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Islamic Jihadi Threat
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| Islamic jihadis uprooting against you. | ||
| Why in the hell you think they're in Houston and the north of Dallas? | ||
| They are working together to overthrow Western civilization. | ||
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Sharia compounds, which are areas governed by religious rules. | |
| We know who you are, we know what you are, and we know what you're trying to accomplish. | ||
| And it is not going to happen in the jewel of the crown of the union of this republic. | ||
| We purge any attempt to impose Sharia law in Texas. | ||
| The Amath coming. | ||
| They are already here. | ||
| You are not here properly, and you're going to leave. | ||
| On the 3rd of March, Sharia law goes on the ballot in the state of Texas. | ||
| The United States Constitution and Sharia are fundamentally at odds with one another. | ||
| We're going to tell them, take your Sharia law and shove it. | ||
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Islam will never dominate the United States. | |
| And by the grace of God, it will not dominate Texas. | ||
| As Texas goes, so goes the nation. | ||
| As the nation goes, so goes the world. | ||
| Are you prepared to fight for this state? | ||
| Are you prepared to fight for your country? | ||
| War Room, Texas. | ||
| Your host, Stephen K. Bannon, starts right now. | ||
| Monday, 26th, January, Euroverlord 2026. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| I want to start off. | ||
| We're absolutely packed today. | ||
| We're going to get through all of it. | ||
| And we will be shifting the show down to Texas next week for the first week of Texas. | ||
| We're going to stay through the three March primary. | ||
| Real quickly, so you've inspired this. | ||
| We've already inspired people throughout the country. | ||
| We had folks on from Arizona. | ||
| We've had folks on from Oklahoma who are also fighting their fights. | ||
| Mike Lindell, you're going to talk to me about the deal for the posse in a second, but you're running for governor and your race is so on fire. | ||
| First off, Waltz dropped out because you know he's going to be indicted. | ||
| Now they've gone to the U.S. Senate and Texas has got a huge Senate primary with Paxon versus Cornyn. | ||
| And they're all talking about what Paxon wins. | ||
| You can't, you're not going to hold the seat. | ||
| The Democrat could win. | ||
| They've taken Amy Kloeberter out of the Senate, folks, in Texas. | ||
| You hadn't heard this. | ||
| They're taking her out of the Senate to run for governor because they fear Mike Lindell. | ||
| And one of the reasons, Lindell, talk to me about what you're going to do with Sharia law. | ||
| Your first action of governor is to do what? | ||
| Yeah, I'm banning it. | ||
| And Steve, in Minnesota, this is years ago. | ||
| You go back to 2016, everybody, or 2000, I think it was 18. | ||
| And Cargill, they fired 200 of these Muslims and these Somalians because they were of their breaks, their prayer breaks. | ||
| I've said it before for the last five, six years. | ||
| Minnesota was the Trojan horse for this catastrophe, this takeover. | ||
| Over. | ||
| And it was back then. | ||
| If you did it, you're called a racist. | ||
| If you don't, I just didn't hire them, but Cargill did. | ||
| And what they did, Steve, they wanted them gone so bad because it was interfering with their lines that they fired them and settled for 1.5 million, even though they had all the reason to fire them. | ||
| And so I'm going to be, I'm going to ban Sharia law the first day I'm in governor. | ||
| And by the way, the last hour, everybody's been texting me. | ||
| You can help out at michlindellgov.com, everybody, and learn other things I'm going to do. | ||
| Another thing is I'm taking that satanic statue out of the Capitol that Waltz put in there and said we had to be fair to the devil. | ||
| This guy, I mean, this Minnesota is the Trojan horse. | ||
| And look when it spread to Texas, everywhere else. | ||
| This is number one on my list, everybody, banning Sharia law. | ||
| But go to michlindellGov.com. | ||
| We need help right now. | ||
| I got to win this. | ||
| It's going to be, it's going to, Steve, I'm doing the same things I was going to do with the president. | ||
| I have great campaigning. | ||
| And you had 250,000 people voted for Donald Trump in 2020 in Minnesota that didn't even bother to vote in 2022. | ||
| I don't care if I have to go door to door, we're going to wake those people up if they're not already woke up. | ||
| I mean, we've got problems in Minnesota. | ||
| We need to fix it now. | ||
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| Mike, give me a minute on the deal everybody's talking about. | ||
| People of the weekend were talking to me. | ||
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| Thank you for stepping up, too. | ||
| It takes a brave person to sit there going, Hey, look, I don't want to hear any happy talk on this thing. | ||
| I'm banning it. | ||
| My first thing I do, I'm going to ban it. | ||
| Absolutely. | ||
| Because it's a cancer that's metastasizing. | ||
| Lindell, you're a good name. | ||
| Thank you for coming on. | ||
| And thank you for the and thank you for the sale. | ||
| People are raving about it. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Do I have do I have Byron Henry? | ||
| Okay. | ||
| If not, I'll bring up Frank Gaffney. | ||
| We'll take one or the other. | ||
| Frank, why don't you join me? | ||
| Then I'll get, then I'll get then I'll get Byron after we get the technical aspects worked out. | ||
| Frank, we have a task and purpose here, right? | ||
