- Kevin Barrett is a renowned American journalist, writer
and former university lecturer. He has taught English, French, Arabic,
American Civilization, Humanities, African Literature, Folklore, and Islam
at colleges and universities in the San Francisco Bay area, Paris, and
Madison, Wisconsin. Being a Muslim convert, Dr. Barrett is a founding member
of the Muslim-Jewish-Christian Alliance (MUJCA) and member of the Scientific
Panel for the Investigation of 9/11 (SPINE).
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- According to Salem News, In July 2004 he rashly rejected
a plum post-doc at the University of California because it was funded by
the 9/11-disinformation-sponsoring CIA-linked Ford Foundation. "In
the summer of 2006, Republican state legislators and Fox newscasters demanded
that Barrett be fired from his job teaching an introductory Islam class
at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, but the University refused to buckle,
and Barrett got high marks from his students."
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- In fall 2006 Barrett began hosting an Internet talk show
weekly on Republic Broadcasting Network titled "Truth Jihad Radio."
Twice a week he had another Internet talk show on the Genesis Communications
Network called "The Dynamic Duo."
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- Dr. Barrett is internationally renowned for his well-substantiated
researches on the 9/11 which he describes as a false-flag operation and
inside job that took place with the foreknowledge of the high-ranking personalities
inside the U.S. executive structure.
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- He wrote three articles for the Madison's Capital Times
newspaper in which he tried to reveal the truth behind the 9/11 attacks;
however, the newspaper was shortly closed after running his articles.
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- Kevin Barrett kindly accepted my interview request and
joined me in an in-depth conversation, answering my questions regarding
the 9/11 attacks and the influence of Israeli lobby over the U.S. policymakers.
What follows is the complete text of my interview with Dr. Kevin Barrett,
journalist, writer and university lecturer.
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- Kourosh Ziabari: You have selected the title "Truth
Jihad" for your personal website. Although being functionally and
semantically a sublime and precious concept in Islamic thought, Jihad has
been constantly vilified and denigrated by the extremist neo-cons and Zionists
who want to portray a distorted and black image of Islam. They claim that
Jihad is tantamount to terrorism and Muslims who follow the principle of
Jihad are terrorists as well; however, the reality is that Jihad is a mobilized,
logically sustained and concerted confrontation with those who want to
plunder your values and treasures and violate your rights. Although you're
a Muslim convert, you are a Western citizen; however, you have selected
an Islamic name for your website. Would you please explain about this
selection for me and my readers?
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- Kevin Barrett: Being a Western citizen and a convert
does not make me any less of a Muslim. Islam, after all is a deen, a religion
and a way of life, not a race or ethnicity.
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- In any case, jihad is a noble religious concept. As you
know, the word means "effort" or "striving." In one
sense, jihad is the complement of "Islam" whose root meaning
is "surrender" to God. So jihad means to exert effort in
the cause of God.
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- One very intense form of effort, exertion or striving
in the cause of God is armed struggle in defense of the community. Those
who wage this form of jihad risk everything in an all-out struggle in service
to the community and to God.
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- Today, Islam as a deen, and the world Muslim community,
is under attack. 9/11 was a mass human sacrifice designed to ritually inaugurate
a New World Order of global government by satanists and atheists. With
Christianity and the other big religions co-opted or neutered, only Islam
stands between the perpetrators of 9/11 and their goal of a New World Order.
Under these circumstances, is incumbent upon Muslims to wage effective
jihad in self-defense and in defense of our religion, and in defense of
all of our fellow human beings and our planet, fi sabili llah [in the way
of God].
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- After thinking things through, I have concluded that
the most effective way that I can wage jihad is by wielding the weapon
of truth -- especially the truth about 9/11. The 9/11 perpetrators seem
to have made several big mistakes and left unmistakable evidence incriminating
themselves. Their single biggest mistake, apparently, was failing to demolish
World Trade Center Building 7 on the morning of 9/11; presumably due to
some logistical problem, they had to wait to demolish it until late that
afternoon. Anyone who spends a few minutes informing themselves about WTC-7
must either choose intellectual dishonesty, or admit that 9/11 was an inside
job. See: HYPERLINK "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxmdYOorqs0"
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- When Americans and Westerners face the fact that 9/11
was an inside job, their attitude toward Islam, and the New World Order's
war on Islam, changes radically. They realize that they, and Muslims, share
a common enemy. They become deserters from the war on Islam, and join the
oppressed peoples of the world, and the bearers of the scriptures, in a
common struggle for justice.
