Best of the Program | Guests: Frank Turek & Danny Burmawi | 9/11/26

0:00It's 9-11. There's a lot to talk about. You don't want to miss a second of this. Here's the best of. You're listening, too. The best of the men back in the program. Okay. What do we have for these cuts? What are these cuts? Sorry, we just got them turned around. Your first cut is when you were reading the quotes of the day starting with Mayor Rudy Juliana. Okay. So this is five o'clock. The news just ends. We're doing news. National news from ABC is, I think it's even the four Fox. ABC news is doing every 15 minutes news reports. And the news is, it's a fire hose of news. You cannot keep up with it.

1:00So now we have been following this all day long. And I had just been writing down quotes that I had heard from people during the day. What were people all around America saying? And at five o'clock, I looked at that list of quotes and I thought, that's the news. Listen to what America is saying. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani. I have a sense is a horrible and horrendous number of lives lost. My mother is going crazy. I hope my brother is alright. He's my out of work partner. He's my hangout partner. I'm just in shock. I heard when Cruz, 34, whose brother Richard, works in the World Trade Center. Every single American, no matter where you live, the whole country is on edge.

2:06Linda Wilson, 42, Denver. I heard a boom. People are jumping off buildings everywhere. They were just jumping. Serena Mays, construction worker, Williamsburg Bridge. New York. Everyone was screaming and crying and running cops, people, firefighters, everyone. It's like a war zone. New York Fire Marshall Mike Smith. It's just sick. It shows how vulnerable we really are. Keith Myers, 39. It looked like a ticker tape parade. It wasn't paper or parts of the building floating down in the dust.

3:11Matthew Lowe, 29, Manhattan. I just can't believe what's happened. My God, my heart goes out to all of these people. I just hope that there is justice, Martha Ritley, whose daughter died April 1995 in Oklahoma. I just saw my two towers fall. I'm devastated beyond belief. In many respects, this is significantly worse than Pearl Harbor. We just don't know who the enemy is. Louis Eisenberg, chairman of the Port Authority, New York, which operates the World Trade Center.

4:11It's so scary. It could happen to us. They could hit all the major cities at this point. How would we know? Christine Itch, 39, Columbus. Whatever the lowest floors of the fire was, they were just jumping from them. I guess it was their choice. Burned to death or jump. This is the second Pearl Harbor. I don't think I've overstated it. Senator Chategel, Nebraska. All of a sudden there were people screaming.

5:11I just saw people jumping out of buildings. There are arms waving. I stopped taking pictures. When I started crying, Michael Walters, freelance photojournalist, Manhattan, join me in prayer. George W. Bush. We were so innocent. But no idea what was going on. This is like Pearl Harbor. We just don't know who the enemy is. Here we are 25 years later. We know who the enemy is. But we refuse to say it.

6:11And we refuse to teach it. And so our children don't know who the enemy is. Who did that to us? That was the day I learned how fragile freedom really is. We can abuse it every single day. You can spit on it, you can curse it. But it just seems to go on and on and on. And on that day every American knew, my gosh, this could be over by tonight. We have no idea. There were things that you just did not do. In those days, one of those things is you did not do what I did next. We're about 18 minutes away from World Trade Center number seven, collapsing.

7:12I watched it live while I was on the air. We thought at that time 50,000 people may have been killed. Turns out under 3000, it was a miracle. We're in the dark. We are lost. Share the next part here in just a second. By the way, the entire broadcast delicately restored. So you can hear it is available now at Glenbeck.com, the original Glenbeck program broadcast from 9-11-2001, as it actually happened. This is the best of the Glenbeck program. We traded our country.

8:17We have betrayed our country. We have betrayed our values, our history, our principles, our grandparents, everything that anyone ever fought and died for in this country. They didn't fight and die for corruption and government or giant corporations. They all fought and died for an idea. An idea that was bigger and better than all of us. And honestly, the best idea ever to be uttered by a group of people putting together a country. We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal. No one else has a better system that is striving for a better idea than that. And if you can show me one, I will renounce my citizenship and join the next one. I cannot think of a higher ideal than what we are supposed to be striving for. But we've sold out.

