Secure Freedom Minute

Last night, I had the opportunity to speak virtually alongside a renowned freedom-fighter named Mike Arnold with Nigerian-Americans now living in Houston and best described as foreign-born American patriots. These men and women appreciate intensely how precious – and how perishable – are the liberties most of us who had the God-given privilege of being born in this country take for granted.  They also recognize the mortal threat to Texas and the rest of the United States posed by adherents to Islam's totalitarian prescription for jihadist conquest known as sharia. After all, such sharia-supremacists have for years been genocidally murdering their fellow Christians in Nigeria with impunity.  Nigerian expatriates who are now U.S. citizens are especially motivated to vote for the Texas Republican primary's Proposition 10 which calls for prohibiting sharia in that state. Every patriotic Texan should without fail do the same. BanSharia.com.  This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump will visit Corpus Christie tomorrow. He will be talking about economic issues and promoting his preferred candidates in next week's Republican primary election.  There's another compelling reason for Mr. Trump to get out the vote: The last item on the GOP ballot is Proposition 10 which simply says “Texas should prohibit sharia law.” A Trump endorsement of Prop 10 could help it achieve a decisive victory and catalyze an urgently needed policy course-correction in that state – and potentially across the nation. Otherwise, America is going to continue to follow Europe's steady slide into what the President has decried as “civilization erasure.” After all, destroying not just the USA, but Western civilization is the express goal of Islam's totalitarian and demonic sharia death-cult.  Obviously, we must preclude that. An overwhelming vote for Proposition 10 is the place to start. BanSharia.com.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Sharia Imperils the State of the Union   This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. Donald Trump's State of the Union address last night was a master class in information warfare. His myriad theatrical interventions were capped by intervals of soaring presidential rhetoric and powerful attacks on his political adversaries. The most effective of such attacks came with his call to the assembled legislators to stand and clap if they regarded their jobs as protecting the American people or illegal aliens. Republicans in the chamber responded with a protracted and raucus standing ovation as their Democratic counterparts silently sat it out. The not-so-loyal opposition's seething palpably exposed not only a telling misplaced priority unsupported by most Americans. It also signaled the high stakes in the upcoming midterms. If given the majority, Democrats will assuredly exact revenge on not just President Trump but the majority of us who put America First.  This is Frank Gaffney.

An internal threat that Donald Trump illuminated directly and forcefully in his first run for the presidency is increasingly imperiling our Union. He must tackle it again in tonight's address to the Nation. On August 15, 2016, he warned of the danger posed by the ideology of “Radical Islam.” This demonic death-cult's adherents call it “sharia” and they're aggressively insinuating it across this country, especially in Texas. In his speech in Youngstown, Mr. Trump promised to “strip out and remove one by one the support networks of Radical Islam.” That's a promise made, but as yet unkept. On Friday, the President will be in Texas in the endgame of its Republican primary election. The ballot features Proposition 10 which simply says, “Texas should prohibit sharia law.” Tonight, he can begin to fulfill his longstanding commitment by endorsing Prop 10.  BanSharia.com. This is Frank Gaffney.

Over the next five days, early voting in Texas' Republican primary will wrap up. Typically, most voters will cast their ballots early. Consequently, those who didn't do so last week, as well as those who will on election day March 3rd, must know that there's more at stake than a number of hotly contested races at the top of the ballot. At its very end is perhaps the single most important choice on any ballot anywhere in the country this election year. That's Proposition 10. Its entire contents are: “Texas should prohibit sharia law.”  Prop 10 is neither law nor binding. But it offers Republican voters and others who can vote in this open primary a momentous choice: Ban sharia or allow sharia ultimately to ban freedom in Texas – with momentous implications for that state and the rest of the country. BanSharia.com. This is Frank Gaffney.

The British man formerly known as Prince Andrew is being properly excoriated for his alleged sexual predation on underaged girls facilitated by Jeffrey Epstein. The punishment he faces on charges of misconduct in office could amount to a life sentence in prison. One wonders how the U.K.'s judicial system would respond if Andrew revealed that he had secretly converted to Islam. After all, its prophet Mohammed is considered to be “the perfect man,” whose conduct is to be emulated by every faithful Muslim.  Such conduct includes Mohammed's marriage to a six-year old girl named Aisha. While he didn't “consummate” the arrangement until she was nine, under Islam's operating code known as sharia, his model has legitimized child rape and other forms of pedophilia for fourteen hundred years – and it continues to do so today.   Western civilization must consistently reject such outrages. BanSharia.com. This is Frank Gaffney.

