The Greatest Threat to American Freedom –

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard issued a dire warning about radical Islamist ideology during her speech at Turning Point USA’s AmericaFest convention over the weekend.

Gabbard, in her explosive feedback, warned that Islamist ideology, as a political drive in search of to impose its rules through legal guidelines or violence, poses the best menace to Western civilization and American freedom.

Which is a heck of a change of tempo from one of her predecessors in Avril Haines, Biden’s DNI, who had an unhealthy obsession with “domestic extremism on social media” and “white extremism.”

Kind of good to get back to a more reality-based footing.

Back to the speech: Gabbard described radical Islam as a political ideology that seeks to impose its rules on others either through legal guidelines or violence. Thus, making it basically incompatible with American foundations of particular person liberty and God-given freedom.

“There is a threat to our freedom that is not often talked about enough, and it is the greatest near and long-term threat to both our freedom and our security, and that is the threat of Islamist ideology,” she told those in attendance, who responded with cheers.

“It is propagated by people who not only do not believe in freedom, their fundamental ideology is antithetical to the foundation that we find in our Constitution and Bill of Rights, which is that our Creator endowed upon us inalienable rights, the right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

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“Patterson NJ is proud to call themselves the ‘first Muslim city.’ They are working to implement these Islamic principles forced on people through laws or violence.”

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Gabbard highlighted real-world examples, noting that cities like Paterson, New Jersey, have proudly declared themselves the “first Muslim metropolis” while working to implement Islamic principles. She said similar efforts are underway in places like Houston. 

The Director also pointed to Europe, where she claimed Christmas markets in Germany are being canceled due to security threats tied to this ideology. 

“The threats from this Islamist ideology come in many types. As we method Christmas, proper now in Germany, they’re canceling Christmas markets because of this menace. In locations like Dearborn, Michigan, and Minneapolis, Minnesota, Islamist clerics are brazenly pushing this Islamist ideology, attempting to recruit and radicalize younger people,” she explained.

“Earlier this year, there was a conference that was held representing organizations like the Council on American Islamic Relations, also known as CAIR, which issued a call to action to use American legal and political systems to implement Sharia law,” added Gabbard, prompting boos. “This is already underway in locations. This is already underway in locations like Houston.”

“This is not something that may possibly happen. It is already happening here within our borders. Patterson, New Jersey, is proud to call themselves the first Muslim city. They are working to implement in their own governments these Islamic principles that are forced on people through the use of laws or violence.”

Gabbard emphasised that under Islamist ideology, “there is no such thing as individual liberty,” positioning it as a direct assault on Western civilization and urging Americans to acknowledge the seriousness of the menace already current within our borders.

While the menace may be very real, the DNI provided a path to fight radical Islam; a path that contains preventing for freedom of speech, defending the Constitution, and electing public officers who “not only believe in American values, but actually live them.”

There ain’t too many of them floating around the halls of Congress these days, that is for sure.

“We, as Americans, have to stand proudly for freedom and understand that a free society cannot survive if it refuses to defend itself,” she declared.

Gabbard’s speech is a much-needed wake-up call. The menace does not merely consist of precise terrorism, though that is clearly a large side, but there may be an lively political motion in search of to impose Sharia rules through drive.

In an period when too many leaders tiptoe around this incompatibility with particular person liberty, her willingness to title the enemy is refreshing. It’s exactly the sort of unflinching truth-telling reality-based Americans have been demanding from our national security leaders.

Well finished, Ms. Gabbard.

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