By Douglas V. Gibbs
In Nigeria, the rest of Africa, and many regions around the world for that matter, the spread of Muslim rule has offered a brutal wakeup call regarding its legacy of slavery and massacre. It is incompatible with Western values, but is tolerated by the progressive liberal socialist left because they share the same enemies – colonialism, Judaism, and Christianity. Americans have been battling on our own social battlefields, so we have both lacked the will and the capability to address the blood-soaked grounds under the dark shadow spreading across the globe.
There were once truly successful African countries, but they succeeded when they practiced British politics and American economics. Botswana and South Africa were once economic powerhouses, but anti-colonialism and the desire to escape the horrors of Apartheid opened them up to change. But once those kinds of doors open the tendency of a people is to lurch radically in the opposite direction, which then welcomes ideologies like Islam and Communism which can take centuries to be cured from, if not longer. Along that anti-colonial path has risen ruthless powers that blame anything European on the woes of the country. Anti-Christian genocide, all too often, becomes mixed into the recipe to get away from European influences, despite the fact that Christianity is not truly a European religion as advertised. The first churches emerged in the Middle East and Africa before they began creeping into southeastern Europe and ultimately across the White Continent.
Nigeria is currently Africa’s demographic and economic giant, but teeters on the brink of collapse. It is torn apart along religious and ethnic lines by corruption and jihad. President Trump has set his eyes on Nigeria, after seemingly brokering an end to the fighting in Congo. But America cannot consider entering another game of regime change through military might. Iraq and Afghanistan both serve as bitter lessons when it comes to that line of thinking. But Islam and communism are a real threat in those regions, and the only thing that could turn those regions around, Christianity, is what is being targeted for termination.
The problem is, in Europe and even here in America, the war is also raging. Islam and communism are not happy to conquer regions. They both want to rule the world, and they have come together in a strange kind of alliance to make it happen. They have formed a Red/Green Alliance as written about by writer and investigative journalist James Simpson in his multiple books, and in the movies “Enemies Within” and “Enemies Within The Church” by Trevor Loudon. In America that war for the soul of The West has raised its Red/Green head in the candidacy of New York’s Zohran Mamdani. He admits he hates Capitalism. He’s a self-proclaimed socialist convincing a large swath of voters that the free market that transformed this country from frontier towns into a global superpower is our primary problem in America. While the economic system Karl Marx labeled Capitalism has lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty, built a middle class and fueled rapid technological innovation with outcomes impossible under socialist regimes, the same kind of voters who have chased after the pipe-dreams that have Europe imploding and fueled failed communist states are now screaming Commie Mamdani’s name and they are pushing for him to be the next mayor of New York City. But his profound anti-American rhetoric is not just some leftist ideology that is rooted in foreign influence and imported from the worst of America’s adversaries. We must be reminded he is also Muslim. He is a perfect example of Simpson’s “Red-Green Alliance.”
The rise of Mamdani’s Red-Green movement is not limited to the raging lefties of New York City, either. Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts was quick to publicly voice her support for the New York mayoral candidate back in August, praising the socialist’s communist economic platform, and declaring that his ideas are aligned with the core messaging of the Democratic Party. Mamdani won the Democratic nomination for mayor in June, and has been slowly securing broad support from many of the Democratic Party’s radical leftist leaders like AOC and Bernie Sanders, but he is also cracking into the minds of the establishment leaders. And his supporters are convinced that his anti-capitalism, anti-American, anti-Israel and anti-Christianity beliefs represent the direction the Democratic Party should be moving.
The Muslim part of Mamdani has not been touched by the media, however. The emphasis by conservative media has been mainly about him being a self-described democratic-socialist.
