18] in." And that that's ridiculous. It's [00:02:20] not just the procedural norms that [00:02:22] matter. It's the substantive goods that [00:02:23] matter. We we have believed that our our [00:02:26] country is totally open. It's just some [00:02:30] people would say it's just an idea, but [00:02:32] what's crazy is some people would say [00:02:33] it's not even it's any idea. It's just [00:02:35] anything at all. We can close our eyes [00:02:37] and be whatever we want to be. But of [00:02:38] course a country that's everything is a [00:02:40] country that's nothing. So we have to [00:02:42] circumscribe uh what what we mean. And [00:02:45] we need we need to recognize when we [00:02:46] talk about the migration issue for [00:02:48] instance we need to recognize that the [00:02:49] question is not merely legal versus [00:02:51] illegal. The question is not merely even [00:02:53] numbers. You know we'll take half a [00:02:55] million versus uh 2 million or [00:02:57] something. No the question is where is [00:03:00] the migration coming from? What cultures [00:03:02] have the habits the institutions the [00:03:04] beliefs that that work for us? I go back [00:03:07] to John Adams. John Adams wrote to [00:03:10] Thomas Jefferson in 1813. Little little [00:03:13] bit of bad blood between two of our [00:03:14] founding fathers, but uh they they both [00:03:17] agreed in principle on what won the [00:03:20] revolution. John Adams says the general [00:03:23] principles of Christianity in which all [00:03:25] the sects agreed and the general [00:03:27] principles of English and American [00:03:28] liberty are the principles upon which [00:03:31] independence was won. It is simply an [00:03:33] historical fact that we are a Christian [00:03:36] nation with a history of tolerating all [00:03:39] sorts of deviations but nevertheless [00:03:41] with a norm. Uh that the differences [00:03:43] between the Christian and Muslim [00:03:44] conceptions of God are manifest. In [00:03:47] Christianity, God uh sends his son as a [00:03:51] mediator between man and God. In Islam, [00:03:54] God is wholly transcendent. There is no [00:03:56] way to reach him. In Christianity, [00:03:58] Christ is the divine logic of the [00:04:00] universe, the logos. in uh Islam uh God [00:04:04] is pure will. And so as uh Pope Benedict [00:04:07] the 16th quotes Iban Hassim, if if we we [00:04:11] get some shout outs for Pope Benedict [00:04:12] the 16th out there, I don't think for [00:04:13] Iban Hass. Uh I according to Islam, if [00:04:17] Allah wanted his followers to worship [00:04:20] idols, he could make them do so. These [00:04:22] are radically different conceptions. [00:04:23] They've led to radically different [00:04:25] civilizations. And and we can't just [00:04:27] paper over those differences. We can be [00:04:29] we can be nice and kind and but we can't [00:04:32] be everything to everyone. We have to be [00:04:35] a specific civilization. And for us, if [00:04:38] our civilization is not animated by the [00:04:40] spirit which which has animated us from [00:04:42] the beginning, namely the Holy Spirit, [00:04:43] our civilization will be nothing at all. [00:04:45] >> I wanted to ask you, should America [00:04:48] implement free healthcare just like [00:04:50] Canada and the UK? [00:04:52] >> Should America have a universal [00:04:53] socialized healthcare like Canada? [00:04:58] >> [cheering] [00:04:59] >> I agree. I agree. [laughter] No, we we [00:05:02] should not. Though I see why some people [00:05:04] want us to because the American health [00:05:06] care system is really messed up. Uh [00:05:08] worth pointing out that the American [00:05:09] health care system was created almost [00:05:11] entirely by Franklin Roosevelt, Lynden [00:05:14] Johnson, and Barack Obama. So, you know, [00:05:16] it does doesn't have a great track [00:05:18] record on who built it. I'm not [00:05:19] surprised it hasn't worked out. And yet [00:05:21] it's still preferable to what you see in [00:05:23] Canada because the the uh conclusion of [00:05:26] the Canadian health care system is [00:05:28] death. And I mean that literally. A huge [00:05:31] number of Canadians now every single [00:05:33] year are killed. I think it's over 5% [00:05:35] are killed through government encouraged [00:05:38] physicianass assisted suicide which is [00:05:41] contrary to the hypocratic oath and [00:05:43] leads literally to the suicide of the [00:05:45] whole country. Furthermore though you [00:05:47] see a major rationing of care. So, uh, [00:05:50] women who are under the age of 50 have a [00:05:53] reasonable chance of getting breast [00:05:55] cancer procedures in Canada. Women who [00:05:57] are over the age of 70 basically do not. [00:06:01] Uh, something like 80% of women who are [00:06:03] waiting for breast cancer surgeries over [00:06:04] that age just did not get the procedures [00:06:06] because the government said they were [00:06:08] old enough and they would they would [00:06:09] rather ration the care and let the older [00:06:11] women die. That's a ghastly kind of [00:06:13] system. Uh furthermore, you have uh [00:06:16] Canadians waiting months and months, [00:06:17] years and years uh for procedures and [00:06:20] many of whom will die because of that. [00:06:22] You hear stories coming out of Canada, [00:06:24] coming out of the United Kingdom of [00:06:26] people who have cancer in particular who [00:06:29] simply will not be given chemotherapy by [00:06:32] the the horrific regimes that that have [00:06:34] a