Another Independence Day is upon us. Each one presents to us a challenge: will we also fight for freedom and independence, or give them up? The struggle for freedom has not changed, and will never change. It is the eternal struggle over whether human beings will live free, or willingly submit to slavery.
All over the world today, slaves are seeking slavery. Slaves everywhere are defending and even glorifying slavery. As those who are standing against tyranny continue to be excoriated as “enemies of the people,” demonized, and marginalized, avoiding slavery will be harder than ever. People everywhere defend oppressors and carry water for bullies and tyrants, and think all the while that they’re serving the cause of freedom.
In reality, you are either fighting for one thing, or the other. If you’re not working to advance the cause of freedom, you’re working to advance the cause of slavery. The cause of slavery has so very many advocates today. Be an advocate for freedom — for what we must defend, not what we must fight against:
1. Governments deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.
What we must defend:
“That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed…” — Declaration of Independence
What we must defend it against:
Non-Muslims have “absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God’s earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own misconceived doctrines.” If they do, “the believers would be under an obligation to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power and to make them live in subservience to the Islamic way of life.” — Syed Abul Ala Maududi, founder of the Pakistani political party Jamaat-e-Islami
2. Equality of rights before the law.
What we must defend:
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” — Declaration of Independence
What we must defend it against:
“The indemnity for the death or injury of a woman is one-half the indemnity paid for a man. The indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian is one-third the indemnity paid for a Muslim. The indemnity paid for a Zoroastrian is one-fifteenth that of a Muslim.” — Reliance of the Traveller, a classic manual of Islamic sacred law (o4.9)
“Thus if [a] Muslim commits adultery his punishment is 100 lashes, the shaving of his head, and one year of banishment. But if the man is not a Muslim and commits adultery with a Muslim woman his penalty is execution. … Similarly if a Muslim deliberately murders another Muslim he falls under the law of retaliation and must by law be put to death by the next of kin. But if a non-Muslim who dies at the hand of a Muslim has by lifelong habit been a non-Muslim, the penalty of death is not valid. Instead the Muslim murderer must pay a fine and be punished with the lash. … Since Islam regards non-Muslims as on a lower level of belief and conviction, if a Muslim kills a non-Muslim, then his punishment must not be the retaliatory death, since the faith and conviction he possesses is loftier than that of the man slain…Again, the penalties of a non-Muslim guilty of fornication with a Muslim woman are augmented because, in addition to the crime against morality, social duty and religion, he has committed sacrilege, in that he has disgraced a Muslim and thereby cast scorn upon the Muslims in general, and so must be executed. … Islam and its peoples must be above the infidels, and never permit non-Muslims to acquire lordship over them.” — Sultanhussein Tabandeh, A Muslim Commentary on the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
3. Freedom of speech
What we must defend:
“Congress shall make no law…abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press…” — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
What we must defend it against:
“In confronting the Danish cartoons and the Dutch film ‘Fitna’, we sent a clear message to the West regarding the red lines that should not be crossed. As we speak, the official West and its public opinion are all now well-aware of the sensitivities of these issues. They have also started to look seriously into the question of freedom of expression from the perspective of its inherent responsibility, which should not be overlooked.” — Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, secretary general of the Organization of Islamic Cooperation
“Pakistan will ask the European Union countries to amend laws regarding freedom of expression in order to prevent offensive incidents such as the printing of blasphemous caricatures of Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) and the production of an anti-Islam film by a Dutch legislator…” — Daily Times of Pakistan
“The future must not belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” — Barack Hussein Obama
“We also understand that, for 235 years, freedom of expression has been a universal right at the core of our democracy. So we are focused on…us[ing] some old-fashioned techniques of peer pressure and shaming, so that people don’t feel that they have the support to do what we abhor.” — Hillary Clinton
“We are going to have the filmmaker arrested.” — Hillary Clinton, referring to the filmmaker whose YouTube video about Muhammad she blamed for the Benghazi jihad massacre
4. Freedom of religion, and non-establishment of religion
What we must defend:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof…” — First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution
What we must defend it against:
“Islam isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Koran should be the highest authority in America, and Islam the only accepted religion on Earth.” — Hamas-linked CAIR co-founder and longtime board chairman Omar Ahmad (he denies saying it, but the original reporter stands by her story)
“I wouldn’t want to create the impression that I wouldn’t like the government of the United States to be Islamic sometime in the future.” — Hamas-linked CAIR’s Ibrahim Hooper
The Muslim Brotherhood “must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand Jihad in eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers so that it is eliminated and Allah’s religion is made victorious over all other religions.” — Mohamed Akram, “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America”
Never surrender. Never submit. Never be silenced. Freedom and independence forever.

