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.
john spielman says
we fight to preserve our freedoms, which are being directly opposed by the ideology of fascist islam and its diabalical apartheid sharia ” law”
Johan Elzinga says
Happy independence day! A ver well meant congratulation from the Netherlands! A very memorable day you started the largest democracy on earth, setting the tone for justice and equality for all! Where man are created equal and in freedom! Here’s to you, to a light that can lead our way!
gravenimage says
Thank you, Johan!
J D S says
In the day of our forefathers when they formed the Constitution especially the first amendment…I feel they were thinking on the Church’s persecution of their forefathers and them as well in the European countries they left to form a new world….They had been persecuted by a “state church” and wanted none of that in the New country so the first amendment meant to them meant freedom from living under a “Church….religious …State”…..Well what is Islam trying to establish today??We need some like those “FOUNDERS” today in our government..GOD SAVE AMERICA FROM THOSE WHO WOULD GIVE IT AWAY.
TruthWFree says
I consider the allah god of Islam to be Satan since he denies Jesus’ divinity and death on the cross and calls for fighting and subjugating Christians and Jews in Sura 9-29 of the Quran. All Muslims are supposed to believe the Quran was revealed to Muhammad by the allah god via an angel.
Michael says
5. All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to our Lord Jesus Christ. If a prophet says in the name of the LORD something which the LORD has not said, or who speaks in the name of other gods, that prophet must die.
gravenimage says
The other day Michael was saying that Christians can slaughter “heretics” and “blasphemers”, and now he is saying they can murder mistaken “prophets”.
Of course, Christianity teaches no such things. This is more like Islam.
Hard to know whether he adheres to some bizarre fringe “Christian” sect, or if he is just here to slander Christians.
Michael says
Not all Michaels are the same. Time to get a new posting moniker I guess.
Bob Carrillo says
In the words of astronaut Jim Lovell – “Houston we have a problem”..
We are in a war! …in Minnesota, and Overseas as well.
Ft. Bragg based, Special Forces Staff Sgt. Alexander Conrad, age 26, was KIA in Somalia, on the 8th of June 2018, while fighting to STOP the terrorists in East Africa, and in Somalia.
It is more than likely than not, that it was stolen Minnesota Taxpayer resources, that paid for the ordinance that ended the life of this brave American soldier…
…May he rest in peace..
My question?
How many hospital beds and body bags have to be filled before Minnesotans wise up, and embrace the serious “Public Safety” and “Public Health” issues of the day?
When the NEW mayor of St Paul Minnesota, Melvin Carter; a black American “community activist”, can spend (squander) $205,000 on his inaugural festivities recently, then, support the endless Somali community festivals in the past several days, involving multiple public agency employees (HUGE COST), with more Somali events to come shortly, spending COUNTLESS Minnesota Taxpayer Dollars to do it, and then turn around and cancel OUR Independence Day (4th of July) fireworks celebration in St. Paul, Minnesota, claiming “budgetary concerns”, WE HAVE A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM.. This is a disgrace!
This is a poor excuse for a man; an adult-child at best, who references OUR nations “National Anthem”, as “an Ode to Slavery”…and YES, WE HAVE A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM..
To St. Paul Minnesota mayor Carter, it didn’t matter, that the St. Paul Saints Baseball organization offered to pay the entire tab for the City’s Independence Day fireworks, even though the team is on the road over the 4th of July (How gracious is that?).
By the actions of yet but another childish race baiting fanatic, the celebration of OUR nation’s Independence at the Minnesota State Capitol City, “must be racist”, and certainly must be stopped at all cost; right Mr. Carter? Mayor Carter turned them down flat on July 2nd..
…I wish I were kidding, even a little.. But, I am not..
That IS what it has come to now, all over Minnesota, but especially in Minneapolis and St. Paul.
In Minneapolis, that new mayor has been pressured (threatened politically) by Somali community membership “elders” into building a WALL, at taxpayers expense, around the Somali community in Minneapolis, known as “Little Mogadishu”…or they say, “we will elect another mayor who will build that (our) WALL”. (They only represent 2% of Minnesota’s population- so far) …Secondary migration stampeding into Minnesota from other U.S. States has only begun…
…They want (demand) their own personal, taxpayer funded “NoGoZone”, patrolled by their current, and uniformed “Sharia Compliant Police Force”…and yes, WE HAVE A SYSTEMIC PROBLEM.. This is not an embellishment… See: “Sharia Cop Patrols Minneapolis streets”..
