Secure Freedom Minute

In recent days, President Trump and Pope Leo have had very public disagreements about, among other things, the justness of the war with Iran.  It turns out that Leo is a leftist who, despite his American roots, is more comfortable currying favor with totalitarians than opposing them.  For example, the Pope has continued his predecessor's practice of acquiescing to the Chinese Communist Party as it seeks to crush China's Catholic and other religious communities. That's indefensible. And, during his recent visit to Algeria, Leo professed that Christians and Muslims can be friends, ignoring that country's ongoing and aggressive persecution of those who follow Jesus. While Christ taught that peacemakers are blessed, ignoring sharia-adherent Iranian and other Muslims' obligation not to take Christians and Jews as friends – and, indeed, to kill them – is a formula for genocide, not genuine and just peace.  This is Frank Gaffney.

China is reportedly using space assets to help target Iran's attacks on American personnel, equipment and regional allies.  Unfortunately, such weaponization of space against us is but a small foretaste of what Chinese dictator Xi Jinping has in the works. Especially concerning is his determination to get “boots” on the lunar ground before we return to the moon.  Asked yesterday by Maria Bartiromo whether we would “win the moon race,” President Trump demurred, observing the  Chinese might “get lucky.” If they do and arrive with the intention and capability to preclude us from landing on or otherwise using the moon, its resources and strategic location, we will not just be unlucky. We'll be at a perilous disadvantage in space and here on earth.  Consequently, every effort must now be made to win the race to the moon – and, once there, be prepared to defend it.   This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump has a lot of legitimate complaints at the moment about our so-called “allies.” A number of them have refused our use of bases we pay for, permission to fly through their airspace, and help with the Strait of Hormuz, upon which they rely far more than we do for access to energy. Such fair-weather friends just added insult to injury amidst the war with Iran by granting its monstrous regime both legitimacy and influence at the United Nations.  As the non-governmental organization UN Watch caustically observed, the United Kingdom, France, Canada and Australia were among the Western nations that nominated Iran to a seat on a UN committee whose responsibilities include shaping policy on human rights, women's rights, and terrorism prevention.  To its credit, the United States stood alone in opposing this reprehensible travesty. Now President Trump should defund it.  This is Frank Gaffney.

In the course of last week, an epic struggle took place in Austin, Texas with potentially far-reaching implications for the country as a whole. At issue is the character and content of social studies curricula that will be used to teach millions of K-12 children in that state, and perhaps another twenty across the USA over the next decade.  Over sixty hours of deliberations and votes, the Board adopted required reading and other essential knowledge and skills standards that factually describe the history of our exceptional nation. In so doing, it rejected alternatives favored by a designated terrorist group known as the Council on American Islamic Relations and its radical leftist allies designed to denigrate America and indoctrinate and alienate our kids.    Consequently, praise God, our children will have a basis for pride in this country – and grounds for helping protect her.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Twenty-one hours of bilateral negotiations between a U.S. delegation led by Vice President J.D. Vance and one comprised of ruthless Iranian jihadists came to naught over the weekend. To paraphrase the Veep, that's the good news. The even better news is that President Trump has responded by announcing a blockade of the Strait of Hormuz through which the export of much oil and gas from Persian Gulf nations takes place.  By so doing, he is negating the leverage the regime in Tehran has obtained by its own assertion of control over the Strait. That arrangement allowed it to gain desperately needed revenue by continuing to sell oil to select friends like Communist China and by imposing tolls on other vessels permitted to transit. The U.S. blockade can – and must – precipitate the mullahs' unconditional surrender and the liberation of their enslaved people.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Negotiations between the Iranian regime and the Trump administration resume in Pakistan this weekend. Vice President J.D. Vance heads the U.S. delegation and is clearly determined to stop the fighting.  Hard experience with such diplomacy over the past four decades makes one thing clear: Parleying with Iran's sharia-supremacists may – I repeat, may – give the appearance of temporarily lessened hostilities. Unfortunately, since it necessarily involves perpetuating the ayatollahs and their loyalists' hold on power, the threat they pose simply further metastasizes. The alternative is now the only hope for avoiding what the brilliant George Rasley has correctly described as a stunning tactical victory lost to a catastrophic strategic defeat. That is to help achieve a different government in Iran – one representing, instead of murderously repressing, its people, not restricting the Strait of Hormuz, not pursuing nuclear weapons and not seeking Death to America.  This is Frank Gaffney.

