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In yesterday’s False Flag Weekly News, E. Michael Jones and I cringingly marveled at the pathos of Elon Musk’s visit to Auschwitz. The horror!

Whatever you think of gas chambers, there is no denying that Israel is slaughtering civilians, most of them women and children, by the tens of thousands. And as Dr. Jones pointed out, the Holocaust is the get-out-of-jail-free card endlessly played by the #GazaGenocide perps. By making a pilgrimage to Auschwitz, Holy of Holies of the Holocaust Religion, on the eve of the World Court’s decision in favor of South Africa’s genocide case against Israel, Musk was implicitly endorsing the genocide of Gaza.

What makes Elon “I am aspirationally Jewish” Musk’s Auschwitz rollover even sadder is that the Holy Holocaust is at the absolute epicenter of the ongoing war on free speech. Across-the-board, censorship on nearly every issue is being led by powerful elements of the Jewish community, whose hysterical attempts to suppress speech they disagree with is driven, consciously or unconsciously, by fears that free and fearless debate might ultimately lead to the collapse of the official sacred narrative of the Nazi Holocaust and subsequent loss of the get-out-of-jail-free card that has enabled the post-World War II Jewish takeover of America and the West.

Long before the current censorship epidemic broke out around 2016, historians who questioned the canonical version of the Holocaust narrative were being persecuted and imprisoned. The sacred Holocaust story, with its holy trinity (gas chambers, six million dead Jews, and an official total-extermination plan) and its resurrection miracle (Israel) was the one and only exception to Article 19 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights:

“Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

Since 2016, exceptions to Article 19 have been proliferating. The list of things you are no longer allowed to talk about on major internet platforms has expanded to include COVID, vaccines, election integrity or lack thereof, and whatever else the self-appointed censors happen to feel like suppressing at any given moment.

Elon Musk bought Twitter in part to push back against this war on free speech. He famously said that he didn’t think internet censorship should get too far ahead of the law, meaning the history of First Amendment jurisprudence in the US as well as the various legal requirements of other nations. In other words, if it isn’t illegal, you probably should be allowed to post it on Twitter.

The censorship lobby, dominated by powerful Jewish interests, pushed back. The Anti-Defamation League, spear-tip of organized Jewish power in North America, pilloried Musk and organized a boycott that threatened Twitter’s, and Musk’s, economic viability. Driven to paroxysms of outrage by Musk’s endorsement of the Great Replacement “conspiracy theory,” according to which Jews are behind the systematic replacement of white majorities through excessive immigration, the ADL and friends convinced hundreds of America’s biggest companies to stop advertising on Twitter/X. Musk responded by uttering a couple of shrill little “f-you” barks, then whimperingly scurried off to Auschwitz to display his bright-yellow belly.

So when Musk says he aspires to be Jewish, what he is really saying is that he wishes that he, too, had that kind of power. As long as he remains a goy, even Musk’s 200-billion dollar fortune can’t save him from second-class-citizen status. As a rich but still subhuman goy, he is not allowed to speak his mind. And because he is non-Jewish, he doesn’t have the right to permit certain kinds of speech—speech that Jews don’t like—on his platform. So who can blame him for his “aspirations”? Plenty of people were “aspirationally Medici” during the Medici dynasty, “aspirationally Tudor” under the Tudors, and “aspirationally Romanov” in 19th-century Russia. Today, such brown-nosers are “aspirationally Jewish.”

E. Michael Jones, that notable Catholic, and yours truly, a proud lapsed-Unitarian-turned-Muslim, clearly do not harbor any such Jewish aspirations. Below is the section of our conversation that turned on Elon’s canine submission ritual.

Let's move on to the title of our show, Elon Goes to Auschwitz. This was quite the bizarre, surreal scenario this week, as Elon Musk, who has been harassed by the ADL constantly, is maybe trying to get them off his back by going and kissing the gas chambers. I guess they don't still have gas chambers there, if they ever did, which I kind of doubt, having looked into it a little bit. But maybe he's kissing the walls where there would be Prussian blue or hydrogen cyanide residue if there indeed had been any gas chambers. Although actually they wouldn't, because those “gas chambers” were actually rebuilt by the Russians after the war. So there shouldn't be any hydrogen cyanide on the walls anyway, which indeed there isn't. In any case, Musk is kissing whatever he's being asked to kiss over there, and it's kind of bizarre. He's also saying he's aspirationally Jewish. What does that mean, Mike?

I don't know. I think it's an important concept because I think I became a Jew when I was a teenager. And it took me a while….It was only after I got to Germany that I realized I wasn't a Jew. And this was when I was in college and I started working. A priest introduced me to the art world in Philadelphia, and I worked for a Jewish artist, I worked for a Jewish gallery, I hung shows in a synagogue, the famous Frank Lloyd Wright synagogue there. I had a creative writing teacher who was a Jew, and also, when I got to Temple, a lot of the teachers were Jewish. It's something that can happen to you, and you don't know it happens because of the way they control their discourse. You simply adopt their categories. Once you do that, you start thinking like a Jew, and then maybe you wake up one morning and want to be aspirationally Jewish. It makes perfect sense to me.

And I guess by going to Auschwitz and kissing the gas chambers, that's almost like going to the Wailing Wall and putting on a beanie and kissing the wall. Either way, it is a sort of act of abject surrender, sort of like the way a dog might roll over and show its belly in a ritual of submission.

Yeah, you're right. But I think the religion has shifted now. The Holocaust is the established religion of the United States of America. Government money builds Holocaust museums all across the country. I think it has shifted from the Wailing Wall. I think this is a significant event. And Ben Shapiro is doing his job, getting the world's richest goy to offer up incense to an idol, the idol of the Holocaust, which is the real religion of the Jews at this point, and it's the established religion of the United States of America and Europe as well.

Okay. Well, apparently they're even showing fake footage, supposed Holocaust footage, which of course is all reenacted. And Elon is watching it pretending it's real, I suppose.

So let's let's move on to our music video of the week. Elon goes to Auschwitz. This is a take off on the Ramones’ classic Bonzo Goes to Bitburg. That takes us back to the days of Jewey Ramone, or that other Ramone…Bennie Ramone? I don't think so. [Ed. note: Jewish Joey Ramone and goy Reagan supporter Johnny Ramone had a spat over Joey’s Jewish anthem Bonzo Goes to Bitburg. See Rock History 101.]

Ah, never listened to him.

I don't know whether you saw Ben Shapiro did a rap song with some Canadian white rapper, a classic case of cultural appropriation. I'm going to claim credit for this. I know it sounds crazy, but I think it's in response to my interview with Jason Whitlock, where I talked to him and I started talking about the NAACP as a Jewish organization designed to stop, to destroy Marcus Garvey. And he's nodding in approval. He got a lot of pushback for that. And this video came out. I'm just saying he made it. They didn't have time to make it.

It's been in the works a lot, but they released it right after the Jason Whitlock thing to break up what looked like to be blacks and whites getting together and identifying Jews as the common enemy.

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Islamic scholar John Andrew Morrow, founder of the Covenants Initiative, discusses his new book Islam and Slavery.

Everyone knows Islam is against debt slavery, the inevitable consequence of usury. But what about other forms of slavery? One school of thought holds that since domestic slavery was ubiquitous and unquestioned at the time of the Prophet (saas) and is not clearly and directly banned by Islamic scripture, it is permissible. In Islam and Slavery Dr. Morrow takes the opposite view: “The Qur’an encourages and even requires Muslims to emancipate enslaved people. As far as the exponents of Islam’s spiritual, moral, ethical, and egalitarian tradition are concerned, the Qur’an, the Prophet, and Islam introduced a system that would reform the practice of slavery and abolish it entirely and forever.”

Extract:

As an academic, I'm asked to peer-review articles that are submitted or to write reviews of books. Reading Religion, which is the name of the journal, sent me the list of books that were available for review and I proposed a few of them. They came back to me and asked me to review Slavery and Islam.

(Reads) In Slavery and Islam, Dr. Jonathan A.C. Brown, the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University, devotes over 400 pages to support his conviction that slavery and concubinage are permissible according to the Quran and the teachings and practice of the Prophet Muhammad. He is adamant that God and His Messenger allowed, condoned, and supported them. In his words, the permissibility of slavery and concubinage is undeniable in the Quran. Rather than abolish sexual slavery, Brown asserts that Muslim jurists embraced the practice fully and took it to its maximum. He admits that the number of concubines taken by Muslims jumped dramatically with the early Islamic conquests. Brown also stresses that, in Islamic law, consent for sexual relations was assumed or irrelevant. Not only does he argue that sex slaves played a central role in Arab and Ottoman slavery, but he goes as far as to trivialize the age of consent. Moreover, he argues that freedom is not a fundamental human right in Islamic law, and treats serial polygamists who had hundreds of sex slaves as moral exemplars. Brown equates opposition to the institution of slavery and sexual servitude as opposition to the Messenger of God. He considers those who oppose slavery but refuse to condemn the Prophet to be hypocrites. When faced with dissenting views on the disputed subject of the legitimacy of slavery in Islam, Brown's strategy is to respond with a loaded trick question and a theological trap: Did the Prophet Muhammad commit a grave moral wrong? For Brown, a Muslim does not remain a Muslim if he or she answers in the affirmative.

