Secure Freedom Minute

The Council on American Islamic Relations has been the Muslim Brotherhood’s pitbull front group from shortly after its organizational meeting in 1993, which was wiretapped by the FBI. Its particular mission has been supporting the Brothers’ terrorist Palestinian franchise, Hamas.  

CAIR itself has been designated as a terrorist organization by Texas Governor Greg Abbott and Florida’s Ron DeSantis. Gov. DeSantis is expected shortly to sign pathbreaking legislation that, among other things, confirms that status and would effectively shut CAIR’s operations in Florida. 

Next week, though, a member of the Texas State Board of Education named Pam Little – who has been endorsed by that terrorist organization – is apparently poised to cast the deciding vote to approve an anti-American “CAIR curriculum” for K-through-12 social studies education that would not only be used in Texan schools, but across the country. That must not happen.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

This afternoon, Iran’s Crown Prince Reza Pahlevi is scheduled to address the Conservative Political Action Conference in Dallas, Texas. His appearance affords an opportunity for a potential transitional leader of a post-ayatollah Iranian government to clarify what is at stake in the nearly month-long war in the Middle East.

Hopefully, he will speak for the vast majority of his countrymen who yearn for deliverance at last from the regime that has long brutalized them and threatened us. They understand that only the end of that death-cult animated by Islam’s totalitarian sharia code will actually finish the war and the threat the mullahs present to the whole world.

As it happens, an important theme of this CPAC is ending the menace posed by sharia in Texas and the rest of America, as well. Learn why – and how you can help – at BanSharia.com. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Today, the annual Conservative Political Action Conference gets underway in earnest in Dallas, Texas. CPAC is the year’s single most important gathering of American patriots and this particular meeting promises to be especially so.

That’s because on March 3rd, 1.9 million Texan voters supported Proposition 10 in the state’s Republican primary. In so doing by a margin of 95-5%, they endorsed these five words: “Texas should prohibit sharia law.”

It is nothing short of providential that, in the immediate aftermath of that epic vote, thousands of political candidates, activists and donors are going to be convening in a city squarely in the crosshairs of sharia-supremacists intent on conquering, not just Texas, but the rest of the country, as well. 

We hope to launch a powerful movement at CPAC 26 with candidates taking the Sharia-Free Pledge. Encourage yours to do so at BanSharia.com

It’s hard to keep up with developments in the war with the apocalyptic Iranian regime that has brutally repressed its own people and endlessly threatened, and periodically attacked, ours for nearly fifty years. 

The question is whether a man who has been at the heart of that government and directly responsible for many of its horrifying atrocities – including the mass murder of countless Iranians who responded to President Trump’s call to overthrow the ayatollahs – is a man with whom we now can safely and prudently do business.

Mohammed Ghalibaf may be the Iranian parliament’s speaker. But he’s also a top general in the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – a committed and dangerous jihadist.

Let us pray that President Trump is once again buying time to bring to bear the Marines and other forces needed to prevent, not enable, further threats from Iran. 

This is Frank Gaffney. 

President Trump has indicated that the United States is now involved in negotiations with a surviving top, but as-yet-unidentified, Iranian official. 

Press accounts indicate the interlocutor is Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps General Mohammed Ghalibaf. If true, that would mean the President thinks that perhaps the regime’s most vicious butcher of the Iranian people is a candidate for the so-called “Venezualan solution.”

Put simply, that’s a non-starter. Making a deal that leaves such a monster in charge of Iran would not only be an odious betrayal of that nation’s long-suffering population. It would also be seen throughout the region and among the world’s sharia-supremacists elsewhere as a victory for the jihadists. And it would ensure that the war will continue, almost certainly under less favorable circumstances for us.

Donald Trump has no intention of having such an ignominious defeat as his legacy. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump has made no secret of his ambition to “take Cuba” next. It’s hard to overstate the importance of such an initiative. 

Obviously, freeing the long-suffering people of that island nation would end their collective nightmare caused by six decades of Communist misrule. 

But it would also have profound knock-on effects for this country and its vital interests throughout the Western hemisphere. 

For one thing, Cuba has provided a permanent base of operations for hostile powers including Russia, China and Iran. 

Cuba’s collaboration with such adversaries has extended to nations elsewhere in the region, as well – subverting its democracies and, particularly through Chinese penetration and domination of nation after nation, empowering and weaponizing its many hard-left governments.

Learn how freeing Cuba could transform hemispheric security – and ours – via a PresentDangerChina.org webinar tomorrow at 1 p.m. Eastern Time. 

This is Frank Gaffney. 

Mike Arnold is the Nigerian government’s worst nightmare. This longtime missionary has singlehandedly shattered its false narratives about, and complicity with, jihadists genocidally persecuting and murdering that nation’s Christians. 

So, the sharia-supremacists ruling in Abuja and their allies here have sought to prevent Mike from addressing a briefing about this catastrophic bloodletting next week in the House of Reprepresentatives. Shockingly, they were abetted by the International Religious Freedom Summit, a group deeply penetrated by the Muslim Brotherhood and, consequently, prioritizing so-called “interfaith dialogue” – the Brothers’ code words for promoting submission to Islam – over robustly defending those persecuted for following Jesus. 

Fortunately, a faithful champion of international religious freedom, New Jersey Rep. Chris Smith, has arranged a program at which Mike Arnold will appear. Let’s pray President Trump will respond by redoubling his campaign to save persecuted Christians, in Nigeria and elsewhere. 

This is Frank Gaffney. 

Steve Bannon declared on his War Room program yesterday, “We’re in a war now, so we gotta win it. And we have to win it in a smart way to make sure the blood and treasure is not needlessly spilled. But we’re in it and we have to have victory.”

This statement marks a significant, and very welcome, break by my old friend from those who fail to understand our time’s central reality: We confront a global threat from adherents to Islam’s totalitarian sharia ideology that explicitly seeks the destruction of Western civilization.

Anything short of a decisive victory over sharia-supremacists – whether they are in Tehran or Texas – will embolden the rest of them who are obliged to respond by intensifying their jihad. 

Steve Bannon’s “Posse” are critical to our nation’s survival and, I pray, will follow his courageous lead. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani visited his city’s notorious Rikers Island prison this week to break the Ramadan fast with inmates there. In so doing, he promoted yet again Islam and encouraged conversion to it.

Mamdani’s excursion called attention to a troubling fact: Large numbers of convicts have done just that. Thanks in no small measure to the Muslim Brotherhood’s success dating back to the Clinton administration in insinuating its chaplains into federal and other prisons, what is arguably the most dangerous population in America has been assiduously recruited to sharia-supremacism by a group two governors have designated as a terrorist organization.

While Democrats are resisting needed electoral reforms in the SAVE America Act, there’s one they are very keen on: restoring the voting rights of felons after their incarceration ends. Jihadist Mamdani understands that means more, and more perilous, Muslim votes.  

This is Frank Gaffney.