“WE FOUGHT THEM OVER THERE SO WE WOULDN’T HAVE TO FIGHT THEM HERE.”
Lara Logan joins Steve Bannon on War Room for a powerful conversation about national security, radical Islamist extremism, and what she believes are growing threats to America’s constitutional freedoms.
After years reporting from the battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan, Lara reflects on the words she heard repeatedly from American servicemen:
“I’m here so that we don’t have to fight this at home.”
Now, she warns that extremist ideologies and efforts to establish parallel systems of authority deserve far greater scrutiny here in the United States.
Lara draws a distinction between Muslims seeking freedom and a better life in America and those she believes are exploiting religious protections to advance extremist political agendas.
“What terrifies me is that they are the shield, the unwitting shield, for the people who are using Islam to overthrow the government of the United States of America.”
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Right now, talk to me about this,
because you've spent so much of your career over in this hellhole,
and now you're in Texas, your beloved Texas.
Talk to me about this, these foreigners trying to take over
this country and what we need to do to push back, man.
Well, you know what, Steve?
The most shocking thing for me that I still cannot come to terms
with is that I spent all those years on the battlefield in Iraq
and Afghanistan, right?
And the one thing that soldiers and officers and NCOs, I mean,
everybody from the top to the bottom and the bottom to the top, right?
All they said was, I'm here
so that we don't have to fight this at home.
And now I look at it and sometimes I don't know whether I'm looking
at the streets of, you know, of Baghdad or Damascus or,
you know, some other Islamic country.
I mean, when you look at Dearborn, Michigan, when you look
at New Jersey, and there's another thing is that there's a lot
of Islamic terrorist organizations that bury themselves between layers
of bureaucracy, which is something they've learned from the left,
their other allies, and they are buying up land across rural America.
So I'm going to be reporting on this on my show
There's a group in Florida that's been investigating this
There's another group that does counter-trafficking
That has been investigating this in the state of Texas
And, you know, the Islamic community is very closed
So a lot of police officers don't understand what is happening
Because they don't have any access
That's the beginning of a parallel society, right?
That's where you begin to follow
your own laws, settle your own disputes
You have your own financial system
because you don't believe in interest
And it's not in the Koran. It's not prescribed. Right.
And then you have your own system of, you know, of meat, halal meat,
which is not just killed in a very, very traumatic way for the animals.
But there's a blessing. It's blessed to Allah.
So all the Christians who are eating halal meat, you know,
you're worshiping at the altar of a false god when you do that.
And it's happening all across America.
Lara, hold on one second. We'll take a short commercial break.
By the way, that shot is so beautiful.
We're going to have you co-host War Room one day from that exact spot.
That is America right there, ma'am.
That is unbelievable.
Thank you so much.
Okay, Lara Logan on the other side.
Okay, Lara Logan, there's going
to be a huge event in Long Island this Saturday.
We're going to get to that in a moment.
The 100th broadcast of our podcast is going
to be done live at the America First Warehouse.
We'll get to that in a second.
Let's go back.
Lara, you said something that really, I think,
had a big impact on the audience already.
because we're sold these wars
and maybe not for the greater Israel project,
but we've got to fight the terrorists over there
so they don't come here.
I mean, you were a combat correspondent, war correspondent for years.
Walk me through what you just said.
You said, hey, the pitch was always
to the servicemen, we've got to be over there,
we've got to be in Iraq, we've got to be in Afghanistan,
we have to have these bases
in the Persian Gulf, we have to do all of this.
We've got to go take down Iran because you see it on Fox.
If you don't do it there, it's going to come here.
right, you rather fight them over there, well the issue is you nailed it, it's here
and it's here much worse
than what we've been fighting over there
ma'am, so much worse, Steve, because you know now today
I hear in the United States of America the exact words
that people said to me on the streets of
Afghanistan and on the streets of Iraq from the north
to the south right things like you know
Israel is the enemy and everybody you know
that why does Israel have a right to exist things like
America, death to America. America is responsible for everything.