Consequently, he provides a jurisprudential justification for the practice of Takfir, namely the excommunication of so-called heretics and apostates, and provides ample evidence that Muslims of a long history of enslaving other Muslims who do not share their ideology. Brown may claim to believe that slavery is wrong. However, he makes an important disclaimer: “As a Muslim myself, I cannot condemn it as grossly, intrinsically immoral across space and time. To do so would be to condemn the Quran, the Prophet Muhammad, and God's Law as morally compromised.” However, rather than support Islamic abolitionists, he assumes the role of the devil's advocate, devoting an inordinate amount of time in his book to dismissing, debunking, and repudiating their arguments as violating the Quran, the Sunnah, and the Sharia.

If one rejects the views of Muslim scholars who spurn slavery, is one an opponent or supporter of this evil and abominable institution? In fact, Brown wonders whether slavery is in the DNA of Islam. In his words, “we can't pretend it's not a part of our religion.”

Brown's entire work is an ideological defense of slave master Islam. That it comes from a white American Muslim is even more abhorrent.

This is the product of a conscious choice. His work is not simply a survey of historical opinions on the permissibility of enslavement, human bondage, sexual captivity, subjugation and violation. It is a validation of those views.

Alternative interpretations of Islam which are abolitionist and emancipatory are amply available. He is perfectly familiar with the arguments in evidence, namely that sexual relations are only permissible in wedlock and that the Prophet Muhammad stated that slave traders were the worst of human beings. Brown, however, has deliberately decided to denounce them.

The fact remains that there is not a single verse in the Quran that commands slavery. The verses that touch upon the topic are descriptive. They deal with a temporal socio-economic reality.

Slavery is neither an article of faith, nor is it a religious obligation. In fact, the Qur'an encourages and even requires Muslims to emancipate enslaved people. As far as the exponents of Islam's spiritual, moral, ethical, and egalitarian tradition are concerned, the Qur'an, the prophet in Islam, introduced this system that would reform the practice of slavery and abolish it entirely and forever.

Rather than select the sharp and narrow path, Brown has selected the wide and shallow one of the classical Islamic status quo. And since he likes to confront critics with a question, this review ends with a question, not of my own, but one that God poses in the Quran: What will make you know what the steep path is? It is the freeing of the slave.

So this is the short review. that I wrote for Reading Religion. The editor gets back to me and says, we cannot publish this review. And of course, I write articles, I publish articles, I'm very well published, I'm very well respected. And well, why? And she says, you're misrepresenting Brown's views. I say, have you read the book? She says, no. But I googled him.

Oh, wow. Rigorous methodology. And, you know, “I I have found a quote where he says that he thinks slavery is wrong.” And so I'm misrepresenting his views.

Now, some of those comments he made, he made them in 2017, and this book came out in 2019 and 2020. So I'm going to go with the book. Had he changed his mind on this subject, surely it should have been reflected in this text.

And so here we have a woman who is just so woke, okay? You have one person who's saying that slavery is in the DNA of Islam.

I don't agree with this. There is no place in the Qur'an where slavery is mandated, where it is made obligatory. It is not a matter of faith. It is not a matter of creed. One does not have to believe in slavery. There's all kinds of measures in the Qur'an to eradicate slavery. There's all kinds of traditions condemning slavery.

And there is a long history of Muslim scholars from the dawn of Islam, from the 7th century, all the way to our present time, hundreds and hundreds of them, who have condemned slavery, who said that this is not acceptable, this is against the morals and ethics of Islam.

But you have this woke editor who prefers to take the side of someone who's basically ISIS lite.

So, they wouldn't publish the review. Now I got really upset. I started to expand upon the review and it snowballed and it turned into a book which is called Islam and Slavery published by Academica Press based in Washington DC and London. My book is a scholarly response. And it's a work of righteous rage and indignation. It's an Islamic emancipation proclamation. That's the background of the book and how it came to be.

Islam is what Muslims do with Islam. Is there an imperialistic Islam? Sure, there were Islamic imperialists. Is there an emancipatory Islam? Is there an egalitarian Islam? A spiritual Islam? Absolutely.

So like which type of Islam do you want to, do you believe in? Do you want to disseminate? Do you want to promote? So again, this boils down to a choice. What are your basic fundamental ethical principles?

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Islamic scholar John Andrew Morrow, founder of the Covenants Initiative, discusses his new book Islam and Slavery.

Everyone knows Islam is against debt slavery, the inevitable consequence of usury. But what about other forms of slavery? One school of thought holds that since domestic slavery was ubiquitous and unquestioned at the time of the Prophet (saas) and is not clearly and directly banned by Islamic scripture, it is permissible. In Islam and Slavery Dr. Morrow takes the opposite view: “The Qur’an encourages and even requires Muslims to emancipate enslaved people. As far as the exponents of Islam’s spiritual, moral, ethical, and egalitarian tradition are concerned, the Qur’an, the Prophet, and Islam introduced a system that would reform the practice of slavery and abolish it entirely and forever.”

Extract:

As an academic, I'm asked to peer-review articles that are submitted or to write reviews of books. Reading Religion, which is the name of the journal, sent me the list of books that were available for review and I proposed a few of them. They came back to me and asked me to review Slavery and Islam.

(Reads) In Slavery and Islam, Dr. Jonathan A.C. Brown, the Alwaleed bin Talal Chair of Islamic Civilization at Georgetown University, devotes over 400 pages to support his conviction that slavery and concubinage are permissible according to the Quran and the teachings and practice of the Prophet Muhammad. He is adamant that God and His Messenger allowed, condoned, and supported them. In his words, the permissibility of slavery and concubinage is undeniable in the Quran. Rather than abolish sexual slavery, Brown asserts that Muslim jurists embraced the practice fully and took it to its maximum. He admits that the number of concubines taken by Muslims jumped dramatically with the early Islamic conquests. Brown also stresses that, in Islamic law, consent for sexual relations was assumed or irrelevant. Not only does he argue that sex slaves played a central role in Arab and Ottoman slavery, but he goes as far as to trivialize the age of consent. Moreover, he argues that freedom is not a fundamental human right in Islamic law, and treats serial polygamists who had hundreds of sex slaves as moral exemplars. Brown equates opposition to the institution of slavery and sexual servitude as opposition to the Messenger of God. He considers those who oppose slavery but refuse to condemn the Prophet to be hypocrites. When faced with dissenting views on the disputed subject of the legitimacy of slavery in Islam, Brown's strategy is to respond with a loaded trick question and a theological trap: Did the Prophet Muhammad commit a grave moral wrong? For Brown, a Muslim does not remain a Muslim if he or she answers in the affirmative.

Consequently, he provides a jurisprudential justification for the practice of Takfir, namely the excommunication of so-called heretics and apostates, and provides ample evidence that Muslims of a long history of enslaving other Muslims who do not share their ideology. Brown may claim to believe that slavery is wrong. However, he makes an important disclaimer: “As a Muslim myself, I cannot condemn it as grossly, intrinsically immoral across space and time. To do so would be to condemn the Quran, the Prophet Muhammad, and God's Law as morally compromised.” However, rather than support Islamic abolitionists, he assumes the role of the devil's advocate, devoting an inordinate amount of time in his book to dismissing, debunking, and repudiating their arguments as violating the Quran, the Sunnah, and the Sharia.

If one rejects the views of Muslim scholars who spurn slavery, is one an opponent or supporter of this evil and abominable institution? In fact, Brown wonders whether slavery is in the DNA of Islam. In his words, “we can't pretend it's not a part of our religion.”

Brown's entire work is an ideological defense of slave master Islam. That it comes from a white American Muslim is even more abhorrent.

This is the product of a conscious choice. His work is not simply a survey of historical opinions on the permissibility of enslavement, human bondage, sexual captivity, subjugation and violation. It is a validation of those views.

Alternative interpretations of Islam which are abolitionist and emancipatory are amply available. He is perfectly familiar with the arguments in evidence, namely that sexual relations are only permissible in wedlock and that the Prophet Muhammad stated that slave traders were the worst of human beings. Brown, however, has deliberately decided to denounce them.

The fact remains that there is not a single verse in the Quran that commands slavery. The verses that touch upon the topic are descriptive. They deal with a temporal socio-economic reality.

