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Understanding Islam's Rise in America Without Rancor or Vitriol
RealClear Politics ^ | 18 Sep, 2026 | J. Peder Zane

Posted on 09/18/2026 6:39:39 AM PDT by MtnClimber

America’s unrivaled prosperity and freedom make it hard for us to understand why everyone doesn’t want to live and think as we do.

Even leftists in the United States who routinely assail our history and institutions share this mindset. Their true ideology might be said to be cognitive dissonance. While they spout Marxist dogma, their very viability hinges on keeping the blessings and fruits of our current system. The difference is their belief that they should be the ones to command and distribute them. The problem, of course, is that they may likely kill the golden egg-laying goose in the process.

With rare exceptions, such as millionaire provocateur Hasan Piker, none of them believe competing cultural models, such as those in China, Iran, or the Arab states, offer a superior way of being. As much as they claim all cultures are equal, their actions and expectations – has any group demanded, and felt entitled to more stuff? – reveal them to be almost caricatures of the Ugly American. And yet, as true progressives, they believe in the superiority of their views and expect, over time, everyone else will see the light.

This is wishful thinking – both nationally and globally. Billions of people around the world have been reared in very different societies, shaped by very different histories. Most of them don’t want our culture, because they like their own. They don’t want to live like us, even when they seek to live among us.

This is becoming a major issue in our era of relatively easy mass migration. Many of the people who have come to our shores are bringing not only their hopes for a better life but also their very different beliefs, values, and assumptions.

Unlike the waves of immigrants before them, these newcomers feel little pressure

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KEYWORDS: hasanpiker; islam
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To: Macoozie

My thoughts exactly.


21 posted on 09/18/2026 7:24:47 AM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as )
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To: MtnClimber

2nd and 3rd generation Muslims tend to leave Islam if they are not kept totally separate from the culture, i.e. purdah. This is why the insane lengths Muslims go to separate their enclaves from US society.


22 posted on 09/18/2026 7:29:39 AM PDT by wbarmy (Trying to do better.)
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To: Bon of Babble

Bet the Longhorns have a real good Cricket team.


23 posted on 09/18/2026 7:36:29 AM PDT by dfwgator ("I am Charlie Kirk!")
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To: dfwgator

His point is those who don’t want to assimilate, Hindus don’t either for the most part.


24 posted on 09/18/2026 7:43:07 AM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: MtnClimber

Watch for the Elites to push Chrislam down our throats. Christians saying they worship Allah (moon god of the Quraysh tribe). Coming…


25 posted on 09/18/2026 7:58:53 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification;)
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To: MtnClimber

The sole purpose and end goal of islam is for every human everywhere to be under sharia law. That’s it. Choose accordingly who you let into the country and who you elect to office.


26 posted on 09/18/2026 8:34:26 AM PDT by muir_redwoods (You choose; a world without dogs or a world without muslims.)
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To: MtnClimber

America is doomed, just a matter of time.


27 posted on 09/18/2026 8:35:41 AM PDT by Democrat = party of treason
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To: MtnClimber

If you allow rats to infest your house, don’t act surprised when you have to call out the Orkin man.


28 posted on 09/18/2026 8:38:39 AM PDT by dznutz
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To: MtnClimber

islam can’t take over America without help from politicians. democrats have been more than willing to bring them in and to grant them unlimited power.


29 posted on 09/18/2026 8:40:30 AM PDT by I want the USA back (Blue Lives Matter! White lives matter. Remember Iryna Zarutska and Justine Damond.)
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To: GOPJ
From https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/10/muslim_brotherhood_political_infiltration_on_steroids.html which contains in the first paragrap this link to an Exploratory Memorandum...

https://www.investigativeproject.org/documents/misc/20.pdf ...seized in a 2004 FBI raid of the Virginia home of a Muslim Brotherhood operative, was presented during the trial as evidence of “a Civilization-Jihadist Process.” It outlined the Muslim Brotherhood goal to conduct a “grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated.”

It makes me wonder what is it about Semitic types that want to take over U.S./the world?

30 posted on 09/18/2026 8:44:04 AM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you )
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To: dfwgator

>> Those are Hindus.

Probably most of ‘em.

But I detect other non-Christian furriners as well...

Of course, we Christians could be doing a better job of leading them to Christ. ;-) Properly presented, Christianity competes rather well in the marketplace of world views, and we have the ever-present help of the Holy Spirit to sell it...


31 posted on 09/18/2026 9:23:12 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: Jan_Sobieski

>> Watch for the Elites to push Chrislam down our throats. Christians saying they worship Allah (moon god of the Quraysh tribe). Coming…

Resist. Call ‘em out!


32 posted on 09/18/2026 9:24:31 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: wbarmy

Interesting! Thanks.


33 posted on 09/18/2026 9:25:48 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: stanne

>> I wonder why he’s speaking to us, and not to the Muslims who have moved here.

ol’ John Peder is just that kind of progressive guy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Peder_Zane


34 posted on 09/18/2026 9:30:27 AM PDT by Nervous Tick (Hope, as a righteous product of properly aligned Faith, IS in fact a strategy.)
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To: bert
Your #17 raises interesting points.

In America, the same biological phenomena is in process but the heavy mixture of Euro subvarieties is seemingly able to resist the attempts to capture sufficient habitat to prevail.