| People have talked about this for a long time. | ||
| And I believe one of the strengths of having the conference and then having War Room Texas is that people are feel comfortable that they now can discuss it like adults. | ||
| And I'm hearing this from, I'm inundated with people from Texas, but also Arizona. | ||
| That's where they came on the show the other day. | ||
| Oklahoma. | ||
| Mike Lindell wanted to come on and say about Hay Bennett. | ||
| People throughout the country are being inspired by what the Texans are doing on this situation of Sharia law. | ||
| And for the first time, people are saying, hey, look, I felt uncomfortable talking about it before, but it's a major problem. | ||
| And it may be the most major problem. | ||
| And you see what's happening up in Minneapolis. | ||
| Frank Gaffney, your thoughts. | ||
| Steve, you've rendered an incalculable public service by dedicating this kind of time to this particular topic and specifically this particular fight in the state of Texas. | ||
| And it's not just that people have felt uncomfortable talking about Sharia, which of course is the Islamic, I call it toxic, demonic, and anti-constitutional ideology of Islam. | ||
| Not all Muslims subscribe to it, but those that don't are called apostates. | ||
| And that's a capital offense under Islam. | ||
| So by and large, they're going along with it, or at least keeping their heads down. | ||
| But the rest of us have been, I believe, induced to try to pretend that there's not a problem here out of fear. | ||
| It's not an accident. | ||
| We are being terrorized by those who do adhere to Sharia because they have, from the time of Muhammad himself, if indeed he existed at all, this doctrine that says use terrifying violence to subdue the unbelievers, to compel them, and this is the literal meaning, as you know, of the word Islam, | ||
| to submit, to submit to a, yes, totalitarian theocracy, ultimately that is supposed to rule worldwide. | ||
| What you have helped do, Steve, and I don't think we can adequately express our appreciation, certainly those of us who've been in this fight for a long time, but I think, as you say, more and more Americans, and it's not just in Texas, it's not just in Minnesota, it's across our country, who are finally finding the courage to say what needs to be said about this, which is this is unacceptable. | ||
| We will not submit, and we will not be terrorized into remaining silent until we are forced to submit. | ||
| This is a breakthrough moment. | ||
| And I just want to say that when we had some conversations down in Texas on the margins of that very important dinner on the 29th, excuse me, the 9th of January with Geert Wilderss and you and Glenn Beck, Peter McAvan. | ||
| It was just an extraordinary moment. | ||
| And the focus that you've put on specifically this primary ballot proposition on the 3rd of March, in which five simple words will be put to the people voting. | ||
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Breakthrough Moment in Texas
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| They're supposed to be Republicans, and I hope it will predominantly be Republicans. | ||
| It's a Republican primary after all, but it's kind of an open one. | ||
| But the five words are these. | ||
| Texas should prohibit Sharia law. | ||
| It couldn't be more clearly put. | ||
| And I couldn't be more excited about the extent to which people of the state and their political leaders are now resonating to this vital message. | ||
| And I hope with your help, we will make it a crushing victory that in turn sets the stage for it becoming Sharia, really becomes a voting issue across the country this fall. | ||
| Frank, hang on for a second. | ||
| I want you to ride shotgun with me for a while because I've got some guests that are going to want some observations and commentary for you. | ||
| I want to go to Byron Henry now. | ||
| He's the chairman of the Republican Party for Collin County, Texas. | ||
| Sir, you're in the middle of this maelstrom. | ||
| Can you walk through Collin County? | ||
| It's one of the most patriotic, most Americana counties, not just in Texas, but probably the country. | ||
| Can you explain to our audience what's happening in your county? | ||
| Yes, good evening, Steve. | ||
| Thanks for having me on tonight. | ||
| Yeah. | ||
| So Collin County is important for a lot of reasons. | ||
| Not only is it one of the reddest large counties in Texas, but it exports the most Republican net votes of any county in the entire state. | ||
| And at times, it's in the top five in the country of exposed exporting net votes. | ||
| So it needs to be not just red, but dark red in order to counter a lot of the big cities around the rest of the state. | ||
| But what we're seeing here is that Collin County on the outskirts of Dallas, and we don't take in Dallas and Collin County hardly at all, but a sliver, is the ring in which the technology corridor was built 30 years ago. | ||
| I came to Collin County in 2000, so I've been there 25 years. | ||
| And everyone that worked in tech and everyone, when it was exploding and expanding, moved to Plano. | ||
| And of course, now there's Frisco, and we've even gotten further up in Prosper, where I live, Salina, and whatnot, pushing farther and further north. | ||
| But what happened during that time is we exported a lot of, imported a lot of labor. | ||
| And it really wasn't seen as a major issue there, but we've just had an explosion of immigration. | ||
| Some friends went to India not too long ago and said there's literally advertisements in India to move to Frisco, Texas in the heart of Collin County. | ||
| Now, I'm not complaining per se about people saying Frisco is a great place to live. | ||