All of this is completely disregarding the FACT, that the Minnesota Somali “community” has literally been caught red handed recently, with suitcases stuffed with $Millions of Dollars of stolen Minnesota Taxpayer CASH at the Minneapolis/St. Paul International airport, and massive wire transfers and obvious money laundering schemes as well, for two years, and transferring the STOLEN CASH, DIRECTLY TO EAST AFRICAN TERRORISTS GROUPS, in Somalia as well (Boko Haram & Al-Shabaab).
…Somewhere between $200 Million Dollars, and possibly upwards, to $500 to $700 Million dollars ANNUALLY, (ALL Minnesota taxpayer social services scams combined), and for a few years now, is their take. This IS the pure definition of an “Organized Crime” syndicate, and “racketeering”, providing material support to a foreign government, such as it is over there, and terrorist organizations.
Meanwhile, back in the land of Minnesota “denial” (Oz”), the multiple Minnesota State agency(s) are scrambling, and the political cover-up is in full bloom, right up to the Office of the Minnesota Governor, Minnesota DHS, AND the Office of The Minnesota Attorney General. “Suitcases full of cash”! Really?
However, according to one braindead writer, Matt McKinney, working for the Minneapolis Star Tribune, repeating the cover-up story line mantra of the day, his comment to me was; “There has been much misinformation relating to this (above referenced organized crime – money laundering) story”.. Please note that I did not refer to this person as a “journalist” or a “reporter”. Matt is a busy bee however. He is busy writing about the “bacon on the mosque doorstep” caper, in Rochester Minnesota (likely, another phony set-up scam for “community” sympathy tale), and the dubious complaint lodged against the Rochester MN Red Lobster employees, by Somali patrons, for not receiving their water delivered to them per the snap of their fingers; another Minnesota-style hard news story.
Back to the real world.. Now, the FEDS are here… The MN DHS “whistleblower”, Scott Stillman, a 27-year law enforcement forensic investigative professional, and 8 year veteran for the MN DHS in the same capacity, has had his wish for an outside investigation granted. This money laundering scandal (theft), providing direct material support to Somali terrorists, has rightly been labeled as a “national security problem” now, and Minnesota is ground zero for all of it nationally. They are all here now in-force – from the U.S. Secret Service, HHS, Homeland Security, US Inspector General’s Office, FBI, Minnesota BCA, according to recent news reports, and they are digging in.
However, actions, and oftentimes, inaction, have grave consequences sometimes, as they say…
…As a result of this collective Minnesota denial, and chronic stupidity, demonstrated here for more than a few years now, Ft. Bragg North Carolina based, Special Forces Staff Sgt. Alexander Conrad, age 26, was KIA in Somalia this past June 8, 2018, and the ordinance, that killed him, was likely paid for by stolen Minnesota Taxpayer Dollars, right from under the noses of the Minnesota “Public Authority”…and again, for more than a few years.
…There are approximately 500 more U.S. combat troops, still deployed in Somalia, trying to rid that area of brutal and barbaric terrorists, while we are apparently allowing these 7th century throwbacks and thugs to be funded by millions of Dollars of stolen Minnesotan taxpayer assets.
..Thanks you also, Minnesota (c)ongressmen, Keith Ellison, and Tom Emmer, (and MN State Rep. Ilhan Omar and others) for your insane support of the “remittances” program, which is “money laundering” in support of overseas terrorist, by any other label..
…But, no money available for OUR Independence Day July 4th fireworks celebration this evening for Americans in St. Paul Minnesota in 2018; the Capitol City of OUR state? And, OUR National Anthem “Is an Ode to Slavery”, right mayor Carter?
My Dad, and all those men and women buried in the Ft. Snelling National Cemetery, risked everything, and many, sacrificed their very lives, and EARNED the right to disagree with this sort of collective stupidity, completely lacking in any semblance of HONOR or INTEGRITY whatsoever. …”Here’s to them, and those like them.. Damn few!”
To mayor Carter: Grow up! Grow a conscience! Knock off the skin tone argument, and excuse, for all of your misery! Count your Blessings! Become an adult! …or move to Cuba..
To everyone else; especially the family of slain Special Forces Staff Sgt. Alexander Conrad.. …Please try to have a Happy and Blessed 4th of July week and weekend..