Unfortunately, we are increasingly losing ground in that regard and in the absence of a coherent and effective immigration policy it simply remains a matter of time.

We are running short of "Euro subvarieties" of the sort that beginning with our revolution made America strong. The anti-MAGAs, most recently the Obama and Biden administration have been doing everything legal and otherwise to accelerate that trend.

35 posted on 09/18/2026 10:03:04 AM PDT by frog in a pot (Wake up America!)
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To: Nervous Tick

He’s apologetic that we Americans are not assimilating to the Muslims.


36 posted on 09/18/2026 12:13:00 PM PDT by stanne
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To: MurrietaMadman
It makes me wonder what is it about Semitic types that want to take over U.S./the world?

This has nothing to do with "Semitic types" it has to do with Islam.

Taking over the world and converting everyone to Islam IS the way Mullahs feel peace will be achieved. A Muslim friend explained this to me years ago - long before 9/11. I thought he was kidding - but he was 100% serious. He felt when everyone was Muslim 'there would there be peace because they'd be nothing to fight about'. People who feel that 'take over' position must be achieved as soon as possible are radicle Muslims and that group should NOT be welcomed to live in the United States. Other Muslims who feel 'yeah, maybe in a thousand years' are just fine... they can be good neighbors.

37 posted on 09/18/2026 1:14:35 PM PDT by GOPJ (The AI/Data Center Crap is a "Global Warming" type lie to scare voters - pushed by corrupt 'elites')
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To: GOPJ
This has nothing to do with "Semitic types"

Ya think?

What's the only religion recognized as special by congressional proclamation signed by a president?

https://www.reaganlibrary.gov/archives/speech/proclamation-5782-education-day-usa-1988

What group of people get special protection based on...

Section 1. Policy. My Administration is committed to combating the rise of anti-Semitism and anti-Semitic incidents in the United States and around the world. Anti-Semitic incidents have increased since 2013, and students, in particular, continue to face anti Semitic harassment in schools and on university and college campuses.

Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Title VI), 42 U.S.C. 2000d et seq., prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, and national origin in programs and activities receiving Federal financial assistance. While Title VI does not cover discrimination based on religion, individuals who face discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin do not lose protection under Title VI for also being a member of a group that shares common religious practices. Discrimination against Jews may give rise to a Title VI violation when the discrimination is based on an individual’s race, color, or national origin.

It shall be the policy of the executive branch to enforce Title VI against prohibited forms of discrimination rooted in anti-Semitism as vigorously as against all other forms of discrimination prohibited by Title VI.

That's from 2019

This is from 2025

Section 1. Purpose. My Administration has fought and will continue to fight anti-Semitism in the United States and around the world. On December 11, 2019, I issued Executive Order 13899, my first Executive Order on Combating Anti-Semitism, finding that students, in particular, faced anti-Semitic harassment in schools and on university and college campuses. Executive Order 13899 provided interpretive assistance on the enforcement of the Nation’s civil rights laws to ensure that they would protect American Jews to the same extent to which all other American citizens are protected.

See, this here has me confused. Executive Order 13899 provided interpretive assistance on the enforcement of the Nation’s civil rights laws to ensure that they would protect American Jews to the same extent to which all other American citizens are protected

American Jews would be protected to the same extent all other American citizens are protected? Doesn't that indicate something is lacking in the U.S. citizen's protection if American Jews require a reiteration of protection to a higher level?

The problem I have with followers of the Rebbe is, I know a few of them and they hate Christians as deeply as this guy does. So when I read in https://jewishlink.news/a-kingdom-of-kindness-the-rebbes-vision-for-america-at-250/ that In the view of the Rebbe, America is not simply a place of refuge—it is an opportunity for Jews to pursue our mission as a light to the nations my spidey senses got aroused. Sure enough, [w]hen asked about his message to the world, the Rebbe said the Messiah is ready to come, but his arrival is dependent on each citizen’s increased acts of kindness and goodness. As American Jews, we are called upon to spread acts of goodwill and service to our country.

Now, as Semites, the Jews have a harsh way of spreading acts of goodwill to Christians in countries already considered Jewish therefore if and when they, like the Muslims, gain such power here in the U.S. and because I'm not fluent in Jewish rhetoric I think I have a strong basis for distrust of Jews as well as Muslims or as I mentioned to you earlier, semitic types.

I don't think that would be considered anti-semite misinformation. But those few examples I shared in the previous paragraphs could be a concern someday. Maybe that's why https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/02/eradicating-anti-christian-bias/ was signed a month after https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/additional-measures-to-combat-anti-semitism/

Now, this https://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/justice-department-announces-formation-advisory-committee-anti-semitism could mean something UNamerican could happen like it happened when Obama ruled simply because I didn't find an anti-Christian proposal.

Maybe I should wait a month.

38 posted on 09/18/2026 7:37:32 PM PDT by MurrietaMadman (The Gates of hell shall not prevail against you )
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To: Jan_Sobieski

Submission or war, some choice.


39 posted on 09/18/2026 7:45:55 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: BenLurkin
Jesus Christ is Lord


40 posted on 09/19/2026 2:16:07 AM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the Days of Lot; They Did Eat, They Drank, They Bought, They Sold ......)
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