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Erick Stakelbeck: Iran on the Brink | Stakelbeck Tonight

January 8, 2026 | 25:5

Erick Stakelbeck delves into the biggest news story of the world - the teetering Iranian regime, the rise of anti-regime protests, and the potential collapse of the oppressive government. With a focus on the Middle East and the threat of radical Islam, Stakelbeck explores the implications of the regime's downfall, the impact on global politics, and the resilience of the Iranian people. Through interviews with experts like Pastor Andrew Sedra, Stakelbeck sheds light on the dangers of Islamism, the unholy alliance between Islam and the left, and the challenges facing the West.

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Stakelbeck Tonight | Erick Stakelbeck: Iran on the Brink | Stakelbeck Tonight | January 8, 2026

Welcome to stakelbeck tonight i'm erick stakelbeck
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And it is the biggest story in the world right now.
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Although you're hearing
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Barely a peep about it in the mainstream media.
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The iranian regime, the world's number one state sponsor
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Of terrorism, is teetering on the brink of collapse.
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For 47 years,
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Ever since they came to power in the 1979 iranian revolution,
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The ayatollahs have been a bitter adversary
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Of the united states, israel and the west and have spread
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Terror, chaos and destruction across the middle east.
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The main victims of this wicked regime
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Have been the iranian people, and now they are rising up
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For nearly two weeks in cities across iran.
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Tens of thousands of protesters have taken to the streets
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And demanded an end to the regime.
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Iran's economy is in shambles.
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Inflation is sky high.
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The country is suffering through drought and severe
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Water shortages, all while the regime sends
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Billions of dollars to its terror proxies like hamas
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And hezbollah and builds thousands of ballistic missiles.
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And until israel
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And the united states took decisive action back in june,
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Iran's leaders were also developing nuclear weapons.
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Meanwhile, the iranian people suffer.
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Folks, remember as the protests grow, iran's
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Regime has never been weaker than it is right now.
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There have been massive demonstrations that have rocked
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Iran in previous years, especially in 2022 and 2009.
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But the regime has a much weaker hand
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In 2026 than it did back then.
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It was exposed as a paper tiger back in june,
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During the 12 day war, when israel destroyed a major
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Chunk of its military
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Capabilities and president trump ordered operation
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Midnight hammer and destroyed the regime's nuclear sites.
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The economy is in tatters.
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Hamas and hezbollah have been smashed,
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And the ayatollah ally in venezuela, nicolas maduro.
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He sits in a jail
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Cell in new york right now after the daring u.s.
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Operation in caracas last weekend.
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Both president trump and prime minister
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Netanyahu are publicly supporting
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The iranian people, and trump has threatened to intervene
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If the regime continues to kill protesters in the streets.
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Dozens have already been murdered by the regime's goons.
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Add it all up, and iran's regime knows it is in big trouble.
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That's why supreme leader ayatollah khamenei reportedly
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Has an exit plan to escape to moscow if his regime falls.
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Who would replace him?
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Many iranians are calling for crown prince reza pahlavi
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To take power.
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He's the son of the shah who was overthrown back in 1979.
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Pahlavi is now based in the united states, and many
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See him as the rightful heir and leader of iran.
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Folks, we are living in an historic moment
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That could transform the middle east and the world.
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Please pray for the people of iran
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That they can finally rid themselves of this evil regime.
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And remember, iran is a bible land.
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Iran was known as persia.
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In your bible.
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Esther. mordecai. cyrus. darius.
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Ezra. nehemiah.
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A good chunk
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Of all of their stories happened in modern day iran.
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And right now,
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Despite constant persecution, iran is home to the world's
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Fastest growing church, worshiping largely underground.
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God is not done with the people of iran.
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So please continue to pray.
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If iran's regime falls, it would deal a major blow
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To radical islam.
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And that couldn't come at a better time because islam
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Is on the rise right here in the west.
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Coming up, we're joined by a courageous pastor
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Who is sounding the alarm.
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And it all starts now.
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As islam spreads across the west, from europe
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To canada to australia to right here in the united states.
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Most western leaders are unwilling to deal
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With the threat.
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In fact, they've welcomed it in through mass migration.
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Pastor andrew seder says
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This is a big mistake, and he knows this firsthand.
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He's the founder and lead pastor of eko church in sydney,
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Australia, but his family hails from egypt.