President Reagan warned that “Every generation faces an existential threat to freedom” and that our country must be protected from it and passed on to the next generation to do the same.  The Texas State Board of Education is currently deciding about a social studies curriculum for K-12 students. In my testimony on Tuesday, I warned this panel's members that their now pending choice between a pro-freedom curriculum they adopted last year and Red-Green axis one I call the “CAIR curriculum” will have real national security implications. The Board's deliberations and votes are still ongoing with a kind of trench warfare being waged over line-by-line amendments.  We need to support the heroic Board members striving to equip our young people with the facts that justify love of country and the necessary willingness to defend it. I urge you to do so at BanSharia.com.   This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, President Trump stepped back from his promise to devastate the infrastructure of Iran essential not only to its military, but the civilian population, as well. If we want the Iranian people's help, this was a necessary course-correction. The truth is, moreover, you cannot play chicken with an apocalyptic regime. This one's leaders and loyalists believe they can bring back their messiah and usher in Islam's golden age by precipitating cataclysmic devastation.  As long as any of them remain in power, ceasefires, promises about opening the Strait of Hormuz and any other putative concessions will be seen by them and their friends as victories. And set the stage for more jihad against us and the rest of Western civilization. Consequently, we must insist on the Iranian regime's unconditional surrender and the actual liberation of our natural allies – the longsuffering people of Iran. This is Frank Gaffney.

Artemis II's overflight of the moon's dark side has gotten most attention. But the mission's most important target is the lunar south pole. It happens to be that of the Chinese Communist Party, too.  Who gets there first will likely determine who controls not only its water resources. They can be used to support a manned base and its operations, to make hydrogen for fuel for further space exploration and to project power from there to here.   And that, unfortunately, is the CCP's plan. So the question is: At what point will the United States recognize this reality and ensure that it not only beats the Chinese Communists to the moon but is able to defend it, as well? This is Frank Gaffney.

Tomorrow will be a fateful day for school-age kids in the state of Texas and for countless millions of other students across our country. Incredibly, one woman's vote in the Texas State Board of Education will determine whether children in K-12 classes over perhaps the next ten years will be given the facts they need properly to revere America or, instead, be indoctrinated by those seeking her destruction.  I will be among the witnesses testifying in favor of the pro-freedom social studies curriculum that Board member Pam Little and seven of her colleagues approved last year. Those expected to testify against it – and the standards developed to guide the relevant textbooks – will likely include employees and allies of a designated terrorist organization called the Council on American Islamic Relations.  Urge Pam Little to vote again for teaching freedom in our schools at BanSharia.com.                                                                                    This is Frank Gaffney.

Last year, Texas Governor Greg Abbott designated the Muslim Brotherhood and its Council on American Islamic Relations front as terrorist organizations. One might be forgiven for thinking that would put CAIR out of business, at least in Texas.  CAIR's business is supporting the Brotherhood's sharia-supremacism and, in particular, its Palestinian franchise Hamas, a federally designated terrorist organization.  Yet, CAIR is currently mobilizing with leftist allies an effort to dictate what children in K-12 public schools across the nation learn about America, denouncing an approved, standard-setting social studies curriculum in Texas as “Islamophobic” and “exclusionary.”  Those aiding and abetting a terrorist organization like CAIR are on notice: By promoting sharia, a doctrine that requires the overthrow of the U.S. government, CAIR is by definition engaged in seditious conspiracy. Material support for such an entity could, and should, have consequences for all involved.   This is Frank Gaffney.

Next Tuesday, the Texas State Board of Education will cast votes with potentially profound and far-reaching implications for students across America. That's because publishers sell nationwide the textbooks used to teach Texans' curriculums. So, if Texas' State Board of Education sticks with a patriotic framework for K-12 social studies that it adopted last year and the standards that would implement it, kids throughout America will be equipped with factual information about, for example, our Founders, our Constitution and other founding documents, and the Judeo-Christian beliefs at their core.  If, on the other hand, a designated terrorist group called the Council on American Islamic Relations (CAIR) and its leftist allies have their way, our children will instead be indoctrinated with political agendas inimical to our freedoms and values. Join us in encouraging the Texas board to vote for a pro-America curriculum at BanSharia.com.      This is Frank Gaffney. 

