Former Muslim's warning about Islam leaves Glenn Beck STUNNED



Islam is widely known as a religion, but former Muslim and Ideological Defense Institute founder Danny Burmawi doesn’t believe that’s actually what it is.

“When people think of Islam, they think of Christianity,” he tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck.

“No, when you think of Islam, think of the United States of America. Think of France, China, because Islam is a state. Now, that state has a religion,” he says.

“It has a constitution. It’s called Sharia. Just like the constitution of the United States. It has a population. They’re called Muslims. So Muslims are not analogous with Christians. It’s analogous with Americans,” he continues.


“We must look so incredibly ignorant and stupid,” Glenn says in response. “Because they say it in their mosque. They say it out loud. ‘We are going to take over. We will have Sharia.’ That means overthrow the constitution of whatever country they’re in.”

“And they’ve done it in country after country after country,” he continues.

“We just don’t see it. We’re not willing to stand up and speak the truth,” he adds.

However, Burmawi explains that the majority of Muslims do not adhere to the extremist beliefs of the few, because if they wanted “to adhere to everything that Islam teaches,” they would be better suited living with ISIS.

“Islam is not practical at all, and Muslims, they have cognitive dissonance. I was a Muslim. I’m telling you that confusion, you don’t know how to live in the word because your belief system is completely contradictory with the reality around you,” he tells Glenn.

“So you ignore it,” he continues. “However, if we have 1% out of the five, six million Muslims in America, only 1% who are faithful, who are willing to carry out all the teachings of Muhammad, then what is that, like 50,000 people?”

“You have literally 50,000 ISIS terrorists living in America today just at 1%,” he adds.

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Silicon Valley didn’t birth the transhumanist project. This forgotten Moscow librarian did.



Most people blame the nation’s treacherous climb to AI domination and the dystopian push for human enhancement on Silicon Valley.

But Glenn Beck says the true genesis of the transhumanist project traces back to a man who lived nearly a century before Silicon Valley was even a concept. Nikolai Fyodorov, a Moscow librarian and nearly forgotten 19th-century thinker, penned his vision for humanity in the 1880s, and it had all the makings of the chilling blueprint we are watching rapidly come to fruition today.

Fyodorov, Glenn explains, believed and taught anyone who would listen that “every religion and every philosophy had gotten the assignment wrong.”

“He thought death was not a fact of nature to be made peace with. He said death was the enemy, and the entire human race needed to be united using science. And they had one job: stop death,” he recounts.

This “common task” of stopping death led Fyodorov to suggest that all the “scattered atoms of every human being who had ever died” be gathered in order to “resurrect all generations.”

His plan to create space for the risen dead was to “colonize space.”

While Fyodorov has largely been forgotten in the modern age, he had the ear of many writers we still revere today.

“Tolstoy sat at this man’s feet. Dostoevsky read him; wrote back that he agreed essentially with everything he said,” says Glenn.

But perhaps most notably, Fyodorov took in and mentored Konstantin Tsiolkovsky — a deaf, rejected boy who would eventually write the “rocket equation” and become “the father of Soviet rocketry.”

“Every Soviet cosmonaut, Sputnik, the space race that put us on the moon — all of that traces back through that kid and to the old man in the library whose reason for wanting rockets was that he needed somewhere to put all the resurrected dead,” says Glenn.

Roughly 40 years after Fyodorov’s 1880s lectures, his dark vision got a scientific vocabulary thanks to a Jesuit paleontologist named Teilhard de Chardin and a Russian geochemist named Vladimir Vernadsky. Together, they coined the term “noosphere” — “a layer of thought that wrapped the planet” that would be “the next stage of human evolution,” Glenn explains.

“Teilhard took it the furthest. He said all human consciousness needed to converge into one, and he called this the point of omega,” he adds, noting that his book on this subject was published only following his death because the Catholic Church “thought he was out of his mind.”

About five years later, when the book was translated into English, it was none other than Julian Huxley — brother of “Brave New World" author Aldous Huxley, president of the British Eugenics Society, and first director-general of UNESCO — who wrote the introduction.

