Latest / The Matt Walsh Show / Separation Of Church And State Is A Left-Wing Myth. Now They're Admitting it
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Well, it's been a while since we've checked in on
- 0:02Speaker 1: New York City, which has now been ruled by a
- 0:04Speaker 1: Muslim socialist from Uganda for a little over eight months
- 0:07Speaker 1: by my count. So we're going to begin with footage
- 0:10Speaker 1: that was shot just a few days ago by a
- 0:13Speaker 1: journalist named Nate Friedman, who's working on a documentary about
- 0:16Speaker 1: the Islamic takeover of New York. He's also covered the
- 0:19Speaker 1: Islamic domination of.
- 0:22Speaker 2: Several other U.S. cities, particularly Michigan.
- 0:24Speaker 1: This footage is footage that illustrates the current state of
- 0:28Speaker 1: the largest city in the country, which is no longer
- 0:31Speaker 1: American in any meaningful sense.
- 0:33Speaker 2: Watch.
- 0:35Speaker 3: I am not going to the mosque. This guy in
- 0:36Speaker 3: the black car and he's getting a ticket, but none
- 0:38Speaker 3: of these taxis are getting a ticket. You gotta be kidding.
- 0:40Speaker 3: How's it going, sir? Quick question for you. I noticed
- 0:43Speaker 3: you're giving a ticket to this car, right?
- 0:45Speaker 4: Okay.
- 0:45Speaker 3: And what about all the taxis that are double parked?
- 0:48Speaker 4: They're allowed in the time of Salat.
- 0:52Speaker 3: Please say that again to the camera. Go ahead. They're
- 0:56Speaker 3: permitted in the time of Salat in the city. They're
- 0:59Speaker 3: permitted to park in the.
- 1:01Speaker 4: Time of prayer.
- 1:02Speaker 3: How do you know they're Muslim? Why is he not
- 1:04Speaker 3: allowed to? Why is he not allowed to? How do
- 1:06Speaker 3: you know he's not praying? I'm not talking about that.
- 1:09Speaker 4: This is only the time of the prayer.
- 1:12Speaker 3: How do you know that that car is not going
- 1:14Speaker 3: to pray? How do you know that the guy that
- 1:16Speaker 3: drives that car is not going to pray? This is
- 1:18Speaker 3: not the question.
- 1:19Speaker 2: Only the question is the time of prayer they can park.
- 1:23Speaker 5: We are not justify and police justify that's America.
- 1:28Speaker 2: Thank you.
- 1:30Speaker 1: It's legal to double park if you're Muslim in the
- 1:34Speaker 1: eyes of the presumably Muslim traffic cop. But if you're
- 1:38Speaker 1: not Muslim, then you get a ticket. And he admits
- 1:40Speaker 1: all this on camera multiple times. We now have religious
- 1:45Speaker 1: based law enforcement in the United States right out in
- 1:48Speaker 1: the open. Think about all the Fox News segments from
- 1:52Speaker 1: 20 years ago about Sharia law arriving in the country
- 1:55Speaker 1: and how everyone made fun of the boomers for being
- 1:58Speaker 1: paranoid and now realize where we are just 25 years
- 2:01Speaker 1: after 9-11. This kind of preferential treatment, this overt discrimination
- 2:06Speaker 1: does not simply apply to parking tickets in New York.
- 2:09Speaker 1: It applies to the legal system, to welfare, to employment,
- 2:14Speaker 1: to university admissions and everything else. Foreigners have captured New York,
- 2:19Speaker 1: and now they're redistributing the spoils amongst themselves. And as
- 2:23Speaker 1: you just saw, the government is explicitly rewarding Muslims while
- 2:27Speaker 1: punishing everybody else.
- 2:28Speaker 2: That's what's happening.
- 2:30Speaker 1: Now, you'd think that would be a violation of the
- 2:32Speaker 1: First Amendment and the separation of church and state that
- 2:35Speaker 1: we hear so much about, but no one seems to care,
- 2:39Speaker 1: at least on the left. And as insane as this is,
- 2:42Speaker 1: there's actually a very clear explanation for what's happening here.
- 2:46Speaker 1: This takeover didn't happen by accident. It was actually set
- 2:49Speaker 1: in motion decades ago. It began with indoctrination, which all
- 2:53Speaker 1: of us have been subjected to, about the meaning of
- 2:55Speaker 1: the words separation of church and state and how they relate,
- 3:00Speaker 1: or don't relate, to our Constitution. Pretty much every American
- 3:04Speaker 1: has been told at one point or another, at many points,
- 3:08Speaker 1: about the so-called separation of church and state. It's one
- 3:10Speaker 1: of those phrases that's drilled into our heads in schools.
- 3:14Speaker 1: You're told that it's a fundamental tenet of American government,
- 3:17Speaker 1: the critical guardrail that prevents us from descending into theocratic fascism.
- 3:23Speaker 2: And you're led to believe that.
- 3:24Speaker 1: Since the dawn of this country, students have learned about
- 3:27Speaker 1: the separation of church and state, just as students have
- 3:30Speaker 1: supposedly always learned about the Trail of Tears, for example.
- 3:35Speaker 2: But that's not true at all.