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- While I am very serious about waging this "truth
jihad," I realize that Western culture fears and loathes the word
"jihad." So I use a technique common in certain forms of comic
literature -- for example, the novel Don Quixote -- of being simultaneously
serious and humorous. I make fun of myself by using hyperbole (exaggeration)
in order to play the role of the "crazy radical jihadi for truth."
What is most hilarious, and most deeply serious, is that this "crazy
radical jihadi" character I'm playing, like King Lear's fool, is the
only sane character in the play, the only one who understands and
tells the whole, painful truth. The humor makes my uncompromisingly honest
message palatable for Western audiences. As the saying goes, "If you
tell the truth, make it funny or they'll kill you."
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- By accepting this role, which Allah's qadr seems to have
prepared for me, I am straddling the boundary between Islamic and Western
culture, between seriousness and humor, between reality and imagination,
in a unique way. As an American Muslim literary scholar with an odd
Irish sense of humor, and a whole lot of outrage about 9/11 and the 9/11
wars, this is my way of waging jihad fi sabili llah.
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- KZ: What's your precise stance on the 9/11 attacks? Do
you believe that the U.S. officials had foreknowledge of the incident?
Do you think that it was an inside job or a false flag operation? Have
you traced any sign of the Israel's involvement in the attacks?
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- KB: To know means to believe based on sufficient
evidence. So I know, not just believe, that 9/11 was a false-flag attack,
that many individuals at or near the top of the US Executive Branch, military,
and intelligence apparatus were complicit in the attack, and that the state
of Israel and its American agents were heavily involved. This is the inescapable
conclusion of anyone who reads David Ray Griffin's books on the subject,
alongside Bollyn's Solving 9/11, with an open mind.
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- KZ: Your publication "Bin Laden's Dead, the Tape
is Phony" is considered to be the first pro-9/110-truth op-ed ever
written and published in a mainstream media outlet. You have written three
such op-eds in "Capital Times" of Madison. Why don't the mainstream
media publish op-eds and articles revealing the truth of 9/11 attack? Why
do they shun the publication of materials which are critical of the mainstream
interpretation of the attacks?
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- KB: The American mainstream media are owned by just a
few huge corporations, and thoroughly penetrated by the CIA. Google "Operation
Mockingbird". The owners and key decision-makers of these outlets
are disproportionately Jewish and pro-Zionist (see Philip Weiss's "
http://mondoweiss.net/2008/02/do-jews-dominat.html Do Jews Dominate
in American Media? And So What if We Do?"). Deep down inside, a great
many of these Zionists suspect the truth about 9/11, and are terrified
that if revealed it could trigger an anti-Jewish pogram and/or the destruction
of Israel. Additionally, many Americans, Jewish and otherwise, who are
not Zionists, feel threatened by the possibility that the truth about 9/11
would reveal them as fools, and perhaps even annihilate their whole world-view.
It is difficult for journalists who are trained to believe that America
is an exceptional nation, and that America's leaders always have good intentions,
to believe that their own leaders would conspire in the ritual slaughter
of thousands of their own people. The few who are cynical enough to realize
how evil their leaders are, are also cynical enough to know on which side
their bread is buttered. Everyone in the media knows that breathing a word
of truth about 9/11 will kill your career. It may not be coincidental that
shortly after publishing my three 9/11 truth op-eds, the Capital Times
was closed down by the company that owned it, leaving Madison with only
one newspaper: The lying, corrupt Wisconsin State Journal.