Perfidious Albion This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. For over two centuries, Britain's treacherous diplomacy earned it the nickname of “Perfidious Albion.” Yesterday, President Trump subtly channeled that sentiment in a polite, but very firm, repudiation of Britain's latest act of diplomatic subterfuge – namely, its gambit effectively to give away its right, and ours, to use a strategically critical Indian Ocean base called Diego Garcia.  Worse yet, Prime Minister Kier Starmer's odious deal with the China-dominated nation of Mauritius would predictably result in our mortal enemy – the Chinese Communist Party taking over that vital asset.  Mr. Trump rightly told Starmer “DO NOT GIVE AWAY DIEGO GARCIA.” Given the Brit leader's utter perfidiousness – and that of the State Department, which blessed the deal on Tuesday – the President better explicitly rule out any surrender of the rest of the Chagos archiplego, as well.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Jihadists worldwide have concluded that they will achieve Western civilization's destruction as sharia commands. Their success in gang-raping with impunity some one million British girls is proof-positive that they're right.  Pastor Jocko Booyens – an international leader in fighting such criminal sexual exploitation – warns that many American girls are being subjected to similarly rapacious behavior through so-called “beneficial relationships” cultivated by an institution dubbed “Sugar Baby University.” It should be known as “Rape U.” Texans started voting yesterday on Proposition 10 aimed at prohibiting sharia law. The fact that reducing crushing student debt is our causing our girls to be raped, impregnated and/or induced to convert to Islam and relocate to the Mideast – practices all condoned by sharia – is just one more reason why Prop 10 must pass. BanSharia.com. This is Frank Gaffney.

Prudent military officers plotting battlefield strategies are mindful of an immutable fact that can undo even the most brilliant of plans: “The enemy gets a vote.”  Starting today in the state of Texas, that is literally the case. With the beginning of early voting in its open GOP primary, Democrats, independents and, yes, jihadists can vote among other things on the ballot's Proposition 10 which simply says, “Texas should prohibit sharia law.”  If only Republican Texans voted, a call for banning Islam's toxic, totalitarian and demonic ideology masquerading as a religion now being insinuated into their state would pass overwhelmingly. If they do not turn out massively, however, our sharia-supremacist enemies may well do so, and significantly skew the vote.  So, it behooves every patriotic Texan voter to turn out and say “Yes” to Prop 10 and a sharia-free Texas. BanSharia.com. This is Frank Gaffney.

Against the backdrop of a meeting of national security luminaries – including Secretary of State Marco Rubio – last weekend in Munich, Germany, a most amazing event took place. According to police estimates, a quarter of a million people took to that city's streets in solidarity with the people of Iran, demanding an end to the horrific sharia-supremacist tyranny that has brutally repressed them and threatened us for nearly fifty years. Senator Lindsay Graham conveyed America's support for liberating the Iranian people. His comments came shortly after President Trump observed the end of the ayatollahs' regime would be “the best thing that could happen.”  Mr. Trump now has in place military forces that can destroy the  mullahs' remaining security apparatus. It's time for the promised “help is on the way” to be translated into help delivered and a true “Liberation Day” achieved.   This is Frank Gaffney.

Under Secretary of State for Arms Control Thomas DiNanno recently revealed that the Chinese Communist Party has covertly explosively tested nuclear weapons creating yields of “hundreds of tons” of dynamite. By so doing, the CCP has validated that the state-of-the-art arms they are putting on an astonishing array of new missiles and bomber aircraft actually work.  That amounts to Chinese cheating on an international ban on such testing. It also demands that that the United States – which hasn't conducted such a test since 1992 and, unlike China, has no treaty obligation to refrain from doing so, must validate that the obsolescing weapons in its arsenal are actually still safe, reliable and effective, too.   President Trump says he wants to test our nuclear weapons as others have done. Our national security and deterrence requires we do just that now.   This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump says “Iran wants a deal.” It would be more accurate to say Iran wants to negotiate about “a deal.” The difference is, as Mark Twain put it, between “lightning and a lightning bug.” Iran's sharia-supremacist regime has used decades of such negotiations ostensibly aimed at denuclearizing Iran, to buy time to continue: its nuclear weapons program; its build-up of various missiles with which to deliver them across the Middle East and even here; and its enabling of jihadist terrorism worldwide. Mr. Trump insists he'll address all those threats. But the ayatollahs have a culture of haggling in the bazaar and hope to run the clock out on his military options. Memo to the President: “Give peace a chance” the only way it can possibly eventuate – namely, by doing deals with the liberated people of Iran after this regime is gone.  This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump's meeting this week with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could finally precipitate the end of the still-metastasizing sharia-supremacist regime in Iran. Alternatively, it could result in failure by allowing the Iranian mullahocracy literally to get away with murder and continue its preparations to unleash truly apocalyptic destruction.  That is not hyperbole. Rather, it is the mission statement of the official religion of Iran, which holds that only such devastation will bring back its messiah.  Mr. Trump is being told that giving the ayatollahs more time to make a deal could actually eliminate the threat they pose. It ain't gonna happen. Mr. President: Give peace the only chance that will actually make a difference: Help liberate the people of Iran from the tyrants who will otherwise continue to murder them and eventually fulfill the regime's mantra of “Death to America.” This is Frank Gaffney.

