¶ Discussion on Trump Administration Tactics
I lived in Iraq for five years. I lived in Afghanistan for several years and I loved the people. I loved being there. However, I was a foreign woman in a culture where none of the local women could live like I was living, not even a snowball's chance in hell that they could even get close to that. I mean, let's not forget, in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan today, women are held as prisoners in their own home. And now, you know, and they're treated as domestic chattel.
I mean children, young girls are traded, you know, to settle domestic disputes or to pay for a cow or whatever you know, sold off, to be raped every day of their lives by a man 20, 30, 40 years older than them. They're banned from public life, they're banned from school, they're banned from all forms of education, they're banned from the workplace. I mean, they're prisoners in their home. They have no rights. I mean, are you kidding me?
Welcome back to the Rogue Roundtable with Laura Logan and my esteemed co-host, luke Coffey. We want to begin today with a couple thoughts on what has been happening lately around us. I am kind of annoyed that this signal story has gotten such traction, because it's pretty much the same old tactics that we're seeing at play here. This is reminiscent of the Trump administration, when they were talking about Russia collusion, and then it was the Magnitsky meeting.
You know, there was that meeting that happened in Trump tower, and then it's sort of. You know, what we saw happen was that the Trump administration lurched from one manufactured fake crisis to the next, and they were constantly playing defense. Well, trump started really strong this time around, you know, with Doge and all the things that they were uncovering. It was staggering, and every day there was something new.
But what seems to be happening now is more and more and more the administration is going from offense to defense. What bothers me about that? Well, nobody wins on defense, typically, right. So that's one part of it. The other part of it is that this issue of lawfare that was so effective first time around is still being effective. It's not as effective and people are speaking up this time and the administration is prepared.
They've been meticulous about the way they've crafted certain orders and so on, but it's not, you know, it's not foolproof, and so what we have now is a situation where, increasingly, the administration seems to be slowing down. Now I recognize I'm not inside the administration, I'm not sitting in strategy meetings, I'm not speaking from inside a knowledge. I'm looking at the landscape as it appears around us, based on.
What we know and what we are seeing is that there is no real indication yet that anyone is going to be held accountable for things like treason, things like sedition, treason and sedition, subversion, conspiracy, right, real legal conspiracies. And as long as people are able to get away with that kind of thing, we know they're just going to keep on doing it.
What I am hearing from multiple different sources is that inside, doj Pambani has a real issue in that the tactics are stole, stole and stole. So she may order something to be investigated or something to be done. They'll say yes, sir ma'am, you know we'll get right on it and they're going to do absolutely nothing about it. It's very obvious that the strategy you're looking at here is to ride out the Trump administration, to just wait it out.
If you can cripple them in the midterms and just keep putting them on the defense over and over and over again. Whether it's a real crisis, a manufactured crisis, it really doesn't matter. Well, that is disconcerting, because until we see people held accountable, it's hard to see how that's going to change. And it's not just happening inside DOJ, it's happening inside DEA, it's also happening inside the military.
This is a real issue, and if the Trump administration isn't seen to be doing a lot more on the legal side. It's a pretty bleak picture that's starting to emerge, luke. Having said all of that, one bright positive sign that has taken place is the revoking of security clearances. Trump has done a number of orders I think it's three orders now, right, right and basically he is upending this system that has become normal to us.
But it's really quite crazy where people who get security clearances to do a particular job, when they leave that job, they keep their clearance. Why.
Doesn't make any sense to me.
Right. Why do you still? If you're Kamala Harris, you were vice president. You had a security clearance because you needed it for your job. Your position gave you access to privileged information secret information. So when you're no longer the vice president, why do you still need that access?
exactly, especially if you're working against the the will of the american people, if you, you know, knowingly it's, if it's revealed that way, so it's. Yeah, I mean we've got so some, you know the Biden.
This is according to the latest executive order, the latest yeah.
Kamala, hillary Clinton, anthony Blinken, jake Sullivan, Lisa Monaco, mark Zaid, mark Zaid, zaid. Yeah, norm, eisen, norm.