I mean, when you have people
flying the flags of foreign nations on your soil,
what does that tell you about where their loyalties
lie? And now what people don't understand is,
you know, if you look around you, right, if you look
at these areas where mosques are springing up,
whether it's in the cities or in the rural areas,
these mosques, what I have seen mosques used
for is not just for prayer. I've seen mosques used to
hold ground. OK, these are for the command and control nodes.
Why? Especially in America,
because they have the protection of the First Amendment.
Right. So nobody wants to go in there.
So these are operational centers.
These are joint operation centers for different aspects of the
fight. These are places where people go to organize,
to recruit, to indoctrinate. You know,
we have I just posted a video recently of a girls,
a Muslim girls school in Minnesota,
right in Minneapolis, Minnesota
and it's filled with all these women who are head to toe in their
black robes and um and they are actually advertising it's
a commercial telling people
all across the world that this is the foundation
of an islamic school in america where you can join
in from all over from saudi arabia you know
whether it's mecca medina from tehran if that's
what you want and i don't think people fully appreciate what
that means these young girls
They're not coming out of there saying, oh,
my goodness, the Constitution is incredible.
It gives me all these rights.
As a woman, I'm going to take my place in society.
No, they're coming out of these indoctrination centers wanting you,
thinking you should be covered up.
There was another video of a young reporter, Kat,
I think her name is, and she was going all over Seattle.
And she was asking, she was investigating
daycares like Nick Shirley did.
And she went up to these two Somali women who were covered,
of course, head to toe, but their faces are exposed.
and she says, can my child come to the state care?
And they look at her, she's wearing a tank top and
jeans, as American as it gets.
And they say, not dressed like that, you can't. You're not going to
be around here dressed like that.
This is the United States of America. There are kids running
onto football teams in New Jersey praying to Allah, okay?
And that's another video that I posted.
They're not singing the national anthem.
They're not holding their hands over their hearts,
taking the Pledge of Allegiance,
they are pledging allegiance to a different political system that is
not simply a religion. Faith is a component of Islam.
But as I learned from jihadists who, by
the way, this was in London more than 30 years ago,
jihadists were telling me that the UK,
Britain, was going to be a Muslim country.
And look at it now. They said by 2030, the UK would
be a muslim country at the time i thought they
were crazy okay you gotta be crazy i'm in a mosque
and they're all yelling and screaming at me we're having
a huge argument about this but they said we
will use your laws and we will use your freedom
and we will use it against you and every last one
of you will be muslim and i said
but you're using you know it's it's under christian principles
and under the christian faith that you have the freedom to worship
who you want and be who you
want and so on and they said who's the fool you guys are fools right
and now all these years later
i think of that interview so much steve
because i'm the first person to say i respect you i respect
your culture i may not like it you know i don't like
the fact that women in afghanistan have no
voice that they're treated as prisoners today thanks
to the biden administration that they
live as prisoners that they have no rights they're banned
from public life banned from education they
get no health care they i mean they're abused you know married off
as children i don't like any of
that but when i go to afghanistan you know what i do i put on my scarf
or my burqa if necessary
and i play by their rules now what's happened
and by the way there's so many muslim people who fled
that right because they don't want it either
but what do they do they're trapped they're in the
united states and they are trapped
because if they try to leave the faith right then then for many of
them the punishment is death
and it's you know it's beheading sometimes so i mean for the people
who think that this is far away you're
not paying attention you don't understand how this works when
you go into an area they build more mosques than there
are worshipers why because number one they're
holding the ground number two
these are command centers forward operating bases right where you
can where you can operate freely
then number three it's a show of force they are surrounding the
churches sometimes even building on the ruins of a church
or taking over a church and in every
direction what you're finding even
in you know just outside of dallas in texas right you're
finding a street that's got halal coffee shop halal grocery store halal
um everything right
everything that you can imagine
and then there's a fashion store that is selling not you know what
i'm wearing not western clothing but you know
so that you can wear different color cover scarves
and you can bury yourself beneath those robes.
