Mike McDaniel is a man of parts. He’s a USAF veteran, a classically trained musician, a Japanese and European fencer, a lifelong athlete, firearm instructor, retired police officer, and high school and college English teacher. He is a published author and blogger. And he has a straightforward, no-nonsense understanding of Islam. His home truths about Islam for non-Muslims are laid out here: “Islam: when they tell you they want to kill you, believe them,” by Mike McDaniel, American Thinker, August 1, 2026:
In Terminello v. City of Chicago (1949), Supreme Court Associate Justice Robert Jackson wrote:
“The choice is not between order and liberty. It is between liberty with order and anarchy without either. There is danger that, if the court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.”
It has also been said that some Muslims don’t want to kill infidels. They just want other Muslims to do it for them.
There are certainly Muslims that don’t want to kill anyone, nor do they want other Muslims to kill anyone. The horror of it is they’re not living the text and intention of their faith, and Muslims that are think them apostates and do want to kill them.
While the First Amendment guarantees freedom of religion, we now must determine how far that freedom goes and whether it amounts to a civilizational suicide pact. In his Notes on the State of Virginia, Thomas Jefferson wrote:
The error seems not sufficiently eradicated, that the operations of the mind, as well as the acts of the body, are subjects to the coercion of the laws. But our rulers can have authority over such natural rights only as we have submitted to them. The rights of conscience we never submitted, we could not submit. We are answerable for them to our God. The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others. But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods, or no god. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg….
According to Jefferson, “it does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods, or no god.” That’s not how Muslims see things. The mere existence of non-Muslims harms them, and when in a position to rule over Infidels, they offer them only three alternatives: death, or conversion to Islam, or the permanent status of dhimmis, with a host of legal, economic, and social disabilities, including the onerous capitation tax known as the “jizyah.” They are determined to ensure, as Mohammed said, that “Islam is to dominate and not to be dominated.”
It’s always best to listen to people, and to believe them, when they very clearly express their intention to enslave or kill you. Islam is fundamentally and violently incompatible with Western Civilization, and particularly America, which Islamists call the “great Satan.” That’s not just rhetoric of the kind American politicians lob and forget.
We must decide, and soon, if a “religion” that preaches slavery and mass slaughter of those who refuse to convert is compatible with American religious liberty. The answer will define, and potentially, end us.
A simple, straightforward, and alarming text on Islam, packed with important information, on what the Qur’an teaches and on the intentions of the faith’s acolytes, by a straightforward clear-sighted American. I liked it. I thought you might, too.
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