Most Americans still picture jihad as ISIS trucks rolling through the desert or airplanes slamming into buildings. That is part of it. It is not the whole of it.
I will be discussing this in detail, including an interview with French activist Thaïs d’Escufon, on today’s episode of The JD Rucker Show.
Jihad means struggle or striving for the sake of Allah. Classical and modern Islamic teaching includes the greater jihad of the self, the jihad of the tongue and pen (persuasion and propaganda), the jihad of the hand (action short of the sword), and the jihad of the sword. It also includes political, cultural, economic, and demographic struggle.
The Muslim Brotherhood’s own 1991 Explanatory Memorandum, seized by the FBI and entered into evidence in the Holy Land Foundation terror-financing trial, called the work in North America a “Civilization-Jihadist Process” whose goal is “eliminating and destroying the Western civilization from within and ‘sabotaging’ its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers.” Yusuf al-Qaradawi put the non-violent path bluntly: “We will conquer Europe, we will conquer America! Not through the sword, but through dawa.”
That is the threat that does not always make the evening news. Here are seven ways to fight it.
1. Educate Yourself and Your Neighbors on What Jihad Actually Is
Ignorance is the enemy’s best ally. Read the Explanatory Memorandum. Read the Brotherhood’s own documents. Understand that “settlement,” dawah, institutional capture, and the creation of parallel structures are forms of jihad. Organizations such as CAIR, ISNA, and others grew out of this network. Pretending the problem is only “a few extremists” while the ideological infrastructure operates in the open is how the process advances. Share the primary sources. Argue from evidence, not slogans.
2. Secure the Borders and Counter Hijra
Hijra is the migration of Muslims for the purpose of establishing and expanding Islamic presence. It is not merely “seeking a better life.” Islamist leaders have treated it as a strategic pillar. Recent political figures have even invoked the concept of hijrah to justify sanctuary policies. Mass illegal entry, chain migration, and refusal to enforce the law create the demographic conditions for the civilization-jihadist process. Vote for and demand candidates who will finish the wall, permanently end catch-and-release, deport those who have no right to be here, and reform legal immigration so it serves American interests rather than foreign ideological projects.
3. Vote for Candidates Who Recognize the Threat
At the ballot box, the difference is clear. Republicans who prioritize border enforcement, counterterrorism, designation of Brotherhood-linked groups, and strong support for Israel are the practical alternative to politicians who treat Islamist front groups as civil-rights partners or who form alliances with the radical left. Midterms and local races matter as much as presidential ones. Political Islam advances through school boards, city councils, and state legislatures as readily as through Congress. Show up.
4. Expose and Pressure Muslim Brotherhood Front Groups
CAIR was named an unindicted co-conspirator in the largest terrorism-financing case in U.S. history. Its founders had ties to the Islamic Association for Palestine and the Brotherhood network. Track their funding, their political endorsements, and their efforts to silence critics. Support efforts to strip tax-exempt status where warranted, designate relevant entities, and refuse to treat them as the default “Muslim voice.” Sunlight is effective. So is refusing to play their language games.
5. Defend Free Speech Without Apology
The fastest way to lose is to accept the premise that criticizing jihadist doctrine, Sharia, or the Brotherhood’s strategy is bigotry. Resist “Islamophobia” resolutions, campus speech codes, and corporate pressure that function as de facto blasphemy rules. Speak the truth about the text, the history, and the current documents. The First Amendment exists precisely so that dangerous ideas can be named and opposed. Use it.
6. Fight Locally Where the Settlement Process Happens
School boards decide curricula and foreign-funding transparency. City councils decide zoning for mosques and public accommodations. State legislatures decide whether Sharia-compliant arbitration or finance gets a foothold. Show up, run, or support people who will. Oppose the normalization of parallel legal systems, the teaching of sanitized or one-sided history, and the use of taxpayer money to advance ideological agendas. Local victories slow the process of settlement.
7. Spread the Gospel
This is the decisive fight, and it is the one American Christians have largely neglected on their own soil. Across the Muslim world, people are leaving Islam for Christ in numbers not seen in generations. In Iran, estimates of converts run from hundreds of thousands to over a million, with many mosques closed as people reject the regime’s empty promises. Similar movements are documented in parts of Africa and the broader Middle East and North Africa. Yet in American neighborhoods, many believers never open their mouths.
How then shall they call on him in whom they have not believed? and how shall they believe in him of whom they have not heard? and how shall they hear without a preacher?
Muslims are not the enemy in the ultimate sense. They are people made in the image of God who need the same Savior. The Gospel is the power of God unto salvation. Border policy, political action, and cultural resistance are necessary. They are not sufficient. If the Church in America will not take the truth of Christ to the Muslim next door while God is drawing multitudes overseas, the failure is ours.
Pray. Learn how to share the message simply and clearly. Love people enough to tell them the truth. That is the final and highest way to fight jihad in America.
Two Storms, One Harvest
Every food crisis in living memory has been a one-shock event. The 2008 price spike was a commodity bubble. The 2020 shortages were a logistics failure. The 2022 grain scare was a war on one exporter’s ports. Each time, the system bent, adjusted, and recovered, and each time the experts assured us afterward that global markets are simply too big and too diversified to fail.