On March 3rd, 1.9 million Texans voted to prohibit sharia law in their state. Next Tuesday, the Council on American Islamic Relations intends to win a vote involving just fifteen people, insinuating sharia's agenda into textbooks used in Texas and across the country.  The occasion is an April 7th hearing and vote in the State Board of Education on whether to stick with its previously approved, pro-America curriculum for K-through-12 social studies or adopt a “CAIR curriculum.” It may be the most important battle in Texas since the Alamo, a structure that, according to CAIR's version of history, was a tribute to Islam.  Sharia-supremacists – like all totalitarians – know if they can indoctrinate the children, they can dominate the society. Texans and other Americans who don't want a designated terrorist group like CAIR dictating what our kids are taught must say so now.   This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump is now declaring that he has achieved “regime change” in Iran. It's very welcome that that is, in fact, our purpose. So is Secretary of State Marco Rubio's report that what's left of the previous Iranian government is fracturing. But the President is indicating that we are now dealing with government officials three layers down with whom we have not interacted before. He is suggesting that amounts to regime change. Unfortunately, if such interlocutors adhere to their predecessors' apocalypitic sharia-supremacist agenda, the inevitable result will be that the Iranian people remain enslaved and ours, among many others in the region and beyond, remain imperilled. President Trump is right to seek regime change and to insist on new people leading the government of Iran that emerges from this war. But putting toxic old wine into new bottles will assure our defeat. This is Frank Gaffney.

The Council on American Islamic Relations has been the Muslim Brotherhood's pitbull front group from shortly after its organizational meeting in 1993, which was wiretapped by the FBI. Its particular mission has been supporting the Brothers' terrorist Palestinian franchise, Hamas.   CAIR itself has been designated as a terrorist organization by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida's Ron DeSantis. Gov. DeSantis is expected shortly to sign pathbreaking legislation that, among other things, confirms that status and would effectively shut CAIR's operations in Florida.  Next week, though, a member of the Texas State Board of Education named Pam Little – who has been endorsed by that terrorist organization – is apparently poised to cast the deciding vote to approve an anti-American “CAIR curriculum” for K-through-12 social studies education that would not only be used in Texan schools, but across the country. That must not happen.   This is Frank Gaffney.

This afternoon, Iran's Crown Prince Reza Pahlevi is scheduled to address the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas. His appearance affords an opportunity for a potential transitional leader of a post-ayatollah Iranian government to clarify what is at stake in the nearly month-long war in the Middle East. Hopefully, he will speak for the vast majority of his countrymen who yearn for deliverance at last from the regime that has long brutalized them and threatened us. They understand that only the end of that death-cult animated by Islam's totalitarian sharia code will actually finish the war and the threat the mullahs present to the whole world. As it happens, an important theme of this CPAC is ending the menace posed by sharia in Texas and the rest of America, as well. Learn why – and how you can help – at BanSharia.com.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Today, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference gets underway in earnest in Dallas, Texas. CPAC is the year's single most important gathering of American patriots and this particular meeting promises to be especially so. That's because on March 3rd, 1.9 million Texan voters supported Proposition 10 in the state's Republican primary. In so doing by a margin of 95-5%, they endorsed these five words: “Texas should prohibit sharia law.” It is nothing short of providential that, in the immediate aftermath of that epic vote, thousands of political candidates, activists and donors are going to be convening in a city squarely in the crosshairs of sharia-supremacists intent on conquering, not just Texas, but the rest of the country, as well.  We hope to launch a powerful movement at CPAC 26 with candidates taking the Sharia-Free Pledge. Encourage yours to do so at BanSharia.com This is Frank Gaffney.   

It's hard to keep up with developments in the war with the apocalyptic Iranian regime that has brutally repressed its own people and endlessly threatened, and periodically attacked, ours for nearly fifty years.  The question is whether a man who has been at the heart of that government and directly responsible for many of its horrifying atrocities – including the mass murder of countless Iranians who responded to President Trump's call to overthrow the ayatollahs – is a man with whom we now can safely and prudently do business. Mohammed Ghalibaf may be the Iranian parliament's speaker. But he's also a top general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – a committed and dangerous jihadist. Let us pray that President Trump is once again buying time to bring to bear the Marines and other forces needed to prevent, not enable, further threats from Iran.  This is Frank Gaffney. 