On Friday, New York City's communist Muslim mayor Zoran Mamdani unveiled a sweeping throwdown with the Trump administration's policies aimed at removing illegal aliens from this country. Particularly noteworthy was Mamdani's declaration that his model for dealing with immigrants would align with the welcome and good home the people of Medina gave to Islam's first migrant, Muhammad. As freedom fighter Kevin Freeman has pointed out, however, Muhammad repaid Medina's Jewish tribes who gave him such refuge by ultimately destroying them, murdering the men, and turning their women and children into sex slaves and chattel. The effects of Mamdani's aggressively anti-ice, open door, and sanctuary city policies emulating those exploited by Islam's perfect man, Muhammad will not only put at risk his own population, inevitably those to whom he is recklessly giving refuge will emulate the example of Mamdani's prophet and destructively migrate elsewhere in America too.   This is Frank Gaffney.

There is something surreal about the Enemy Within's determined “Defund the Police” 2.0. Those Communists, jihadists and their fellow travelers doing business as the Democratic Party – with a few irresponsible Republicans – are demanding that we effectively disarm ICE at a moment when we need it more than ever to find and remove, or otherwise neutralize, “the worst of the worst” of the illegal immigrants in America.  By any definition, such illegals would include tens of thousands Chinese soldiers now inside this country. Especially when it appears they can tap perhaps 20 biological warfare laboratories here, too. CIA veteran Sam Faddis warns that, based on the two labs discovered so far, their contents could kill between sixty-ninety percent of those infected.  Consequently, the treacherous anti-ICE enemies within are also among the worst of the worst. They must be treated as such. This is Frank Gaffney.

What if Chinese Communist emperor Xi Jinping is lying to Donald Trump, like he did to his top generals?  The President has repeatedly reported Xi told him Taiwan would not be invaded during the second Trump administration. While that's obviously desirable, the implication that Communist China will invade after Trump leaves office is ominous. It also seems increasingly unlikely.  The People's Liberation Army is now regularly rehearsing decapitation attacks, blockades and other invasion scenarios against Taiwan's main island. Xi is fracturing America's alliances. And he has his country on a war-footing. Xi is also a practiced liar. Just ask the top generals he has systematically purged, obviously having told the most recent victims they would not share the earlier ones' fate. Their replacements will likely be all-in for invasion, and the truth is, it could – and probably will – come at any time.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Donald Trump and Democrats appear to agree that the Immigrations and Customs Enforcement effort to find and remove illegal immigrants requires a reboot.  Unfortunately, the changes the President's partisan opponents want would effectively preclude many ICE operations. He is resisting some, but has agreed that Democratic governors and mayors can preclude them in their jurisdictions.  A new bestseller by Peter Schweizer makes clear that what's needed to secure this country is very different. The Invisible Coup lays bare the subversion that is now afoot at the hands of foreign enemies and their domestic allies.  Consequently, ICE – and, as needed, other elements of the U.S. government – should urgently be tasked with identifying and neutralizing the large numbers of Chinese soldiers, jihadists and others here and determined to destroy or “reconquer” this country.  Americans enabling such subversion must be held accountable, too.  This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump recently announced that a new company would control TikTok's powerful algorithm in the United States. Its owners include Larry Ellison's Oracle, a U.A.E. AI company, and – wait for it – the platform's Chinese Communist Party-controlled founder, Bytedance. TikTok's Chinese CEO will serve on its Board of Directors. How exactly this will work with respect to the CCP's toxic weaponization of TikTok remains to be seen. The continuing involvement of Chinese nationals and the parent company is concerning. So is the fact that TikTok's surveillance, propaganda and influence operations will persist outside the U.S. on platforms supposed to be seamlessly accessible to American users. President Trump credits Chinese dictator Xi Jinping with approving this deal. Probably that's because Xi's sure the CCP will still be able to addict, disinform, manipulate and mobilize young Americans – and profit handsomely in the process.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Europeans have been sharply critical of President Trump for his insistence that U.S. security requires actual ownership of Greenland. Formerly Great Britain is, however, giving everyone an object lesson on why that's so. The UK's hard-left Prime Minister Keir Starmer is currently in Beijing negotiating a new “strategic partnership” with Communist China. Simultaneously, he's seeking parliamentary approval to surrender British sovereignty over – and, inevitably, U.S. use of – Diego Garcia, a strategically vital base in the Indian Ocean.  The Chinese would be the principal beneficiary of such a betrayal, and probably ultimately the inheritors of that base, as they were Afghanistan's Bagram. The President has rightly called Starmer's sellout on Diego Garcia an act of “great stupidity.” He must now inform the Brits that the United States formally rejects the deal and will take ownership of the island if they relinquish it.  This is Frank Gaffney.

