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No one likes to be offended.

“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me” is actually not true, even though it’s a useful verse to teach children not to retaliate against insults with violence.

Words can indeed hurt and wound, and many young people today are quick to point out that they are offended in a large variety of ways, and fully expect profuse apologies from the offenders.

Those who find that they’ve given offense are often good-hearted people who have no desire to harm others, and thus they typically apologize. No one wants to be an “offensive” person, or a racist, bigot, sexist, homophobe, transphobe, Islamophobe, cultural appropriator, or any other possible category of “badness.”

Human beings have a deeply rooted sensitivity to the beauty and value of love, which is actually humanity’s great hope to finally leave violence behind and grow as a species to the point where a world of love is possible. It’s rare to find a person who would honestly say that their deepest desire every day is to harm others, including children, and most especially puppies. We have a sense of pride that we should at least appear to be good, and usually agree with the idea that it is good to be good.

Thus, very few people experience real, deep, lasting joy when they offend others.

This is why the current culture of political correctness is so powerful. Being called a racist, a bigot, a sexist, or a hater is deeply troubling, so many people do their best to avoid these accusations by self-censoring their words so that no one will be offended and accuse them of being a “phobe.”

Because of this sentiment, political correctness has created a culture of fear—a culture in which anyone at any time can turn on someone and label them as offensive and by extension, evil. Political correctness is partially fueled by Identity Politics—the division of human beings into groups defined by their assumed status as oppressors or the oppressed. Very little attention is paid to the character of individuals. Instead, victimology reigns supreme with individuals competing in an “Oppression Olympics” with circuitous pathways of “Intersectionality” that create ever more complex combinations of oppression that eventually brand everyone as an oppressor of someone else.

White males are labeled as the ultimate oppressors who offend everyone else by their mere existence. Putting aside for the moment the fact that large numbers of white males in history have been incredibly loving, principled, noble, and sacrificial human beings, what about a white male who is gay, or identifies as transracial Asian and trans female? (There are such cases.) Is he now oppressed? Has his whiteness and genetic maleness been forgiven by his self-identification? If so, why? Intersectional identity politics is an enormous pile of tangled spaghetti logic that collapses in on itself if one pulls at the strands.

Its twisted and confusing narrowness has created a politically correct culture of tyrants who roam the streets and hallways waiting to be offended, screaming that their hurt feelings have victimized them because of the purported offense of “the invalid other.” Their response is to verbally and sometimes physically assault their enemy offenders with a self-righteousness often fueled by a petulant rage that has forgotten all about the values of love and forgiveness, and most certainly pays no attention to the log in their own eye.

In this politically correct culture, offended accusers do not have to prove their allegations. In many cases, simply calling John Smith a racist, a hater, a sexist, a bigot, or a transphobe/homophobe is enough to end his career. There’s no due process and no defense accepted. The content of one’s character as an individual is irrelevant. This phenomenon hearkens back to the Salem Witch trials and the malevolent accusations of Mao’s Red Guard student movement in the 1960s.

If the Western culture of sacred individual liberty is to survive, the destructive culture of political correctness must be transformed from its current state of tyranny and hostility and replaced by a thoughtful, reasoned, kind, and respectful culture that promotes harmony and love between people. This can only be done by fostering deep listening between all human beings, and mutual respect between opposing sides.

A social justice warrior who earnestly corrects an “offensive” person may believe that he or she is promoting goodness and vanquishing hate. Yet, all too often SJWs scream with hatred at those with whom they disagree. Even when they don’t raise their voices, SJWs who pursue their conviction of political correctness don’t listen to the other person. They don’t respectfully ask deep questions with a desire to learn opposing opinions.

The culture of political correctness is shallow and one-sided. It allows no debate or discussion, and engenders contempt and hatred toward the ones accused of “hatred.” It is a snake that will eat its own children because it is based on the ever-changing “winds of offense.” Today’s hate-speech policeman will be tomorrow’s criminal.

But, a social justice warrior might wail, “Hate speech is bad! Saying hateful, bigoted, offensive things about Group X, Y, or Z is evil! We cannot allow such harmful things to be said! We must make laws against it to protect the innocent members of all marginalized groups!”

It is a seductive refrain because loving human beings don’t normally want to harm others. Thus, in the name of “love and peace and goodness,” opposing views are crushed, and violators are fined, jailed, and in many Islamic societies, killed. And of course, we must mention communist societies like North Korea, Cuba, and China as examples of political correctness fully grown.

The elephant in the room that social justice warriors ignore is that creating a tyrannical society of political correctness in which people can be fined, jailed, and killed will create a majority population of oppressed victims that will inevitably include members of the SJW class. Tyranny eats its own because it is merciless. Under tyranny, the finer sentiments of love, kindness, and compassion are no longer valued. Thus, in the name of social justice, with a passing reference to love that is soon forgotten, the hell of tyranny is created.

“Totalitarian” is defined as “exercising control over the freedom, will, or thought of others.” Those who support the culture of political correctness, whether they brand themselves as social justice warriors or not, must recognize that telling people what they can and cannot say is the first step toward tyranny. It is a major step, for when free speech is restricted or eliminated, the flow of truth stops.

Children are then raised with the State’s version of truth and grow up entirely ignorant of reality. Eventually, of course, they catch on and revolt, perhaps after many generations. But the cost in human suffering is enormous. The people of North Korea, Cuba, China, and most Islamic countries are in this dire situation right now.

The Founding Fathers of America understood the evils of tyranny and worked brilliantly to create a government with checks and balances, and magnificent freedoms that they expressed as gifts from a Divine source. The Constitutional guarantee of freedom of speech was not meant to protect “nice” speech. It was established to protect everyone against the repression of opinions when those opinions were not popular. It allows citizens to insult and condemn their leaders without being locked up under the laws of “Lèse-majesté,” or “injured majesty.” Lèse-majesté is still in force in many countries around the world—but it has no power in the United States, which has given amazing freedom to all citizens, including members of the media and comedians to insult their leaders with impunity.

A comedian can even hold up a bloodied effigy of the severed head of a current president and not be charged with a crime. That is the free speech guarantee at work. There are not too many things more offensive than holding up a bloody model of someone’s severed head. One must ask how the media and supporters of political correctness would have responded to that severed head if they actually liked the man it represented. One can see then, that to safely guarantee free speech for all, it must be thoroughly and rigorously supported at all times by all people.

The United States was formed with unique guarantees of freedom that were so special that millions upon millions of immigrants swarmed to our shores to enjoy those freedoms. The United States is incredibly exceptional—not because its citizens are any more moral than others, but because of the ideas and principles of freedom that created our country. That is true American exceptionalism.

And yes, living in a free country like America has often engendered an attitude of life that creates exceptional people, of all races and religions. We have been a melting pot of diverse peoples from around the world who adopted a common creed of freedom and shared opportunity for all and thus we proudly became “Americans.” After only eighty-five years from the founding of our country in 1776, hundreds of thousands of Christian men, both white and black, bled and died together to correct the monstrous sin of slavery, a momentous and unprecedented sacrificial event in human history. Freedom in America was created and has matured on the foundation of self-sacrifice and a belief in the sacred rights of every individual, without exception.

In 1860, after an anti-slavery meeting in Boston was disrupted by men hired by slavers, Frederick Douglass, a former slave, delivered “A Plea for Free Speech in Boston.” His words could easily describe today’s PC culture:

Even here in Boston, and among the friends of freedom, we hear two voices: one denouncing the mob that broke up our meeting on Monday as a base and cowardly outrage; and another, deprecating and regretting the holding of such a meeting, by such men, at such a time. We are told that the meeting was ill-timed, and the parties to it unwise.¹

He went on to say:

There can be no right of speech where any man, however lifted up, or however humble, however young, or however old, is overawed by force, and compelled to suppress his honest sentiments. Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.²

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Thus, freedom of speech is the first line of defense against tyranny of every sort. Very specifically, this means that social justice warriors and supporters of political correctness must accept that all speech is free, including hateful speech, disagreeable speech, or insulting speech. Only a very narrow line of speech that directly incites violence can and should be opposed.

We must remember that good-hearted people don’t normally wish to offend others. Yet in spite of the risk that speech might offend others, all speech must be protected if liberty is to survive.

“Islamophobia” is a popular canard in the West these days. Canada, Britain, and Europe are passing laws that criminalize criticism of Islam while leaving criticism of Christianity, Judaism, and other religions open to unbridled condemnation without consequence. Who benefits from these laws?

If one examines life in Iran or Saudi Arabia or other strict Islamic Sharī‘ah countries, one can see that over a billion wonderful human beings around the world who just happen to be Muslim are unable to criticize Mohammed or Islamic doctrines without suffering severe and sometimes fatal consequences. Blasphemy laws that criminalize opposition to Islam benefit a tyrannical class that has no interest in granting freedom of speech and religion to their own Muslim populations who are the first and constant victims of their tyranny—most especially women.

Muslims cannot leave Islam upon pain of death. It is reasonable and logical to assume that vast numbers of Muslims would leave Islam if they felt that it was safe to do so. The Islamic religious and political culture that pushes men across the globe to riot, burn, and kill when someone in a faraway land draws a cartoon of Mohammed is a culture that has become a fully realized version of political correctness and tyranny.

Can you imagine the outcry in Western media if Christians were killed if they tried to leave Christianity? Can you imagine the disgust and contempt toward Christians if they rioted, burned, and killed people around the globe if someone created a piece of art that mocked Jesus? The media and people in general would scorch the Christian world with their criticisms—as well they should if Christians did those things. Which, of course, they do not. Christians can leave their faith at any time, and Jesus has been mocked endlessly by a large variety of people, in the most vile of ways. But Christians almost always turn the other cheek because they were taught to love their enemy instead of hating him.

Why then do so many Westerners in media, entertainment, politics, and academia refuse to speak out against the violence and oppression in the Islamic world, while still criticizing the West? Why the double standard?

Is it because of naivety and ignorance about Islam? This type of behavior reminds me of a scene in the movie The Poseidon Adventure, in which Gene Hackman’s character tries to get a second group to follow them—the right way—to safety. The second group stubbornly refuses, and of course, dies.

Or is it because they have so much hatred for Judeo-Christian values that they gladly join with Islamists in their jihad against Western civilization?

Or, do they keep silent about Islam because of fear—fear that angry Muslims will respond with violence, as has so often happened? For the West to be cowed by fear of Islam is a terrible situation to be in, that needs review and a solution. To find answers to these questions, one must look at things with common sense, courage, open eyes, objectivity, and most of all, honesty.

