Terrorism is not new. Just this past Sunday, a powerful bomb ripped through the entrance of the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway — a “terror bombing,” authorities called it, intended “to take lives or cause significant damage.” Norwegian police arrested three brothers, all Norwegian citizens in their twenties with Iraqi heritage. The blast caused damage but no casualties. Yet the pattern is unmistakable: radical ideology, whether it strikes in Manhattan or Oslo, is relentless.
What has changed — and what should terrify every freedom-loving American — is the rise of homegrown terror. We are no longer just fighting enemies abroad. We are fighting enemies we ourselves have raised, nourished, and refused to confront.
Instead of facing this reality, some in the media chose lies. CNN’s Ana Navarro and Abby Phillip rushed onto airwaves to declare the NYC incident an “attempted terror attack against” Mayor Zohran Mamdani — painting the jihadists as victims of “Islamophobia” and the protesters as the real villains. They had to issue humiliating corrections and public apologies because the facts were devastating: the bombs were thrown at anti-Islam demonstrators, not at the mayor’s residence. The attackers were ISIS fanatics, not right-wing extremists. Twisting the truth to protect a narrative only empowers the enemy and endangers us all.
And while we’re talking about inconvenient truths, let us speak plainly about what happened in American mosques just weeks ago. As the free world breathed easier after the elimination of Ayatollah Khamenei — one of the most blood-soaked tyrants on earth, a man who crushed women, hanged dissidents, and funded Hamas and Hezbollah — mosques in Manassas, Virginia, and Dearborn Heights, Michigan, held formal memorial services. They called him “our leader.” They mourned his “martyrdom.” They gathered for potluck iftars and eulogies while Americans wept for the loss of a man who embodied everything antithetical to individual liberty.
Let that sink in. On American soil, under American protections, citizens publicly grieved a monster who spent decades exporting death.
This is the reality we face.
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We cannot afford denial. We cannot afford political correctness. We cannot afford another generation taught that noticing jihadist ideology is “bigotry.”
We must stay vigilant. We must keep our eyes and ears open. If you see the signs — the sudden obsession with ISIS propaganda, the isolation from American values, the glorification of martyrdom — you must be bold enough to say something. Speak up. Refuse to be silenced by fear of being called names.
Our republic was not built by the timid. It will not be preserved by the silent. The enemy is not at the gates. The enemy is inside the gates — and some of them carry American passports.
