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Ep. 307 - Terror Rocks Britain — And The Left Exposes Itself | The Ben Shapiro Show

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	On Tuesday, President Trump, speaking from Judea and Samaria while standing next to master terrorist supporter, Palestinian dictator Mahmoud Abbas, tore into the Islamic terrorists responsible for the bombing of an Ariana Grande concert in Manchester on Monday evening.
	He said, so many young, beautiful, innocent people living and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers in life.
	I won't call them monsters because they would like that term.
	They would think that's a great name.
	I will call them from now on losers because that's what they are.
	They're losers and we'll have more of them, but they're losers.
	Just remember that.
	Some on the left predictably thought Trump's languish was childish.
	Una Hajdari said, Trump on the Manchester attack.
	So many people killed by evil losers.
	He sound like a high school girl reacting to her hair being pulled.
	Alan Greenspan, Trump sounds like a third grader name calling terrorists evil losers.
	Is this how a president is supposed to act?
	Here's the thing.
	Trump is 100% absolutely positively correct.
	Every time there is an Islamic terrorist attack, people immediately jump to trying to understand the mind of the terrorist.
	What drove him to blow himself up in a pizzeria or at a dance club?
	What made him pick up a gun and mow down patrons in a gay bar?
	Why would he drive a truck through a Christmas market?
	We all know the answer.
	Islamic extremism.
	But by constantly asking the question, and then answering it with various laments about poverty or lack of opportunity, we put the onus on ourselves to answer the charge implicit in terrorism.
	That the terrorists are the actual victims, and that they have somehow been wronged.
	Here's the truth.
	They haven't been wronged.
	They are, as President Trump says, evil losers.
	They deserve no answer.
	They deserve no sympathy.
	They require no explanation from us.
	Those who would murder children at a pop concert ought to be killed at the earliest available opportunity, and we shouldn't bother trying to decrypt how the monsters were created.
	That's because they're not monsters at all.
	They're human beings who believe evil things, and they are losers who aren't winning any battles in heaven or on earth.
	Their names will disappear from history and their souls burn in hell eternally.
	Trump is also right that we must stop using the language of strength to describe those who act out of weakness.
	If you have to blow up 13-year-old girls listening to teeny pop material, you're not a powerful monster.
	You're a worm, a feeble piece of human refuse.
	We should describe terrorists with contempt, not build them up in their own minds.
	Islamic terrorists feed off the notion that the West lives in fear of them.
	We live in fear of things they will do, obviously, but we don't live in fear of them because they're ridiculous, puny human beings.
	Ridiculous and puny human beings can harm innocent people too, but handing them an unearned moniker like monster, scary by nature, is counterproductive and boosts egos where no boost is necessary.
	So, good for Trump.
	Trump knows well how to demean people and make them feel smaller.
	And Islamic terrorists should be made to feel small.
	They should be scorned, derided, mocked, treated as small.
	They're not martyrs.
	They're not warriors.
	They're not victims.
	They're evil losers.
	I'm Ben Shapiro.
	This is The Ben Shapiro Show.
	It's obviously a horrific terrorist attack in Manchester, UK, last night.
	We now know more about the person who was responsible for this horrific terror attack.
	Apparently, he was British-born, known to authorities prior to the attack.
	His name was Abadi, I guess, Salman Abadi, 23 years old, and ISIS claims that Abadi was a caliphate soldier.
	They've claimed responsibility for the attack.
	CBS News says that another person has been arrested in southern Manchester in connection with the attack.
	Officials believe only a single device was planted at the arena, but they've detonated another in South Manchester So I guess that there was another one that was out there and the it was One of the people who was killed was in an eight-year-old girl They're a bunch of an 18 year old woman and 26 year old John Atkinson of the injured 59 were taken to the hospital of which at least 12 were children and we always forget by the way that
	That when there's a bombing like this, the people who are injured, not just the people who are wounded, the people who are injured sometimes have their lives ruined because if you catch a bolt to the brain, it's going to destroy your life.
	If you lose your leg, if you are grievously wounded in sensitive areas of the body, then it can destroy your life whether or not you die.