Eisen yeah.
Letitia James. Yeah, alvin Bragg, andrew Wiseman.
Oh wow, liz Eisen yeah, letitia.
James Alvin Bragg, andrew Wiseman. Oh, wow. Liz Cheney Crying. Adam Kissinger, fiona Hill, alexander Vindman.
Oh, Vindman, that traitor.
Yeah, and then other members of the Biden family, but also we've got General Milley Unbelievable. Brennan, brennan sorry, johney Unbelievable.
Brennan.
Brennan Brennan. Sorry, john Brennan, john Brennan.
Okay. So if you look at some of those, this is like a who's who of treason and sedition. I mean, all of these people are part of the conspiracy to undermine a duly elected president, which is illegal under US Code. You know 18 US Code, chapter 115, right, and people can look it up and read it for themselves. They don't have to take my word for it. Norm Eisen now he's something else. That guy, norm Eisen and David Brock, were together at CRU, citizens for Responsibility and Ethics, right.
This is supposed to be another one of these bipartisan, nonpartisan sort of you know organizations. That's also a 501c3. And this has been one of the main forces behind the lawfare weaponizing the legal system against the people of this country. And Norm I mean Norm Eisen now has a podcast with that horrible woman from, uh, the new york times. What is it? Ruben, okay, uh, janet rubin. I mean these two, uh, it's quite incredible.
I mean, if we actually had a justice system that was working and we had people that um are going to hold them accountable, they, these kind of people, are top of the list. I mean, why you? Also, who else did you have on there?
You know, lisa Monaco she's another big name on there been heavily involved in subverting the Trump administration the first time around and continuing to do so now, so why would you give your political enemies access to privileged information that allows them to undermine and subvert your government? That's the most ridiculous thing ever.
Thank goodness Trump is actually doing something about it this time around, but, of course, what they're doing is saying it's retribution and they're turning the same that they they claimed that we were saying when they were using against Trump. Now they're saying that you know, it's retribution because of it was it is, because of the lawfare Right.
I mean, I mean that's because John Brennan went on television for years saying that Donald Trump was a Russian spy. Exactly that he was, that his handler was Vladimir Putin. And you know, one lie after another, after another, after another.
Why does a man like that who's Studio, dog Studio, dog Studio dog wants to be here.
Why does a man like that, who is openly subverting and lying about the president of the United States, why does he have access to privileged information Security clearance? Honestly, if you look at the law, this is a determination not of the Department of Justice. This is not their jurisdiction. It falls under the Department of Defense. And who is the commander-in-chief? Who's the head of the Department of Defense? Donald Trump.
So this is why, even though they're mad about it, even though they're, you know they can yell about it all they like in the media. They can't do anything to change it, because he absolutely has the authority to revoke their clearances. Yeah, just the same way, by the way, that when they're have, you have a an appointment that they try to hold up their clearances. Right, tulsi gabbard? You know all appointment that they try to hold up their clearances. Right, tulsi Gabbard?
You know all of these people. They try to hold up their clearances. Who's doing that? Department of Justice? Why are you letting them?
They don't have jurisdiction. And didn't Biden do it after he took presidency with Trump? Isn't that true? I?
don't remember. I think you're right about that but I don't remember a hundred percent. Yeah, he did pull it right, yeah, I mean. So they don't. They don't hesitate to do this, but it's just that there's weird things in government that have sort of crept in. Typically, when you get a security clearance, you're hired to do a job, or in the military they would call it a billet right, and that's what your clearance is supposed to to be for.
So when you're no longer doing that job, I don't think you should still have a clearance yeah, well, it's, it's.
It's argued that you know, previous presidents um have want to be able to advise present ones, so they that's why I don't care.
Yeah, you don't care. No, I don't care. Do you care? No, do you do you? Want a previous president. You want to obama advising no no right and, for that matter, bush and why is biden on this?
I mean, why isn't obama on this list?
well, didn't he already do? Obama? I don't know. We'd have to check that one, check on that one.
