Secure Freedom Minute

During a White House Hannukah celebration yesterday, President Trump declared that, “All nations will stand together against the evil forces of radical Islamic terrorism” and observed that the perpetrators of a weekend massacre of Jews at a Hannukah party in Australia were “driven by Islamic state ideology.”

As it happens, Mr. Trump has a looming opportunity to act on those statements. By Christmas Eve, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent are supposed to provide a report on the Muslim Brotherhood, the international organization that champions the ideology known as sharia that animates the Islamic State and other jihadists.

Mr. Trump will either ban the Brotherhood or encourage sharia’s adherents to believe they and their ideology will get away with achieving not just more terrorist attacks, but “civilization erasure,” here as well as abroad. 

Take action at BantheBrotherhood.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

’Tis the season for celebrating traditions of the great Abrahamic faiths. Christmas markets and Hannukah parties. Increasingly, however, adherents to sharia – which is actually not a religion, let alone one the Bible’s Abraham would embrace – are emulating Mohammed’s jihad against Christians and Jews.

It's a reasonable bet that those jihadis are inspired – if not actually enabled – by the Muslim Brotherhood or its myriad allies, front groups, “chapters” and “subdivisions.” So are others pursuing in pre-violent ways what President Trump calls “civilization erasure.”

Consequently, President Trump has to decide if he’ll do nationally what Texas and Florida’s governors have done in their states, namely, ban the Brotherhood. He’s asked his Secretaries of State and Treasury to advise him. Today, our Victory Coalition is, too, with a report called, “The Choice: ‘Ban the Brotherhood’ or Face ‘Civilization Erasure’ Here.” 

Read it at for free at BantheBrotherhood.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Missing from official comments and press reporting about the murder this weekend of three Americans in Syria and sixteen Jewish Australians on a Sydney beach is the word “jihad.” That failure is deliberate – a symptom of, and a contributor to, a metastasizing danger.

Fifteen years ago, our group called “Team B II” published a book entitled, Sharia: The Threat to America. It challenged the policy that prevailed then – and continues to operate today, namely, ignoring acts of violence clearly animated by that totalitarian Islamic doctrine, depicting them instead as random incidents of “terrorism” or “extremism.”

Today, sharia-supremacists tied to or inspired by the Muslim Brotherhood are poised to engage in much more jihadist violence, both elsewhere and here, and on a far greater scale. 

Warnings like Team B’s must no longer be ignored. Join us in saying so at BantheBrotherhood.org.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Too many Americans remain unaware of the threat posed to this country, its Constitution and freedoms by what President Trump has called “the ideology of Radical Islam.” The Muslim Brotherhood is the prime-mover behind translating that ideology known as sharia into action worldwide – meaning, jihad and conquest.

Doctrinally, when sharia’s enemies exhibit weakness and submission, its adherents must redouble their efforts to finish achieving Islam’s triumph worldwide, violently if possible.

For example, when Brotherhood-inspired sharia-supremacists now waging jihad as members of the Syrian army chant in the presence of their former commander and un-sanctioned president “Death to the Jews” and there is no cost, expect worse to come. Ditto if the Brothers’ sponsors in Qatar and Turkey get away with subverting Donald Trump’s 20-point peace plan for Gaza by rescuing Hamas. 

Join us in urging President Trump to push back at BantheBrotherhood.org. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump’s new National Security Strategy has offended Europeans with its warning that they face “the prospect of civilizational erasure.” While several reasons for that dire prognosis are offered, the key one appears to be “migration policies that are transforming the continent and creating strife.”

Unsaid, but clearly a factor in erasing Western civilization in Europe is the rising aggressiveness of Islamic immigrants increasingly under the influence of, and weaponized by, the Muslim Brotherhood and other sharia-supremacists financed by Qatar and enabled by Turkey. 

Unfortunately, similar forces are working to erase civilization in this country, as well. The Trump administration is expected shortly to decide whether to join Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida in effectively banning the Muslim Brotherhood. 