	We tend to look at the death toll, but not at the wounded toll, and that's a mistake.
	We'll talk more about all of this.
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	Yesterday, when this attack is going down, I'm watching CNN, because I'm at the gym and I can't change the channel, and while I'm watching it, my phone starts buzzing.
	And it starts buzzing because the attack is happening, but CNN isn't covering the attack.
	CNN is covering the Trump-Russia allegations.
	We'll get to all of that a little bit later, but if you look at the media news this morning, you can see that while Fox News has been amply covering the Manchester attack, A lot of the other networks have already moved on from the Manchester attack, and they're talking about John Brennan, former head of the CIA, speaking with Congress, or they're talking Trump-Russia, and you can see the priorities that the media have here.
	Regardless of what you think of President Trump, regardless of whether you think that he is corrupt or whether he colluded, which there's no evidence he did, regardless of what you think, the big news story yesterday was none of the Trump-Russia stuff.
	It was the fact that there was an evil terrorist who blew himself up in the middle of an Ariana Grande concert, And murdered 22 people and another 59 injured.
	That is the big story of yesterday.
	If Barack Obama were president, I promise you the media would be covering it wall-to-wall because Trump is president.
	They cover it sporadically so that they can say that they did it, but they don't cover it wall-to-wall in any serious way.
	And Trump does get credit for calling this out in a way that Obama never did.
	I think that Trump is right on point when he says what he says about these people being evil losers.
	Here's President Obama making this comment.
	This is from Bethlehem.
	This is clip 13.
	So many young, beautiful, innocent people living and enjoying their lives murdered by evil losers in life.
	I won't call them monsters, because they would like that term.
	They would think that's a great name.
	I will call them, from now on, losers.
	Because that's what they are.
	They're losers.
	And we'll have more of them.
	But they're losers.
	Just remember that.
	And I think that he's totally right, and this is something worthwhile for Trump to say.
	I called him Obama before, obviously that's Trump.
	And Trump is 100% right.
	When the left starts ripping on him for saying stuff like this, this is why Trump is more popular among a certain segment of the population than the Democrats.
	And you can certainly see that because Trump does something that I think the rest of us need to recognize.
	It's not our job to identify why evil people believe evil things.
	It is our job to destroy the evil people.
	You know, the best movie villain of all time is the Joker in Batman.
	And one of the reasons the Joker in Batman is such a great movie villain is because you don't know his background.
	Two or three times in the film, the Joker starts to tell about how his face was carved up, and he tells different stories.
	And the purpose of that is to demonstrate that true evil doesn't need a rationale.
	True evil doesn't need a reason.
	Now, we know the rationale for Islamic terrorism, and it is an interpretation of Islam that justifies jihad.
	We know that that's a widespread interpretation of Islam.
	This is not a minor strain inside Islam.
	There are probably tens of millions of people at the least who believe it, maybe hundreds of millions who believe it.
	But that said, What Trump is doing here by saying, listen, I'm not interested in doing a psychological study, a psychological profile of these losers, is he's demeaning them in a way that they ought to be demeaned.
	The left, meanwhile, is trying to come up with reasons why the West is actually responsible for this so we can solve all of the problems.
	I think that's because, for a lot of folks on the left, they're looking for a solution to terrorism that doesn't involve just killing as many terrorists as humanly possible.
	On the right, people seem pretty willing to go to, okay, let's kill as many of these people as possible, let's humiliate them, let's destroy them, let's wipe them off the face of the earth.
	On the left, it's gotta be, well, if we just were nicer in a certain way, if we just, if we just focused on income inequality, if we just focused on global warming, maybe all of that would change, so...
	Take, for example, Chelsea Clinton.
	So Chelsea Clinton is being pushed by the left as some newfangled Democrat who's going to come along and save them.
	Listen, if your last hope is Chelsea Clinton, folks, you're done as a party.
	If Chelsea Clinton is your great hope for a resurrection as a party, you're finished.
	She was discussing at some sort of women's conference the Interlinkage, what she called the interconnections between child marriage, right?