- 3:38Speaker 1: Just like the Trail of Tears, the concept of the
- 3:41Speaker 1: separation of church and state, as we know it today,
- 3:44Speaker 1: was actually an invention of the mid-20th century. For the
- 3:49Speaker 1: vast majority of our country's history, if you mention the
- 3:51Speaker 1: separation of church and state to the average American, they'd
- 3:55Speaker 1: have no idea what you're talking about. The words appear
- 3:58Speaker 1: nowhere in the Constitution, and the phrase conveys the impression
- 4:02Speaker 1: that religion should have no impact on government, which most
- 4:06Speaker 1: people wouldn't agree with. Of course, people were familiar with
- 4:10Speaker 1: the First Amendment and the idea that the federal government
- 4:12Speaker 1: should not establish a state religion as opposed to, say,
- 4:15Speaker 1: the Church of England. But the notion that religion should
- 4:18Speaker 1: be totally distinct from governance in every way, as implied
- 4:22Speaker 1: by the phrase separation of church and state, would have
- 4:25Speaker 1: seemed very strange to most people. But everything began to
- 4:30Speaker 1: change in the mid-20th century. This was the period in
- 4:34Speaker 1: American history when leftists went rummaging through the history books
- 4:38Speaker 1: and began redefining our past so they could indoctrinate generations
- 4:41Speaker 1: of schoolchildren and bring about radical transformative change to our country.
- 4:47Speaker 1: And maybe their most urgent objective, which continues to this day,
- 4:51Speaker 1: of course, was eradicating Christianity from American society. This is
- 4:56Speaker 1: the goal of leftists everywhere. It's why Canada had the
- 4:58Speaker 1: whole mass graves hoax, which led very deliberately to a
- 5:02Speaker 1: wave of church burnings. Christianity is incompatible with communism because
- 5:08Speaker 1: under communism, the government is the highest authority. When people
- 5:11Speaker 1: believe in God, they become much harder to control. Now,
- 5:16Speaker 1: as part of this effort, the First Amendment needed to
- 5:18Speaker 1: be redefined. And to that end, a progressive Supreme Court
- 5:21Speaker 1: justice named Hugo Black wrote an opinion in 1947 that
- 5:26Speaker 1: cited a letter written by Thomas Jefferson in 1802. And
- 5:30Speaker 1: in that letter, which he sent to a Baptist association
- 5:34Speaker 1: in Connecticut, the Danbury Baptist as a courtesy, Jefferson wrote, quote,
- 5:39Speaker 1: I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole
- 5:43Speaker 1: American people, which declared that their legislature should make no
- 5:47Speaker 1: law respecting an establishment of religion or prohibiting the free
- 5:49Speaker 1: exercise thereof, thus building a wall of separation between church
- 5:54Speaker 1: and state.
- 5:56Speaker 2: Now, at the time, No one paid much attention.
- 6:00Speaker 1: To this letter. It was seen as unremarkable. He was
- 6:04Speaker 1: basically just restating the First Amendment. And again, it was
- 6:08Speaker 1: a courtesy letter, not a statement of policy or anything
- 6:11Speaker 1: like that. He wasn't signing an executive order or signing legislation.
- 6:16Speaker 1: Jefferson certainly didn't intend to be describing some grand new
- 6:21Speaker 1: legal principle. But then Justice Hugo Black came along, and
- 6:25Speaker 1: this was more than a century later, And here's what
- 6:28Speaker 1: he wrote in an opinion in a First Amendment case. Quote,
- 6:32Speaker 1: in the words of Jefferson, the clause against establishment of
- 6:35Speaker 1: religion by law was intended to erect a wall of
- 6:38Speaker 1: separation between church and state. The First Amendment has erected
- 6:41Speaker 1: a wall between church and state. That wall must be
- 6:44Speaker 1: kept high and impregnable. We could not approve the slightest breach. Yes,
- 6:52Speaker 1: the separation of church and state must be high and impregnable.
- 6:56Speaker 1: even the slightest breach in this wall must be prohibited
- 7:00Speaker 1: by the courts. So you could probably spot the sleight
- 7:03Speaker 1: of hand here. In his letter, Jefferson was simply saying,
- 7:07Speaker 1: we have a First Amendment, which bans the government from
- 7:10Speaker 1: establishing a state religion. This is how he understood the
- 7:14Speaker 1: wall of separation between church and state. It was just,
- 7:17Speaker 1: it was as a metaphor to describe what was already
- 7:19Speaker 1: in the language of the amendment. And he was, by
- 7:23Speaker 1: the way, in that letter, more concerned about the effect
- 7:28Speaker 1: of the government on religion than religion on government. But
- 7:33Speaker 1: by the 1940s, Hugo Black was interpreting the wall of
- 7:35Speaker 1: separation as something very different. He was presenting it as
- 7:38Speaker 1: a much broader concept, as an absolute ban on any
- 7:43Speaker 1: interaction whatsoever between church and state. Instead of simply banning
- 7:47Speaker 1: the government from establishing a state religion, Hugo Black was
- 7:51Speaker 1: interpreting the First Amendment as banning any relationship between religion
- 7:55Speaker 1: and government at all. This was a very strict prohibition
- 7:58Speaker 1: in his view. Although I should note that in this
- 8:01Speaker 1: particular case, Black was hesitant to actually apply the principle.