| Collin County is one of the best places to live on earth. | ||
| But the point is, people know where Collin County has jobs, safety, high quality of living, good public schools as far as curriculum goes, maybe not necessarily with the values that we all share, but the key is, it's a very desirable place to live. | ||
| And it's always been very inviting for companies to hire people and import labor. | ||
| We've seen the disaster of the immigration policies of both parties, really, but especially the left over the past 30 to 40 years. | ||
| And it's been crushing. | ||
| And Collin County has been at the epicenter of that when benign labor importation in a lot of different industries was just running rampant. | ||
| And H-1V is now, which is getting a lot of focus as well. | ||
| And then you have, on top of all that, Steve, you have just an influx of other countries and from nations where Islam is the predominant religion also flocking to Collin County, and they're bringing their culture with them. | ||
| It's not just people that's like, we can't stand where we live. | ||
| It's oppressive. | ||
| We want to be free. | ||
| We want to take part in the American dream and whatnot. | ||
| That's not what we're seeing anymore, especially in Collin County. | ||
| We are seeing cultures being imported, neighborhoods being, how can I say, basically overrun with one faith. | ||
| In fact, some, as you know, about EPIC, the EPIC issue was attempting to make it kind of like an Islamic enclave with only adherence to Islam living there, as well as portions of the HOA dues being used to fund the mosques and the religious and other ideological endeavors of that community. | ||
| And so all those things have just come to a head now. | ||
| And it's like, you know, where were we? | ||
| What were we doing? | ||
| I'm sure someone was saying something about it. | ||
| But now on a daily basis, my inbox is literally full of emails and warnings about different things going on in North Texas, especially Collin County with respect to this threat. | ||
| And I think it's wonderful that you've set up camp here in Texas, especially focusing on North Texas and then especially focusing on that March 3rd ballot initiative, which will allow the Republican Party and those that share our values to make their voices heard loud and clear that if you live in this country, you abide. | ||
| We follow American law and the American Constitution only, and there won't be any Sharia law or Sharia law light or a lot of the other things that are being pushed in some of these communities in Texas and in Collin County specifically. | ||
| Talk to us, just give us a minute because this show now, I can tell you, just the amount of traffic it's getting, it's getting a broad national audience and an international audience because people are fascinated by this topic, particularly in some place like Texas. | ||
| Just give us a minute on Epic City, on the scale of it, on the audacity of it, of what they plan to do. | ||
| And still, they've changed the name to Meadows. | ||
| And of course, being politicians, they had a law passed about Epic City, but the last line of it, as Brian Harrison always reminds me, says, well, we exempt in this law, we do exempt Epic City. | ||
| Talk to us about the audacity of it, the scale of it. | ||
| Well, it really is the scale that is the surprising thing. | ||
| We obviously have immigration, as we've talked about, just negative immigration running rampant to this country with very little checks. | ||
| And during the Biden administration, literally no checks at all, such that we were importing criminals, not just immigrants from countries that literally hate America and would like to see us wiped off the face of the earth. | ||
| But Epic City is really the first documented attempt to basically put all the pieces together from the religious to the political to the governance to the HOA to the funding into one community and basically attempt to create a large, you know, thousand-plus resident enclave that's basically defined by Islam. | ||
| While the contracts don't say explicitly, you can't live here if you don't do X or Y, all of the other information we have is that it is basically an attempt to, abiding by our current laws, create an enclave of what is basically an Islamic enclave within the heart of Collin County communities. | ||
| And the problem with that is, first of all, there's many constitutional problems with basing these things on race. | ||
| But one of the issues is that our laws are not designed for ideologies that have a religious kind of bent or basis to them, | ||
| such that the Supreme Court has said so broadly about what is and is not religious that we have to really have these strategy sessions and get thoughtful and strategic about what we're going to allow with respect to these pseudo-religious or ideological enclaves. | ||
| Because if we don't get creative and strategic soon, there are people from all cultures, but specifically the threat we're facing now from the Sharia law and radical Islamic jihad now is that they're using our own laws and provisions that are designed to keep the government out of all of our other businesses about when we want to move somewhere where people share our faith or we want to start a church or we want to meet in our houses for religious services. | ||
| They're using those laws that Christians have used and our Constitution to beat back threats to our religious rights to basically enforce the ability to create these enclaves. | ||
| And you couple that with the fact that we've had cities, Steve, just that have not matched the ideological bent of the state or the legislature. | ||
| So, they're basically like Plano, for instance, embracing this. | ||