It's appalling that Sir Keir Starmer, the leader of a nation with the history of the once-Great Britain, is currently not simply groveling before China's Communist Emperor Xi Jinping. He's actively appeasing freedom's mortal enemy.  Last week, the U.K. approved a vast new Chinese embassy in London. Now, Starmer wants Parliament to bless a disastrous deal likely to result in the Chinese taking over a strategic U.S. military installation called Diego Garcia.  Dozens of influential British and American patriots are issuing today a powerful public statement opposing this unforced error of epic proportions.  Coming in the wake of Canada's odious “separate peace” with the Chinese Communist Party last week, London's pursuit of a new “special relationship” with Beijing can only further embolden Xi Jinping – and invite his aggression at the expense of Taiwan and what else is left of the Free World.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Is the special relationship done? The question of whether the longstanding and unique bond between the United States and Britain is now toast arises as the U.K.'s hard left government prepares to unilaterally disarm not only itself, but America, as well. That would be the practical effect of one of history's worst international agreements. Pursuant to a “deal” awaiting parliamentary approval in London, the British government would pay billions of dollars to the Chinese Communist-tied African nation of Mauritius to imperil the U.S. military's essential use of the Indian Ocean island base called Diego Garcia over 1200 miles away.  Worse yet, if the Brits miss even a single payment, Mauritius can terminate their lease.  President Trump has correctly described this deal as an act of “GREAT STUPIDITY.” Parliament must repudiate it, or bid farewell to the special relationship. This is Frank Gaffney.

The United States has a new National Defense Strategy. Unfortunately, that of the Chinese Communist Party is unchanged. According to the document released by the Department of War on January 23rd, China is no longer this country's “most significant strategic competitor.” Even that formulation used by the Biden administration in its 2022 counterpart NDS downplayed the reality that the CCP is our mortal enemy. The Trump administration has decided to prioritize the security of the Western hemisphere, saying unspecified “strength” will deter China and promote “visionary and realistic diplomacy, thereby setting conditions for a balance of power in the Indo-Pacific that allows all [the region's nations] to enjoy a decent peace.”  Unfortunately, the Chinese Communists are not interested in a decent peace. They seek our destruction, including by continuing their penetration and domination of our hemisphere. America needs a war-footing now. This is Frank Gaffney.

It's appropriate that weather more typical of Greenland will be assaulting much of the continental United States as the nation is called to address a new front in Communist China's unrestricted warfare against us – namely, the Arctic north.  Xi Jinping's regime has absurdly, but ominously, asserted that China is a “near-Arctic nation.” It has been: sending nuclear submarines to execise under the polar icecap; using its large and growing fleet of icebreakers to facilitate PRC shipping via the so-called “Polar Silk Road”; and evincing growing interest in exploiting the region's abundant natural resources.  And the Chinese Communist regime has just secured a “strategic partnership” with Canada that may result in the presence of People's Liberation Army forces in North America.  A very timely webinar today will explore the absolute necessity of securing Greenland and our northern front. Join us at PresentDangerChina.org.  This is Frank Gaffney.

It's “Liberation Day” 2.0. President Trump's decision to withdraw the United States from the World Health Organization becomes final today, ending the direct threat to American sovereignty posed by the WHO's insidious efforts to advance world government.  Mr. Trump recognized the danger posed by the largely opaque use of international agreements and diplomatic shenanigans behind closed doors to give unprecedented powers over our public health to the WHO Director General, an Ethiopian Communist controlled by the Chinese Communist Party. We want no part of a reprise of Tedros Ghebreyesus' murderous malfeasance during the COVID-19 pandemic.  The U.S. can and should continue to lead the world in countering pandemics. The place to start is by recognizing their single most dangerous source: namely, the CCP's illegal biological weapons program which, with Tony Fauci's criminal help, unleashed on us and others the COVID biowarfare attack.  This is Frank Gaffney.

While much of the world's elites focus on a fractious debate in Davos over the future status of Greenland and the prospects for the NATO alliance, tectonic shifts are taking place in the Middle East that require urgent attention.  During weeks of massive protests across Iran, President Trump warned that nation's jihadist regime not to use violence to suppress them, encouraged the unrest to continue and declared it was time for the supreme leader to go. The ayatollahs savagely crushed the uprising with impunity.  And vicious retribution reportedly continues unchecked.  The magnitude of the danger posed by leaving the perpetrators of such crimes unpunished and in power is hard to overstate. They will assuredly be emboldened not only to bring more death to the people of Iran. They will relentlessly seek to bring death to Israel and death to America, as well.    This is Frank Gaffney.

