On Friday’s Mark Levin Show, President Trump has likely made up his mind to act on Iran, with only military tactics possibly remaining as the question. Iran will never change their ways; there mindset is not about deals. Whether it’s the Marxist or the Islamist ideology, whether it’s our belief system, – it’s all about power, the proper use of it and the improper use of it. Islamism seeks total control over mind, body, society, and government through Sharia, unlike the Judeo-Christian focus on individual liberty. Islam has not undergone an enlightenment against theocracy, and dominant Muslim groups in the West support Islamism, which rejects interpretive diversity and often prioritizes political agendas, including antisemitism and anti-Israel motives. Islamists aim to conquer rather than coexist, as shown by sectarian violence, terrorism (Hamas, Al Qaeda, etc.), and Iran’s deceptive pursuit of nuclear weapons despite negotiations. Later, the Democrat Party truly hates America and they’re at war with America. That’s why the Islamists and the Marxists are now part of their coalition, just as decades ago the segregationists and the slavers were part of their coalition. It’s all about power for this party. Democrats hate native-born Americans and seek to replace them with illegal immigrants. This is because many immigrants do not speak English, lack understanding of American civil liberties, the Declaration of Independence, or the Constitution, making them easily manipulated through propaganda. Politicians promise them benefits while attacking productive native citizens.
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Rough transcription of Hour 1
Segment 1
Hello, America. Mark Levin here, our number 877-381-3811. 877-381-3811. Let’s listen to what the president said just a little while ago and then I’ll give you my assessment of it. Cut for Mr. Producer. Go change in Iran. Well, it seems like that would be the best thing that could happen. For 47 years, they’ve been talking and talking and talking. In the meantime, we’ve lost a lot of lives while they talk and legs blown off, arms blown off, faces blown off. It’s been going on for a long time. So let’s see what happens in the meantime. We have meantime, we have tremendous power has arrived and additional power, as you know, and other carriers going out. Now my assessment of that. Nice assessment of that is that now, look, I have no inside information. Period. But given that statement late today. I believe the president has made up his mind. And perhaps the only question is one of military tactics. And he may have already decided that as well. This is not a prediction. Just my assessment, taking everything into consideration. Of course, it could change. But I don’t think it will. I don’t think it will. Do you think I’m right or wrong, Mr. Producer? Yeah. I mean, what I believe doesn’t matter. I’m just trying to analyze this along with you. Uh. But I do think it’s important. There. We continue to watch this. And I would encourage the media to really start focusing on this. Because. If action is taken. It’s quite serious, isn’t it? Now, Mr. Producer, remember that thing we were we were working on before the show? Well, it’s unplugged, so I got to find that plug again. We’ve been having a few technical issues, some here in Florida. On on one second. I have it right here. The U.S.. Can’t find the damn thing. I’ve got 4 billion wires here. Ladies and gentlemen. And. There it is. And the wire that pops out. You can hear me in a distance, is the one that enables me to hear Mr. Producers, back in there. There we go. There you are. Yes, I hear you. We call this Live and National. Labor national. So we’re back. All right. So that’s my assessment of the situation. I want to get a little deeper into this with you. Because that’s what we do around here. I want to explain again that all these things. Whether it’s the Marxist ideology or the or the Islamist ideology, whether it’s our belief system is about power. The proper use of it and the improper use of it, the humane use of it, the inhumane use of it. And so I explained in my book, You’re not to come by it. I’m talking about it. Once approach to life and role in society. And. And even more involves practices, decisions, values, beliefs that together form one’s life philosophy, which results from learned cognitive, reactionary, experiential, or even instinctive thought processes. And significantly faith. Faith. Faith is vital. Vital. If not imperative, is an influence in the life of an individual and a nation. And even in countries that are said to be secular and that formally or institutionally disclaim and seek to invalidate faith, including by indoctrination and force. And of course, faith is preached and practiced by certain religions. The religious leaders known in the past has been used by despots and despotic regimes as other autocrats use power, power to brutalize, power to destroy, empower or to kill. Now, you may ask, how can faith be both pivotal to positive power, as I’ve called it, yet a potential tool for negative power? Let’s begin with the American Declaration of Independence. This is the 240/50 anniversary. And as I promised, I want to use this occasion to reference these belief systems from time to time. Now that declaration appeals to the laws of nature and nature’s God, and it states we hold these truths to be self-evident. That all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The founders were men of science and reason and experience, but they were