Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for joining us this Wednesday, October 28, 2026. October is almost gone.
Tim Wildmon: Joining me in the studio is Fred Jackson. Good morning, Fred.
Fred Jackson: Good morning to you.
Tim Wildmon: And Chris Woodward.
Chris Woodward: Hello.
Tim Wildmon: That's it, people. Just three of us. We're not even splitting the brain power up four ways today. It's just three.
Chris Woodward: Three amigos.
Tim Wildmon: We have a plethora of stories. We have a plethora, and we're going to bring it.
Tim Wildmon: Ed's out this week, and Ray's out too. I'd rather be with us tomorrow. Westy's out, so here we are. We've got a lot of news. Not all of it good, but not all of it bad. Kind of like life, isn't it?
Tim Wildmon: Today's Issues here with American Family Radio. Brother Abraham Hamilton III will be with us at the bottom of the hour. We look forward to visiting with Abe and listening to his voice fluctuate greatly. He's a preacher. You know he's a preacher. He's a preacher-lawyer combo.
Tim Wildmon: Abe can do what we call go. He can go. We look forward to talking to Brother Abe. All right, Chris, what is happening in our world?
Chris Woodward: Let's go to the Middle East, where that election that occurred yesterday in Israel is too close to call. I'm talking about the parliamentary election that will determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains prime minister or whether they'll go in another direction.
Chris Woodward: Netanyahu's Likud Party is neck and neck with his opposition party, Yesh Atid.
Tim Wildmon: We've got you. Good job there, Chris.
Chris Woodward: I rehearsed in the car.
Tim Wildmon: You got it. Who's in? What, Chris?
Chris Woodward: Likud and Yesh Atid.
Tim Wildmon: Yes.
Chris Woodward: Good Mississippi way to describe them.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you. What was the second one?
Chris Woodward: Yesh Atid.
Tim Wildmon: Are you sure about that?
Chris Woodward: Yesh Atid.
Tim Wildmon: Sounds like a place over in the Delta.
Chris Woodward: Yeah, I was born in Yesh Atid. That's next to Money.
Tim Wildmon: More serious here.
Chris Woodward: Anyway, in all seriousness, Fred has posted some AP material to this effect as Israel awaits final election results, and Netanyahu remains far from defeated. Somebody on television this morning talking about this was none other than Fox News reporter Trey Yingst, who had this to say from Tel Aviv.
Trey Yingst: The votes in Israel are being counted as we speak, and the race is still incredibly tight, with no official results given. We do know that neither bloc, the right or left, currently has a 61-seat coalition. Israel now faces weeks of political uncertainty that could end in a deal with Arab parties, a unity government, or forcing the country back into new elections.
Trey Yingst: Exit polls largely showed Netanyahu's Likud Party getting the most votes, but his bloc was lower than his main challenger, Gadi Eisenkot's Yesh Atid Party.
Tim Wildmon: As we talked about this before, folks, I know it gets a little complicated for we Americans to understand the parliamentary form of government used in many countries around the world, including Israel.
Tim Wildmon: They're having to put together whoever they can. They have an election, and there may be eight people running for office. Then the final two, excuse me, the two with the most votes, have to try to work out deals and negotiations with these other smaller parties to put together a majority. The prime ministership, as it were, will not change. Benjamin Netanyahu will remain prime minister until this election is resolved. Do I have it right?
Chris Woodward: Yeah, that's about it. There are at least a couple dozen parties in Israel. The polls closed there at 10 o'clock local time last night, so it was a long day. By the time it was over, neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot, who was his closest rival in this, had the majority. It's a 120-seat parliament of sorts. You need 61 to have a majority.
Chris Woodward: The two headliners, Netanyahu and Eisenkot, did not even come close to that. So now, as Trey Yingst was pointing out, we go into a series of negotiations. These two men will start talking to some of these smaller parties to see if they can bring the count up to 61, and whether these other parties will support them.
Chris Woodward: Prime Minister Netanyahu has said already that he has no plans to talk to at least two predominantly Arab parties in the Israeli Knesset, because there are a lot of Palestinians who are Israeli citizens. He says he has no interest in talking to them because he believes they want a two-state solution, and Prime Minister Netanyahu is really not interested in that.
Chris Woodward: There was one other very interesting factor in this election. The election turnout was almost 78 percent of eligible voters. They actually voted, 78 percent.
Chris Woodward: We've talked a lot about getting the vote out in this country. I think there would be a lot of happy people if we got to 78 percent in this country of eligible voters actually voting. As of this morning in this country, we've got 36 million people who have already voted, but that's not even close to how many people are eligible to vote.
Chris Woodward: It is the first election since the October 7, 2023, massacre of more than 1,200 Israeli men, women, and children. There are some in Israel who are trying to blame Prime Minister Netanyahu for not detecting that Hamas terrorists were going to carry out this massacre, but as many others have said, Hamas is the only one responsible for what happened on October 7, 2023.