President Trump has indicated that the United States is now involved in negotiations with a surviving top, but as-yet-unidentified, Iranian official.  Press accounts indicate the interlocutor is Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps General Mohammed Ghalibaf. If true, that would mean the President thinks that perhaps the regime's most vicious butcher of the Iranian people is a candidate for the so-called “Venezualan solution.” Put simply, that's a non-starter. Making a deal that leaves such a monster in charge of Iran would not only be an odious betrayal of that nation's long-suffering population. It would also be seen throughout the region and among the world's sharia-supremacists elsewhere as a victory for the jihadists. And it would ensure that the war will continue, almost certainly under less favorable circumstances for us. Donald Trump has no intention of having such an ignominious defeat as his legacy.  This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump has made no secret of his ambition to “take Cuba” next. It's hard to overstate the importance of such an initiative.  Obviously, freeing the long-suffering people of that island nation would end their collective nightmare caused by six decades of Communist misrule.  But it would also have profound knock-on effects for this country and its vital interests throughout the Western hemisphere.  For one thing, Cuba has provided a permanent base of operations for hostile powers including Russia, China and Iran.  Cuba's collaboration with such adversaries has extended to nations elsewhere in the region, as well – subverting its democracies and, particularly through Chinese penetration and domination of nation after nation, empowering and weaponizing its many hard-left governments. Learn how freeing Cuba could transform hemispheric security – and ours – via a PresentDangerChina.org webinar tomorrow at 1 p.m. Eastern Time.  This is Frank Gaffney. 

Mike Arnold is the Nigerian government's worst nightmare. This longtime missionary has singlehandedly shattered its false narratives about, and complicity with, jihadists genocidally persecuting and murdering that nation's Christians.  So, the sharia-supremacists ruling in Abuja and their allies here have sought to prevent Mike from addressing a briefing about this catastrophic bloodletting next week in the House of Reprepresentatives. Shockingly, they were abetted by the International Religious Freedom Summit, a group deeply penetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and, consequently, prioritizing so-called “interfaith dialogue” – the Brothers' code words for promoting submission to Islam – over robustly defending those persecuted for following Jesus.  Fortunately, a faithful champion of international religious freedom, New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, has arranged a program at which Mike Arnold will appear. Let's pray President Trump will respond by redoubling his campaign to save persecuted Christians, in Nigeria and elsewhere.  This is Frank Gaffney. 

Steve Bannon declared on his War Room program yesterday, “We're in a war now, so we gotta win it. And we have to win it in a smart way to make sure the blood and treasure is not needlessly spilled. But we're in it and we have to have victory.” This statement marks a significant, and very welcome, break by my old friend from those who fail to understand our time's central reality: We confront a global threat from adherents to Islam's totalitarian sharia ideology that explicitly seeks the destruction of Western civilization. Anything short of a decisive victory over sharia-supremacists – whether they are in Tehran or Texas – will embolden the rest of them who are obliged to respond by intensifying their jihad.  Steve Bannon's “Posse” are critical to our nation's survival and, I pray, will follow his courageous lead.  This is Frank Gaffney.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited his city's notorious Rikers Island prison this week to break the Ramadan fast with inmates there. In so doing, he promoted yet again Islam and encouraged conversion to it. Mamdani's excursion called attention to a troubling fact: Large numbers of convicts have done just that. Thanks in no small measure to the Muslim Brotherhood's success dating back to the Clinton administration in insinuating its chaplains into federal and other prisons, what is arguably the most dangerous population in America has been assiduously recruited to sharia-supremacism by a group two governors have designated as a terrorist organization. While Democrats are resisting needed electoral reforms in the SAVE America Act, there's one they are very keen on: restoring the voting rights of felons after their incarceration ends. Jihadist Mamdani understands that means more, and more perilous, Muslim votes.   This is Frank Gaffney. 

President Trump is insisting that the U.S. Senate approve the SAVE America Act that would make vitally needed reforms to voter registration and balloting nationwide. So are the American people. A new McLaughlin poll conducted for Tea Party Patriots found overwhelming support by Republicans, Democrats and independents for the purpose of this legislation: namely, ensuring that only U.S. citizens vote.   The only reason for opposing the SAVE America Act is to ensure instead that non-citizens can impact our elections. In practical terms, that means they can not only vote illegally. They can nullify the votes of Americans.   Presidential and popular support for the SAVE America Act has compelled Senate Majority Leader John Thune to ensure it gets a vote soon. Unclear, however, is whether he's determined to make it a decisive victory.   Urge your senators to protect your vote at TeaPartyPatriots.org.   This is Frank Gaffney. 