- 8:05Speaker 1: It wasn't until a few years later that courts started
- 8:06Speaker 1: to take the idea seriously. So within a few years,
- 8:10Speaker 1: things picked up in the 1960s and the phrase separation
- 8:13Speaker 1: of church and state was suddenly everywhere. So take a
- 8:17Speaker 1: look at this chart from Google's Ngram, which I think
- 8:21Speaker 1: kind of illustrates it. It tracks all mentions of the
- 8:24Speaker 1: phrase separation of church and state in books and periodicals
- 8:27Speaker 1: going back to the 1800s. And as you could see,
- 8:31Speaker 1: pretty much no one was using the phrase until about
- 8:34Speaker 1: the 1960s. Very similar trajectory to the Trail of Tears,
- 8:38Speaker 1: which also became a household name very suddenly in the
- 8:42Speaker 1: same decade. The effect on day-to-day American life was immediate.
- 8:47Speaker 1: This was not simply a semantic change. By convincing the
- 8:49Speaker 1: public that the founders wanted a total separation of church
- 8:52Speaker 1: and state, the left was able to launch an all-out
- 8:55Speaker 1: war on Christianity in every aspect of society. In the
- 8:59Speaker 1: span of just a few years, the Supreme Court banned
- 9:01Speaker 1: daily prayer in New York public schools, which were almost
- 9:04Speaker 1: exclusively Christian prayers. The court also struck down a law
- 9:07Speaker 1: in Pennsylvania that required public school students to recite the
- 9:10Speaker 1: Lord's Prayer and read and read 10 Bible verses at
- 9:14Speaker 1: the start of every school day. Kentucky and every other
- 9:16Speaker 1: state was banned from putting the 10 commandments.
- 9:18Speaker 2: In public school classrooms.
- 9:20Speaker 1: The mere presence of the 10 commandments, according to the
- 9:21Speaker 1: Supreme Court, was an affront on this brand new principle
- 9:26Speaker 1: requiring the strict separation.
- 9:27Speaker 2: Of church and state.
- 9:29Speaker 1: Meanwhile, many government buildings were banned from displaying nativity scenes
- 9:32Speaker 1: or hanging banners that read, Glory to God in the Highest. Additionally,
- 9:36Speaker 1: federal courts ruled a 43-foot Christian cross had to be
- 9:39Speaker 1: removed from a public park in San Diego.
- 9:41Speaker 2: It had been on.
- 9:42Speaker 1: Display for decades, but under this new rule, which was
- 9:46Speaker 1: made up on the spot, the cross was actually illegal now.
- 9:50Speaker 2: And on top of that, schools.
- 9:51Speaker 1: In Alabama and all over the country were banned from
- 9:52Speaker 1: scheduling a short period of time every day for students
- 9:56Speaker 1: to engage in meditation or voluntary prayer. On the theory
- 10:00Speaker 1: that most of the students would use the opportunity to
- 10:02Speaker 1: say Christian prayers, God forbid. At graduation ceremonies, members of
- 10:07Speaker 1: the clergy were banned from leading the student body in prayer.
- 10:10Speaker 2: And on and on and on.
- 10:13Speaker 1: These cases and many more like them have helped the
- 10:16Speaker 1: left accomplish one of its primary objectives, which is to
- 10:19Speaker 1: eradicate Christianity specifically from public life. Now, conservative judges realized
- 10:27Speaker 1: what was happening, but by this point, they were outnumbered.
- 10:29Speaker 1: Justice Rehnquist, for example, wrote that, quote, the wall of
- 10:32Speaker 1: separation between church and state is a metaphor based upon
- 10:35Speaker 1: bad history, a metaphor which has proved useless as a
- 10:40Speaker 1: guide to judging. It should be frankly and explicitly abandoned.
- 10:45Speaker 2: But it wasn't abandoned.
- 10:47Speaker 1: It became a de facto constitutional amendment, even though the
- 10:50Speaker 1: original language of the amendment was actually very clear.
- 10:53Speaker 2: It's not ambiguous at all.
- 10:56Speaker 1: The only thing it was meant to prohibit is the
- 10:58Speaker 1: legislature from establishing a state religion.
- 11:03Speaker 2: Anything outside of that is fine.
- 11:06Speaker 1: If a public school teacher wants to say a prayer
- 11:09Speaker 1: or even put the Ten Commandments in the classroom, That
- 11:12Speaker 1: is not the legislature establishing a state religion, and so
- 11:16Speaker 1: there's nothing in the language of the amendment.
- 11:19Speaker 2: That would prohibit that.
- 11:21Speaker 1: Instead, you have to introduce new language that was never
- 11:24Speaker 1: in any governing document to begin with. Now, think about
- 11:29Speaker 1: how remarkable this is. For nearly 200 years, everyone understood
- 11:34Speaker 1: that America was a Christian nation. No one interpreted the
- 11:38Speaker 1: First Amendment as banning displays of Christianity in public places.
- 11:42Speaker 1: No one thought it made sense to ban government buildings
- 11:45Speaker 1: and schools from even mentioning Christianity.
- 11:47Speaker 2: The whole idea would have been absurd.
- 11:50Speaker 1: The First Congress had a congressional chaplain paid with taxpayer
- 11:53Speaker 1: money to open legislative sessions with a prayer. In presidential proclamations,
- 11:58Speaker 1: George Washington and John Adams established National Days of Prayer
- 12:01Speaker 1: and Thanksgiving. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787, which was passed
- 12:04Speaker 1: by the Confederation Congress and then endorsed by the First Congress,
- 12:07Speaker 1: stated that, quote, Not to mention, most crucially, the entire
- 12:10Speaker 1: philosophical basis for the concept of human rights, which lies
- 12:13Speaker 1: at the foundation of this country, is rooted inextricably in Christianity.
