Secure Freedom Minute

A critical national security decision is currently under high-level review inside the Trump administration. By Christmas eve, the Secretaries of State and the Treasury are tasked with reporting to the President whether to designate some or all of the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. 

This should be a no-brainer since the Brotherhood is committed to the destruction of America and its submission, along with the rest of the world, to a global “caliphate” ruling according to Islam’s totalitarian sharia code. Filmmaker Ami Horowitz brilliantly documented these ambitions in a short video entitled, “Inside the Muslim Brotherhood.”  

The Brothers are aggressively enabled by two influential, but actually subversive so-called U.S. “allies”: Qatar and Turkey. Both are actively opposing any such designation. 

But last month, Texas Governor Greg Abbot effectively banned the Brotherhood in his state. President Trump must do the same nationwide.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Official Washington is seized at the moment with the question of whether efforts to stop what amounts to chemical warfare against the United States have involved violations of the laws of war and, therefore, illegal orders to military personnel.

Specifically, congressional committees are investigating the use of lethal force to destroy Venezuelan fast boats fitting the profile of drug traffickers of the Soles cartel’s seaborne smuggling operations. 

The transparent hope of congressional Democrats and, apparently some Republicans, is to find a pretext for removing Secretary of War Pete Hegseth. 

Like the recent video by six Democratic legislators encouraging service personnel to refuse to obey illegal orders, the practical effect will be to render the U.S. armed forces less unified, focused and ready at a time when serious threats to the national security from Communist China, sharia-supremacists and other enemies are metastasizing.

This is Frank Gaffney.

The murder last week of a National Guard soldier by an Afghan veteran granted asylum earlier this year was reminiscent of numerous so-called “green-on-blue” jihadist attacks on our servicemen and women in his country. 

Worse yet, Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem announced on Sunday that as many as 100,000 other Afghans brought here without proper vetting when Joe Biden surrendered their country to the Taliban may also wish to do us harm.

And, according to Secretary Noem, this individual, who was trained and worked with U.S. forces prior to that debacle, was actually radicalized in America. 

President Trump has announced sweeping actions meant to keep such people from coming and staying here. He must also fulfill a promise made in 2016 that, “The support networks for Radical Islam in this country will be stripped out and removed one by one.”

This is Frank Gaffney.

In response to the murder of a National Guard soldier by one of the thousands of Afghan jihadists Joe Biden let into this country after he surrendered theirs to the Taliban, President Trump pledged to do, among other things, the following: 

“I will permanently pause migration from all Third World Countries…, terminate all of the millions of Biden illegal admissions…and remove anyone who is not a net asset to the United States, or is incapable of loving our Country;                                                                               denaturalize migrants who undermine domestic tranquility, and deport any Foreign National who is a public charge, security risk, or non-compatible with Western Civilization.”

The place to start with this ambitious agenda is by designating the U.S. chapter of the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, identifying and removing its operatives, and doing the same to their allies – many thousands of Chinese soldiers now in this country. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

On the eve of Thanksgiving, two members of the West Virginia National Guard protecting Washington were attacked in a manner reminiscent of how jihadists surprised and murdered American servicemen during the war in Afghanistan. 

That may be because, as President Trump announced last night, their assailant was an Afghan national imported after Joe Biden surrendered his nation to the Taliban. 

Unfortunately, Biden not only admitted without screening tens of thousands of such likely Taliban operatives following the fall of Kabul. Countless other jihadists and apparent Chinese soldiers also came across his open borders. 

In response to the Guardsmen’s shooting, President Trump pledged to remove “any alien from any country who does not belong here or add benefit to our country.” 

We will be very lucky – and must be very thankful – if the worst of what those misbegotten Biden policies unleashed is yesterday’s attack. 

This is Frank Gaffney.

Amidst talk of progress on an end to hostilities in Ukraine, the war emanating from the other side of the world continues, at best, to be misunderstood, at worst, greatly exacerbated by our inattention. 

That’s the war the Chinese Communist Party has long waged against the United States. Consider just a few examples of the damage the CCP has done to date with ongoing and intensifying “unrestricted warfare” aimed at destroying America: 

It’s hollowed out our industrial base, ravaging the economy.  

It’s killed over a million of us with biological warfare in the form of COVID-19. 

It’s murdered half-a-million more with chemical warfare inflicted by weaponized fentanyl.

And tens of thousands of Chinese soldiers are inside our country prepared to do even worse to America’s people and infrastructure.

We must recognize the CCP is at war with us, and respond appropriately.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Yesterday, President Trump established by executive order a process for designating “chapters and subdivisions” of the Muslim Brotherhood as foreign terrorist organizations. For those of us deeply concerned about this group’s metastasizing enabling of sharia-supremacism globally, this is welcome news. 

That said, the President’s stated concerns about the threat the Brotherhood poses overseas to U.S. nationals and interests apply, if anything, even more to the many millions of us who can be harmed by the organization’s vast numbers of radical clerics, mosques, front groups and terrorist cells operating in this country.

So, will Mr. Trump’s 30-day tasking to the Secretaries of State and Treasury “concerning the designation of any Muslim Brotherhood chapters or other subdivisions, including those in Lebanon, Jordan, and Egypt, as foreign terrorist organizations” allow for the threat the Brothers pose domestically to be addressed, as well? 

It absolutely must.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Donald Trump says he’ll designate the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization. When he does – and enforces it, he’ll make the most important policy course-correction towards jihadism since 9/11.

Until now, our government has refused to recognize that those like the Brothers determined to impose Islam’s totalitarian sharia – at least initially, through stealthy means, rather than violent ones – are our enemies, too.

Hereafter, President Trump must fulfill promises made in a key campaign speech in August 2016. He condemned the “ideology of Radical Islam” and pledged to screen out “any [immigrants] who have hostile attitudes towards our country or its principles – or who believe that sharia law should supplant American law.” He also promised “the support networks for Radical Islam in this country will be stripped out and removed one by one.”

Start with the Muslim Brotherhood’s vast “civilization jihad” network in America.

This is Frank Gaffney.

Michigan Representative John Moolenaar is a national treasure. 

As chairman of the House Select Committee on the Chinese Communist Party, he’s led opposition to Wall Street’s ongoing practice of “funding our demise.”

In a recent interview on “Securing America,” Chairman Moolenaar declared: “We see these situations where American investor dollars unknowingly are either advancing…Chinese slave labor or cooperation with the Chinese military industrial complex. And that's just wrong. But we need to make it illegal, and we need to [enact] legislation, as well as cooperation with the executive branch, to shut that down.”

A PresentDangerChina.org webinar today featuring Mr. Moolenaar’s leadership, will showcase an immediate corrective: SEC Chairman Paul Atkins can swiftly, and unilaterally, terminate a bilateral Memorandum of Understanding that allows CCP companies uniquely to ignore our securities laws and regulations. 

Stop financing our demise!

This is Frank Gaffney.

Texas Congressman Keith Self just delivered a poweful indictment of the toxic operating code of authoritative Islam known as sharia. In just a few minutes on the House floor, he powerfully documented how “fundamentally at odds” that “dangerous culture of violence and domination” is with our Constitution and the freedoms it guarantees.

An Army Ranger veteran who actually fought sharia-supremacists, Rep. Self concluded by warning that, “This is a time for choosing. Either we defeat the sharia advances in America or government of the people, by the people and for the people may indeed perish from the earth.” 

As it happens, on Tuesday, another leading Texan – Governor Greg Abbott – made such a choice by designating the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American Islamic Relations as foreign terrorist and transnational criminal organizations. 

Memo to the jihadis: Don’t mess with Texas – or America. 

This is Frank Gaffney.