“Julian Huxley gave the movement its name. His phrase was: man remaining man but transcending himself,” says Glenn.

While UNESCO refused to adopt Huxley’s pamphlet "UNESCO: Its Purpose and Its Philosophy," forcing him to “publish it under his own name,” it still embraced him as its chief leader.

“So nobody can say the United Nations was founded as a transhumanist project, but they can't say that the man who wrote it down wasn't running their agency for two years [and] wasn’t the founding guy,” says Glenn.

Pieced together, this story blows his mind.

“The chain is a Moscow librarian who said, ‘Nobody should die. We should resurrect everybody. We have to beat death.' And he passed it on to a kid who became the rocket scientist for the Soviet space program. … The whole program was given a scientific vocabulary in Paris by a priest and walked into the permanent architecture of the postwar world by a eugenist who had a famous last name,” Glenn summarizes.

The lesson here is that today’s tech lords are fighting over a project older than they are.

“These guys didn't all meet in a smoke-filled room. There's no conspiracy here. It's just books, students, and time,” says Glenn.

“Why am I telling you this story? Because you can't understand the men currently shaping our life until you understand what they are fighting over as an inheritance.”

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From ‘6 sexes’ to favorite drag queen: Glenn Beck reveals why Texas can’t trust James Talarico



Democratic Texas Senate nominee James Talarico has made his stance on LGBTQ issues clear in the past, but in a desperate attempt to rebrand himself for Texas voters — he’s now walking it all back.

“He’s nuts. He is not Texan in any way, shape, or form,” Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck says, noting that his attempt to rebrand isn’t going so well as he recently was caught telling a fan who his favorite drag queen is.

“Mr. Talarico, so nice to meet you,” the fan began.

“I was there when you defended the drags. Who’s your favorite drag queen?”

“Oh my gosh. Probably Alyssa Edwards,” Talarico responded without skipping a beat.

“No hesitation,” Glenn comments.


But in a recent interview on Fox News, Talarico claimed that his views have changed.

“Would you vote in favor of a national ban for transgender surgeries when it comes to minors?” Talarico was asked in the interview.

“Absolutely,” he answered. “And in fact, in the legislature, I voted for an amendment that would have restricted the bill in question to a ban on surgeries for minors.”

“That’s a plot twist,” Glenn says.

In the same interview, Talarico claimed that his prior belief that there were “six biological sexes” was a mistake.

“I’ve missed the mark on some of my past statements. I will be the first to admit it. What I meant is that there are two sexes and then there’s a small percentage of people with genetic abnormalities,” Talarico said.

“I obviously didn’t say it correctly. There are not six sexes. There are two,” he added.

“Does anybody believe this?” Glenn asks. “You can’t say there’s six genders and then say, ‘No, there’s two sexes.’”

“You can’t name your favorite drag queen and then say that,” he adds.

But not even the Texas Democratic Party manager believes that Talarico has changed his tune. In a hidden camera video captured by the Daily Wire, she admitted it was simply to cater to Republicans.

In the video, the manager is asked by an undercover reporter why Talarico would “walk it back.”

“I would say that right now he’s trying to target a wider net, which unfortunately means being more palatable to Republicans here in Texas,” she answered.

“And I think that from the character that he’s shown us, it seems like he does believe the things that he said before. But at this point in time, it just seems like, from my perspective, yeah, he really needs to win those Texans over,” she continued.

“His support for trans children has not changed though?” the reporter asked.

“Yeah,” she answered.

“In his heart, he still supports,” the reporter said.

“Yeah. I think it’s, you talk to some Republicans, and they’re very Republican, especially here in Texas. Very, very to the right,” she answered.

“Who doesn’t know this?” Glenn asks. “Really. Texas, you’re going to get what you deserve if you let this guy win.”

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Glenn Beck: This is what happens when ‘giant weenies’ turn their concerts into political rallies



What started as one father’s decision to walk out of a concert has exploded into something much bigger.

It all began when the man took his daughters and wife to MetLife Stadium for an Ed Sheeran concert, where Macklemore was set to open. And when he did, he tried to turn it into a political rally.

Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck has been following the story and calls Macklemore a “giant weenie.”

“He takes the stage and he’s facing all of the people who spent their money and took the night off to come hear music and enjoy their night, and he bombards them with this rant demanding we ‘free Palestine,’ and he fills the stadium with screens and images of the war and sang a literal propaganda song,” he explains.


“Now, he would have normally gotten away with that if it weren’t for a regular dad who is at the concert and then posted this." Glenn reads: "'I brought my wife and daughters to MetLife Friday because they were huge fans of yours,’” Glenn reads, noting that he’s referring to Sheeran, not Macklemore.

“'We arrived early,'” the father continued. “'Spent $180 on sweatshirts. Watch the first two opening acts. We were having a great time. Then Macklemore decides to turn your concert into his political rally. Then he started chanting "Free Palestine" and pushing his clearly uneducated version of the Israel-Gaza conflict.'”

“'My daughters looked at me completely confused. I had brought them to your concert, not to have an opening act lecture me about Middle Eastern politics,'” he added.

That’s when the dad decided to research Macklemore’s history.

“'What I found included his repeated use of anti-Semitic tropes; made the whole thing even worse. So I took my family. We walked alongside hundreds of your other fans. And as we were walking in, even the MetLife security guards were rolling their eyes at what was happening on stage. We waited until Macklemore was finished before returning to our seats,'” he said.

However, while the dad hoped that Macklemore’s performance had caught Sheeran off guard, Sheeran allowed him to repeat it the next night.

“'Friday night might have been Macklemore’s decision. Saturday was yours. You have a lot of Jewish fans who love your music, buy your albums and your merchandise, and bring their kids to your concerts,'” he continued. “'Tonight, you lost four of them. And I suspect plenty more.'”

Glenn is grateful for the father’s courage, saying, “That’s all it took.”

“One dad saying, ‘You know what? I’m sick of this. I’m done with this.’ Just that one guy giving you permission and others permission to say, ‘Yeah, me too.’”

Following the father’s post, multiple owners of stadiums where Sheeran and Macklemore were set to perform said “you’re not using our venue for that.”

“Then the singer Pink, who agrees with me on probably almost nothing, came out to support the owners. And now Macklemore is off the tour,” Glenn says.

“This may be the first time the Free Palestine crowd has gotten their much-needed reality check,” he adds.

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Glenn Beck unpacks Socialism 2026’s top freak-show moments — and the strike plot no one is talking about



Socialism 2026 — Haymarket Books’ annual gathering of Marxists, abolitionists, and far-left activists — ran September 4-7.

As you might expect, content centered on abolition — not just of capitalism, but also of police, prisons, borders, the family, and “cisness.” Not to mention plenty of speeches on Marxist theory, Palestine solidarity, anti-ICE organizing, and labor strategy.

Glenn Beck was horrified and amused at the freak-show antics of the four-day conference. On this episode of “The Glenn Beck program,” he revisits the most viral lowlights of the event and warns of the looming 2028 strike plan hiding behind them.

While many of the session titles were predictable, some were truly unhinged. Glenn names a few: “Health Fascism,” “Body Politics,” “The Anti-State State,” “Feminism Against Cisness,” “Abolishing the Family Through Black Feminist Lens,” and “Tarot Cards for Socialists.”

The one about tarot cards, he laughs, was his “favorite.”

“Apparently the godless need some advice and a second opinion as well,” he quips.

Another noteworthy moment, Glenn says, is when Hassan Piker — the celebrity salesman of abolition socialism — gladly received a hat from a Stand with Abortion Now member with the inscription “Satan’s School of Gay Communism.”

He then plays a clip of self-described queer/trans Afropessimist and anarcho-communist Da’Shaun Harrison arguing that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic are “fascistic” because they exist in “a world fixated on genociding fat people.”

While Harrison’s anti-GLP-1 argument makes Glenn roll his eyes, it’s the fact that he’s still wearing a mask that really ticks him off.