- 12:17Speaker 1: It is a religious concept. The whole idea is that
- 12:19Speaker 1: our rights are not given to us by the government,
- 12:35Speaker 1: but are merely or should be merely recognized and codified
- 12:39Speaker 1: by the government. You know, the rights themselves exist apart
- 12:43Speaker 1: from that recognition because they are, as the Declaration of
- 12:47Speaker 1: Independence says, endowed by the creator. If you remove the
- 12:50Speaker 1: creator from the equation, if you remove, in fact, the
- 12:53Speaker 1: particular Christian conception of a creator God, then there's no
- 12:58Speaker 1: basis for human rights as any kind of existential reality.
- 13:04Speaker 1: In other words, religion is fundamental to the identity of
- 13:07Speaker 1: our country and the functioning of our government and schools
- 13:13Speaker 1: should include religious instruction. This is how everybody understood the
- 13:19Speaker 1: First Amendment for many, many years and the practice of
- 13:23Speaker 1: religion in the United States.
- 13:24Speaker 2: This is how it was understood.
- 13:24Speaker 1: And then very abruptly, a handful of unelected judges completely
- 13:28Speaker 1: rewrote the Constitution and Did their rulings almost exclusively target
- 13:33Speaker 1: Christians and displays of Christianity?
- 13:36Speaker 2: Yes. But the left-wing judges and the politicians.
- 13:39Speaker 1: And teachers and academics and the media all assured us
- 13:41Speaker 1: that Christians weren't being targeted specifically. Instead, they claimed the
- 13:45Speaker 1: judges were simply following the true meaning of the Constitution
- 13:49Speaker 1: that no one had seen for like a century, but
- 13:51Speaker 1: they came along and saw it.
- 13:52Speaker 2: And that's all it was.
- 13:54Speaker 1: And they were just trying to ensure that no religion
- 13:57Speaker 1: received any kind of special treatment from the government. even
- 14:01Speaker 1: though there's nothing in the First Amendment that actually forbids
- 14:03Speaker 1: a religion, namely Christianity, from receiving special treatment. But that's
- 14:06Speaker 1: all they wanted to make sure. And they insisted they
- 14:08Speaker 1: would apply their strict standards impartially to prohibit any attempt
- 14:13Speaker 1: to inject any religion, whether Christianity or some other faith,
- 14:16Speaker 1: into public life. And that was never actually their intention,
- 14:20Speaker 1: as we'll discuss in a moment. But we also need
- 14:23Speaker 1: to acknowledge that as a practical matter, eliminating religion from
- 14:26Speaker 1: public life is not possible. Anyway, it's contrary to human nature.
- 14:34Speaker 1: Every country, whether it describes itself as secular or not,
- 14:38Speaker 1: practices some kind of religion. Canada, as I mentioned, has
- 14:42Speaker 1: gone to great lengths to erase Christianity, but Canada's politicians
- 14:45Speaker 1: still recite ritualistic prayers at every opportunity. They call them
- 14:51Speaker 1: land acknowledgements in which they beg for forgiveness for the
- 14:54Speaker 1: original sin of colonization.
- 14:57Speaker 2: They do this in Australia.
- 14:59Speaker 1: The NFL season kicked off and for some reason they
- 15:01Speaker 1: played a game in Australia.
- 15:03Speaker 2: And so they had.
- 15:04Speaker 1: Some old ladies stand up in a football stadium and
- 15:09Speaker 1: recite a land acknowledgement. It was the gayest opening to
- 15:13Speaker 1: a football game of all time coming to us from
- 15:16Speaker 1: our friends in Australia. But it's basically a prayer. It's
- 15:20Speaker 1: a religious ceremony, secular religion. In Canada and Australia, they
- 15:26Speaker 1: also have blasphemy laws, basically. They're just designed to protect
- 15:30Speaker 1: criminals and foreigners and trans-identifying communists. And of course, they
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- 18:00Speaker 1: Michael Crichton put it back in 2003 in a famous
- 18:03Speaker 1: speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco, quote, Today
- 18:06Speaker 1: it's said we live in a secular society in which
- 18:08Speaker 1: many people, the best people, the most enlightened people, do
- 18:11Speaker 1: not believe in any religion. But I think you cannot
- 18:13Speaker 1: eliminate religion from the psyche of mankind. If you suppress
- 18:16Speaker 1: it in one form, it merely reemerges in another form.
- 18:20Speaker 1: You cannot believe in God, but you can not believe
- 18:23Speaker 1: in God, but you still have to believe in something
- 18:26Speaker 1: that gives meaning to your life and shapes your sense
- 18:28Speaker 1: of the world. Such a belief is religious. Today, one
- 18:31Speaker 1: of the most powerful religions in the Western world is environmentalism.
- 18:34Speaker 1: Why do I say it's a religion? Well, just look
- 18:35Speaker 1: at the beliefs. There's an initial Eden, a paradise, a
- 18:38Speaker 1: state of grace and unity with nature, There's a fall
- 18:40Speaker 1: from grace into a state of pollution as a result
- 18:42Speaker 1: of eating from the tree of knowledge. And as a
- 18:44Speaker 1: result of our actions, there is a coming judgment day.