| So, the legislature makes laws saying that the cities can't take specific zoning decisions, which we're applauding and saying, yeah, cities can't take specific zoning decisions, but you're also taking tools out of the hands of the good cities, the ones that are conservative, the ones that do share our values and look like the rest of the state from being able to address these concerns. | ||
| So, we have got to get smarter and more strategic about how we deal with these threats, and it needs to be quick. | ||
| And I tend to agree with Brian Harrison, at least on this. | ||
| I'm not sure if we can just wait for regular sessions every two years to address this problem as it unfolds in real time. | ||
| It's too fast. | ||
| There's too much going on to say we'll take care of this in two years. | ||
| Can you give us an update? | ||
| Where do we stand on Epic? | ||
| They changed the name to Meadows. | ||
| They passed a law, but they said they exempt us. | ||
| Where do we stand? | ||
| It's Meadows now, but where do we stand with actually shutting this down? | ||
| Well, we stand at it, it has not been approved because there are paperwork issues, and people can tout that all they want. | ||
| I can tell you that the paperwork issues are correctable. | ||
| So, unless the city puts, unless the Meadows don't follow through with their lawyers and their business people and get this done right, right now it is simply documenting the proper entities and the owners and their owners and the indirect ownership and the different ties. | ||
| It's just a matter of time before they get their paperwork in order under current local law and state law for that matter, in order to get some of the approvals they have to start this going. | ||
| So, as I said, it's going to take more than what's currently on the books for a planning and zoning board or a city council to basically say, We know you're in accordance with all our other laws. | ||
| We know you filled out all the paperwork and dotted all the I's and crossed the T's, but absent an opinion from the Attorney General or a court ruling that they're non-compliant, a violation of civil rights laws, for instance, with respect to the way it's established, or possibly attacking the funding and the people behind the development. | ||
| And if we can tie that directly or indirectly to some of the organizations that have been designated as terrorist organizations by the governor or adversarial by the governor and the state, that new legislation that was passed, that's another way to get at it. | ||
| And I've always said the way you attack these organizations is just follow the money, find out who's funding it, find out where it's coming from, find out how they're tied directly or indirectly, and just run that down until you're exhausted. | ||
| And if we can get at that information, we can also use the new designations of CARE and the Muslim Brotherhood and hopefully some others that may be coming down the pipe to basically block people buying land. | ||
| They're not even allowed to buy land or invest in land if they're considered adversaries or they're citizens of an adversarial country. | ||
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| So we have options, but once again, they're going to have to be deployed quickly. | ||
| And terrorist organizations, real quickly, I've got about a minute or two. | ||
| Just tell me, I just want people to get a flavor, right, of your inbox, your emails of what people are saying, because one of the powers, I think, at the conference and what we've done here in these working groups we put together, because I've been in the day from Arizona, Oklahoma, Minnesota, people saying we're finally talking about this. | ||
| Just what is your inbox like? | ||
| Just the average of what people are now coming to you and talking about. | ||
| It is besides fundraising emails and texts that I get from everybody across the country and whatnot, it is basically 80% updates, news, and requests. | ||
| What can we do? | ||
| We just saw this on the news. | ||
| Here's a clip or a news article or an X link to something going on in Texas, especially North Texas, with respect to this issue. | ||
| And so it's overwhelming. | ||
| It's hundreds per day. | ||
| We're not just talking about it. | ||
| People are not just talking about this, Steve. | ||
| And I think this is for you and your partners and those that put on that event with Garrett Builders and yourself and Glenn Beck, which was an unbelievably well-attended event. | ||
| I was blown away by the size and just the sheer scope of that event, the strategy sessions that took place before. | ||
| There's follow-up events, but it is the number one issue on my plate as the Collin County chairman of the Republican Party. | ||
| It is number one. | ||
| In fact, at our next executive committee meeting, there's a push and I am 100% in agreement with it to appoint a temporary committee that will report to create a standing committee of our party for the county party that does nothing but investigates, reports, and recommends action with respect to all organizations and threats to American values, including Sharia law, which is first on that list. | ||
| And so we'll be doing that the first meeting in February. | ||
| And of course, we will be highlighting Prop 10 on the election of the Republican primary and just really focusing on everyone voting down ballot. | ||
| We have a long ballot in Collin County. | ||
| It's long paper, 19 inches long, two-sided. | ||
| So the last thing on the entire ballot on the back side is Prop 10. | ||
| And we are going to make sure everyone knows where it is and to go to that and check. | ||
| Yes, Texas should ban, or excuse me, Texas should prohibit Sharia law. | ||
| Byron, you also have a dinner coming up. | ||