Do we really want to yield to the tyranny of Islamic Sharī‘ah law in the West? Unfortunately, too many people are saying yes. It is short-sighted and may become a matter of great regret, most especially to their children who will inherit the results of their policies.

The historian Arnold J. Toynbee stated, “Civilizations die from suicide, not by murder.”³ Western liberals who support political correctness are leading people into an abyss that will swallow all of us unless we vigorously oppose the Offense and Tyranny of Political Correctness.

That means that when someone spews forth a stream of invective, laced with the standard descriptors of phobes, haters, and bigots, etc, we must courageously push back against it, with bold speech supported by an underlying desire to eventually create harmony between all sides—a harmony centered on love and respect, but most of all a harmony centered upon an unbreakable commitment to sacred, individual liberty.

That freedom applies to all men and women of every race. Martin Luther King, Jr. did not preach hatred toward whites or blacks or any other race, but instead timelessly affirmed that the value of every human being was based on their individual spirit and character. In Dr. King’s acceptance speech for the Nobel Peace Prize in 1964, he stated:

I refuse to accept the view that mankind is so tragically bound to the starless midnight of racism and war that the bright daybreak of peace and brotherhood can never become a reality.⁴

May Dr. King’s dream at long last come true.

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Image Credit:

Photo of “A scene from the Red Detachment of Women”
(1972 production), White House photo by Byron Schumaker
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Notes:

1. Frederick Douglass, “A Plea for Free Speech in Boston,” December 9, 1860, Boston’s Music Hall
https://constitutioncenter.org/the-constitution/historic-document-library/detail/frederick-douglass-a-plea-for-free-speech-in-boston-1860

2. Ibid.

3. Arnold J. Toynbee, referenced in “Arnold J. Toynbee,” New World Encyclopedia.
https://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Arnold_J._Toynbee

4. Martin Luther King, Jr., “Martin Luther King Jr. Acceptance Speech, on the occasion of the award of the Nobel Peace Prize in Oslo, 10 December 1964.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/peace/1964/king/acceptance-speech/

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All emotionally healthy people desire freedom for themselves. This is a true, common ground for all human beings. No one wants to be enslaved.

Thus, if it violates our personal morality when someone tries to enslave us, it must then follow that it is immoral for us to enslave anyone else. Can we each admit that this is true? It should seem so, but the reality of enslavement reveals a great divide in the human race. Slavery takes many forms but all of them exist because of an emotional and spiritual deficit in the hearts of the perpetrators and their supporters.

The deficit is simple. Those who wish to dominate the lives of others—and thus enslave them to varying degrees—simply do not care that they are causing their victims pain. It is a deficit of love, of compassion, of kindness, of sensitivity, of responsibility, of truth, and of self-awareness. It makes no difference if one is a slaver or a supporter of slavery or if one simply ignores the reality of slavery—the same deficit applies to all.

Slavery is not limited to the physical entrapment of a human’s body. Slavery exists on a large and complicated continuüm of oppression. Minds are enslaved as well as bodies. Although self-inflicted spiritual, emotional, and intellectual enslavement is a tragedy, it is the malicious manipulation of others that causes the most harm.

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The world is divided in 2024 along the great demarcation of freedom versus slavery. Tyrants have recruited and entranced millions of human beings to believe that limiting or eliminating the freedoms of others is both appropriate and necessary for the good of the world.

The acolytes of slavery—the individuals who are working to destroy freedom—are without excuse because no one can ever be forced to harm another. We are each autonomous, even when it seems that we are not because we each possess an inviolable soul of goodness that never stops guiding us toward a world of tenderness, kindness, compassion, and love.

Our souls know the truth. Our souls are embedded in the fabric of a loving universe and are inextricably connected to a quantum field that one could describe as the mind and body of the Creator of the Universe. Atheists may reject the idea of a transcendent God who is intimately embracing each of us, but they have no logical explanation of where love and virtue and beauty came from. A black void of nothingness? Something cannot spring from nothing.

The human desire for freedom is itself a transcendent reality that is the ultimate hope for the citizens of a suffering world. A great awakening of conscience and heart must enter the minds of those who enslave. That new awareness will require humility and the acknowledgment that a moral high ground is built upon an honest respect and love for all people.

The tragedy of mass enslavement is first enabled by the internal acceptance of mass delusions fueled by emotional and spiritual deficits. The tyrants of the world use the bodies and minds of others to support their tyranny. They cannot enslave the world by themselves.

Each person in the world today needs to ask themselves hard questions about the reality of freedom as the necessary prerequisite for a healthy and peaceful world.

If you find yourself on the side of tyranny, what fuels your willingness to remove sacred freedoms from vast numbers of people? What drives you to abandon the freedoms of speech and religion? The freedom to dissent, to disagree, to question the status quo engendered by a monolithic and compromised media?

If you find yourself on the side of tyranny, what causes you to feel contempt for half the world; to become angry at differing opinions and brand them as “evil disinformation”? What justifies an ever-expanding government overreach and domination of the lives of your friends and family members who disagree with you? Lest you forget, that same tyranny is gazing upon you with an all-seeing eye.

We cannot ignore the end-game; the final consequences of the expansion of tyranny, both from our governments and the oligarchs who support the removal of sacred human rights. We must remember the tragedy of totalitarianism in the twentieth century: the hundreds of millions of people who died or suffered under the callous boots of our brothers and sisters who stopped caring.

The dark world of tyranny is a cancer that has stained our history for millennia. It didn’t start with Marxism or Nazism or Sharī‘ah Islam. Those thought systems are only the most recent plagues upon humanity. For most of human history, slavery was “normal” and human life was virtually worthless.

With the reality of that brutal history, it is thus profoundly exceptional that the American Founding Fathers gathered the combined wisdom of illuminated men and women. With that wisdom, they created a new nation based on a Declaration of Independence and Constitution that inspired millions upon millions of suffering people from all over the world to emigrate to America.

The forces of totalitarianism—the forces of dark and evil slavery—do not want humanity to value the exceptionalism of America’s founding and growth. For a hundred years at least, proponents of atheistic Marxism have invaded the social fabric of America’s freedoms and have poisoned the well to such a degree that half the country now believes that America is irredeemable.

Yet what country did a better job than America in the last five thousand years? What other country offered as many freedoms to its citizens and to the millions of immigrants who built new lives of freedom after escaping from deprivation, wars, and a variety of hells across the globe? America’s citizens were not particularly special or different. Remember: America was built by non-Americans who arrived and became Americans, united with a common vision and living in a free society built upon Judeo-Christian values and the freedoms of the US Constitution.

Even today, as totalitarians who despise American freedoms try to tear down America by opening its borders to the ten million illegal aliens who flooded into our country in the last three years, an inescapable fact emerges. With the exception of many thousands—or millions—of hostile, military-age men who crossed the border with evil deeds in mind, a significant portion of the ten million came across the border seeking a better life in America, and are indeed good-hearted people who would benefit from a proper introduction to America.

They didn’t go to other countries. They came to America—the land of the free. It is tragic, however, that they came as they did; without the traditional pathways of education to become proud American citizens and without any limitations that would preserve the health of our country. America is being overwhelmed and the invasion of illegal immigrants will not end well.

Lest something think that it’s cruel to place limits on immigration, just ask these questions: “How many are too many? Ten million? Fifty million? Three hundred million? What is the impact on the American citizens already here?”

The infrastructure and wiring of a free American society is under severe attack in 2024. Physical tragedies may well unfold in the next twelve months, instigated by the tyrants who care not a whit about the “ordinary” citizens of America. They are as uncaring toward their acolytes of slavery as they are to their victims. Tyrants use people and care only for themselves.

That fact must illuminate the minds of both classical liberals and conservatives in 2024. Americans must reassess and realize that they have been lied to by implacable totalitarians whose hearts have been buried under a lust for power and money.

The ultra-rich tyrants and oligarchs are not our friends. Corrupt politicians who vote to misuse and harm the American people are not our friends. Deep state bureaucrats who wield their unelected power ruthlessly are not our friends. The mainstream media is not our friend. Many college professors are not our friends.

Members of the “tyrant class” are practicing the time-honored strategy of accusing their opponents of the evils that they embody. If you want to find people who want to destroy freedom, look to the tyrants.

If America and the free world are to survive, the divide between good-hearted liberals and conservatives must be healed, based on a mutual acceptance of the enduring principles of freedom. The task is hard for both camps because both liberals and conservatives have grown used to the idea that the other side is infected with “evil, stupid, racist Nazis who want to destroy freedom.”

It is particularly hard for classical liberals because the media, academia, the entertainment complex, and the K-12-University educational system have been increasingly influenced by anti-freedom forces. Those forces use masterfully clever language to convince Americans that traditional American values are monstrous and must be eliminated or radically transformed.

This reality places a unique burden on freedom-loving liberals to look beyond the divisive messages coming from the tyrant class. Are conservative parents, children, aunts, uncles, cousins, and friends really that bad? Can we really trust a tyrant class of oligarchs who want to eliminate our freedoms, and have already done so, in a provable, shocking fashion? To counter those messages, alternative media outlets exist but they must be chosen carefully.

2024 is the year that we must, for the survival of the world, heal our political divide and reject tyranny and slavery in all its forms. We can do that because we share the goodness of humanity. We share a desire for our sacred freedoms to expand and flourish.

We are, after all, members of a magnificent human family.

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Synopsis:

• There are millions of moderate, good-hearted, freedom-loving Muslims around the globe who do not want to destroy civilization. But their forces are not dominant.
   
• Orthodox Islam teaches hostility toward unbelievers and commands its followers to conquer all non-Islamic countries and create a global caliphate. Nations such as Iran and Saudi Arabia are actively promoting and funding violent jihad.
   
• The West has been lulled asleep about the dangers of Orthodox Islam and has fallen prey to the stultifying canard of “Islamophobia” that prevents rational critiques of Islam.
   
• The West (and the rest of the world) is in danger of losing its freedoms to Orthodox Islam. Will it wake up in time?

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Four Intro Quotes:

Islamic Terrorists have carried out more than 44,459 deadly terror attacks since 9/11.
[https://thereligionofpeace.com/ as of 12/25/23]

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Fight those who do not believe in Allah and the Last Day, nor comply with what Allah and His Messenger have forbidden, nor embrace the religion of truth from among those who were given the Scripture, until they pay the tax, willingly submitting, fully humbled.
[Qur’an 9:29 (The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab)]

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It has been narrated on the authority of Abdullah b. ’Umar that the Messenger of Allah said: I have been commanded to fight against people till they testify that there is no god but Allah, that Muhammad is the messenger of Allah, and they establish prayer, and pay Zakat and if they do it, their blood and property are guaranteed protection on my behalf except when justified by law, and their affairs rest with Allah.
(Sahih Muslim, Book 1, Number 33)

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They wish you would disbelieve as they have disbelieved, so you may all be alike. So do not take them as allies unless they emigrate in the cause of Allah. But if they turn away, then seize them and kill them wherever you find them, and do not take any of them as allies or helpers.
[Qur’an 4:89 (The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab)]

Let’s establish the fact that we must protect freedom of religion and freedom of speech.