9:17We've let our educate. We can't tell you who even flew. Do you know why Iran is so important? Yeah, because they're going to have a nuke. Okay, all right. Well, then we can argue about the nukes. Well, they may not have a nuke. Did they even have a nuke? All of that crap that we've been hearing forever. Okay. I'm not going to give you that argument. Well, it's the oil. We need to have the oil. What a ridiculous... We're going to die? We're going to die for oil. When we have this much oil, what a ridiculous... If that's true, we got bigger problems. That's not why we're doing it. You know why we're doing it? Because there's some human beings that are still awake enough to realize that it's the same damn crazy ideology. It's the same crazy theology in Iran that flew those planes into the buildings. It's the same evil. Now, are we going to man up and say, enough?

10:21Look at what's happening to Europe. Look what's happening here in the country. I want to introduce you to Danny Burmawi. He's at ground zero right now. I read a story about his organization that PR wire would not release... All PR wire is, is they just do press releases. That's what they do. You have a company you want to release something. They wouldn't release this because it's insensitive. He is the founder and CEO of the Ideological Defense Institute. All he's doing is saying, hey, maybe we should defend our Judeo-Christian principles in this country. Now, the reason I wanted him on today is a story broke just a few minutes ago or a few hours ago. But more importantly, he's a former Muslim who when 9-11 happened cheered.

11:23Cheered as those towers came down, called American infidels. He is the guy now leading this organization saying, wake up America because he woke up. Danny or a brave man, welcome to the program. Glenn, it's an honor to be with you. Thank you so much and thank you for what you just said. Yes, it is the same theology that is still alive today and not only in Iran, but actually infiltrating the United States of America, gaining power positions. It is the same ideology that hit New York 9-11. It is the same ideology that attacked on October 7th. It is the same ideology that erased civilizations. That civilization of my ancestors for 14th century, it is the same ideology. And today, a Muslim mayor in New York City is going to try to make Americans remember something else. Something else, not the ideology that was behind 9-11.

12:26So thank you so much. Tell me, first of all, when 9-11 happened, you cheered? Oh yeah, I was 13 years old at the time, but I mean it doesn't matter if you're 6 or 60. When you learn, when you grow up inside an environment that teaches you that the other is amphibil, and amphibil is a word that was used for 14th century since the inception of Islam to describe everyone, every single person who doesn't belong to this ideology that is closely called religion. And amphibiles were being struck on 9-11. So we cheered, we said, Allah Akbar, and I looked at that men next to me, everyone was happy. They were saying God is punishing America. So that happened to me 25 years ago, just like today.

13:26And what made you change? What made you change so hard that you're now warning America? And honestly, you are a very brave man. You know how this could end for you easily. What made you change? Well, basically I converted to Christianity. So I met Christ. I came to know Christ. And I realized that I was living inside a bubble that shaped my word of you. And that word of you was distorted. And when I converted to Christianity, it was inevitable that I changed how I saw the West, how I saw Israel. But let me, let me do this. It was a civilization which was that the biblical foundations that were sick and arrived and globalized is what gave the word today everything good at it. Even the Islamic countries that, for example, signed the human rights declaration, human rights declaration is against Islam.

14:28Islam is against human rights declaration because in Islam, you don't have an intrinsic value. Your value is determined by your religious affiliation. So instead of thinking, that was a civilization, the Judeo-Christian civilization, they are trying to replace it, replace it with what? This is what Abdul Said. He said that, you know, Syria has like that canonical law, kind of law and Christianity. That is not true. Sharia is a political system. It governs everything. How you live as a citizen and how you fast and how you pray. So anyway, I converted to Christianity. My word of you changed. And then I came to America after being a missionary in the Middle East for 15 years. And October 7th happened a couple months later. And oh my goodness, what I witnessed on the streets of the West, the rebranding of Islamic jihad. Trying to paint it as liberation movements, resistance to occupation,

15:31responds to imperialism like Mamdanis' own father, Sadin, his book. What? No, this is not a response to imperialism. 9-11 was not a response to American oppression. It was jihad against the West end. I'm sorry, Glenn. I cannot stand the useful idiots. Many people who still believe that 9-11 was a false flag operation. It was inside job. Are you kidding me? Just watch the interviews that used three food, for example, an Egyptian journalist with a Jazeera conducted in Afghanistan. With Al-Taih the member who talked in details about how they planned it. Are you kidding me? You're saying Israel or America did that? No, it was a Islamic jihad. So what's your organization doing now that PR wire found so outrageous that they just... Oh my gosh, we are so high in mighty, we just can't promote your company. What are you trying to do?