Slavery is neither an article of faith, nor is it a religious obligation. In fact, the Qur'an encourages and even requires Muslims to emancipate enslaved people. As far as the exponents of Islam's spiritual, moral, ethical, and egalitarian tradition are concerned, the Qur'an, the prophet in Islam, introduced this system that would reform the practice of slavery and abolish it entirely and forever.

Rather than select the sharp and narrow path, Brown has selected the wide and shallow one of the classical Islamic status quo. And since he likes to confront critics with a question, this review ends with a question, not of my own, but one that God poses in the Quran: What will make you know what the steep path is? It is the freeing of the slave.

So this is the short review. that I wrote for Reading Religion. The editor gets back to me and says, we cannot publish this review. And of course, I write articles, I publish articles, I'm very well published, I'm very well respected. And well, why? And she says, you're misrepresenting Brown's views. I say, have you read the book? She says, no. But I googled him.

Oh, wow. Rigorous methodology. And, you know, “I I have found a quote where he says that he thinks slavery is wrong.” And so I'm misrepresenting his views.

Now, some of those comments he made, he made them in 2017, and this book came out in 2019 and 2020. So I'm going to go with the book. Had he changed his mind on this subject, surely it should have been reflected in this text.

And so here we have a woman who is just so woke, okay? You have one person who's saying that slavery is in the DNA of Islam.

I don't agree with this. There is no place in the Qur'an where slavery is mandated, where it is made obligatory. It is not a matter of faith. It is not a matter of creed. One does not have to believe in slavery. There's all kinds of measures in the Qur'an to eradicate slavery. There's all kinds of traditions condemning slavery.

And there is a long history of Muslim scholars from the dawn of Islam, from the 7th century, all the way to our present time, hundreds and hundreds of them, who have condemned slavery, who said that this is not acceptable, this is against the morals and ethics of Islam.

But you have this woke editor who prefers to take the side of someone who's basically ISIS lite.

So, they wouldn't publish the review. Now I got really upset. I started to expand upon the review and it snowballed and it turned into a book which is called Islam and Slavery published by Academica Press based in Washington DC and London. My book is a scholarly response. And it's a work of righteous rage and indignation. It's an Islamic emancipation proclamation. That's the background of the book and how it came to be.

Islam is what Muslims do with Islam. Is there an imperialistic Islam? Sure, there were Islamic imperialists. Is there an emancipatory Islam? Is there an egalitarian Islam? A spiritual Islam? Absolutely.

So like which type of Islam do you want to, do you believe in? Do you want to disseminate? Do you want to promote? So again, this boils down to a choice. What are your basic fundamental ethical principles?

This is a public episode. If you’d like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com/subscribe

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Kabir Helminski, one of the best-known names in American Sufism, discusses “Gaza: Witnessing for Justice” and  “What Would a Moral Israel Look Like?”

Kabir Helminski is co-director and co-founder — together with his wife Camille Helminski(also profiled in the Living Spiritual Teachers Project) — of The Threshold Society, a nonprofit educational foundation that has developed programs to provide a structure for practice and study within Sufism and spiritual psychology. He is a Shaikh of the Mevlevi Order of Sufis, which traces its inspiration to Jelaluddin Rumi, and has authored and translated numerous books. (more)

Excerpt from the first 15 minutes:

Welcome to the live edition of Truth Jihad Radio. I'm Kevin Barrett, waging the all-out struggle for truth from my new home in Saidia, Morocco. Well, it's not that new. I've been here since late July, and today is Friday, January 26, 2024. Just a few hours ago, the International Court of Justice ruled that South Africa has presented a plausible case that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The ICJ ruled that indeed it has jurisdiction, that it orders Israel to prevent acts of genocide and to take measures to prevent genocide and report back to it about what it has done in one month. It has ruled that Israel must prevent and punish incitement to genocide. Israel must allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. And the ICJ obliges Israel to protect Palestinian lives.

It does not order a ceasefire, but actually there are questions about whether the court can order a ceasefire, which is really a military term rather than ordering remedies for genocide, which is the current case. So this is a historic ruling and to discuss it on tonight's show I'm very pleased to bring on two great American spiritual leaders who in fact are both Muslim spiritual leaders.

Kabir Helminski is one of the great interpreters of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, and he has translated him. He and Coleman Barks are the two big names in Rumi's studies. He has done all kinds of amazing work that I was following long before I came to Islam, and it's great to have him on the show tonight.

And then in the second I will bring on John Andrew Morrow, another great American Muslim spiritual leader, who is the number one force alongside Charles Upton, of course, in pushing the Covenants Initiative, publicizing the Covenants of Prophet Muhammad, peace upon him, to protect other religions.

So let's talk about Gaza and other things, starting with Kabir Helminski. Welcome, Kabir.

How are you? Thank you, Kevin. Happy to be here for the first time.

…My own work is primarily in the field of what I might call applied spirituality. It's within a traditional Islamic framework. And at the same time, I believe it's we're sharing universal truths and training hearts and minds to know what a human being truly is and what the human being's relationship to reality, to the divine reality actually is.

And so this is really my focus and it's also within Rumi's tradition, a 700 year old tradition. And so when I speak today, I'm not speaking in the name of any organization, not in the name of my spiritual lineage, for the non-profit Threshold Society, where we do our work, but I'm speaking solely as an individual.

And we have to take the broadest possible perspective on human affairs today, both in order to be fair and just and also not to lose hope. And this decision by the International Court of Justice is a welcome sign that humanity as a whole is able to rule, is able to…name this atrocity for what it is, and to call for justice.

Always we want to remember that our fight is not against individual souls, though individual souls can go astray. Individual souls can be instruments of great injustice, but we're not the judge of anyone. And from a spiritual perspective, we could say that we have no enemies, as the prophets themselves had no enemies. Truth be known, anyone who is an enemy of the prophets is really an enemy to themselves.

So we are in the side of Abraham and Solomon and David and Moses, all of the Hebrew prophets, and Jesus, son of Mary, and Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon them all. And those prophets have often taken a very critical view of their own peoples and have spoken up against injustice. And at the same time there's no place for hatred in this. Hatred is a toxin that would poison us. So it's not easy, I know. And we feel anger and rage and we just want to be able to take the weapons from the hands of criminals wherever they are.

But hopefully this ruling by the court of justice is one step in that direction and as depressing and painful as these recent months have been, we also take hope in that this could be a turning point for humanity. More and more people are waking up. More and more people are becoming aware of 75-year history of the occupation of Palestine.

And there's always a mystery when we see the fact that evil exists in this world. And what is evil? Evil is cruelty and injustice. And even more so evil is taking pleasure in cruelty and injustice.

So this is what we're dealing with. And what's called for, I think, is greater awareness from this vast perspective that includes the era in which we live, in which some of us would like to believe that this is not an era of doom. It's not the end times, that it may it be an era of awakening.

That's a great introduction and that introduction raises the question that you raised in your Huffington Post article, What Would a Moral Israel Look Like? Now it's interesting that right now the world is seeing an unveiled true face of Israel which is obviously a grotesquely immoral Israel. Some of us even suspect that Israel in its current incarnation is basically satanic, in that it's one of the many offshoots of a denatured and satanic turn from Jewish messianic millenarianism. We see Shabtai Zvi's movement from 400 years ago and then Jacob Frank picking that up. These are people who are explicitly against God and in favor of all sorts of abominations. And it seems that those who thought that Jews should plant a Jewish state in the Holy Land against the will of God, and maybe force God's hand to bring them their Messiah, and so on, that whole line of thought seems basically satanic. Now we're seeing the unveiling of a basically satanic state of Israel with its leader Netanyahu very much in the running to have my vote in the Antichrist election. So how do we get there to this vision of what a moral Israel would look like, in light of this unveiling that we're witnessing right now?

Yes, well, a little background here. Some years ago, I was a regular contributor to the Huffington Post at their invitation. Typically, it was in areas of spirituality. And at a certain point, I think it was maybe around 2014, I felt moved to write an article called “What Would a Moral Israel Look Like?” because I wanted to take the most positive approach that I could imagine—instead of just condemning Zionism, to really reason in a positive way and take the most positive outlook.

So I wrote an article that was willing to detail the cruelties and terrorist actions of the Zionist state, that was clear in spelling those things out. Because at that time, the Obama administration had just come in, and Israel was “mowing the lawn,” as they say, in Palestine, which means they were bombing and killing thousands of people. And the Obama administration went along with this. And I was horrified.

Still, I wanted to present the most positive vision I could. I submitted the article, and I waited. And there was nothing but silence.

It was not published. It was not featured in Huffington Post.

So that was the end of my relationship to Huffington Post, although they kept my name as a writer and I had the privilege of being able to post on their website. And so it was maybe almost two years later that I thought, well, let me post the article so that at least it would be online somewhere and people could read it. There it is, and there it remains to this day. If you do a search for the title What Would a Moral Israel Look Like, you can find it there on the Huffington Post.

