Can Jihad Be Stopped in America?
Opinion Piece By Molly Krempski
We all used to know what jihad was, or at least we knew it when we saw it. Things aren’t as clear in 2025, where a simple Google search of the term yields multiple definitions and hundreds of links to liberal college websites. Colleges have suddenly felt the call to repurpose web space previously dedicated to gender discussions to now enlighten us with the ‘new and improved’ definition of ‘mostly-peaceful’ jihad. Many of the modern definitions and explanations limit jihad to a term that describes an individual’s struggle to obey Allah. However, the jihad that we should have on our radar is not a personal struggle, but the more prominent and less often discussed jihadist socio-political movement. It’s a coordinated, collective effort aimed at the Islamization of a territory using networks of individuals and organizations (like CAIR and the Muslim Brotherhood) to influence policies, laws, and societal norms through public displays, protests, or other forms of peaceful and not-so-peaceful activism. It’s similar in thought to Christian Nationalism but much different in implementation because of the distinct resumes of the beings behind each movement. Jesus has the power to forgive sin and reconcile mankind to the Father; Mohammad does not.
Spiritual powers reveal their character through their actions to those with eyes to see. Discernment is the ability to evaluate these actions to identify which powers and principalities are the driving forces behind various social and political movements. In Europe, Jihad started as sharia-ruled no-go zones and has now become the eradication of thousands of years of European culture. In Washington, DC, the installation of Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Barack Hussein Obama shapes Jihad. The jihadist agenda is behind EPIC City, a proposed Muslim only community complex and residential development to be built in conjunction with the East Plano Islamic Center in Texas. Governor Abbott, who seems to have eyes to see, has recently halted the progress of this complex. [1]
Some of our more moderate Islamic neighbors like to assert that Christians and Muslims worship the same God, yet Muslims worship a being who denies the sonship and divinity of Christ. Jesus claims to be the Divine Son of God and the ONLY path to the Father. Muslims submit to a being who reigns over his people through a law of condemnation, forcing them to rely upon their works for salvation, which will never be enough. Jesus, knowing we would always fall short of God’s perfect standard, saved us through HIS perfect obedience - a sinless life, undeserved death, resurrection, and ascension. There is great peace in salvation guaranteed by Divine Perfection. It is a fool’s errand to rely upon our works for attaining God’s perfect standard, a fact that the fallen god, Allah, knows firsthand. The character and teachings of Islam’s god, even “moderate Islam’s” god, are not the character or teachings of the Christian God. Allah is distinct from America’s God, and Allah’s sharia is distinct from the constitutionally enshrined law of God.
Our God is our shield. He gives us vision and imparts to us spiritual strategies for casting down every false socio-political movement that sets itself up against the knowledge of God (see 2 Corinthians 10:3-5). His word tells us that if we submit ourselves to God and resist the devil, the devil will flee from us (see James 4:7). The generations before us were very familiar with and relied heavily upon God’s word. They incorporated protective biblical principles into our founding documents. Those documents were used to cultivate our early government. But now, our government struggles to build upon the original intent of our founding documents, and many churches no longer preach God’s word. Until we start declaring the supremacy of Jesus Christ from the pulpit and podium and fully operate by the head and heart knowledge that Christ holds supreme authority over the Church and American Government, we will remain vulnerable to attacks from those who serve foreign gods. And no, as will be proven to you shortly, those kinds of declarations do not violate “separation of church and state”.
Our Founders, and the generations who followed, were Christians who understood that submission to Christ, who overcame every foreign god 1,700 years before America’s inception, would enable them to live securely in their new home. So, how did we become vulnerable to infiltration from and oppression by foreign gods? In retrospect, we can easily retrace our missteps.
