There was a video going around in April of Tommy Robinson arguing with two Muslim men. Robinson was grilling them on their views of sexual relationships with children, and the two Muslim men were openly saying that it was absolutely okay, so long as the child had undergone puberty.
What was striking about this video is just how normal this seemed for these two men Robinson was arguing with. It was almost like they were ready and willing to just shrug and say "duh," and as Robinson pointed out to them, this is exactly why they have grooming gangs terrorizing Europe. They do not see any of this as an issue.
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Outside Westminster Magistrates Court Tommy @TRobinsonNewEra speaks to 2 Muslims. Apparently in Islam it's perfectly respectable to have sex with a girl if she has reached puberty.
— David Atherton (@DaveAtherton20) April 9, 2025
Hence we have a grooming gang problem. pic.twitter.com/A0KJ50sXUS
But this is something that Islam makes okay in many Middle Eastern cultures. The "age of marriage" in some hadiths is agreed to be around nine-15 years old.
Shocking, but the important thing to understand here is that these are effectively laws and rules handed down by religious authority figures. This makes these rules no-brainers for them. They need not question their validity. They don't have to wonder if it's wrong. This is an idea checked off by their god. There's no more consideration necessary. Questioning might even be blasphemy.
Now, here in the West, we actually operate on similar ideas in terms of how our societal rules come about. Our rules look a whole lot different from their rules, and mostly revolve around treating an individual as states of their own that governmental forces cannot intrude upon without reason and due process. The American Constitution is the greatest example of this, and what's more, is that we've backed up every right enshrined in said Constitution by putting it so high on the shelf that it rests in the Kingdom of Heaven at the very throne of God, far out of the reach of Earthly forces.
This is a brilliant move by our founding fathers, who were well aware of how governments could be at that point.
Nick Arama reported recently about how Tim Kaine openly said he thinks the idea of rights not coming from a government is "extremely disturbing" and cited Islam as a reason why a more secular approach is preferable:
The notion that rights don’t come from laws and don’t come from the government, but come from the Creator... that’s what the Iranian government believes. It’s a theocratic regime that bases its rule on Sharia law and targets Sunnis, Bahá’ís, Jews, Christians, and other religious minorities. And they do it because they believe that they understand what natural rights are from their Creator. So, the statement that our rights do not come from our laws or our governments is extremely troubling.
Catholic Bishop Robert Barron made a brilliant reply that points out the basic truth that the rights given by God are inalienable because God is a much higher authority. I definitely recommend giving Nick's article a read, if you haven't already.
But the key thing that goes overlooked, I believe, isn't just about our rights, but what we consider to be the value of an individual and how we perceive said value.
We here in the West, and more accurately, America, think the individual is so valuable that we have moved the sanctity of said individual out of our own reach. Administrations come and go, the culture may shift its values, and trends can rise and fall, but no matter what direction the maelstrom of human events blows, the rights of the people remain unchanged as they reside in the eternal peace and unchanging love of the Kingdom of our Heavenly Father.
So powerful is that concept that our rights have endured many attempts to have them stripped.
And that's key to understanding the point about secular governments. Man changes, and when man changes, so do the laws subject to that change. Abortion, for instance, was never a "right" (nor should it be), and the moment the public shifted in a more pro-life direction, Roe v. Wade was burned to the ground.
A secular government that bases its laws on secular beliefs, such as Kaine's position, is subject to time and ultimately malleable.
And what it is malleable to is something worth stopping to really think about.
Human events in a secular world may shift secular laws, but what if the culture is influenced and ultimately dominated by another culture that sees its rules as given to them by their god? Suddenly, this secular society will find itself adopting rules and principles that ultimately play to the more religious aspects of the culture, and if those rules are hard and fast, then that society has zero chance of protecting itself from the "higher authority" looking to change it.
Islam is currently infecting the U.K. and European countries in a big way. Many Europeans are suddenly finding themselves in the midst of a cultural takeover that is beginning to drift into legal territory. The U.K. now has something like a blasphemy law that punishes citizens for doing things like burning Qurans.
If this continues, the U.K. will be so influenced by the higher power that many Muslims appeal to that it will cease to be a Democratic country. It will have become a society that bases its laws on a religious text, and that religious text can't be questioned.
We give our rights to God because our legal system needs to be strong to repel those who would see human value as less than what it actually is, whether it's the secular, the demonic, or whatever other forces might try to devalue the individual. Only He can truly protect us from the world, and Kaine, a supposed Catholic, should understand that.