Mirren10 says
”Never surrender. Never submit. Never be silenced. Freedom and independence forever.”
Yes!
And a very happy 4th July to all American posters here ! XX
jihad3tracker says
Hello again Mirren —- Here is a 10 minute video by the late Paul Harvey, one of our best commentators for a long time: http://www.weaselzippers.us/281218-paul-harvey-our-lives-our-fortunes-our-sacred-honor/
It goes way deeper than the superficial stories we learned in school about our Founding Fathers — and tells of the misery and tragedy many of them encountered after signing the Declaration of Independence.
Even cynical old ancient Me got wet in the eyes watching it. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED — especially for the teenagers and twenty-something spoiled brats in our families who cluelessly believe the astonishing freedoms we have now somehow just landed in our laps without any necessity for duty, risk, and sacrifice.
Mirren10 says
That was a very moving and interesting video, jihad3tracker, thanks for posting it.
Yes, ”duty, risk, and sacrifice” seems to be terribly foreign to many. Alas.
Anyway, have a super time today ! 🙂
ECAW says
Yes, shame about the Rebellion, nevertheless happy Independence Day to Americans, particularly those like Robert Spencer and Pamela Geller.
Angemon says
I second those feelings, Mirren. A happy Independence day to all Yankees, and keep fighting the good fight 🙂
jihad3tracker says
By the way (to Mirren10, ECAW, Angemon) — here is a back-at-you: I cannot think of any nation other than yours that I would prefer to have been a literary and intellectual wellspring for the United States.
Perhaps when Father Time drops by my thatched cottage for a hearty shout of “Let’s go, Sir!” I can persuade him to let me temporarily zoom off course for brief chats with the Bard, Dickens, Wilde, Shaw, Newton, Priestley, Watt, Black, Churchill, Major Dudes of the Enlightenment, and innumerable others — for whose omission here I ask pardon.
Angemon says
While I’m not British, I second those feelings 🙂
Champ ♥ says
Thank you, Mirren10!! XO 😀
Michael Copeland says
Freedom is not free.
It has to be defended.
John Spielman says
Yes but will the next generation of pampered, safe space, tolerant but don’ t tolerate any divergent opinions lieberals be willing or even able to defend themselves from those seeking with violence to enshrine Islam and sharia law upon everyone? That is the question.
Resist says
Action is the key word that liberates the mind. To be free, you need action.
Working with freedom, doing what you love, staying true to yourself, trying to do what you always wanted to do, reaching success or failure learning from it, is all forms of mental freedom.
duh_swani says
‘The true black magicians are your fellow nab…If you don’t believe that, try and break away from the oath they have set for you’…
That is especially true of Islam…
lswchp says
From Australia, I wish a very safe and happy Independence Day to the brilliant and courageous Robert Spencer, his colleagues, and all American readers and supporters of JihadWatch.
Keep fighting this good fight, one and all.
PRCS says
Thank you.
linnte says
Thanks! Right now I am hearing fireworks booming off in the distance over our lake, and wondering if those people watching are truly hoping for the health and safety of our country, and I hope they are appreciating that Constitution that gives us our Liberty.
God bless America, and God bless all Western countries who still aspire to Liberty!
duh_swani says
The new movie ‘Free State of Jones’…Is about freedom and is a n anti-racism/slavery statement…It’s the story of the Civil wars UN-sung hero Knight…Two of my gg uncles were with him, got captured by the Confederates, given a military trial, found guilty and hanged the next day…
duh_swani says
That’s Newton Knight,,,sometimes known as Newt…
Mirren10 says
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newton_Knight
That’s *fascinating*, duh-swami. What interesting ancestors to have !
WorkingClassPost says
In the same way that USA learned from the failed attempts of European nations to free themselves from the yoke of British ambition we must today learn from the historic excesses of islam.
Independence was the dream of Scots and Irish and many other small communities throughout the Europe of the day, who new what oppression looked like, and how it imposed itself on unsuspecting and naively trusting peoples.
Islam’s history is far bloodier, and goes back further even than that which afflicted our forebears.
Vive la resistance.
WorkingClassPost says
And happy 4th July.
Richard Paulsen says
Happy Independence Day. Avoiding and accepting is the recipe letting islam moving forward. Which any freedom loving person should neither accept nor avoid.
Emilie Green says
We need, more than ever, another Amexit,
This time from the UN,
And all those “entangling alliances” (1796), thrown like lilliputian threads across the sovereignty and independence of the United States, from UNESCO to UNICEF to NAFTA to countless “free trade” deals, and more dreamed up by the ceaseless work of the world government worshippers, must be shredded.