And I'm tired of these women, these disgusting women
who go out there and say, oh, this is, you know, it's freedom.
This is freedom because people don't
treat you as a sex object.
And, you know, they give you the freedom to be a real woman. What
utter nonsense is that? OK, I've never heard such BS in my entire life.
You know what you can do
with that? You can shove it
because all these people that argues to me that, oh, well, you know,
islam is misunderstood
and it's not true that women have no rights i say to them okay show me
the muslim country where i can have not more rights
not better rights the same rights that i
have in the united states of america the land of the free
or any of the western country just point
it out to me and for all of you
that say they got it wrong you know you know people misinterpret
islam it's not it's not the sword verses of medina it's
the you know the love and peace of mecca
before muhammad made his hijra
and went off uh you know was forced out of mecca and into medina
for all of you i say the people that terrify me
are not the ones that uh are here to pray and to
live a better life and to assimilate
and think that the you know the constitution is the law
of the land what terrifies me is that they
are the shield the unwitting shield for the people
who are using islam to overthrow the government
of the united states of america and to their left
are the leftists the marxist socialists
the progressives to their right all the traitors
in this country right who have betrayed us whether it's for money
or for sex or because they like
little boys or whatever it happens to be and above all
of them these proxy forces who's directing
them and funding them it's the globalists
that's what Natalie Winters is reporting on all the time
Right. She's exposing lots of pieces on this. So is Data Republican.
You know, there are plenty of people out there
who see this for what it is now, Steve.
They're not deceived anymore.
And I'm just going to say that if you're going to if you're here
to shout death to America and burn the American flag and you fly
the flag of a foreign nation, then you don't have the right to be here.
Go home because mass migration is a weapon of invasion and conquest.
we got we got a couple of minutes here
in this block uh how advanced is this in your beloved
state of Texas ma'am right now it's very advanced
you have entire districts where politicians think
that if they don't pander to the muslim vote
that they're not getting get into office why do we have
things like Bangladeshi day and people like James Talafrico you know
who i call baby beto aka little
satan right he's standing there
with you know muslim leaders in the community talking about
how we have to honor the imams right
and have imam day for this and imam day for that what are
you talking about you little freak what
are you talking about this is a state that is built on a
covenant with God if you're not for God
and you're not for guns and you're not for gas get the hell
out of Texas and all you idiots promoting that Texas
is going blue Texas is going blue no it is
not going blue. That is a shaping operation
in information warfare that is designed to make you
believe the cheats so that when this steal happens,
you don't look at it and say, these people are
insane. You say, oh, well, you know, they said Texas was going blue.
I guess they were right.
They are not right. That little freak
who's been in a mental institution or in hiding or whatever
he says, no one believes he had flu, for the love of God.
You know, if you're running for office in
the United States Senate and flu is going to put you
on your butt for two weeks, you're not going
to last two seconds. We don't want you anyway.
But no one believes that. And so in the state of
Texas, you have it's an encroachment into the schools.
That's an encroachment into the lives
of our children. I mean, they have, you know,
Staff Day, right, and Muslim Day. They're taking
kids on field trips to the mosques.
Are you listening to me? I mean, for all the idiots
across Texas who are not paying attention, who, you know, walk around.
I've had them at my dining
room table a million times
or no one's taking our guns no one's taking our state they're taking it
they're taking your state right now every single day we inch
a little bit closer and a little bit
closer and they're funding it with the trafficking of girls
and the trafficking of drugs which are
the weapons of choice for the globalists
and for the left that's what you find everywhere that you
find these communities
and you know what else you find a rise in acid attacks a rise in honor
killings and rise in all of these things
that are profoundly anti-american and so i would urge
everyone if you think oh we're okay you know in the rest of the country
because Texas has got this
no don't don't sit back we're in real trouble in Texas
and there are a lot of people who are
standing up but these city councils you know what
the leftist playbook is that is at work yeah steve
because they've taken the leftist playbook they know exactly what
to do they flood an area with
money and people take over the city council
and suddenly you have a captured neighborhood
just like a captured state like Colorado