- 18:47Speaker 1: We are all energy sinners doomed to die unless we
- 18:50Speaker 1: seek salvation, which is now called sustainability. Sustainability is salvation,
- 18:54Speaker 1: the church of the environment. Just as organic food is
- 18:57Speaker 1: its communion. That pesticide-free wafer that the right people with
- 19:02Speaker 1: the right beliefs imbibe. Eden, the fall of man, the
- 19:05Speaker 1: loss of grace, the coming doomsday. These are deeply held
- 19:08Speaker 1: mythic structures. And it's a speech worth reading in full
- 19:13Speaker 1: if you get the opportunity, it's available online. More than
- 19:16Speaker 1: two decades later, it remains relevant because it's an accurate
- 19:19Speaker 1: observation that many people have made about human nature. Bob Dylan,
- 19:25Speaker 1: we all got to serve somebody. Along the same lines,
- 19:27Speaker 1: David Foster Wallace delivered a commencement address in 2005 and.
- 19:34Speaker 2: Only commencement address he ever gave.
- 19:35Speaker 1: And say whatever you want about David Foster Wallace, he
- 19:37Speaker 1: obviously had difficulty following his own advice. He was also
- 19:40Speaker 1: a brilliant writer, in my opinion. But this is another
- 19:42Speaker 1: speech you should look up online when you get a chance.
- 19:44Speaker 1: And here's the relevant part for our purposes, listen.
- 19:48Speaker 6: Because here's something else that's weird but true. In the
- 19:51Speaker 6: day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is actually no such
- 19:54Speaker 6: thing as atheism. There is no such thing as not worshiping.
- 19:58Speaker 6: Everybody worships. The only choice we get is what to worship.
- 20:04Speaker 6: And the compelling reason for maybe choosing some sort of
- 20:07Speaker 6: God or spiritual type thing to worship is be it
- 20:10Speaker 6: JC or Allah, be it Yahweh or the Wiccan Mother
- 20:13Speaker 6: Goddess or the Four Noble Truths or some inviolable set
- 20:17Speaker 6: of ethical principles, is that pretty much anything else you
- 20:19Speaker 6: worship will eat you alive. If you worship money and things,
- 20:25Speaker 6: if they are where you tap real meaning in life,
- 20:27Speaker 6: then you will never have enough. Never feel you have enough.
- 20:31Speaker 6: It's the truth. Worship your own body and beauty and
- 20:35Speaker 6: sexual allure and you will always feel ugly. And when
- 20:38Speaker 6: time and age start showing, you will die a million
- 20:41Speaker 6: deaths before they finally plant you. On one level, we
- 20:45Speaker 6: all know this stuff already. It's been codified as myths, proverbs, cliches, epigrams, parables,
- 20:53Speaker 6: the skeleton of every great story. The whole trick is
- 20:57Speaker 6: keeping the truth up front in daily consciousness.
- 21:01Speaker 1: Now, the leftists in the 1960s who invented the fraudulent
- 21:03Speaker 1: concept of the separation of church and state understood all this.
- 21:08Speaker 1: Their goal was never to eliminate religion. Instead, they wanted
- 21:11Speaker 1: to install leftism as the default faith of millions of
- 21:15Speaker 1: young Americans, and they succeeded. Decades of secularization were, in fact,
- 21:21Speaker 1: a purge of Christianity specifically. New religions immediately sprang up
- 21:27Speaker 1: to fill the void. In some cases, secular wokeism took hold,
- 21:32Speaker 1: which has all the features of a religion, including saints
- 21:35Speaker 1: and sacraments, sins and punishment. But in other cases, the
- 21:39Speaker 1: new religion is literally Islam. And that's certainly the case
- 21:44Speaker 1: in our largest city, New York, as we just discussed.
- 21:47Speaker 1: That's what happens when you take what is a Christian nation.
- 21:50Speaker 1: Our nation is a Christian nation fundamentally, historically, by its
- 21:54Speaker 1: very identity. You empty out the Christianity by force of law,
- 22:00Speaker 1: and then you bring in a whole bunch of foreigners
- 22:02Speaker 1: with their own religion, and they just start filling up
- 22:05Speaker 1: that vacuum, which is exactly what's happening. And there are
- 22:10Speaker 1: many more examples than that one clip of the traffic cop.
- 22:14Speaker 1: Every other day, you'll find evidence of politicians and government
- 22:17Speaker 1: bureaucrats in New York openly endorsing Islam or giving preferential
- 22:21Speaker 1: treatment to Muslims. Kind of displays that if Christians had
- 22:25Speaker 1: been involved instead, immediately would have led to massive lawsuits,
- 22:30Speaker 1: nationwide protests, angry press releases from the ACLU. Here's Mamdani
- 22:35Speaker 1: hosting something called Ramadan.
- 22:37Speaker 2: Iftar in City Hall.
- 22:39Speaker 1: Whatever that is, listen carefully to what he says.
- 23:03Speaker 4: The reason that I love Ramadan so much is for
- 23:05Speaker 4: everything else that it means, for the time of reflection,
- 23:08Speaker 4: the time of focus, And really a time where you
- 23:11Speaker 4: understand yourself as part of something larger than just as
- 23:14Speaker 4: an individual. And even just having you all here today,
- 23:18Speaker 4: even just sitting on the floor, the transformation of a
- 23:21Speaker 4: space that I've only ever known in one way, frankly,
- 23:24Speaker 4: it is a gift. And it's a real joy to
- 23:27Speaker 4: have you all here.
