We are entering a new period where we will find ourselves facing an incredibly dangerous asymmetrical warfare mission conducted by Islamic terrorists of all stripes, aligned with homegrown domestic terrorists, and our response must be a hard, determined resolve to stop it dead in its tracks before it takes off and takes more innocent American lives. The law enforcement agents cannot be everywhere at once and often are not present in the first moments of a terrorist attack, and so, that leaves it to the good, decent, solid, and courageous Americans to fill the void by way of their own armed interventions in order to thwart evil wherever it rears its ugly head.

Empirically, ALERRT data shows civilians halted 73 active shooter incidents between 2000 and 2021, many with firearms. Cases like the 2022 Indiana mall hero and the 2007 Colorado church defender illustrate this. But politically, Marxist-Maoist anti-American states’ gun controls – championed by fools like Gavin Newsom – disarm the virtuous, favoring criminals and terrorists, which represents a partisan inversion of justice. As a liberty-loving, life-defending American, I decry these “laws” as antithetical to the Second Amendment and our rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness, as I have always sought to empower my fellow countrymen against tyranny, foreign and domestic.

Jefferson’s yeoman farmer was armed and ready; so must we be. And anyone dismissing a renewed Islamic asymmetrical warfare and terrorism as paranoia are ill-informed and untrustworthy on all fronts, no matter what position they hold in our society and government, as this also ignores Mill’s harm principle: preventing harm to others justifies action. With the FBI alerts post-2025 strikes warning of Iranian retaliation, the risk is non-zero and exponentially greater than ever.

The recent U.S. attack on Iran and its Islamic jihadist terrorist Ayatollahs has brought out a new spate of anti-American keffiyeh garbed amerikkan Islamofasicts and a heightened expectation of renewed acts of Islamic-inspired terrorism, especially in the aftermath of the recent shooting in Austin, Texas, at Buford’s Bar, where Ndiaga Diagne, a Muslim and naturalized U.S. citizen from Senegal, killed two people and wounded fourteen others, while wearing a hoodie that read “Property of Allah” over a tee-shirt with an image of the Iranian flag. Americans across all walks of our society must prepare themselves for asymmetrical warfare conducted within our domain against them in the coming days and months, as many of us already know and recognize the existential threat and millions more must be made to understand that a great number of Islamic terrorist sleeper cells comprised of Hezbollah, Hamas and Al Qaeda agents already reside and exist within America, ready to do Her harm at a moment’s notice.

I’ve been telling anyone who would listen that America hasn’t seen the last of Islamic terrorism, especially after I witnessed the black flag of Al Qaeda waving through the streets of Ferguson, Missouri during the 2014 riots.

No one I’ve ever known made the conscious decision to try to become some sort of hero some day, but I’ve known thousands of fine Americans throughout my years who stood ready and always prepared to defend themselves, their families and loved ones and this country to the death, should the situation ever present itself in so dire a moment in time. And as matters stand at this juncture in time, any of us might find ourselves to be face to face with the enemy, in a bar, a church, a school or a shopping mall or up on the town square, and in a situation that demands swift, calculated, decisive and deadly action, in order to save our life and the lives of those around us.

Our freedoms and individual liberty make us somewhat vulnerable, because people of every race, creed and religion are free to come and go as they please in public, for the most part. And so, every patriotic man and woman stands at the forefront of this battle, and each must stand armed and at the ready to act with extreme prejudice and accurate, deadly violence against any Muslim who seeks to use this conflict as their excuse to wage “holy war” against our people, our institutions and our homeland. Leave them dead where they fall when the time arrives, killed however that death may be delivered.

In the wake of the September 11th 2001 attacks, America entered a new phase of national security challenges, marked by numerous Islamic terrorist incidents that have tested the resilience and resolve of American society. Over the subsequent twenty-two years, from 2001 to 2023, the nation witnessed one violent terrorist act after another that was inspired or directed by the Islamic ideology and its leaders from abroad and from within America Herself, resulting in hundreds of more of injuries and deaths. These events underscored a continued fundamental vulnerability for the continued asymmetrical warfare conducted by rabid, raging Muslims, who have always exploited weaknesses in open and free societies to inflict maximum harm with minimal resources.

Over the past two and a half decades, from the ashes of the Twin Towers to the present, Islamic jihadists — so-called “holy warriors” – have perpetrated acts that can only be described as barbarism clashing with civilization, a clash of civilizations in which the Islamic world rejects modernity except in the area of advanced military technology and arms and nuclear weapons.

The 2009 Fort Hood shooting by Nidal Malik Hasan, a U.S. Army major inspired by Al Qaeda, killed thirteen and wounded twenty-nine, highlighting the fact that such attacks can take shape in any segment of American life. Similarly, the 2013 Boston marathon bombing by the Tsarnaev brothers, adhering to the actual text of the Koran and Hadith, claimed three lives and injured over 260 people, using several homemade pressure-cooker bombs – a low-tech method that evaded detection. The 2015 San Bernadino attack by Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik, sworn to serve ISIS, took the lives of fourteen innocent Americans, again targeting civilians with firearms and explosives.

And no one can forget that four Marines and one Navy Seaman were murdered by Muhammad Abulazeez in 2015 at the Naval Recruitment Center in Chattanooga, Tennessee, while the 2016 Pulse Nightclub shooting in Orlando by Omar Mateen, who pledged allegiance to ISIS, resulted in fifty-three injuries and forty-nine deaths – the deadliest Islamic terrorist attack in America since September 11th 2001, followed by the 2025 New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans by Shamsud-Din Jabbar, inspired by ISIS, killing fourteen more innocent Americans. These attacks demonstrate the manner in which the Muslim murderers see all life — including their own — as expendable to the cause of Islamic supremacy and submission to Allah, viewing themselves as martyrs for Allah and nothing more than sacks of meat for the sacrifice, human drones acting out as suicide bombers or simple mass murderers.