| Is there a place people can go to to find out about the dinner? | ||
| I think you're going to have it in the middle to late February. | ||
| Yes, February 21st is our annual Lincoln Day dinner. | ||
| It's the Lincoln Day Gala this year. | ||
| We've got Scott Jennings as our keynote speaker. | ||
| Chris Salcedo is going to be our MC. | ||
| And that's a time when we are going to do our major fundraising for the year. | ||
| And we will focus, we're right in the middle of early voting. | ||
| It's fortuitous, Steve, that our dinner falls on the Saturday in the middle of early voting. | ||
| So we will be hammering home Prop 10 on that, Patriot Mobile, who is a big supporter of this push. | ||
| And as you know, one of the driving forces behind that event that you spoke at and that you ran with. | ||
| They are the corporate partner for that event. | ||
| So there's no way we're getting through that event without a focus both on Sharia law and on Prop 10. | ||
| So anybody wants to get tickets to that or look into that? | ||
| It is CollinCountyGOP.org right there on the front page. | ||
| You can click and get tickets to the VIP reception or the dinner February 21st, 6 p.m. at South Fork Ranch in Collin County. | ||
| And what's your social media? | ||
| How do people follow you? | ||
| What you're up to on this amazing fight down in Collin County, sir? | ||
| So we're at Collin GOP on X and I'm at Byron K. Henry on X. | ||
| And follow me or the party and we'll keep everyone updated. | ||
| I can just tell you, though, that I get a lot of my information from you, Steve. | ||
| I get a lot of my information from the war room, Real America's Voice, and other locations. | ||
| And that's where I'm retweeting or reposting or I'm stealing, plagiarizing what's going on and information to help motivate people. | ||
| So keep up the good work. | ||
| We will refer to it. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Thank you for being in Texas. | ||
| Thank you, brother. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| And you're a force multiplier. | ||
| That's what we call it. | ||
| Love you. | ||
| Thank you, sir. | ||
| Collin County, the tip of the tip of the spear. | ||
| Okay. | ||
| Jeff Davis, Frank Gaffney, Mark Hall, Dan Fluette. | ||
| Short commercial break. | ||
| We'll be back in a moment. | ||
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| As the nation goes, so goes the world. | ||
| Are you prepared to fight for this state? | ||
| Are you prepared to fight for your country? | ||
| Okay, welcome back. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Frank Gaffney, that's kind of what we hoped for when we launched this, was it not, sir? | ||
| No, it's way beyond what I'd hoped for. | ||
| It's what we need. | ||
| More to the point, Steve. | ||
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| And, you know, Byron Henry, look, he's on ground zero. | ||
| Collin County is where this fight is being waged most obviously. | ||
| The problem is it's not the only place in Texas. | ||
| We're seeing it throughout the state, and in varying degrees, it's manifesting increasingly the aggressiveness that these Sharia supremacists have because they think they're winning. | ||
| And that's what makes this fight, this campaign for the state of Texas. | ||
| We call it the Save Texas, Save America campaign. | ||
| And it's moving in warp speed now to become, I believe, the defining issue, certainly in this primary exercise. | ||
| And we're going to see people up and down the ballot having to take positions. | ||
| And that's ultimately what we want to see happening across the country, Steve. | ||
| Every single candidate at every level of government ought to be put on the spot. | ||
| Where are you on transforming the United States beyond recognition, essentially ending our constitutional republic in favor of this totalitarian ideology called Sharia? | ||
| And if they don't measure up, they don't get the job. | ||
| It should be pretty much that simple. | ||
| And could I just make one other point, Steve? | ||
| Because one of the other things that's going on in Texas, and mention was made of it by Byron, care. | ||
| The governor of the state of Texas took point to his great credit and designated care, not just the Muslim Brotherhood, of which it's an important part, but the Council on American Islamic Relations as a terrorist organization and a transnational criminal one as well. | ||
| The question occurs: so, how is it that operatives of care are turning up at Austin's city hall, at Houston's City Hall, raising flags in Houston to the Islamic culture? | ||
| And they're doing it with complete impunity, and they're designating some month the Muslim American Heritage Month. | ||
| And at the same time, in Florida, where Governor DeSantis also, to his great credit, designated CARE and the Muslim Brotherhood as terrorist organizations. | ||
| They're over there talking about creating advocacy at every level to try to inexorably spoil the proverbial fraud. | ||
| They can't let this happen. | ||
| Forcing these designations right now. | ||
| They think they got money. | ||
| I want to give a hat tip to the great Amy Meck. | ||
| We didn't have her. | ||
| She's doing just yeoman's work of putting this all over the weekend. | ||
| The care went right to Austin. | ||
| The guy in Austin said, oh, no, we're a care city and all that. | ||
| Well, this is, they're not going to roll over. | ||
| They got a lot of money and they got a lot of sophisticated people back of them and they see Texas right there as ripe because they got business interests and real estate interests and other people who I refer to as collaborationists that are working with them. | ||
| Hang on one second because I want to go. | ||