One of the interesting things that came about was that we hear again and again that Hamas is calling for the annihilation of Israel and the killing of all Jews. And I thought I'd better look into this and see: What does the Hamas charter call for? I don't know how many people have read the Hamas charter. But what I'm about to read to you, I haven't heard mentioned by anyone in all the years since.

I hear this charge against Hamas being repeated and repeated. And no one actually quotes the Hamas charter, which says about relations with non-Muslims—by the way, I'm not advocating for Hamas, I'm simply quoting their charter:

“Hamas is a humane movement which cares for human rights and is committed to the tolerance inherent in Islam as regards attitudes towards other religions. It is only hostile to those who are hostile towards it or stand in its way in order to disturb its moves or to frustrate its efforts. Under the shadow of Islam it is possible for the members of the three religions, Islam, Christianity and Judaism to coexist in safety and security.”

This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit kevinbarrett.substack.com

Kabir Helminski, one of the best-known names in American Sufism, discusses “Gaza: Witnessing for Justice” and  “What Would a Moral Israel Look Like?”

Kabir Helminski is co-director and co-founder — together with his wife Camille Helminski(also profiled in the Living Spiritual Teachers Project) — of The Threshold Society, a nonprofit educational foundation that has developed programs to provide a structure for practice and study within Sufism and spiritual psychology. He is a Shaikh of the Mevlevi Order of Sufis, which traces its inspiration to Jelaluddin Rumi, and has authored and translated numerous books. (more)

Excerpt from the first 15 minutes:

Welcome to the live edition of Truth Jihad Radio. I'm Kevin Barrett, waging the all-out struggle for truth from my new home in Saidia, Morocco. Well, it's not that new. I've been here since late July, and today is Friday, January 26, 2024. Just a few hours ago, the International Court of Justice ruled that South Africa has presented a plausible case that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. The ICJ ruled that indeed it has jurisdiction, that it orders Israel to prevent acts of genocide and to take measures to prevent genocide and report back to it about what it has done in one month. It has ruled that Israel must prevent and punish incitement to genocide. Israel must allow humanitarian aid into Gaza. And the ICJ obliges Israel to protect Palestinian lives.

It does not order a ceasefire, but actually there are questions about whether the court can order a ceasefire, which is really a military term rather than ordering remedies for genocide, which is the current case. So this is a historic ruling and to discuss it on tonight's show I'm very pleased to bring on two great American spiritual leaders who in fact are both Muslim spiritual leaders.

Kabir Helminski is one of the great interpreters of Jalal ad-Din Rumi, and he has translated him. He and Coleman Barks are the two big names in Rumi's studies. He has done all kinds of amazing work that I was following long before I came to Islam, and it's great to have him on the show tonight.

And then in the second I will bring on John Andrew Morrow, another great American Muslim spiritual leader, who is the number one force alongside Charles Upton, of course, in pushing the Covenants Initiative, publicizing the Covenants of Prophet Muhammad, peace upon him, to protect other religions.

So let's talk about Gaza and other things, starting with Kabir Helminski. Welcome, Kabir.

How are you? Thank you, Kevin. Happy to be here for the first time.

…My own work is primarily in the field of what I might call applied spirituality. It's within a traditional Islamic framework. And at the same time, I believe it's we're sharing universal truths and training hearts and minds to know what a human being truly is and what the human being's relationship to reality, to the divine reality actually is.

And so this is really my focus and it's also within Rumi's tradition, a 700 year old tradition. And so when I speak today, I'm not speaking in the name of any organization, not in the name of my spiritual lineage, for the non-profit Threshold Society, where we do our work, but I'm speaking solely as an individual.

And we have to take the broadest possible perspective on human affairs today, both in order to be fair and just and also not to lose hope. And this decision by the International Court of Justice is a welcome sign that humanity as a whole is able to rule, is able to…name this atrocity for what it is, and to call for justice.

Always we want to remember that our fight is not against individual souls, though individual souls can go astray. Individual souls can be instruments of great injustice, but we're not the judge of anyone. And from a spiritual perspective, we could say that we have no enemies, as the prophets themselves had no enemies. Truth be known, anyone who is an enemy of the prophets is really an enemy to themselves.

So we are in the side of Abraham and Solomon and David and Moses, all of the Hebrew prophets, and Jesus, son of Mary, and Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon them all. And those prophets have often taken a very critical view of their own peoples and have spoken up against injustice. And at the same time there's no place for hatred in this. Hatred is a toxin that would poison us. So it's not easy, I know. And we feel anger and rage and we just want to be able to take the weapons from the hands of criminals wherever they are.

But hopefully this ruling by the court of justice is one step in that direction and as depressing and painful as these recent months have been, we also take hope in that this could be a turning point for humanity. More and more people are waking up. More and more people are becoming aware of 75-year history of the occupation of Palestine.

And there's always a mystery when we see the fact that evil exists in this world. And what is evil? Evil is cruelty and injustice. And even more so evil is taking pleasure in cruelty and injustice.

So this is what we're dealing with. And what's called for, I think, is greater awareness from this vast perspective that includes the era in which we live, in which some of us would like to believe that this is not an era of doom. It's not the end times, that it may it be an era of awakening.

That's a great introduction and that introduction raises the question that you raised in your Huffington Post article, What Would a Moral Israel Look Like? Now it's interesting that right now the world is seeing an unveiled true face of Israel which is obviously a grotesquely immoral Israel. Some of us even suspect that Israel in its current incarnation is basically satanic, in that it's one of the many offshoots of a denatured and satanic turn from Jewish messianic millenarianism. We see Shabtai Zvi's movement from 400 years ago and then Jacob Frank picking that up. These are people who are explicitly against God and in favor of all sorts of abominations. And it seems that those who thought that Jews should plant a Jewish state in the Holy Land against the will of God, and maybe force God's hand to bring them their Messiah, and so on, that whole line of thought seems basically satanic. Now we're seeing the unveiling of a basically satanic state of Israel with its leader Netanyahu very much in the running to have my vote in the Antichrist election. So how do we get there to this vision of what a moral Israel would look like, in light of this unveiling that we're witnessing right now?

Yes, well, a little background here. Some years ago, I was a regular contributor to the Huffington Post at their invitation. Typically, it was in areas of spirituality. And at a certain point, I think it was maybe around 2014, I felt moved to write an article called “What Would a Moral Israel Look Like?” because I wanted to take the most positive approach that I could imagine—instead of just condemning Zionism, to really reason in a positive way and take the most positive outlook.

So I wrote an article that was willing to detail the cruelties and terrorist actions of the Zionist state, that was clear in spelling those things out. Because at that time, the Obama administration had just come in, and Israel was “mowing the lawn,” as they say, in Palestine, which means they were bombing and killing thousands of people. And the Obama administration went along with this. And I was horrified.

Still, I wanted to present the most positive vision I could. I submitted the article, and I waited. And there was nothing but silence.

It was not published. It was not featured in Huffington Post.

So that was the end of my relationship to Huffington Post, although they kept my name as a writer and I had the privilege of being able to post on their website. And so it was maybe almost two years later that I thought, well, let me post the article so that at least it would be online somewhere and people could read it. There it is, and there it remains to this day. If you do a search for the title What Would a Moral Israel Look Like, you can find it there on the Huffington Post.

One of the interesting things that came about was that we hear again and again that Hamas is calling for the annihilation of Israel and the killing of all Jews. And I thought I'd better look into this and see: What does the Hamas charter call for? I don't know how many people have read the Hamas charter. But what I'm about to read to you, I haven't heard mentioned by anyone in all the years since.

I hear this charge against Hamas being repeated and repeated. And no one actually quotes the Hamas charter, which says about relations with non-Muslims—by the way, I'm not advocating for Hamas, I'm simply quoting their charter:

“Hamas is a humane movement which cares for human rights and is committed to the tolerance inherent in Islam as regards attitudes towards other religions. It is only hostile to those who are hostile towards it or stand in its way in order to disturb its moves or to frustrate its efforts. Under the shadow of Islam it is possible for the members of the three religions, Islam, Christianity and Judaism to coexist in safety and security.”

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Trained as a journalist by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist. He interviewed me last night (Jan. 24). Below are selected extracts. -KB

Tony Gosling: So what do you make of what's been going on in Gaza? Most people looking at this absolutely horrified. And we do see a large proportion of the press, particularly the Murdoch press, doing everything they can, bending over backwards, to defend the actions of Netanyahu and the Israeli state.

Kevin Barrett: It’s absolutely disgusting. It is the most in your face transparent genocide in human history. You can argue about what really happened in the Armenian genocide between Armenia and Turkey. You can even argue whether that really was a genocide, as some Turks do. You can make the same kinds of arguments around the Jewish Holocaust of World War II. And indeed, the Holocaust revisionists have a surprisingly good case for many of their contentions. And so you can argue until the cows come home about these horrific mass killings and ethnic cleansings that have defaced the history of humanity.

