America is waking up to a sober truth that too many in power keep pretending isn’t real: a minority of Islamist leaders openly promote replacing our Constitution with Sharia, and brave conservative voices are calling the alarm. Officer Tatum’s latest breakdown highlights clips of imams advocating for theocratic authority over American law, forcing a conversation we should have had decades ago about loyalty, assimilation, and the preservation of liberty. Conservatives who love this country are right to be outraged that activists and some on the left reflexively defend any foreign ideology under the banner of “tolerance.”
This isn’t an attack on ordinary Muslims who quietly practice their faith and cherish peace; it’s a fight against Islamism — the political weaponization of religion to seize power and impose a different legal order. Figures like Imam Mohammad Tawhidi have been warning for years that extremists and Islamist networks twist scripture and exploit institutions to pursue political ends, separating the faith of billions from the dangerous ideology hijacking its name. Americans must learn to distinguish between faith practiced peacefully and political movements that demand the subversion of Western norms.
What should terrify every patriot is how persuasive these arguments can be when left unchallenged in our universities, media, and courtrooms; if those institutions continue to normalize political Islam while ignoring its more militant currents, the erosion of liberty will be gradual and permanent. Imam Tawhidi has laid bare how groups like the Muslim Brotherhood reinterpret texts for political advantage, and conservative watchdogs are justified in calling for transparency about who is pushing what in our communities. We should applaud the dissident clerics who risk backlash to tell the truth and expose the political games being played in the name of religion.
Across a range of interviews and clips now circulating online, imams and ex-Muslim critics alike have exposed how Islamist narratives are used to justify violence and political objectives while painting dissenters as bigots. These revelations are not fringe gossip but part of a broader media moment where courageous voices — both Muslim and non-Muslim — are insisting that scripture cannot be a cover for coercion or theocratic takeover. Conservatives must use this moment to press for rigorous vetting of foreign influence, to demand ideological clarity from community leaders, and to defend free speech for those willing to speak truth to power.
Policy matters here: protecting the Constitution means being blunt about threats to it, enforcing secular law equally, and ensuring immigration and public-funding decisions aren’t driven by naive multiculturalism that ignores hostile ideologies. Officer Tatum’s rundown — and the wider chorus now amplifying similar clips — should prompt lawmakers to revisit how we screen teachings in mosques that receive foreign funding, monitor political Islamist activity, and enforce laws against any organization that seeks to undermine our republic. Hard choices are ahead, but freedom demands them.
Patriots don’t flinch from uncomfortable truths; we confront them. If courageous imams and experts are exposing the difference between faith and political extremism, conservatives should stand shoulder to shoulder with those reformers, double down on defending the Constitution, and make clear: America will not be quietly surrendered to authoritarian ideologies in the name of cultural sensitivity. The fight to preserve liberty is not optional — it’s our duty to future generations.