Of course! This article doesn’t dispute that. Instead, it focuses on the issue of “incitement to violence” which is intertwined within Orthodox Islamic teachings. Incitement to violence is not protected speech. (See legal analysis below.)

The title of this essay may seem outrageous to some, but I contend that thoughtful, freedom-loving individuals must consider this topic carefully, or indeed, a world of peace and freedom will not grow or be maintained. I’ve written this article for those who know very little about Islam and may not have given this topic any thought until now. For others, bear with me as I attempt to follow a logical path to what I believe is an inevitable conclusion.

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Again, I’m not talking about banning Islam as a religion. I am speaking of its political doctrines that affect both Muslims and non-Muslims. Islam is a totalitarian political system animated by the fervor of religious belief. If Islam had no negative impact on the peace of the world, there would be no need to discuss it at all.

Beliefs Have Consequences

To discuss the issue, we must agree on certain definitions, principles, and ideals. Why? Because beliefs have consequences and affect human behaviors. Beliefs can create peace or tragic hostility and war.

The very first and most vital point of all is that every human being is a sacred creation of God with inalienable rights—even those who have different beliefs.

Individuals are not atheistic bags of meat with legs; organic machines that have no eternal value. Humans have intrinsic deep value no matter what they believe because their souls spring from a sacred source. We all think and feel and hope and dream. We’re all capable of receiving and expressing transcendent, unselfish love. We’re all capable of growth and change.

If you’re an atheist or Orthodox Muslim, you may disagree with this definition of humans. Yet is it not true that you want to live a free and fulfilling life? Or do you think that you are just organic material with no transcendent purpose? Are you just a bag of meat with legs? Shudder the thought... Our souls shout, “No!”

Do you only have value if you follow a strict set of totalitarian, religious laws? Or does your soul yearn for a direct, personal relationship with the source of love and freedom? Millions of Muslims are converting to Christianity at great personal risk.¹ I believe it’s because the root of Christianity is based on sacred love and freedom.

On a practical level, we must remember that the atheistic definition of humans as “material without spirit” allowed the Marxist slaughter of over one hundred million people in the twentieth century.²

In a similar manner, the Islamic definition of humans allowed and encouraged Orthodox Muslim jihadis to slaughter non-Muslims (“kafirs” or “infidels”) at will, because Allah stated that those who reject Islam are “the worst of creatures.” [Qur’an 98.6 (Safi Kaskas)]

Beliefs have consequences.

The Divine Rights of All Individuals

Many non-religious people might say, “What’s all the fuss about ‘sacred inalienable rights’? Just be nice and treat everybody well. We don’t need to be connected to God to be good.”

“And besides, Muslims believe in God, so what are you talking about?”

Thus we arrive at one of the central requirements for true peace and freedom in the world. It must include all people equally. Beyond race, religion, and nationality: peace and freedom are meant for all. This requires that every person is treated equally, with rights that stem from a higher source. Call that source what you will, but the key component is that rights and freedoms ultimately derive from the transcendent ethics of kindness, compassion, and love—virtues that are birthed and animated by a non-material origin.

I suggest that it’s essential and logical to state that unselfish love is generated by the infinite source of all life. I call that Source God, but the name doesn’t really matter. Many might disagree, but how do they answer this question?

“Can love and kindness develop from an unfeeling void, or does it need a transcendent Source?”

There is no logical sequence of events that allows love and kindness to spring from a black void of “nothing.”

What happens when human societies ignore or abandon the divine rights of the individual? Just turn to any non-biased history book: virtually every page is awash with the blood of conquered victims. The largest numbers of victims have been generated by totalitarian ideologies. Those thought systems defined humans in a way that allowed millions of people to be slaughtered: men, women, and children.

They were slaughtered by people who sincerely believed that their victims had no value at all.

Beliefs have consequences.

Hitler’s ideology of Nazism killed around eleven million people, including six million Jews.³ It is less well-known by today’s young people that Marxism killed between one-hundred and one-hundred-fifty million people between 1914 and the year 1991 when the Soviet Union was disbanded.⁴ Even though it’s popular to believe that “the threat of Communism is no more,” its murders continue, most recently highlighted by the plight of the Muslim Uyghurs in China, who are killed while their organs are being harvested.⁵

Orwellian Propaganda

And now we arrive at a crossroad of the cleverness of evil. George Orwell’s novel 1984 described it with his example of the “Ministry of Truth,” the department where truth was changed and repackaged. Lies became the new truth.

In 2023, the world is drowning under an onslaught of Orwellian propaganda and indoctrination. Mass media and educational systems have miseducated our youth for decades, in a campaign that the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci called “the long march through the institutions.”⁶ It’s one thing to not know who Sherlock Holmes is (yes, I met a literate, thirty-something person who looked at me blankly when I mentioned that name), but it’s an entirely more tragic outcome to believe that Good is Evil and Evil is Good.

We see that sad phenomenon with the destruction or removal of statues and monuments that in many cases celebrated men and women who risked everything to bring goodness to the world, such as the statue of Abraham Lincoln in Boston that was taken down.⁷ He was a prime mover in the emancipation of American slaves during the Civil War. His statue’s removal succinctly illustrates that the real target of the rampaging mob is Western civilization, not just individuals.

The responsibility for that miseducation rests on all who participate in it, but it’s important to acknowledge the temporal source: the long arm of Marxism which has invaded Western society since the time of Marx and Lenin. Their source materials and heinous plans are available for all to see, proudly displayed on communist websites and at their bookstores.⁸ Unfortunately, their source materials and stated goals are ignored by the vast majority of citizens.

You might wonder why I mention Marxism in an article about Islam. I do so because Marxism is at least temporarily allied with the forces of orthodox, totalitarian Islam—what many are calling the “red-green alliance.”⁹ They are “strange bedfellows” because of their mutual hatred of the Judeo-Christian West. If they ever conquer the West, they will turn on each other viciously. Which side would win is an open question.

Orwellian propaganda is also produced by the followers of Orthodox Islam. One of their recent victories is the propagation of the canard of “Islamophobia,” vigorously promoted and monitored worldwide by the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation.¹⁰

Their campaign to combat Islamophobia (a so-called “irrational” fear of Islam) has been so successful that a large majority of Westerners sincerely believe that “Islam is a religion of peace,” and that “any criticism of Islam or Mohammed is Islamophobic, and is thus unacceptable.”

Islam Is a Religion of Violent Conquest

However, the falseness of the claim that Islam is a religion of peace is simple to prove. Go into any Muslim neighborhood in any country of the world and say critical and insulting things about Mohammed and Islam and watch what happens. You’ll be physically attacked and possibly killed, in short order.

Go into a Christian neighborhood and say critical and insulting things about Jesus or Christianity. If there’s any response at all it will most likely be, “I’ll pray for you.”

Compare the reaction of the Islamic mobs rioting and burning around the world because of cartoons of Mohammed published in a Danish newspaper¹¹ to the minimal response from Christians regarding the profoundly insulting photo exhibit called “Piss Christ” of a crucifix with Jesus in a jar of urine, displayed in a museum in New York in 2012.¹² Can you imagine how Muslims would have rioted if that same museum had a jar of urine with a drawing of Mohammed in it?

The evidence is unmistakable and can be proven at any time, anywhere: Islam is not a religion of peace. Blasphemy and apostasy are both severely punished, often with the death of the perpetrator. The website thereligionofpeace.com records acts of jihadist violence by Muslims on a daily basis. The mainstream media ignores almost all of the incidents. Yet if they had been committed by Jews or Christians, the global uproar would be deafening and continuous.

The media’s double standard about reporting Islamic violence was birthed in fear and an adherence to the red-green alliance. But that’s another story...

Consider what all this means as it relates to living in a world of peace and freedom. If you criticize Islam (whether you’re a Muslim or not) or leave Islam (if you’re a Muslim) then you can be put to death. They don’t have a goodbye party for apostates and give them a gold watch and thank them for their service. They don’t wish them well. They do their best to kill them.

Why? Because that’s what Mohammed did and that’s what Mohammed taught. The doctrines and historical records are clearly stated in the Qur’an, the “Hadiths” (the record of Mohammed’s words and actions), and the “Sira” (the biography of Mohammed). Most Westerners have never read any of these sources and thus accept at face value the propaganda of Orthodox Muslims who state that “Islam is a religion of peace.”

But the words of Mohammed are clear:

[In the words of] Allah’s Apostle, ‘Whoever changed his Islamic religion, then kill him.’ (Sahih Bukhari 9:84:57)

After Mohammed’s death, large numbers of Muslims tried to leave Islam and were attacked and killed in the Apostasy wars. Muslim leaders realized early on that a majority of people did not want to be Muslims. The only way to grow the “religion,” which should be more honestly labeled as a “totalitarian religion of political control,” was to threaten members of the religion with death if they left or criticized Islam.

Today, if Islam’s blasphemy and apostasy laws were revoked or ignored, criticism of Islam would destroy its credibility in very short order, and millions upon millions of Muslims would leave Islam. I believe that if Muslims felt truly safe to leave Islam, the number of Muslims in the world would drop from almost two billion followers to a few million, at least over a period of a few decades.

In fact, the late Sheikh Yusuf al-Qaradawi, an Egyptian, orthodox, Muslim cleric who was an influential spiritual leader of the Muslim Brotherhood, inadvertently provided the best and primary indictment of Islam when he stated, on video:

If they had gotten rid of the apostasy punishment, Islam wouldn’t exist today.

Islam would have ended since the death of the Prophet, peace be upon him. So, opposing apostasy is what kept Islam to this day. Surah Al-Ma’idah (5:33) says: “The punishment of those who wage war against Allah and His apostle is that they should be murdered or crucified.” According to Ali Kulaba’s narration this verse means the apostates.¹³

The punishment of death for blasphemy and apostasy is entirely medieval, horrific, and, most importantly for this discussion—incitements to violence and murder by Islam and its proponents. This is how Islam treats its members and its critics.

Let us now turn our attention to jihad, defined as “A war by Muslims against unbelievers or enemies of Islam, carried out as a religious duty.”¹⁴

Faithful Muslims have the right to believe in Mohammed and everything else that goes with that belief. But they do not have the right to force their beliefs on anyone else, even though they believe that “Mohammed said so.” And that is the crux of the entire issue of “Islamic incitements to violence” and why the canard of “Islamophobia” is totalitarian nonsense.