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- KZ: In October 2004, the 9/11 hero William Rodriguez
filed a lawsuit against the then President George W. Bush and 155 other
parties and accused them of complicity in the 9/11 attacks. He claimed
that the Twin Towers were devastated by means of "controlled demolitions"
which the members of New York fire department were ordered on instructions
of the CIA. Is it true that FDNY conspired with Larry Silverstein under
the patronage of CIA to deliberately destroy the Twin Towers?
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- KB: The short answer is "yes." But it
should be noted that the NY Fire Department was not complicit as a whole
department. Rather, its leadership is penetrated by the CIA and perhaps
Mossad, in the same way that state governments, state and local police
departments, the FBI and other agencies are penetrated by the CIA and other
intelligence agencies. According to Jesse Ventura, upon his inauguration
as Governor of Minnesota, a group of state government officials who were
also undercover CIA officers summoned him to a briefing in which it was
made clear who was really running the State of Minnesota. The FDNY is undoubtedly
infiltrated as well. Larry Silverstein's hesitation in mentioning the "er...Fire
Department Commander" who decided to "pull" WTC-7 suggests
that this "FDNY Commander" was actually a high level intelligence
operative whose job may have included a cover position in FDNY.
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- KZ: Physicist Dr. Crockett Grabbe has pointed out in
a 2007 article that the NIST account of the 9/11 attacks has been thoroughly
erroneous, unrealistic and fallacious. He has pointed out that "the
rapidly expanding huge concrete dust clouds from the towers, the very-quick
appearance of multiple squibs on all 3 collapsing buildings, and the destruction
of hundreds of autos for several blocks around the World Trade Center from
these squibs" indicate that the Twin Towers did not simply collapse
as a result of the planes crashing into the towers, but due to explosive
materials. Jim Hoffman's article also attests to the same fact and admits
the presence of unignited aluminothermic explosives in dust samples from
the Twin Towers, whose chemical signature matches previously documented
aluminothermic residues found in the same dust samples. What does this
fact signify? Who should be held accountable if we admit that the explosive
materials brought down the Twin Towers?
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- KB: Everyone who is lying about it and who should know
better -- meaning the entire GW Bush Administration, the top levels of
the military and intelligence command, all of the NIST people responsible
for the scientific fraud represented by NIST's reports on the WTC, and
a great many others (see www.whodidit.org/) should be immediately
arrested and aggressively interrogated, with relatively leniency offered
in exchange for the whole truth delivered in a timely manner. If our judicial
system cannot do this, citizens, including honest police and military,
should arm themselves in preparation to make citizens arrests in what will
amount to a second American revolution. Likewise, foreign nations ought
to demand the truth about 9/11, and to cut off all relations with the USA
until war crimes prosecutions reveal the full truth about 9/11 and the
9/11 wars.
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- KZ: You are a founding member of the Muslim-Jewish-Christina
Alliance which is aimed at improving interfaith dialogue, coexistence and
understanding in light of the 9/11 events. It's a very fantastic goal to
bring together the followers of divine religion and improve mutual understanding
and peaceful coexistence between them; however, there are people who don't
tolerate this religious convergence and want to sow the seeds of incompatibility,
dissention and strife between the Muslims, Jews and Christians. They are
extremist and radical conservatives who follow the Marx's viewpoint that
religion is the "opium of masses", hence downgrading interfaith
dialogue and undermining it. How is it possible to realize an all-out,
all-encompassing interfaith dialogue while the media moguls, hawkish statesmen
and warmongering politicians want to bring about conflict and disagreement
between the followers of divine religions?
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- KB: That is a very good question! I am disappointed at
the slow progress of 9/11 truth in the Jewish and Christian communities,
and by the failure of the global Muslim community to offer its full support
to the 9/11 truth movement. The New World Order atheists and satanists
have cleverly pitted the revealed religions against each other, while fostering
an atmosphere of hopelessness and despondency that prevents many from taking
action. Since Muslims by and large are better acquainted with the facts,
both about 9/11, and about the brother- and sisterhood between good followers
of the revealed religions, I think Muslims need to take the initiative
in reaching out to those Christians and Jews who will listen. An excellent
resource is the work of Mark Siljander, a conservative Christian who has
come to understand the considerable similarities between Islam and Christianity.
http://www.marksiljander.com/
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- KZ: The United States and its European allies invaded
two Muslim countries following the 9/11 attacks under the pretext of eradicating
terrorism and combating religious fundamentalism in these countries. They
branded Iran as a part of the so-called Axis of Evil and threatened Tehran
of a military strike several times during the years since 9/11 attacks.