| This thing's spreading throughout the country and inspired by Texas. | ||
| Jeff Davis is the county chair of Greenville County in South Carolina. | ||
| You're the jewel in the crown of South Carolina, particularly MAGA, are you not, sir? | ||
| Yes, sir. | ||
| Steve, as you know, as you came and spoke at our convention back last April, we are the crown jewel of South Carolina. | ||
| We are about 12 to 15% of the population, a higher percentage of the Republicans because we're more conservative up here in the Bible Belt in the upstate of South Carolina. | ||
| But the influx of refugees that we are influx of migration into South Carolina, we're seeing our conservative refugees come from California, New York, New Jersey, places like that. | ||
| What you saw in Texas years ago. | ||
| So I'm sitting here listening to Byron Henry, my counterpart there in Collin, Texas, Collin County, Texas. | ||
| He's having problems that we're going to see several years in the future here in South Carolina. | ||
| We just got confirmation this past week from the RNC winter meeting out in California that South Carolina is going to continue to be first in the South for the presidential preference primary. | ||
| We pick Republican presidents here in South Carolina. | ||
| And when they catch clue to that, Texas is the crown jewel of the Republican Party for the country. | ||
| But when they figure out that they can come to South Carolina, build an influx here, we've got to head that off in advance. | ||
| And that's why we're particularly interested in what you're doing with War Room, Texas. | ||
| We want to be able to support that. | ||
| We want to be able to learn from that. | ||
| And I think that's why you're finding a lot of success there. | ||
| But this is what's going to be coming. | ||
| And we've seen it, the influx into California with the, I mean, I'm sorry, into Texas with the liberals. | ||
| And we're now going to see the influx of the Islamic faith there. | ||
| And I think it's going to happen here in South Carolina. | ||
| So that's what we're trying to fight. | ||
| And what you and I have talked about a little bit, or at least conversed a little bit, I've seen on War Room, Texas, and our counterparts on the school choice fight out there in Texas have been focusing on the funding side of it. | ||
| What they're seeing up in Minnesota is the funding of that type of infiltration is being done through daycares or learning center, learning centers. | ||
| But what we're seeing is the funding side of it will be through government-run school choice programs. | ||
| And I think Texas just passed a billion-dollar program out there. | ||
| They've got, I think you commented or had some people on last week about it talking, you know, the number of new Islamic schools that are automatically funded by the school choice program. | ||
| It's an easy way for them to just step in there and get funding for that. | ||
| And that's what our real concern is and what we're trying to fight. | ||
| You've teed up my next guest. | ||
| So we're going to talk about a guy that got in back of what these schools are really like, Mark Hall, the filmmaker. | ||
| But real quickly, throughout the country, I go. | ||
| And folks, look, you guys are MAGA through and through. | ||
| You've had great support of the president. | ||
| What people can't figure out is, and you've seen the situation in Minnesota, and he's got a lot of rhinos talking to him in his ear about de-escalate and back down, et cetera. | ||
| Lindsey Graham, why is it? | ||
| Just give me a minute. | ||
| Why is in a state like South Carolina that has so many patriots first in the country for picking presidents? | ||
| You know, hardcore MAGA, everybody knows down there. | ||
| How do we have a situation where he's essentially running unopposed? | ||
| Here in South Carolina, Steve, what we have, we do not even have registration by party. | ||
| We have open primaries. | ||
| So there is an ability to infiltrate the Republican primaries by Democrats and pick the weakest Republican in our primaries. | ||
| That is our number one problem. | ||
| We've got a big fight going on down here in the state of South Carolina over that right now. | ||
| But it's been an issue for 15 or 20 years. | ||
| The establishment wants to continue the status quo, and that includes Lindsey Graham, of having open primaries. | ||
| I will tell you, and one of the things we fight, we consider ourselves the MAGA Mayor Gafers insurgency here in South Carolina. | ||
| And what we've been fighting is to get those closed primaries because until we get closed primaries, until we get full control of the state party and through the precinct strategy that our friends are pushing nationwide, until we get control of that part of the party, we're going to continue to have open primaries. | ||
| And our apologies for some of the things Lindsey Graham is doing, but to the country nationally, but that's what we've got to fix. | ||
| And that's what we're trying to work on. | ||
| We're pick and shovel people like yourself. | ||
| We're the guys trying to do the grassroots work and get that accomplished. | ||
| But until we get closed primaries, that explains Lindsey Graham. | ||
| I will tell you, the citizenry, the taxpayers here in the state of South Carolina are good, hardworking, Christian, conservative Republicans, but our leadership is not. | ||
| Jeff, where do people get you? | ||
| What are your coordinates? | ||
| They want to keep up with you with another Bellweather County that drives the MAGA movement. | ||
| So where do they go for your county and for you personally? | ||
| They can go to greenvillegop.com. | ||
| That's greenvillegop.com. | ||
| We also have a 501c3 nonprofit and a C4 called myscgop.news, myscgop.news. | ||