also men of faith who worship God. Even among the deists, namely Franklin and Jefferson. They knew and professed the importance of faith and society in the establishment of the American Republic. As I explained it, liberty and tyranny. Reason cannot by itself explain why there is reason. Science cannot by itself explain why there is science. A man’s discovery and application of science are products of reason. Reason and science can explain the existence of matter, but they cannot explain why there is matter. They can explain the existence of the universe, but cannot explain why there is a universe. They can explain the existence of nature and the laws of physics, but they cannot explain why there is nature in the laws of physics. They can explain the existence of life, but they cannot explain why there is life. They can explain the existence of consciousness, but they cannot explain why there is consciousness. The founders did not believe they owed their origin to men and through men, but to a transcendent providence that is to a higher source than man God. Faith was fundamental to America’s founding. Indeed, Christianity was and is our nation’s dominant religion. Moreover, without Judaism, there would be no Christianity. Together, Judeo-Christian values and beliefs resounded throughout our society from the earliest days of the colonists and still do today. So when you see people trying to to divide Jew from Christian, they’re trying to destroy the foundational, the foundational doctrine of the United States of America. One layperson put it this way Judaism and Christianity have significantly influenced Western civilization. Their teachings have shaped ethical frameworks, legal systems and cultural norms. The values derived from both faiths are evident in literature, art and philosophy throughout history. Concepts like human rights, social justice, and the dignity of life are rooted in their teachings. Both religions advocate for compassion and moral integrity, impacting social values. Their contributions extend beyond religious spheres, informing the development of Western thought and culture. Again when you have the woke right the Marxist Islamists left. Trashing both faiths. Trashing the interconnect ability of both. Both face. They’re trashing the very being of this society. As America became a nation of United States who has never intended to be, nor would it ever become a fundamentalist religious state or theocracy, as one sees throughout the Muslim world and elsewhere. It was never to be a repressive religious state that smothers alternative religious beliefs or a state that punished or silence nonbelievers, atheists or agonist or agnostics. On the contrary, early on, religious tests and requirements that existed in some of the colonies would quickly disappear. Among other reasons, Judaism and Christianity do not seek to compel, let alone demand doctrinal purity. The United States is among the most religiously tolerant nations on earth. In fact, it matters. Not at all. Not at all what one does or does not believe to enjoy the freedoms and security that American society offers, which are explicitly protected by the Constitution. You don’t find that virtually anywhere else. You certainly don’t find it in Muslim regimes. The first sentence of the First Amendment declares Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free exercise there. Now, the reason is the distinction recognized in American society between the relationship of faith in the individual faith and the community and faith and the actual operation of government. In short, faith, properly understood, creates a spiritual, moral and psychological foundation which affects how the individual lives his life. In America, it’s typically a moderating force in one’s life, checking the excesses of the darker side of humanity, which in turn contributes to the civility of society. Even those who reject faith are not utterly devoid of its implications. For example, one has regular interactions with others whose faith affects or sways the non-believers behavior, even without formally recognizing or accepting the faith itself. Moreover, society is imbued with the influences of faith. It is impossible to escape it. Therefore, even for those who do not consciously or formally embrace of faith, the teaching and practicing of faith create the moral and value based belief system of so many, so many others in society. This is an organic process, not theocratic or otherwise coercive. It is possible to have, for example, a biblical liturgical worldview or a more formal or orthodox faith belief. As I turn the pages and perspective and serve in the government without the desire, purpose or conviction to impose that faith on others by governmental coercion, that is negative power. This is well understood in America, and there are reasons for it. For example, as previously noted, Christianity is the majority faith in America, but it is not the country’s official or formal religion. In fact, Christianity does not preach political control over societies or administrative control over governments. Unlike Islam, which I will elaborate on shortly. Sharia law does. Thus, in America, the individual’s pursuit of knowledge and science not only coexist with faith, but springs from the influences of faith and are part of man’s internal makeup. Therefore, a positive power originates not from mankind’s hand or mind, although certainly its practical and earthly application does. But its origin is transcendent and inherent. When we speak of