	We're talking about the rape of small children and climate change.
	Watch, watch.
	This is how Democrats tend to think about terrorism.
	This is how they tend to think about radical Islam.
	I think it's part of this broader network of thinking and it's just idiotic.
	which is to be able to carry multiple concerns in both our head and our heart.
	Just listening to the concerns around education and climate change, women's health, child marriage, access to technology, all of those are of course interconnected.
	We have to focus on each of them, kind of, in their interconnectedness, and also as kind of individual outrages.
	Okay, it's meaningless bullcrap, and this is why when Trump said during the campaign, bomb the crap out of them, except he didn't use the word crap, a lot of most Americans, I would say, resonated to that, because what the hell is this supposed to mean?
	If the left's perspective on terrorism is, well, it's all interconnected, you know, technological change and climate change and child marriage.
	Okay, you explain to me how a dude not having access to an iPhone is responsible for raping an 11-year-old girl.
	You explain that one to me, Chelsea Clinton.
	Why it is that we shouldn't respond to that guy by locking him up or killing him, as opposed to, I don't know, talking about whether we can expand broadband to Pakistan.
	But this is why people don't resonate to the left on these issues.
	This is why when people tend to think about threats foreign, they immediately resonate to what people on the right tend to say.
	Chelsea Clinton continued along these lines.
	She says Islamophobia is not an option.
	I think though that we also have to recognize, particularly at this moment, that sexism is not an opinion.
	Islamophobia is not an opinion.
	Racism is not an opinion.
	Homophobia is not an opinion.
	Jingoism is not an opinion.
	And so I think we, in our posture of listening, also have to get comfortable with standing up and speaking out.
	Because I also agree, kind of, that for those of us that have been blessed, and by definition all of us on this kind of stage today have been blessed, there is a responsibility with kind of giving voice to the voiceless, but also using our own voices.
	Okay, this is insanity.
	I just want to show you.
	This is footage from the explosion last night in Manchester.
	Here's what it looked like in Manchester last night.
	What are we looking at?
	Is this the lobby?
	Yeah, so that's actually in the station, so as we were coming out of the arena just before Ariana finished her long song to try and beat The Rush, we come out a few minutes early.
	We'd come just out of where the box office is situated in the arena, and then you go into the train station.
	Get to the top of the steps we heard the biggest explosion and it was literally about 20 meters from where we were stood.
	Everyone started panicking.
	We initially thought it was a terrorist attack because that's just what you think because of what's going on.
	We was actually in the building when one went off and then as we left, that's when the second explosion must have taken place.
	So once we'd already left the building and we just ran to the car, like didn't stop running.
	There was lots of parents stood there and I said, look at them all waiting for the kids because I'd never seen it like that before, like so many people.
	So obviously they was waiting for the children to come out.
	So they were the people.
	Well, they was the people because 20 seconds later from us walking to the steps, that's when it went off.
	A minute before I took that video off.
	Enough to make you cry.
	So it's the parents...
	Waiting for their kids to come out of the concert as parents do at things like this.
	Terrific.
	It's just terrific.
	And we're hearing Islamophobia is not an opinion.
	Jingleism is not an opinion.
	So basically what I'm hearing from Chelsea Clinton in these two clips, and obviously they were done right before the terrorist attack, but it doesn't change the underlying idea in any way because we've had terrorist attacks before and we'll have them again.
	When Chelsea Clinton says all of these things are interconnected, climate change and child marriage, and then she says, but you know what we really have to crack down on is Islamophobia.
	And jingoism.
	When I watch the footage of young girls being blown up in Manchester, I have a three-and-a-half-year-old daughter.
	I have a one-year-old son.
	The idea that anyone would target them in a terrorist attack makes me so enraged.
	I want a bullet through the brain of these Islamic terrorists Now, forever.
	These people should be tortured in hell.
	They should never stop burning.
	In Judaism, we're not big on everlasting hell.
	Whatever we believe about everlasting hell, I hope it applies to the fullest extent to the people who do these sorts of things.
	And I'm not interested in your explanations about interconnectedness of technological innovation and Islamic terrorism.