Just because one person believes that “Allah” made Mohammed the only authority for all of humankind doesn’t mean that any other person is obligated to agree. In fact, Mohammed’s descent into the use of violent jihad, murder, and conquest as his primary methods to get people to agree with him reveals how disagreeable Islam was to the citizens of Mecca, Medina, and the rest of Arabia. Very few Arabs agreed with Mohammed until he killed so many of them that disagreement was no longer a healthy option.

Mohammed preached in Mecca for thirteen years and gained around 150 followers. He then moved to Medina, and, perhaps because of severe and resentful frustration with his lack of result in membership recruitment, changed his method of outreach from simple preaching to conversion by the sword. By his death, he had forcibly converted approximately 100,000 individuals.¹⁵

In spite of the threat of Islamic violence over the next fourteen hundred years of Islamic jihad, millions of infidels who disagreed with Islam chose death instead of conversion.¹⁶ That says a lot about the integrity of those murdered victims, but it says even more about the inherent ugliness and totalitarian doctrines of Islam. “Infidels” had a very strong reason to reject Islam, even though death awaited them. Islam’s historical and current death toll is massive, especially when the count includes all of its victims, whether in war, martyrdom or during slavery operations.

Dr. Bill Warner’s article “Tears of Jihad” documents that approximately 270 million infidels have perished under the sword of Islam, including 120 million Africans who died during the African slave trade. As Warner states: “Islam ran the wholesale slave trade in Africa.”¹⁷

These facts are not well known in the West, undoubtedly due to the distortion of history that has taken place for many decades. The reality that Mohammed and Islam were and are committed to violent jihad, global conquest, and slavery has been buried under ignorance and propaganda, both essential ingredients that fuel the accusation of Islamophobia.

It’s Time to Ban Islam’s Incitements to Violence

This article takes the position that it’s time to ban Islam’s medieval incitements to jihad, conquest, and slavery. The rationale for that position is based on two things: a) the actual history of Islamic jihad and conquest and b) the current goals of Islam as it relates to the world today.

As documented by many sources, including Robert Spencer’s superb treatise The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS¹⁸, Islam roared out of Arabia in the seventh century and within around a hundred years conquered and enslaved vast areas of formerly Christian lands. Islam occupied North Africa, including Egypt, and dominated the Mediterranean. It conquered Jerusalem and Spain (temporarily) and effectively shut down European trade across the sea. Dr. Bill Warner states that Islam was a direct cause of the so-called Dark Ages because of its impact on free trade.¹⁹

Charles Martel turned Islam back in 732 at the Battle of Tours; if he had not it’s highly likely that Europe and England would have become Islamic, which means that all the art and music of the Rennaissance would not have been created.²⁰ America would have been founded as a totalitarian Islamic country. The Western religious, literary, cultural, economic, scientific, and political advances that created “Western Civilization” would not have happened. The entire world would be as backward—and unfree—as Iran, Saudi Arabia, and Afghanistan. In fact, considering the lack of original scientific advancement coming out of Islamic countries, it’s a safe bet to consider that an Islamic world in 2023 would be a pre-industrial world of poverty and want.²¹

Although Britain, Europe, and America avoided Islamic conquest, the Christian Byzantine Empire fell in the fifteenth century, with the streets of Constantinople running with the blood of slaughtered Christians. Now, Turkey, once entirely Christian, is run by Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, an Islamic fundamentalist and totalitarian.

All of this conquest stemmed directly and irrefutably from the words and actions of Mohammed and the teachings of the Qur’an and its associated texts. These words and actions were and continue to be direct incitements to wage jihad against unbelievers until the entire world is Islamic. They are direct incitements to violence and murder and are believed and acted upon by millions of Orthodox Muslims, as was just demonstrated by the massacre of over 1,400 civilians in Israel on October 7, 2023, by Hamas. Here’s a sample of some of those “words of incitement to violence and murder.”

Your Lord revealed to the angels, “I am with you. Make the Believers stand firm; I will put terror into the hearts of the unbelievers. So strike above their necks and cut off their fingers.”
[Qur’an 8:12 (Safi Kaskas)]

Allah's Apostle said, “The Hour will not be established until you fight with the Jews, and the stone behind which a Jew will be hiding will say. ‘O Muslim! There is a Jew hiding behind me, so kill him.’ ” (Sahih Bukhari 52:177)

Indeed, the penalty for those who wage war against Allah and His Messenger and spread mischief in the land is death, crucifixion, cutting off their hands and feet on opposite sides, or exile from the land. This ‘penalty’ is a disgrace for them in this world, and they will suffer a tremendous punishment in the Hereafter.
[Qur’an 5:33 (The Clear Quran, Dr. Mustafa Khattab)]

The militaristic and supremacist doctrines of Orthodox Islam are the direct cause of Muslim terrorism and jihadi violence. In a 2017 interview reprinted in Time Magazine, Yahya Cholil Staquf, the general secretary of Indonesia’s fifty-million-member Muslim organization Nahdlatul Ulama, stated:

Western politicians should stop pretending that extremism and terrorism have nothing to do with Islam. There is a clear relationship between fundamentalism, terrorism, and the basic assumptions of Islamic orthodoxy. So long as we lack consensus regarding this matter, we cannot gain victory over fundamentalist violence within Islam.²²

Yahya added:

Within the classical tradition, the relationship between Muslims and non-Muslims is assumed to be one of segregation and enmity.

Perhaps there were reasons for this during the Middle Ages, when the tenets of Islamic orthodoxy were established, but in today’s world such a doctrine is unreasonable. To the extent that Muslims adhere to this view of Islam, it renders them incapable of living harmoniously and peacefully within the multi-cultural, multi-religious societies of the 21st century.²³

It is clear that Orthodox Islam continues to drive its adherents to “incite violence against others.” Shouldn’t those words and teachings of incitement to violence be banned? The historical and current records show that if nations and civilizations allow the violent teachings of Islam to propagate, those civilizations or nations run the extreme risk of perishing under the tyranny of Islam.

Thus, it is a question that goes far beyond the issues of freedom of speech and freedom of religion. It is a dire and immediate issue of the survival of the free countries of the world. It creates an obligation to prevent the murders and extermination of millions of people around the world who disagree with Islam and are not willing to live as second-class citizens (“dhimmis”) or convert to Islam.

Can Islamic incitements to violence be legally banned?

The National Coalition Against Censorship has a white paper called “When Can Speech Be Punished? A Primer on Unprotected Incitement to Violence.” It states:

Incitement to violence, including incitement to racial violence, is not protected by the First Amendment. This is a very narrow exception; mere advocacy of violence cannot be made criminal “except where such advocacy is directed to inciting or producing imminent lawless action and is likely to incite or produce such action.” Three elements must be met: (1) the speaker must intend to cause violence, (2) he or she must intend that the violence occur immediately, and (3) the violence must be likely to occur immediately.²⁴

Islam clearly fulfills the requirement in (1) “intend to cause violence.” Two and three restrict the test to “immediately.” Islam does not match that requirement at all times.

Note that this standard of law was passed by the US Supreme Court and can thus be revised by the Supreme Court to remove the requirement that the incitement be immediate.

Education Is the Key

We must, as members of Western civilization (and any non-Islamic civilization) ask these questions:

1. Since Islam clearly teaches that it will conquer all of humanity, by force if necessary, and in so doing will remove all the sacred liberties that humanity was created to enjoy, should we allow that doctrine of conquest to grow and be acted upon?

2. Should we allow Imams to teach the doctrines of Jihad and incite their followers to commit acts of violence?

After World War II, General Douglass MacArthur’s administration of Japan included the banning of Emperor worship and the teachings of Japanese supremacy. Because they were outlawed, and replaced with educational curricula that taught the concepts of democratic freedom, a new generation of Japanese citizens grew up with a different mindset. Japan became America’s friend because the philosophies of the Japanese people evolved in the direction of freedom.²⁵

I believe that we must do something similar with the problem of Islam.

If Muslims continue to be taught that America is the Great Satan and Western civilization must be destroyed and replaced with Mohammedism and Islamic Sharī‘ah law, and if Western citizens are not awakened to the direct peril of Islam, then the remaining countries of the West will be subsumed, just as all of the Christian countries that Islam dominated were lost to tyranny.

This is a very real threat. The Indonesian Muslim leader, Yahya Cholil Staquf, warned the West of this danger in his 2017 interview:

Over the past 50 years, Saudi Arabia and other Gulf states have spent massively to promote their ultra-conservative version of Islam worldwide. After allowing this to go unchallenged for so many decades, the West must finally exert decisive pressure upon the Saudis to cease this behavior.²⁶

Orthodox Islam is hell-bent on destroying the West. Of course, Marxism might destroy the West first. It’s a deadly race between two totalitarian evils.

What direct steps can the West take about the dangers of Orthodox Islam, ethically and legally?

As Dr. Warner emphasizes, it doesn’t matter if someone believes in Mohammed—per se. The issues are the religious and political mandates to conquer the West that come with that belief. There are indeed Muslim reformers who abhor the medieval violence of Orthodox Islam, including the aforementioned Indonesian Muslim moderates of the Nahdlatul Ulama (NU) organization. They follow “Humanitarian Islam.” They reject a global caliphate and have published declarations that:

...emphasize the legitimacy of modern states’ constitutional and legal systems, and thus reject the idea that it is a religious obligation to establish a state based on Islamic law.

Additionally, these declarations stress the importance of equal citizenship by refusing to make a distinction between Muslims and non-Muslims as legal categories.

They call for a deeper cooperation among Muslims, Christians and followers of other religions to promote world peace.²⁷

I honor the motivations of the Muslim reformers and hope that they’re successful. The West should support them and work with them wholeheartedly. Yet, I doubt that Islam can be reformed to become a true religion of peace because the central heart of Islam is Mohammed, and Mohammed—as evidenced by Islamic teachings—was a Very Bad Man. Reforming Islam would mean rejecting Mohammed, which would mean that it would no longer be Islam.

If we can’t criticize Mohammed, I believe that reform will be severely limited. There is some thought that the teachings about Mohammed are inaccurate and can thus be dispensed with. Unfortunately, it’s not just Mohammed. The Qur’an itself is filled with violence and hatred toward “kafirs” or unbelievers. A genuine reform of Islam would leave a very thin book.

Thus, it’s my view that the real, ultimate solution to the global threat from the violence inherent within Islam is that the majority of Muslims must reject and leave Islam, and thus reject Mohammed and his teachings.

