Secure Freedom Minute

The relentless expansion in the United States of the number and footprint of “Islamic societies,” “Islamic centers” and other mosques tied to the Muslim Brotherhood and similarly sharia-supremacist networks is giving rise to “critical infrastructure for jihad” in America. 
That’s the assessment of some three-dozen of us committed to opposing that threat contained in a just-released open letter to Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida. 
After commending the two men for correctly designating the Brotherhood as a “terrorist organization,” we argued that it is not just prudent, but mandatory, that the organization’s so-called “masjids” and those of others who share the Brothers’ determination to “destroy Western civilization from within” be investigated. 
We also urged the Governors to declare moratoriums in their states on the approval of additional mosques at least until those investigations are completed.
Let’s roll!
This is Frank Gaffney.

President Trump just characterized Marxist-jihadist Democratic Senate nominee Abdulrahman el-Sayed as “Muslim Brotherhood.” 
He has thereby not only exposed that candidate’s myriad personal and family ties to a group Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida have correctly designated as a “terrorist organization.” The President has set the stage for finally doing the same at the federal level.
After all, the U.S. government established in court in 2008 that the Brotherhood’s mission in America is “to destroy Western civilization from within.” 
A powerful BanSharia.com webinar yesterday documented how mosques owned and operated by the Brothers are being used for that purpose – demonstrating the urgent need for their investigation as threats to public safety and national security and a pause in allowing any more of them to be opened here. Just do it, Messrs. Trump, Abbott and DeSantis!
This is Frank Gaffney.

Increasingly, communities across America have discovered land has been sold – sometimes surreptitiously – to buyers intent on building an “Islamic society” or “Islamic center,” sometimes with plans to surround them with Muslim-only neighborhoods or even “cities.”
Local authorities usually treat the resulting applications for such land use as routine zoning matters, rubber-stamping them if  they conform to relevant ordinances.  
Unfortunately, such mosques are typically owned by the Muslim Brotherhood’s front group called the North American Islamic Trust. Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida have correctly designated the Brotherhood and another of its fronts as “terrorist organizations.” And such sharia-adherent mosques constitute part of the critical infrastructure of jihad. 
Memo to the governors: The danger thus posed to public safety and national security must be investigated, with a moratorium on further mosque applications until the associated risks are fully assessed. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

According to the Wall Street Journal, Communist China is continuing its longstanding practice of proliferating weapons of mass destruction and/or their delivery systems to the world’s most dangerous regimes. Over the years, the recipients have included North Korea, Pakistan and Iran. 
The latest report discloses covert shipments of Chinese parts for Houthi terrorists’ manufacture of an Iranian precision-guided medium-range ballistic missile. Given the Houthis’ ongoing attacks on Saudi Arabia, its vessels in the Red Sea and past demonstrated willingness to attack Israel, this behavior fits the profile of Xi Jinping’s practice of what amounts to “strategic arson.” 
President Trump is scheduled to meet the Chinese communist emperor once again next month. Notice must be served that there will be material costs to the Chinese Communist Party if it persists in what amounts to World War Xi against our interests and allies. 
This is Frank Gaffney.

Two ominous trends are converging and creating a need for an official intervention. First, the number of so-called “Islamic societies” or “centers” – the Muslim Brotherhood’s brands for its mosques in this country – are among a burgeoning number of such facilities being established across America. 
And second, the evidence is growing that what is thus a-building is the critical infrastructure for jihad in the USA. Such mosques’ imams, the leader of the Council on American Islamic Relations and other Muslim Brothers are becoming ever-more-brazen about their determination to impose in this country Islam’s strategy for conquest known as “sharia.”
Governors Greg Abbott of Texas and Ron DeSantis of Florida have designated the Muslim Brotherhood and CAIR as terrorist organizations. It is imperative that they declare moratoriums on the approval of any further mosques pending investigations of the threat they pose.  
This is Frank Gaffney.

On March 3rd, roughly two million Texans approved a ballot proposition declaring, “Texas should prohibit sharia law.” A powerful impetus behind that vote was the prospect of the East Plano Islamic Center building a sharia-adherent “city” in North Texas.
Three weeks later, a retired police lieutenant named Douglas Deaton warned local authorities that elements of that city have been in place for as long as 12 years. He described its first “house” as a “fortress and command post” with apparent surveillance and firing positions overlooking a police facility.
Since Mohammed’s time, mosques have been used to store weapons and train and plot for their use in jihad.  Gov. Greg Abbott – who has promised to block EPIC City – should immediately declare a moratorium on further construction of such forward operating bases pending an investigation of the threat they pose to their communities and state.   
This is Frank Gaffney.