| And then you can find me personally at Jeff Davis Truth. | ||
| Jeff Davis Truth on all the different social Jeff, thank you so much for coming on. | ||
| Thanks, sir. | ||
| Appreciate everything you do. | ||
| Jeff Davis. | ||
| Thank you. | ||
| Jeff teed us up perfectly. | ||
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| Mark Hall is a filmmaker. | ||
| Mark, this film is absolutely brilliant. | ||
| We're actually going to, my producing partner is going to be on in a minute, talk about how people can see it up on World War Films. | ||
| Talk to me about the how did you get inspired to make really, and I think people don't understand about the Muslim infiltration into the school choice and what they do in these schools until they see your film, which is jaw-dropping. | ||
| It's talk to me about the film. | ||
| Yeah, hi, Steve. | ||
| I got exposed to the Gula movement about 20 years ago when they first arrived in Austin and they started buying influence of our mayor and other people in City Hall. | ||
| I thought it was a really interesting group. | ||
| They'd come up from Houston. | ||
| They talked about interfaith dialogue. | ||
| They didn't have any connections really to Austin. | ||
| It was a really strange group of Turkish men, seemed very well funded. | ||
| And they started taking members of our community, very influential people in Austin, including the mayor, on paid trips to Turkey and kind of showing them a parallel world of what Turkey was all about. | ||
| And I thought I'd make a short film about how infiltration had happened with this group. | ||
| But I later learned that they had started operating taxpayer-funded charter schools here in Texas. | ||
| And that opened up this film to five years of shooting and research. | ||
| And it was a wild ride. | ||
| It's Killing It is the name of the film. | ||
| It's got some absolutely jaw-dropping moments to it. | ||
| How did you put it together? | ||
| Tell people the process. | ||
| And what is the takeaway that you took as a filmmaker working on this for years? | ||
| It was alarming to me as somebody that's not very political. | ||
| I'm just a guy that likes to make films, documentaries. | ||
| And we got in some very unusual circumstances, met people that for the first time talked on film about their experiences being a member of this group, which turns out to be an Islamist cult. | ||
| The Turkish government has banned them from Turkey. | ||
| And they were operating charter schools, receiving tens of millions of dollars of our tax funds here in Texas to operate schools. | ||
| They started in 2000 operating the first school in Houston. | ||
| And now, according to my research, they're operating a little over 80 schools. | ||
| It could be as many as 84 charter schools in Texas now. | ||
| They've announced that they'll open another seven schools in the next 12 months. | ||
| Most of the teachers in the first 10 or 15 years were Turkish nationals that were members of this cult group, this Islamist group. | ||
| They came over on H-1B visas. | ||
| A lot of times, those visas were not for teaching positions. | ||
| They were for PE coaches or for English teachers, amazingly. | ||
| When these people came over, they weren't native English speakers. | ||
| There was just a lot of oddities that went on. | ||
| We later found out that there had been 6,504 H-1B applications between 2001 and 2016 filed by this group of Islamist people, what are called the Gulen movement. | ||
| It's continued to grow. | ||
| We've brought the film out a number of years ago and showed it around the country. | ||
| And of course, here in Texas, we brought it to the attention of our legislators and Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who appears in the film. | ||
| And nothing has done, nothing has happened, nothing has changed. | ||
| And this has gone on for well over a decade now here in Texas. | ||
| Well, it has changed in that they're 10x the size. | ||
| This is why we put the films a few years old, but we're putting it up because it looks, it feels like it was made yesterday. | ||
| The big difference is that this is metastasized and these are Islamic schools. | ||
| And now it looks like with this new school choice and the voucher program, they could turbocharge the funding of really hardcore Islamic schools. | ||
| You call it an Islamic cult. | ||
| What do you mean by that? | ||
| Why is it a cult inside? | ||
| Is it a cult inside Islam? | ||
| Because people would say Islam itself is a cult. | ||
| I think it's considered to be a cult within Islam. | ||
| The Muslims that I've talked to, they're very familiar with the Gulen movement, consider them to be an apart, apart away from Islam. | ||
| There's Sunni Muslims, but they have really worshipped one man, and that was Fatula Gulen, who was their Imam. | ||
| He passed away about a year ago, but he was enormously influential in Turkey. | ||
| He had millions of followers. | ||
| And as a result of people following his message, he had been accused by the Turkish government on two occasions of trying to overthrow the existing Turkish state to put in power a Sharia law Islamic state. | ||
| It's one of the reasons I think we need to take action on this group and not consider them to be friendly to the Constitution or to our way of life here. | ||
| How did Lieutenant Governor, he's in the film, but he's been a big promoter of the Harmony schools. | ||
| And they present it. | ||
| The way it's presented, we look at it, it has no affiliation with Islam at all. | ||
| I mean, they're seriously misleading people. | ||
| How did the lieutenant governor get so kind of hooked up with these folks? | ||
| Well, Steve, I think the charter school movement and choice is a real high dollar movement. | ||