- 23:28Speaker 1: Well, he explicitly refers to transforming the space that he's
- 23:31Speaker 1: only ever known in one way as they perform this
- 23:34Speaker 1: religious ritual inside City Hall, specifically they're inside the Blue Room.
- 23:39Speaker 1: It's the first time any mayor has ever done this,
- 23:40Speaker 1: for obvious reasons. It's precisely the kind of conduct that
- 23:44Speaker 1: for the past 70 years we've been told is a
- 23:45Speaker 1: direct violation of the sacred, mythical principle of the separation
- 23:50Speaker 1: of church and state. Schools have been prohibited from telling
- 23:53Speaker 1: students they can pray, supposedly because prayer would transform a
- 23:56Speaker 1: public school into a place of worship. Cities have been
- 23:59Speaker 1: barred from putting up nativity scenes outside municipal buildings because
- 24:02Speaker 1: a nativity scene would allegedly transform city property into a
- 24:06Speaker 1: religious display. And now the Muslim mayor of New York,
- 24:09Speaker 1: by his own admission, is transforming City Hall into a mosque.
- 24:13Speaker 1: And with very few exceptions, like the Freedom From Religion Foundation,
- 24:16Speaker 1: no court or prosecutor or NGO or anyone else is
- 24:20Speaker 1: saying anything about it.
- 24:22Speaker 2: Now, here's more from this iftar at City Hall.
- 24:24Speaker 1: They spent half the time speaking in foreign languages and
- 24:28Speaker 1: talking about how great the Muslim call to prayer is.
- 24:32Speaker 2: Watch.
- 24:33Speaker 6: Please welcome Chief Counsel to the Mayor, Ramzi Qasim.
- 24:44Speaker 2: As-salamu alaykum everyone.
- 24:48Speaker 4: Sorry, I didn't hear that.
- 24:49Speaker 2: As-salamu alaykum.
- 24:52Speaker 4: Thank you as well to Imam Khalid Latif for leading
- 24:56Speaker 4: us in our Maghrib prayers. Every time I hear you,
- 25:01Speaker 4: I feel a renewed sense of purpose, and I know
- 25:04Speaker 4: that I am not alone in that. Astoria to Parkchester,
- 25:08Speaker 4: you have created pockets of light that contain our wholeness.
- 25:12Speaker 4: You hear the call to prayer in the warming spring air,
- 25:14Speaker 4: you smell the frying oil of pakoras as sundown approaches,
- 25:18Speaker 4: and you see the twinkle of Eid lights strung across intersections.
- 25:24Speaker 4: The gorgeous colors of families dress their best on that
- 25:27Speaker 4: most celebratory of days. It is a beautiful thing that
- 25:32Speaker 4: all of you in this room and beyond it have
- 25:34Speaker 4: built in these pockets of light.
- 25:36Speaker 1: You hear the call to prayer in the warming spring air.
- 25:39Speaker 1: You smell the frying oil of pakoras as sundown approaches.
- 25:43Speaker 1: So this guy is just a walking stream of vapid cliches.
- 25:47Speaker 1: And all of his speeches are like this. He'll talk
- 25:49Speaker 1: about the Mexican auntie and the Venezuelan abuela and the
- 25:52Speaker 1: Nicaraguan cabbie and the Puerto Rican bodega owner and the
- 25:57Speaker 1: Haitian dog sitter and the Somali ice cream truck driver,
- 26:01Speaker 1: as if he's painting some vibrant, irresistible image of a
- 26:04Speaker 1: thriving city, when in fact, most of us would rather
- 26:06Speaker 1: live around Americans who speak our language.
- 26:10Speaker 2: Thank you. Is that an option? Apparently not.
- 26:14Speaker 1: Instead, this is what you have to endure if you
- 26:16Speaker 1: make the mistake of living in New York City, a
- 26:18Speaker 1: place where, as a reminder, 40% of the population is foreign-born.
- 26:22Speaker 1: Almost half of the city wasn't even born in the country.
- 26:24Speaker 1: Nearly a third of them can't speak English fluently. And
- 26:28Speaker 1: here's what Mamdani's wonderful call to prayer sounds like, by
- 26:31Speaker 1: the way, in Manhattan. So this is what the locals
- 26:34Speaker 1: are treated to at 5 a.m.
- 26:36Speaker 2: Watch.
- 27:00Speaker 3: I never thought in my life he's going.
- 27:05Speaker 2: To be here hearing this in the middle of New York.
- 27:08Speaker 1: Good. So I guess noise ordinances don't apply to Muslims
- 27:12Speaker 1: in New York City either. In addition to traffic laws,
- 27:15Speaker 1: immigration laws.
- 27:16Speaker 2: Or really any other law. It's only going to get worse.
- 27:21Speaker 1: In Britain, as we learned from the murder of Henry Novak,
- 27:24Speaker 1: foreigners also get special knife exemptions so they can kill
- 27:27Speaker 1: any white person they want. Won't be long until Muslims
- 27:30Speaker 1: in New York get the same exemption.
- 27:31Speaker 2: Assuming they don't have it already.
- 27:33Speaker 1: You know, the white women in the city, as you
- 27:36Speaker 1: just saw, are fine with it.
- 27:37Speaker 2: They voted for it.