universal or eternal truths, the golden rule do unto others as you would have them do unto you. The Ten Commandments, for example, Thou shalt not kill good and evil and so forth. These are fundamentally moral precepts, understood and ingrained in the human conscience and openly expressed in free and democratic societies. They are known to be true throughout the world, including among those who are oppressed by tyrannical governments and regimes, by the less educated or uneducated, by people of all faiths or no faith. Now, this is not to say that all individuals, cultures or regimes adhere to these eternal drifts. Some are evil, power hungry, Irrational man’s existence is strewn with horrific examples of his cruelty. From ancient history to modern times, of course, man’s imperfection is both well known and well-established. But knowing what is right from wrong, for instance, is distinct from doing what is right rather than wrong. Now the examination and understanding, or at least a desire to understand what makes positive power and its differentiation from negative power do not end here. In addition to its references to natural law and the Creator, the Declaration of Independence drew from the knowledge of philosophers, among others, and their conception of society and mankind. For example, in a may eight, 1825, Letter to Henry Lee Thomas. Jefferson, the original author. The declaration explains, quote, When forced to resort to arms for redress and appeal to the tribunal of the world was deemed proper for our justification. This was the object of the Declaration of Independence not to find out new principles or new arguments never before thought of, nor merely to say things which have never been said before, but to place before mankind. The common sense of the subject terms, so plain and firm, is to command their ascent and to justify ourselves and the independent stand we took, neither aiming at originality of principle or sentiment, nor yet copied from any particular and previous writing. It was intended to be an expression of the American mind and to give that expression the proper tone. And it goes on. And I want to go on when we take a break, because this is so relevant to what we’re confronting with the Islamists in our society, the Islamists outside our society, the Marxists in our society, the Marxists outside our society, and why we are right and good and they are wrong and evil. That is the Islamists and the Marxists. I’ll be right back.
Segment 2
All right, Let’s keep at this. I know you enjoy it, and so do I. But it helps explain things that have been going on. And this is the perfect format. Importantly, America, like much of the West, was born from the fusion of faith and the Enlightenment. Faith in the Enlightenment. As such, while faith is distinct from government. The latter government being the organization of law by and through manmade institutions. The fusion of which I speak, informed the authors of America’s Declaration of Constitution on the prudent and humane order of governmental affairs. All of this is rejected by Marxists and Islamists, and, I might add, the Democrat Party. Now, we’re going to continue on this because I think it’s crucially important to understand what’s taking place in our society today. I’ll be right back.
Segment 3
I think this book I wrote many months ago now On Power is maybe the best book I’ve ever written. It may be. It’s also the most concise, probably the most understandable, other than liberty and tyranny, but very, very crucial. In terms of explaining where we are today. Even beyond what I knew at the time. And I go on by contrast, for example, political Islam, Political Islam. As Dr. Zuhdi Jasser, a prominent Muslim scholar, you know, founder of the American Islamic Forum for Democracy and a leader of the Muslim reform movement, refers to it. Seeks the centralized control over mind, body, society and government. See, that’s completely different than the Judeo-Christian. Belief system completely different. And that’s what Surya does. He explains that Islam has yet to go through an enlightenment and reform against theocracy and for individual liberty and universal human rights. The dominant establishment of the Muslim community in the West and abroad supports Islamism and its believers, the Islamists. That’s why I always call these terrorists and these radicals Islamists like theocrats, Islamists and their sympathizers see faith as monolithic and do not tolerate diversity of interpretation. And recounting his days in college, Jasser explains that Muslim campus groups pronounced a form of Muslim identity that wasn’t about faith, but rather about their political agenda, and especially their anti-Israel motives, their anti-Semitism. It was pretty much dominated by the Palestinian movement. Now you can see when you walk right types and brace these movements and these in these monarchies and Qatar and Saudi Arabia and elsewhere. That they’re not even embracing. A reformed ideology, they are embracing the most radical violent. Inhumane ideology. And so therefore, it is necessary for the Charleston types to trash Judaism and Christianity and to talk about replacement ideology that is, that Christianity replaced Judaism. But it’s an impossibility if you understand the Bible and read the Bible. It’s an impossibility. Abraham, Isaac and Jacob. They weren’t replaced, were they? Their Ten Commandments. They weren’t replaced where they and I could go on and on and on. It’s an effort, a very evil and diabolical effort to serve