Okay, let's talk um about a really big story here in texas, and I've gotten a lot of texts and emails from a lot of people um us being in Texas about this topic, so I'm glad we're covering it.
And it's not just Texas right?
No, it's not, no it echoes across the country.
It does so. This story is really about something called Epic City, which is a vast Islamic development that is being run by the East Plano Islamic Center, which is Plano. Texas is outside of Dallas, and they have built this massive development with a mega mosque that is wrapped up in a nice bow about diversity and inclusion and togetherness and unity and all the rest of it. But I'd just like to see them about diversity and inclusion and togetherness and unity and all the rest of it.
But I'd just like to see them if a whole bunch of Jewish people said they wanted to buy property there. Let's take a look at how they present it.
¶ Discussion on Epic Cities Project
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So, luke, that's right by your home, that's right by where you were born and raised.
That's my hometown, yeah, the big D as they call it, and I don't mean divorce, I mean Dallas.
Okay, this is. I mean, that video is a couple years old and they've actually built this now. So let's take a look at like at the center of this whole development is a mega mosque. Okay, with the school, which is obviously an Islamic school. Take a look, look at that teacher. I mean that's like a madrasa. Those are like the madrasas I would see in Afghanistan or Pakistan. Like the madrasas I would see in Afghanistan or Pakistan. You know, they talk about that.
They have a boys and girls school, you know, and at the center of this development, that's not like any other school in America.
No, that's not your typical American school. I would say no.
Okay, so now this development I mean I've seen other videos where they're, you know, the kids are making Palestinian flags and so on and so on, and there's obviously a lot of talk about the whole Palestinian-Israeli issue. I want to point out the fact that I mean this has gone from development now to actually being. It has been built. There were two significant legal actions that just happened.
One is that the Attorney General of the state of Texas Ken Paxton he launched an investigation into the holding company for potential violations in the Consumer Act.
Right.
And then Greg Abbott, the governor, has announced he's taken action on them for a funeral home that's not licensed. Okay, so I hear that. I'm like I get it. The US legal system works slowly. There's a bill of rights, there's freedom of religion, there's the constitution, there's all of these things, so this is tricky water to navigate. There's also all the politics involved in this, but this is this is akin to getting el capone for tax evasion right instead of mass murder yep.
So I mean you. You know, laura, you have lived in Islamic countries working before, and you know the culture, what is fear-based and what is reality when it comes to something like this, because you know there's obviously a lot of you know, different opinions around this being built and you know changing our and and what that looks like. What's your view of this? Now living up living within an islamic country and now seeing it, you know, with their goal of bringing it.
You know, bringing it here, enlarging it, growing it okay.
So I mean, first of all, I lived in iran for five years. I I lived in Afghanistan for several years and I loved the people, I loved being there, right, right. However, I was a foreign woman in a culture where none of the local women could live like I was living, right, not even a snowball's chance in hell that they could even get close to that.
I mean, let's not forget, in the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan today, women are held as prisoners in their own home and now, you know, and they're treated as domestic chattel. I mean children, young girls are traded, you know, to settle domestic disputes or to pay for a cow or whatever you know, sold off to be raped every day of their lives by a man 20, 30, 40 years older than them.
They're banned from public life, they're banned from school, they're banned from all forms of education, they're banned from the workplace. I mean they're prisoners in their home. They have no rights. I mean, are you kidding me?
Okay, so I say that you know that my time in Afghanistan obviously I was there under the Taliban and then the Taliban was overthrown and so it was very different, but I got to live under a different set of rules, that foreign women get treated differently when it comes to this place. There are so many things here to talk about. I just want to lay out so on the, you know, from their point of view.
Uh, I've listened to many speeches by uh, the, the islamic cleric that is kind of in the face of this, and they, they argue. You know their whole argument. Their whole position is that they are about unity and togetherness and being part of the community and so on. Right, they've got all the buzzwords.