Get US out of the UN,
And the UN out of the USA
linnte says
Agreed!
Norger says
Hear, hear. Well said as always Mr. Spencer. Happy and safe 4th.
Shane Brandon says
To my American Friends. The 4th of July,will always stand for free speech and freedom from tyranny.May God bless America. Not sharia day.
Spurgeon says
Happy 4th of July to everyone! We certainly need to defend our freedoms!
Be sure to check out Paul Harvey’s video “Our Lives, Our Fortunes and our Sacred Honor” – it is about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence.
Very appropriate for this special day. And a real eye opener. These men had a lot to lose, and they did.
Westman says
Let’s change the designations in these statements and see how they would sound to Muslims in their own words:
“Muslims have, “absolutely no right to seize the reins of power in any part of God’s earth nor to direct the collective affairs of human beings according to their own misconceived doctrines.” If they do, “the non-believers would be under an obligation to do their utmost to dislodge them from political power and to make them live in freedom to the unbeliever way of life.”
“Israel will ask the European Union countries to amend laws regarding freedom of expression in order to prevent offensive incidents such as the printing of blasphemous caricatures of Jews(Peace Be Upon Them) and the production of anti-semitic films by Muslims..”
“Christianity isn’t in America to be equal to any other faith, but to become dominant. The Bible should be the highest authority in America, and Christianity the only accepted religion on Earth.”
“The indemnity for the death or injury of a man is one-half the indemnity paid for a woman. The indemnity paid for a Muslim is one-third the indemnity paid for a Jew or Christian. The indemnity paid for a Muslim is a fifteenth that of a Zoroastrian”
“The future must belong to those who slander the prophet of Islam.” I
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To all who served to keep my family and country free, God bless you. Accept my appreciation of your service and devotion. A special thanks to the men who wrote a Constitution and Bill Of Rights to guarantee the opportunities under freedom for the citizens of the United States Of America.
And a wish for all you patriots who freely speak here – freedom, independence, and self-determination for your families and descendents, forever.
From the lakes of Minnesota
To the hills of Tennessee
Across the plains of Texas
From sea to shining sea
From Detroit down to Houston
And New York to L.A.
Where’s pride in every American heart
And it’s time we stand and say
And I’m proud to be an American
Where at least I know I’m free
And I won’t forget the men who died
Who gave that right to me
And I’d gladly stand up next to you
And defend Her still today
‘Cause there ain’t no doubt
I love this land
God Bless the U.S.A.
dsinc says
Sounds good Westman, Happy Independance day to all.
Gary says
Fight?! We don’t fight? …..Anymore.
(Politically correctness. Inclusiveness. Liberalism. It’s taken over!)
But perhaps it’s time we started. Perhaps it’s time we fought for the truth.
‘We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.’
Don’t fool yourselves. Islam does not look at men as equals. Islam wants us to submit. Islam’s goal is to dominate our culture.
Is your family worth fighting for? Is America worth the values of our founding fathers?
You decide. I know I have….. I know, (unlike what President Obama will tell you), Islam WAS NOT, AND DID NOT play a part in the founding of this great nation.
I know our founding fathers left England to escape tyranny. I know this great America was founded on the principles of the Ten Commandments and the Bible.
Like the children of Israel, do I want to go back to Egypt? Do I want slavery? Like the pilgrims, do I want to return to religious controls and mandates?
Do I want to believe that Islam is the answer for America?
Why….?
……Whom Christ has set free is free indeed!
American: Land of the free, and home…..
….of the brave.
Mark Swan says
Good One Gary
Champ says
Amen, Gary!!
Hope my fellow Americans had a great 4th!! ?
Islamorefugee says
Long Live The United States of America !!!! The unique Republic created by the Anglo -Saxons ,mainly, throwing the yoke of their own ethnic brotheren across the Atlantic. Other Europeans joined too (The French ..). Then came a Civil war ! Perhaps the only one of its kind where people of one part of a race (The Whites in general) rose against its other part to eradicate the sinful and inhuman practice of slavery. Slavery was a lucrative trade of Arab muslims ,who institutionalized it by the religious support of islam -their vicious ‘religion’ from the ancient times . It was America ie. The USA , that freed the black African slaves for ever in its land. All black Africans must be ever grateful to the White race ,particularly the Anglo -Saxons of Britain (Let us remember WILBERFORCE too in this great day , the 4th. July, and pay our respect.)
To risk a Civil war to free the people of another race is the one and only example in human history:. Let the twenty plus pampered American students learn it before falling pray to the sugar coated cyanide of the left liberals and the vile islamists.