Action Steps

To hasten that day, there are steps we can and should take.

Muslim incitements to violence, whether immediate or long-range, should be clearly illegal. Incitements to tear down Western civilization must be illegal. Actions that support those incitements (such as Islamic education and propaganda) must be illegal as well. That will mean the closing of Orthodox mosques and the deportation of Orthodox imams and other Orthodox Muslims who participate and contribute to the destruction of constitutional freedoms.

These are steps that will shock many and thus it is vital that the governments of free nations begin a substantial and long-range effort to educate their citizens about the immediate dangers of Orthodox Islam. Think “Radio Free America.”

One thing is clear. We cannot—cannot—allow the cancer of violent Sharī‘ah Islam to destroy American freedoms and free civilizations around the world.

Can we find the willpower, bravery, and wisdom to safeguard our freedoms? I am sure that we can, but will we?

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peterbrown@worldcommunity.com

https://peterfalkenbergbrown.com

Notes:

1. Editorial Team, “More Muslims convert to Christianity than ever before,” July 14, 2021, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.weeklyblitz.net/interfaith/more-muslims-convert-to-christianity-than-ever-before/

2. https://victimsofcommunism.org/

3. History.com Editors, “The Holocaust,” October 14, 2009, Updated April 11, 2023, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/the-holocaust

4. https://victimsofcommunism.org/
Rudolph J. Rummel, “20^th Century Democide,” November 3, 2002, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.hawaii.edu/powerkills/20TH.HTM

5. Will Martin, “China is harvesting thousands of human organs from its Uighur Muslim minority, UN human-rights body hears,” September 25, 2019, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.businessinsider.com/china-harvesting-organs-of-uighur-muslims-china-tribunal-tells-un-2019-9

6. Bobby Harrington, “The Long March through the Institutions of Society,” Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://renew.org/the-long-march-through-the-institutions-of-society/

7. Associated Press, “Statue of slave kneeling before Lincoln is removed in Boston,” December 29, 2020, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://nypost.com/2020/12/29/statue-of-slave-kneeling-before-lincoln-is-removed-in-boston/

8. Communist Party USA, https://www.cpusa.org/

9. Don Feder, “America’s pro-Hamas movement is a red-green alliance,” November 10, 2023, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2023/nov/10/americas-pro-hamas-movement-is-red-green-alliance/

10. “Islamophobia,” Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.oic-oci.org/page/?p_id=182&p_ref=61&lan=en

11. Gil Kaufman, “Muslim Fury Over Danish Cartoons Spurs Riots Across The Globe -- Why?” February 7, 2006, Accessed December 25, 2023.
https://www.mtv.com/news/jehbhr/muslim-fury-over-danish-cartoons-spurs-riots-across-the-globe-why

12. Amanda Holpuch, “Andres Serrano’s controversial Piss Christ goes on view in New York,” September 28, 2012, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2012/sep/28/andres-serrano-piss-christ-new-york

13. Andrew Bostom, “Qaradawi: ‘If They [Muslims] Had Gotten Rid of the Apostasy Punishment Islam Wouldn’t Exist Today’ ,” January 30, 2013, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.andrewbostom.org/2013/01/qaradawi-if-they-muslims-had-gotten-rid-of-the-apostasy-punishment-islam-wouldnt-exist-today/

14. Webster’s New World College Dictionary. Copyright © 2014 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.yourdictionary.com/jihad

15. Bill Warner, “Statistical Islam, Part 4 of 9,” November 4, 2010, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.politicalislam.com/statistical-islam-part-4-of-9/

16. Bill Warner, “Tears of Jihad,” March 3, 2008, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.politicalislam.com/tears-of-jihad/

17. Ibid.

18. Robert Spencer, The History of Jihad: From Muhammad to ISIS, (New York, Post Hill Press, 2018).

19. Bill Warner, “The Impact of Islam on Christianity,” September 26, 2017, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.politicalislam.com/impact-islam-christianity/

20. Raymond Ibrahim, “Today in History: The Battle of Tours,” October 10, 2014, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.raymondibrahim.com/2014/10/10/today-in-history-the-battle-of-tours-2/

21. Bill Warner, “Debating About Islam – Part 2,” August 1, 2008, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.politicalislam.com/debating-about-islam-part-2/

22. Marco Stahlhut, “In Interview, Top Indonesian Muslim Scholar Says Stop Pretending That Orthodox Islam and Violence Aren’t Linked,” September 8, 2017, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://time.com/4930742/islam-terrorism-islamophobia-violence/

23. Ibid.

24. The National Coalition Against Censorship, “When Can Speech Be Punished? A Primer on Unprotected Incitement to Violence,” Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://ncac.org/news/when-can-speech-be-punished-a-primer-on-unprotected-incitement-to-violence

Brandenburg v. Ohio, 395 U.S. 444 (1969), Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandenburg_v._Ohio

25. Jason D. Hill, “On the Moral Rehabilitation of Gaza: Moral lessons from World War II,” November 17, 2023. Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://www.frontpagemag.com/on-the-moral-rehabilitation-of-gaza/

26. Yahya, Stahlhut interview.

27. “How the world’s biggest Islamic organization drives religious reform in Indonesia – and seeks to influence the Muslim world,” September 23, 2021, Accessed December 24, 2023.
https://theconversation.com/how-the-worlds-biggest-islamic-organization-drives-religious-reform-in-indonesia-and-seeks-to-influence-the-muslim-world-165064

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~ I think it’s a strong possibility that Biden and the Left will activate hostile illegal aliens and domestic rioters to commit acts of violence, murder, and terror across America, to such a tragic degree that Biden will then have an excuse to declare martial law and cancel the November elections. I think that’s their plan. Whether they can carry it out is another matter.

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In the last three years since Joe Biden was sworn in as President, large numbers of liberals have come to realize that the fanatical members of the hard-left are not their friends, and more specifically, are not the friends of liberty. These liberals have found unexpected common ground with conservatives and yes—even Trump supporters.

The lockdowns and dictatorial mandates during the Covid pandemic shocked freedom-loving citizens. Rejections of cures, hospital malpractice, mask and vaccine mandates, vaccine injuries and deaths, and the squashing of free speech and civilized debate about the issues revealed layers of power-hungry totalitarians spread throughout society.

Simultaneously, Americans have watched inflation soar and our economy turn toward collapse. Businesses shuttered during Covid have not rebounded. Farmers and the food supply are in peril. Fuel supplies are low and costs are rising. The percentage of financially struggling Americans has grown while the wealth of the “richest one percent” has multiplied in an obscene fashion. It is no coincidence that far too many of the ultra-wealthy are not champions of democratic values. They fly on carbon-producing jets to conferences abroad to discuss ways to crush the freedoms of “the common man”—all in the name of saving the planet. Their “science” has been challenged and their motives and actions seem thoroughly self-aggrandizing.

Observing all this, common men and women, otherwise known as freedom-loving Americans, are asking themselves if they really want to be forced to live in fifteen-minute cities with no cars, no cash, and bugs on their dinner plates. They will not be happy “owning nothing.”

What happened to freedom?

Amidst all of these stress-inducing crises, it has become increasingly clear that there’s something deeply wrong with the results of Biden’s open-border policies. An October 30, 2023 article in The Washington Examiner, stated:

More than 10 million people have been reported illegally entering the United States since President Joe Biden took office in January 2021, the greatest number in history and of any administration. They total more than the individual populations of 41 states.¹

It would be one thing if all ten million illegals were peace-loving and wanted to integrate as patriotic Americans. But many are the opposite. Wayne Allyn Root wrote, on October 11, 2023:

Biden (and his boss Obama) have left the border open. They’ve let millions of dangerous foreigners in. Most of the migrants entering our country are military-age males from China and the Middle East along with MS-13 thugs and gangbangers under the control of the Mexican drug cartels. This is an army of killers now roaming around our country.

If I ruled China, I’d order this army into action to paralyze America with low-tech violence and terrorism — just like the Hamas terror attack in Israel.²

Which brings us to 2024, the year of the “undeclared war” on American freedom. If you were a hard-left totalitarian oligarch, what would you do in 2024? For starters, you’d be deathly afraid of the November 2024 elections. A November 30, 2023 opinion piece by Robert Kagan in The Washington Post presented this headline:

A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.³

It seems evident that the hard left believes that Trump might win the election. Thus, the media histrionics about Trump and conservatives as evil Nazis, or their ilk, is growing increasingly shrill. Their accusations that Trump is a dictator reflect their own morals and actions. They don’t just see the world darkly—they use lies and calumny as strategy. In case you really, really, really don’t like Trump, I invite you to acknowledge that the Left’s hatred toward Trump is not really about him at all. It’s simply because he’s in their way. Their real target is you, and me, and every person who prefers freedom as a way of life.

The level of American freedom and prosperity during Trump’s four years was far beyond what ordinary Americans are now experiencing under Biden. Unable to admit that truth, the hard-left accuses conservatives of what the Left is doing. But isn’t that always the pattern of evil men and women? To accuse the innocent to cover their own crimes?

The hard left is both hubristic and afraid. The Left is running scared, but at the same time, it’s consumed with its own arrogance and desire to crush the unimportant citizens for whom they have contempt. With the threat of a conservative victory in November 2024, what will the Left attempt?

To remain in power, they must not lose the 2024 elections. Can they win by cheating, as they were accused of doing in 2020? If Trump’s margin is too wide, they might not. What then can they do?

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I think it’s a strong possibility that Biden and the Left will activate hostile illegal aliens and domestic rioters to commit acts of violence, murder, and terror across America, to such a tragic degree that Biden will then have an excuse to declare martial law and cancel the November elections. I think that’s their plan. Whether they can carry it out is another matter.

But they have the firepower and the will to do it. They have many leaders of the newly-woke military at their disposal, along with hundreds of thousands of administrative agents who have large amounts of weapons and munitions stored away. This is not a recent development, even though the hiring of 87,000 armed IRS agents has recently been in the headlines.

Ten years ago, on March 10, 2013, Larry Bell wrote an article for Forbes called “Why The Heck Is DHS Buying More Than A Billion Bullets Plus Thousands Of Guns And Mine-Resistant Armored Vehicles?” He stated:

Maybe some folks remain confused about what he really meant during 2008 campaign remarks, when speaking in Colorado, then-presidential candidate Obama said: “We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve national security objectives we’ve set. We’ve got to have a civilian national security force that’s just as powerful, just as strong, just as well funded.”⁴

In December 2020, the public charity OpentheBooks.com published a report called “The Militarization of the U.S. Executive Agencies.” That report stated:

We estimate that there are now more federal officers with arrest and firearm authority (200,000 ) than U.S. Marines (182,000).⁵

What are the “national security objectives” that Obama referenced? The Left has revealed its intent quite clearly over the last few years. Patriotic Americans are now deplorables and a “threat to national security.”

