We Shall See

Today in Jerusalem, Donald Trump told the Israel Parliament that the recent cease-fire with Hamas which released the remaining Israeli hostages from their captivity in Gaza, “is not only the end of a war, but the end of the age of terror and death, and the beginning of an age of faith and hope.”  Let’s pump the brakes on the peace in the Middle East talk. As long as there are Muslims in the Middle East, there will never be peace in the Middle East. Never. At some point, we must accept that. These people do not want peace with us. They do not want to co-exist with us. That is not their long-term plan. There long-term plan is the total annihilation of anyone and everyone who is not a Muslim. That’s it.

We have been lied to for decades, for centuries. Barack Obama continually told us that Islam was a “religion of peace” when we know that 95% of the terrorist acts that have been committed in the last 50 years have been committed by Muslims in the name of Islam. We have been told that the Crusades were evil, that the Christians invaded, attacked and murdered peace-loving Muslims simply because they were Muslims. That’s a complete lie. For 500 years, Muslims invaded, raped, murdered and conquered Christian and Jewish lands in the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe. The Crusades were a reaction to that 500 years of slaughter and carnage. The Crusades prevented the entirety of Europe from being conquered by Islam. If not for the Crusades, most of us, if not all, would not exist. All of our ancestors would have been murdered at the sword of some Islamist.

If you are ever told that Islam is a religion of peace, just go look at what is happening throughout the Middle East and Africa today in the year 2025. Christians are being slaughtered by the thousands at the hands of Muslims simply because they are non-Muslims. If it is happening now, you can bet it was happening a thousand years ago. Surprisingly, no one is saying a word about the slaughter of Christians just like very few people speak out against the atrocities Muslims have committed over the last 1,500 years

In June, in Nigeria, 218 Christians were massacred by Islamists. In 2024, after a group of Christians in Nigeria refused to denounce their faith, Islamists burned their church to the ground. In Owo, Nigeria, on June 6, 2022, an Islamist opened fire at a Catholic church in southwestern Nigeria killing 50 worshippers both inside and outside the building. 100,000 Christians have been slaughtered in Nigeria since 2005, and over 7,000 have been killed in this year alone.

Islamists in Syria are lighting entire Christian villages on fire. They are going village to village and burning down the homes of Christians. In Indonesia, over 200 local Muslim residents surrounded and attacked a private home being used for a Christian youth retreat. They demanded the worship activities stop and smashed a cross taken off a wall. In the Democratic Republic of Congo, 124 Christians were murdered by Islamists.

In Mozambique, more than 30 Christians were beheaded at the hands of Islamic State terrorists. And the Islamic State Mozambique Province announced that they destroyed at least seven churches, committed acts of arson against Christians and village civilians, and shot and beheaded more than two dozen people in the Cabo Delgado and Nampula provinces in the northern area of Mozambique.

It is not just happening in Muslim majority countries either. It is happening in whatever country Muslims have been allowed to establish a foothold. In Montreal, Quebec, the historic Notre-Dame Basilica church was burned down by Islamists.

Mere hours after a Islamic terror attack killed two elderly Jewish people in a synagogue in Manchester, UK, Muslims in the UK were out on the streets celebrating the attack and calling for more Jews to die. Victorian age St. Mark’s Church in London was burned to the ground this year by Islamists.

The United States Council of Catholic Bishops reports that there have been at least 396 attacks on Churches in 43 states and Washington, D.C., between May 2020 and August 2025.

Those are just the tip of the iceberg – a fraction of the atrocities that are and have been committed against Christians and Jews by Muslims throughout the Middle East and Africa. I could write a 10,000-word essay just listing the genocidal atrocities that Muslims commit against people of other religions in their maniacal quest of their worldwide caliphate.

The most troubling part of all this is that very few people in the West are saying anything about this for fear of being accused of Islamophobia. There are more people speaking out against Islamophobia than speaking out against the tens of thousands of non-Muslims killed by Islamists throughout the world each year. I would submit that there is no such thing as Islamophobia because a “phobia” is an irrational fear of something whereas it is very rational to being fearful of a religion that commands its followers to murder you. There would be a problem if non-Muslims didn’t fear Islam when the overwhelming majority of terrorist attacks committed worldwide have been committed by Muslims. Islam has proven itself to not be a religion of peace, so therefore, fearing Islam is not only not a phobia, but actually a very reasonable response.