Tim Wildmon: So it could be a week or two before we know?
Chris Woodward: Yeah, this is going to be two or three weeks probably.
Tim Wildmon: What is the substantive difference between Netanyahu, whose party is Likud, and the gentleman who's got Eisenkot? What is he saying is wrong with Netanyahu's politics?
Chris Woodward: I can tell you from news reports and my own Q and A's with Israelis over the past year and a half, a lot of people are upset with the handling of the situation in Gaza, the handling of the war. A lot of Israelis, even though many of the hostages were released, were upset that Netanyahu didn't bring the hostages home sooner.
Tim Wildmon: So what else are they standing for?
Chris Woodward: There are also some who object that there hasn't been a formal inquiry as to why Hamas was able to carry out this massacre. That's one thing. The other issue has been that the Likud Party, Prime Minister Netanyahu's party, has allowed Orthodox Jews to be exempt from their young people going into mandatory military service.
Tim Wildmon: Which one of the candidates is in favor of the Orthodox being able to be exempt?
Chris Woodward: Likud.
Tim Wildmon: Prime Minister Netanyahu?
Chris Woodward: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: That would be unpopular with me. If I were in Israel and I was not an Orthodox Jew, yet they were exempt from serving to protect the country that they live in, that just doesn't seem right to me. It never has seemed right to me. But we'll see what happens there. It is a divisive issue within the country of Israel.
Tim Wildmon: Meanwhile, back here in the homeland, we've got an election coming up for us.
Chris Woodward: We sure do. Somebody trying to ensure there is a good voter turnout here in the United States of America is none other than President Donald Trump. He's been traveling the country to try to get out the vote, especially among Republicans.
Tim Wildmon: He was in Corinth, Mississippi.
Chris Woodward: He cares whether Democrats get out and vote. He cares for the Republicans.
Tim Wildmon: Sure, because they're the ones who will help approve his agenda.
Chris Woodward: He had two rallies yesterday in Texas. He's actually been to Texas several times on this campaign blitz, but he had two rallies yesterday in which he urged voters to side with Ken Paxton over James Talarico, the Democrat running for Senate there in Texas. If elected, Talarico would be the first Democratic senator in Texas since the early 1990s.
Chris Woodward: Trump told the crowd that Talarico was wrong for Texas. He said, "You've got to vote for the other guy."
Donald Trump: We're going to elect one of the greatest attorneys general in the entire country and, frankly, the greatest attorney general in the history of Texas, Ken Paxton. The other guy does not deserve it. He doesn't represent your values. As soon as that election would be over, I don't even want to say the words, if he won, because I can't believe it's even possible. But you'll go off meat, you'll go off oil, you'll be letting millions and millions of people flow through your border, and you'll also have no Second Amendment. Him and his group, you will have no Second Amendment. It'll be destroyed.
Chris Woodward: He was in Corpus Christi first, and then he had another rally in Lubbock. It was interesting that in Corpus Christi they played a montage of quotes from Talarico early on, with Talarico talking about how he favors transgender issues and so on. They played that, and the crowd loved it.
Chris Woodward: At the Corpus Christi event yesterday, it seemed to be held in a hangar near the coastline, because you could look out the hangar door. President Trump said, "Look over there. There's a big tanker with a lot of Venezuelan oil," referring to efforts to help bring down oil prices.
Chris Woodward: In Lubbock, he had an announcement about removing more of Joe Biden's restrictions on oil, gas, and methane. The crowd loved it there in Lubbock. He really played to the oil and gas industry, which is so important in Texas.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, it is. To give you an idea of how big it is, oil is the foundational economic driver of Texas. I'm reading from the Federal Reserve's own information. Oil is the foundation economic driver of Texas, accounting for roughly 10 percent of the state's gross state product and producing 5.8 million barrels of oil per day.
Tim Wildmon: The beef industry that he mentioned is the third-largest state economic generator in Texas and the largest livestock sector, contributing over $12 billion annually. So if those economies fail in Texas, that impacts everybody listening, because we're all one big country.
Chris Woodward: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: The president is hitting the campaign trail for all the Republicans out there. He's trying to gin up the base of the party and make sure that it's get-out-the-vote mode.
Chris Woodward: Both sides try, but everybody says, especially in a close election, as a lot of them will be next Tuesday, the old cliché is true: whoever can get out their voters is the one who's going to win. Republicans have made a bigger effort to get early voting done. They didn't focus on that in the past, but since 2024 they've really emphasized getting out early and voting.
Tim Wildmon: I say go early, get out early, and vote often. I think that's the motto we need to know.
Chris Woodward: I'm just kidding.
Tim Wildmon: But watch out. Don't wait until next Tuesday night and go, "You know what? I never did vote." Then they tally up the numbers and you realize you didn't participate.
Chris Woodward: Yep. Let's remind folks that we will be here on Tuesday night, election night, at six o'clock Central with a full broadcast. We'll tell you about the results.
