In this episode, Sean dives deep into the pressing issue of radical Islamist terrorism and its implications for the world today. With a focus on the pervasive ignorance surrounding global threats, he shares insights on the various groups promoting a "convert or die" ideology and calls for a united front against this rising menace. The conversation highlights critical events from around the globe, revealing a troubling trend of anti-Semitism and the misplaced policies that may be fueling it. Join Sean as he emphasizes the importance of facing reality head-on and understanding the interconnectedness of these issues in order to foster a safer future for all.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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It is spectacularly ignorant, the number of people that are out there that have no understanding of what is happening worldwide and what radical Islamists and radical Islamic terror is all about.
I mean, even people that claim to be MAGA, the most MAGA in many cases, you know, have misinterpreted the trust.
Well, I don't even think misinterpreted is the right word because they're smart enough to know better, but they perverted to their own agenda and their own point of view.
There is an emerging isolationist view among people.
To me, it's the equivalent of putting your head in the sand and being dumb and blind and naive.
And I think that if you want to live that way, feel free, or you can face truth and you can face reality and you can understand the world as it is, not as you want it to be, or the idea that the world in many ways is not interconnected.
The president has expended a lot of energy, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Cambodia, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Vietnam.
I mean, it just goes on and on, India and Pakistan and the Middle East and Europe and the hopes of making the world a safer place.
Why?
Because it does impact us, whether people want to acknowledge it, admit it, or not.
And, you know, what people ascertain or believe is the, you know, biggest existential threat to the world, there is no doubt what that is, and that is radical Islamists that have bought into this twisted ideology of convert or die.
And are we talking about all Muslims?
I'm very clear.
I make the distinction, not at all.
We're talking about those that have been radicalized.
And problem is there are so many varying different terror groups, Hamas, Hezbollah, the Islamic Jihad, the Muslim Brotherhood, Al-Qaeda, ISIS, ISIS-K.
I mean, and the list goes on and on and on.
And, you know, but they all have some version of a belief system of convert or die.
And we have, unfortunately, in the West, let our guard down.
I was saying yesterday that we have returned to a pre-9-11 mentality.
And, you know, we've been chronicling on this program the rise of virulent anti-Semitism.
Why does that matter?
It matters because if you listen to radical Islamists, often the case is, you know, they call for the destruction of Israel and the destruction of the West.
And more specifically, chant death to Israel, death to the U.S.
I don't know.
You know, where I grew up, if somebody says something, I take it seriously.
And then when you look at the actions of people and all the instances throughout, you know, just the last couple of decades of radical Islamists, including the worst attack on our homeland on 9-11-01, 2,977 Americans killed.
Do you think those people that believe in that sick, twisted ideology have somehow changed their mind and converted to Western thought and philosophy?
They have not.
And the sad part is, is there has the guard around the globe has been let down.
If I ever see a news conference like I saw last night that we carried on Hannity with the Australian prime minister and the level of ignorance and unwillingness to call out radical Islamists for who they are, I'm just, it drives me insane.
But it's a lot of the, we see and hear a lot of similar things here in the United States and especially our Western European allies.
I mean, over the course of 24 hours, what did we see?
You know, we saw three Americans killed in Syria by a radical Islamist, five Muslims arrested for plotting a massacre at a Christmas market in Germany.
We had a thwarted campaign of terrorism.
We don't know all the links to it in Los Angeles for New Year's.
A Paris concert, which is like their biggest millions of Parisians go to it.
They've had so much violence with immigrants into Paris and Western Europe that they decided, well, rather than deal with these attacks, it's just not worth the risk anymore.
And they canceled what was Christmas and New Year's for millions and millions of people that live in and around Paris and in France.
And then we had 15 people slaughtered at the Hanukkah party in Bandai in Australia.
I mean, it is, there is a connection here.
It's all intertwined.
And I keep quoting Miranda Devine because I don't think I could say it any better.
You know, we see the rise of anti-Semitism in the halls of Congress on college campuses worldwide.
You know, we see it, you know, it gets louder on TV, the desire to somehow say that Israel is on its own.
You know, we watched, you know, after October 7th, I mean, October 7th is a pivotal moment.