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This gives him deep personal insight into the islamic world
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And the devastating consequences of unchecked islamism.
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I sat down with pastor seder at turning points
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And first event to discuss mass migration.
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Terror attacks in the west and whether islam
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Is compatible with western civilization.
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Take a look.
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Andrew.
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Cedric, great to have you with us, my friend.
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And hey, your family is originally from egypt.
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You know the islamic world very well.
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It seems here in the west we have a growing problem
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Of islamism taking root.
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Where you're living right now, australia.
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We've seen some vicious terror attacks recently.
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Are western governments making a huge mistake,
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Letting in waves large numbers of muslim migrants
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And then not demanding that they assimilate?
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And can they assimilate?
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Is islam compatible with western civilization?
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The reality is islam is not here to immigrate.
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Islam is here to invade.
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Yeah, islam is not here to live and let live.
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Islam is here to take over.
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Islam is not here to coexist and play
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Religious coexistence games.
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Islam is here to divide and conquer.
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And the proof is in the pudding you literally saw just before
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Christmas the horrific attacks when two muslim men opened
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Fire on 2000 jews on their holy, sacred day of hanukkah.
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I have literally been warning australia
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For the last three years.
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You cannot just bring islam.
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You cannot just play religious tolerance
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And inclusivity and audacity and diversity is our strength.
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And eventually, after the muslims
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Screaming after october 7th in sydney, australia
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Gas, the jews gassed the jews.
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We're now seeing the literal
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Manifestation of the words, which is guess the jews.
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When islam tells america
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That's america, that's america and iran.
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They actually mean it.
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In the last three years,
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We have seen multiple jewish synagogues in australia drive
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From sydney to melbourne get bombed.
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So you better believe the terrorists
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When you hear them tell you something.
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No doubt. pastor andrew. so well said.
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And this explosion of anti-semitism is demonic.
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It's almost like the gates of hell were opened on october 7th.
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And the demonic activity, the spiritual battle
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We're locked in and israel and the jewish people seem to be
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The dividing line at the center of it.
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Even here in america, we see tucker
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Carlson, candace owens, wing.
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Radical comments, radical, the jews and the jews
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And israel. benjamin netanyahu.
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I'm like, honey, the biggest threat to christendom is islam.
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How many people jews
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Have killed in the history of cancer there?
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Maybe hundred came the first 200 years.
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Yeah, during the persecution of christians.
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But historically, islam has killed at least
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100 million christians, no doubt from the ottoman
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Empire to the different islamic caliphate. yeah.
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So the taking over of egypt, of the taking care
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Of other turkey.
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So i'm i'm a coptic christian.
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We were the initial pagans when mock came to egypt and
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And in 50, 80 he preached the gospel
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And there was a massive revival.
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There was a massive revival in egypt, to the point that by
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321 a.d., 90% of egypt was christian.
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But islam took over egypt by the force, and 631
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With mohammed omar of the us by force.
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More jihad and conquering.
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And in the last 1400 years, christian egyptians,
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The coptic christians, were literally genocide. it.
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So egypt went from 90% christian to 10% christian,
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From a 0% muslim to 90% of them.
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And, one out of the one of ten of christians
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That fled the islamic world of egypt to the christian world
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For refuge, to one america, to one australia.
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What happened to egypt?
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What happened to libya? what happened to algeria?
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What happened to turkey?
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What happened to syria? what happened to lebanon?
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Lebanon is now reaching a point
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Where the christian, the minority.
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So the city of bethlehem, the birthplace of jesus.
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So all the ancient world, the church of considerable,
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The church of jerusalem, the church of alexandria,
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The church of antioch, all of them are now gone.
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Yeah.
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So what makes you think islam is a bigger threat to america?
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I'm not really sure.
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When tucker carlson said in america first.
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It's disgusting
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Watching americans and republicans attack muslim.
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Yeah. this is disgusting.
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I'm like, no, islam has killed a lot of christians.
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In fact, islam fundamentally hates america.
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Islam is about sharia law.
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Sharia law is fundamentally incompatible
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With any christian free civilization.
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America is about life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
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Islam is about jihad, death, and the pursuit of war.
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So when he says muslim american, that█s like saying trans
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Woman, a woman, that's an oxymoron.
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It doesn't actually make sense if he actually takes the time
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To uncover islam.