Join us in encouraging President Trump to protect our constitutional Republic and defend Western civilization at BantheBrotherhood.org. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Artificial intelligence and its seemingly limitless financial prospects are raising concerns that it may be a bubble about to burst. What should be even more worrying, however, is what’s coming out of the pell-mell race to create ever more powerful AI technology justified by the imperative of staying ahead of China’s counterpart efforts. 

I call what’s in prospect “FrankenAI” because, among others, even some of those involved in developing advanced artificial intelligence are warning that we’ll soon lose control of such creations and they’ll destroy the human race.  

If running such risks is impelled by the Chinese getting such capabilities first, no American company should help them acquire the technology or intellectual property that can only intensify that danger. That’s especially true if, in the process, we risk becoming more like Communist China with its AI-powered, totalitarian social credit system. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, Governor Ron DeSantis joined Texas Governor Gregg Abbott in designating the Muslim Brotherhood and its preeminent American front group, the Council on American Islamic Relations, as foreign terrorist organizations. 

As a result, Florida agencies have been directed to undertake “all lawful measures to prevent unlawful activities by these organizations, including denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support.”

Providing material support for terrorism is, of course, precisely what the Muslim Brothers do every day around the world – and in this country. 

Presumably, that role – as well as the MB’s inspiration for and enabling of violent acts of global jihad will feature prominently in the process President Trump has put in motion to determine whether, and to what extent, the federal government will also effectively Ban the Brotherhood.

Help us encourage the President to do just that at BantheBrotherhood.org.  

This is Frank Gaffney.

On Sunday, the “Titanium Lady,” Fox News’ Maria Bartiromo, lit up one of the worst perpetrators of the sort of treachery her three-part “Underwriting the Enemy” series has relentlessly exposed: J.P.Morgan’s CEO Jamie Dimon.

While Dimon was given a chance to tout his company’s commendable commitment to invest $1.5 trillion in enhancing U.S. security and resiliency, he was also pressed about his practice of raising funds for Chinese military companies. He declared that he was not going to violate American national security policy and would “absolutely walk away from deals with China…assisting with military equipment.” 

In fact, Dimon and his ilk know that doing otherwise actually violates President Trump’s America First Investment Policy – which, thanks to Rep. John Moolenaar, Congress is poised to make the law of the land.

American security and resiliency starts with ending our underwriting of the enemy.

This is Frank Gaffney.

A U.S. official just reminded Congress of the enormous threat we face from Communist China: “America’s adversaries…are already embedded in our systems, mapping our infrastructure, and preparing to disrupt critical operations at a time of their choosing….Cyberattacks on energy infrastructure are a daily reality and a growing strategic weapon.” 

This report makes all the more astounding the fact that the Securities and Exchange Commission continues to enable Chinese Communist companies – even ones blacklisted for being tied directly to the CCP’s military – to have privileged access to America’s capital markets. 

While SEC Chairman Paul Atkins says he’s going to “scrutinize” more carefully such companies and what they are doing, unless and until he terminates a 2013 Memorandum of Understanding engineered by then-Vice President Joe Biden, our investors will continue – mostly unwittingly – to prop up and otherwise underwrite the greatest threat this country has ever faced.

This is Frank Gaffney.

It’s not every day that the American people can have a direct input into the making of decisions that can critically affect the national and homeland security of the United States. Today is such a day. 

During a VictoryCo.org briefing at 1:00 p.m. Eastern Time, we’ll launch a new AlignAct campaign that enables the public to communicate to President Trump the necessity of “stripping out” and “removing” the support networks of Radical Islam in this country. 

Donald Trump promised to do just that on August 15, 2016 when, as the Republican nominee for president he pledged to take numerous steps to counter Radical Islam’s ideology, known as sharia, in America. The prime-mover behind such sharia-supremacism here is the Muslim Brotherhood, a group he's considering designating as a terrorist organization. 

Join us in supporting President Trump in doing so at BantheBrotherhood.org.  

This is Frank Gaffney.