“For the love of Pete, COVID is way in the past. The mask didn't work in the first place,” he scoffs, noting that “a lot of the people at this convention were still wearing masks.”

As for Harrison’s fat-genocide grievance, Glenn sees a glaring flaw.

“Why would Americans want to genocide fat people? We'd all be dead. We'd all be dead. Have you been to a mall lately? Have you seen the American public recently?” he asks, baffled.

Sitting next to Harrison on the “Health Fascism” panel was Beatrice Alder Bolton — a disability-justice writer and podcaster.

“The fantasy of being fitter than the fascists — it's not just that it's cringe or strategically bad, though it is. I think it's also politically revealing. Fitness is a measure of relative disposability under capitalism,” she argued.

“Our task is not to become less disposable, to become more useful to the ruling order. What we all need to be doing is rejecting disposability in all of its forms,” she added.

Again, Glenn sees the irony. Bolton, who is wearing a mask to protect herself against sickness, is arguing that being fit and healthy is a capitalist trap.

“We don't have to worry about being healthy? Then take the mask off, sweetheart,” he snaps.

The problem with this group of radical abolitionists, he says, is not that they have bad ideas. “We all have bad ideas. … Bad ideas happen all the time. What you're looking at here in Chicago is a room where a bad idea has no place to die,” he says, explaining how dissent is equivalent to treason in such movements.

But the most alarming thing about Socialism 2026, Glenn argues, isn’t found in the viral videos about fat-genocide and fitness-as-fascism. It’s what’s coming in 2028.

“Mayday 2028” is “not a slogan” but a planned and well-organized strike that, if successful, will shut down many workplaces simultaneously.

“The UAW has called for aligning major union contract expirations on May 1, 2028. Other unions have moved their dates to match. DSA passed its resolution at its convention committing to build a mass action,” says Glenn.

“One organizer called [Socialism 2026] a structured test — a rehearsal to count how many people will actually walk out when asked. They are patient. They are funded. They are well scheduled, two and a half years out,” he continues.

So while most people are busy buzzing about viral X clips, “the calendar is the part that matters,” he warns.

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Glenn Beck: There's a reason they don't want you thinking as an individual



The left is determined to divide people into competing groups of oppressors and oppressed — and Christian apologist Frank Turek knows why.

“Marxism is all about the group, whereas Christianity is all about the individual. … That's the focus of the war on reality right now,” Turek tells Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck.

“They want people to identify everybody by an identity group,” he explains. “‘What identity group are you in?’ And if you are part of that collective, you’re oppressed. And if you’re not, you’re automatically an oppressor.”

“We’re not judging people individually any more,” he says. “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 U.S. You’re a Christian, Glenn. You’re an oppressor.’”


“But if you have the opposite qualities, you’re automatically oppressed,” he adds.

“It’s the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob,” Glenn agrees. “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, ‘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 any more,” he continues. “And all of that falls apart.”

“You must have that. That’s why there’s this war. Everything boils down to that: the God of the individual,” he adds.

Turek agrees, noting that “it’s also why Marxism dispenses with the individual.”

“They think the state is eternal,” he says.

“Whereas we Christians know the state isn’t eternal,” he continues. “It’s individuals that are eternal, and they’re going to be judged individually.”

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Glenn Beck unpacks 4 telling moments from Trump’s RNC keynote



As you might expect, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck wasn’t going to miss the GOP’s first-ever 2026 Republican Midterm Convention. It was President Trump’s September 9 keynote speech that drew him in the most.

On this episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Glenn walks through four moments from the speech that he says tell you who Trump is — and where the pitch still isn’t landing.

1. Long-term vision

Since Trump returned to office in 2025, Glenn has been defending his agenda as long-term foundation work — not short-term quick fixes.

One line in Trump’s speech, he says, confirmed this: “And I want you to remember me in four or five years when this country is rocketing. Remember, I’m the one that got it started.”

“That's verification of everything I've been telling you. He's working long-term,” Glenn says.

“He's fixing the plumbing and the electricity and everything. ... While everybody's like, ‘Yeah, you know, this wallpaper is bad, and you know, our kitchen table is broken,’ he's like, ‘No, we got to repoint the entire foundation of the house or nobody's going to care about the wallpaper.”’

