In 1782, John Fawcett wrote a Christian hymn titled "Blest be the tie that binds." I remember singing this as a little fella at Fort Street United Methodist Church in the Old Fourth Ward neighborhood in Atlanta. The first stanza is memorable: "Blest be the tie that binds our hearts in Christian love; the fellowship of kindred minds is like to that above." As this hymn came to my mind recently during a morning run, I thought about the tie that binds the Marxists to the Islamists, and is in full display here in America.
Just recently, we witnessed another round of anti-Israel and anti-Semitic protests outside a historic Jewish synagogue in Manhattan. There have also been sprayings of swastikas on Jewish structures. We remember the horrific protests on US colleges and universities in support of the Islamic terrorist organization, Hamas. Who can forget the recent vehicle-borne attack by an Islamist from the Dearborn, Michigan, area, whose relatives in Lebanon were Hezbollah associates?
And yet, little to no condemnation from the Marxist leftists in America. As a matter of fact, they elected a Marxist/Islamist Hamas supporter as the Mayor of America's largest city. Even the NY Times hosts someone who is a supporter of political violence, Hasan Piker, and dares not challenge his assertions. And this is the same person who campaigns with a virulent anti-Jewish candidate for US Senate from Michigan, running on the Democratic party ticket.
We do hear Marxists trying to use their sly whispers and deflective language to make us believe that being anti-Israel is not anti-Semitic. Right! When you read the Hamas Charter, as I have, it calls for the destruction of the modern-day State of Israel, and Jews worldwide, meaning Jews in Australia at Bondi Beach. It was quite telling how the leftist PM of Australia responded to that Islamic jihadist attack...we need more and better gun control. He said little to nothing about needing less infiltration and the metastasizing of the Islamist cancer in Western civilization.
It would be easy, and quite imbecilic, to just contend that the tie that binds Marxists and Islamists is just a virulent hatred of Israel, but it is something greater. This thing we call the Red-Green alliance is rooted in a vitriolic angst against Western civilization, and that means the Judeo-Christian faith heritage. The essence of our independence is individual rights, freedom, and liberty. Neither Marxists nor Islamists embrace that fundamental ideal. It was Barack Obama, the OG of the Marxist/Islamist unholy alliance, who quipped in 2008, "We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America." It was the same Barry Soetoro who, when he spoke at the University of Cairo, invited members of the Muslim Brotherhood front and center... and supported their candidate for Egyptian President, Mohammed Morsi.
If anyone dares not recognize the tie that binds Marxists and Islamists, it was found in the inaugural address of NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani when he stated, "We will replace the frigidity of rugged individualism with the warmth of collectivism." As they say in tennis, game, set, match.
Marxism is rooted in a desire to subjugate the individual to a collective, similar to the Borg of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame. Remember the line of the Borg, "Resistance is futile, you will assimilate." As well, the very word "Islam" means submission. Dating all the way back to Muhammad's letter to Byzantine Emperor Heraclius, there are only three options: convert, submit, or be killed.
How did we come to the point that we have allowed two actual extremist ideologies to take hold in our America? One could also ask the same question of Western Europe, especially the United Kingdom, where a missive such as this would land me in jail. While Islamic rape gangs roam freely. What happened in our society, our culture, that we would find ourselves engaged in a Second Civil War of an ideological sort that has every potential in becoming a direct conflict?
Marxism and Islamism are delusional and deranged systems of totalitarianism and tyranny that seek to mask themselves as legitimate governing systems and religion. Truth be told, the pursuit of the LGBTQIA+, gender dysphoria, dismembering of our unborn, DEI, and other leftist agendas has become a religion of the left. And similar to Islamists, rejection of such is met with threats, coercion, intimidation, fear mongering, and ultimately, violence.
Once again, we make the mistake of relegating this to a simpleton belief that it is about one person, and what we refer to as Trump Derangement Syndrome. This tie that binds the Marxists and Islamists exists not because of one person, but because of what this Republic exemplifies, the ideal of the indomitable, entrepreneurial, freedom-loving human spirit. Marxism and Islamism cannot stomach such, and here, in America, is where they are allied in a quest to defeat it. As Barack Obama said, in trying to denigrate liberty-loving Americans," They cling to their guns and religion."
Yep, we certainly do, as enshrined in our First and Second Amendments. Marxists and Islamists must break our Judeo-Christian foundation. They do not care for faith-based schools or parental freedom in educational choice because those minds are not exposed to their dangerous ideological poison.
In the end, we must recommit to the tie that binds us, which John Fawcett composed. The future of our America lies in the balance, and it is a Republic, not a democracy. And it damn well ain't ever gonna be a Marxist/Islamist tyrannical totalitarian regime. Not on my watch!
Or yours.
Steadfast and Loyal!
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