Most Christians still seem to understand that they have a biblical obligation to declare Christ’s supremacy in their own lives, but many are unaware of the longstanding historical precedent supporting the declaration of Christ’s supremacy over the nation. Unfortunately, this generation has had their constitutional comprehension sabotaged by 50 years of court rulings based upon the unconstitutional Lemon Test. The Lemon Test was a fraudulent judicial test, adopted in 1971, for assessing violations of the Establishment Clause. Lemon, ignoring our Founders’ original intent and our nation’s history and traditions, licensed judges to categorize government participation in anything even remotely religious as a violation of the Establishment Clause. 50 years of corrupted Lemon Test court precedent cause Americans to screech “SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND STATE” whenever government and the Gospel of the Kingdom are properly seated together. There is no question that Lemon was adopted to remove God’s covering from America, and it almost worked until the Trump-appointed Supreme Court Justices abandoned it in 2022. We were set free in 2022; we just don’t know how to think or behave like free people yet.
Will we find a way to exercise our newly gained religious freedom to extinguish the jihadist movement being kindled in America? We have two clear paths forward: We, as a nation, can obey God’s word and resist Allah, and he will flee. Or we can pander to Allah, in which case, he will end up ruling over us. Revisiting our founding might help us dig up some artifacts from the pre-Lemon era, when men knew what it meant to live in a nation dedicated to and ruled over by Jesus Christ alone.
The story of the 40th European attempt to settle America provides a glimpse into the earliest colonists’ frame of mind. In 1606, Robert Hunt, a priest from the Church of England, embarked upon a 4 1/2-month-long journey to the New Land as the chaplain of a 105-member crew of Englishmen. While many set sail to gain wealth, power, or freedom from their former lives, Reverend Hunt sought to plant a Christian church. In April 1607, the company made landfall at what would become Cape Henry, Virginia. Before permitting the colonists to explore the territory, Hunt required three days of on-ship prayer and fasting. Hunt knew that if they were to be successful, they must consecrate, with pure hearts, the land for God’s purposes. After three days, the crew erected a seven-foot wooden cross on the beach. [2], [3] Joined by the crew, Hunt declared the following words:
“We do hereby dedicate this Land, and ourselves, to reach the People within these shores with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, and to raise up Godly generations after us, and with these generations take the Kingdom of God to all the earth. May this Covenant of Dedication remain to all generations, as long as this earth remains and may this land, along with England, be evangelists to the world. May all who see this cross remember what we have done here, and may those who come here to inhabit join us in this Covenant and this most noble work, that the Holy Scriptures may be fulfilled. From these very shores the gospel shall go forth, not only to this new world, but the entire world.” [4]
Hunt continued, proclaiming Psalm 22:27-28. “All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the Lord. And all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before Thee. For the Kingdom is the Lord’s and He rules among the nations.”
This covenant laid the foundation for Jamestown, the first permanent English colony in America. Hunt and his crew would finally become the company to achieve divinely orchestrated success after 39 failed attempts. Hunt also read from Deuteronomy chapter 8 during the brief service, a chapter that reminded the Hebrew people to honor God as they came into their inheritance. The selection of that passage speaks clearly to Hunt’s state of mind. The New World was a second Promised Land in his eyes. His soon-to-be neighbors to the north, the Pilgrims and Puritans, held this same view of the New World. They saw an opportunity for Kingdom living to advance in America.
On April 29, 2025, President Trump recognized, by executive proclamation, the 418th anniversary of the first landing and the raising of the cross at Cape Henry, Virginia. He declared the planting of the Cape Henry cross to have “sown the seeds of America’s destiny”. [5]
In 1643, the Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England (the Thirteen Colonies) were signed, establishing the first joint government in America. The following is a quote from that document: “Whereas we all came into these parts of America with one and the same end and aim, namely, to advance the Kingdom of our Lord Jesus Christ and to enjoy the liberties of the Gospel in purity with peace…” [6]
In 1854, the United States House Judiciary Committee of the 33rd Congress issued the following statement:
“In this age, there is no substitute for Christianity…That was the religion of the founders of the republic, and they expected it to remain the religion of their descendants.” [7]
In 1856, the House of Representatives declared:
“The great, vital and conservative element in our system is the belief of our people in the pure, doctrines and divine truths of the Gospel of Jesus Christ.” [8]
Our Founders came to America to worship Christ freely without denominational interference, which they referred to as religious interference; they were fleeing the oppressive state-run Church of England. They never intended the Establishment Clause to secularize government. The Founders unmistakably based America’s governmental authority on Jesus Christ. Jefferson, who wrote the letter to the Danbury Baptists that included the phrase “separation of church and state,” regularly attended church inside the US Capitol Building. In fact, he attended services in that building two days after penning his famous letter. During Jefferson’s presidency, the War and Treasury Departments also held Sunday church services. [9]
We saw this same tradition play out recently, on May 21, 2025, when Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth began holding voluntary monthly prayer services inside the US Pentagon building. This is how the New World functioned for 364 years, from its 1607 settlement until Lemon was adopted in 1971. Our defenses weakened when the Supreme Court opened the door to 50 years of misinterpretation of the Establishment Clause via Lemon. But now Lemon is dead, and our nation is healing.