monopoly on health care up there. And [00:06:36] so what are they offered instead? [00:06:38] They're offered the privilege of killing [00:06:39] themselves. Uh this is completely [00:06:41] contrary to any uh sense of moral [00:06:44] goodness. It's totally inhuman. It is as [00:06:48] tyrannical as any uh government policy [00:06:51] could be. I've long observed that Canada [00:06:53] is America's evil top hat. George [00:06:55] Washington did not conquer it for a [00:06:57] reason. And I I think we should leave [00:06:59] them be and not adopt their terrible [00:07:01] practices. [00:07:02] >> My question is is that people love to [00:07:04] say that America has no culture. How do [00:07:06] we combat the diversity as our strength [00:07:08] message and put the focus back on making [00:07:11] American values and American traditions [00:07:13] back in the mainstream and worthy of our [00:07:15] protection again? [00:07:16] >> That America has no culture. [00:07:19] [cheering] [00:07:21] >> Yeah. Well, I guess that would explain [00:07:22] why the entire world is trying to come [00:07:24] here actually because if you claim that [00:07:26] America's a vacuum, perhaps that's why [00:07:29] we're sucking up everybody from all [00:07:30] around the world. That's one [00:07:32] explanation. I think the other one is we [00:07:34] obviously have a culture and the culture [00:07:37] is the envy of the world and everyone [00:07:39] wants at the very least to experience [00:07:41] the fruits of that culture and benefit [00:07:44] from them even if they don't want to [00:07:45] participate in that culture or sacrifice [00:07:47] for that culture. So it's totally [00:07:49] ridiculous. [00:07:51] One way to combat the idea that America [00:07:54] has no culture, no identity, it's just [00:07:56] an idea or any idea or nothing at all. [00:07:58] Come on in Ilhan Omar. The one way to [00:08:01] combat that is to travel anywhere else [00:08:03] in the world. Uh especially because a [00:08:06] lot of us have some immigrant [00:08:07] background, maybe a quarter this or half [00:08:09] that. And when you go Well, I'll speak [00:08:12] from my own experience because, you [00:08:14] know, a quarter of my family is from [00:08:16] England. Some of them came over on the [00:08:17] Mayflower, which is a great cigar brand [00:08:19] by the way. And then a quarter of them [00:08:21] are Did I mention that? And then a [00:08:22] quarter of them are Irish. I don't [00:08:24] really look it. And then the other a [00:08:26] quarter Italian and a quarter Sicilian. [00:08:28] So I remember I was a teenager. The [00:08:29] first time I went to Italy, I said, "Ah, [00:08:31] I'm going to be coming home. You know, [00:08:33] this will be like visiting my people." [00:08:35] And then I go there and I think, "Wait, [00:08:36] there's a bunch of foreigners. What are [00:08:38] you talking about? My people, I don't [00:08:39] know." And I speak Italian, by the way. [00:08:41] I said, "This is crazy." I I went to a [00:08:43] sandwich shop. It was the most famous [00:08:44] sandwich shop in Sienna. I go there to [00:08:46] get a sandwich at lunchtime. It's [00:08:48] closed. I wait there 45 minutes. The guy [00:08:51] rolls up this Italian. He finally opens [00:08:53] it. I say, "Can I buy a sandwich here?" [00:08:54] He says, "And no, there's no bread." I [00:08:57] said, 'What do you mean there's no [00:08:58] bread? He said, I don't have bread. I [00:09:00] got to go get a bread. I said, 'Well, [00:09:02] should I wait? Should I go? He goes, I [00:09:04] don't care what you do. You wait, you [00:09:05] go. I said, why don't you have [00:09:06] capitalism in this country? Why do I [00:09:08] have to explain to you? And I realized [00:09:10] in that moment, if not earlier, I'm an [00:09:14] American. [00:09:15] >> You're all you're all Americans. You are [00:09:18] [cheering] [00:09:19] >> USA. USA. [00:09:24] Antonin Antinine Scalia the late great [00:09:27] Supreme Court justice told this story [00:09:28] when he was in in school he studied for [00:09:31] a year in Switzerland and he went to [00:09:33] Switzerland he goes to Italy he doesn't [00:09:35] you know he doesn't feel that he goes to [00:09:37] England this big gigantic Sicilian man [00:09:41] he goes to England and he feels more at [00:09:45] home in England than anywhere else he [00:09:47] had been in the world other than America [00:09:50] why because it's the closest to the [00:09:53] American culture because Our culture has [00:09:55] come from the English culture. And so [00:09:57] what we have to conclude from that is [00:10:00] despite the waves of mass migration, [00:10:02] despite all the nonsense about diversity [00:10:04] is our strength and America is a nation [00:10:05] of immigrants or whatever. No, America [00:10:08] is a real country with a real people [00:10:10] with real traditions and habits, many of [00:10:12] which we can't even articulate. And uh [00:10:15] that's a special thing. That's what has [00:10:17] attracted people. And if you want to [00:10:19] continue to flourish, if you even want [00:10:21] to continue attracting people, that's [00:10:22] what you have to hold on to. That's a [00:10:24] real particular thing. It can't be [00:10:26] universalized with some dumb slogan. And [00:10:28] if people didn't like it or if it didn't [00:10:29] really exist, the whole world wouldn't [00:10:31] be clamoring to get here. Thank you very [00:10:35] much. Wonderful to be with all of you. [00:10:37] [cheering] [00:10:37] [applause]