	I'm not interested in your justifications for Islamic terrorism.
	I'm not interested in why you think that my expression about terrorism.
	My opinions of radical Islam should be forbidden, but we should worry about interconnectedness and justification when it comes to the people who blow themselves up.
	I'm not blowing myself up.
	I'm trying to stump in favor of killing the people who are going to blow us up.
	But according to Hillary Clinton's daughter, according to Chelsea, the big problem here is that Islamophobia and jingoism are going to rise.
	They're not even opinions.
	We should restrict those opinions.
	In fact, there's a story today that there's a woman in Britain who is now being basically prosecuted or investigated by the authorities in Britain because she had the temerity to point out that there's a connection to Islam here, that there's a connection to Islamic terrorism, which of course there is.
	This is why no one takes the left seriously when it comes to terrorism.
	Now, with all of that said, the right's going to have to do better in providing actual solutions to terrorism.
	Now, some of the solutions that have been proposed, some of the things like President Trump's Muslim ban, which he proposed a while back, you know, that's, I still think, I don't know if that's going to be effective because I'm not sure how you screen that, but the idea of restricting immigration from Islamic countries without being able to vet people, absolutely 100% correct.
	The idea that we're going to have to take a militant stance on ISIS and wipe them off the face of the earth?
	And we can't wait around and let the Saudis do it because they're not going to?
	We can't wait around and let the Turks do it because they're not going to?
	We can't wait around for Iran to do it because they're not going to?
	If you want these sorts of things to stop, there's going to have to be some changes in policy and we're going to talk about that in just a second.
	There's also going to have to be a change In the mindset of a lot of people on all sides of the political aisle with regard to the civilizational battle that we face.
	And Trump was wrong yesterday when he said it's not a clash of civilizations.
	It certainly is a clash of civilizations.
	That doesn't mean everyone in the Muslim world is on the side of the Islamic terrorist civilization.
	But there is a civilization that is rife with Islamic terrorism and that the West pretends doesn't exist.
	But we'll talk about that in just a second.
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	Okay, so, with all of this said about how the right is better than the left on Islamic terrorism, even the right is not willing to acknowledge, in many cases, a basic fact, and that is the war by radical Islamic civilization against the West Is broader than we like to pretend it is.
	This is what I was complaining about as far as President Trump's speech yesterday in Saudi Arabia.
	He talked about Islamic extremism and then he sort of excused the Saudis and he excused the United Arab Emirates.
	And today, he was making the statement that he made about how terrorists are evil losers.
	He made that while standing next to Mahmoud Abbas, the dictator of the Palestinian Authority.
	Mahmoud Abbas is a terrorist.
	Mahmoud Abbas is a guy who financed the 1972 Munich Olympic terror attacks, the Munich massacre.
	Mahmoud Abbas is a fellow who in 2015, like a year and a half ago, said that every drop of blood spilled in Jerusalem by a Palestinian is worthwhile and they are martyrs to Allah.
	Okay?
	Trump was standing next to that guy yesterday.
	He was standing next to him when he said all of this.
	And so when Trump says, we'll clip three, that Israel and its Arab neighbors, they have a common interest in stopping terrorism, no, that's really not super true.
	Many Muslim nations have already taken steps to begin following through on this commitment.
	There is a growing realization among your Arab neighbors that they have common cause with you and the threat posed by Iran.
	And it is indeed a threat.
	There's no question about that.
	I thank both you and Prime Minister Netanyahu for your commitment to achieving peace between The Israelis and the Palestinians.
	I also look forward to discussing the peace process with Palestinian President Abbas.
	Okay, now this is ridiculous.
	Abbas is not going to take part in the peace process because the minute he signs a deal, his own people kill him.
	He is currently in a unity government with the terrorist group Hamas.
	He is currently in a unity government with the terrorist group Islamic Jihad.
	Now, the West likes to pretend.
	They like to pretend that terrorism against Israel... Yesterday, while Trump was in Jerusalem, there was an attempted terror attack in Jerusalem.
	The left and the right, across the world, there's this common attempt.