In this ,perhaps ,the darkest days of human history,when the people suffering from the all out invasion of islam ,has completely lost the courage of even to name it’s enemy ,who is making no efforts at all to make the attacks secret. Rather the enemy is explosively loud about its intent to conquer us all and subdue under it. No ‘non-muslim’ will be spared : they shout aloud , and the whole world is feigning deaf and dumb. This is the crisis of civilisational proportions.
In this dark hours only the spirit of liberty of the people of the great Republic of the USA can show us light. It is the only light now.
The Great Britain has stood its ground by throwing the EU yoke off. It has awaken . Now the world can follow to deliver the final blow, the last and the decisive one ,to the islamist and the Left -liberal combine ,who have designed a dangerous ,and all pervading, trap to make us their slaves for all time to come.
We ,the sufferers at the hands of islamic and the Left criminals ,have our full force with the Patriots of the great Republic.
The 4th. July ,2016 … for once more
LONG LIVE AMERICA.
LONG LIVE THE PATRIOTIC SPIRIT OF THE GREAT REPUBLIC.
P.S. : Being a non -White I do hot have an iota of reservation to acknowledge and pay my respect to those great White men (belonging to Anglo -Saxons )who fought against ,and ultimately eradicated ,the inhuman slave trade of the black Africans . Race is important. The British contributed in a big way to end the trade on humans. Truth remains despite the vicious efforts of the Left liberals to paint it in black !!!
Westman says
Amen, Islamorefugee. Have a great 4th.
Guest says
I applaud you Mr. Spencer.
Westman says
Yes, bravo!
Papa Whiskey says
5. The right to be armed
What we must defend:
“A well-regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.”
– Second Amendment to the Constitution of the United States
What we must defend it against:
“We shall not mount on saddles, nor shall we gird swords nor bear any kind of arms nor carry them on our persons.”
– The Pact of Umar, first imposed by the Muslim warlord Umar upon the conquered Christians of Syria.
Laura says
Excellent addition, PW!
TJFreedomjihad says
HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY, ALL WHO CONTRIBUTE AND RISK HERE, AND EVERYWHERE. LIBERTY IS WORTH IT, AND DEMANDS IT.
Be advised, there are many who do so, behind the lines, for Liberty, in silent unrecognized service, privately and individually, for the good conscience of Liberty and righteousness, at constant risk of vile vicious death by our the enemy.
This long war nightmare, which seeds far more evil in the globe than would be otherwise, has claimed Jews inww2 at the hands of the mb allied to the axis, over 80 million Hindus in India ongoing millions more, everywhere, and over 300 million and counting in 14 centuries since ‘stupid’ became fashionable!!! The latest official government figures are this:
28 countries where people have been killed in attacks by the Islamic State since its announcement of a Caliphate on 29 Jun. 2014. MORE THAN 17,942 PEOPLE WERE KILLED IN 24 MONTHS. (THESE NUMBERS SHOULD BE VIEWED AS MINIMUMS WITH THE TOTAL NUMBER LIKELY HIGHER WHERE IT COULD BE EXPECTED TO BE SO. THIS IS MOST APPLICABLE TO SYRIA, IRAQ AND LIBYA.)
On Independence Day, relevant to the then, uncertain struggles for our founding itself, our ‘AMEREXIT’, no one knew, other than feeling high discomfort and lack of respect, how it would play out, and so it assemble into an independent great new nation, an idea of real Liberty, ‘by, of, for the people’, but the price of honor, that is always there, whether from no action, or attempt at righteous action, which we all pay and share, one way or another, is here worth reminding every Independence day, reminded here:
THE SACRIFICES MADE BY THE MEN WHO SIGNED THE DECLARATION
http://dailysignal.com/2016/07/01/the-sacrifices-made-by-the-men-who-signed-the-declaration/
“OF THE 56 MEN WHO SIGNED THE DECLARATION, 12 fought in battles as members of state militias, five were captured and imprisoned during the Revolutionary War, 17 lost property as a result of British raids, and FIVE LOST THEIR FORTUNES IN HELPING FUND THE CONTINENTAL ARMY AND STATE MILITIAS BATTLE THE REDCOATS.”
Details on specific signers within, and initially, before Breeds and Bunker Hill, only around half pound of powder for flintlocks, per man, was all they had, somewhere around 10 or so shots worth of ammo per man!!!! Today’s standard is around a minimum of 200 rounds per man and more, depending.
I believes that each of us who contributes knows these and more realities, and hopes only for ‘God’s word and provision’, to prevail, while working, as hard as possible, as though there is no God, as God expects of us!
Than God, for America!!
