Incompatible

In 2001 and 2002, the United States and our Western allies went into Iraq and Afghanistan naively believing that if we could expose the people who lived in those countries to Western values, such as democracy, freedom of speech, freedom of religion, freedom of the press, and many other human rights, and they would reject the dictatorial theocracies they were living under and fully embrace these new values. Instead, the people living in those Islamic countries rejected our values; they rejected freedom, democracy and human rights. They chose the theocracy over democracy. That is completely fine. If those people want to live under Sharia Law, that is their right, and that is their choice. Even though, we believe that Western values are superior, does not give us the right to impose those values onto people who do not want them. In the end, the cornerstone of Western values is that every person and every group of people should have the right to determine how they live. And if they want to live under an oppressive theocracy, there is nothing we can or should do about it. Live and let live.

Instead of learning the lessons of our failures in Iraq and Afghanistan that people who hold Islamic beliefs and values are incompatible with Western values and classic liberalism, we – i.e. Barack Obama and the left – decided to bring millions of Middle Eastern Muslims into our country believing that these people will somehow assimilate to America and adopt the Western values that they just rejected in their own country.

Obama brought in 70,000 Somali Muslims and transplanted them into the middle of Michigan. Now, the majority of the people in Dearborn, Michigan are Somali Muslims; the majority of the political positions in Dearborn are held by Somali Muslims; five times a day, the non-Muslims who still live in Dearborn must listen to the Islamic call to prayer blasting through the public streets of that city starting at 5:30 AM, and also watch Muslims march in their streets chanting “death to America” and “death to Israel”. So much for separation of church and state we hear the left continually scream whenever anyone does anything Christian in public.

This is not the end result of Barack Obama’s starry-eyed hope that people of all cultures could get along. No, this is the game plan of the Democrats that started under Obama. Six months into Obama’s first term, he won the Nobel Peace Prize, even though he did nothing to bring peace anywhere in the world prior to receiving the award, but they gave him the prize anyway, simply because he was the first person of color to be elected President of the United States.

Many times, when someone receives an award or recognition that they don’t really deserve, it serves to motivate them to act in a way to make themselves worthy of that award. So, after receiving the Nobel Peace Prize for doing nothing, it was fair to believe that Obama would be motivated to do everything in his power to bring as much peace to the world as possible to make himself worthy of that level of recognition. In reality, he did the exact opposite. He didn’t bring peace to the world, he brought war. He started five wars in the Middle East during his two terms as President. He set the Middle East on fire.

Why would a Nobel Peace Prize winner start five wars? The answer is very simple. With wars, come refugees. There have been millions of refugees as a result of the wars that Obama started throughout the Middle East and almost all of those Middle Eastern Muslim refugees came to Western countries, and almost none of them went to one of the 56 Muslim majority countries throughout the rest of the world. This was done intentionally. The wars in the Middle East did nothing other than create millions of refugees which flooded into Western countries.

When Joe Biden pulled out of Afghanistan in September 2021, it made no sense that such a simple operation became such a failure. How in the world could withdrawing the most powerful military in the world from a country be disaster? It made no sense. Was our military that incompetent that we lost 13 service members in the process, left $80 billion worth of the most advanced military equipment there, and the whole country turned into complete chaos? It all makes sense when you realize that the disaster of the withdrawal from Afghanistan was done on purpose. The Biden administration wanted it to be a total failure; they wanted Afghanistan to collapse into complete chaos because that gave them the excuse to import 76,000 Afghanistan refugees into our country, which is what is exactly what they did. It was all done on purpose.

Last week, one of those Afghan refugees who came in under Joe Biden, Rahmanullah Lakanwal, committed a terrorist attack against members of our National Guard, killing two of them. On Tuesday, the Department of Homeland Security announced the arrest of Mohammad Dawood Alokozay, another Afghan national who allegedly made a social media post about "building a bomb" and threatened to blow up a building in Fort Worth, Texas. These acts are the fruition of the overarching plan of the far left. The left hates America. They hate our free market capitalism. They hate our freedom of speech. They hate our freedom of religion. They hate our freedom of the press. They hate our right to bear arms. They hate everything that America stands for. They want to tear America down to it studs and rebuild it in their Marxist, communist vision of the world. And one of the best ways of doing that is bringing in as many people from other countries who hate America as much as they do. That is why they have been bringing in as many Middle Eastern Muslims to the United States as possible. Not only do Muslims hate America, our culture, our religions, and our system of government, they are willing to lay down their lives to destroy America. We’ve seen that time and time again with the thousands of suicide terrorist attacks across the West.

It is not only a small percentage of these Muslims who becomes radicalized to commit these acts of terror that we should worry about, every Muslim in our country is a potential threat to our country. Every single Muslim in America is a sleeper cell whether they know it or not. Their religion teaches them that the greatest thing that they can do on this earth is to lay down their lives killing non-Muslims, so every Muslim can easily be radicalized into a terrorist. Every Muslim is a few clicks of their mouse away from strapping on the suicide vest. That is their ticket to heaven.

It is not only Imam’s from their Mosques or extremists on the dark web doing the radicalizing; the left sends out dog whistles to these sleeper cells all the time, hoping to trigger them act just like we saw recently. A couple weeks ago, six members of Congress released a video telling service members not to follow illegal orders of Donald Trump. The message that these members of Congress wanted to get out into the public domain was that Donald Trump was giving illegal orders to ICE and the National Guard. And within a week of sending that message, an Afghan national kills two National Guardsmen. The left knows exactly what they are doing. That video was not directed to members of the military; it was talking to people on the verge of being radicalized. The Muslims are the most useful idiots of the far-left Marxists.

During a commencement ceremony speech at the University of Minnesota, Governor Tim Walz called ICE law enforcement the “modern-day Gestapo.” Illinois Governor JB Pritzker claimed the United States is "essentially" becoming Nazi Germany as a result of ICE’s efforts to enforce immigration laws. Boston Mayor Michelle Wu compared ICE to a neo-Nazi group. House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries called for people to “fight” President Trump’s agenda “in the streets.” Congresswoman Pramila Jayapal called ICE agents “deranged” and said it is “inspiring” to obstruct immigration enforcement. Congressman Eric Swalwell compared ICE agents to a “KGB officer in Russia.” Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson called ICE “secret police” who “are terrorizing our communities.” And now, we have foreign nationals attacking ICE, shooting National Guardsmen, threatening to blow up buildings.

Leftist, Don Lemon recently said, “black people, brown people, people of all strips, whether you’re an Indian American, Mexican American… go out, in your place, where you live, and get a gun legally… because when you have people knocking on your door, and taking you away without due process as a citizen, isn’t that what the second Amendment was written for?” None of that is happening. Don Lemon wants the sleeper cells to think that it is, so they will pick up a gun and shoot ICE agents or the National Guardsmen. Remember, the left is diabolically evil. They want as much death and destruction in this country as possible. If you disagree, remember, many people on the left cheered and celebrated the murder of Charlie Kirk. They make no distinction between Charlie Kirk and ICE agents and National Guardsmen.

If we continue to import these people, we are going to get to the point of critical mass, the point of no return. If this continues, it will only end in a massive civil war in our country, just as there are civil wars going on all throughout the Middle East. The only countries in that region that do not have a civil war are the ones that have already been taken over and controlled by the theocrats. America is one generation away from becoming the Middle East, embroiled in never-ending civil wars. Diversity is not our strength. This type of diversity will be our destruction, and that is exactly what the left and the Muslims want.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.