- 27:39Speaker 1: And that's exactly what's going to happen. Apparently, there's some
- 27:42Speaker 1: kind of trend online called gold star behavior, where adults
- 27:45Speaker 1: congratulate themselves for completing perfectly ordinary tasks. If you answer
- 27:51Speaker 1: an email, you get a gold star, put away the
- 27:53Speaker 1: laundry on the same day you washed it, gold star.
- 27:56Speaker 1: Homeownership has the opposite reward system. Nobody congratulates you when
- 28:00Speaker 1: everything works. You simply receive an extremely expensive punishment when
- 28:03Speaker 1: you ignore something for too long. You hear a strange
- 28:05Speaker 1: noise from an appliance and decide that as long as
- 28:07Speaker 1: it continues operating, the noise is probably part of its process.
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- 28:13Speaker 1: need it most is when that happens. And gutters work
- 28:15Speaker 1: the same way. They're easy to ignore until heavy rain
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- 29:18Speaker 1: and promotional details. These people are winning because unlike most
- 29:22Speaker 1: Christian conservatives, They're not ashamed of holding and using their
- 29:26Speaker 1: political power. They know that if they dare their enemies
- 29:30Speaker 1: to challenge them, they'll be far too afraid to do so.
- 29:33Speaker 1: And indeed, this has been going on for months now
- 29:35Speaker 1: in New York. Here's Mamdani praying with some of the
- 29:39Speaker 1: cities sanitation workers.
- 29:41Speaker 2: You can see it there. Again, imagine this behavior in
- 29:45Speaker 2: any other context.
- 29:46Speaker 1: Imagine if a Catholic mayor gathered a bunch of his
- 29:48Speaker 1: subordinates together and started reciting the Lord's Prayer. Now, how
- 29:53Speaker 1: long do you think it would take for a lawsuit
- 29:55Speaker 1: to get filed?
- 29:55Speaker 2: It's happened plenty of times.
- 29:57Speaker 1: In fact, Just this year, an organization that's literally called
- 30:00Speaker 1: Americans United for Separation of Church and State filed a
- 30:03Speaker 1: lawsuit over prayer services at the Department of Defense and
- 30:07Speaker 1: the Department of Labor. Quote, the federal government's role is
- 30:09Speaker 1: to serve the public, not to proselytize, said Americans United
- 30:13Speaker 1: president and CEO Rachel Lazor. Secretaries Hegseth and Chavez de
- 30:18Speaker 1: Raymer are abusing the power of their government positions and
- 30:22Speaker 1: taxpayer-funded resources to impose their preferred religion on federal workers.
- 30:26Speaker 1: Even if these prayer services are presented as voluntary, there's
- 30:29Speaker 1: pressure on federal employees to attend in order to appease
- 30:32Speaker 1: their bosses, especially since these services occur amidst the Trump
- 30:35Speaker 1: administration's campaign to punish anyone who doesn't comply with its
- 30:39Speaker 1: Christian nationalist agenda. There's an entire web of NGOs and
- 30:43Speaker 1: fake nonprofits that file lawsuits like this all the time.
- 30:48Speaker 1: The moment they hear about a Christian politician engaging in
- 30:52Speaker 1: any kind of display of religious faith, They repel onto
- 30:55Speaker 1: the scene with their lawyers. They won't tolerate any display
- 30:59Speaker 1: of Christian faith in a public setting, period. And there's
- 31:02Speaker 1: simply no equivalent organization on the right. So the separation
- 31:06Speaker 1: of church and state only works in one direction. It
- 31:09Speaker 1: silences and intimidates and punishes Christians while allowing other religions,
- 31:14Speaker 1: particularly Islam, to run rampant. To the extent that Mamdani
- 31:19Speaker 1: has accomplished anything in office, it's to make it abundantly
- 31:21Speaker 1: clear That the separation of church and state is not
- 31:25Speaker 1: a real principle that anyone on the left actually cares about?
- 31:30Speaker 5: Watch.
- 31:31Speaker 3: New York Mayor Zoran Mamdani observed Ramadan last night with
- 31:35Speaker 3: the men who are incarcerated at Rikers Island, the city's
- 31:38Speaker 3: jail complex. NPR's Brian Mann has more.
- 31:41Speaker 5: Mamdani arrived through heavy security, joining a group of men
- 31:44Speaker 5: many held as they await trial. Together, they knelt to pray.
- 31:47Speaker 3: I am the one who will protect you.
- 31:52Speaker 5: Mamdani spent an hour with the men talking and breaking
- 31:54Speaker 5: the fast with a meal. He spent much of the
- 31:57Speaker 5: last month holding public celebrations.
- 31:59Speaker 4: This is me just being a Muslim New Yorker, and
- 32:01Speaker 4: I think there are some for whom that is a
- 32:04Speaker 4: political act.
- 32:06Speaker 1: In order to get sentenced to prison in New York
- 32:08Speaker 1: based on how the DA lets almost everybody off with
- 32:10Speaker 1: a warning, you pretty much have to be an insanely
- 32:13Speaker 1: dangerous criminal or a repeat offender or an extremely bad
- 32:18Speaker 1: person in some way. But Mamdani doesn't care about any
- 32:21Speaker 1: of that. He's only interested in the fact that these
- 32:23Speaker 1: people are Muslim. In his eyes, that makes them virtuous,
- 32:28Speaker 1: regardless of whatever crimes they committed. That's why you get
- 32:32Speaker 1: posts like this one from earlier this year, which was
- 32:34Speaker 1: posted on the official account of the New York City
- 32:37Speaker 1: mayor's office of immigrant affairs.
