El nakon 🇪🇸 🥥 🧁

After 9/11 I dropped out of college and joined the Marine Corps, volunteering for the infantry. I knew that “radical Islam” was responsible for the attack, and I wanted to have a rifle in my hand to go after those who were responsible for and in league with those who attacked us. Obviously in hindsight, our missions in Iraq and Afghanistan were poorly executed with no achievable objective ever clearly articulated, devolving into nonsensical nation building exercises. In the 25 years since, all of my experiences, including multiple deployments, and decades of research, have led me to a more important realization… It wasn’t “radical Islam” that attacked the United States, it was just Islam. And more importantly, that virtually no society that has seen a large influx of Islam has remained intact, and otherwise survived it. Islam is the problem, and I realize how uncomfortable it is for Americans to speak in absolutes, and that there may be outliers, but at large scale, Islam has never resulted in a society that embraces and appreciates human liberty. In the wild Islam at scale destroys liberty, it doesn’t foster and build it. Islam is a political ideology doctrinally dedicated to the conquering and subjugation of all non-Muslims. Radical Islam isn’t a national security threat to the United States, Islam is, and people need to learn to be comfortable saying that, because if enough don’t, our children and grandchildren will not inherit liberty, they will inherit Islamic theocracy.