| There's a lot of money involved in this. | ||
| The state of Texas has an education budget of $134 billion this year. | ||
| And charter schools in Texas, if you operate a charter school here, you get a basic allotment of $6,500 per pupil at your charter school. | ||
| And then you get another around $5,000 for facilities. | ||
| So you're getting around $11,000, $11,000 for each student that you bring in to your charter schools. | ||
| The Gulen movement now in Texas operates what I think is about 81 charter schools, could be as high as 83 by the end of the year. | ||
| So they're teaching, they're operating at a very high level and teaching upwards of 50,000 students here in Texas. | ||
| Now, Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick, who appears in my film, and he wasn't very happy with the results of his interview, I can tell you that. | ||
| We asked him if he knew what the largest charter school chain was at the time. | ||
| And, you know, he kind of dissimilated, in my opinion, and said it was another group. | ||
| I think the money, Steve, is so big that choice kind of dominates any sort of political discussion, even if it is shielding an Islamist group operating schools and educating 50,000 kids here. | ||
| There's all kinds of other problems related to this group that feed off of the charter school network that they operate in Texas. | ||
| They operate construction companies that build the schools, they operate catering companies, they operate uniforms and furniture supply companies, and they have a curriculum company out in California that provides their books and so forth, not only to schools in Texas, but this Guland movement operates charter schools in 26 states outside of Texas. | ||
| It just happens to be that the largest concentration of their schools, taxpayer-funded schools, are here in the state of Texas. | ||
| I don't have a real good explanation of why Lieutenant Governor Patrick has not acted on this. | ||
| I think it's a good time for us to ask him that. | ||
| I wish he would do something about it because it is affecting, I think, our state. | ||
| It's a very corrosive group, and I don't think they belong here. | ||
| They shouldn't be receiving any sort of tax funding at all here. | ||
| Mark Hanger, one second. | ||
| Dan Floyett, who runs Warroom Films. | ||
| Dan, how come people get to see this? | ||
| We've now booted it up on the system. | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
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Yep. | |
| So it's up on War Room Films. | ||
| So it's warroom.film is the easiest way to see it. | ||
| So you can just go there, put in your email address, and put in your name, and you'll be taken right there. | ||
| You can watch it for free. | ||
| Like a lot of the content that we have, we try to make it as accessible as possible to people. | ||
| And just very simply, warroom.film. | ||
| I will tell you, your head will blow up when you see this. | ||
| Mark, you're an extraordinary filmmaker. | ||
| Where do they go, Mark, for your company, for your other films? | ||
| What's your social media? | ||
| My social media is at Mark Hall Film, and we have an X account for Killing Ed at Killing Ed Film. | ||
| There's a lot of information there that I think people, not only in Texas, but around the country, can find informative there. | ||
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Yeah. | |
| Well, here's what we're doing. | ||
| We're going to have people, we're going to push it out for a couple of days, let people see. | ||
| I want to get some of the audience to see this. | ||
| Then we're going to have you back down, back on, and we're going to break down scenes from it because you've nailed this and you nailed it a couple of years ago. | ||
| It was a warning to people, and that warning was not taken. | ||
| And now here we are where this thing's got to be addressed. | ||
| You can't look the other way anymore. | ||
| Mark Hall, fantastic. | ||
| Dan Floyett, great. | ||
| Frank Gaffney, you got 90 seconds, the Gulen. | ||
| We dealt with this years ago, but it always comes back up, does it not, sir? | ||
| It does indeed. | ||
| And Steve, this is personal. | ||
| I was involved in a fight in our own Loudoun County, Virginia, against a Gulen school that they were trying to bring in there. | ||
| And we went through all of the various factual points that Mark has just made so well. | ||
| And his film is absolutely required viewing for everybody who's in this fight. | ||
| And believe me, the power that is being exercised is not just over politicians, it's over students as well. | ||
| And, you know, they're sort of shrewd by making it about Turkish supremacism rather than Sharia supremacism, but it's the same thing. | ||
| And it is a cult and it is a threat, make no mistake about it. | ||
| Where do they go? | ||
| Where do they get all the information? | ||
| I'll have people watch this. | ||
| We're going to bring you back with Mark and break it down. | ||
| Where do people go, Frank, social media to get you? | ||
| Well, one of the things we've got launched now is bansharia.com. | ||
| We're still building it out, but it's a great resource. | ||
| In fact, ample information about Sharia, the threat to America, which I commend to you as well. | ||
| I'm at Frank Gaffney on Twitter. | ||
| I'm the host of Securing America, as you know, Steve, on this wonderful station, Real America's Voice. | ||
| Also, follow us there at securingamerica.substack.com. | ||
| God bless you, Steve. | ||
| This is vital work. | ||
| You're doing an amazing job. | ||
| Love you, brother. | ||
| Fantastic. | ||
| Great show. | ||
| Thank you for joining us. | ||
| Wow. | ||
| Warroom, Texas. | ||