Best of the Program | Guest: Annie Jacobsen | 10/7/26

Glenn Beck (0:02)

Holy cow, the Iranian senator, yeah.

El-Sayed might be the Iranian senator. I give you some news here that you may not have heard. And Americans have got to, Michiganders need to make a decision. Do you hate Donald Trump so much that you're willing to put this guy in? Wait until you hear the news. Also, it's 10-7, three years later, remembering the loss of what happened with Hamas and Israel. And Annie Jacobsen, she is in hot water with some people because they're saying, she's just trying to hype her book, she's just trying to hype her book.

I invited her on a few days ago when I first found out that there might be an outbreak of a very dangerous bacteria in Russia. I said, call Annie right away. Today we got her on.

It's exactly what she lays out in her book and it's a little terrifying. However, there is really good news. There is no reason to panic on this. What she lays out is terrifying. But what she tells us in the end is very good. Have information. Information is power. And that way you're not panicking when everybody else is. Annie Jacobsen joins me on today's podcast.

Annie Jacobsen (1:27)

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Glenn Beck (1:35)

Okay, so now here's something new on El-Sayed. I mean, I just have this feeling and I could be wrong. So you know, the one thing I'm wrong most times about is politics, I am not good at predicting politics.

So take it for what it's worth, which is very little. But I have this feeling that America is waking up to the Marxist and the Islamists. I think there is some divine providence in us seeing what's happening over in France, because that is the preview of what is coming here. It's the dress rehearsal. This week, here's the latest on El-Sayed. He has spent a lot of his time doing things he thinks nobody is going to see.

Thank goodness somebody is. I'm going to give you a name, Mohammed Ali El-Hai, I think. He runs the Islamic House of Wisdom in Dearborn Heights. He came to Michigan in 1992, and before he came to Michigan in 1992, he had a job in Iran. The Ayatollah Khomeini, the man who calls us the Great Satan, who gave us that, personally appointed this guy to run the Political Ideological Office of the Iranian Navy. So he said his job, this is what he said in 2017, was to take officers who had gone western and bring them back in to the Iranian philosophy of the Shia 12ers. Okay, not good. I don't even know how this guy is in the country, quite honestly. After 9-11, he said that Israel and the Mossad did it. He says he helped build research unit for Khomeini's Martyrs Foundation. The Martyrs Foundation? Yeah, the same one. Our Treasury Secretary sanctioned that foundation in 2007 for funding Hezbollah and then paying stipends to the families of suicide bombers. When the FBI raided the foundation's Dearborn affiliate, he complained about the FBI and defended Hezbollah as resistant. This guy is not a good guy, and we're talking now Iran. He praised Hezbollah's spiritual guide as a great scholar. That is the cleric American officials have long tied, by the way, to the 1983 Beirut bombing that killed, oh, what was it, 241 Americans.

He has also met with the supreme leader on February 28th, after an American airstrike killed Ayatollah Khomeini. He held a vigil and he said it was an honor for the Ayatollah to die at the most wretched hands on earth. Those hands, by the way, were ours. Okay, why am I telling you about this guy? First of all, I'm shocked this guy is in the United States of America, but there you go, freedom. On July 16th, this man gave Abdul El-Sayed $500. What's the big deal? On June 24th, El-Sayed stood in that man's mosque and spoke beside him and embraced him while campaign staff worked a table outside.

El-Sayed campaigned in that same mosque in 2018 The imam hosted a roundtable of clergy for him. He showed up at the fundraiser hosted by a local activist who also calls Hezbollah and Hamas freedom fighters. That fundraiser reportedly raised $350,000, and it isn't just one imam. Another in Dearborn Heights told his congregation to vote for Abdul El-Sayed to deal the Zionists a blow. El-Sayed headlined the grand opening of that man's mosque. His own longtime imam in Ann Arbor calls the Hamas leader a heroic martyr. Do you think Hamas is a heroic group?

Look at who El-Sayed shows you. You go to his website and Christian pastors are all over the website. Oh, look at this Christian pastor. This Christian pastor, he loves me. But the imams are nowhere. In March on a campaign call, he said he didn't want to comment on Khomeini's death because, quote, a lot of people in Dearborn are sad. Yeah, we have more context to that. Your friends were sad. Your funders were sad. Last week at the University of Michigan, hours after a fundraiser with this Iranian imam, he was asked again to denounce the people who held vigils for Khomeini and he wouldn't do it. That's not a friendship, okay? This is a filing system. One drawer for Dearborn, another drawer for the rest of Michigan. And Michigan, you've got to wake up. You have got to wake up. Let me give you an example. And this is a true example. But I want you to picture 1942 A Senate candidate in Michigan. And his friend is a donor. And his friend also is a guy who Hitler himself appointed to keep the German Navy ideologically pure. This man has met the Nazi leadership. He blames the Jews for the worst attack on American soil. He holds a candlelight service when one of those leaders is killed by an American bomb. The candidate takes his money, hugs him in front of a crowd and keeps him out of the brochure. Now, do you think anyone in Detroit, anyone in Dearborn, anyone in Michigan, anyone in America would have called a newspaper that reported that a smear? No, they would have called it disqualifying. And Detroit would know because Detroit and Michigan has been in almost that exact spot before. Twenty minutes up the road from Dearborn in Royal Oak, Michigan. It's the 1930s. There's a priest, he's called Charles Coughlin. He builds a church called the Shrine of the Little Flower. He also builds a radio show that tens of millions of Americans hear every single Sunday. This guy is a deep progressive and also a Nazi sympathizer. And he starts out on his radio show at first as the champion of the little guy. But that's not where he ends, okay? Ten days after Kristallnacht, with the synagogue still smoldering in Germany, he goes on the air and explains that the Nazis were only defending themselves against these communist Jews.