They know exactly how to make this sound like it is not what it is, which is an Islamic enclave that is, both politically and culturally, completely and utterly different to American culture and society. And if you criticize them on the other side, what happens? You are immediately accused of being Islamophobic, racist, and so on. I actually think it's important always to listen to people and hear what they say in their own words, and so I would like to hear from the cleric in his own words.
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Okay, so back with the show. I want you to hear from the cleric who is the face of this epic mosque, this Islamic enclave. They call it a city that they're building. It looks like a city. It's, of course, legally not an actual city, and they talk repeatedly about expanding and this being the center, the Islamic center of North America. Right, this is the center of it. To me, that sounds more like a command and control center than it does like a headquarters, but you listen to what he has to say.
Let us bring about a revolution. If every one of us, brothers and sisters we are in this audience, over 10,000. If every one of us made it our goal that I'm going to change the minds of 10 people, 10 people, I'm going to change the minds of 10 people, 10 people. I'm going to change the minds of 10 of my colleagues, 10 of my friends, 10 of the people I associate with. In the next year, that would automatically mean a hundred thousand people are now seeing the world from a different perspective.
If all the muslims of america did the same thing, what would happen? We would literally bring about a political and cultural revolution. This is our job in this country. Here's the point In an entire umbrage of 1.5 billion people. We are the only Muslims who have the political clout to change the system legally from within.
You can elect a person who wants the Sharia political engagement, about the establishment of an Islamic political system entity to enact these realities of the Sharia we have about 225 Muslim elected officials in the country. Today we have 35 offices for care nationwide. Tell me what you're doing different to help Islam to have deeper roots in this country and for the next generation to be ready to take over inshallah.
What do you think?
Well, I want you to get in. You know, the law of the land is the Constitution, and we also have the identity of America and, specifically, I'm a Texan, almost a Texan first and an American second.
Like any true Texan.
Proud Texan.
¶ Cultural Impact of Islamic Communities
But when you see, you know, when you hear something like this that they want to, you know, have a cultural revolution and change the culture of you know what we celebrate as America, that's a big concern to me and we also. You know we can get into Europe and the UK and the open borders. We're seeing a future, you know, maybe plan, see that play out in UK and Europe, and so I don't want that here, but that's a concern.
You know, without sounding racist or Islamophobic, yeah, we're not going to play the racism, Islamophobia game.
We're not going to play that game. It's nonsense. In fact, Islamophobia is a made up term term yeah that was created by george soros's found a open society foundation and his whole network about, uh, you know number of years ago. Uh, the papers on this were actually leaked by an organization called dc leaks and then they've been scrubbed from the internet. I've tried to find them, um, again, you know, over and over and, yeah, they vanished, but unfortunately for them.
You know, I still remember what was in there and it was literally a playbook describing of how to create. They defined it, they created the term and they were training people on how to spread this right and the target, how to target journalists, elected officials, you know, academia, teachers and professors, schools, and you know academia teachers and professors, schools and you know and think tanks and so on and so on.
So they didn't just create the term, they had a plan for implementing this term into the conversation. They even had you know lists of things that, if people talk about this, this is when you raise Islamophobia, etc. Etc.
And the purpose of these tactics is to shut down the conversation yeah, silence people and cancel them and the result of that is that you have a, an islamic enclave that is now grown right in in plano texas or josephine texas, right in the middle of rural america, outside of dallas, and no one dares say a word. Right, they've just let it happen. And those people like there's a guy, john Guandolo, who's been working on this kind of issue for years.
John Guandolo is one of the most attacked people that you can ever imagine. If you look up his name and what'll they say? That he's racist, that he's Islamophobic, and so on and so on. I've met John a couple of times. He did not strike me that way at all. I'm not going to play that game because it's nonsense, right? If you look at what that man is talking about. That cleric I think his name is Al-Qadir right. He is talking about political and cultural revolution.
Do you want, and it's a radicalized version of that right.
Well, I mean, even if it's not, do you want a cultural revolution or do you want to, and it's a radicalized version of that right? Well, I mean, even if it's not Sharia law, even if it's not, do you want a cultural revolution?