As the anniversary of the October 7 massacre in Israel by Hamas approached a little more than four weeks ago some outlets reported that Mamdani refused to condemn Hamas when pressed on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s vow to destroy the terror group and secure the release of the hostages. When asked directly, he responded, “I am not going to echo the words of Benjamin Netanyahu.” As a Muslim, his hate for Israel, and support for anyone supporting the complete genocide of Israel goes along with the ideology. But if you are a Muslim who hates Israel, then hatred for Christianity is also in the mix. America is the Great Satan to Islam due to its Christian foundation, and Israel is the Little Satan. Mamdani later criticized New York Mayor Eric Adams, who attended Netanyahu’s speech in person. Dozens of delegates staged walkouts before Netanyahu finished his speech at the United Nations General Assembly in New York, but Adams remained until the end and later praised the Israeli leader. Mamdani’s response was clear. “To have a mayor who went to the United Nations to watch his address and then thank Benjamin Netanyahu for defending the Western world and our way of life, those are the words that Eric Adams shared, I can’t even begin to explain the offense that that brings to New Yorkers across the five boroughs.” Mamdani has also labeled Israel an apartheid state, and signaled his opposition to the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s definition of anti-Semitism which includes criticism of Israel and Zionism.
Mamdani’s Muslim roots, and his position supporting Islamist extremism and particularly regarding Israel and anti-Semitism is echoed by the rise of other candidates in Minnesota and Seattle, and is occurring at a crucial moment in history while Israel and Christianity has seen an increase in leftist rhetoric against them, and even violence against both Judaism and Christianity.
The NYPD seems to be in lock-step with Mamdani, recently quietly abandoning the concept of assimilation into American culture and instead has been enforcing accommodation, and compliance to Sharia by celebrating the emergence of a soon-to-be first Pakistani-American woman to serve in both the U.S. Air Force and the New York Police Department while also celebrating their accommodation of her Islamic “religious” demands. She has won the battle with her demands to never be required to remove her hijab, not even during gas-mask training in the military, and was granted a full religious waiver from uniform regulations. She also received federally funded Halal-only food while in the military, prayer breaks during duty hours (even in combat environments), and gender segregation and modesty accommodations during physical training (during a time the leftist Democrats also claim that we are all equal and men can be women).
How can America stand against Islamic extremism abroad if we institutionally codify Sharia in America?
These are the same leftwing Democrats who scream about Israel’s alleged sins, while also ignoring the ongoing massacres of Christians in Nigeria. Islamists in Nigeria have murdered tens of thousands of defenseless Christians, displacing around 15 million people from their homes. The Islamist militants have also been committing sexual violence and torture on the Christians and recruit the children into their terrorist army. Catholic priests are regularly targeted for kidnapping. But we haven’t seen any college protests or rallies in the streets of American cities decrying that systemic ethnic cleansing by Muslim forces.
In Sudan, another civil war has broken out, as well. In that country, about 150,000 civilians have been murdered, and around 12 million have been displaced from their homes. The leftist media and politicians have been silent about Christians being driven out or massacred in most Islamic nations, how in the last twenty years the Christian population in Iraq has shrunk from 1.4 million to around 120,000, how in Syria the Christian population has dramatically contracted, how after once in Lebanon Christians made up around 80% of the population but it is now under 30%, how in Turkey genocides against Armenians, Assyrians and Greeks has the Christian population shrinking from about 20% to about 0.2%, how in Egypt the Coptic Christians live in constant fear, and how Bethlehem’s Muslim majority keeps the Christian population out of that city’s region but if Israel were ever to annex Bethlehem the Christian population would explode. The same media and leftists politicians who spend their days accusing Israel of war crimes are the same ones who ignore the atrocities against Christians around the world. And note that these attacks are not only in Africa and the Middle East. They are in Europe and here in America, as well. Just to name a few incidents:
- Two churches were intentionally set on fire in North Carolina in Cleveland County.
- Germany’s open-border experiment has unleashed a wave of anti-Christian hatred with churches under siege, sacred statues mutilated, Bibles burned, and worshippers constantly harassed and living in fear.
- A fatal Catholic School Mass shooting in Minnesota in late August.
According to the Daily Signal’s president and executive editor, Rob Bluey, “We have seen a significant, sharp increase in attacks on Christians and churches.” According to Family Research Council, there were 383 attacks on Christian churches last year alone. There has been a 700% increase in violent attacks against churches and Christians in America. Christians are the most persecuted religious group around the world. Bluey commented, “As people have abandoned religion and faith and the belief in Jesus Christ, we have moved away from some of those very foundational principles that not only were instrumental in the creation of this great country that we live in, but have guided us for thousands of years.”