16:32So verbatim, they said words like infidels and jihad are discriminatory toward Islam. Do you know where we got the word jihad and the word infidel from? From the Quran. It's mentioned in the Quran 200 times the word infidel, the word jihad. Are they kidding me? What is infimatory about infidel and jihad from our perspective as non-Muslims? We should be offended. But they're afraid that the word are going to offend Muslims. No, so what we are trying to do, as you mentioned, I am the founder of the ideological defense institute. I created this organization to fill a vacuum in DC, to fill a gap. After everybody went politically correct, no one wants to talk about the truth. Everybody is trying, they're jeopardizing the safety, the future of personal civilization. So I brought together a group of infidels.

17:33All of us are former Muslims or Arab Christians trying to educate policymakers, the church, and the public about the ideological threats facing the West. But this month between 9 and 11 and October 7, we are launching the infidel awareness month in partnership with a coalition of infidels. And we were actually the language was very soft. We say this has nothing to do with Muslims. We need to differentiate to distinguish between Muslims and Islam. Because do you know who benefits from conflating Islam and Muslims? Islam itself. Because as long as you are attaching Muslims and Islam together, the moments you criticize Islam, Muslims call you Islamful. Not only Muslims, this is for the days too. And we end up with Islam being protected, shielded from scrutiny. So we need to separate both of them. We are talking about an ideology.

18:33Muslims who claim that they don't believe in this ideology that we are addressing, they shouldn't be offended. Okay, we are attacking the ideology of fighting the infidels until they are subjugated. If you are a Muslim and you are offended, then probably you should be offended. Because I don't care. But if you say no, this is not Islam, I don't care. I don't care what you think Islam is. I know what Islam is from the Quran, from the text. This is not a French interpretation. This is the mainstream Islam. So basically we are trying to help Americans remember. We want to honor the victims of jihad. Not only on 9-11 or October 7, not only 60,000 attacks, Islamic terrorist attacks in the past few decades, but all the two out the 14th century of Islamic history, 80 million were murdered in the India alone because of Islamic conquest. We are talking about tens and tens of millions of people who were massacred, all throughout civilizations and geography,

19:37because of this ideology and they want to silence us. I'm a foreign Muslim, I'm not gonna be silenced. Danny, I believe that my whole life has been leading to two things. That my whole life, because I don't know, this came to me in prayer a few about, I know, eight months ago. So maybe a year. And I realized, as I, in prayer, I heard it, this is why you were born. And it's to stand against anti-Semitism. And more importantly, stand for the Jewish people. Never again, are we going to chase a group of people and make them hide in people's houses because other crazies want to exterminate them because they believe in the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.

20:40No, the other is to stand against. Sri Al-A'am. Anyone, anyone who is trying to pull the wool over people's eyes to say, you know what, this isn't really that bad. Yes, it is. This is an invasion. They have already taken some of our biggest and greatest cities that what is happening in New York is an abomination, especially today on the anniversary. If I would have said, you know, 25 years ago, hey, don't worry, you're going to have a Muslim mayor that has actually sided with the terrorists. I would have been called a madman gang. It's here. It's happening. So, Danny, I'd like to, I'm going to have somebody on my staff reach out to you. And I want to find, I want to hear about these speakers because I, you know, I, I mean, I just heard about you.

21:41So, I want to check everything out. I was, I was trying to go in touch with you because Glenn, you're one of the heroes, the few heroes who are fighting against this. And please, let me take a breath here and speak calmly because I know that many people who hear us today, they would say, oh, this is like their Zionist, their defending Israel, this and that. Let me kill you this. I drew up hating Israel, hating Jews. What happened? What changed me? Is it money? Now, you just saved that. It's not safe for me to walk the streets of New York because if somebody recognizes me, maybe I will be jumped, maybe I'll be killed. So, money is not worth it. So, why I am doing this because anti-Semitism today is not only anti-Semitism. It is anti-Semitism and anti-Wastonism. It's against the greatest civilization in human history. And when they say Sharia is not dangerous, Congresswoman JAPA, or Jalayapa, I don't know what her name is, she invited or, yeah, she invited a white liberal woman to the Congressional hearing a few months ago and asked her if Sharia is dangerous.

