Press TV has interviewed Kevin Barrett, author and political commentator from Madison, and Said Shehata, an expert in Middle Eastern affairs, London, to discuss the terror attacks, claimed by Daesh, which left several people dead and injured in Jakarta, Indonesia.
Barrett believes that the Western media outlets are “absolutely complicit” in what happened in Jakarta, stressing that the media is “what driving all of this to a very great extent because the media in the West is dominated by the hard-line militarist elements of the governments and the Zionist element.”
The analyst says media outlets, particularly those in the US, do not create a hype over numerous shooting attacks that happen in the Western societies, but they take every possible opportunity to “splash blood all over the front page of the newspaper and all over the TV screen” when an incident has to with Takfiri Daesh terrorists, attributing their activities to Islam in an attempt to tarnish its image.
This is while, he adds, linking religion to Daesh is “entirely spurious” as there is not even “one single Islamic scholar in the world that supports” the extremist terror group.
Daesh enjoys the support of Zionists and the Saudi royal family, which “is not religious at all,” Barrett says, adding the Takfiris merely manipulate Islam and use religious rhetoric to attract naive young people and recruit members.
Shehata, for his turn, says the world has failed to adopt proper measures to stop Takfiri terror attacks in different regions as some countries continue supporting such radical terrorist groups for political purposes.
Daesh relies heavily on fear-mongering and uses media to advance this strategy, he argues.
The analyst says killing more and more people and highly publicizing the carnage in media serve as the two main instruments in the hands of Daesh to strike fear into the hearts of people around the globe.
Dr. Kevin Barrett, a Ph.D. Arabist-Islamologist is one of America’s best-known critics of the War on Terror.
He is the host of TRUTH JIHAD RADIO; a hard-driving weekly radio show funded by listener subscriptions at Substack and the weekly news roundup FALSE FLAG WEEKLY NEWS (FFWN).
He also has appeared many times on Fox, CNN, PBS, and other broadcast outlets, and has inspired feature stories and op-eds in the New York Times, the Christian Science Monitor, the Chicago Tribune, and other leading publications.
Dr. Barrett has taught at colleges and universities in San Francisco, Paris, and Wisconsin; where he ran for Congress in 2008. He currently works as a nonprofit organizer, author, and talk radio host.
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