Joanne Fleming is an extraordinary freedom-fighter in Texas who runs “Grassroots America We the People.” On Steve Bannon's “War Room Texas” program last night, she revealed a stunning fact.  According to Ms. Fleming, during interviews of candidates seeking her group's influential endorsement, when asked what prospective constituents say is most concerning them, the threat posed by shariah's adherents is now consistently mentioned.  This is particularly noteworthy because voters in the Texas Republican primary on March 3rd will have an opportunity to approve Proposition 10, which simply says “Texas should prohibit sharia law.”  A new poll by Rasmussen Reports indicates that its not just Texans, but a sizeable majority of U.S. voters – seventy-seven percent – who are concerned about “the influence of radical Islam in America.” Learn more about the threat Texas – and the rest of America –face from sharia-supremacism at BanSharia.com This is Frank Gaffney.

Martin Luther King, Jr. had a dream of freedom. The world's sharia-supremacists have one, too. Theirs  is about submission – specifically, the non-Muslim world's enslavement pursuant to the toxic, demonic and anti-constitutional Islamic ideology known as sharia. The United States is a prime target for sharia-adherents' penetration, subversion and conquest since that would inevitably ensure the end of Judeo-Christian civilization – and with it, any hope of fully realizing and perpetuating Dr. King's visionary aspiration.  Texas is the frontline of this battle between good and evil. On March 3rd, many Texans will vote on Republican primary ballot Proposition 10. It simply says, “Texas should prohibit sharia law.” The stakes could hardly be higher. After all, as Texas goes, so goes the Nation. And it is no exaggeration that as this nation goes, so goes Dr. King's quest for freedom worldwide. This is Frank Gaffney.

The Chinese Communist Party makes no secret of its determination to destroy the United States of America. So how can we allow the CCP to own land across the country often within striking distance, literally, of sensitive U.S. military and other installations? For example, a longtime official of the CCP's subversive United Front Work Department owns two golf courses enveloping a critically important U.S. military installation: Louisiana's Barksdale Air Force Base. That's the home of Global Strike Command responsible for two of the three “legs” of our nuclear “Triad.” What could possibly go wrong? It's malfeasant to let our mortal enemy have the option of waging immensely destructive warfare against us from inside the United States. China's assets like the Barksdale-adjacent golf courses should be seized immediately and Chinese nationals – especially any PLA soldiers in America – should be repatriated forthwith. This is Frank Gaffney.

The fate of Iran's despotic regime appears to be hanging in the balance. The country's population – after almost five decades of repression, privation and sharia-indoctrination – are in the streets, risking life and limb to demand the mullahs' overthrow. Thousands have been shot dead where they were demonstrating; others who were wounded, were subsequently executed. To his credit, President Trump has repeatedly expressed solidarity with those seeking freedom, encouraging them to keep protesting and promising help to those subjected to murderous attacks by Iranian and imported jihadists. On Wednesday, however, the President declared that such attacks had reportedly been suspended. While he expressed some uncertainty about the accuracy of such claims, the implication was that the promise of U.S. military action on behalf of the protesters would be suspended, as well. America must help the Iranian people prevail – not abandon them, yet again. This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, the U.S. government formally designated three foreign “chapters” of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. Secretary of State Marco Rubio described them “the opening actions of an ongoing, sustained effort to thwart Muslim Brotherhood chapters' violence and destabilization wherever it occurs."  For the moment, though, other chapters and the Brotherhood's “mother movement,” remain free to pursue their stated goal of waging a “grand jihad to destroy Western civilization from within.”  Unfortunately, every jihadist on the planet, and every one of their – and their allies' – still-undesignated “support networks,” will perceive that status as proof they will succeed.  And, according to Islam's toxic sharia doctrine, when jihadists sense weakness in their enemies, they must redouble efforts to make them “feel subdued.” That's a formula for much more, and terrifying, violence in America. We must ban the Brotherhood now.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Millions of Iranians are publicly demanding the end of the sharia-supremacist regime that has brutalized them and threatened us for nearly fifty years. The mullahs are increasingly responding with murderous violence. President Trump has lately broken with past U.S. practice by explicitly supporting those in the streets. He's threatened to use force to that end. He's announced that new tariffs will be imposed on Iran's trading partners. And American military assets are on the move in the region, creating new options for action against the ayatollahs. Iran's government is trying a gambit that has worked in the past – buying time through negotiations over its covert nuclear weapons program. At the moment, preparations for a bilateral meeting are reportedly underway. There should be no more reprieves for the tyrants. We must help liberate the Iranian people, not preserve their enemies in Tehran, and ours. This is Frank Gaffney.

On Friday night, Dutch parliamentarian Geert Wilders, Steve Bannon and Glenn Beck addressed a “Save Texas” event near Dallas sponsored by Patriot Mobile. It just may prove to be a turning point in U.S. history. Mr. Wilders warned that adherents to Islam's totalitarian sharia code are extinguishing freedom's “lights” – and America risks the same fate. Mr. Bannon launched a campaign to fight back with a vote in the Texan Republican primary on March 3rd proclaiming “Texas should ban sharia law.”  And Mr. Beck reminded us that this nation has defeated other, “existential threats to freedom” and that we must rise to that posed by sharia-supremacists in our time. Learn why every liberty-loving Texan and other American must do just that in the run-up to March 3rd and then election day this fall when banning sharia must be a voting issue. Visit BanSharia.com. This is Frank Gaffney.

