We Tried

We tried. We honestly tried. We gave it a shot. We opened our borders to you. We allowed you into our countries, but the experiment is over, and it has been an abject failure. Your values are incompatible with Western values. When you came into our country, we allowed you to benefit from all the opportunities, freedoms, and resources that we have, and in return, you didn’t respect our culture, you didn’t respect our religions, you didn’t respect our country, you didn’t respect us. We didn’t ask you to convert to our religion, all we asked is for you to respect our laws and our culture, but you didn’t, you couldn’t. You violently attacked us again and again and again. And then when someone points that out, you pretend that you’re the victim, that we are the aggressor, that we’re the ones who hate others because they are different. You don’t want to coexist with us; you want us not to exist anymore. You want to take for yourself everything that the West has built, and then destroy the people, the culture, the religions and the principles that built everything that you are taking.

The biggest threat to Western society is not wokeism and leftism; it is Islamism. Wokeism and leftism are a threat, but what they are doing simply aids in Islam’s conquest of the West. The left is actively tearing down the structures, principles and beliefs of Western culture which has stood as a bulwark against threats like Islam for centuries. And ironically, when Western civilization is destroyed by Islamism, wokeism and leftism will also be destroyed along with them. Sharia law is the antithesis of wokeism and leftism, and those ideologies won’t survive a day under Islamic rule. 

We are in a catch-22. One of the foundational principles on which modern Western Society rests is freedom of religion. Freedom of religion is a cornerstone principle of every great and free country. Everyone freely believing and worshipping the God that they choose helps build and expand society. The marketplace of ideas is one of the most creative forces in human culture. It is what has built Western countries into what they are today in the 21^st century, and the lack of it, is what keeps the Middle East stuck in the 14^th century. So, we allow Muslims in because we believe applying a religious litmus test to immigrants violates the Constitutional principle of freedom of religion. Muslims come here under the protection of freedom of religion, but the moment they become the majority, they will do away with freedom of religion. They will hide behind the protection of that Constitutional right until their numbers and power become so great that it becomes an impediment to their agenda, and then they will remove it.

Either way you look at it, when Muslims enter the picture, freedom of religion will be destroyed. Either we destroy it by not allowing Muslims in the country because of their religion, or they will destroy it 50 years from now when they become the majority and outlaw every other religion. Freedom of religion can only be enjoyed by those of us who believe in freedom of religion. Just like coexistence is only for those who want to coexist. Muslims want neither. They do not believe in freedom of religion, nor do they believe in coexistence. They will champion both until they have the power to do away with both.

Our problem is that we see this happening throughout the Western world, but we continue to allow it to happen, believing that what we have already experienced won’t continue. The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting a different result. In 2025, bringing in Muslims in masse to your country and expecting that violent crime, rape, sex trafficking, and terrorism will not increase exponentially is the definition of insanity.

Politicians like Barack Obama think they are God, so they believe that they can speak reality into existence. Obama believes that if he merely says, “diversity is our strength” and “Islam is a religion of peace” that these things will magically become our reality, but diversity is not our strength; diversity is our destruction. And Islam is not a religion of peace; it is a religion of violence, oppression, subjugation and extermination. Over the last 40 year, over 95% of the terrorist attacks worldwide have been committed by Muslims in the name of Islam. Muslims want to eliminate the Jewish people from existence. They are committing a genocide, right now, in Nigeria versus Christians. Throughout the West, non-Muslims are the targets of Muslim violence.

Every day, I read of another incident of a Middle Eastern immigrant committing an act of extreme violence against a citizen of the country that welcomed him or her in with open arms. In the UK, Harvey Willgoose was stabbed to death by Mohammed Umar Khan. In Sweden, 16-year-old Meya Aberg was raped by an Eritrean migrant, named Yazied Mohamed. In Moscow, a nanny named Gyulchehra Bobokulova decapitated a four-year-old girl and carried her head through the streets shouting 'Allahu Akbar'. In France, the first woman to be sentenced to life in prison is Algerian migrant, Dahbia Benkired, who raped, tortured and murdered a 12-year-old girl in Paris. In London, a gay couple, 62-year-old Albert Alfonso and 71-year-old Paul Longworth, took in a Muslim refugee, Yostin Andres Mosquera who proceeded to murder the couple and decapitate them, disposing of their bodies in suitcases. Iris Stalzer, the mayor of Herdecke in western Germany was stabbed repeatedly by her adopted daughter who is a refugee from Mali.  These last two incidents are microcosms of what is happening in the West. We welcome Muslims in, and they use our hospitality as an invitation to destroy us.

You could argue that those are isolated incidents and maybe they are, so let’s look at the raw statistics. In 2000, number of rapes: England & Wales – 8,593; Germany – 8,133; France – 7,500; Poland – 2,399. In 2023, number of rapes: England & Wales – 68,109; Germany – 39,029; France – 42,400; Poland – 1,127. Reported rapes in England and Wales rose 700%, Germany rose 380%, and France rose 460% – while Poland saw a decline of more than 50%. What’s the reason for this difference. Since 2000, the Muslim population in England rose by 2.3 million; in Germany, it rose by 1.2 million; in France, it rose 2.2 million; while in Poland, the Muslim population stayed relatively flat around 20,000.  In Germany since 2015 when Angela Merkel opened the borders, migrants have committed over 2.8 million crimes. In you import millions of people from countries and cultures who believe it is okay to rape and kill people of a different race and religion, you will get a dramatic rise in rape and murder.

We never hear Muslims speak out against the dramatic increase of crime and violence that Muslims bring to Western countries. White people have to grovel for forgiveness for slavery that ended 160 years ago – 10 generations ago – but we never hear one Muslim apologize for or even simply denounce the attacks on 9/11 or anyone of the thousands of terrorist attacks that have been committed in the name of the prophet Mohammed in this century. They all remain eerily silent, as if they all tacitly approve of the killing of non-Muslims. Not only do Muslims not denounce Islamic terrorist attacks, they minimize them. Representative Ilhan Omar characterized 9/11 as “somebody did something.” New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani said that the biggest tragedy of 9/11 was that Muslims felt uncomfortable riding the subways. They do not care that 2,900 innocent Americans were killed. They do not care about the victims of Muslim violence or rape. When I see a Muslim rally protesting against violence committed by Muslims in the name of Islam, like I see Muslim rallies protesting Islamophobia, I will believe that Muslims are against violence. But those types of rallies never occur.

We hear a lot about “white privilege” these days. How privileged do you have to be to come into another country, and then demand that that country gives you free housing, free food, free education, free healthcare, and at the same time, you’re committing crimes in that country at an astronomical rate, you claim that you’re going to impose your religion, your culture, and your laws on that country, and then if anybody objects to what you’re doing, you call them racist and xenophobic. You demand to get everything handed to you without having to work for any of it, and then when you get all of this, you have absolutely no gratitude. There is never a thank you America or England or Germany or France for the privilege of living in a civilized country. It is the height of privilege.

Martin Luther King Jr said that people should not be judge by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character. That is true, but it is more accurate to judge people based on their actions. What they do and how they behave are windows into their character. And the behavior of Middle Eastern migrants into the Western world has been nothing short of atrocious. They bring nothing to western countries other than crime, violence and a culture and morality incompatible with their host country. Bringing Muslims into Western countries has hurt every country that has tried, and those countries like Poland and Hungary who have prevented that from happening are flourishing. We must be willing to defend our countries and our culture from those who want to destroy us or be willing to lose both.

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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.