You have the population of Israel under 10 million people, and 1,500 were slaughtered in a day.
And the IDF shared with me privately, you know, videotapes that Hamas terrorists took of their actions, boasting of their actions as they were murdering and kidnapping and torturing and raping in some instances, even young children, you know, beheaded and they were proud of it.
And phone calls that were intercepted to family members bragging about what it is they had just done, the evil that they just inflicted on innocent people.
So we have now worldwide this, and even in this country, unchecked virulent anti-Semitism, as Miranda says, cowardly appeasement and unwillingness, in other words, to take on the radicalism that exists.
You know, ridiculous.
We saw this especially in the Biden years, Biden, Harris, mayorca, these insane, idiotic, self-destructive, dangerous immigration decisions in Europe.
It's been going on for half a century.
I don't know if Europe is going to be capable of getting rid of the radical problem that they have there.
You know, canceling major events because of a rise in radicalism and attacks against innocent Westerners is just not an answer or a solution that is appeasement.
And basically, the inmates get to run the asylum.
And in the case of, you know, Australia and Western Europe in particular, you know, let's put maximum gun control laws in place so that innocent people can protect themselves.
And by the very definition, criminals and terrorists, they're not going to obey laws.
They don't care.
It's not part of what it is.
But, you know, and this gets to the heart of where we are with this.
You know, after October 7th, the Prime Minister of Israel, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who said the shooting, you know, was in this particular case that took place in Bondi was cold-blooded murder.
I didn't hear that at the press conference last night.
Now, in August, Netanyahu, who had told the Australian Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese in a letter that the Australian government's policies were promoting and encouraging anti-Semitism in Australia.
And the prime minister said your call for a Palestinian state basically pours fuel on the anti-Semitic fire and rewards Hamas terrorism.
It emboldens those that menace Australian Jews.
It encourages the Jew hatred now stalking your streets.
And of course, the prime minister, even after this incident, has done nothing.
You know, if you go back and look at the protests that were taking place in this country and people sympathizing with Hamas, I mean, the level of ignorance is breathtaking to me.
Hamas has a charter.
In their charter, they call for the destruction of Israel.
The Israelis have had to withstand over the decades, and I've been to Israel a number of times.
I keep talking about one town I went to.
They were hit with 10,000 rockets, one little town, little town, in 10 years.
And when I was there, I went there two days in a row, and in the ensuing night between them, they got hit with a rocket.
And I got to witness up front and take video of the shrapnel left as a neighborhood of what they call a kibbutz was hit.
And then you see the children play in underground bunker playgrounds because it only takes 13 seconds.
They're right on the border with Gaza.
I stood next to an iron dome as rockets were being fired into Israel.
And I got to see firsthand how effective that technology is, but I always believed it to be a band-aid.
And ultimately, you know, the pressure of the world and the blame that came down on Israel for defending itself made no sense to me.
You know, look at the actions of President Donald J. Trump throughout his first term and second term.
Mother of all bombs, Afghanistan, dealing with radical Islamic terrorism, taking out the ISIS caliphate, convert or die, defeating the entire caliphate and wiping it out.
Radical Islam.
Look at the president taking out Soleimani, working on behalf of Iran, the number one state sponsor of terror with a radicalized Islamic mentality and Baghdadi and associates the same thing.
And then in his second term, taking out Iran's nuclear sites, having enough insight and understanding is that kind of mindset coupled with weapons of mass destruction could lead to a modern-day Holocaust.
And there were people that even claimed to be conservative that spoke out loudly against the president even taking that action.
Well, you don't have to be, you know, an MIT graduate or a Harvard business school graduate to know it's a simple formula of one plus one equals two.
Radical Islamists that pledged to destroy Israel and America and that have been fomenting terror around the world.
If they ever get weapons of mass destruction, that the odds are very high that the world in our lifetime would experience a modern-day Holocaust.
And God knows how many hundreds of thousands of millions of people could die in one day.
And President Trump, when he had the opportunity, after he gave them a chance at peace, then took out Iran's nuclear sites.
And there are people that are angry that Donald Trump did that.
And the Trump doctrine, which is everything that I just described, is purposefully distorted and misinterpreted by some to mean isolationism.