In less than two months, Texan Republican primary voters can help determine the future of our constitutional Republic by countering Islam's toxic sharia ideology. Its adherents explicitly seek to replace our government with a global theocracy. The ballot measure simply says “Texas should ban sharia law.” It's been prompted by increasingly aggressive efforts by sharia-supremacists to demand accommodations that would translate into non-Muslims' submission to their totalitarian code.  These include: the creation of what amount to Muslim-only communities; taxpayer subsidies for jihadist Islamic organizations; mosque tribunals administering anti-constitutional sharia restrictions; and measures that effectively oblige everyone to consume “halal” foods consecrated to the Muslim god, Allah. Texas should indeed ban sharia, and a resounding vote to do so there will encourage the rest of America to do the same.   This is Frank Gaffney.

An important webinar conducted by our Committee on the Present Danger: China yesterday revealed that President Trump is actually not pursuing the policy of so-called “restraint” towards the CCP – better characterized as “appeasement” –  favored by some of his advisors.  Mr. Trump appears instead to be giving Chinese Communist dictator Xi Jinping a bit of his own medicine by engaging in cognitive warfare aimed at obscuring the actual “unrestricted warfare” the United States is now increasingly waging at Xi's expense.  So, while the President continues to profess great respect for Emperor Xi, he's actively working to undermine him across a broad front including by: supporting the people of Iran, not China's vassal regime there; taking out the CCP's Venezuelan puppet, Nicholas Maduro; and challenging Chinese ambitions to dominate the rest of the world. Let's roll! Learn more at presentdangerchina.org.  This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump is serious about threats to this country emanating from actual or prospective penetrations of our hemisphere by hostile forces. Operation Absolute Resolve in Venezuela was animated in part by Nicholas Maduro's close ties with Communist China, Cuba, Iran and Russia. The President understands that vast, strategically located, resource-rich and nearly unpopulated Greenland is in such enemies' crosshairs, too. So much so, that he's intent on buying it. Understandably, if all else fails, he would not rule out the use of our military to keep the immense island from being weaponized against us – something we did in World War II.  Denmark and other European nations that have proven indifferent to the ongoing invasions of their countries by sharia-supremacists are denouncing our President's resolve. But NATO also requires Greenland to be in safe hands and cannot otherwise assure it will be. This is Frank Gaffney.

For five years, we've been relentlessly told that, on this day in 2021, a mob determined to overthrow the government of the United States attacked the U.S. Capitol at the direction of President Donald Trump.  There is considerable circumstantial evidence supporting an alternative explanation of what actually happened that January 6th. President Trump didn't incite violence; he was blocked from having National Guard units deployed to prevent any; Speaker Nancy Pelosi actually reduced Capitol security that day; the police opened some of the buildings' doors and waved people in; provocateurs were in the crowd, some of whom may have been among the large numbers of FBI undercover operatives and informants in the crowd. Whether what happened five years ago was Democrat “direct action” aimed at undermining President Trump and his base remains to be seen. But that indisputably was the practical effect.     This is Frank Gaffney.

With the extraordinary feat of U.S. military arms that seized and extracted Venezuelan dictator Nicholas Maduro on Saturday, President Trump has reestablished the priority of hemispheric security among America's vital interests.  In so doing, he served notice on this country's enemies in the Americas and those like China, Russia and Iran that have been allowed for far too long to operate here with impunity: Freedom-loving nations and peoples in the region will have a powerful friend in the United States and their foes a determined and engaged adversary. To be clear, the United States did not seek to change Venezuela's regime. Until that happens, the Communists, cartel and foreign powers that have tyrannically misruled there will remain a metastasizing threat to the native population and to ours. But an opportunity to secure both has been created – and must now be actualized.  This is Frank Gaffney.

For nearly fifty years, the Iranian people have suffered incalculably at the hands of a sharia-supremacist regime. The fact that the so-called “civilized world,” which the mullahs also assiduously threaten, has largely ignored that horror – and, worse yet, to varying degrees enabled it by doing deals with them – is damning in the extreme. Amidst the latest, and hopefully final, popular demonstrations against the ayatollahs, President Trump today has publicly aligned the U.S. government with Iran's people.  In a Truth Social post, he declared: “If Iran [shoots] and violently kills peaceful protesters, which is their custom, the United States of America will come to their rescue. We are locked and loaded and ready to go.” President Trump seeks a legacy of peacemaking. His greatest contribution to a true and enduring peace in the Middle East will lie with helping Iranians liberate their country.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Onwards Christian - and Jewish - Soldiers! It is indisputably history's greatest crime against humanity that some 380 million Christians around the world are being heavily persecuted.  Events of the past few months offer hope that leaders of the civilized world are, at last, going to defend those persecuted simply for following Jesus Christ. Notably, President Trump warned jihadists in Nigeria, including its government, to stop such attacks or face U.S. military action – which he unleashed shortly before Christmas. Some Syrian jihadis butchering Christians and other minorities also faced American military retribution.  And Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu recently declared that, “We are joining an effort to have basically a united nations of countries that support Christian communities around the world. This is…a main part of our agenda and it's going to continue with greater force and greater might in this coming year.” Onwards Christian – and Jewish – soldiers! This is Frank Gaffney.