But you can't really argue about what's going on in Gaza now, because it's all being televised. The genocide is on television and it's being covered nonstop, even though the Israelis have murdered more than 100 journalists already and counting, trying to make sure it doesn't get reported.

Israel is clearly deliberately targeting civilians, civilian infrastructure, deliberately destroying fresh water supplies, blocking food supplies, blocking fuel supplies in the middle of winter, and then blowing up the housing. They’ve blown up the majority of the housing in Gaza. The Israelis are very clear in their intention to murder as many as they can and expel the rest. That’s genocide. It’s the clearest case of genocide under international law that has ever existed.

The Israelis are currently in court, being prosecuted by South Africa for genocide. We're expecting a preliminary ruling on the emergency measures that may be ordered on Friday.

So every one of these Murdoch papers, every one of these journalists, every one of these people who are defending this genocide are guilty of complicity in that genocide. And theoretically, they all are subjected to the legal punishments for mass murder, conspiracy to commit mass murder and genocide which would be life in prison in many jurisdictions and death in others.

Well we're seeing though, aren't we, amazingly many Zionists actually out on the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, particularly Tel Aviv, and Haifa as well by the way, even campaigning with Palestinians. Many Zionists believe that Netanyahu is in the process of completely destroying their dream.

I understand why they think that, because this has been a complete disaster for Israel. And one of the reasons Israel is pursuing this horrific and genocidal and indeed self-destructive policy is because Netanyahu can't stop or he might not only be thrown out of office but he might go to prison. Basically as soon as that war emergency is done then Netanyahu faces his legal reckoning for corruption cases. And once he’s out of power he’s going to be very, very vulnerable. His only hope is to stay in power, and the only way he can stay in power is as a sort of wartime commander-in-chief. So Netanyahu’s interests are overruling Israel’s interests in its own self-preservation.

It’s possible that the Palestinian resistance calculated this when it thought about what they would be doing on October 7th. They may have seen this vulnerability, that they could put Netanyahu in a position where he would pursue a self-destructive course. I think they thought it likely that Israel would go into Gaza. And the Palestinian resistance has built powerful fortifications in Gaza in the form of a tunnel network that was designed to basically pull the Israelis into a sort of Chinese finger trap where they can't possibly win.

And so all Israel has been able to do is mass murder civilians and get itself prosecuted for genocide and suddenly wake up most of the world to the crimes of Israel and arguably to change the world's view of Jews as a group.

Jews have been enjoying a kind of impunity since World War II. Throughout all of history up until World War II, Jews were looked on as having very problematic characteristics by virtually every people that they'd ever been in contact with. And then with the Holocaust narrative that came out of World War II, suddenly Jews enjoyed total impunity. And they've been running roughshod ever since, and basically took over the United States.

And now with this genocide, suddenly huge numbers of people are not only rethinking Israel versus Palestine, but they're also noticing that this ridiculous impunity that Jewish power has been enjoying now since World War II needs to be critiqued and taken down.

A lot of the Jews that we speak to would argue that it's not Jewish power you're dealing with there, that Zionism is a hijacking of the Jewish faith and they are part of the fight back against it. For example, here in Bristol, many Jews want nothing to do with this (genocide). Jews were killed during the Second World War, they were put into labor camps by the Nazis, because they weren’t Zionists. That was a big sorting out that went on, and Hitler was doing the sorting. And if you weren’t a Zionist Jew, you were going to be put in the mincing machine.

Well, yes, I think that's true, Tony. But I think that that illustrates a kind of dynamic within Jewish culture. I think that Jewish culture has a very powerful ethnocentric tribal dimension.

Now, different people react to that differently. American culture also has an ethnocentric tribal dimension, and I reacted to that by ultimately becoming a rebel against it. I was so disgusted by America's actions in Vietnam and other similar actions around the world, and by the unsolved coup d'etat of the Kennedy assassination and things like that, when I was young, that I became very much a rebel against American tribal power.

In the Jewish tribe, you have similar dynamics, where you have some people who become immensely chauvinistic and tribal—when they pick up the New York Times in the morning, all they care about is “what’s good for the Jews.” Many of my Jewish friends have somebody in their family like that. And then there’s somebody else in the family who rolls their eyeballs at Uncle Hymie who’s stuck on “what’s good for the Jews” and has no use for the tribal dimension of Jewish culture.

So many Jews are aghast at the extreme Zionist tribalism of Netanyahu. And many others, even some fairly tribal Jews who are brought up to believe that everybody hates them for no good reason, which is of course ridiculous, and wants to throw them into the sea and throw them in gas chambers and things like that—I mean, these people are traumatized, a lot of them, certainly the Israeli Jews more than anyone. But I think even some of the people who are somewhat traumatized into believing that the world hates the Jews and persecutes them are horrified by this, because they understand that this is going to take away that immunity that Jews have enjoyed since World War II, which has allowed Jews to take over the United States.

Now many of the Jews who have taken over the United States are liberal. They are not fanatical Zionists like Netanyahu. But there’s an ethnocentric ethnic nepotism that goes on in which ethnic groups vie with each other for control. The United States was dominated by Protestants, or WASPS, up until World War II. Since World War II, the dominant, most powerful ethnic group in the United States has become Jews. We can see this in the Ivy League admissions, where Jews basically took over the Ivy League institutions and now that's why we have so many of these cases where Ivy League presidents are being fired for criticizing Israel and so on. Ron Unz has proven that Jews are grossly overrepresented in Ivy League institutions based on their test scores, grades, etc. That is, there has been a very powerful bias towards admitting Jews in disproportionate numbers to their abilities in the Ivy League now for decades.

That's just one example of American Jews becoming the dominant ethnic group. They also totally dominate the media, Hollywood being the most extreme example, and are grossly disproportionately represented at the high levels in the financial world.

Now, you're not supposed to say this. It's said to be anti-Semitic to say these things, but they are true. And I don't understand why you would call somebody a bigot if they speak the truth about this.

You weren't a bigot if you said the Protestants dominated the United States in, say, 1910. So why are you a bigot if you make the same observation about Jews dominating the United States now, which they obviously do?

I mean, look at Biden's minyan. The Jewish newspapers say Biden's cabinet has enough Jews to make up a minyan. Biden is totally surrounded by Jews and by people with Jewish spouses.

The Israeli state was actually founded by secular Jews not by religious Jews. But there is an attempt to turn it into a big religious conflict. Kevin, can you just say something about that, and whether you think that's played into.. why it's been so long-lasting this particular one, and so horrific, with something like a hundred Palestinians being killed for every Israeli.

Right. And the Palestinians being killed are almost all civilians, the great majority being women and children. Whereas the Israeli dead are mostly troops.

Look at what really happened on October 7. About half of the Israelis who died were armed forces or police, and another significant proportion were security guards and other armed people. The kibbutzes are full of people who carry arms. All Israeli Jews are trained in arms. They all go through the military except for the religious Jews who get exemptions.

In any case, the Palestinians have been targeting the Israeli military from day one. That's what they did on October 7th. They did try to grab some civilian hostages. But the killings of civilians on October 7th almost entirely came from the IDF. The Israeli military slaughtered its own people according to the Hannibal Directive, which tells the Israeli military to kill both hostages and hostage takers in order to prevent the political liability of having to bargain for hostages.

So that horrific massacre that we saw—we saw the aftermath of the massacre on October 7th—that massacre was perpetrated by the Israeli armed forces. The Palestinians had attacked Israeli military targets and in some cases tried to grab civilian hostages.

Today it's the same thing. The Israelis are just bombing people's houses, killing women and children, bombing hospitals, bombing ambulances, bombing refugee centers. They just killed a few hundred people in a UN refugee camp today.

The Israelis are committing terrorism, which means deliberately targeting civilians. The Palestinians aren’t. They are targeting the Israeli military. They are coming out of their tunnels and blowing up Israeli tanks, often sprinting to the tank and applying the explosive from distance zero. They're fighting incredibly bravely, fighting against a truly evil occupation and indeed an evil people. The Israeli people, Israeli Jews by a ratio of well over 90%, support this genocide, making all of them complicit in genocide and subject again to life in prison or the death penalty.

That's more than 90% of Israeli Jews. And yet the Palestinian resistance is not targeting unarmed Israeli Jews. It's targeting the Israeli military. The difference in moral stature between these two sides is so extreme.

There's never been a more clear-cut case of a battle of good versus evil.

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Trained as a journalist by the BBC, Tony Gosling is a British land rights activist, historian & investigative radio journalist. He interviewed me last night (Jan. 24). Below are selected extracts. -KB

Tony Gosling: So what do you make of what's been going on in Gaza? Most people looking at this absolutely horrified. And we do see a large proportion of the press, particularly the Murdoch press, doing everything they can, bending over backwards, to defend the actions of Netanyahu and the Israeli state.

