Are American citizens comfortable with an administration that’s ready to defend their nation’s sovereignty? That’s the question posed by JNS editor-in-chief Jonathan Tobin.
The criticism of the Trump administration for its actions attacking terrorist drug smugglers and closing the border to illegal immigrants is, he says, rooted in the toxic Marxist idea that national sovereignty is a problem rather than an expression of national security.
He’s joined in this week’s episode of “Think Twice” by national security expert Frank Gaffney of the Institute for the American Future, who says that recent incidents like the shooting of a National Guardsman in Washington, D.C., by an Afghan refugee, as well as the massive fraud involving Somali refugees, raise important questions about the spread of Islamist ideology in the United States.
Gaffney traces the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood and its front groups, like the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), to the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks and the George W. Bush administration. He states that there has been a “catastrophic” failure on the part of administrations since then to take action against a real threat to the homeland from efforts to introduce totalitarian sharia law into American society.
Tobin and Gaffney noted that Islamist activism in the United States has been shielded by efforts to smear critics of the Muslim Brotherhood as “Islamophobic,” when most of what is labeled as such are merely efforts to draw attention to the dangerous radicalism and antisemitism that have spread in the Muslim community.
Gaffney is particularly concerned with the ability of Qatar—the Muslim Brotherhood’s host country and principal funder—to buy influence within the United States in academia, the media and government.
He says a crucial test for the Trump administration will be whether it is ready to follow through and designate the Brotherhood as a terrorist group, even though Qatar is lobbying hard to oppose that common-sense measure. If Trump listens to voices like that of former Fox News host Tucker Carlson, who seems to be in Qatar’s pocket, it will have immeasurably emboldened Islamist terrorists, as well as others who threaten American security, such as the Chinese Communist Party.
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