“Happy New Year” is a wish, but not by any means a prediction. Whether it will prove to be a healthy, productive and prosperous one for Americans will depend in part on circumstances beyond our control, both domestically and externally.  Here are a few ways in which we can improve the prospects for the twelve months ahead:  Get right with God. With His Grace, all things are possible. Prize this amazing country as we celebrate its first two-hundred-and-fifty years. We must devote ourselves to protecting and practicing our constitutional freedoms so that they can be enjoyed as well by future generations. Recognize that there are those, both here at home and globally, whose aspirations for this year conflict with ours. Their hostile ideologies drive quests for power, control and dominance over us that must be deterred and, where necessary, resisted.  This is Frank Gaffney.

After meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu yesterday, President Trump warned the Muslim Brotherhood's Palestinian terrorist franchise Hamas that it must live up to its agreement to disarm. Then he added that, if that didn't happen, there were numerous nations who would be willing to use force to “wipe Hamas out.”  Unfortunately, Hamas spokesmen have repeatedly insisted that the jihadists never committed to lay down their arms. And it's unclear whether even a single country – other than Israel – is prepared to engage in the kind of costly combat required to  disarm the terrorists, let alone eliminate their organization. The likely sources for claims to the contrary are two unreliable so-called U.S. “allies”: Hamas' enablers, Qatar and Turkey. If Hamas is actually to be “wiped out” – as it must be – only Israel has the will and the capability to accomplish it. Make it so. This is Frank Gaffney.

When President Trump meets Israel's Benjamin Netanyahu today, their conversation should reflect a fundamental transformation over the past year. Israel has emerged from a status some have described as a U.S. “protectorate” to an exemplar – and regional pillar – of the Trump Doctrine. It expects American allies to bear the principal burden of their own security, and – with U.S. material support – that of their neighborhoods, as well.  None does that more effectively than Israel. She has laid low her enemies and ours and is greatly enhancing our mutual interests in the eastern Mediterranean and Red Sea. Let's pray that the partnership thus forged between Messrs. Trump and Netanyahu will be further strengthened today and that, pursuant to the Trump Doctrine, this powerful bilateral alliance – not misbegotten deals with actual foes – will be the centerpiece of U.S. Mideast policy going forward. This is Frank Gaffney.

In recent days, President Trump has unleashed American military power against jihadists in Syria and Nigeria. Such actions are clearly necessary in light of their intensifying attacks in both countries and demonstrate his commitment that “our country will not allow Radical Islamic Terrorism to prosper.” Fulfilling that warranted pledge, however, will require more than symptomatic treatment, important as it is. Prior to his first election to the presidency, Mr. Trump recognized and decried the ideology that animates such jihadism.  And on December 20th, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard underscored the point, declaring that “the greatest near- and long-term threat to both our freedom and our security is…Islamist ideology.”  Fortunately, the President can help counter this toxic ideology systemically by banning the organization that is its preeminent champion and enabler: the Muslim Brotherhood.  Urge him to do so at BantheBrotherhood.org.  This is Frank Gaffney.

On this holy day, Christians everywhere are celebrating the birth of our Lord and Savior, a Jewish baby named Jesus, and the civilization those two faiths have bequeathed to the world. As we pray for peace in the year ahead, we must seek God's grace in countering those who threaten that peace.  For example, in countries like Nigeria, Syria, Communist China, Iran and North Korea, Christians are being subjected to brutal persecution.  And in each, the persecutors and their respective regimes seek to replace our Western civilization with one kind of totalitarian global order or another. If we are to continue to enjoy, among others, the freedom of religion guaranteed by our nation's Christian founders strongly influenced by the Judaic traditions Jesus honored, we must pray for His help in protecting America and Western civilization from those determined to destroy them.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Today, President Trump is supposed to receive recommendations of the Secretaries of State and the Treasury concerning arguably his second presidency's most consequential national security decision to date.  At stake is whether the United States joins other allied nations in banning the Muslim Brotherhood. Or alternatively, pretends that the organization is not leading a global Islamic movement to destroy our constitutional Republic and Western civilization.  Dozens of leading American freedom-fighters just appealed to Mr. Trump to ban the Brotherhood, meaning the parent organization as well as all of its chapters and subdivisions, including the U.S. ones and their extensive infrastructure in this country. By so doing, the President can clearly demonstrate that America will resist, not submit to, the Muslim Brotherhood and its allies' bid to transform ours from the land of the free to the home of the enslaved. This is Frank Gaffney.