Can the Biden administration legally declare martial law and suspend the November elections? It would seem unlikely, but if they go to a war footing against Russia (or any country), they’ll have extra power. I’m not a lawyer or constitutional expert. But look at what they’ve gotten away with in the last three years, with the assistance of the compromised mainstream media. Illegality isn’t important to Biden and crew. It’s not important to China, or Sharī‘ah Islamic jihadis. It’s not important to cartels and other criminals.

I believe that Biden’s team is planning to create a massive amount of violence and chaos in America in 2024 and use it as an excuse to throw American freedoms out the window. If this is even a remote possibility, it begs this question:

What will freedom-loving Americans do about it? I’m not suggesting acts of violence. I am stating that it’s far past the hour for liberals and conservatives who love freedom to join together in an alliance of liberty—an alliance that will create a super-majority of American citizens.

That alliance needs to preemptively use every possible legal avenue to prevent Biden’s runaway administration from turning America into a totalitarian country.

Liberals: your hearts are good. You love freedom. It’s now time to reject the propaganda of the leftist media and Biden’s administration and join with your neighbors, family, and friends who are conservative, and together, shoulder to shoulder, save America.

Conservatives: reach out to your liberal friends and family and convince them that a free America is worth saving. Do any of us, either liberal or conservative, want to live in a totalitarian police state? Of course not! Thus, we must act now.

I believe that God will approve.

peterbrown@worldcommunity.com

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1. Bethany Blankley, “Illegal border crossers total over 10 million since Biden inauguration,” October 30, 2023, The Washington Examiner. Accessed on December 9, 2023. https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/illegal-border-crossers-total-over-10-million-since-biden-inauguration 

2. Wayne Allyn Root, “The Hamas Terrorist Attack on Israel is Only the Preliminary Bout. America is ‘the Main Event.’ Here are the Details of the Coming Attack on America by China,” October 11, 2023. Accessed on December 9, 2023. https://rootforamerica.com/the-hamas-terrorist-attack-on-israel-is-only-the-preliminary-bout/

3. Robert Kagan, “A Trump dictatorship is increasingly inevitable. We should stop pretending.” November 30, 2023, The Washington Post. Accessed on December 9, 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20231205012031/https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2023/11/30/trump-dictator-2024-election-robert-kagan/

4. Larry Bell, “Why The Heck Is DHS Buying More Than A Billion Bullets Plus Thousands Of Guns And Mine-Resistant Armored Vehicles?,” March 10, 2013, Forbes. Accessed on December 10, 2023. https://www.forbes.com/sites/larrybell/2013/03/10/why-the-heck-is-dhs-buying-more-than-a-billion-bullets-plus-thousands-of-guns-and-mine-resistant-armored-vehicles/

5. “The Militarization of the U.S. Executive Agencies | OpenTheBooks Oversight Report,” December 2020. Accessed on December 10, 2023. https://www.openthebooks.com/the-militarization-of-the-us-executive-agencies--openthebooks-oversight-report/

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When I sit on the rocks of the Maine coast, breathe in the fragrance of the ocean, and cast my gaze out to the horizon, I am reminded that I am part of something grander than myself. Life is more than toiling, hunched over one’s work, with four walls and a roof pressing against one’s soul.

With the magnificence of nature, I can rise above the muck of life and thrill in the revelation that my soul has no boundaries. My mind, my spirit, my soul, and my heart cannot be contained. The pain and brutality and meanness of life cannot stop the soaring freedom of our minds. When I commune with nature, I am convinced that we were created to become magnificent.

Jakob Böhme, the sixteenth-century German mystic, wrote, “In this light my spirit soon saw through all things, and in all creatures, in herb and grass, knew God—who He is, how He is, and what is His will.”¹ Quoting from the Upanishads, Rabindranath Tagore, the twentieth-century Indian poet, wrote that “everything has sprung from immortal life and is vibrating with life, for life is immense.”²

Life is immense, and we (both men and women) are meant to be immense and magnificent in our divinity. Yet, as Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote, “We but half express ourselves, and are ashamed of that divine idea which each of us represents.”³ Too often, we find ourselves trapped by the strictures of society, by business rules that suffocate our souls. Men who seek to give flower to their innate divinity are brave creatures in a world that is usually too busy for such nonsense.

The magnificent divinity of men is not a popular topic. It has, however, an enthusiastic ally. Many women yearn for men to grow in their good-heartedness and internal character. I believe that women want their men to be strong, but to be strong in more than musculature. Being rescued by a knight is most rewarding when the knight’s armor is actually shining with the spiritual nobility of the man inside.

Men can relate to nobility. Who doesn’t want to be noble—a man “of an exalted moral or mental character or excellence”?⁴ The dictionary offers synonyms for “noble,” such as “lofty, elevated, high-minded, virtuous, magnanimous, benevolent, honorable, humane, worthy, and meritorious.”⁵

Nobility will take us far. When I heard Legolas cry, “The horn of Gondor!” as he rushed to the aid of the embattled Boromir in the movie The Fellowship of the Ring,⁶ my eyes filled with tears that might have come from ancestral knights who lived and died in valor. Every one of us has ancestors who lived noble lives, who may indeed be hoping that we inherit their nobility.

In our efforts to defend our wives, our families, and our lands, we have sometimes forgotten that our divinity is shared by all men, even by the enemies who attack us. The third-century scholar Rabbi Johanan bar Nappaha wrote, “The ministering angels wanted to sing a hymn at the destruction of the Egyptians, but God said: ‘My children lie drowned in the sea, and you would sing?’”⁷

Treating a vanquished enemy with compassion requires empathy, defined by the Collins English Dictionary as: “the power of understanding and imaginatively entering into another person’s feelings.”⁸ Charging a hill against an aggressor who threatens our homes may not be an action that lends itself to empathy. Yet, when the battle is over, extending the hand of friendship can turn enemies into friends, as was demonstrated by the heightened friendship between the United States, Germany, and Japan after World War II.

Empathy is often ignored by men, who sometimes content themselves with winning and an external life of success. Doing so is a risky enterprise. In The Varieties of Religious Experience, William James wrote that life without “an eternal moral order” and “an immortal significance” will not end well. He wrote that creating a life surrounded by “the curdling cold and gloom and absence of all permanent meaning” will mean that “old age has the last word: the purely naturalistic look at life, however enthusiastically it may begin, is sure to end in sadness.”⁹

Fortunately, our lives do not have to be swathed in curdling cold and gloom. My artist mother told me that she often flew in her dreams. Whether we explore the universe in our dreams or simply in our imagination, the invisible realms beckon to us with the promise of illumination. The seventeenth-century physician Sir Thomas Browne could have been talking about quantum physics when he wrote, “Live unto the Dignity of thy Nature, and leave it not disputable at last, whether thou hast been a Man . . . Desert not thy title to a Divine particle and union with invisibles.”¹⁰

Like a title to an acre of land, have we been given the title to a divine particle that represents our point of birth within the magnificence of God? Are we in union with invisible aspects of the Divine? I believe so. I love the term “incarnational spirituality,” based on the view that every individual is a unique incarnation of the Divine. Meister Eckhart wrote that “things are all the same in God: they are God himself.”¹¹ Whatever our theologies may be, if we believe that an Intelligence created the universe, does it not make sense to view everything in creation as an aspect of the Divine?

Holding the title to a divine particle implies that each of us is formed from a specific blueprint or part of God that is unlike any other. If we delve within ourselves, searching for all the virtues that we can find, we will eventually discover magnificence. I no longer believe that God is “somewhere out there.” Instead, I believe that logic, intuition, and love all lead us to the inevitable conclusion that God not only lives inside us but also is us. My daily prayer contains the sentence, “Dear Beloved, You are all of me, and I am part of You.”

If God has no beginning, if God is omnipresent, if all energy is part of the fabric and body of God, then everything is God. I find it tremendously inspiring to look at nature and see the presence and manifestation of God. I have a deep love for trees for this reason. Even more inspiring is the thought that God is all of me, that God doesn’t just dwell in my heart but lives in every part of me. As we walk down the street, doesn’t God look through our eyes at the people in front of us? I have begun to feel like the driver of a car who suddenly realizes that he is a child, sitting in the lap of his parent, holding the steering wheel together with his parent. It is a thrilling, sobering, yet comforting realization that God is always present, even as He allows us to turn the wheel in the wrong direction.

When we turn the wheel toward darkness, we would do well to remember the words of the Hebrew Morning Service and whisper in our moments of despair, “O my God, the soul which Thou gavest me is pure.”¹²

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Men today need to turn inward to the invisible realms to reclaim their magnificent divinity. Sir Thomas Browne advised men to “think of things long past, and long to come.”¹³ Men have been proud of their ability to act, to be “doers,” and to solve problems. They have often been impatient with the idea that they need to stop and sit and think. Thus, their ability to contemplate empathy and explore their feelings—and then talk about them with others—has sometimes atrophied like a withered limb. How can a man become divine if he is unable to sense and articulate resonance with the attributes of divinity?

Contemplation doesn’t need to be esoteric. Contemplation involves awareness and meditative thought that we can engage in at any time. We can contemplate the reality and feelings of a waiter placing a dish of food in front of us. Building our empathic sense of love toward others starts with noticing them, with sensing their presence and internal world. In the Father Brown story “The Invisible Man,” G. K. Chesterton wrote that “nobody ever notices postmen.”¹⁴ Why not? Both in the realm of quantum physics and incarnational spirituality, we and our postmen are connected. In the book Anam Cara, John O’Donohue wrote:

If we believe that the body is in the soul and the soul is divine ground, then the presence of the divine is completely here, close with us. ... Your senses link you intimately with the divine within you and around you. Attunement to the senses can limber up the stiffened belief and gentle the hardened outlook. It can warm and heal the atrophied feelings that are the barriers exiling us from ourselves and separating us from each other. Then we are no longer in exile from the wonderful harvest of divinity that is always secretly gathering within us.¹⁵

Our desire to become men of empathy and men of love will be more quickly fulfilled when we remember that the means to the end are the same as the end. We reclaim our divinity as we progress along the path of love. It’s not a short path, and it’s often difficult, especially when we look in the mirror and realize how undivine we may have been. It is important to state that becoming a man of empathy and love requires courage and emotional strength. It requires indefatigable guts and fighting spirit, especially when we are challenged to love those with whom we emotionally struggle. Expressing love, over and over again, is not for the weak or faint of heart. To put it plainly, a “strong, masculine man” should add the quality of strong, compassionate love to his list of strengths so that he can tell himself: “I may be able to lift heavy weights, and I can fight the good fight, but I can also love people with compassion and kindness.”