I actually agree with the president.
You know, I don't want forever wars.
I said this yesterday.
I've said it many, many times before.
I don't want our kids ever again walking door to door in a place like Baghdad, stepping over IEDs and not even having up armored Hum Vs and getting their legs and arms and faces blown off.
No, thank you.
We've had enough of that.
Thankfully, modern weaponry and technology has made it that we can be way more effective and selective that we can have no forever wars, but still take out ISIS and still take out the likes of Soleimani and Baghdadi and other terrorists and the RAN's nuclear sites and not get involved in a forever war.
I mean, that is by definition the Trump doctrine.
It is the most effective deterrence that I've ever seen in my life, and the world sees it.
Now, I don't know what Western Europe is going to do about, you know, they have had unchecked, unbridled, you know, open borders that has gone on now for decades.
And now they're dealing with the consequences of it.
Now, Great Britain has Sharia courts.
Now France is canceling, you know, holiday events that the people in France have come to love and anticipate and want to enjoy.
I don't know what happens in this country when last week there was testimony in Congress, 18,000 known terrorists in our country, and it doesn't even include gotaways.
And, you know, you can thank Biden, Harris, Mayorkas.
And after the disastrous Afghanistan pullout, we know that Pulsey Gabbard said over 2,000 radical extremists were allowed into our country.
Terrorists.
I think it's inevitable.
But the fact that people can't wrap their minds around the danger of radicalism is incomprehensible to me.
I think some of it's by design, by some.
I think ignorance probably fills up the other part of that void.
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Everyone listening to my voice right now should have one.
Anyway, I'm not seriously, you want me to go to a couple of calls here because you want, what's your favorite song again?
Actually, we just played it on the rejoin just to give everybody a taste of what beautiful Christmas music sounds like.
Okay, so that Holly Jolly Christmas is one of the things.
There you go.
What?
Why is it dumb?
Have a Holly ball humbug?
Okay, to be honest, Holly and Jolly do not go with you at all.
The Burl.
What are you talking about?
Okay, you're not a Holly or a Jolly person.
It does not.
Listen to Christmas to you.
I do the word in real life starts with the letter F. That's true.
Let's be real with the audience to quote you.
First of all, I'm going to be real with the audience.
You have a hate list.
You have a hate list.
What's that got to do with Christmas and Burl Lives?
Okay.
Okay, but you had done so well and embraced your new faith, your Christianity, and you doubled down and you're studying the Bible and you had a good church.
Now you left that church.
Now you go to another church.
I'm pretty confident that if I talk to your pastor, he kicked you out of that church because you used too many expletives in having conversations with the guy.
Is there any truth to that?
There's no truth to anything you're saying.
I think you've been hanging out with Gavin Newsome too long and the hair gel starting to get to you because this is all fake.
I don't use hair gel.
Nice try, but you better start.
I better start.
I don't use hair gel.
You know what?
Then you'll have an excuse for this fake news.
This is what people ask me all the time when they meet me.
Boy, you're looking, wow, you look younger in person.
Man, you look skinnier in person.
You're taller in person.
I'm like, what am I?
Old, fat, and short on TV?
Yeah, you look like Joe Biden.
You're a jerk.
You know, you're going to start in two.
Let me guess.
Burl Lives is your choice.
Now, just to give the audience, to quote Linda, you know, why don't you play one of my favorite Christmas tunes?
I like how this is awesome Christmas music.
This is it.
No hollies, no jollies, no Santa Clauses.
Nothing you dismay.
Remember, Christ our Savior was born on Christmas Day.
play to the crescendo.
All right, let's go to Holly Jolly again.
Just to remind people: this is Linda's favorite crap.
Go ahead, go to Holly Jolly.
Oh, you have to get Holly Jolly.
I mean, I'm surprised it's not on a special, you know, loop.
I don't know if there'll be snow, but have a cup of cheer.
Have a holly, jolly Christmas.
And when you walk down the street, say hello to friends you know and everyone you meet.
Okay, this is the bygone era.
You know, it's I'll tell you what, it was a much better era.
If I could go back to the time machine, goodbye 2025.
Like the 40s and 50s, the top problems in school were chewing gum, running up and down the class, and that's about it.