the interests of the Islamists and the Marxists while pretending to be of the right. Jasser argues that people of the Muslim faith deserve much better than this. He notes that the vast majority of Muslims are still a constituency that are not spoken for by anybody. Hopefully we can grow our bandwidth to do that. Now, of course, the problem is you’re talking about 2 billion people. And as I’ve said before, if 10% of those people are Islamists, you’re talking about 200 million. If 1% are Islamists, you’re talking about 20 million. And if 1/1000 of a percent are Islamists, you’re talking about terrorist organizations that exist in the world today. Alexis de Tocqueville put it this way. He said Mohammed professed to derive from heaven, and he has inserted in the Koran not only a body of religious doctrines but political maxims. Civil and criminal laws and series of science. The gospel, on the contrary, only speaks to the general relationship of men, to God and to each other, beyond which it inculcates and imposes no point of faith. And I point out, indeed in America today, Jasser notes that Muslim Brotherhood legacy groups like the Council on American-Islamic Relations CARE, the Islamic Society of North America, ISNA, Islamic Circle of North America, IKENNA Muslim Students Association, MSA and Muslim Public Affairs Council MPAC do not accept that devout Muslims exist who reject their ideas. In his book, Battle for the Soul of Islam, he decries the preaching and writing of said cult K2. But Kate Q utb could too. One of the most prominent thought leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood and political Islam. And that while the roots of Islamism can be traced hundreds of years ago with the idea of pure Islam, Khartoum’s 1964 books, particularly one called Milestones, has significant influence even now. Kateb often mentions boy and my glasses often mentions a Jabalia, which he defines as the state of ignorance of the guidance of God. What is extremely significant about this is that it could tube’s view the entire Western world was riddled with Yahia. And at the same time, he considered most Muslims of his time to be suffering from such ignorance due to what he considered by watering down through the ages of pure Islam. And so you see the slaughter. The slaughter. Of Muslims by these Islamists. Because they see them no differently than they see other people who are not Islamists. Kateb saw it, and his mission to revive such pure Islam with its very strict interpretation of Sharia law and to never give an inch in terms of adopting or compromising with Western values, which he considered devoted to materialism, violence and racism. Matter of fact, he spent many years in the United States. Al Jazeera notes Our foremost objective of K2’s book, A What K2 said is our foremost objective is to change the practices of this society, the West America. Our aim is to change the jail system at its very roots, this system which is fundamentally at variance with Islam. I’m quoting now, which with the help of force and oppression, is keeping us from living the sort of life which is demanded by our creator. Our first step will be to raise ourselves above the Jolly Society and all its causes and concepts. We will not change our own values and concepts, either more or less, to make a bargain with the Jolly Society. That’s us. American society of Western Society. And you hear these imams and these so-called scholars, whether they’re in Plano, Texas, or Dearborn, Michigan, whether they’re in Los Angeles or Paterson, New Jersey, or wherever they are, say the same thing. Our goal is not to get along with other people. Our goal? Is to control them. Is to conquer them, is to impose our will on them. That I’ve played you clip after clip on this. Now, he said, Never will we bargain with the Jahi like society. We in it are on different roads. And if we take even one step in its company, we will lose our goal entirely and lose our way as well. Now, this is the thinking of the Islamist regime, the Nazi regime in Tehran. And this is why, among other reasons, they will never change their way. They will never negotiate it away. It doesn’t matter. And they’ve also come up with theories as to why they can lie. Deceive. Can I give? And why their religion or their religious beliefs at least compel it. Compelling. I write. Consequently, the the constant bloody wars among different Muslim sects, including in Syria, Yemen, Lebanon and elsewhere, and the targeting of the West by a long list of Islamist organizations such as Hamas, Islamic Jihad, Al Qaida, the Muslim Brotherhood, as well as Islamist states that support terrorism like Iran and yes, Qatar and others provide ample evidence of the bloody Islamist impact both within individual countries and throughout the world on Muslims and non-Muslims alike. Furthermore, Western societies and governments do not seem to comprehend or wish to deceive themselves into ignoring, rationalizing or excusing the dire peril Islamism represents. Despite multiple acts of terrorism committed against them and threats of more and worse to come. In some cases, Western governments hope to avoid the consequences of Islamist ideology through appeasement, negotiation or financial arrangements. And I write as of this writing back in July, I actually finished the book in May. Iran, an Islamist dictatorship that has spread terrorism and murder throughout the Middle East and beyond, repeatedly demands the annihilation of the United States and the Jewish state of Israel and has