We see it in media personalities as well. Former CNN personality Don Lemon ranted about the “Christian messaging” and “Religious Nationalism” at Charlie Kirk’s Memorial. Actor Mark Ruffalo claims [illegal] “immigrants” aren’t the criminals. “White People are.” And what he means by that is not his fellow white liberal left collectivists. It was a stab at white Christian conservatives. His claim was launched during a “No Kings Mobilization Kickoff Call” and came two weeks after the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the attempted bombing of a Fox News truck, and gunfire against both an ABC affiliate station and an ICE facility in Dallas. In his rant Ruffalo claimed most crimes are committed in this country by white people. When one looks at percentages, of course, that statement can be easily dismissed.
As any Christian will probably tell you, we are not just in a battle for the soul of America. We are smack-dab in the middle of spiritual warfare. Our identity is based on the notion that we have Natural Rights. God-given rights and a moral order that transcends politics or party loyalty. The deterioration of our foundational truths didn’t come from politicians, but the expansion of hatred of Christianity and the loss of values that go along with it which is in direct proportion to the loss of our Christian spirituality in our culture. Our education system has abandoned biblical truths for leftist theoretical conditioning. Skin color is blamed for anything unpleasant, and five year-olds are being told their bodies lie to them. American History is being taught as the birth of a flawed system designed to oppress anyone not white, rather than the greatest story of the triumph of liberty in the history of the world. Americans have been taught to harden their hearts against Christian values, and to trust collective ideology over God.
The good news is that a push for school choice, home-schooling, classical education and a return to traditional methods of education is on the rise. Critical thinking is being sought, rather than teaching that one is only a mindless automaton who must obey their conditioning. Universal morality is reentering the fabric of reality – something taught by Christianity and Judaism – which is a recognition that there is a moral law that fuels the rule of law, rather than the rule of man that is founded upon man’s opinion. The Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God, as Jefferson wrote in the Declaration of Independence, is being sought after. While the factions and political leaders may deny that there is a higher authority, Christians have not abandoned that successful framework that made this country great. Christians in America have decided that it is not enough to merely oppose the war launched against us, but to stand in the public square of our culture and battle against it as Charlie Kirk did. A restoration of the voice of Christianity in our culture and American System has suddenly been launched as all of these attacks around the world against Christianity scream for our submission.
“Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other,” wrote John Adams.
“Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom,” proclaimed Benjamin Franklin.
The path forward is the next step on the Tytler Cycle. We are rapidly approaching bondage, but it is time we have our next spiritual awakening. As Steve Scott at American Thinker wrote, “As faith recedes, government advances. As transcendent morality fades, bureaucratic control expands. As education becomes indoctrination, liberty becomes impossible.”
As I have said many times at my public speaking events, “How can we get our political house in order if we can’t get out godly house in order?”
I believe a spiritual awakening is on the horizon. I see it in the faces behind the demands of parents fighting for their children’s minds. I see it in the faces of those who were shocked by Charlie Kirk’s assassination. I see it in the faces of those in audiences I speak to awakening to the truth. While President Trump is a fantastic President, and the political pendulum seems to be swinging away from the hard left, the restoration of our Republic is not a political maneuver. It is a cultural one. It is a spiritual one.
America’s own enlightenment is gearing up to reach into the heavens and embrace the foundational principles that founded America in the first place. We have traveled full cycle, from spiritual awakening, the rise of liberty through the courage of our Founding Fathers, the prosperity that comes with it, and then through the dark journey through selfishness, complacency, apathy, and dependency upon a government that has been lurching leftward in a fashion that would have alarmed the Founders. The human secular rule of man has reached a point where the people have begun dancing around the golden calf of collectivism, but the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the failures of leftism under Obama and Biden, and the threat of the Red/Green Alliance rising in New York City and other places around the country have shocked us out of our sleep. It is time to shake off the blurriness of newly awakening and regain our place in our culture. We need to be in the public square proclaiming liberty, and our pastors need to be in the public square with us proclaiming the Word of God. We need to be community leaders. We need to be educators. We need to be office holders. We need to get educated again.
And it begins with two literary masterpieces. The Holy Bible, and the United States Constitution.
It’s time for the Tytler Cycle’s bondage to be put behind us, and the liberty of a spiritual awakening to spread like a morning dawn upon America once again.
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