You know, today it's drugs, suicide.
You know, I don't know.
Yeah, the more advanced, the more technology, the worse it gets.
The more connected we are, the worse it gets.
I want to go back to the way it was before.
Parents in the house, God in the head.
And then you want to go back?
Well, look at what New York mayor to be, Zoran Kami Marx's Mamdani tapped a lawyer who defended an al-Qaeda terrorist and a radical anti-Israel campus leader at Columbia for a high-ranking position at City Hall.
Guy, a law professor at City University in New York, member of Mamdani's transition team for legal affairs is now the top candidate for chief counsel, the most important advisory role in the mayor's office.
You think I got out in time?
I think I did.
All right, Miranda, Texas.
Hi, Miranda.
How are you?
Hi, first-time caller.
I am with Linda.
The original Holly Jolly is obviously the best, but I also wanted to say that out of all the things that you make fun of for coffee or audience pronunciation, this is coming from someone who has an accent.
Also, you know, you always say burner instead of burner on your ads.
Okay.
They told you to say that because that's their pep pee.
But okay, fair enough.
Guilty is charged.
Okay, so Burrow Lives for you.
I'm glad I'm not going to your house for Christmas.
Don't take that the wrong way.
I hope you have a holly jolly William in Florida.
William, where do you stand?
Oh, I go for a Twist and Smith to Christmas.
I saw them perform it live in Times Square, and there was nothing like a nice head-banging Christmas with Twist and Sister.
Oh, man.
So you stand with me, not Linda, right?
Oh, yeah.
Yeah, he said headbanging, headbanging, getting run over by a steam train of Christmas joy.
That's what he's talking about.
That's what you like, the locomotive through the center of your Christmas tree.
I just have never been the biggest fan.
I like the religious Christmas music better because it's more meaningful to me.
And the way the Trans Siberia Orchestra does it, or Mannheim Steamroller does it, to me, it just, it makes it more deep, more impactful, more profound.
And maybe it's because I have ADHD.
I don't know.
I have no idea.
But I'm just telling you, I think that's a beautiful Christmas album.
It is going to blow away anything that you've heard up to now.
It's like an entire, you know, immersed experience.
I haven't been to the sphere yet in Vegas, but I've only been told by friends how amazing it is.
Jim, Wisconsin.
By the way, Linda, by the way, has full control over screening these calls, just for the record, because Katie's entire career is dependent on her approval.
But anyway, Jim, what's up?
How are you doing, Sean?
Thanks for taking my call.
I agree with everything you say on your programs a long time ago.
However, I have to agree with Linda, and I need to explain a little bit.
A lot of Christmas songs that I do not like is due large in part to them being overplayed.
And the holly jolly Christmas gets considerably less exposure or airtime or however you want to say it.
And I really do think it's a very good Christmas song.
So on this one, I have to agree with Linda.
That's two for me, Sean.
Two.
Just saying.
Two.
Keeping track.
I don't know if you have a pencil nearby.
You want to write this down?
Two for Linda.
Elon Musk reportedly starting to fund the House and Senate campaigns for Republicans 2026 midterms.
That is a good thing.
I'm glad the relationship with him and President Trump, it was inevitable.
Everybody wanted them to, you know, separate.
By the way, I got to give props to John Fetterman.
He's going to be on Hannity tonight.
And he actually said it is an absolute betrayal for Israel, for the worldwide Jewish community about empowering Hamas.
He said, whether it's France, Australia, any of these nations, our Western allies, calling for a two-state solution when Hamas refuses to disarm.
They also refuse to change their charter, which calls for the destruction of Israel, are actively trying to kill Jews.
I can't imagine why anybody would do that at this point.
He also criticized Democrats for embracing what he called openly hostile, anti-Israel rhetoric, saying it's now becoming more and more part of my party's platform.
And he says, I just can't imagine why so many people continue to back away or kind of deflect, condemning these horrific acts of terrorism.
Good for him.
He's your senator.
Turned out to be very strong.
I do have good news on the economy.
You can holly jolly this, Linda.
We found out today's unemployment report.
They said, well, the unemployment rate went up.
