Secretary of State Marco Rubio gave an amazingly eloquent speech recently in Athens. He extolled the history and values of the democracy practiced in Greece long ago.
He bemoaned the state of national affairs in Europe now and, to some extent, in his own country. He urged an aggressive rejuvenation of pride in our mutual democratic histories and a restoration of its strong values that have sustained and endured our cultures for millennia.
That speech has a particularly powerful application now given the assaults on Western societies and values by Muslim immigrants. They were openly and generously welcomed largely as refugees by generous societies in Europe because they were fleeing war and dangerous hardships.
Now, in "appreciation," these people are rioting, burning, and assaulting their host countries and cities and their native citizens in an attempt to turn these Western societies into the strictly closed Muslim societies they fled, with women in strict subjugation and entire neighborhoods closed to infidels.
Some of the host countries, like Sweden, are belatedly banning the women's cloaks and even halting the entrance of new refugees or expelling existing foreigners. Crime rates have surged, especially for rape and violent attacks. Except in Poland, which did not open its borders.
Last weekend we saw shocking images of national monuments and historically revered edifices burned in France. Stores looted. Cars overturned and ignited.
This is a shocking warning of what is coming in our land as militant newcomers seek to change our country toward what they claimed to have fled. My RedState colleague Brandon Morse shared some compelling thoughts on all this here.
In this week's audio commentary, I have some profound concerns more along the angry lines. In this 25th anniversary year of the 9/11 horror, when we all said "Never Again!", these militant Muslims are using the cloak of religion to insinuate their perverse values and systems into our open society. They are very concerned about minority rights until they are no longer a small minority.
Not just in the streets but in elections like the Michigan Senate race, where the allegedly Democrat candidate and his family are known supporters of the violent Muslim Brotherhood. That's the group that is so interested in peace that it assassinated Egyptian President Anwar Sadat for making peace with his neighbor land of Israel.
I hope you will listen to this brief audio commentary by clicking on the flag here. Then leave your own thoughts and comments below. And share these words with friends and family. We cannot allow these militants to forsake our forefathers and 250 years of freedom and progress.
As the clock ticks down to the sudden, welcome end of the murderous traitor Nidal Malik Hasan, this week's Sunday column examines the sometimes controversial issue of executions.
Hasan's murders of 14 fellow service members, including a pregnant woman, and the wounding of 32 others, all of them unarmed, certainly suggest the ultimate punishment.
President Trump was right to cancel the planned livestreaming of the Army firing squad on Dec. 3. But what crimes genuinely merit capital punishment? How are they carried out? As an official witness to two executions, I had a description and some thoughts to share.
And how did a militant Muslim with outspoken concerns about the United States' response to 9/11 rise to the rank of Major and still be assigned as a psychiatrist to fellow military?
The most recent audio commentary bemoaned the planned end to New York City's horse-and-buggy rides. You might guess this is the decision of the city's Muslim mayor, as he systematically squeezes yet another little joy out of his city's life.
And you'd be correct. One less reason to visit what used to be called the Big Apple.