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And then he said that's equivalent to having a race war.
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I'm like, the dude, islam is not a race.
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Exact.
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Islam is a religion.
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So i'm not really sure his words are not really true.
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Yeah, they're not factually accurate.
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They're not accurate when it comes to islam,
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The koran, the hadiths,
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The current events of watching 15 jews died.
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He's never read those.
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By the way, those texts i highly doubt one of.
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A small guy. he works for seattle fox news.
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I would imagine him to be a little bit more educated.
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Right, you would think.
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But he seems historically ignorant,
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Theologically ignorant, and geopolitically ignorant.
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And what about europe? uk?
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There are literally islamic sharia law across
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Uk, across australia.
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I might get arrested next year
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Because of what they call islamophobia.
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So when i listen to him as a christian,
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An ancient coptic christian who literally fled
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The middle east for the life, for us being genocidal,
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I have no idea what he's talking about.
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I'm not really sure. how's qatar?
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A friend to christendom? yeah, it's very.
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Confusing and a better friend in israel.
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According to him, i know it doesn't make any sense.
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And it's satirically, practically, philosophically.
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Morally. yeah, theologically.
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Just google the koran and that this place.
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Yeah.
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Coming up, islamic jihadists froze
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In their tracks as a young boy escaped certain death.
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Pastor friends who said shares the astonishing story
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Of how god saved his family next.
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Of how god saved his family next.
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You mentioned your family fled egypt.
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You're raised in cairo.
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Tell us about that.
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Tell us about that journey.
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Pastor andrew, your father.
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And literally
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There were jihadists who wanted to kill you
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Personally, your brother and your family.
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Tell us more about that.
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So we came to australia as religious refugees
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Fleeing the islamic world of egypt in 2007.
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The reason i came because my dad was a gospel preacher.
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He was a pastor.
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And the thing about egypt,
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You have apostasy laws and you have blasphemy laws.
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Blasphemy laws
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Are designed to ensure, if any christian, a church
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Or a pastor speak about jesus being lord
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Outside of the four walls of church.
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If you ever speak jesus outside of the four walls of church,
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If you ever proclaim the gospel, on the in the public square,
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If you ever critique islam or criticize muhammad,
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You'll go to jail for five years
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And you'll get tortured and killed there,
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Or you'll get killed by muslim brotherhood on the street.
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So i grew up in a world where it was illegal to have revival.
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Yeah, it was illegal to preach the gospel,
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Fulfilling the great commission of going into all the world.
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Making disciples of all the nations
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Was literally a criminal offense.
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So i came to america and the west.
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I was like, oh my gosh, you can preach the gospel.
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Yeah, you can convert people.
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You can build the church.
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So that is the world i grew up in.
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So you had blasphemy laws and apostasy laws.
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So apostasy laws were designed to make sure
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If any muslim becomes a christian,
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They will get killed on the street by a fatwa
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By a muslim brotherhood imam, or they will go to jail
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And they will get tortured and die.
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So it was illegal
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For a muslim to ever become a christian, but
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A christian can become a muslim.
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So that's why i call islam a cult.
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It's not just a cult, it's a death goat. wow.
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So you had apostasy laws and blasphemy laws.
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So when i come to the west
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And i find people saying islam is a religion of peace,
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Muslims are nice people, unlike other muslims.
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I just don't like islam.
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Yeah.
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Can you talk about your personal stories
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To your experiences with that, andrew?
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God literally stayed the
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Hand of potential assassins who came against you.
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Your family tells.
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It's amazing. it's miraculous.
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Tell us more about that.
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So a few years before we came to australia and 77, my
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Dad converted a particular muslim woman to christianity.
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We were not trying to convert her.
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She was escaping her muslim husband.
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So we used to love her, give her food, shelter, finances
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Because we have showed her the love of jesus
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And we share the gospel with her.
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She ended up becoming a christian
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And getting baptized.
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What we didn't know at the time is that muslim woman.
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Her husband
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Was part of muslim brotherhood, which is the hamas of egypt.
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So her husband was very angry and furious at my dad
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For taking away what is most precious to him.
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What should his wife?
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So he decided as a consequence, as a revenge for my dad
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Converting his wife to christianity,
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Which is the worst thing you can ever do to them.