22:54A white liberal woman who has no idea what Sharia is, who could probably be enslaved as a sixth slave under Sharia, she said no, no, it's just like Christian teachings that is false. Danny, I'm sorry, I'm up against a network break. I want to have you on again. I want to have somebody from my office reach out and talk to you. And we will join you on your month-long awakening of America because you're timing, you're right on time, but we're almost out of time. Thank you. You're listening to the best of the Glenn Beck program. You know, there's a certain kind of confidence that only parents have. You walk into a bedroom, you take one look at your kid and go, yeah, he's getting sick.

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25:04Frank, it was so good to see you last night. How are you, my friend? It was great seeing you, Glenn, and you nailed it last night in your speech when you were talking about the collective. How Marxism is all about the group, whereas Christianity is all about the individual. That's where the war on reality. That's that's the focus of the war on reality right now in my view is that they want people to identify everybody by an identity group. What identity group are you in? And if you're part of that collective, you're oppressed. And if you're not, you're automatically an oppressor. So when you mentioned that last night, I said, Glenn already knows what we're talking about in the war on reality. That's exactly what's going on. We're not judging people individually anymore. We're judging people by what even non-behavioral identity groups that they're in. Oh, you're white, Glenn, you're a bad guy. Oh, you're a man. You're a heterosexual. You're a citizen of the US. You're a Christian, Glenn. You're an oppressor. But if you have the opposite qualities, you're automatically oppressed.

26:06Frank, that's why I truly believe, I said this last night, it's the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. You must destroy that God because that's the personal God. That's the first personal and the only personal God, the one true God. And so all of this, this is why people hate Jews and why they're trying to get Christians to say, you know, I don't know. We don't need to remember that Jesus was a Jew because if you can get yourself away from the Old Testament, now you don't have the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob anymore. And all that falls apart. You must have that. That's why there's this war. Everything boils down to that. The God of the individual. Yes. And it's also why Marxism dispenses with the individual because they think the state is eternal. Whereas we Christians know the state is an eternal. It's individuals that are eternal and they're going to be judged individually as you mentioned last night. And friends, you got to go see what would gland a bunch of us spoke last night at the time memorial.

27:09It's at the TPUSA YouTube channel. So where do you want to start on this? Frank, I'd love to have you back because I'm so rushed today. I want to have you back so we can go deeper into this. But what do you think of those is the most important message on 9-11 and, you know, the day after we remember Charlie Kirk being assassinated? What is what is what is the most important thing you can pull from the book? Why why why why don't we just start with with Charlie? Jesus said that Satan is a murderer who is a liar accuser and a slanderer who seeks to steal, kill and destroy. Now Glenn, last year we had a murder. What have we had since then? Lies accusations and slander seeking to steal, kill and destroy. And people don't believe in the demonic. I don't know how it can be more obvious. I know, I know. You know, I mean, and why Jews? I mean, you brought this up last night. You kind of brought it up in a funny way when you were saying you're talking about 9-11.

28:09You're talking about Charlie and then suddenly you said, and somehow this all is the fault of the Jews. How can that be? Because these are the people through whom God used to bring salvation. That's why because they were chosen to bring salvation to the world. As Jesus said, salvation comes from the Jews. Glenn, there are only 15.5 million Jews in the entire world. On one hand, the people going after them say they're ruling the world. They're ruling the world? Then why are they the most persecuted minority out there? It's absolutely no sense. And I love the people who say Christians are now saying, you know, why are we saying they're the chosen people? Like they're better than us. Do you want to be one of God's chosen people? Do you see what's happening over and over again to the Jews? The Jews are like, can you stop choosing us? Can you choose somebody else occasionally? It's not an honor. It's not like, degust where the chosen people...

29:10They don't want it. They don't want it. They do it because it is who they are because God said that's who they are. And the only thing that that means is you're the ones to make sure the people understand the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, the God of the individual. Yes. And I don't know if you saw this this morning, but there is a story out there that there's a school district in Virginia that wants to erase any connection to Islam with the 9-11 attacks. This is a war on reality, Glenn. This is a war on history. In fact, it was an old saying in the Soviet Union. We have it in the book that says, the future is known. The past is always changing. Yes. Because if you can get people to believe false things about history, you can control what they're going to believe and do in the future. If we're going to try and get people to say that Islam had nothing to do with 9-11, it's a religion of peace, then we can just open up our borders and say there's no problem here.

