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Yes. We are. The act is stale, the script is dishonest, and the contempt for Americanism is no longer even disguised as principle.
On the 25th anniversary of September 11, a man waving a Palestinian flag sprinted onto the field at Yankee Stadium at 9:11 p.m. during a memorial Subway Series game. Security tackled him. Fans chanted “USA” and threw beer. He wore a “No Kings” jersey. That’s not grief. It was a performance timed to desecrate the hour.
That same week, students at California State University Stanislaus planted 2,977 American flags to honor the dead. Vandals scrawled “Free Palestine,” “Blowback,” and Antifa slogans across them. A memorial to nearly three thousand murdered Americans was turned into a billboard. If that doesn’t test your patience, you aren’t paying attention.
These scenes aren’t isolated outbursts. They’re the domestic face of a larger campaign that treats Western mourning as an opportunity and Western law as optional.
Again, that same week, Iran’s president stood in New Delhi at a BRICS gathering and announced that Tehran would not surrender to the United States. Houthi forces, Iran’s clients, tightened their grip on Yemen’s Red Sea coast, struck toward Saudi oil infrastructure, and advanced to within twenty miles of the U.S. base in Djibouti. Oil routes, shipping lanes, and an American installation now sit inside the same ideological radius as the flag on the Yankee Stadium grass.
The protesters at home and the militias abroad are not separate stories. They reflect the same posture: the West must yield, apologize, and forget.
Pro-Islamist protesters, apologists, and lobbyists sell a comforting story. Islamist culture, they say, is peaceful; violence is either a misunderstanding or a reaction to “occupation.” History tells a different story: conquest, dhimmitude, jihad as obligation, and a long record of treating unbelievers as a problem to be managed or eliminated.
When that record becomes inconvenient, the tactic is taqiyya—permitted deception in defense of the faith. Soft language about “Islamophobia” and “Islam is peace” isn’t theology. It’s strategy. It buys time and moral cover while Sharia norms are carried into institutions that were never designed to host a rival legal order.
Islam isn’t only a private faith. By the Quran’s own political claims, it presents a complete system that places divine law above man-made constitutions. Sharia isn’t limited to personal rituals. It makes claims about speech, apostasy, the status of women, the treatment of Jews and Christians, and the legitimacy of secular government. Those claims are difficult to reconcile with the U.S. Constitution or with any free Western charter that places sovereignty in the people and protects the rights of the individual. Pretending otherwise is not tolerance. It is willful blindness.
I don’t judge anyone by the group they were born into. The Left can’t say the same; identity is its entire politics. Individuals vary. Many Muslims want quiet lives, jobs, and distance from zealots. That fact doesn’t dissolve the doctrine.
Peaceful Muslims must take the lead in separating the quiet from the violent inside their own theocratic inheritance. That requires something far harder than interfaith dinners. It requires abandoning the dogma that Quranic authority is supreme and beyond question. It requires an Enlightenment-level shift toward reason, individual rights, and the freedom to leave the faith without fear of death.
Until that break happens, the political project of Islam will remain hard to square with any society that refuses to place scripture above its constitution.
Lobbyists and campus organizers will call this bigotry. They always do. They won’t explain why a 9/11 memorial is fair game for “Free Palestine,” why a ballpark ceremony is a stage for a foreign flag at the exact minute the World Trade Center towers fell, or why Iranian proxies can close in on an American base while Western commentators still lecture us about root causes.
Annoyance is the honest response. Exhaustion is earned. A civilization that ca’t name a rival political theology when it runs onto the field, defaces flags honoring the dead, and sits twenty miles from a U.S. garrison is not being kind. It is being played.
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