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It was going to take her
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Revenge on my dad by taking away what is most
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What is very precious to him, which was me
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And my younger brother john.
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So he decided because he was part of muslim
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Brotherhood,
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He was going to get two of his muslim
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Brotherhood team and friends.
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He was going to kidnap us, behead both of us,
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And then send both our bodies and heads as in a bag as
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A revenge to my dad taking away what is most precious name.
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So he carried out the plan.
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He came 7 a.m.
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In the morning as me and my younger brother,
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John used to go to school on the yellow bus.
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Him and the two muslim, two other muslim brotherhood men.
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They came to kidnap us and behind us.
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But as me and my younger brother
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John were about to go to school at 7 a.m.
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In the morning,
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The muslim brotherhood men
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And the two other muslim brotherhood men,
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All of them, they froze and they could not move.
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Well. they froze and time, space.
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And they could not move at all until me and my younger brother
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John, we went to the yellow bus that those were shot.
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The bus drove to the end of the street
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And the bus disappeared. and the moment
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The bus disappeared, they started to move again.
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The guy was like, what the heck is going on?
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This is crazy!
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Was killed, so many places were beheaded, so many christian.
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This young kids are like chickens.
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We should be able to kidnap, right?
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You know, like, look what they did. october 7th.
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It's a very easy job. yeah, and it's not out of character.
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There's some.
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So he came a few days or a few weeks
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Later to carry the exact same plan.
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And he got two other muslim brotherhood them
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The exact same way, the free
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Muslim brotherhood, when they come to, apartment,
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They stay downstairs to wait
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For me and my younger brother john, as we go to the school
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Bus, the yellow school bus to go to school.
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This time, as they were about to get out of the car to kidnap
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Me, i'm buying a brother, john,
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The two muslim brotherhood men, and the muslim brotherhood men.
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The three of them.
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They felt a power and a force take their hand
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And put it behind their head, and they froze
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And they could not move at all.
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Wow! this power and force held them in time and space
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For fear until me and my younger brother john,
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We went to the school bus.
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The doors were shut,
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The bus drove to the end of the street
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And the bus disappeared. and the moment
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The bus disappeared decided to move again.
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Wow. so see, we didn't know this was happening.
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If i knew this was happening, i wouldn't be going to school.
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You had no idea.
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You're on the bus minding your business. you had no idea.
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I was 8 or 12. i can hear you two.
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My brother was in kindergarten,
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So i had no idea what is happening.
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If i knew this was happening, i wouldn't go to school.
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I would say, hey, mom, can i please skip to school today?
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I think she would have said yes.
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Yeah, few people want to be heard.
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Me, i think it's a good enough for you to know
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The reason why this was happening.
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Because the evil, wicked muslim brotherhood men came to my dad
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A few weeks later.
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He came and they told me that your god saved you, your kids,
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Your family, your children from my evil and wicked hand.
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He became a christian. he got baptized.
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And now him and his whole entire family are christians.
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Coming up, an
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Unholy alliance between islamism and the radical left.
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Hate speech laws used to silence christians, and why
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The muslim brotherhood poses a grave threat to the west.
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Don't move.
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Don't move.
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That was more about the muslim
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Brotherhood, how they operate
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And why they're so dangerous to the west.
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So the muslim brotherhood, they're already in america,
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They're in florida, they in texas.
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They are running proxy war operations across the globe.
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In fact, what most people don't know, like a muslim brotherhood
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Fabricated the free palestine movement
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In order to deceive the west
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With their empathy to support islam.
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Yeah.
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You saw in 1979 the fall of iran and the communists,
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When the the muslims are united against the persian empire
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And eventually the whole country became communist.
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The muslims know, if they align with the lgbtq.
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Abc, they're able over time to get rid of christianity,
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Get rid of christendom,
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Get rid of conservatives, get rid of the republican party.
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And then they're left with the gays
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And the lgbtq and the out meow meow.
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And oh, this was out there and before.
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Not like this. awesome.
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They don't have kids. the weak, the gay.
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We can feed.
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Godless saints and they're godless.
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So muslims love the guys.
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Yeah.
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Queers for palestine, gays for gaza, chicken for gay.
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Useful idiots as lenin once called them.
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Exactly.
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So what you're seeing at the moment,
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The muslim brotherhood have crafted a plan and a strategy
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To take over the west through immigration.
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Yeah.