No, I do not, or do you?
want to preserve your culture, I want to preserve my culture. So are you allowed to do that?
That's what's funny, is you know, as we've become the enemy of state the white, heterosexual, christian male is kind of we've. The last four years, we, I feel like we've been somewhat demonized, demonized yeah, especially we speak up completely, we have, we have okay, thank you yeah, you're the bad guys, yeah and I think that you know they don't. They want to silence us and keep us, you know and and the easiest thing think about the second world war.
Yeah, who defeated the nazis? I mean in no small part, right, big, hefty, strong, brave, white, heterosexual guys from all over towns and cities all over america. Right, I mean a lot, a lot of the middle of honor winners. Where do they come from? Tiny little rural towns in america, people that were willing to stand up for freedom and fight and do what was right. So of course, you have to be removed from the battlefield but it's easy to tag us as white supremacists.
If you want to preserve your culture and your cultural identity in America, it's an easy label right.
Oh no, it's not an easy label. It's been turned into an easy label. So if you want to defend your culture, if you want to protect it or if you want to preserve it, you're not allowed to do that. You are now an extremist and you're a white supremacist and so on.
Christian nationalist is the term. They use.
And, by the way, colonizers are all evil, right, all white people are colonizers. But in a sense, this is a form, this is cultural colonization. It is yeah, and political, and these are not. He says we can create a revolution. This is what we can create. If all of you will do this, we can be part and lead a cultural and political revolution. I mean, I don't know about you, but you know, I'm an immigrant.
I came here to adopt to the American way of life, yes, and celebrate it and celebrate it right. And I didn't come here to change it and make it something else. And, by the way, we're not just talking about small changes, right? I mean, look at that school. Do you want your daughter being educated like that?
No, I do not.
Okay. So then people will say, well, why can't you know? Your daughter doesn't have to. She can go to American school. You know why can't they have their own schools? Well, in lots of the videos they talk about this being the first of many, right, and they talk about expanding and expanding, and expanding. And then you heard that guy from you know CARE, the Muslim Association, right, right, saying that we need this so that the next generation can take over exactly I mean you can't deny, does it?
does it mean that every islamic person in america supports this? No, does it mean that every islamic person in america wants to take over? No, it doesn't mean that, and that's not what anyone would be stupid enough to say. But what is it exactly that is being taught inside that command and control center? How would you know, would they? They say they don't discriminate, but do they want you know? Are they going to let in one or two token jewish people so they can say that they're diverse?
yeah, or are they teaching that non-muslims are infidels?
I mean well, let's hear. So, you know, recently, of course, the palestinian issue has been exploited to drive a wedge throughout america, and it's interesting because the palestinian issue used to only really echo on the arab street, but now there's so many uh, there's such a huge islamic population across the west that this is now an issue that is right on our doorstep, right.
So here is the same cleric talking about this the arrest of the Muslim student who was arrested for his supposedly for his ties, his support for Hamas and all the other things he was doing in violation of his visa, which was a green card, which is still a visa.
I was a green card holder, so I'm very familiar with this and, of course, the argument of the left was oh, it's free speech, it's free speech, you know he's protected, and the Trump administration's position was he violated the terms of his visa, he's out of here, right and notice. No one's able to challenge that, because that is absolutely the law. But listen to what this guy is preaching about this issue.
As we speak, there is a massive issue taking place that is going to deal with every one of you in this audience. The president, as you're aware, has carte blanche, decided a particular person a Muslim, a Palestinian does not have the rights that everybody else does. No court of law, no system, no jury the president's signature has arrested a legal green card citizen for protesting against Israel and for supporting the rights of the Palestinians.
And again, if you feel this is not appropriate, I disagree with you, because this deals with me and you right here and now. If he's allowed to get away with this, then next is going to be naturalized citizens. How many of you are naturalized citizens as we speak right now? This case is going to be a litmus test for what follows the fact of the matter and I'm sorry to be blunt, but we don't have time for political correctness the majority of us are disconnected from what is going on.