Kevin Barrett: It’s absolutely disgusting. It is the most in your face transparent genocide in human history. You can argue about what really happened in the Armenian genocide between Armenia and Turkey. You can even argue whether that really was a genocide, as some Turks do. You can make the same kinds of arguments around the Jewish Holocaust of World War II. And indeed, the Holocaust revisionists have a surprisingly good case for many of their contentions. And so you can argue until the cows come home about these horrific mass killings and ethnic cleansings that have defaced the history of humanity.

But you can't really argue about what's going on in Gaza now, because it's all being televised. The genocide is on television and it's being covered nonstop, even though the Israelis have murdered more than 100 journalists already and counting, trying to make sure it doesn't get reported.

Israel is clearly deliberately targeting civilians, civilian infrastructure, deliberately destroying fresh water supplies, blocking food supplies, blocking fuel supplies in the middle of winter, and then blowing up the housing. They’ve blown up the majority of the housing in Gaza. The Israelis are very clear in their intention to murder as many as they can and expel the rest. That’s genocide. It’s the clearest case of genocide under international law that has ever existed.

The Israelis are currently in court, being prosecuted by South Africa for genocide. We're expecting a preliminary ruling on the emergency measures that may be ordered on Friday.

So every one of these Murdoch papers, every one of these journalists, every one of these people who are defending this genocide are guilty of complicity in that genocide. And theoretically, they all are subjected to the legal punishments for mass murder, conspiracy to commit mass murder and genocide which would be life in prison in many jurisdictions and death in others.

Well we're seeing though, aren't we, amazingly many Zionists actually out on the streets of Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, particularly Tel Aviv, and Haifa as well by the way, even campaigning with Palestinians. Many Zionists believe that Netanyahu is in the process of completely destroying their dream.

I understand why they think that, because this has been a complete disaster for Israel. And one of the reasons Israel is pursuing this horrific and genocidal and indeed self-destructive policy is because Netanyahu can't stop or he might not only be thrown out of office but he might go to prison. Basically as soon as that war emergency is done then Netanyahu faces his legal reckoning for corruption cases. And once he’s out of power he’s going to be very, very vulnerable. His only hope is to stay in power, and the only way he can stay in power is as a sort of wartime commander-in-chief. So Netanyahu’s interests are overruling Israel’s interests in its own self-preservation.

It’s possible that the Palestinian resistance calculated this when it thought about what they would be doing on October 7th. They may have seen this vulnerability, that they could put Netanyahu in a position where he would pursue a self-destructive course. I think they thought it likely that Israel would go into Gaza. And the Palestinian resistance has built powerful fortifications in Gaza in the form of a tunnel network that was designed to basically pull the Israelis into a sort of Chinese finger trap where they can't possibly win.

And so all Israel has been able to do is mass murder civilians and get itself prosecuted for genocide and suddenly wake up most of the world to the crimes of Israel and arguably to change the world's view of Jews as a group.

Jews have been enjoying a kind of impunity since World War II. Throughout all of history up until World War II, Jews were looked on as having very problematic characteristics by virtually every people that they'd ever been in contact with. And then with the Holocaust narrative that came out of World War II, suddenly Jews enjoyed total impunity. And they've been running roughshod ever since, and basically took over the United States.

And now with this genocide, suddenly huge numbers of people are not only rethinking Israel versus Palestine, but they're also noticing that this ridiculous impunity that Jewish power has been enjoying now since World War II needs to be critiqued and taken down.

A lot of the Jews that we speak to would argue that it's not Jewish power you're dealing with there, that Zionism is a hijacking of the Jewish faith and they are part of the fight back against it. For example, here in Bristol, many Jews want nothing to do with this (genocide). Jews were killed during the Second World War, they were put into labor camps by the Nazis, because they weren’t Zionists. That was a big sorting out that went on, and Hitler was doing the sorting. And if you weren’t a Zionist Jew, you were going to be put in the mincing machine.

Well, yes, I think that's true, Tony. But I think that that illustrates a kind of dynamic within Jewish culture. I think that Jewish culture has a very powerful ethnocentric tribal dimension.

Now, different people react to that differently. American culture also has an ethnocentric tribal dimension, and I reacted to that by ultimately becoming a rebel against it. I was so disgusted by America's actions in Vietnam and other similar actions around the world, and by the unsolved coup d'etat of the Kennedy assassination and things like that, when I was young, that I became very much a rebel against American tribal power.

In the Jewish tribe, you have similar dynamics, where you have some people who become immensely chauvinistic and tribal—when they pick up the New York Times in the morning, all they care about is “what’s good for the Jews.” Many of my Jewish friends have somebody in their family like that. And then there’s somebody else in the family who rolls their eyeballs at Uncle Hymie who’s stuck on “what’s good for the Jews” and has no use for the tribal dimension of Jewish culture.

So many Jews are aghast at the extreme Zionist tribalism of Netanyahu. And many others, even some fairly tribal Jews who are brought up to believe that everybody hates them for no good reason, which is of course ridiculous, and wants to throw them into the sea and throw them in gas chambers and things like that—I mean, these people are traumatized, a lot of them, certainly the Israeli Jews more than anyone. But I think even some of the people who are somewhat traumatized into believing that the world hates the Jews and persecutes them are horrified by this, because they understand that this is going to take away that immunity that Jews have enjoyed since World War II, which has allowed Jews to take over the United States.

Now many of the Jews who have taken over the United States are liberal. They are not fanatical Zionists like Netanyahu. But there’s an ethnocentric ethnic nepotism that goes on in which ethnic groups vie with each other for control. The United States was dominated by Protestants, or WASPS, up until World War II. Since World War II, the dominant, most powerful ethnic group in the United States has become Jews. We can see this in the Ivy League admissions, where Jews basically took over the Ivy League institutions and now that's why we have so many of these cases where Ivy League presidents are being fired for criticizing Israel and so on. Ron Unz has proven that Jews are grossly overrepresented in Ivy League institutions based on their test scores, grades, etc. That is, there has been a very powerful bias towards admitting Jews in disproportionate numbers to their abilities in the Ivy League now for decades.

That's just one example of American Jews becoming the dominant ethnic group. They also totally dominate the media, Hollywood being the most extreme example, and are grossly disproportionately represented at the high levels in the financial world.

Now, you're not supposed to say this. It's said to be anti-Semitic to say these things, but they are true. And I don't understand why you would call somebody a bigot if they speak the truth about this.

You weren't a bigot if you said the Protestants dominated the United States in, say, 1910. So why are you a bigot if you make the same observation about Jews dominating the United States now, which they obviously do?

I mean, look at Biden's minyan. The Jewish newspapers say Biden's cabinet has enough Jews to make up a minyan. Biden is totally surrounded by Jews and by people with Jewish spouses.

The Israeli state was actually founded by secular Jews not by religious Jews. But there is an attempt to turn it into a big religious conflict. Kevin, can you just say something about that, and whether you think that's played into.. why it's been so long-lasting this particular one, and so horrific, with something like a hundred Palestinians being killed for every Israeli.

Right. And the Palestinians being killed are almost all civilians, the great majority being women and children. Whereas the Israeli dead are mostly troops.

Look at what really happened on October 7. About half of the Israelis who died were armed forces or police, and another significant proportion were security guards and other armed people. The kibbutzes are full of people who carry arms. All Israeli Jews are trained in arms. They all go through the military except for the religious Jews who get exemptions.

In any case, the Palestinians have been targeting the Israeli military from day one. That's what they did on October 7th. They did try to grab some civilian hostages. But the killings of civilians on October 7th almost entirely came from the IDF. The Israeli military slaughtered its own people according to the Hannibal Directive, which tells the Israeli military to kill both hostages and hostage takers in order to prevent the political liability of having to bargain for hostages.

So that horrific massacre that we saw—we saw the aftermath of the massacre on October 7th—that massacre was perpetrated by the Israeli armed forces. The Palestinians had attacked Israeli military targets and in some cases tried to grab civilian hostages.

Today it's the same thing. The Israelis are just bombing people's houses, killing women and children, bombing hospitals, bombing ambulances, bombing refugee centers. They just killed a few hundred people in a UN refugee camp today.

The Israelis are committing terrorism, which means deliberately targeting civilians. The Palestinians aren’t. They are targeting the Israeli military. They are coming out of their tunnels and blowing up Israeli tanks, often sprinting to the tank and applying the explosive from distance zero. They're fighting incredibly bravely, fighting against a truly evil occupation and indeed an evil people. The Israeli people, Israeli Jews by a ratio of well over 90%, support this genocide, making all of them complicit in genocide and subject again to life in prison or the death penalty.

That's more than 90% of Israeli Jews. And yet the Palestinian resistance is not targeting unarmed Israeli Jews. It's targeting the Israeli military. The difference in moral stature between these two sides is so extreme.