When we are faced with the impact of our misdeeds, however small or large, we can once again find hope when we remember that our core, our golden core, is incorruptible. We can trust the deepest part of our heart, the part that bursts with an uncontrollable cry to the God who made us.

A most wonderful result of contemplating incarnational spirituality is that we can affirm that God’s incarnation as each of us allows us to say that “we”—meaning “God and I”—are love. We are transmitters of love together. We are sharing feelings of empathy together. God is always with us and is constantly encouraging the growth of every virtue, welling up from within our being. God is also leading our creativity, our uniqueness, and our brilliance.

With God as our ally and deepest soul mate, we can have confidence that our divinity will grow, fueled by our desire to give more and love more. As Emerson wrote, we can become “redeemers and benefactors.”¹⁶ We can become purveyors of joy and manifest the prayer, “The God in me greets the God in you.” The women in our lives will be overjoyed to watch us flower.

As men of magnificent divinity, we will be able to resonate with and fulfill the words of Jan van Ruusbroec, the fourteenth-century Dutch mystic who wrote, “God in the depths of us receives God who comes to us: it is God contemplating God.”¹⁷

Notes

1. Jakob Böhme, quoted in the “Introduction,” by Joseph Bernhart, Translated by Willard R. Trask, in Theologia Germanica, possibly authored by Johannes de Francfordia. (New York, Pantheon, 1949), 28

Quote is from Jakob Böhme’s unfinished manuscript, Aurora. A slightly different translation is in:
Jakob Böhme, Aurora, Translated by John Sparrow. (London, Printed by John Streater for Giles Calvert, 1656),
Chapter 19, Item 13.

2. Rabindranath Tagore, ”The Relation of the Individual to the Universe,” in Sadhana: The Realization of Life.
(New York, Three Leaves Press, Doubleday, 2004), 17.

3. Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self Reliance,” in Essays, First and Second Series.
(Boston and New York, The Houghton Mifflin Company, 1876), 48-49.

4. Random House Unabridged Dictionary, s.v. “noble (n.),” accessed June 5, 2022,
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/noble.

5. Random House Unabridged Dictionary / Thesaurus, s.v. “noble (adj.),” accessed June 5, 2022,
https://www.thesaurus.com/browse/noble.

6. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, directed by Peter Jackson.
(New Line Cinema / Wingnut Films, 2001), DVD (New Line Home Entertainment, 2002), 2:37:51-2:37:55

7. Rabbi Johanan, quoted in “The Nature and Character of God and His Relations with Man,” in
A Rabbinic Anthology, ed. C. G. Montefiore and H. Loewe. (New York, Schocken Books, 1974), 52.

8. Collins English Dictionary, s.v. “empathy (n.),” in British English, accessed June 5, 2022,
https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/empathy.

9. William James, “The Sick Soul,” in The Varieties of Religious Experience.
(New York, University Books, 1963), 140-141.

10. Sir Thomas Browne, Christian Morals. (London, University Press, 1716), 77.

11. Meister Eckhart, “Riddance,” in Meister Eckhart, Vol. 1, ed. Franz Pfeiffer, Translated by C. de B. Evans.
(London, John M. Watkins, 1924), 240.

12. “Morning Service,” in Abridged Prayer Book for Jews in the Army and Navy of the United States.
(Philadelphia, The Jewish Publication Society of America, 1917), 3.

13. Browne, Christian Morals, 78.

14. G. K. Chesterton, “The Invisible Man,” in The Complete Father Brown.
(New York, Dodd, Mead & Company, 1951), 99.

15. John O’Donohue, “Toward a Spirituality of the Senses,” in Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom.
(New York, Harper Perennial, 2004), 59.

16. Emerson, Essays, First and Second Series, 49.

17. Jan van Ruusbroec, in An Anthology of Mysticism and Mystical Philosophy, ed. William Kingsland.
(London, Methuen and Company Limited, 1927), 94.

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I’m addressing this essay to everyone: Republicans, Democrats, Right Wing, Left Wing, and no Wing at all. If you’re human, and remember that you were once a child reaching for your mother’s hugs, then you, every single one of you, at some point in your life, valued love. And if you’re human, you value freedom, too.

Not me, you say? Can you declare: “I hate love and freedom. Phooey on sentiment. Just the facts, ma’am.” Really? You think that way? So dig deeper! I don’t believe that anyone really thinks like that, deep down.

Okay, you’ve got the totalitarian oligarchs I mentioned. But even they value love and freedom for themselves! Although, they’ve tragically lost touch with their soul’s desire to love others.

This isn’t a political topic. It might seem like it, but it’s not. It’s about the misuse of Power and the need for Freedom, but most of all it’s about the value of love. And those things apply to everyone.

Let’s make it really, really personal. Let’s make it about YOU. Do you want to live in freedom with the autonomy to conduct your affairs as you wish? Live where you want? Eat what you want? Travel at will? Believe whatever you like and speak your mind about your beliefs and thoughts? Strive to get the job you prefer, or make a business doing what you love?

Don’t get theoretical or political. Stay in your personal space and be honest. Of course, you want those freedoms! Everyone does.

Since you want those things, then it becomes clear that YOU don’t want to be dominated by a dictator class of oligarchs. You don’t want anyone coming into your home and saying, “You can’t read that, say that, watch that, do that, eat that, or do any of the things you want to do, because, too bad for you, but we’re in charge!”

You might make some excuse that it’s okay for others (those Bad People) to be managed and dominated “for the public good.” But put yourself in their position, and it becomes crystal clear that YOU wouldn’t like it all.

And that’s normal! Humans love freedom. Freedom of thought, speech, religion, assembly, and a whole lot more.

So, here we are in 2023, and unless you’ve been living under a rock, you’ll be aware that many freedoms have been curtailed in the last three years. Lockdowns and mask and vaccine mandates have been imposed by elected and unelected oligarchs who have forced their will on billions of people around the world.

Okay, maybe I lost you there because you agree with the Covid restrictions and rules because, you know, Covid! We gotta save humanity, so just take the darn jab and don’t be selfish!

But go deep! Search within your heart and soul and ask yourself if there isn’t something dreadfully dictatorial about the events of the last three years.

Look at free speech. It’s in the toilet. It really is. Censorship has spread like a blight across the world and has made it almost impossible to have a dispassionate, fair, respectful discussion about the pros and cons of anything to do with Covid.

From family members and friends to Big Tech online platforms to jobs and the public forum, disagreement with the “Covid Narrative” causes everything from banning to job loss to hysterical meltdowns.

Do you think that’s normal and good for society? I don’t. If you agree with the Covid narrative, you might be thinking, “No big deal. Those anti-vaxxers! Deplorables!”

But put the shoe on the other foot and make it personal. What if YOUR views were the unpopular ones and you were being censored? Would you like it? Of course not.

So, why have I connected “love” to this discussion? Because totalitarians do not love their victims and because IF you love someone, it’s normal to want them to be free.

Isn’t it safe to assume that YOU think love for others is a Good Thing? Most of us would say YES! Then the next logical step is to reject totalitarian oligarchs of every stripe. Reject the lies and power plays of Xi Jinping, Vladimir Putin, and Kim Jong Un. Reject the dictatorial mandates of Klaus Schwab, Bill Gates, George Soros, and any globalist who wants you to own nothing and be happy while you eat bugs for breakfast. Because we all know that THEY are NOT going to eat bugs. They’re “special.”

And honestly ask yourself: have the leaders of the Biden administration and the hard-left leaders of the Democratic party demonstrated a commitment to more individual freedom or less?

I leave you with that question to ponder.

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Vast numbers of people around the world, including millions of young people, are adrift in a sea of moral and ethical confusion. Many no longer find any value in religious or spiritual practices and have been unduly influenced by atheistic and humanistic ideologies that are harmful to individuals and to society.

I’ve written a new novel: The Death and Life of Edward Wild: The Postmortem Adventures of a Modern Man, to present the reality that all human beings share a set of universal ethics that—when practiced—lead to spiritual and emotional health in one’s physical life on Earth as well as in what some people call the “afterlife” or “spirit world.”

Edward Wild is a novel of death and life and what may be true. It’s a story of escape, of hope and redemption, and enduring romance. After the Shakespearean actor Edward Wild is killed in 2022 in Greenwich Village and ends up in a lower realm of the afterlife, he meets Molly Kendall. Neither of them could have guessed how their lives would change. . .

The novel squarely addresses the question of life after death in a non-sectarian fashion. There are so many divergent beliefs about the potential reality of the spirit world that I decided to not offer any doctrinal or theological justifications for the environment set forth in the novel. Instead, I presented what feels true to me, based on a number of spiritual and logical premises that have become central to my life.

For example, if God is an indwelling, omnipresent, and eternal God of love who created human beings to experience love and beauty, then, to me, it makes sense that God would create life and identity to continue forever, with an unwavering goal to strengthen and deepen relationships of sacred love.

In Chapter 36: “Respice Finem” (Latin for “Consider the End”), a character in the story states:

“The fundamental requirements [for spiritual maturity] are kindness and love and humility toward the truth of things. The desire to be loving and kind and the knowledge that we all must grow set us on a path toward a rich and illuminated life.”

She gestured toward the water in front of them and said, “Look at the vastness of the ocean. True humility comes from the realization that the universe has an intelligent and creative source beyond the scope of humans, that the universe and creation and humanity are not the playthings of men and women of hubris. Hubris can harm people on the Earth because good and evil can coexist there, but in the spirit world the condition of a person’s heart restricts them to an environment that is their match.”

Today, in a world gone mad, people need an anchor that can be easily explained—an anchor of virtue that is inspiring and ennobling. The Death and Life of Edward Wild attempts to offer that spiritual anchor and, at the same time, move and inspire the reader with adventure, imagination, and an enduring romance.

Early reader comments have been gratifying. Here are three:

You have written a wonderfully heartwarming, deeply thoughtful, well-plotted book that carried me along as I read. You achieved the “I didn’t want to put it down” status! [Gillian Kampitch, MRE, Board Certified Chaplain, New Bern, North Carolina]

In the literary tradition of Homer, Dante, Milton, and Lewis, Peter Falkenberg Brown has crafted a tale that carries the reader through hell on earth and in the spiritual world to wondrous realms of contentment and joy. All the while, the reader feels a longing and hope that Peter’s vision is not only a beautiful tale but true. Feed your heart and soul, pick up this book, and read it! [Jeffrey Scharfen, Attorney and English Literature Teacher, Santa Rosa, California]

Edward Wild’s journey is told in stories strung together like fine gems. A few of these follow Edward into dark places before he emerges to a vision of paradise and renewed hope. I most enjoyed the chapters that dive deep into the meaning of life, love, and other important topics. With so much wisdom embedded in the book, one can look forward to reading it again and again. [Liza Pajak, Woolwich, Maine]

I sincerely hope that this “wee book” will inspire, entertain, and uplift readers of all ages.