- 32:40Speaker 2: So you can see it there.
- 32:42Speaker 1: Quote, February 1st is World Hijab Day. Today we celebrate
- 32:46Speaker 1: the faith, identity, and pride of Muslim women and girls
- 32:49Speaker 1: around the world who choose to wear the hijab. a wonderful,
- 32:52Speaker 1: powerful symbol of devotion and celebration of Muslim heritage.
- 32:58Speaker 2: Yes, World Hijab Day.
- 32:59Speaker 1: It's right up there with Muslim American Heritage Month, Muslim
- 33:03Speaker 1: History Month, International Day to Combat Islamophobia, along with the
- 33:10Speaker 1: claim that all the women across the world in the
- 33:14Speaker 1: Middle East who wear this thing, it's because they choose to.
- 33:19Speaker 6: Right.
- 33:19Speaker 1: Famously, famously in the Middle East, they're big on letting
- 33:24Speaker 1: women choose their outfits. This whole shtick is reminiscent of
- 33:28Speaker 1: how the LGBTQ2S plus movement has claimed 364 different days
- 33:34Speaker 1: in the calendar to celebrate transgenderism, gay uncles, drag queens,
- 33:38Speaker 1: international pronouns, and everything in between. And now the Muslims,
- 33:43Speaker 1: who in general are supposedly no great fan of the
- 33:47Speaker 1: LGBT movement, are doing it too. On the left, you
- 33:51Speaker 1: just can't escape this. They're constantly throwing parties for themselves,
- 33:54Speaker 1: and they're doing it with the full backing of the
- 33:57Speaker 1: government because the laws simply don't apply to them. All
- 34:01Speaker 1: of this has the potential to be very demoralizing and confusing,
- 34:05Speaker 1: if you allow it to be. We're all seeing in
- 34:07Speaker 1: real time how the separation of church and state was
- 34:09Speaker 1: really a legal fiction all along. Yet another fraud of
- 34:15Speaker 1: many that originated from the civil rights era. There is
- 34:19Speaker 1: actually an upside here. And that upside is pretty simple.
- 34:25Speaker 1: Once we all realize that the separation of church and
- 34:27Speaker 1: state is fake, because it is, and was never a
- 34:30Speaker 1: part of our Constitution, then we could take some decisive
- 34:34Speaker 1: action to return our country to its Christian heritage. We
- 34:38Speaker 1: can openly embrace Christian leaders or even Christian nationalism, which
- 34:45Speaker 1: until now most Republicans have been too afraid to do.
- 34:47Speaker 2: But guess what?
- 34:48Speaker 1: Islamic nationalism is already here. Courts aren't doing anything about it.
- 34:54Speaker 1: The separation of church and state is dead. We should
- 34:59Speaker 1: start acting like it. We should also speak much more
- 35:02Speaker 1: freely and honestly about the reality of the Muslim takeover
- 35:05Speaker 1: of our country, which is why The Daily Wire produced Run, Hide, Fight, Infidels.
- 35:09Speaker 1: It's basically the entire premise of the movie. We're being
- 35:13Speaker 1: taken over, starting with our schools. It's a film that
- 35:16Speaker 1: only Daily Wire would make. It came out today on
- 35:19Speaker 1: Delaware Plus, and you should definitely check it out because
- 35:22Speaker 1: especially if you've been paying attention to what's happening in
- 35:24Speaker 1: cities like New York or Minneapolis, it's actually a lot
- 35:28Speaker 1: closer to reality than you might think.
- 35:31Speaker 2: That'll do it for the show today. Thanks for watching.
- 35:34Speaker 2: Thanks for listening. Talk to you tomorrow. Have a great day.
- 35:37Speaker 4: Godspeed.
- 35:43Speaker 2: Every significant movement in history has started with protesting. You're
- 35:46Speaker 2: a traitor! Uncle Tom!
- 35:47Speaker 3: This is our generation's civil rights! I have no idea
- 35:50Speaker 3: what the protest is about.
- 35:51Speaker 2: Bingo!
- 35:52Speaker 4: Given the current climate, should a figure as polarizing as
- 35:55Speaker 4: Clay Saunders even be allowed on campus?
- 35:57Speaker 2: Uh, can you hear me okay? Saunders is a close
- 35:59Speaker 2: personal friend of Chancellor Friedman.
- 36:01Speaker 3: This is a decision I cannot fight.
- 36:03Speaker 2: Islam will conquer the West. As-salamu alaykum. Are we paying attention?
- 36:11Speaker 2: They've taken over the building. They're downstairs and they've blocked
- 36:14Speaker 2: the doors.
- 36:16Speaker 3: I seek forgiveness from Allah the Almighty.
- 36:20Speaker 2: We cannot run and hide.
- 36:22Speaker 3: Muhammad is the messenger of God.
- 36:25Speaker 4: There is no God but Allah.
- 36:28Speaker 3: What do you say we turn those SOBs.
- 36:32Speaker 2: Into a fine red mist?
- 36:34Speaker 3: As we move, one man will cover while the other
- 36:37Speaker 3: guys go. They call that leap project. Stretch them out
- 36:39Speaker 3: and listen. You need a course in safe weapons handling.