Let me get the most important story out of the way at the top of the post: Taylor Swift won a record fourth “best album of the year” last night at the Grammys, besting Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Stevie Wonder, who each have three.

Woo-hoo.

Now let’s get to the lighter stuff.

I read with interest the latest column by Robert Spencer. If you don’t read Robert Spencer, you should. Spencer is one of the foremost authorities in the U.S. (and possibly the world) when it comes to an outsider’s understanding of Islam, jihad, the Qur’an, and terrorism. He’s written a number of books and, because he views Islam contrary to the (woke) sensibilities of the dominant political climate in the Western world, he has been labeled an anti-Muslim activist, an Islamophobe, an inflammatory speaker, someone who promotes hate, intolerance, and bigotry, and he has been banned from entering the UK because of his work. This in spite of the fact that he was at one time a trainer for the FBI and the U.S. military, both of which now shun him even though he hasn’t changed his views.

In his column titled “Old Joe Biden Has a New Nickname, and This One Isn’t Funny At All,” Spencer writes that Van Jones is putting pressure on Brandon to abandon Israel to Hamas because young Muslims in America are threatening to withhold their votes for him come November.

A couple of thoughts about this report that don’t directly address the issue of Brandon’s nickname. The first is that “Arab and Muslim voters” are threatening to vote as a block not as Americans, but as Arabs and Muslims. Hatred for Israel is not an American value; it’s an Arab and Muslim value.

This is the problem with unwise and unvetted immigration. I’m sure that many of these “Arab and Muslim” voters have American citizenship, but they aren’t acting in the interests of being American. They’re acting first, perhaps only, as Muslims.

And while you may say that they are free to practice their religion in America just like Christians are free to practice theirs, the difference is that “Christian” and “American” values, while imperfectly practiced, were nearly synonymous for most of our history. We assert the dignity of all human beings, oppose injustice, believe in punishing the offender, protecting women and children, and fighting for the inherent God-given freedoms that all men possess.

That’s not true for adherents of Islam, who believe that Allah, through the Qur’an, commands them to subjugate, oppress and to kill Jews and Christians. So, now that we are looking more like the European contintent that is losing its homogeneity, we have to deal with an increasing tribalism in America, an example of which is a united voting block that puts its Islamic political and religious culture first—a political and religious culture that cuts against what used to define American politics and culture.

The second thing that I want to point out is that Dearborn, Michigan, is home to the largest “Arab American” community in the U.S. “Arab and Muslim voters” are now the majority as the city becomes a Muslim enclave—similar to Hamtramck, MI, home of America’s first Muslim-majority city council—and the effects of the large Muslim presence is felt in places like schools, where all the meat served at lunch is now halal, i.e. sharia compliant, in being “the first U.S. city to offer Eid al-Fitr, one of Islam’s major holidays that marks the end of Ramadan, as a paid holiday for city employees,” and in its leader’s vocal support for Hamas.

That support led to a recent Wall Street Journal opinion piece that called Dearborn “America’s Jihad Capital” and generated a backlash where any questioning of Islam and its political or religious tenets subjects you to accusations of bigotry, Islamophobia, racism and hate.

Islam is incompatible with American law, starting with the U.S. Constitution. We fool ourselves if we believe that Islam doesn’t pose a threat to the United States. We will eventually see enclaves that are “no-go zones”, i.e. locations that rule themselves according to sharia law without regard to American norms or constitutional law, and which shut out non-Muslims and any effort to enforce state laws. Those sites will eventually expand to include entire cities, and, given enough time, those will expand to include entire states.

Guaranteed.

Being called “Genocide Joe” is the very least of Brandon’s problems, but what it signifies should be one of the gravest concerns of all freedom-loving Americans.