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LIVE RADIO! Blake Archer Williams on Islam, Democracy, and the Defeat of the West; Charles Upton on Islam and Current Events

Kevin Barrett

Listen live Fridays noon to 2pm Eastern on Revolution.Radio later archived at KevinBarrett.Substack.com Is Islam pro-democracy, anti-democracy, or neutral? And what is Islam’s position on slavery? Today two noted Islamic scholars offer fresh arguments. First hour: 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…

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Charles Upton on “The Alien Disclosure Deception”

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE Poet and author Charles Upton, one of America’s leading Muslim thinkers, discusses his brand-new article “The Alien Disclosure Deception.” Upton reviews the new Netflix series Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified and finds it “a thinly-disguised and thoroughly-articulated social engineering gambit presented as a factual documentary.” He suggests that the current MSM push for UFO disclosure could herald a new global religion based on worship of ETs. At the end of his review Upton speculates about the possibility, much-discussed in the Muslim community, that what the West calls ETs might be identical with the jinn, a category of sentient…

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LIVE RADIO! Charles Upton on “The Alien Disclosure Deception”; Matthew Ehret on “Clash of Two Americas” and “How China’s Gorbachev Was Flushed in 1989”

Kevin Barrett

Listen live Fridays 8 to 10 Eastern on Revolution.Radio later archived at https://kevinbarrett.substack.com First hour: Poet and author Charles Upton, one of America’s leading Muslim thinkers, discusses his brand-new article “The Alien Disclosure Deception.” Upton reviews the new Netflix series Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified and finds it “a thinly-disguised and thoroughly-articulated social engineering gambit presented as a factual documentary.” He suggests that the current MSM push for UFO disclosure could herald a new global religion based on worship of ETs. At the end of his review Upton speculates about the possibility, much-discussed in the Muslim community, that what the West calls…

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Charles Upton on “Covenants” and Muslim-Christian Breakthroughs

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE Topic of today’s khutba: “Islam, more than other religions, acknowledges and affirms the Other. We Muslims accept that other religious communities have their rites and we have ours, and that God will judge.” The Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad support that interpretation. Noted poet and traditionalist author and activist Charles Upton of the Covenants Initiative returns to Truth Jihad Radio to discuss several recent publications: “1) Islam and the People of the Book: Critical Studies on the Covenants of the Prophet. Three volume encyclopedic work now found in the collections of over 500 research universities, which is outstanding…

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Michael Brenner on Brits’ “ludicrous & dangerous stunt” in the Black Sea; Charles Upton on “Covenants” and Muslim-Christian Breakthroughs

Kevin Barrett

Listen live Fridays 8 to 10 Eastern on Revolution.Radio later archived at patreon.com/DrKevinBarrett First hour: International Relations Professor Michael Brenner (U. of Pittsburgh) sounds off about the British Navy’s “ludicrous and dangerous” provocation of the Russian bear last Friday, when HMS Defender violated Russian waters off Crimea and nearly started World War III. The incident ended as the Russians set off bombs directly in front of HMS Defender’s bow, forcing the British warship to turn tail and flee. Adding to the Brits’ aura of insanity, a trove of secret documents detailing British leaders’ deliberations in setting up the provocation were “found as…

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Coronavirus, Spirituality, & Politics: Shia/Sufi/Muslim Perspectives Pt. 1: Andrew Israel & Charles Upton

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE First half hour: Andrew Israel (Muhammad Al Mahdi) reverted to Shia Islam from Judaism last Ramadan. As the Anglo-Zionist war on the “Shia crescent” (a.k.a. the Axis of Resistance) intensifies, even in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, this might be a good time to check in with him… Next half hour: Charles Upton discusses his new article “A Sufi Response to the Coronavirus.” A poet, author, and activist who has published numerous books on Sufism, metaphysics, and other topics, he is currently a leading proponent of the Covenants Initiative.

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Live Radio: Coronavirus, Spirituality, & Politics: Shia/Sufi/Muslim Perspectives

Kevin Barrett

Broadcasts live Fridays 8 to 10 pm Eastern on Revolution.Radio First half hour: Andrew Israel (Muhammad Al Mahdi) reverted to Shia Islam from Judaism last Ramadan. As the Anglo-Zionist war on the “Shia crescent” (a.k.a. the Axis of Resistance) intensifies, even in the midst of the coronavirus crisis, this might be a good time to check in with him… Next half hour: Charles Upton discusses his new article “A Sufi Response to the Coronavirus.” A poet, author, and activist who has published numerous books on Sufism, metaphysics, and other topics, he is currently a leading proponent of the Covenants Initiative. Second hour:…

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Charles Upton: Is Religion Under Attack?

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE First hour: Charles Upton, renowned Beat poet turned Sufi Muslim interfaith activist, writes in his new essay “Rebuilding Muhammad’s Interfaith Alliance Against the Global Attack on Religion“: “We are all aware of the growing number of attacks on churches, mosques and synagogues around the world, including North America. Whatever attacks are not carried out by (supposedly) lone individuals are usually attributed to, or claimed by, specific known groups: Islamicist terrorists, White Supremacists, etc. But a further question must be asked: are a percentage of these attacks actually false flags, carried out by entities with an agenda of creating conflict…

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Sufi Charles Upton on Covenants’ Growing Success

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE Charles Upton, along with Dr. John Morrow, is a leading light of the Covenants Initiative, which seeks to rally Muslims behind the Covenants of the Prophet Muhammad with the Christians of the World. Charles Upton reports that the Covenants Initiative is making great progress in academia and in policy circles. We also discuss issues Charles raises in his books including The System of Antichrist, Vectors of the Counter-Initiation, and most recently Dugin Against Dugin.

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Omar Ramahi on “Choosing Between Tradition and Islam”

Kevin Barrett

Listen HERE Omar Ramahi, a Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of Waterloo, is the author of Muslims’ Greatest Challenge: Choosing Between Tradition and Islam. The book “challenges the use of Hadith as a source of legislation by presenting arguments directly from the Mushaf (the Qur’an). It takes an unconventional approach toward the Mushaf exegeses and reaches conclusions that are based on reason and the Mushaf’s text, yet contradictory to conventional Muslims’ doctrines.”  

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