30:14But obviously there is. There's only 1,400 years of history on this, Glenn. 50 plus Muslim countries don't have the freedoms we have in America, but somehow we're called Islamophobic, which is a bogus term, because Islam is not a race. It's an ideology. And you ought to be concerned about an ideology that wants to take away your freedoms and has done so in every government for 1,400 years in which they became a majority. So, you know, I got to tell you because your book is titled perfectly the war on reality, because it is a war on reality. The reality is these are the guys that took down the World Trade Center. These are the same people that are sending all young 20-something men into countries. I didn't notice all the families that are crapping on the beaches in Spain. I don't see all of the wonderful families that are coming into all of these countries. And honestly, it's only a matter of time before they take over.

31:17And nobody seems it's a complete detachment from reality. How do we get back? Well, I was just in the UK just a month ago, and it's the nicest Muslim country I've been to. I mean, just about... It is. ...and every four people I saw in the street in London was a Muslim. The way we get back is we get back to saying that we're more concerned about our kids and grandkids' future than we are about being called a bad name. Okay? So if you want to smear us as Islamophobic, which is again a bogus term, fine, go ahead. I'm going to do what's right under God, and I'm going to do what's right for my kids and grandkids. Because we only have 1400 years of history that shows us that whenever Islam takes over all the freedoms we enjoy, essentially go away. You don't even have the freedom to preach and live the gospel. You can't have the Glenn Beck show in Iran. You can't have it in Saudi Arabia. You know what I mean? I don't know. Come on, people, wake up! So let me ask you, how can you... Do you have... I'm sure you do.

32:18In the book, tell me about the tools that you can equip people with so they can detect out part of the war in reality. Okay, one tool is the law of non-contradiction. We don't teach kids logic anymore. Instead of teaching kids how to think we're teaching them what to feel. Now that can be very dangerous because if you follow your feelings without reason or moral restraint, you're going to wind up in a very dark place. So here is one tactic we have. When people say things like... I mean, the whole war on reality is built on postmodernism. The idea that there is no truth. So when someone says there is no truth, we simply ask them, is that true? Is it true that there is no truth? Because the claim there is no truth claims to be true. At the same time, it claims there is no truth. It's like saying, I can't speak a word in English, Glenn. It's gobbling book. So we're teaching people logic in this book. Frank, was that the first time you were back at UVU? No, I came back in March to speak to the students.

33:21So what was that six months after Charlie was murdered? Because we felt like we wanted to reclaim that campus. We wouldn't let a gunshot be the last word as Andrew Cipher said last night. So we went back. And I know your son goes there, doesn't he? Yeah. Yeah. And you know, it's an interesting place. They have a new president of the university. I met him in his family last night. I thought he was a wonderful guy. I don't know that he agrees with everything that everybody says. But he was the guy who got that thing rolling. Because at first they weren't going to do anything. And he was in an absolute loose, loose situation. But I thought he was a university president that seemed to not have a war on reality. Well, put I had about a three minute conversation with he and his wife and they were very complimentary. So yeah, I thanked him for allowing us to have the event there last night.

34:29And I still like you. I can't believe it's been a year on the other hand. It's been the longest year in my life. Right. It's crazy. It's almost like it's almost like time has just changed. It doesn't have any relation at all anymore. And I don't know if that's because I'm getting older or if this is happening to everybody no matter what age, because we're living in such a different time so much as being consumed every day. It seems like it was just yesterday. And yet it seems like I've lived five lifetime since then. It's bizarre. It is. And the only the only saving grace to any of this clan is that there is an eternity. And of course, if there isn't, if there's no God in no afterlife, nothing ultimately matters. It doesn't matter if you live as a missionary or a murderer. If there's no God, because ultimately we're all going to wind up in the same place, nowhere.

35:29But there's evidence as I spoke about as you spoke about last night that the resurrection is true that Jesus really did come to save us and by trusting in him. We're forgiven and given his righteousness. And Charlie right now is with the Lord. The killer did not end Charlie. All the killer did was change his address. Frank, we'll have you on again. Thank you so much. God bless you. Thank you. And need you to listen to Frank. Frank really was instrumental with Charlie and teaching a very, very wise man and a great teacher. And his book is The War on Reality. Pick it up because we have a problem. We have to be able to explain these things to our kids and our grandkids. We have to be able to understand it ourselves and anybody that can help you understand how to explain what's happening. Listen to them and Frank is one of those guys. The war on reality. You can get it wherever you get your books or online right now.

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