We feel that's not going to affect us. No, history has shown. Even the ups and downs of this country have shown if we don't rally together, if we don't make sure that all of us have the same freedoms, what is happening is blatantly unconstitutional. For 200 years, the Supreme Court has ruled that a green card holder has the same rights as an American citizen.
Okay, okay, you're killing me. I got to stop it here. I got to stop it here, okay. For 200 years, the Supreme Court has ruled that a green card holder has the same rights as an American citizen. What a load of nonsense.
Yeah, where's he getting that?
he's making it up. He's literally making it up. First of all, did you hear that he referred there to a, a green card holder citizen? Yeah, yeah, okay, no, no such thing, no such thing. So the man is conflating the rights, uh, of a citizen with that of a naturalized citizen and a green card holder. He's putting all those things together right, and naturalized citizen has the same rights as an american citizen. A green card holder is a visa. You're a visa holder.
You know, I I got uh death threats once and I called the fbi more than that okay one of the times I got death threats when I arrived. I arrived in the us. I was living in iraq at the time I arrived in the US. I was living in Iraq at the time. I arrived in the US for work and I called the FBI and one of the things that they said to me when they called me back was we verified. You know, this threat is coming from this blah, blah blah. However, we can't help you Because why You're not a US citizen?
You know, I was a green card holder. I was on a visa. I was on a visa then, so they were limited in terms of the things that they could do. There are limits to your visa. The reality is that no government in the world is obliged to give you a visa. They can pick and choose and they can deny you a visa based on anything they want. You can object and you can try to fight it, but they still have that right.
So here he is basically making accusations about the US president and the current administration, stating things that are not true, fear-mongering, telling all those people there you're all naturalized citizens. They're coming for you next.
Right.
Right.
It's wild. Keith, I want to hear your opinion on this.
Let's see what Keith has to say. He's been quiet today.
Howdy. Well, I think that how do you fight? This is the question, like, how do you go about? You know, sort of um, engage in this, in sort of batting back?
¶ Cultural Clashes in Western Society
I guess the the in the culture war, but I think the the biggest way is we have to, as, as americans and as patriots, we, we have to um, assert our, our own culture with pride and we have to defend it culturally. We have to, we have to teach our kids it starts in the home. We have to, you know, we have to take control of our schools on the local level.
Um, that's how we, that's the big I would say, that's the, it's the number one thing we can do is we have to keep the hearts and minds, uh, of our, of, you know, of our children and uh, in our communities.
Well, that's the whole point of inserting 15, 16, 17, 18 million illegal immigrants in a very short space of time. Right, it's because they don't understand what it means to be American. They don't share that love of Americana, american history. They don't know what it means, what the culture of America is really about. And the question then becomes how many of them want to, how many of them really want that? Do you want to continue to follow your cultural practices?
And, by the way, what is the law of the land inside your Islamic enclave? Because there's been, you know they'll say that anything that you say about this online is completely wrong and it's a lie. This cleric is out there saying he's got the backing of the mayor of Plano and the mayor of Richardson and the mayor of another county there you know another town there and that the police chief is there and they're all kissing the ring right.
They're all bending over themselves to show oh, we welcome you in our community and we've got your back and we're going to look after you. Don't you worry. You know anyone says anything about you. Come to us, you come to us, I don't. There is, it's very obvious listening if you look a little bit deeper and you listen to what this cleric, who's the face of this, has said in the past. I mean he believes in the supremacy of Sharia law.
There you go yeah.
Right and that Sharia law is God's law and it's above all other laws.
Will you get an overview of Sharia law? For I mean that's not Constitution, I mean it's not following any bit of the Constitution, it doesn't align with anything.
Well, he believes that women should only do tasks that their husbands permit them to do. He said that in previous speeches. I mean, there's a lot, Some of it is political and some of it is cultural and some of it is ideological and religion and faith-based, but it's extraordinary to me that this is happening in Texas and you don't hear about it. Nobody wants to talk about it. It's not just happening here, though.