He also notes Trump’s humility in using the word “started.”

“Meaning, it's not just him alone,” says Glenn, “which I know that's little, but to me, I watch for moments of who he really is.”

2. Campaigning for a party that hasn’t delivered

Trump’s humility was far from subtle in the segment of his speech about the southern border wall.

“Ted Cruz worked very hard on the wall and so did John Cornyn,” he acknowledged.

“We built this massive, beautiful, great wall. Beautiful because it works. ... Zero illegal aliens have entered our country from the southern border in the last 15 months,” Trump added.

Glenn believes this moment is crucial.

Trump, he explains, was “being gracious,” not only by praising the two senators but by showing up at the convention to help Republicans “who have really done nothing for him.” Add their poor midterm odds, and the near-certainty that the press will frame the loss as “Trump’s failure,” and his motive becomes obvious, says Glenn: he’s taking that on “for the country, not for him.”

3. An unpopular assist

Another remarkable moment, he says, was Trump highlighting Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-S.D.) despite knowing it would be “unpopular.”

Over loud booing from the audience, Trump said, “John is working hard. ... He's got great opposition from the Democrat Schumer and these guys. They're terrible. ... He's going to have great success, you watch. We are going to have great, great success with our Republican senators.”

“I have never seen Trump lose a room — never. Not once,” says Glenn.

“What he's doing there is [saying], ‘Guys, I need this guy.’ ... I don't know if that's a winning strategy with John Thune, but again, that's something that all the people in the press said he'd never ever do,” he adds.

4. A number that doesn’t land

But the “biggest” moment of Trump’s speech, says Glenn, is when he addressed foreign investment numbers — but it wasn’t the “biggest” in a positive sense.

“We have more money being spent from outside countries and companies — over $20 trillion. That's five, six, seven times higher than any country ever. Not just here, any country ever,” Trump said, noting that this figure could rise by the midpoint of his term.

Glenn believes that the applause Trump received for this comment was a “Pavlov response."

“He doesn't need to stop this point. He needs to stop saying it like this,” he criticizes.

Glenn argues that what Trump needs to highlight instead is how these foreign countries are investing in the United States and why that’s good for Americans.

“How are they investing? They're building factories. This is a nation that is going to build cars again, in our own factories again. ... That $20 trillion is the job for your son, or if you're just getting into college, that factory will be open, and we'll be taking applications. We are building America's strength again. We’re going to be builders again!” he exclaims.

He pleads with Trump to focus on tangible outcomes instead of just numbers so that the “average person” can understand how what he’s doing benefits them directly.

“He's not using the language the average person understands or relates to — and yet at the same time, I think everybody in that room walked away liking him.”

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Glenn Beck: This viral family fight reveals what happens when politics becomes your identity



A viral TikTok showing a daughter berating her mother over her support for Donald Trump has struck a chord with Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck — but not because of the political disagreement itself.

Instead, Glenn sees something larger at play.

“You made a wrong decision,” the daughter yells in the video. “And if you apologize to me for taking away my rights and the rights of everybody who can relate to me on these videos, then we would be fine. I told you in that text when you apologize for what you’ve done to this whole country, what you’ve had a hand in doing — you had a hand in this.”

“You and your people did this to my country — to all of our countries,” she added.


“That is the problem. You think it’s your country and there’s my way or the highway,” her mother responded.

“Murder is wrong! Racism is wrong! You know, he was sued over seven times for not serving black people,” the daughter yelled. “What do you have to say? What do you have to say to that?”

The daughter then called her mother “racist” and “hateful.”

“If there’s not a man in the house, then she needs to say, ‘Get out of the house. ... You can have different opinions, but you are not going to speak to me that way in this house. Period,’” Glenn says.

“Show some respect. But we don’t do that any more. And the reason why is we’ve forgotten who we are. We’ve completely forgotten who we are. … We’ve lost our story as a nation; we’ve lost our story as a people,” he adds.

