Chess is Life
In chess, we all know that the aim is to checkmate your opponent’s king. But this does not mean that in the normal course of play it’s wise to aim all your firepower directly at him. After all, he’s often pretty well protected, and directing your pieces in such an obvious way might leave you vulnerable to counterattack. Thus, it’s usually best to first meet fire with fire in the middle of the board before you go king hunting.
It’s not a perfect analogy for what I am about to share with you, but it’ll do.
Earlier this month, Florida governor Ron DeSantis declared the Muslim Brotherhood and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) to be terrorist organizations. This follows on the heels of Governor Greg Abbott of Texas who did the same thing in November. Donald Trump also began probing in this direction in November when he signed an executive order directing key members of his administration to look into whether certain chapters of the Muslim Brotherhood should be designated as terrorist organizations.
This means that in Florida state agencies will be investigating these organizations for any wrongdoing, as well as “denying privileges or resources to anyone providing material support,” according to a tweet by DeSantis. In another tweet, he stated:
Members of the FL Legislature are crafting legislation to stop the creep of sharia law, and I hope that they codify these protections for Floridians against CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood in their legislation.
Similar measures will be taken in Texas where the organizations are banned from buying land and the state Attorney General will be able to “sue to shut them down,” according to The Gateway Pundit. Buying land might be a particularly important issue in Texas given that the East Plano Islamic Center is planning to build a 1,000-home Muslim settlement 40 minutes north of Dallas.
According to Gateway:
The so-called “Sharia City” would come complete with a mosque, Muslim schools, community college, and sporting facilities while serving as a reminder of Islam’s growing influence across America and the Western world.
Despite these differences, it seems that DeSantis and Abbott are on the same page—Islam poses an insidious threat to Western civilization which must be stopped by all legal means. And impeding CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood in their states makes for a good start. If all the knife crime, no-go zones, rapes, terrorism, grooming gangs, and sharia courts in Islamicized Western countries like England are any indication, they are not wrong.
Again, according to Gateway (emphasis mine):
An internal 1991 strategy paper for the Muslim Brotherhood’s U.S. Shura Council — “An Explanatory Memorandum on the General Strategic Goal for the Group in North America” (Mohamed Akram/Mohamed Adlouni), outlines a long-term, incremental plan to embed and expand Islamic influence across American society. Seized by the FBI and entered into evidence at the Holy Land Foundation trial, the memo describes a “civilization-jihadist” process: patient settlement (tamkeen) by individuals, families, institutions, and organizations; coalition-building to unite Muslim groups under Brotherhood leadership; and the creation or co-optation of front organizations in education, relief, politics, and professional life.
The memorandum emphasizes stealth and persistence over open confrontation: build cultural authority, neutralize opposition, and use legal, political, and social levers to transform institutions. While it uses blunt language about “eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within,” its operational advice is practical and gradual, to found and coordinate organizations, influence mosques, charities, schools, media, law, and politics, and patiently shift institutions until Islamic values predominate. As such, the document is direct evidence that the Brotherhood pursued a covert, methodical program of institutional penetration in North America, tying ideological aims to concrete organizational and coalition strategies for long-range influence.
Trump, on the other hand, seems to be leaving CAIR aside for the time being and instead is focusing more on the international threats the Brotherhood poses. It has a long history of destabilizing regimes in the Middle East through violence and grassroots organizing, which may be why Egypt, Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan have all outlawed it. It also has been the inspiration for al-Qaeda, ISIS, and other Jihadist organizations. More to the point, however, is the Brotherhood’s support of Hamas, which, as we all know, is the sworn enemy of Israel. For years Hamas has been responsible for countless suicide bombings, rocket attacks, and other military operations against Israel, including the October 7th attack in 2023 which killed over 1,200 Israelis and took around 250 of them hostage. (Israel, it must be said, has been retaliating ever since in an attempt to ethnically cleanse the Gazans from Gaza, killing many tens of thousands.)