What nobody in Washington seems eager to discuss is that 2026 is shaping up to be something the modern food system has never actually faced. Two independent shocks, one climatic and one geopolitical, are converging on the same harvest cycle at the same time. Not sequentially. Simultaneously.
Start with the weather. The Pacific Ocean is currently building toward what forecasters now openly call a record event. NOAA’s Climate Prediction Center puts the odds of at least a strong El Niño near 88 percent, with roughly two in three odds it reaches “very strong” status, the tier reserved for perhaps three or four events in the entire satellite era. Every major global model now projects a median peak in Super El Niño territory, and most of them project it exceeding the 2015-16 event, which until now held the modern record. Sea surface anomalies were already brushing the super threshold in mid-July, months before these events normally peak. The atmosphere has already shifted into El Niño mode, and the event is forecast to crest in late fall and early winter.
This is not about “climate change.” It’s about the standard cycles of weather, and the cycle we’re currently in is one that has likely devastated societies in the past. We’re better prepared as a society today, but not all Americans are equally prepared.
Serious households have started doing the quiet math on their own. Grocery bills tell part of the story, and the forecast maps tell the rest, which is why long-term food storage has moved from fringe hobby to mainstream line item in the family budget, with established suppliers like Heaven’s Harvest seeing demand from people who five years ago would have rolled their eyes at the idea. That instinct is not paranoia. It is pattern recognition, and the pattern is worth walking through carefully.
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The Fertilizer Clock Is Already Running
While the Pacific warms, the second shock has been unfolding in the Strait of Hormuz. The conflict with Iran turned the world’s most important energy chokepoint into a contested waterway, and the consequences reach far beyond the gas pump. Roughly a third of global fertilizer trade moves through Hormuz, and the disruption sent urea prices up 86 percent year over year by March, with a 53 percent jump in a single month.
The World Bank projects energy prices rising about 24 percent in 2026 and fertilizer about 31 percent. By its own accounting, fertilizer prices ran 35 percent higher in the first five months of this year than the same period last year.
Here is the mechanism the nightly news will not explain. Fertilizer is not a grocery item. It is a time-delayed input. The nitrogen a farmer in Iowa or Punjab could not afford to apply this spring does not show up as a problem this spring. It shows up as a thinner harvest six to twelve months later.
The World Bank’s own food security brief concedes that the effects of reduced applications earlier this season “are likely to become visible only later in harvest outcomes.” Translate that from institutional language into plain English and it means this. The damage is already done, it is already in the ground, and we are simply waiting for it to arrive on the shelf.
Now check the calendar. Six to twelve months from the spring planting season lands us squarely in late 2026 and early 2027. Which is precisely when the strongest El Niño in the instrumental record is forecast to peak, bringing its signature droughts to Southeast Asia, Australia, southern Africa, northern Brazil, and South Asia, the very regions that grow the world’s rice, sugar, and oilseeds.
The World Bank warns openly that a strong El Niño “could disrupt multiple crop belts simultaneously” on top of the conflict-driven input costs. Their baseline projection assumes the Middle East disruptions ease by autumn. What in the last two years of Middle East history suggests that assumption is safe?
The System Has No Slack Left
The comfortable answer is that global markets always adjust. But adjustment requires slack, and the slack is gone. Global cereal production is expected to decline from last year’s records even before El Niño does its work. The UN World Food Programme, hardly a den of right-wing preppers, is calling this the most significant disruption to its supply chains since Covid and the invasion of Ukraine, and its supply chain director put the stakes bluntly.
Today’s supply chain challenges are tomorrow’s hunger crisis.
There is also a political dimension that markets cannot price. When food gets scarce, governments do not behave like economists. They behave like politicians. Export bans, hoarding mandates, and panic buying at the national level turned the modest rice shortfall of 2008 into a global crisis, and analysts are already warning that import-dependent nations are the first dominoes.
The 2015-16 Super El Niño, a far weaker event than what is now forecast, threw tens of millions into food stress across Africa and Asia. This one is projected to be stronger, and it arrives with fertilizer already rationed by price and shipping lanes already contested by missiles.
What Joseph Knew
Scripture does not treat preparation for lean years as faithlessness. It treats it as wisdom delivered in advance to those willing to act on it.
Behold, there come seven years of great plenty throughout all the land of Egypt: And there shall arise after them seven years of famine; and all the plenty shall be forgotten in the land of Egypt.
Joseph did not respond to that warning with a hashtag or a committee. He stored grain during the years of abundance, and when the famine came, Egypt stood while its neighbors begged. The lesson is not that famine is certain. It is that the time to prepare is precisely when preparation still looks optional.
Nobody who filled a pantry in a year of plenty has ever regretted it, and nobody standing in an empty aisle has ever been glad he waited for certainty.
None of this calls for panic, and panic is the enemy of sound judgment anyway. It calls for the same unglamorous prudence our grandparents considered ordinary. Keep some cash margin, know your local growers, and put real food in deep storage while it is cheap and available, because the entire arc of this story is that cheap and available is a closing window.
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