But Muslims have very craftily created the idea of Islamophobia to shield them from any criticism. Within days of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on America, there was already talk of warning against Islamophobia. So, the Islamists commit one of the worst terrorist attacks in history against the United States of America, killing almost 3,000 Americans, specifically because America is a non-Muslim country, and we are immediately warned against Islamophobia. We are being told it is the Christians who hate others because they have a different faith, days after a Christian nation was attacked and thousands of its citizens were murdered for being a Christian nation. Muslims are the ones who hate and want to kill everyone who is not a Muslim. They hate the Jews, they hate Christians, they hate the Hindus, they hate Buddhists, they hate atheists. They are at war with all of them.

Christians and Jews have no problem with Hindus or Buddhists or atheists. They may disagree with them, but they are not at war with them. Islam is the only religion in the world that is at war with every other religion or non-religion in the world. That should tell you everything about the nature of Islam, and that should tell you everything about the nature of all these other prominent religions.

Of the two – Islam and Christianity – there is only one religion of peace, and it is not the religion that Barack Obama refers to when he says “religion of peace”.  The Quran commands the followers of Islam to murder the infidels – the people who do not follow Islam; Jesus commanded his followers to “turn the other cheek” and to “love your enemies”. Which one is the religion of peace again?

If a Christian kills a person of another religion because of their faith, they are violating one of the fundamental tenets of Jesus’ teaching and of the Christian religion; if a Muslim kills a person of another religion because of their faith, they are acting in direct accordance with the teachings of Mohammed and the Islamic religion. The biggest difference between Christianity and Islam is that Muslims live in peace in Christian countries while Christians are slaughtered in Muslim countries. In the Middle East, if the Muslims put their weapons down, there would be no more war in the Middle East; if the Jews put their weapons down, there would be no more Jews in the Middle East. Why would we import a group of people who have been taught and indoctrinated to not only hate the people who are the majority in this country, but to kill and conquer them? This was all started by Barck Obama.

The Muslims in America will talk about Democracy, civil rights, the Constitution, and even free exercise of religion, and sound a lot like Thomas Jefferson when they believe none of that. The Muslims follow the concept of “taqiyya” which means that Muslims are allowed to lie, deceive or hide their beliefs if it helps spread Islam or promote their agenda of a worldwide caliphate. So, the Muslims will pretend that they believe in American and Western values when in reality, the moment they seize the levers of power in this country, that will all disappear. And they will slaughter non-Muslims in this country, like they slaughter non-Muslims is all the other Muslim majority countries because that is what they are commanded to do.

Quran 2.191 says, “Slay the unbelievers wherever you find them.”

Quran 3.28 says, “Muslims must not take the infidels as friends.”

Quran 5.33 says, “Maim and crucify the infidels if they criticize Islam.”

Quran 8.12 says, “Terrorize & behead those who believe in scripture other than the Quran.”

Quran 8.60 says, “Muslims must muster all weapons to terrorize the infidels.”

Quran 9.5 says, “When the opportunity arises, kill the infidels wherever you find them.”

Now, Muslims will claim that I am taking these direct quotes from the Quran out of context or I am cherry-picking them. And there is some truth to that because I have not provided the full context of each quote. The problem with Islam is not that I have taken these quotes out of context; the problem is that the followers of Islam take these quotes out of context, and because they do, they commit over 95% of the terrorist attacks worldwide – they hijack and fly commercial airplanes into big buildings, they invade Isreal and rape, murder and behead 1,500 Israeli citizens. Because it is the Muslims who take these quotes on face value, that there will never be peace in the Middle East.

Do you think Osama Bin Laden was considering the greater context of those quotes when he was planning the 9/11 attacks? How about the Hamas terrorists who invaded Israel on October 7, were they parsing out the cryptic meanings of those words and looking for the hidden subtext in those Quran quotes when they were raping the Israeli women and beheading babies? The problem is not that we, non-Muslims, take the Quran out of context and just look at the face value of the words, it is that the Muslims do it and they are motivated to attack and kill because of it.

Jesus said, “Do not think that I have come to bring peace to the world, I have not come to bring peace, but a sword.” That quote could be placed alongside of the Quran quotes that I have provided. But can anyone name an act of violence committed by a Christian against a non-Christian because the non-Christian had a different faith, in the last 50 years, 100 years? Modern Christians look at the context and the sub-text of what is written in the Bible to understand its full meaning. That’s where Islam fails. They do not do that, or even want to do that.

So, although we applaud the efforts of Donald Trump to bring a ceasefire to Israel and Gaza, there never will be a ceasefire in Israel, there never will be an end to war in the Middle East as long as there are Muslims in the Middle East. This is not an end to the war or even a cease fire; this is a time when Hamas will regroup, reload and plan their next attack, and some point 18 to 20 months from now, there will be protests all over our college campuses demanding another cease-fire after Hamas just slaughtered another thousand Israelis, and are hiding behind Palestinians civilians.

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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.