The Biggest Mistake Western Intellectuals Make About Islam | Khaled Salih

00:00 The Hamas Note That Changed Everything 00:52 How Saddam Hussein Used Religion To Justify Genocide 06:40 The Chilling October 7 Connection 08:44 How Labeling Makes Violence Possible 11:48 Why Intelligent People Get Captured By Dangerous Ideas 15:50 The Backspace Key: Protecting People While Challenging Ideas 19:18 Why Universities Turned Against Israel After October 7 24:14 Israel's Response to October 7 and the Power of Error Correction 29:02 Why Academics Avoid Discussing the Muslim Brotherhood 31:32 How Israel Broke Iran's Ring of Fire 34:39 Did the Iranian Regime Learn Anything? 35:29 Regime Change vs. Regime Alteration 38:53 Why Anti-Semitism Keeps Returning Khaled Salih is a Kurdish political scientist, former government spokesman in the Kurdistan Regional Government, former Vice Chancellor of the University of Kurdistan Hewlêr, and author of the forthcoming book *When Parochial Error Goes Global*. Born into a secular Kurdish family with Jewish roots, Khaled spent decades studying genocide, ideology, Islamism, anti-Semitism, the Middle East, and the forces that shape civilizations. In this conversation, he explains how Saddam Hussein's genocide against the Kurds launch