If you look at Patterson, New Jersey, there's a similar takeover there, and when you look a little further afield, I remember a few years ago I mean, the Paris attacks came out of an Islamic suburb of Brussels which was pretty much a no-go area.
I knew a Romani, a gypsy guy who was a beat cop in that district, and the things that he described were absolutely unbelievable of Brussels, where there were only Islamic candidates running for office and they were running on a platform of Sharia law and of separating public spaces for men and women, you know, and so on and so on. I mean they're advocating for things that are culturally, ideologically, completely at odds with Western culture and values.
So, yes, okay, Governor Abbott is going after them for operating a funeral home without a license and Ken Paxton is taking action to really the beginning, but this is after it's already built.
Where have they been? It's like okay, the stadium is built, they're ready to play ball. Why weren't you there at the groundbreaking of it all?
Well, because they hide behind the Constitution and the First Amendment right and behind these attacks in the media that say if you question anything like this, then somehow you're a bad person and they're allowed to fight for their culture and for their ideology, but you're not allowed to fight for yours. When you do it, you're a white supremacist.
Right.
And nationalism has become so demonized. So you know, there's another example here. I mean, you look at Europe. Yes, I mean, there are these rape gangs in Sweden and in the Nordic countries and in Germany.
Years ago you know, this is being a former German town it has some German connections, and I remember one of the mothers of one of my kids, her aunt, worked at a Hilton hotel and on New Year's Eve, every New Year's Eve, all of the women who worked for Hilton had to stay at the hotel and were not allowed to travel because of these Islamic migrant rape gangs that would just, you know, carry out a reign of terror on the streets at night on New Year's Eve. It started out then.
Now you have the UK talking about grooming gangs. These are not grooming gangs, these are Islamic rape gangs that have been operating in the UK for years. I mean, yeah, texas has allowed this to be built right under their noses, but over there they're actually allowing their own children to be raped and sometimes, and brutally, brutally, physically damaged, and they're silent about it. They don't, even now, when they're talking about it, they don't even call it what it is.
And then you know, on top of all of that, what else do you have happening in Europe? You've had attacks for years in France, in the south of France and Toulouse and other places, attacks against Jewish people that nobody wants to talk about, nobody wants to say anything. I know a Catholic priest who told me he will never wear his priest collar on the streets of Paris anymore because he will be attacked. Wow, yes. And then you remember a few years ago when Fox News was absolutely savaged.
It was during the Trump administration the first time around. They were savage for reporting that there were these areas of Paris, the banlieue, where there were sort of no-go Islamic areas, and everybody said it was a lie and most of the media was mocking Fox for that. Completely true. I mean Paris. The city of Paris is surrounded by what the French call banlieue, which are their suburbs.
I tried to go into one of the banlieues a couple of years ago and with a very brave person who spent a lot of time in the Islamic world, he absolutely refused to take me because he said we will be killed. A couple of days before they had just killed two French policemen that had gone in there. These areas are almost entirely ungoverned and they are a law unto themselves and we're still lying about it in the media and treating people who talk about it as if they're evil somehow.
So what is your opinion of that? That's because the globalists run our media and they want this. They want your identity, your sovereign identity, to disappear and they want it just to be a melting pot of chaos. I mean, what's your view?
I think that's pretty spot on yeah I mean it's pretty, it's obvious at this point. What does no borders mean? Means a war on sovereignty, right, they don't want nations, yeah, and and the strongest care about your sovereignty.
I mean it's, it's now we're. I mean that's the liberal worldview. Is you welcome everybody and you? You know this is open borders and culture needs to evolve and change.
Well, the liberal, well, so the progressive, progressive worldview Is that if you build a city like that and it's a thousand homes and all of it is Muslim, then it's diverse Right, but if all of those people were white or Christian, then it would be a symbol of Nazism, fascism and racism. Hypocrisy.
Yeah.