America’s founding documents and covenants demand that we operate as a Christian nation by upholding the Law of God and preserving Christian values in the public square, but we, in a Christ-like manner, will force no one to swear allegiance to our God. We will, however, expect them to respect the Christian foundation of our nation.
We will get exactly what we deserve if we cannot awaken to the fact that nothing is secular. The belief that the Establishment Clause required us to banish God from schools, government, libraries, and the public square was a deception that opened the door to lesser gods. These fallen created beings, who were all defeated at the cross, immediately seized the opportunity we offered them to influence life in America.
Nothing is secular; nothing is sterile, and everything in the material realm has a spiritual realm counterpart. Today is our day to choose whom we will serve - a being who commands us to shed the blood of our fellow man or a God who shed his own blood so that we might find life and true peace. The Lord of lords extends salvation to Black, White, Muslim, and Jew. It is within Christ, not the condemning spirit of religion, but in the person of Jesus, that America will find the peace and unity she’s longing for.
We can stop jihad in America, but will we? I believe we eventually will, after a significant shaking in our nation awakens the sleeping Church. Now is the time for each of us to choose which side of history and eternity we want to be on. The decision we make will also determine the role that each of us will play in the America that is awakening to the existence of its founding covenants. It will be through this knowledge, and the heart change that accompanies genuine revelation, that America reclaims its status as a nation that operates under the protective, jihad-proof covering of Jesus Christ.
Molly Krempski
Endnotes
[1] Wooten, Nick, and Ashford, Adrian. “Gov. Abbott calls for construction to stop at EPIC City. Developer says it hasn’t begun.”, The Dallas Morning News, April 1, 2025, accessed May 25, 2025, https://www.dallasnews.com/news/faith/2025/04/01/gov-abbott-calls-for-construction-to-stop-at-epic-city-developer-says-it-hasnt-begun/
[2] “Cape Henry Memorial Cross - Part of Colonial National Historical Park Virginia”, accessed May 23, 2025, https://www.nps.gov/came/cape-henry-memorial-cross.htm
[3] Library of Congress - “The English Establish a Foothold at Jamestown, 1606-1610”, accessed May 23, 2025, https://www.loc.gov/classroom-materials/united-states-history-primary-source-timeline/colonial-settlement-1600-1763/english-at-jamestown-1606-1610/
[4] “Virginia 1994 - WallBuilders”, accessed May 23, 2025, https://wallbuilders.com/resource/virginia-1994/
[5] "418th Anniversary of the First Landing and Raising of the Cape Henry Cross”, accessed May 23, 2025, https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/418th-anniversary-of-the-first-landing-and-the-raising-of-the-cape-henry-cross/
[6] “Avalon Project - The Articles of Confederation of the United Colonies of New England; May 19, 1643”, accessed May 23, 2025, https://avalon.law.yale.edu/17th_century/art1613.asp
[7] Reports of Committees of the House of Representatives Made During the First Session of the Thirty-Third Congress (Washington: A. O. P. Nicholson, 1854), 6-9.
[8] Journal of the House of the Representatives of the United States of America (Washington, DC: Cornelius Wendell, 1855), 34th Cong., 1st Sess.:354, January 23, 1856; B. F. Morris, The Christian Life and Character of the Civil Institutions of the United States (Philadelphia: George W. Childs, 1864), 328.
[9] Library of Congress - “Religion and the Founding of the American Republic”, accessed May 23, 2025, https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel06-2.html