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And the left is welcoming them in this unholy
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Alliance between the left and islamism.
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It doesn't make a lot of sense, but it does make a lot of sense
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When you look philosophically,
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Both violent islam and godless leftism,
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Both the sexually perverted mohamed following and violent
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Allah worshiping islam and the lgbt sex god.
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They both hate america
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Because they both hate christianity. yes.
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And they both hate christianity because they both hate freedom.
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Because little the people know
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Freedom is not an american concept.
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It's actually a christian concept. yes.
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And you will know the truth and the truth will set you free
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Where the spirit of the lord is, there is freedom.
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However the sun sets free is free indeed.
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So freedom is fundamentally a christian concept,
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And the unholy alliance you are seeing at the moment,
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Michigan, new york is becoming new york.
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Stan.
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Yeah, london is becoming the london sun.
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You just saw the attack in sydney.
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Sydney is now sydney. stan. yeah.
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You are seeing in time the ungodly,
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Unholy alliance between islam and the left.
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And their goal is to destroy america,
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Destroy australia, destroy the christian west.
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And last question. you're obviously based
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In australia preaching boldly there.
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Now we have the australian government
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In the wake of the sydney massacre on bondi beach,
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Talking about new, more stringent hate speech laws.
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And maybe just like in the uk, the police will come
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To your door
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Late at night and say, hey, we didn't like that tweet,
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We didn't like that facebook post.
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How concerned are you about that?
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You're not going to stop what you're doing.
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I'm not going to stop for.
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Is that kind of the new normal in the west?
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It is a new normal.
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Right now across australia, you're watching the rise
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Of what they call islamophobia laws.
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As of yesterday.
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It's crazy.
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Our godless socialist, they then islam sympathizer
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Prime minister is about to pass what he calls hate
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Breaching laws.
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Yeah, so he's now putting me in the same category
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As a violent islamic imam who's calling for the death of jews.
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Mohammed killed his enemies.
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Jesus loves his enemies. i'm not after killing people.
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I'm just after preaching to people.
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So the reality is, in the next year, i might get arrested
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Or sued or raided
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By the anti-terrorism police because of what i say.
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Because now that's a biblical message.
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It's just a message.
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Just talking about the supremacy of christ.
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Yeah, just talking about the violence of islam,
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Just talking about israel and what happened to me.
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My story will be classified as islamophobic
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And hate breaching, which means now which they're going to be
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Considering as a crime so they can put me in jail.
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So please pray for me. yes, open.
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I might message you at some point.
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Yes. my wife will tell you. hey, my husband in jail.
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I need to come in the program, talk to me.
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So, hey, we never know what's a future.
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But hey, god protected me. yes.
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You don't got to stop speaking,
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Folks.
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The warning signs are flashing from mass muslim
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Migration to open hostility towards christianity.
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The challenge facing america and the west is very real
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And it is growing.
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I want to thank pastor andrew setzer
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For bravely sounding the alarm.
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Be sure to follow him on social media.
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And if you want to see
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My full extended interview with pastor sidra, it's
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Coming soon to my podcast called the stakscast.
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Coming up after the break, my final thoughts on choosing life
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And death.
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What lies before the west?
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We break it down next.
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We break it down next.
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Welcome back to stakelbeck
00:22:38.690 --> 00:22:39.891
Tonight, folks, as we wrap up here.
00:22:39.891 --> 00:22:41.493
What a great conversation with pastor
00:22:41.493 --> 00:22:43.628
Andrew cedras sounding the alarm and not mincing words.
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That's exactly what we need. and guess what?
00:22:47.432 --> 00:22:49.601
God almighty didn't mince words.
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The people of israel in deuteronomy 11
00:22:51.303 --> 00:22:53.338
When he said, i'm setting before you a curse and a blessing.
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A blessing or a curse, which god will you choose?
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We choose to serve foreign gods other than me.
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That is the question facing the west right now.
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Islam, militant atheism, secularism, spreading.
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Which god will we choose?
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I'm going to choose the god of abraham, isaac and jacob.
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And so scott jennings, the cnn political commentator,
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He is here tomorrow night, folks.
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You won't want to miss that until then.
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God bless you. we'll see you soon.
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Erick Stakelbeck: Iran on the Brink | Stakelbeck Tonight

January 8, 2026 | 25:5

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