Glenn notes that this problem stems from people no longer knowing who they are.

“When you can actually be silent for 20 minutes and just be alone with your own thoughts, you’re comfortable with knowing who you are. But I don’t think most of us even know who we are any more or why we’re here or what life is really for,” he explains.

“We are beginning to think we’re all here for politics. We’re not here for politics, gang. We’re not. We’re not fighting politics. We are fighting the collective versus the individual,” he says. “And that is a God thing.”

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Glenn Beck's message to America on the 25th anniversary of 9/11



September 10, 2001, felt like any other day. Americans went to work, made plans, walked their dogs, and tucked their children into bed without knowing they were living through the final hours of a world that was about to change forever.

On the anniversary of 9/11, Blaze Media co-founder Glenn Beck is reflecting on the courage and sacrifice that emerged in the wake of the attacks — and the gratitude Americans should have for every ordinary morning they get to wake up to.

“Do you know when the bridges and tunnels closed, half a million people were stranded, right there in lower Manhattan? Half a million. Sky was on fire behind them. Black, dust, ash everywhere,” Glenn recalls.

“The Coast Guard put out a call for every boat that could come,” he explains. “Tugboats, ferries, dinner cruises, fishing charters, you know, a guy with a Boston whaler.”


After the 9/11 attack, those vessels took half a million people off the island.

“It was the largest — and still is— the largest sea evacuation in the history of the world. Bigger than Dunkirk,” he says.

However, Americans quickly forgot the sacrifice others made out of love for their country and people.

“We have spent 25 years telling everybody it’s wicked, that it’s rotten. It was rotten from the start. That everything it gave us was stolen and everything that it built should be torn down or burned down,” he says.

But this “wicked” country is “still feeding us this morning.”

“It’s still a place people are dying in the desert to reach. It still goes on loving a generation that never once said thank you and might even be embarrassed to say thank you, America,” he explains.

And not only are foreigners doing everything they can to get into the country, but they’re doing it because an ordinary America that sees little gratitude is actually extraordinary.

“We’re standing in the ordinary,” Glenn says. “A different kind, but an ordinary today. Right now, somewhere in this country, there’s a morning coming that will divide our lives entirely. And that day is not on any calendar.”

“Nobody’s watching and saying, ‘I know when that’s going to happen.’ And what we will remember about today, this Thursday, this nothing of a day, is what we always remember,” he explains, noting that we will not remember “the argument” or “the elections.”

We will remember “the kitchen, the dog, somebody’s hand on the back of your neck.”

“I remember September 10, 2001. It was the last ordinary day of my life, of the America I knew. And in one day, the next morning, that ordinary America was completely different,” he says.

“It’s weird that we call what’s happening in the world today ordinary, but it is. It’s just the new normal,” he continues. “And I thank God we got another September 10.”

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‘Flight from hell’: Seatmate of duct-taped American Airlines passenger tells Glenn Beck the FULL story



On September 3, Messianic rabbi and bestselling evangelical author Jonathan Cahn was flying home to New Jersey from Dallas on an American Airlines flight when, he says, a casual conversation with his seatmate — 67-year-old Arizona realtor Arthur Lundeen — turned into chaos.

According to Cahn’s account, conversation was flowing normally between them until Cahn mentioned his new book and the gospel, at which point Lundeen allegedly flipped in an instant and began cursing Jesus before allegedly hitting Cahn’s laptop and grabbing at him.

Other passengers described the outburst turning violent, with Lundeen allegedly shouting a slew of profanities, including racial and homophobic slurs, allegedly biting one of the passengers who stepped in to help restrain him, and bleeding from wounds passengers said he inflicted on himself from struggling.

After Lundeen was restrained with zip ties and duct tape, the flight was diverted to Baltimore, where police arrested him and charged him with second-degree assault and disorderly conduct.

On a recent episode of “The Glenn Beck Program,” Cahn told the Blaze Media co-founder that news reports covering the incident are heavily focused on “side things” and are missing the much bigger story behind what he describes as “the flight from hell.”