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Let’s start with a statement of fact:

Totalitarians Caused and Committed the Three Mass Murders of Covid

In this essay, I will demonstrate that this is indeed a fact and is true from start to finish. Without the evil actions of totalitarians, there would have been no Covid pandemic mass murders.

This allegation is strong and will make many individuals extremely nervous. Some are now suggesting that we should just “move on.” Writing for The Atlantic on October 31, 2022, in an article titled “Let’s Declare a Pandemic Amnesty,” Emily Oster wrote, “We need to forgive one another for what we did and said when we were in the dark about COVID.” She added, “Moving on is crucial now, because the pandemic created many problems that we still need to solve.”¹

Emily Oster’s suggestion of amnesty must seem like a grand idea to the various levels and groups of guilty parties. It’s hard to argue with forgiveness since it’s always a good thing for one’s soul. However, the Covid issues in front of the world now do not include forgiveness. Forgiveness is further down the line. The central issues now are:

• Stop totalitarians from continuing to commit mass murder
• Prevent totalitarians from doing it again

So, let’s review.

The totalitarian actions surrounding COVID entirely disqualify the mainstream “COVID narrative.” The COVID narrative is pinned on the phrase “Trust the Science.” (Parentheses: “You morons.”) Yet according to Wikipedia (which liberals might trust), the scientific method:

. . . involves careful observation, applying rigorous skepticism about what is observed, given that cognitive assumptions can distort how one interprets the observation.

Note the phrase “rigorous skepticism.” Have you observed that the COVID narrative allows NO skepticism and, in fact, censors ALL disagreement with its version of “science”?

Censorship is the primary red flag, but there are others. Let’s examine them by considering some “what ifs.”

What if Americans and the citizens of other nations had been truly free to deal with COVID as they wished, unburdened by totalitarian pressures?

What if totalitarianism had not been present in the entire chain of events? Seven distinct results would NOT have happened.

First: China would not have infected the world with COVID because Communist China’s Marxist totalitarianism and its concomitant goal of world domination are the root cause of the pandemic that was birthed in their Wuhan lab. We also cannot ignore the relationships between the Wuhan lab and Tony Fauci and other bad actors in America.

Second: Censorship of opposing opinions about COVID would not have happened, including discussions about:

• COVID’s origins
• Possible cures for COVID
• The lockdowns
• The efficacy of masks
• The dangers of the vaccines
• Vaccine mandates
• Vaccine passports

Third: Implementation of early cures for COVID with Hydroxychloroquine, Ivermectin, etc., would have been put in place by doctors all over the world, and millions of people would not have died.

Fourth: With early treatments recognized and proven as cures, the lockdowns and mask mandates would not have happened. The world’s economies would not have been damaged or destroyed. The emotional and physical health of millions of people suffering under lockdowns would not have been compromised.

Fifth: The systemic fearmongering pushed by COVID totalitarians would not have created so much hysteria in large segments of the world’s societies that even now, one can see a person wearing a mask as they drive in their car, ride a bicycle, or walk on the beach completely alone. Fear has infected millions of people.

Totalitarians entirely approve of making people afraid and have used fearmongering for millennia because creating fear in their populations gives them the ability to consolidate power. It’s all about power, privilege, and money. Many Western oligarchs are gaining power and are working with the Chinese Communist Party to do so.

Sixth: The multibillion-dollar profits going to vaccine makers, their stakeholders, and their allies would not have materialized. The COVID pandemic has created billionaires from the deaths of people all over the world. I call that blood money.

Seventh: The many thousands of vaccine deaths and hundreds of thousands of adverse reactions to the vaccines would not have occurred. Why are governments and the media hiding the deadly results of the vaccines? What is their motive for this massive cover-up?

There are Three Mass Murders of Covid: Making the Virus, Blocking the Cures, and Making Killer “Vaccines”

Making the Virus is of course the central crime, the First Covid Mass Murder

The persons responsible for it, both in China and the West, must be brought to justice. The Nuremberg Trials are the template. Creating a bioweapon that kills millions is a crime against humanity.

Blocking the Cures is the Second Covid Mass Murder

The tragic consequences of the COVID pandemic happened because of the totalitarian censorship of discussions about treatments for COVID and the subsequent totalitarian blocking of verified COVID cures. It’s as simple as that.

If you’re inclined to believe that there are no cures for COVID, and this is all hot air, then please review these questions and items:

Considering the value of the “rigorous skepticism” that is central to the scientific method of inquiry, what could possibly justify the wholesale and extreme censorship of all discussion about cures for COVID?

How often has science been held back by vested interests blocking opposing theories? Who benefited from the COVID Cure Censorship? The vaccine makers would have lost billions of dollars if COVID cures had been approved from the beginning. It was only when the cures were rejected that the vaccine makers could obtain “Emergency Use Authorization” for their vaccines.

The millions of people who died from COVID did not gain one extra minute of life because potential cures like HCQ+ and Ivermectin were disparaged and banned. They had nothing to lose and everything to gain by getting access to early treatment. But that gift of life was denied them.

Isn’t that a crime? Isn’t that mass murder?

Here’s a question for the “anti-cure people”:

What Did We Have To Lose?

Even if the HCQ / Ivermectin cures had not worked, if global societies had been able to talk freely about COVID and scientifically discuss and rationally experiment with treatments, we would have been better off. We would not have been worse off. But of course, those cures do work and have been proven to work.

The totalitarian COVID narratives and censorship paradigm have created a situation in which, even today, early treatments are denied, and patients are essentially ignored until they are too sick to get better. The idiocy of the medical response is obvious to persons with common sense:

“You’re mildly sick with COVID, but you can’t take HCQ+ because it might kill you.”

“What then can I do?”

“Wait until you’re deathly sick, get on a respirator, and then you’ll probably die anyway.”

“Since I could die from COVID, shouldn’t I take HCQ+ or Ivermectin now, since they’ve been proven safe for other uses?”

“No, because they might kill you. Next!”

Blocking the cures for a bioweapon that kills millions is a crime against humanity.

Making Killer “Vaccines” Is the Third Covid Mass Murder

Although the mainstream, leftist, Pravda media won’t report any of this, one hopes that those who have supported the “Covid narrative” might be noticing by now that a LOT of people are “dying unexpectedly” at very young ages. Why? Common sense and even minimal research of the CDC’s VAERS database and other sources will show that the so-called Covid vaccines are killing people. As of July 15, 2022, the VAERS database (which stands for Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) reports 29,635 COVID Vaccine Reported Deaths and 1,350,947 COVID Vaccine Adverse Event Reports. Why aren’t all doctors concerned about this?

Heart attacks are common with the vaccinated. There is also evidence of increases in sterility and miscarriages.

Creating vaccines that ultimately might kill even more people than the original virus is also a crime against humanity. That’s why the late Dr. Vladimir Zelenko, who promoted hydroxychloroquine and saved uncounted lives in doing so, called the “vaccines” the “poison death shots.” By the way, Dr. Zelenko did not die from Covid or the vaccine (which he did not take). He died after a long battle with cancer but kept working up until the very end.

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The Conclusion? These are Massive and Shocking Crimes Against Humanity

All three Covid mass murders are horrible, but the blocking of cures really stands out. The totalitarian censorship and restrictions around COVID were and are Crimes Against Humanity. Why? Because they created needless suffering and death on a massive global scale, and the perpetrators knew better. Free speech on these topics would have established early cures and would have prevented the tyrannical propagation of the poison death shots.

Who is Responsible?

Dr. Anthony Fauci, most certainly. Many other “élite” bureaucrats and government leaders are also culpable. Nuremberg-like trials and enormous class-action lawsuits should be the order of the day.

We must follow the money trail and the power trail. Who has benefited from the COVID lockdowns and the push to “vaccinate the entire world”? Was this part of the “Great Reset” and a global depopulation strategy, advanced with explicitly malevolent intentions by a global cabal? Or was this just a crass and greedy plan to create a pandemic and then produce the vaccines that would be sold to the world at an enormous profit? Or a combination of the two?

And by the way, we MUST end the insane protections from lawsuits that drug companies now criminally enjoy as they cash in on their deadly drugs.

Whatever the genesis of the “pandemic,” the guilty parties are the totalitarians at every level of society who acted against the principles of freedom. Society is severely less free today than it was in 2019. Will we be able to reclaim our freedoms? Not unless we put the guilty parties in front of a Nuremberg-type trial. If we don’t bring them to justice, I believe that the fate of the world will be grim.

One Thing Is Perfectly Clear

If a cure exists for a deadly disease, and doctors and officials are discovered to have consistently blocked the cure from being used, resulting in the deaths of huge numbers of people, what does one call that?

By any civilized standard of justice, it’s called:

Mass Murder

This is the text of a video presentation from The FalkenBrown Show. You may view the video here:

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Notes:

1. https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/10/covid-response-forgiveness/671879/

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I’m a Republican. And I have questions for all the Republicans who think that Trump didn’t win the 2020 Presidential race; who think that there was no election fraud and Biden won, fair and square.

My first question is this. What do you think the Democrats and the Hard-Left would have been doing since November, 2020 if Trump had won and they thought that fraud had been committed by Republicans? Not just fraud, but the same types of fraud and the same level of fraud that have been articulated by many conservative Republicans since that date? Not just suspicions of fraud, but allegations with the same kind of evidence that has been presented since 2020? . . . There are just over three months until November 8, 2022. Will Republicans in power stop the election fraud of 2022 before it’s too late? That, my friends, is the question.

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The hard Left has co-opted the themes of compassion and love as "their thing" and has created a Great Lie that conservatives are hateful, selfish, and racist.

The Left preys on guilt and the natural desire to be a good person. They use accusation as a weapon to destroy moral societies. They are master manipulators.

Large segments of the populations of the world are spiritually, morally, and physically collapsing in front of the false accusations and destructive narrative of the murderous Left. It is for that reason that liberals and conservatives must reclaim the truth about love and freedom, or our free societies may well be destroyed.

It's time to push back against the propaganda of the Left and say, "No! Your accusations are hypocritical lies because your motives, your attitudes, and your actions are the worst of all."

The speech above addresses these issues and more.

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