	Not all of the right, but some of the right.
	There's this attempt to carve off Israel from the battle against terrorism, as though when a Palestinian blows up a bunch of children in a pizzeria, or when a Palestinian shoots a kid in a car, that's somehow different in kind from the same thing happening in the UK or France or Germany.
	That's just silly.
	There are a lot of people who like to say, well, it's a territorial conflict, the Palestinian-Israeli conflict.
	It's a territorial thing.
	No, it isn't.
	Because if Israel were to give up every slice of territory, all of it, the battle wouldn't end.
	If Israel were to give up Jerusalem to the Palestinians, all of it, you know what would happen?
	The Palestinians would immediately seek to kill as many Jews as possible using that territory as a launching point.
	We know that because that's exactly what they did in 1967 and in 1973.
	So the idea that this is a territorial conflict, here's the rule about territorial conflicts.
	If it were a territorial conflict, if you have a territorial conflict, it can be solved by a territorial solution.
	If a territorial conflict cannot be solved by a territorial solution, it's not actually a territorial conflict, it's a religious conflict.
	And yet the right and the left apparently have this common stake in pretending that terror against Jews in Israel is somehow markedly different than terror against British people at a concert in the UK.
	And that is just not true.
	That's why you'll see Chris Matthews over on MSNBC basically suggesting that Israel deserves terrorism even though the rest of the West doesn't.
	But when you go over there to the Palestinian territories, sure there are terrorists, and they should be punished by the people over there.
	That's where I think they've got to act.
	But then you have these Palestinian business guys, regular guys like us, just regular people.
	They're peaceful.
	They are being bothered every day of their life to try to do business.
	They have to sit there with some Israeli soldier putting his gun at them for three or four hours at every checkpoint.
	They're humiliating those people.
	And then when's that call they're going to blow, Jim?
	So the idea is that if you were forced, as a business person, to go through the rigors of a check by TSA because there are terrorists getting on the flight, that you're going to go and commit a terrorist attack.
	The idea that Israel is somehow at fault here, again, I know that the left, it's a little bit easier from the left, because the left also blames the west for Islamic terrorism in the west.
	But the idea, overall, that the conflict between Israel and the Palestinians is somehow different, and that there is common cause between Israel and the Palestinians in fighting terror, is just absolute nonsense.
	Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had this to say this morning regarding the Manchester attack.
	It is 100% true, even though people don't want to hear it.
	I want to thank you especially today for your... And as you said this morning, Mr. President, funding and rewarding terrorism must end.
	Standing next to you, President Abbas condemned the horrific attack in Manchester.
	Well, I hope this heralds a real change.
	Because if the attacker had been Palestinian, and the victims had been Israeli children, The Suicide Bombers family would have received a stipend from the Palestinian Authority.
	That's Palestinian law.
	That law must be changed.
	And not only that, American taxpayers will be paying for it because we give aid to the Palestinian authority.
	They then funnel the terrorists.
	The Taylor Force Act, which stops all of this, should immediately be implemented in the United States.
	Now, look, the terror attack in Manchester is not about Israel.
	But terrorist attacks in Israel are about Manchester.
	And the idea that all of this isn't part of a broader civilizational battle with radical Islamic terrorism, that is a mistake.
	And by ignoring that mistake, all you end up doing is promulgating the terrorism.
	By pretending away Abbas and Saudi Arabia that they're all allies with us against things like what happened in Manchester, all you end up doing is ignoring one of the sources of the real problem.
	And long-term, listen, we don't have the power to topple every bad regime.
	We don't have the ability or the willingness to throw everybody out of power who we don't like, nor should we, because the fact is that sometimes what replaces them is worse.
	But if we don't keep in mind who our enemies are, we're not going to take cautious policies, we're going to make foolish mistakes like signing money over to bad guys, and then we're shocked when that comes back to bite us in the ass, whether it's on 9-11, or whether it's in Israel, or whether it's in Manchester.
	Okay, well, I want to talk a little bit more about all of this.
	I also want to talk about what's going on in the so-called Russia investigation.
	A couple of bombshells dropped last night.
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