The threat the Chinese Communist Party poses not just to us, but the whole world is truly catastrophic. For example, China expert Gordon Chang recently illuminated the CCP's global predations via immense, and often illegal, fishing operations. Notably, he reports Communist China has fifty-setven thousand industrial fishing vessels that have over two recent years fished in the waters of more than ninety countries for more than twenty-two million hours. Mr. Chang concludes that “thanks to Chinese illegal fishing and other factors, the seas have been stripped bare,” citing an expert as estimating that ninety-three percent of the world's major fish stocks are either fully exploited, overexploited, or significantly depleted. Such “locusts” of the seas imperil billions worldwide, as does the Chinese Communist Party that weaponizes them.  This is Frank Gaffney.

On December 20th, President Trump's Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a powerful warning to the AmFest audience. She declared that Islam's sharia-supremacist ideology, which she called “Islamism,” is “the greatest near and long-term threat to our freedom and security.” Director Gabbard's warning could hardly be more timely as the President will imminently act on recommendations by the Secretaries of State and Treasury about whether, and to what extent, he should ban the world's preeminent champion of that toxic ideology – namely, the Muslim Brotherhood.  The Brotherhood's most important enablers, Qatar and Turkey, clearly oppose any such sanctions. But the evidence that it is a foreign terrorist organization and its toxic “political ideology” seeks our nation's destruction cannot be ignored, let alone given a pass.  Take action now by calling on President Trump to ban the Brotherhood at BantheBrotherhood.org.  This is Frank Gaffney.

2026 will be a challenging year. The United States will be preoccupied with potentially game-changing mid-term elections. Western European nations seem likely to slide further into what Team Trump calls illegal immigrant-induced “civilization erasure.”  Then, there's Russia's intensifying bloodletting in Ukraine and  Western civilization's unfinished wars with jihadists in Gaza, Lebanon and Iran.  The question to which we must give earnest, focused and sustained attention is: Will China's dictator, Xi Jinping, perceive such distractions – at least some of which he relentlessly fosters – as an irresistible opportunity to transition from the pre-kinetic warfare his Chinese Communist Party has long waged against us to a shooting war? An important webinar today will explore that prospect – and what we must be doing now to prepare for, and hopefully deter, it. You have a need-to-know. Join us at PresentDangerChina.org at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.  This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump will soon make what may be the most important national security decision of his second presidency. And scarcely anyone even knows it's impending, let alone how fraught the wrong choice would be.  Given the incredibly high stakes for our people and constitutional Republic, the lack of the necessary public awareness and national debate about this decision is completely unacceptable. By Christmas Eve, Mr. Trump is supposed to get a report from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent about how to handle the threat posed by the Muslim Brotherhood. Our Victory Coalition report describes the President's “choice” as either ban the Brotherhood or face “civilization erasure” here.  You have a need to know the right answer – and why. So does President Trump. Learn why he must ban the Brotherhood and encourage him to do so at BantheBrotherhood.org. This is Frank Gaffney.

During a White House Hannukah celebration yesterday, President Trump declared that, “All nations will stand together against the evil forces of radical Islamic terrorism” and observed that the perpetrators of a weekend massacre of Jews at a Hannukah party in Australia were “driven by Islamic state ideology.” As it happens, Mr. Trump has a looming opportunity to act on those statements. By Christmas Eve, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are supposed to provide a report on the Muslim Brotherhood, the international organization that champions the ideology known as sharia that animates the Islamic State and other jihadists. Mr. Trump will either ban the Brotherhood or encourage sharia's adherents to believe they and their ideology will get away with achieving not just more terrorist attacks, but “civilization erasure,” here as well as abroad.  Take action at BantheBrotherhood.org. This is Frank Gaffney.

'Tis the season for celebrating traditions of the great Abrahamic faiths. Christmas markets and Hannukah parties. Increasingly, however, adherents to sharia – which is actually not a religion, let alone one the Bible's Abraham would embrace – are emulating Mohammed's jihad against Christians and Jews. It's a reasonable bet that those jihadis are inspired – if not actually enabled – by the Muslim Brotherhood or its myriad allies, front groups, “chapters” and “subdivisions.” So are others pursuing in pre-violent ways what President Trump calls “civilization erasure.” Consequently, President Trump has to decide if he'll do nationally what Texas and Florida's governors have done in their states, namely, ban the Brotherhood. He's asked his Secretaries of State and Treasury to advise him. Today, our Victory Coalition is, too, with a report called, “The Choice: ‘Ban the Brotherhood' or Face ‘Civilization Erasure' Here.”  Read it at for free at BantheBrotherhood.org. This is Frank Gaffney.