There's never been a more clear-cut case of a battle of good versus evil.

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Last minute schedule change! Noted author Charles Upton, John Andrew Morrow’s Covenants of the Prophet colleague, will stand in for Dr. Morrow, who will instead appear on next week’s show. Below are selections from our conversation.

Charles Upton: Recently, though, people have been asking me to talk about the UFO phenomenon because I have a book out about that called The Alien Disclosure Deception. I've got this huge long list of ufologists or people interested in the phenomenon. So I took that opportunity to say what I think is going on. It appears that the elements of the intelligence complex have been attempting to found something like a UFO religion. They may not call it that, but it has many of the characteristics of a religion. And one of the main dogmas of this religion is that we were created by the UFO aliens.

It's got everything that one would need psychologically for a religion. It isn't true, but psychologically it fulfills the function of religion, but what's great about it is you don't have to give up your materialism. You can say, well, yes, we have been created, their higher beings have created us, but of course they did it scientifically, they did it through genetic engineering. You know, God is a superstition, but this is real. It's a viral meme, if you will. Many, many people are saying that.

Number two, check into the career, the life and career of Jack Parsons, and then check into the life and career of Michael Aquino. Michael Aquino was a colonel, a high-ranking Army officer at the Presidio in San Francisco. He was accused of running some sort of a satanic pedophile situation with a daycare center there. And he was involved in, as a founder or a major member, of large satanic organizations, the Temple of Set and the Church of Satan.

He was kicked out of the Church of Satan for being too evil.

So, did the Temple of Set come later?

Yeah. It sounds like a joke, but he really was kicked out of the Church of Satan for being too evil, and then he founded his own thing, the Temple of Set.

Yeah, okay, well, right, to his own tastes. So, one of my friends, Eric Doherty, who is a pretty good researcher, said that the military, I suppose the army, sent him (Aquino) to investigate the Roswell crash. So he was like a liaison from the U.S. Army to whoever was investigating or operating around the so-called crash of the alien spacecraft in Roswell…

And then that when people start looking into that (Satanic child abuse) then suddenly we get all this pizzagate stuff, and then a pushback against it.

Do you remember when was the satanic panic?

Yeah, it was in the 80s.

Basically what happened then is more and more reports of satanic atrocities were coming before police departments. And so they started to investigate things. And so the way the satanists dealt with that was simply to flood the world with reports.

Jenny and I recently saw that movie, The Sound of Freedom. Did you ever see that?

No, I haven't seen that yet. I've heard all about it, of course.

Just as an adventure film, it's a pretty good film. But, of course, against all of the pushback and the stonewalling, it succeeded in coming out and was extremely successful in its first week, against all odds. Jim Caviezel, who played Christ in Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ.

(Tim Ballard) was with Homeland Security for quite a while, going after human traffickers, doing sting operations where he could get some of the many, probably millions of children who are being trafficked in this world now, out of the clutches of some of the people who captured them.

It was amazing to see who opposed that film. A lot of the major media couldn't just ignore it, and so they did these disgusting reviews. Rolling Stone said that this is ridiculous, this is right-wing paranoia, this isn't happening.

According to somebody's estimation, something like 30,000 unattached children ended up entering the United States through the southern border. And nobody knows where they went….

Well, looking at the evil of the world, here we are.

The Franklin scandal books (The Franklin Scandal and The Franklin Coverup) are really convincing. It's obvious that federal agencies, state government, the media, are infiltrated by the people who are complicit in this horrific child sex trafficking and blackmail operations. Intelligence agencies are deep in it too.

So, well, once again, we blow the whistle, we reveal the evil.

What's the bottom line of all of this?

I mean, this is going to go on. And so many destructive things are going on in the world that essentially seem to be destroying not just human civilization, we can say Western civilization, but undoubtedly there is no major civilization that isn't involved in this. I can't see that China would never do such a thing. And then there are the attacks on the human form, the march toward transhumanism.

So all of this, you look at that, and what happens? You dedicate yourself to fighting it, or you give up…

(According to the new UFO religion) we're supposed to worship these hideous, distorted, ugly beings instead of God—beings whose effect, according to, for example, Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, who studied alien abduction, whose effects on human health and human mental health are just horrendous. I found a list from John Mack's book, Abduction, of what happens to people who have close contact with aliens. Not everyone, but a lot of people, will get terrible physical effects, strange illnesses, strange wounds will appear on their bodies and they will have nightmares, anxiety, depression.

You almost think the Greys are a subspecies of demon?

They're essentially the jinn. When you say the jinn, you're speaking a little less moralistically.

Less pejoratively.

Yeah, it's less pejorative, because we Muslims believe that some of the jinn are basically, believers in God and others are rebels against God. But the ones who are the rebels against God are pretty much identical to the Christian idea of the demons. And no one's going to understand the UFO phenomenon if they don't simply accept that the parameters of the phenomenon describe pretty much what has always been attributed to the jinn.

The Jinn can materialize temporarily. That fools everybody these days.

“Well, if they can materialize, they must be coming in spaceships from other planets, plowing through millions of light years at the snail's pace of the speed of light and finally getting here.” That’s not (credible).

And as Jacques Vallée pointed out, there are too many of them. There are just millions of credible sightings and encounters with these beings. So it's better to look at them as part of the landscape, not as travelers from elsewhere. They've always been described by people for thousands of years.

You look at the data which appears in Jacques Vallée's book, Passport to Madonia, and you say, well, this is one of the things that goes on on this planet. This is part of the landscape. And it's because we became so materialistic that suddenly, first, we had to deny that these things were going on, and secondly, we came up with crazy theories of what they are, you know, high-tech civilizations from other planets.

Apparently, the Jinn have something like a technology. According to Islamic legend,King Solomon used them as architects and various other things, because they can have an effect on the material world.

Let us say they have a technological ability, more or less, but it's not like our technology.

So anyway (we) go on dredging up evil. What does one do when you see the world in ruins and headed over the cliff?

It's always worth blowing the whistle if we have a whistle to blow. It's always worth trying to bring the truth to people.

But what is all this? According to René Guénon and according to the eschatologies of the major Abrahamic religions as well as Hinduism, and many of the religions of the first peoples, life on this planet comes in cycles, and we're obviously coming to the end of one very large cycle in terms of the environment, in terms of society, in terms of people's beliefs.

People are so depressed that they don't want to get married and have kids anymore. (Some say that both COVID and the vaccine) were and are a plan for population reduction. I can't say that for sure, but people make a case for that.

I just read that over the last year, the birth rate in China suddenly dropped by 50% in a year. The economy is such that, you know, they say, well, it's not the time to have kids, you know?

I just saw a news story that there was a huge drop in the birth rate in France as well. I wonder how many other countries?

Well, Japan is well known. And we're not doing too great here (in the US) either. And this may be why the Democrats, at least, do not have the will to close the southern border, because we need workers. Here they come, you know. And they have the virtue of not being unionized and of accepting any wages they can get, because they know they could be deported at any time.

Perfect. We need people to keep things running. So here we are.

My book The System of Antichrist is still in print.

I agree with you by the way that Antichrist may be a system and not a single individual, though there are Muslim scholars who say, no it is a single individual.

You may miss the fact that the system of Antichrist is completely in place, whether or not it's going to be represented by a single individual finally. And that's what we have to deal with.

So what is this? Evil triumphs. But let us remember that evil is profoundly unstable because it's not based on truth. Evil is based on power. “Truth is whatever you can get people to believe.” It's not what is true, whether or not people believe it. So, in other words, it has no basis. It has no ground under its feet. You establish a world system based upon evil, and it's going to fall by its own weight.

We have to say, well, how can we possibly overcome this terrible evil? Step back a little and realize it's in the process of overcoming itself. Because it cannot go on.

The problem is, as it falls, it's going to take a large percentage of the human population with it, and elements of the natural world. But it's not like there's going to be a terrible regime of evil which is going to be set up and which is going to be capable of controlling everything.

Because as the evil of control grows, the opposite evil of chaos grows exactly at the same time. The more control, the more chaos, the more chaos, the more control. It goes and goes and goes. And then it's going to fall.

What you just said about evil being ontologically unstable reminds me of that Quranic verse (17:81) about how Truth has come and falsehood collapses or vanishes because falsehood by its very nature is bound to collapse, bound to vanish. وَقُلْ جَآءَ ٱلْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ ٱلْبَـٰطِلُ ۚ إِنَّ ٱلْبَـٰطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًۭا

It's it's ever it's ever bound to vanish because it has no basis.

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Last minute schedule change! Noted author Charles Upton, John Andrew Morrow’s Covenants of the Prophet colleague, will stand in for Dr. Morrow, who will instead appear on next week’s show. Below are selections from our conversation.