For over four decades, the people of Iran have yearned to be liberated from the mullahocracy that has brutalized them. Thanks to the U.S. and Israeli militaries, they finally have a real opportunity to secure their freedom. Yet, some contend the absence since Operation Epic Fury's launch of the mass demonstrations of the past indicate Iran's people are no longer a key potential ally in its success. This ignores the fact that American and Israeli officials have insisted they stay home pending the further dismantling of the regime's security apparatus that murderously suppressed the most recent ones. Evidently, however, Iranians are now materially contributing to regime change by providing lethal targeting information about the location of checkpoints the ayatollahs' thugs have set up to control and kill would-be demonstrators.  As the late, great champion of freeing Iran, Michael Ledeen, would say, “Faster.”  This is Frank Gaffney.  

This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. At this hour, a dangerous fire is raging in an industrial complex in south Texas. It is too early to tell whether it was the result of an attack – let alone whether, if so, those responsible are tied to Iran's regime.  One thing is clear, however: Official warnings and those of highly regarded former national security professionals indicate that, at least as long as the mullahs cling to power, it's a matter of time before we are subjected to such sabotage, and possibly much worse.   For example, former CIA spy “Sam” Faddis notes that the new Iranian supreme leader has explicitly promised to hit “where the enemy has little experience and where it would be highly vulnerable.” Some persist in believing that there's a negotiated alternative to decisive victory over such an adversary. Regrettably, that's not true.  Finish the job. Liberate Iran.  This is Frank Gaffney. 

While the world's attention is understandably increasingly focused on Iran's ongoing attacks on commercial shipping in the Strait of Hormuz and Persian Gulf, fresh attention is needed on another potential threat involving merchant vessels.     Specifically, the regime's dead-enders are assessed to be capable of using such ships to bring drones and perhaps even short-range ballistic missiles within striking distance of our shores. Coast Guard intelligence reportedly was behind recent warnings that Iran's unmanned aerial vehicles, better known as drones, could be launched against targets in California. And Committee on the Present Danger: China Chairman Brian Kennedy reminded our webinar yesterday of previous Iranian tests of ship-launched ballistic missiles simulating the delivery of a devastating electromagnetic pulse attack on our homeland.   Such threats are just two more reasons why we must secure the end of the mullahocracy and the liberation of Iran now.   This is Frank Gaffney.  

In all the Monday morning quarterbacking about the war with Iran, one assumption keeps popping up. The widely shared premise of government officials, present and former, assorted pundits and other commentators is that ending the monstrous Iranian regime is an option, not mandatory. A powerful Victory Coalition webinar yesterday made two things abundantly clear. The decision President Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made to preemptively attack Iran was not a war of choice. It was a necessity. And so is the elimination of the apocalypse-seeking ayatollahs and what's left of their security apparatus. House Speaker Mike Johnson declared yesterday that “Sharia is not compatible with the U.S. Constitution.” Neither is the sharia-supremacist Iranian theocracy that, if it can, absolutely, positively will cataclysmically destroy our constitutional republic.  Our security requires the liberation of Iran. Period.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Sharia Imperils the State of the Union   This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute. President Trump has offered differing assessments of how the war with Iran is progressing, how close it is to a successful conclusion and what comes next with respect to that nation's government.  One thing seems clear: The Chinese Communist Party has a lot riding on the outcome. It needs access to cheap, sanctions-busting oil imports from Iran. Its air defenses and other weapons have been deployed widely there – and have not performed well, with adverse implications for their marketing elsewhere.  And the resulting external pressures only exacerbate China's serious domestic economic, political and demographic challenges.  So, will Chinese dictator Xi Jinping respond to these difficulties by deferring his plans for aggression against Taiwan and other U.S. interests? Or will he accelerate them in the hope of exploiting the current American preoccupation with Iran? Stay tuned.  This is Frank Gaffney.

Keeping track of how the war with Iran is going, let alone where it's going, is challenging.  A key development from the latest phase of the Iranian regime's war against us and most of the rest of the world – in which it has engaged since 1979 – has resulted in tectonic shifts in the Middle East. The United States and Israel have been joined by key European nations and a number of important Arab ones.  While it remains to be seen how this coalition hangs together, the fact that it has formed up at all further seals the ayatollahs' fate. Provided, that is, President Trump continues to insist on their unconditional surrender. Combined with sustained efforts to destroy the regime's security apparatus, that stance holds the greatest promise for regional peace and the return of Iran to the community of civilized nations. This is Frank Gaffney. 