Ed Lee says
All politicians are lying, deceitful, untrustworthy people. Some advocate for restrictions on the First Amendment and others want restrictions on, or repeal of the Second Amendment. Our freedoms are indivisible: We can’t give up one and expect to keep any of the others.
cs says
This video of Milo has exactly the this theme, his discourse after the Orlando shootings, well worth watching. Don.t tread on me, and gays should fight back instead of appeasing Islam forever.
PRCS says
Gavin McInnes appears fairly regularly on RedEye and The Greg Gutfeld Show. As he obviously knows that the issue at hand is NOT “radical” Islam and that Islam and Muslims are getting a pass from politicians, journalists and celebrities, I do hope he’s passing that on to appropriate folks at Fox News.
Mirren10 says
Isn’t this young man, Milo Yiannopoulos, the one who had his speech at some American university ruined by a bunch of BlackLivesMatter hooligans ? I think it was covered here.
He makes a **lot** of sense. The only caveat I have is, it’s not only **minorities* who are threatened by islam, it is **all** of us.
cs says
@Mirren10 , yes, that is the guy, and he has been saying that the most discriminated in Universities are White conservatives…
I would include Jews also as we have seen here in Campus Watch reports.
Angemon says
The one and same. He’s a professional provocateur who knows how to wage the culture war in the era of the cyberspace 🙂
My Shari'a Moor says
“Never surrender. Never submit. Never be silenced. Freedom and independence forever.”
Thank you, Mr. Spencer!
Happy Independence Day to you & ALL Jihad Watch readers!
“Lan astaslem!” – (A. – ‘I will NEVER submit to Islam!’)
Charles Martel says
If I were in my early 20s, I would be hard pressed to enlist and fight for the anti-patriotic Leftists who are ruining this country. The I can’t breath(e), OWS, BLM, tattooed gun control, backward wearing baseball cap proponents in Congress, the mainstream media, Hollywood and academia aren’t worth fighting for. Fortunately, for them, they only constitute the worst 20% of the American population and I would reluctantly enlist in a decimated social experiment known as the U.S. military to help protect even their sorry asses.
As much as I’ve studied the threat of Islam, they aren’t the main problem. If I were a sharia-adherent Muslim I would likely practice all 4 levels of jihad myself. The #1 enemy are the politically correct, pantie waisted apologists and enablers in the NerO administration and the liberals who refuse to admit the truth about this cult of hate. We did defeat the Nazis and the Soviet Union, didn’t we?
If we elect crooked Hillary to serve NerO’s third term, I really don’t think we will recover.Trump will surround himself with competent people, not communists. The Republicans must unite around him or get ready to “submit”. Go Trump
Walter Sieruk says
This is the specific week of the 240 anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence it’s therefore a good time to remember that for the United States to continue as a great power in the world in spite of the current threats of the Islamic terrorism by jihadist /Muslim terrorists who are operatives of ISIS, Al Qaeda and other jihadists of other similar jihad terror entities. Americans then should have Vigilance, Conviction and, of course, Fortitude. As one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence had declared “Let the eye of vigilance never be closed.” and “A conviction that we are right accomplishes half the difficulty of correcting wrong.” Likewise, Mr. Jefferson had also stated “Fortitude…teaches us to meet and surmount difficulties; not to fly from them.”
Walter Sieruk says
Since this is the very week of the 240 year anniversary of the Declaration of Independence it’s therefore a good time to site the of the wise words of two American Patriots who were signers of the Declaration of Independence. For their wisdom may ,very much, apply to the evil and madness of those who are dangerous to self and others by engaging in jihad suicide/homicide attacks . So concerning the subject of Islamic suicide/homicide – bombers /attackers. They are so thoroughly brainwashed and deluded that they actually think of their murderous actions as “martyrdom operations.” This jihad evil and madness is based on the Koranic doctrine, 9:111. , of a far-fetched and nonsensical doctrine of a sex- filled paradise with many virgins, hours, in it for the use only the jihadist/Muslim male who dies as a “martyr” fighting for the cause of Islam. This weird religious/Islamic teaching is found contained the Koran in 44:56. .55:56. 78:31. This bizarre and odd, irrational Koranic doctrine is not open, to the jihadist, to inquiry, questioning. logic or reason. So this blind unreasoning kind of “faith” in the Koran is a reminder that Thomas Jefferson had written. “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship without a rudder, is the sport of every wind. With such persons, gullibility, which they call faith, takes helm from the hand of reason and the mind becomes a wreck.” Likewise, Benjamin Franklin had printed in POOR RICHARD’S ALMANACK something which may apply to this topic. For Mr. Franklin had printed “The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason.”