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A group with special operations and intelligence skills and filmmaker Chris Burgard teamed up on Saturday to teach pastors in East Texas how to respond to the rise of Islam in the Lone Star State.\n<\/p>\n
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The\u00a0Allied Special Intelligence Group\u00a0is an organization that uses its knowledge of special operations military skills, counterintelligence, and human intelligence to educate and train citizens on how to \u201clegally and lawfully, delay, disrupt, dismantle, and remove Communists\/Marxists and Terrorists networks from our communities in order to restore and protect our Constitutional Republic.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Two of the group\u2019s operatives, John Bennett, a U.S. Marine Corps veteran and former Oklahoma state representative, and Matt Shea, who served as a second lieutenant in the U.S. Army and is a conservative lawyer, pastor, and politician who served in the Washington House of Representatives from 2009 to 2021, took up the task of educating the Texas pastors about the threat of\u00a0Islamification.\n<\/p>\n
Bennett and Shea, both of whom have previously been deployed in the Middle East, were there at the invitation of Pine Baptist Church Pastor Ben Warrick. Warrick told the Daily Signal that he organized the training at his church because he wanted others in his community to be informed.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cAlthough we don\u2019t have any mosques in Pittsburg or in Camp County, we have some in Mount Pleasant, that\u2019s really close,\u201d Warrick said. \u201cAnd honestly, Dallas-Fort Worth, Plano, that area, that\u2019s not far.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI want to be prepared,\u201d Warrick told the Daily Signal.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI think we\u2019re in a war. It\u2019s a battleground and I would like to be the tip of the spear and be able to do that strategically, but I\u2019m more of a blunt force, so I\u2019ve got some learning to do,\u201d Warrick added.\n<\/p>\n
The training began with a showing of\u00a0Burgard\u2019s film\u00a0\u201cRemember the Alamo: Don\u2019t Sharia My Texas.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
The film argues that there is a coordinated effort to introduce\u00a0Sharia law\u00a0into American society, with Texas serving as the primary target. The film was used to introduce the pastors to what Islam is and why it is a threat to the state and the country.\n<\/p>\n
Bennett and Shea\u2019s presentation claimed that Islamists seek the destruction of Western civilization and that Sharia law is incompatible with the U.S. Constitution, including the First, Second, Fourth, Eighth, 13th, and 14th Amendments.\n<\/p>\n
The pair said the threat is especially palpable in Texas because their research claims to have identified at least 314 mosques operating in Texas.\n<\/p>\n
Bennett and Shea drew attention to a\u00a01991 memorandum\u00a0by the\u00a0Muslim Brotherhood\u00a0that uses the term \u201ccivilization jihad\u201d to describe a strategy for advancing Islamist goals in the West.\n<\/p>\n
The memorandum says this jihad has political, social, and religious dimensions and aims to infiltrate civic groups and other institutions like law enforcement.\n<\/p>\n
Bennett and Shea said the church is the main target of Islamists.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s really important to understand that the church has been the main target forever. It\u2019s been the main target for 100 years for the communist movement, the last 50 for the Islamic movement,\u201d Shea told the Daily Signal in an interview after the event. \u201cThe church is what conserves the values that have made this country great, and that\u2019s why they want to attack it.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Shea said the way they attack the church is to \u201cundermine the Word of God, denigrate the supernatural aspect of Christianity, and then convince people that it was morally right to stay out of politics and not be involved in the political sphere.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThey all say they deserve\u00a0First Amendment\u00a0rights, but what they follow is antithetical to our U.S. Constitution,\u201d Bennett told the Daily Signal. \u201cIt literally violates our own Constitution.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cA lot of Americans are confused. They think, \u2018Well, the First Amendment is the freedom of religion,\u2019 which it is, but they don\u2019t understand what it really means,\u201d Bennett continued. \u201cIf you go all the way back to our founding documents, George Mason, who is one of our Founding Fathers, argued and said, as they were crafting the First Amendment, we need freedom of religion, but he was only talking about the Christian religion, the different sects of Christian religion.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
During the presentation, Bennett pulled examples from key pre-Revolution documents, including excerpts from the Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies, the Mayflower Compact, and statements made by former elected officials in the 1600s.\n<\/p>\n
He also referenced George Washington\u2019s\u00a0general orders\u00a0at Valley Forge from 1778.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWhile we are zealously performing the duties of good citizens and soldiers, we certainly ought not to be inattentive to the higher duties of religion,\u201d Washington wrote. \u201cTo the distinguished character of Patriot, it should be our highest glory to add the more distinguished character of Christian.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cOne of the biggest questions I get all the time is, is Islam a religion,\u201d Bennett told the Daily Signal in an interview following the presentation. \u201cIslam itself says that it\u2019s not a religion, it\u2019s a complete way of life\u2014social, military, political.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
This totalizing aspect of Islam, according to Bennett and Shea, is what has formed the \u201cRed-Green Axis,\u201d a term used by some political commentators to describe what they characterize as an alliance between communist or far-left groups, represented by \u201cred,\u201d and Islamist groups, represented by \u201cgreen.\u201d They claim this axis is opposed to national sovereignty and individual freedoms.\n<\/p>\n
According to Shea, there are multiple radical groups operating within the Red-Green Axis, including the John Brown Gun Club, Antifa, Unity of Fields, Sunrise Movement, No Kings, and the Democratic Socialists of America.\n<\/p>\n
The John Brown Gun Club, Antifa, Unity of Fields, Sunrise Movement, No Kings, and the Democratic Socialists of America did not respond to a request for comment by publication time.\n<\/p>\n
Retired Army Lt. Col. and former Republican candidate for Texas governor Pete \u201cDoc\u201d Chambers attended the East Texas event.\n<\/p>\n
Chambers said the Islamic and Sharia problem is a \u201ccaliphate problem.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have a system that\u2019s coming into Texas, coming into the United States, that is trying to take over the governance of the United States,\u201d Chambers said.\n<\/p>\n
Chambers said he attended the event because he wants to know how to stop Islamism from taking over the state and the country.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cThe main thing is that we need to see our leaders lead, and the lesser magistrates, our local level magistrates, follow,\u201d Chambers said. \u201cBut if our magistrates, and if our upper level leaders don\u2019t do it, it\u2019s up to us.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
Chambers, who said he has worked in the intelligence field in Texas, said there are about 400 mosques in Texas, which he referred to as \u201clily pads.\u201d He said most people view them as \u201cbenign.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve spent a lot of time downrange. I know what those places were, and those were forward operating bases for a lot of bad stuff, just to keep it simple,\u201d Chambers explained.\n<\/p>\n
Chambers reiterated that Texas is the number one enemy to the Islamic caliphate.\n<\/p>\n
\u201cA caliphate means to take over the world, but they\u2019re doing it in Texas, and Texas is the number one enemy to them; the number one target for the caliphate,\u201d Chambers said. \u201cBecause if you take down Texas, the rest of the country goes.\u201d\n<\/p>\n
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