“What happened was demonic. It was real spiritual warfare,” Cahn tells Glenn, noting that this wasn’t the first time he’s been caught up in the cosmic war between light and dark.

“Every time ... I put out a book there’s crazy attacks,” he says, “and that makes sense ... because the books reveal the spiritual realm.”

Cahn’s newest book, “The Altar of Pergamon: The Mystery of the Dark Angel and the Future of the World,” which his publisher billed as his most “explosive revelation” yet, released on September 1 — just two days before Lundeen allegedly attacked him.

“I get on the plane, and the guy is to my left — friendliest guy in the world. By the way, Glenn, I wasn't supposed to be on that seat. Last minute, I'm switched to that seat,” Cahn recounts.

He says their conversation about family and life went on for “two hours” and was so amicable the flight attendants thought they “knew each other.” But the second Cahn turned the chitchat to spiritual matters, the warmth vanished.

“I wanted to get work done, but I figured, OK, maybe God wants me to talk to this guy ... and then I said, ‘God, give me a chance to share Your love with him, Your salvation with him,’ and so it happens,” says Cahn.

Lundeen, according to Cahn’s account, explained that he had “rejected” Christianity “as a kid” because of things he didn’t like about “Christians.” When Cahn then tried to explain to him that Christianity isn’t about Christians but about “you and God,” “God’s love,” and being “born again,” Lundeen allegedly got defensive.

“He says, ‘How do you know God is real?’ and I said, ‘Well, I was an atheist. I saw biblical prophecy coming true, and I couldn't argue with it,”’ he recounts.

“Everything's great, and then it turns. That moment, I don't know. I've never seen anything like this in my life. It was like his face changes, his voice changes. ... He's cursing God. ... He's cursing Jesus. It's blasphemy on the airplane. They didn't put that in the articles,” Cahn recaps.

Lundeen’s vehement reaction to the gospel, Cahn says, then began to spiral out of control.

“He's saying vulgar things. People all around are getting disturbed. ... Then the flight attendants come over ... and then he stands up, and he goes to the people in front and says, ‘Do you believe in Jesus?’ And then he starts talking about hell,” he says.

“Imagine a demonic manifestation ... and then suddenly, he turns friendly again like he's a different person.”

But the sudden shift back to amiability didn’t last long, says Cahn.

He explains that earlier that week before he went on his book tour, a small “black patch” had unexplainably appeared on his computer screen. According to Cahn, when Lundeen saw the black patch, he “[tapped]” it “three times,” and it immediately “[spread] across [his] screen.”

“Then he puts his hands around me ... and he's laughing like it's a joke,” he tells Glenn.

But what triggered the “ultimate escalation,” he says, is when Lundeen saw an image of his book’s cover — which features a hooded, winged “dark angel” representing Satan — on the computer screen in the area the black patch hadn’t covered.

“Then he starts shouting ... ‘What did you do? What did you do?’ like I did something wrong,” says Cahn.

“You will never see this in any newspaper, but ... he says, ‘I'm going to punch your blanking Jewish face in.’ ... Then he starts hitting me.”

At this point, it dawns on Cahn that dark spiritual forces are trying to destroy his computer, which stores his life’s work as a Christian author.

“I take my computer, I start closing it up. ... At that moment, he lunges at me, and he lunges at my computer, and he grabs my computer with all his might, and he's trying to wrest it from me and undoubtedly to destroy it,” he says, adding that this struggle turned into a “wrestling” match that he ultimately won but not without reinjuring his newly healed arm.

At this point, other passengers got involved, leading to Lundeen being restrained and the plane’s diversion to Baltimore. This is part of the story news outlets have honed in on, says Cahn, adding that some articles he’s seen even frame Lundeen as a “Christian who is racist.”

Glenn confirms that the articles he’s read frame the incident around Lundeen’s alleged racist, sexist, and homophobic comments. “None of what you said was in that story — none,” he tells Cahn.

That’s because the “real story” of the gospel triggering a “demonic manifestation,” says Cahn, is one the media would never dare touch.

To hear more wild details from Cahn’s “flight from hell,” watch the full interview above.

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