Throwing Darts

There’s been a dust up on the New York Giants between two first round draft picks for the team from 2025, quarterback Jaxson Dart and linebacker Abdul Carter. Abdul Carter objected to the fact that Jackson Dart introduced the President of the United States, Donald Trump, and an event last week. Carter initially tweeted, “thought this sh!t was AI, what we doing man?” His tweet was suggesting that there was something inherently wrong with one of his teammates choosing to introduce the President of the United States. When Carter further explained himself, he made it clear that he believes that Jaxson Dart has aligned himself with hate.

In a press conference days later, Carter explained his tweet by saying, “First, I want to say that some things are bigger than football, and this is one of those things. Jaxson is one of our leaders, he is the face of our franchise. He not only represents himself in what he does, but he represents all of us, and that goes for anybody who wears a Giant uniform. But… if he chooses to align himself with a man like President Trump, it is my responsibility based on what I believe and what I stand on, to not only show my teammates that I am against that, but to show the world, that doesn’t mean that… we have to spread hate.” Abdul Carter is trying to present himself as someone who stands up against hate, bigotry, divisiveness.

Abdul Carter is a Muslim. Islam is the most hateful and violent religion on the face of the Earth and it has been ever since its founding 1400 years ago. The record of history is crystal clear. Islam is a religion of violence, and Islam is a religion of hate. 123 times in the Quran, the followers of Islam are commanded to kill, to rape, to conquer, and to enslave non-Muslims. It’s unequivocal what Muslims are expected to do to non-Muslims. Islam does not teach peaceful coexistence with people who have different opinions and beliefs than they do. They believe in violent conquest over those people. And that has played itself out over the last 1400 years.

Every single country in the Middle East that is now majority Muslim, at one point was Byzantine Christianity or Jewish lands, that was conquered by the sword, by violent bloodshed, by force conversion by Muslims. Over the last 40 years, 99% of the terrorist attacks that have been committed have been committed by Muslims in the name of Islam. Every other religion combined account for less than 1% of the terrorist attacks. There is nothing about the Islamic faith that is peaceful, that believes in coexistence. And that is the religion that Abdul Carter aligns himself with at the same time condemning Jackson Dart because he happened to introduce the President of United States who he believes represents hate and bigotry.

Whether you believe Donald Trump is hateful or a racist or a bigot, is irrelevant to this issue because Abdul Carter has no grounds to stand on to call out hate because he is aligned with the most hateful, violent and bigoted religion on the face of the Earth. He cannot align himself with Islam and then call out someone else for being hateful or bigoted. Anyone who tries to tell you that Islam is the religion of peace and coexistence, is gaslighting you. Abdul Carter’s entire world and world view is made of glass and he is firing stones at everybody else. He would do better to just shut up.

Just so we clear, Mohammed, who is the founder of the religion Abdul Carter follows, was a warlord who murdered thousands of people, he owned hundreds of slaves, he married a six-year-old and consummated the wedding when she was nine. But Donald Trump is the bad guy. Worship Mohammad but Donald Trump’s the bad guy. You may rightfully think that Donald Trump is a bad guy, but if Trump is your criteria of what bad is, Mohammed would still be 100 times worse than if all of the worst false accusations against Donald Trump were true. And the religion that Mohammed spawned has a 1400-year history of violence, hatred, bigotry and death.

Christians believe in coexistence. Jews believe in coexistence. Hindus believe in coexistence. Buddhists believe in coexistence. Atheists believe in coexistence. There’s only one religion that doesn’t believe in coexistence, and it’s the Muslim religion. That’s the facts. Are the Christians at war with the Jews? No. Are the Jews a war with the Hindus? No. Are the Christians at war with the Buddhist? No. But the Christians are at war with the Muslims; the Jews are at war with the Muslims; the Buddhists are at war with the Muslims. Every religion around the world wants to coexist, but they all are at war. They’re all at war with the Muslims because the Muslims are at war with all of them because the Muslims have been commanded in their holy books to make war with non-Muslims, to kill non-Muslims, to commit acts of violence, acts of rape and enslave non-Muslims. That’s why when you look around the world the Muslims are at war with everybody.

There are no peaceful Muslims. None. The so-called peaceful Muslims are the sheep’s clothing that the violent Muslims wear in order for them to perpetuate their violence. It makes complete sense that after attacking Israel on October 7, all of the Muslim terrorists went back into Gaza and hid behind the so-called civilian, peaceful Muslims. The violent terrorist Muslims were wearing the clothes of the peaceful Muslims. Abdul Carter pretends to be standing up for peace and against hatred, but is sheep’s clothing. Has Abdul Carter ever spoken out against Islamic terrorist attacks? Has he ever condemned the violence and hatred committed by his fellow Muslims, not a thousand years ago, this year?

In response to this social media storm, President Trump who is never shy to weigh in on a controversial issue, posted on social media, “Thank you Jaxson! It was great being with you. I know you’re taking some heat from the Radical Left Lunatics who are jealous of you, me, and everyone who surrounds us but, I also know that your Jersey also went to Number One, and you’re making Millions of Dollars so, YOU ARE A WINNER — THEY ARE ALL LOSERS. I’ll see you in the White House!”

Some people in the press have suggested that President Trump has the social media presence of an 8-year-old because he responded like this. Yes, our President can get a little petty on social media at times, but let’s rehash. Ever since he descended the golden escalators at Trump Tower and announced that he was running for President, Donald Trump has been mocked and ridiculed. He has been lied about and slandered. He’s been called a racist, sexist, homophobic, a Nazi, Hitler. His 2016 campaign was spied on by the FBI. His transition team was spied on by the FBI. He was framed as colluding with the Russians to rig the 2016 election. They impeached him twice. They threw members of his inner circle into prison. They unleashed a worldwide pandemic to derail his first term and rig his next election. They stole the 2020 election from him. They arrested him 4 times and charged him with 91 crimes. They tried to put him in jail for the rest of his life on trumped up charges that no one gets arrested for. They raided his home. They banned him on social media. They tried to block him from ever running for President again. They called for him to be murdered. They even tried to assassinate him three times. They accused him of every crime that they have committed against him. And they call Trump divisive and a threat to Democracy.

The Democrats and the left want Trump to remain silent, above the fray the way George W Bush did, and John McCain and Mitt Romney did, because they want to be able to continue to attack and pummel him into submission the way Bush, McCain and Romney were beat down. But Trump fights back. Trump defends himself. He does not cede any ground to the left, and that’s what they hate so much about him. They are so used to doing whatever they want without push back. Their politics of personal destruction do not work on Trump. They cannot control Trump, they cannot manipulate Trump, and that is what makes people on the left so deranged when it comes to our sitting President.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.