Guy Forester says
Dear Mr. C:
You have my deepest condolences for the loss of freedoms, common sense, and patriotism in Minnesota. I grew up in the upper Midwest, and I cannot understand how that part of the nation has become so detached from our history and values.
What happened to the places that manned the 32nd Division, filled the ranks of the Grand Army of the Republic? How about the men and women that served in WWII at the front and at home, keeping the factories, railroads, and farms running?
By the way, during the investigations, I hope the Feds can ferret out the arms stashes.
Good luck and more to you and the rest of Minnesota that appear to be in danger from those joining up for a new Calexit and making Dearbornistan look like Sunday school. Little Mogadishu may turn out to look more like Hue, 1968 than a quaint tourist spot.
PRCS says
My Dad was born in Rogers, Minnesota in 1925.
I was born at Saint Barnabas Hospital in St.Paul on July 1, 1950.
We moved to the West coast when I was but a toddler.
I’ve only been to Minnesota once, since–NorthWest Airlines flight connection.
What you have described is no longer my Dad’s Minnesota.
Nor his Democratic Party.
granddaddy says
Hello Bob. Very interesting letter. You must know by now that your Mayor Carter is a Leftist (political left). Most leftist are democrats. He favors Muslims and minorities over anyone “white” (whatever that is) and “privileged” (whatever that is also) no matter who voted him into office. It is what the Left teaches. They also favor open borders and free citizenship (and therefore the right to vote) to illegal aliens. So who knows who voted him in. He most likely learned his Leftism at university, since that is what many universities teach now: racism, identity politics, gender identity, communism, socialism, pro-Islamism, anti-Christianism, anti-Americanism, the right to lie to and manipulate the ignorant majority (who they consider to be below them and not worthy of consideration except when they want to get elected) and generally rabid hatred of anyone who opposes their view of anything. They’re teaching it now in grade schools also. This is happening all over the country, not just in Minnesota, and at taxpayer expense. Most of this is beyond the comprehension of the normal person (white, black, or otherwise) who loves Jesus, his family, and his country (which is why they don’t always see it). It may or may not be childish, but it certainly is a threat to our national security.
KJW says
White Arab Muslims, that is white to them which some call brown but they’re not, look down on Somalians. Keith Ellison thinks our national anthem is an “ode to slavery” while we abolished slavery long before Islamic countries and they still do it anyway. I find it warped that any black person could willingly want to be a Muslim. Ellison like Obama is a traitor to American blacks people of American slavery descendants. I guess they both want blacks to be slaves twice, first for cheap labor, then slaves of Allah and lighter Muslims. They’ll take any convert, though.
It’s really about this Leftist crap about ruining holidays and national cohesive identity as is being done in Europe. This author/professor who wrote a book intended for his classes “Islam in a Post-Secular Society: Religion, Secularity and the Antagonism of Recalcitrant Faith.” He mentioned this no holidays business and people living in community or shared purpose under one document. He’s assuming a post-secular society…”The Globalized Post-Secular Society and the Future of Islam.” He lies about Islam’s history in the usual ways. People aren’t really united by documents or a religion-there’s more to life than that and holidays are fun. All these idiot professors and think-tankers are doing is creating malaise and a boring future and people will not be united under Islam at all. Minnesota Governor is just another greedy lackey with no spine and corrupt.
They just keep hammering on everything negative. If Somalians are acting that way and want a wall, they are creating division and at this rate tribal. Everyone will hate each other – doesn’t matter if no white people existed. Leftists dream a failure. Since some Somalians don’t want to take vaccines because of pork in them, perhaps a wall around them would be good for the public health. Let Measles, TB, etc. reign in their community. Female genital mutilation, sharia laws…one Somalian cleric suggested stoning for adultery…in America. So much for progressive hunan rights and child protection laws. Minnesota residents should not have to pay for this 3rd world Islamic nonsense, no less all of America. People need to wake up to this degradation very quickly before more people and children suffer. Courage is not being a politically correct sheep. There’s nothing politically correct about sucking up to those from the Islamic world – it is politically and socially wrong and immoral by our standards. And God knows how much US money has gone to finance terrorism.
Wellington says
Islam is an enemy of all four principles Robert Spencer listed above. This should never be overlooked. This should never be forgotten.
And shame on Islam for this. Shame on adult Muslims too because unless you are an adult Muslim in name only out of fear because of what will happen to you if you formally and publicly leave Islam, then you too are an enemy of these four principles no matter which way you try to cut it.