Well, it did, but actually, to get inflation under control and to be able to lower interest rates, if you ask the likes of Lawrence Summers, who had no idea was all caught up with Epstein, but apparently he is.
Every one of these Epstein drops have backfired on Democrats.
It cracks me up.
But the Bureau of Labor Statistics noted that the net job growth almost going entirely to Americans, a complete reversal from the Biden migrant economy, which relied heavily on a steady stream of newly arrived illegal immigrants to take newly open American jobs.
You know what that did to Americans?
It drove down.
Well, first of all, it increased the supply of working people, driving down wages and hurting Americans.
Here's another bit of good news.
U.S. crude oil today fell below $55 a barrel, hitting the lowest level since 2021.
We're now paying the lowest price for gasoline in five years.
Interest rates now down a full point, and we have now the lowest inflation.
And the best, you know, the president put out a tweet today.
The best is yet to come.
He's going to address the nation tomorrow night.
And other good news, gas prices, four-year low, crude oil prices, five-year low.
The Fed just lowered interest rates for the third time this year.
Oh, look at this.
New home prices themselves have actually started to decline.
And once interest rates get to about a 30-year fixed-rate mortgage around 4%, 4.5%, All of a sudden, all those people that wanted to move but can't because they can't afford a 7.5%, 8% 30-year fixed-rate mortgage are going to start making a move.
U.S. job growth rebounded more than expected in November.
Non-farm payrolls were depressed in October by government-related spending cuts, suggesting no material deterioration in the labor market.
But anyway, a net increase, 64,000 jobs.
The economy shed 105,000 jobs in October, but nobody really knows the real numbers because of the Schumer shutdown.
And I'm just telling you, it is now the beginning of the turnaround.
You're not going to see it probably until the second quarter next year.
Meg in Florida.
Meg, how are you?
Bail me out here.
All right.
Well, I do like the Trans-Siberian Orthodoxy.
That's great.
And Linda, I do agree.
The classics are good.
Like Matt King Cole at SA Fidel.
It's amazing.
However, we are forgetting it is Hanukkah.
And the Hanukkah song by Adam Sandler is my current favorite holiday song.
Well, that's all right.
Happy Hanukkah, by the way.
This is not a public school.
You can say happy Hanukkah and you can say Merry Christmas.
You're allowed.
Okay.
Merry Christmas.
But you definitely like my music better.
Thank you.
I mean, we can go with that, but I think everybody has a fair point.
Different moods, different songs.
But I mean, you know, go listen to the Hanukkah song if you haven't heard it in a while.
You need to get it.
The Hanukkah song is hysterical.
She's not wrong.
It's kind of like the celebrate Hanukkah.
Hanukkah is.
Is this supposed to be a parody song or is this a real song?
No.
It's Adam Sandler singing.
Oh, my gosh.
Mike in New York.
Hey, Mike, what's up?
How are you?
Mike, how are you doing?
What's going on?
How'd the weather up there today?
Is it cold?
Yeah, the weather sucks.
Yeah, the weather sucks.
Every day, my sensei moans and bitches about the weather.
What's going on?
I got to go with Linda.
I hate your guts.
Why did you call?
You know, I get set up because Linda's in control of the phone calls here.
And she literally, you know, is threatening Katie, who screens the calls.
But go ahead.
Why do you agree with her?
I did say I liked yours.
I just think hers is better because it involves the kids more.
The kids get to sing and have a good time.
And that's although Christmas.
Okay, go single bells and holly jolly yourself and Frosty the snowman yourself to death.
And I'm going to listen to music to me that's meaningful about Jesus because that's what it's supposed to be about.
I agree, but I like her song.
I'd love the kids actually, you know, get excited about Christmas and, you know, waking up and Santa coming and all that fun stuff.
I do like that part.
So there's a place for it all, but it's definitely not my favorite.
So go jingle bells, holly jolly yourself, and Santa Claus is coming to town yourself to death.
Anyway, 800-941 Sean.
Is Bill of New Jersey on my side or not before I even waste my time?
No, but forget it.
I have no time for Bill in New Jersey.
Anyway, when we come back, we have a lot of news to get to today.
John Solomon is coming up, and also we'll check in with the latest former FBI guy on all these incidents of radical Islamic terrorism.