Donald Trump has long sought, and earned, the title of peacemaker. Unfortunately, history's replete with treaties, accords and deals that failed to produce real and enduring ends to various conflicts. Our president is in the process of achieving a descriptor that is much more rare, and of far greater consequence: “Trump the Liberator.” While still very much a work in progress, the changes he has wrought in Venezuela and those now taking shape in the wake of his partnership with Israel in dismantling the Iranian regime holds the promise of freeing more people than anyone since Ronald Reagan. The Venezuelan opposition is now increasingly operating openly. The Lebanese government is publicly declaring it will defang Hezbollah. And Mr. Trump's announced intention to play a role in selecting the next leader of Iran are all indicators of very promising – and liberating – trends.  Let's roll. This is Frank Gaffney.  

Communist China is seeking to mediate a cessation of hostilities with Iran and, if possible, save its puppet regime there. The transparent ulterior motive, however, is to ensure continued Chinese access to Iranian oil exports.   That agenda has become critical with President Trump's successful removal of Venezuela's Nicholas Maduro and his subsequent control over that other main supplier of oil for the Chinese Communist Party. Suddenly, the tables have turned on Xi Jinping, who was using his monopoly on processed rare earth minerals and dumping of U.S. Treasuries to extract concessions from Mr. Trump and erode the dollar's status as the world's reserve currency.   It remains to be seen how the President will wield his new-found leverage over our mortal enemy, the CCP. But Donald Trump now has the option of checkmating Xi's ambition to seize Taiwan and otherwise threaten America.   This is Frank Gaffney.

  Yesterday, voters in Texas decisively affirmed Proposition 10 in the Republican primary with its five-word mandate: Texas should prohibit Sharia law. With the support of 95% of those responding, banning Sharia—Islam's toxic, totalitarian, and demonic death cult—has become a voting issue not only in their state but across the country. Those voters recognize Sharia is utterly incompatible with the U.S. Constitution and the values of Judeo-Christian civilization. Its adherents are authorized if not actually commanded to follow the model of Islam's so-called perfect man, its prophet Muhammad, by engaging in demonic and illegal behavior. As Texans have learned more about what Sharia supremacists are insinuating in their state and intend to impose on them, they quite rightly reject it. And yesterday, they boosted the effort to ensure that Texas and hopefully the rest of the nation, does the same. Banshariya.com.   This is Frank Gaffney.

Today's D-Day in Texas. There are numerous hotly contested races for key federal and state offices in the Republican primary election. Important as those contest outcomes are, the single most consequential item is probably the last one on the ballot, Proposition 10. That's because it's five words. Texas should prohibit Sharia law, prescribe a vitally needed course correction in that state with regard to Islam's totalitarian political ideology and legal system, and offer a model for the rest of the country.    In recent months, the need for such a prohibition has taken center stage in Texas thanks to a massive Sharia adherent development in East Plano. Revelations that state institutions now offer only halal food consecrated to Islam's Allah, billions in taxpayer subsidies to pro-jihadist schools and organizations, and Muslims aggressively demanding further accommodations. Patriotic Texans must decisively approve Prop 10. BenSharia.com.    This is Frank Gaffney.

Last week, Donald Trump took the most courageous step of any president in our nation's history. After years of analysis, debate and efforts to negotiate a different outcome, he decided that the regime in Iran that had brought ruinous hardship to its own people and relentlessly threatened ours must be destroyed.  He bet his presidency by launching in concert with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu devastating and ongoing military operations to that end. The result was the immediate decapitation of the so-called Supreme Leader and most of his senior subordinates.  Iran has retaliated against Israel and U.S. bases and other targets in Sunni Arab nations. Thank God, the resulting casualties have been minimal to date. But unless and until the regime's dead-enders are decisively defeated or overwhelmed and removed by the Iranian people, there will doubtless be more losses.  Therefore, President Trump must resist the temptation to end the campaign to liberate the Iranian people before that goal is accomplished. Not only will that ensure the sharia-supremacists of the Shiite stripe remain dangerous enemies, but those of the Sunni one will redouble their efforts to bring “Death to America,” including here at home.  This is Frank Gaffney.

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.