"A Muslim View of 9/11 Truth" - Kevin Barett

Hi Folks,
After my talk "A Muslim View of 9/11 Truth" at the 'We Demand Transparency' conference last Saturday in New York City, Steve and I got into a fairly raucous debate. Actually Steve was the raucous one, but don't tell him I said that in my talk.I had argued that most Muslims:

*Think 9/11 was part of an ongoing war on Islam; http://www.worldpublicopinion.org/pipa/articles/brmiddleeastnafricara/346.php

*Think the main battlefront of that war is the Zionist settler-colonial http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settler_colonialism occupation of Palestine, which has been a Muslim-ruled holy land for more than 1300 years, except for a few brief, bloody Crusader interludes, including the current one;

* Think a major motive of 9/11 was to bring the US into a long-term war against Israel's enemies -- namely, the whole Muslim world -- in a desperate attempt to lengthen Israel's otherwise short shelf-life. Hence the tendency of Muslims to highlight the evidence of Israeli involvement as discussed by such researchers as Justin Raimondo (The Terror Enigma), Christopher Bollyn http://www.bollyn.com and Michael Andregg http://www.gzmn.org .

What Steve objected to most of all was my saying that most Muslims think that pro-Israel Jews dominate the American mainstream media, with predictable consequences for coverage of the Israeli-Palestine conflict. I cited evidence of Jewish over representation in the mainstream media, including a chart showing that in 2003 four-and-a-half of the five mega-media-conglomerates had Jewish CEOs (maybe-Jew and arch-Zionist Rupert Murdoch being the one-half). http://truthjihad.blogspot.com/2009/09/reflections-on-bollyn-interview-is.html More evidence here: http://www.rense.com/general60/stun.htm And still more in Phillip Weiss's wonderful piece "Do Jews Dominate in American Media? And So What If We Do?" http://mondoweiss.net/2008/02/do-jews-dominat.html

Steve thinks I'm wrong about most of this, and that expressing anti-Zionism and/or focusing on the Israeli 9/11 angle is bad for the 9/11 truth movement, and for me. He'll try to convince me tomorrow on Fair and Balanced, 9-10 a.m. Pacific (noon-1 pm Eastern) on http://NoLiesRadio.org .

salaam/shalom

Kevin Barrett
http://www.truthjihad.com
Author, Questioning the War on Terror: A Primer for Obama Voters: http://www.questioningthewaronterror.com


Steve Alten wants me to cool it on Israel, and will tell me so tomorrow on Fair and Balanced, 9-10 a.m. Pacific (noon-1 pm Eastern) on http://NoLiesRadio.org -- to be archived for free listening any time at http://noliesradio.org/archives/category/shows/fair-balanced .

Steve Alten is the New York Times bestselling author of the 9/11 truth thriller The Shell Game http://www.theshellgame.net which recently came out in a newly rewritten, updated, paperback edition. (Buy it! Pass it around!) He's also an American Jew, a moderate supporter of Israel (who dislikes extremists like Netanyahu), and now a critic of my recent attempts to explain to Americans how things look to most Muslims around the world.