These were not isolated; they form a pattern.

Globally, over 48,000 Islamic terrorist attacks since 1979 have claimed 210,000 lives, peaking during the ISIS era. In the U.S., 140 Muslim jihadist terror plots since 1994 highlight the persistent danger, with Iran’s hand evident in many, just as it was the Iranian regime that backed and planned the 1983 Marine Barracks bombing in Beirut that was carried out by their Hezbollah allies, taking the lives of 241 Marines.

Iran’s role, as the premier state sponsor of terror, adds a partisan layer, as I make note of the cash pallets delivered to Tehran by America’s first Muslim president, Barack Obama – $1.7 billion in 2016 – that fueled this machine, in a philosophical abdication of Reagan’s “peace through strength”, as Joe Biden would later continue with the Democrat Party Communists’ preferred tactic of appeasement and its deadly consequences. The IRCG’s twenty-seven different known plots, from the 2011 D.C. assassination attempt to recent threats against President Trump and his Cabinet members, reveal a regime philosophically opposed to our existential values.

Politically, the contrast is stark. Trump’s border wall and electronic border security measures and travel bans targeting hotbeds of Islamic terror and exporters of Islamic terror stemmed the tide – deporting threats and restoring FBI focus on protection over politicized witch hunts. Yet, under anti-American Marxist-Maoist Democrats, sympathetic to the Muslim terrorists of the globe, interior enforcement withered to next to nothing, allowing sleeper cells from Chechnya to Afghanistan to fester and grow. Philosophically, this puts the gross negligence of Democrats in both domestic and foreign policy matters in the spotlight, as time and again they have violated the primary concern of all governments to use their monopoly on violence – the government agents, law enforcement and the military – to protect and defend Americans, not expose them to danger and death.

The Biden regime enabled the monsters of Islamic terrorism to infiltrate America even more deeply. From 2021 to 2023, the Border Patrol encountered over 250 individuals on the terrorist watchlist at the southwest border, releasing at least ninety-nine of them into American communities. This marks a tenfold increase from prior years, with encounters from high-risk countries like Afghanistan [2,134], Iran [541] and Syria [520] in 2024.

U.S. Customs and Border Protection data shows 382 watchlist encounters from 2021 through 2024, compared to 11 between 2017 to 2020. Over 400 illegal alien invaders were linked to an ISIS smuggling network, with many tied to terrorism. The House Judiciary Committee report ‘Terror at Our Door’ details how open borders undermine security, releasing illegal aliens with ISIS ties via apps like CBP One.

The partisan betrayal of America by the Democrat Party Communists left our gates wide open and completely ajar for everyone who wished us harm and death to simply saunter right in with no more worry or concern than a homeless man walking along Ventura Beach.

Sleeper cells pose a credible risk. U.S. officials have disrupted seventeen Iranian plots since 2020, including those involving proxies. Reports indicate that members of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps have infiltrated America’s domestic domain via Traitor Joe’s Open Borders treason against America, with thousands of Iranian nationals entering illegally from 2021-2924, which sets the stage for an unprecedented number of murder sprees similar to and worse than anything we have already experienced.

Once they are activated and go on the move, they hold the potential to make a murderous Saturday night of gang violence in Chicago look like children’s day with Captain Kangaroo or the opening premier of Narnia. It only takes a few of them in small groups making use of something so simple as an AK47, the radicals’ weapon of choice for decades now due to its simplicity to use. The Tsarnaev brothers’ pressure-cooker bombs maimed hundreds, a stark reminder of how simple tools can amplify evil intent. And no one should be surprised to see drug cartels provide supplies, weapons and operational support for a cut of the cash out of the billions paid to the Mullahs and Ayatollahs by Barack Obama and Ben Rhodes.

No one should forget that although Iranians are Shia Muslims, they are more than willing to temporarily ally themselves with anyone willing to aid them in their mass destruction and the murder of Christians and Jews, even Hamas who are Sunni and anyone else, whether they are from Turkistan, Turkey, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Egypt or even Chechnya. And they love nothing better than to find druggies, drunks and simply delusional, dysfunctional Americans from any walk of life who are willing to carry out their bidding – Shia and Sunni Islamic fundamentalists, fanatics and extremists alike, joined with homegrown terrorists to wreak the most horrible, death-dealing events imaginable.

Americans are facing something exponentially more dangerous and deadly than the Black Lives Matter, Antifa and Transtifa radicals of late, and everyone should prepare accordingly, by sharpening their shooting skills if they haven’t been to the range lately and carrying our firearms wherever we go in public. Anyone not already in possession of a firearm should either buy or borrow one, but get one and learn to use it well, as we all replenish our ammunition and medical supplies; and, although none of us may view ourselves as any kind of hero, we find ourselves thrust into the fray, whether we want to be or not; and as such, each of us must stand ready and literally armed with rifle and pistol and virtue and vigilance to defend against any terrorist.

If shadows of death fall in the valley, we will not run; we will stand and fight to the death, if necessary, in order that we will prevail in this war for life and liberty’s sake, and to save this America we love so well.

March 3, 2026

~ the Author ~
Justin O. Smith Has Lived in Tennessee Off and on Most of His Adult Life, and Graduated From Middle Tennessee State University in 1980, With a B.S. And a Double Major in International Relations and Cultural Geography – Minors in Military Science and English, for What Its Worth. His Real Education Started From That Point on. Smith Is a Frequent Contributor to the Family of Kettle Moraine Publications.