So, despite all the good that would come out of curtailing the destructive force that is Islam in the West, many will point to the Muslim Brotherhood-Hamas connection and claim that the real reason why Trump, DeSantis, and Abbott are cracking down these groups is because they are cucking for Israel. This is exactly the point CAIR made when responding to DeSantis earlier this month:
On Tuesday, Dec. 8, Gov. DeSantis issued an executive order baselessly and unlawfully declaring CAIR Florida as a terrorist organization; his proclamation follows a similar political move by Gov. Abbott late last month. Both actions are part of an Islamophobic smear campaign by Israel-first politicians and individuals in response to rising anti-genocide sentiment over the past two years and represent yet another attempt by elected officials to chill free speech and silence legitimate criticism of the state of Israel.
This was fairly clever on the part of CAIR, attempting to split the American Right with its favorite wedge issue: Israel and the Jews. And there is some truth to what they say. DeSantis and Abbott are notorious Israel boosters who are always on the lookout for anti-Semitism. And while Trump may be slightly less servile to our friends in the little hats, his recent bombing excursion in Iran tells us he knows what side of his bread his butter is on. So according to CAIR at least, if you support this recent legislation, you also support not only Israel’s ongoing “genocide” in Gaza, but also the two-faced, spineless politicians who put Israel’s interests before America’s.
Obviously, CAIR has been paying attention to the American Right, because these are exactly the things the Right has been complaining about for years now. And with good reason. The disproportionate control that liberal Jewish elites and Israelis wield over America is frankly shameful. That being said, this does not mean we should give CAIR or the Muslim Brotherhood a pass. They’re awful as well. CAIR is definitely trying to pull a fast one here, but between the lines, something a little more subtle is going on. CAIR is offering the American Right a choice. Yes, the Right can oppose both Islamic and Jewish influence in their country, and yes, the Right can remain neutral about Israel, Palestine, and the Gaza War. But wouldn’t it be easier to side with Muslims against those nefarious Jews? Wouldn’t you want to have a billion allies in the fight against Zionist hegemony? Don’t you want to take a principled stand against genocide? Don’t you want to reject Jewish censorship and tyranny? And don’t you just hate it when your elected leaders stab you in the back by giving $3 billion to Israel every year while sending off your sons and daughters to fight and die for Israel’s wars?
To bring back the chess analogy, CAIR is basically asking the American Right to abandon the center of the board and launch an ill-advised berserker assault upon the enemy king. If we look at the struggles of the American Right as a chess game, it’s not a stretch to say that the enemy king wears a star of David rather than a cross atop his crown. But in chess the king is weak, despite being the most valuable piece on the board. It must rely on all the other pieces to gain the advantage, just like the liberal Jewish elites do. These other pieces, of course, include blacks, Hispanics, the LGBTQ crowd, woke whites, along with Muslims. The struggles between Muslims and Jews in the Holy Land matter very little on this particular chessboard. What matters is how these disparate entities coalesce into a Leftist identity group which poses an existential threat to the Right, and is largely funded and abetted by Jews. As far as the American Right is concerned Jews and Muslims are on the same team. Any attempt by either to play one against the other—like the trick CAIR is trying to pull—should be ignored.
As for our priorities, however, I believe it is a lot like chess. Targeting the enemy king must come only after achieving a sound position by doing classic chess things, such as fighting for the center, calculating tactics, seizing the open file, et cetera. This means that checking the spread of Islam in America at the cost of two pro-Jewish governors is on balance a good deal. This means that rooting out wokeness in the military at the cost of a fervently Zionist Defense Secretary is a good deal. This means that reducing nonwhite immigration, anti-white racism, DEI, crime, and all forms of socialism at the cost of a philo-Semitic, Israel-friendly president is also a good deal—a better deal than we’ve had for many decades. These deals are not perfect, of course, but over time enough of them will allow right-wing American whites to regain the sound position we once enjoyed in the country we founded and fought for centuries ago.
And then we can deal with the liberal Jewish elites—peacefully yet firmly —in the endgame.