Victor Davis Hanson is a great, great professor of classical studies and a great voice. He's written many books. He's wonderful, I mean. He lives in the town of Fresno, where he was born, where his grand, his parents were born, his grandparents, you know. They've been there for generations, same house, same house even. And victor was just. He was just laughing, saying to me you know, when I grew up, it was sort of 90 white here. It's now something like I don't know 90, 95 hispanic.
So when he was growing up, it was was not considered diverse. Now that most of the white people have been driven out and it's mostly Hispanic now, it's diverse. It's like, come on, come on. I mean and it's weird for me even to be having this conversation, because I'm definitely a person who I've always embraced other cultures- and religions. I see all people as equal. For me, they're all equal. But I'll tell you where it ends for me, I don't want to wear a hijab.
No, I don't want my children to wear a hijab, I don't want my daughters to. Not only that, you know, when you, you know you have a lot of people will say, all the time well, you know, it's not true that women are not treated well in the Quran. You know Muhammad's wife was, you know, a woman who had her own business, and you know she worked. They give you all these arguments. All of that is propaganda, it's anti-Islamic, it's whatever. And my answer to them is this Great, I understand.
Islam is misunderstood, it's been misrepresented. You point to a country like Saudi Arabia, or you point to Afghanistan and say, oh, no, no, no, no. This is not real Islam, this has been distorted. So I say okay. So which country can you point to where it's been properly implemented? They can't? Okay, so that's a lose, okay. So then tell me this. Then I have two daughters.
Pick a country where they can have a better life and they can have the same rights that they have in this country or any country in the West. Find me the Islamic country where they can have that Guess what? It also doesn't exist. So does that mean?
that.
I'm anti-islam absolutely not um 100 false. But the reality is that I want to protect the culture and the values and the rights that we have in our culture and society, and I don't want to be demonized for that. And I don't think I should be, you shouldn't.
And I think about. I traveled the first time to Islam country, to Dubai, and I saw firsthand I was doing a film project over there and there was a sheik sheik, sheik, Sheik Sheik. He would drive in his Lamborghini and a whole harem would follow in a Mercedes Sprinter van, totally in their in their covered gowns. I mean, it was just to imagine that, you know, happening here in Texas, I mean, and not being loud about standing up against you know, or just standing for our culture, Right.
Yeah.
I mean that's we need, it we're, we're already, we have pride in our state, but, like I think we're seeing, we've already seen not taking a stand and to me it you know it's, it's okay to, it's not just okay, it's we need to stand up for our, our belief system, our culture, what we've built here, and not just because of cancel culture, be silent right we're going to stay on this.
We're going to stay on this and we're going to continue to follow it. And you know, whatever people want to do in their own countries, I mean, you can like it, you cannot like, it's their business, not yours, right? It's not my business. I'm not going to tell you how to live in saudi arabia or iran or anywhere else.
I'm not going to say to you I, I, I think's great, I'm not going to lie, but I'm going to look for things in the culture that I like and that can be celebrated, and I'm going to be equally as open and honest about the things I don't. Okay, so switching gears completely. You missed most of it today. Luke, you're going to be sorry. We have a great new episode coming out the Going Rogue.
We went rogue this time with Ross Kennedy on supply chains, global supply chains and China, and this proposed new action that the Trump administration is looking at actually was investigated by the Biden administration and the Trump people took this on when they came in, and it has the potential to shut down the largest intelligence collection operation in history for the world of global trade and shipping through. Because? Why?
Because the Chinese use a system on all their ships which link right back into the security state, and the US is not having any of it anymore. They're focusing on the. They're going to try to pass this off as another tariff issue. It's not about tariffs and this is actually a really important episode and it affects all of us and it's it affects, you know, the supply of food, everything that you can imagine.
¶ Global Dependence on Chinese Medicine Supply
I think it really came home to us during covet when we saw that you know the breakdown. Yeah, china could stop shipping our medicine anytime they want it. I mean, who thought that was a good idea? Okay, so for that and more, don't miss this week's episode of going rogue with Laura Logan, and if you want to share, like, subscribe or support us, go to lauralogancom. Slash, give and, uh, we appreciate having you with us. This is a this is a cool journey.
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