Orlando shooting, false flag event aimed at demonizing Muslims: Expert

Press TV has interviewed Kevin Barrett, an author and Middle East expert in Madison, to discuss the Sunday mass shooting in Orlando, Florida.  

A rough transcription of the interview appears below.

Press TV: How dangerous is this mixture of a prevalence of guns in a country and disenfranchised young men who want to jump on this terror bandwagon?

Barrett: Well that is one question but I think the real question we need to be asking is the question that Robert David Steele, a former CIA clandestine service officer, is asking. I have just been in communication with him and published an article at Veterans Today about this incident and the first question is, is this yet another false flag event?

There is absolutely no reason why we should believe that one security guard with no paramilitary training would be capable of killing 50 people. This is highly improbable. We just had a week that was an amazing week for everyone who supports Islam and the Palestinians.  We spent the week mourning the death of Muhammad Ali, a great Muslim fighter for justice and a defender of the Palestinians. Additionally, this week we just learned from The Washington Post that Obama was planning to push through the United Nations a Security Council resolution that would essentially recognize the state of Palestine and establish the state of Palestine on the pre-1967 boundaries.

This is a very, very dangerous situation for people like Netanyahu and his party, the people who have been behind virtually all of the spectacular so-called Islamic terror attacks blamed on Muslims from September 11th through London, Madrid, Bali and more recently the two Paris attacks of 2015 and San Bernardino. We know all of those events were false flag events arranged by professionals and intelligence agencies and falsely blamed on Muslims. We have no reason to believe the official story of this event. We should assume that this is a false flag event carried out by the supporters of Netanyahu and the neoconservatives who have whipped up the clash of civilizations out of whole cloth through false flag terror events like this in order to pursue their geopolitical agenda.

Press TV: And along that line of reasoning, how do you think that Islamophobia is going to be? Donald Trump has tweeted saying that, ‘Look, I told you guys about Muslims’ and now of course there is going to be a backlash throughout the Islamic community. How do you think Muslims should brace themselves for such a thing?

Barrett: Yes unfortunately we need to work harder to publicize the truth about these shootings which are carried out - these attacks, bombings, shootings, the 9/11 - all of these have been perpetrated by the enemies of Islam and the enemies of Muslims and they have been falsely blamed on Muslims and yet most American Muslims are afraid to speak up.

Polls show that more than two thirds of American Muslims and close to three quarters or more of Muslims worldwide know that September 11th was an inside job designed to smear Islam and launch a permanent war on Islam on behalf of Israeli expansionism. That is what this is all about and yet American Muslims are for the most part cowardly and silent, unwilling to speak up and tell the truth and try to put a stop to this madness. Everyone, not just Muslims, but everyone who knows the truth about this, and poll showed that about one third of Americans know the truth about the false flag so-called war on terror being a complete hoax, need to speak up and lose their fear and get out in public.

We should be seeing demonstrations of hundreds of thousands or millions of people because there are a hundred million people here in the United States who know that 9/11 was an inside job. Where are they? Why are they hiding behind their computers? We are in a state of emergency now, we are very close to a situation where the United States is going to descend into a Nazi Germany-style scenario and the Muslims who are here are going to be in concentration camps and they are going to have ask themselves as they sit there behind the barbed wire, why didn’t we speak up? Why didn’t we tell the truth?

These facts about 9/11 have long since been established by hundreds and thousands of experts, architects, engineers, scientists, researchers have proven that it was an inside job, why were we silent? Are we going to go toward deaths behind barbed wire because we were too cowardly to get active and help spread the truth about this and put an end to this madness?

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