fired hundreds of missiles at them. And Israel has attempted to assassinate the president of the United States, has killed and maimed American soldiers and citizens, and has made alliance with the communist Chinese government is hell bent on completing the development of nuclear weapons and intercontinental ballistic missile delivery systems, despite multiple agreements with the West, and I might add, despite us taking those systems out. And assurances that it has no intent on building nuclear weapons. The Islamist regime is about to have what it’s called a nuclear breakout. Iran has lied, cheated, deceived, multiple American administrations, international organizations, European countries, etc. on its path to a nuclear breakout. Yet the United States and the West still hope to reach another deal to prevent Iran from crossing the finish line. Now the president bombed them. Because there was no deal. But there must be no deal now. None. None. Because their mindset. It’s not about deals. There’s no clear example of the clash between negative and positive power between a terrorist Islamist dictatorship and Western democracies with a mind set of principles and goals could not be more different. In fact, in addition to what has already been said, deception or in Arabic to acquire. That’s what we’ve been talking about is believed to be a legitimate, if not necessary strategy against non-Muslims. And writing in the Middle East Quarterly. This is so totally relevant to what’s going on right now. You’ve got envoys and others that think it’s just a matter of a negotiation. And no, it’s not. No, it’s not. It’s dangerous. Writing in the Middle East Quarterly, Raymond Ibrahim explains that according to Sharia, the body of legal. Rulings that defines how a Muslim should behave in all circumstances. Deception is not only permitted in certain situations, but may be deemed obligatory in others. In his book at Tequila for Islam, that is the dissimulation in Islam. Professor Sami Makram. A former Islamic studies professor at American University in Beirut, writes Tequila is a fundamental importance in Islam. Practically every Islamic sect agrees to it and practices it. We can go so far as to say that the paint, the practice of tequila is mainstream in Islam and that those few sects not practicing it diverge from the mainstream. Tequila is very prevalent in Islamic politics, especially in the modern era. In Islam, writes Ibrahim. War against the infidels is a perpetual affair. That’s why when your people are tired of war, they’re not tired of war. These terrorists are not tired of war. It’s a perpetual affair. And tell them the words of the Koran. All chaos ceases and all religion belongs to God. And in his entry on jihad from the Encyclopedia of Islam, email tione states, The duty of the jihad exists as long as the universal domination of Islam has not been attained. Among other things, this explains why Iran enters negotiations urged by the West. I wrote and signed non-proliferation agreements. There’s no intention of complying with is the West deludes itself and Iran lies and deceives its way to a nuclear breakout, and it will continue to do so. It will continue to do so. Like Marxists, Islamists obviously reject liberty. However, Marxism rejects faith altogether and in fact insists on the eradication of not only faith, but like Islamists, all historical and social ties that contradict or compete with its ideology and delay or interfere with the inevitable revolution. From Marx’s faith is said to be a fiction that shrouds the truth, dupes the people, and is incapable excuse me, incompatible with a new social and economic order. Faith is an illusion. Incompatible with reason, they say denies man. Direct control of his own fate provides a mystical escape from a soulless society and sustains society’s status quo and class structure. This is interesting to people. Most of it is. You think it is? People tell me this when I see them. We’re going to take a little break. I’ll be right back.
Segment 4
Don’t forget, ladies and gentlemen, it’s a three day weekend. I’m sure you haven’t forgotten that Presidents Day is Monday. And therefore, Tuesday we will be launching Liberty’s Voice, my new podcast program. I’m not leaving radio. No way. I’m not leaving my FOX program either. It is a new undertaking. It is a video podcast and it’ll be. Here’s what I had to say. Three days a week, 45 minutes each program. So it’s not overwhelming for you folks. It’s not a drag every day because I do my radio program that’s very, very important central to what we do. So Mondays, Tuesdays and Wednesdays and Wednesdays normally. But this coming week, because of Presidents Day on Monday, we’re going to launch it Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. And look, I can’t tell you what the program is going to be every single day, but I will tell you that the program is going to include. On most days, certainly many days, references to our history, our philosophy, economics. Things that will help people learn, help educate people, help them love our country. This program is intended for patriots and future patriots. This will not be a program that is used. To create evil and hate on a daily basis in order to attract overseas viewers and governments. We’re not going to do that. It’s time to bring some class and Americanism to podcasting. We have a handful of our friends that do that, but now I’m going to do it too, and I’m going to do it in a way I think that I hope will be very impactful. We’ll be right back.