Who is, in your view, the real terrorist? Who has spread violence and unrest
in the Middle East? Does the United States have enough credibility and
reputation among the nations of the region to assert that it looks for
their well-being and safety? Who has murdered 1 million Iraqis in 8 years
and displaced thousands of others? Who turned Afghanistan into the world's
number one smuggler of narcotics and drugs? Overall, what's your estimation
of the military expedition of the United States to the region and its consequences?
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- KB: The question answers itself! Seriously, the US completely
lacks credibility and moral authority, and has no business threatening
anybody, or even offering anybody advice, until it solves its internal
problems, starting with the crime of 9/11. The US and its psychopathic
settler colony, Israel, should leave the Middle East and prepare to pay
trillions in reparations to the people of that ravaged region. So who will
fill the vacuum? Iran and Turkey are the two countries in the region that
have developed a degree of moral authority and leadership, and their respective
forms of Islamic democracy will be the obvious models as the US-puppet
Arab dictators fall. I hope these two great Islamic democracies will engage
in close cooperation rather than competition, perhaps leading to the restoration
of the caliphate in the form of a loose federation that would eventually
expand to include all of the Muslim-majority countries.
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- KZ: What's your estimation of the plight of Palestinian
people under the Israeli occupation? We already know that both sides of
the Israeli-Palestinian conflict claim that the Land of Israel historically
belongs to them and that they are the genuine inhabitants of the Land and
should be allowed unrestricted freedom to live in a state which they've
been endowed with by the Almighty God. Who says the truth? Who is righteous
in this conflict? Do the Israelis have the right to occupy the Palestinian
lands under the pretext that six million Jews were massacred by the Nazi
regime in the Second World War? What's your take on that?
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- KB: Clearly, whatever the Germans did to the Jews cannot
possibly justify the theft of even one square foot of Palestinian land.
Those struggling against Zionism, including the real Jews of Naturei Karta,
are the righteous ones in this conflict. I believe that Zionism's days
are numbered, and that the Palestinians will reclaim their land within
my lifetime or my children's, God willing.
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- KZ: Please tell us a little about the situation of press
freedom in the West. We are usually told that the American media are unrestrictedly
free to publish materials critical of the government and propagate ideas
which the regime is not content with. Is it true that the United States,
as proclaimed by former President Bush, is a "beacon of freedom"
with equal rights for the minorities, political dissidents and non-conformist
thinkers?
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- KB: Here in the USA, those of us in the genuinely alternative
media are remarkably free to express ourselves. I can say nearly anything
I want to say on my radio shows and in my blog posts. But the "genuinely
alternative media" is kept very small and under-funded. When someone
from the genuinely alternative media develops a broad audience, like Alex
Jones, he will be pressured to tone it down -- especially by the Zionists.
It's no accident that the one line Alex Jones will not cross is the borderline
of anti-Zionism. Because he has such a large audience, if Alex Jones were
to try to steer his audience toward anti-Zionism, something bad would probably
happen to end his career, and perhaps his life.
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- It does seem strange that the biggest limit on press
freedom here concerns speaking out against Zionist interests. Helen Thomas
and others have found that out the hard way. In today's USA, it is much
easier to criticize American interests and get away with it than to criticize
Zionism. Apparently the Zionists have the USA in a stranglehold, a real
death-grip, thanks primarily to the 9/11 coup d'état. And
they are doing their best to force the US into a war against Iran. Such
a war would serve Israeli interests, but badly damage American interests,
and the interests of humanity. So far, the American leadership has refused
to take this suicidal step. By helping educate the American people about
9/11 and other Zionist false-flag attacks, and by helping them free themselves
from Zionist control and Zionist conditioning, we can help save both the
Iranian and American people from a lot of unnecessary suffering.
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