Finally, the Islamic world could have never created the United States of America with its magnificent Constitution nor produced a single Muslim who wrote what Thomas Jefferson did in 1776. Even many Muslims must know this though the capacity for self-deception and self-adulation in Islam is indeed extensive. Nauseatingly so.
infidel says
U second Ur post, esp the last couple of sentences..
Any Muslim, even the most uncouth and uneducated feels that he is better than even the best and most accomplished of Khafirs…That is why Muslim men have no hesitation in approaching non-Muslim women, even those highly placed. Islam pumps them up with false bravado…And many times such high placed infidel women actually fall for this foolish bravado and mistake it for supreme self confidence which women find very attractive in men….That is how most times, Muslim men hook really good infidel women…I can quote U thousands of real life examples in this reg.
Wellington says
I taught a highly intelligent, talented and beautiful Hindu woman some ten years ago (she took both my Western Civilization course as well as my American Civil War Era class and respecting the latter accompanied me and other students on my personal tour of the Gettysburg and Antietam battlefields) and when I said privately to her that she should never date a Muslim male, she replied to me that her Hindu grandmother had told her that many times and that she completely agreed with both her grandmother and me. As I said, she was highly intelligent. She also had heaps of common sense. And as a Hindu, she “got” Islam. I knew she would be OK in the “dating-a-Muslim male category”—-forever.
As obnoxious is the attitude of the Muslim male to non-Muslim women, and it’s atrocious, even worse I would argue is the foolishness of the non-Muslim female who hooks up some way with a Muslim male. Beyond a bad idea.
Vann Boseman says
Great article. Very appropriate for this day!!
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 US Constitution.
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.”
— From the Pact of Umar, a set of conditions imposed on the Christians of Syria after their conquest in 636 by the Muslim army of the caliph Umar. It serves as a model for the rule of subjected populations under Islam to this day.
Guy Forester says
The entire Constitution, Bill of Rights, and Declaration of Independence are made possible by the Second Amendment. Without it, we are slaves.
Even a pacifist should understand that the Second Amendment gives that person the ability to practice his/her beliefs.
infidel says
Emirates airlines REVERSES Hindu meal ban after Hindus threaten boycott of the carrier. Another victory for freedom
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/business/india-business/emirates-now-says-will-continue-to-provide-hindu-meal-option/articleshow/64858587.cms
No Muzzies Here says
It’s quite clear that Islam is 100% opposed to the principles upon which this country was founded. When they come here, they do not adopt our principles. Instead, they try to change our country into something that it is not.
It’s sad to have to admit that a US president, Obama, helped them establish themselves here, and helped destroy this country so that his fellow Muslims would be comfortable here.
shoehorn says
Galatians 5.1 King James Version (KJV)
‘Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.’
Yet, foremost among the slaves seeking slavery are Western church leaders.
Guy Forester says
Thank you Mr. Spencer for posting this reminder on Independence Day.
Thank you Leon, USMC, silver star (posthumously); KIA Nam, 1969
Thank you Rudy, US Army, KIA Nam, 1971
You were both patriots and are not forgotten. We still have some freedom left thanks to you and those that have served.
gravenimage says
Independence Day: Why We Fight
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Hear, hear!
LeftisruiningCanada says
Happy 4th July to all my American neighbors.
The continued existence and proud defense of your Constitution and (my personal favorite) second amendment gives all who love freedom hope.
gravenimage says
Thank you, LeftisruiningCanada!
Westman says
A recent poll indicates that the majority of Democrats feel no patriotism; not surprising since they have no pride in the country and generally have never sacrificed anything to sustain it. The way they want equality of outcome as well as the current equal opportunity means they will gladly give the US, and your personal resources, to anyone. All they need is the political power to take it. That is the common bond with the left and Islam – the intent to take and hatred for the nation. May we never share a foxhole with a non-patriot.
Have a Patriotic 4th Of July !
And I’m proud to be an American,
where at least I know I’m free.
And I wont forget the men who died,
who gave that right to me.
And I gladly stand up,
next to you and defend her still today.
‘ Cause there ain’t no doubt I love this land,
God bless the USA.
Indiana Tom says
We is fightin for all da free sh^t we gonna git fom de gubermint.
James Lincoln says
The US Supreme Court needs to take on a case regarding sharia law while there is a conservative majority.
James Lincoln
gravenimage says
Agreed.
Matthieu Baudin says
From an outsider’s perspective the War Of Independence looks more like a deep family feud than a struggle against tyranny.