Charles Upton: Recently, though, people have been asking me to talk about the UFO phenomenon because I have a book out about that called The Alien Disclosure Deception. I've got this huge long list of ufologists or people interested in the phenomenon. So I took that opportunity to say what I think is going on. It appears that the elements of the intelligence complex have been attempting to found something like a UFO religion. They may not call it that, but it has many of the characteristics of a religion. And one of the main dogmas of this religion is that we were created by the UFO aliens.

It's got everything that one would need psychologically for a religion. It isn't true, but psychologically it fulfills the function of religion, but what's great about it is you don't have to give up your materialism. You can say, well, yes, we have been created, their higher beings have created us, but of course they did it scientifically, they did it through genetic engineering. You know, God is a superstition, but this is real. It's a viral meme, if you will. Many, many people are saying that.

Number two, check into the career, the life and career of Jack Parsons, and then check into the life and career of Michael Aquino. Michael Aquino was a colonel, a high-ranking Army officer at the Presidio in San Francisco. He was accused of running some sort of a satanic pedophile situation with a daycare center there. And he was involved in, as a founder or a major member, of large satanic organizations, the Temple of Set and the Church of Satan.

He was kicked out of the Church of Satan for being too evil.

So, did the Temple of Set come later?

Yeah. It sounds like a joke, but he really was kicked out of the Church of Satan for being too evil, and then he founded his own thing, the Temple of Set.

Yeah, okay, well, right, to his own tastes. So, one of my friends, Eric Doherty, who is a pretty good researcher, said that the military, I suppose the army, sent him (Aquino) to investigate the Roswell crash. So he was like a liaison from the U.S. Army to whoever was investigating or operating around the so-called crash of the alien spacecraft in Roswell…

And then that when people start looking into that (Satanic child abuse) then suddenly we get all this pizzagate stuff, and then a pushback against it.

Do you remember when was the satanic panic?

Yeah, it was in the 80s.

Basically what happened then is more and more reports of satanic atrocities were coming before police departments. And so they started to investigate things. And so the way the satanists dealt with that was simply to flood the world with reports.

Jenny and I recently saw that movie, The Sound of Freedom. Did you ever see that?

No, I haven't seen that yet. I've heard all about it, of course.

Just as an adventure film, it's a pretty good film. But, of course, against all of the pushback and the stonewalling, it succeeded in coming out and was extremely successful in its first week, against all odds. Jim Caviezel, who played Christ in Mel Gibson's Passion of the Christ.

(Tim Ballard) was with Homeland Security for quite a while, going after human traffickers, doing sting operations where he could get some of the many, probably millions of children who are being trafficked in this world now, out of the clutches of some of the people who captured them.

It was amazing to see who opposed that film. A lot of the major media couldn't just ignore it, and so they did these disgusting reviews. Rolling Stone said that this is ridiculous, this is right-wing paranoia, this isn't happening.

According to somebody's estimation, something like 30,000 unattached children ended up entering the United States through the southern border. And nobody knows where they went….

Well, looking at the evil of the world, here we are.

The Franklin scandal books (The Franklin Scandal and The Franklin Coverup) are really convincing. It's obvious that federal agencies, state government, the media, are infiltrated by the people who are complicit in this horrific child sex trafficking and blackmail operations. Intelligence agencies are deep in it too.

So, well, once again, we blow the whistle, we reveal the evil.

What's the bottom line of all of this?

I mean, this is going to go on. And so many destructive things are going on in the world that essentially seem to be destroying not just human civilization, we can say Western civilization, but undoubtedly there is no major civilization that isn't involved in this. I can't see that China would never do such a thing. And then there are the attacks on the human form, the march toward transhumanism.

So all of this, you look at that, and what happens? You dedicate yourself to fighting it, or you give up…

(According to the new UFO religion) we're supposed to worship these hideous, distorted, ugly beings instead of God—beings whose effect, according to, for example, Harvard psychiatrist John Mack, who studied alien abduction, whose effects on human health and human mental health are just horrendous. I found a list from John Mack's book, Abduction, of what happens to people who have close contact with aliens. Not everyone, but a lot of people, will get terrible physical effects, strange illnesses, strange wounds will appear on their bodies and they will have nightmares, anxiety, depression.

You almost think the Greys are a subspecies of demon?

They're essentially the jinn. When you say the jinn, you're speaking a little less moralistically.

Less pejoratively.

Yeah, it's less pejorative, because we Muslims believe that some of the jinn are basically, believers in God and others are rebels against God. But the ones who are the rebels against God are pretty much identical to the Christian idea of the demons. And no one's going to understand the UFO phenomenon if they don't simply accept that the parameters of the phenomenon describe pretty much what has always been attributed to the jinn.

The Jinn can materialize temporarily. That fools everybody these days.

“Well, if they can materialize, they must be coming in spaceships from other planets, plowing through millions of light years at the snail's pace of the speed of light and finally getting here.” That’s not (credible).

And as Jacques Vallée pointed out, there are too many of them. There are just millions of credible sightings and encounters with these beings. So it's better to look at them as part of the landscape, not as travelers from elsewhere. They've always been described by people for thousands of years.

You look at the data which appears in Jacques Vallée's book, Passport to Madonia, and you say, well, this is one of the things that goes on on this planet. This is part of the landscape. And it's because we became so materialistic that suddenly, first, we had to deny that these things were going on, and secondly, we came up with crazy theories of what they are, you know, high-tech civilizations from other planets.

Apparently, the Jinn have something like a technology. According to Islamic legend,King Solomon used them as architects and various other things, because they can have an effect on the material world.

Let us say they have a technological ability, more or less, but it's not like our technology.

So anyway (we) go on dredging up evil. What does one do when you see the world in ruins and headed over the cliff?

It's always worth blowing the whistle if we have a whistle to blow. It's always worth trying to bring the truth to people.

But what is all this? According to René Guénon and according to the eschatologies of the major Abrahamic religions as well as Hinduism, and many of the religions of the first peoples, life on this planet comes in cycles, and we're obviously coming to the end of one very large cycle in terms of the environment, in terms of society, in terms of people's beliefs.

People are so depressed that they don't want to get married and have kids anymore. (Some say that both COVID and the vaccine) were and are a plan for population reduction. I can't say that for sure, but people make a case for that.

I just read that over the last year, the birth rate in China suddenly dropped by 50% in a year. The economy is such that, you know, they say, well, it's not the time to have kids, you know?

I just saw a news story that there was a huge drop in the birth rate in France as well. I wonder how many other countries?

Well, Japan is well known. And we're not doing too great here (in the US) either. And this may be why the Democrats, at least, do not have the will to close the southern border, because we need workers. Here they come, you know. And they have the virtue of not being unionized and of accepting any wages they can get, because they know they could be deported at any time.

Perfect. We need people to keep things running. So here we are.

My book The System of Antichrist is still in print.

I agree with you by the way that Antichrist may be a system and not a single individual, though there are Muslim scholars who say, no it is a single individual.

You may miss the fact that the system of Antichrist is completely in place, whether or not it's going to be represented by a single individual finally. And that's what we have to deal with.

So what is this? Evil triumphs. But let us remember that evil is profoundly unstable because it's not based on truth. Evil is based on power. “Truth is whatever you can get people to believe.” It's not what is true, whether or not people believe it. So, in other words, it has no basis. It has no ground under its feet. You establish a world system based upon evil, and it's going to fall by its own weight.

We have to say, well, how can we possibly overcome this terrible evil? Step back a little and realize it's in the process of overcoming itself. Because it cannot go on.

The problem is, as it falls, it's going to take a large percentage of the human population with it, and elements of the natural world. But it's not like there's going to be a terrible regime of evil which is going to be set up and which is going to be capable of controlling everything.

Because as the evil of control grows, the opposite evil of chaos grows exactly at the same time. The more control, the more chaos, the more chaos, the more control. It goes and goes and goes. And then it's going to fall.

What you just said about evil being ontologically unstable reminds me of that Quranic verse (17:81) about how Truth has come and falsehood collapses or vanishes because falsehood by its very nature is bound to collapse, bound to vanish. وَقُلْ جَآءَ ٱلْحَقُّ وَزَهَقَ ٱلْبَـٰطِلُ ۚ إِنَّ ٱلْبَـٰطِلَ كَانَ زَهُوقًۭا

It's it's ever it's ever bound to vanish because it has no basis.

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Blake Archer Williams, who studied with UC-Berkeley professor Hamid Algar, has published a long list of books on topics related to Shia Islam. Today he discusses his new (introduced and translated) book Rational and Scriptural Proofs for the Validity of the Principle of Majority Rule in Islam by Masʿūd Imāmī. We may also veer off on a political tangent by considering Pepe Escobar’s new review of Emanuel Todd’s new book The Defeat of the West.

Note: The first 40 minutes or so covers philosophy and religion, while in the final 15 minutes we turn to current events, including the genocide in Palestine and the defeat of the West.

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