Tim Wildmon: It's almost a relief when the campaigns are over and you finally get to talk about results and see what's happening. I'm going to be interested in Michigan, the Senate race there. That is absolutely huge.
Chris Woodward: If the polling is correct, there are going to be some very close Senate races, in particular in Texas and Michigan, perhaps some other places. Maine may be close, Texas for sure, and Ohio. There are going to be some very close Senate races to watch.
Chris Woodward: It's important that the Republicans maintain control of the U.S. Senate. I'm assuming they're going to lose the House, although I could be wrong on that. Almost all indicators are that the Republicans only have a tiny majority now, maybe three, four, or five seats. If the Democrats take over the House, then the Senate is crucial to passing conservative federal judges that President Trump would nominate to the federal bench.
Tim Wildmon: I've mentioned that over and over again. In the universe in which we live, there is God Almighty, who alone is King of the universe. On planet Earth, though, the federal judges are number one in terms of their impact on our country. I'm exaggerating a little bit, but not by much.
Chris Woodward: For generations, they make decisions. There were people on the bench when I was born who were still on the bench making decisions.
Tim Wildmon: That's right. They have lifetime appointments. Who gets to appoint federal judges all over the country? Whoever is the president of the United States. Who gets to confirm or reject those nominees? The United States Senate.
Chris Woodward: Even if the Republicans were able to hold the Senate, they have a 53 to 47 lead right now. After next Tuesday, if that diminishes to, let's say, 50 to 50, then, assuming they had no breakaways on confirmations of judges, Vice President JD Vance could be a tie-breaking vote on a lot of different issues.
Chris Woodward: It's important to conservatism that it doesn't flip over to the liberals, like 51 to 49. That's a whole different world than even 50 to 50.
Tim Wildmon: You're listening to Today's Issues on American Family Radio. We're going to have Abraham Hamilton III join us at the bottom of the hour. We are going to talk about Islam. It's becoming more of an issue in the United States of America because more Muslims are running for office.
Tim Wildmon: What exactly do at least Muslims in other parts of the world, where they have a majority, how do they govern? Is it a theocracy? Is it a democracy? What does the Quran teach about politics?
Tim Wildmon: A lot of Muslims are now beginning to run for office in America as their numbers grow, just as they've grown greatly in Europe. What does that mean? A lot of people argue that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, and its teachings are not compatible with Western-style democracy, or in particular with the United States Constitution.
Tim Wildmon: Can those who follow the Quran merge with a democracy or a representative form of government that has free speech, freedom of religion, human rights, and those kinds of things? Can those things coexist with a religion that, if it takes a majority, often dominates the culture and society, as we've seen in Iran with the religion of Islam?
Tim Wildmon: We'll talk about that with Abraham Hamilton III.
Chris Woodward: Speaking of Muslims running for office, the fellow in Michigan, the Democrat, his last name is El-Sayed. What's his first name?
Tim Wildmon: Abdul.
Chris Woodward: Abdul. Well, there's your Muslim name.
Tim Wildmon: If they're named Abdul or Muhammad, you can tell.
Chris Woodward: I'm sorry. He's not Irish Catholic.
Tim Wildmon: Good point, Chris. Good observation.
Chris Woodward: This gentleman there in Michigan has been challenged on this very issue.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, and he doesn't like it. He gets upset and flustered when people start talking about his thoughts on the Quran and Islam and how they merge with Western-style democracy.
Chris Woodward: He's tried to compare himself to John F. Kennedy back in the 1960s, when people were concerned at that time about the odds of having a Catholic president in the White House. In recent days, he launched a black-and-white campaign ad in which El-Sayed portrayed himself as a "man of faith."
Chris Woodward: In that campaign video, it shows churches with crosses clearly in the video. He's shown people in synagogues with yarmulkes on. He's trying to portray himself as a man of faith and therefore a man of the people.
Chris Woodward: But Mike Rogers, the Republican challenging El-Sayed in Tuesday's election, claims, and has claimed for a long time, that El-Sayed has deep, strong ties to groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a concern for the United States of America because the Muslim Brotherhood is generally referred to and thought of as a terrorist organization.
Chris Woodward: We ought to be thanking our good Lord that we live in a day and age with technology called videotape, because a lot of things have come out about whether it's El-Sayed in Michigan or Talarico in Texas, things they have said in the past that they're now trying to back away from.
Tim Wildmon: El-Sayed in Michigan does not like Israel and basically hates Prime Minister Netanyahu. That's been out there for a while. On Israel, definitely, he's no friend of Israel.
Chris Woodward: Also, his economic policies are a marrying of Islam and socialism, because he favors Medicare for all. Somebody has done some calculating about how much it would cost American taxpayers. We're talking trillions of dollars, trillions.
Chris Woodward: Here's what happens when you have socialized medicine. There are big promises. You've got medical care for all. Well, not really. The amount of medical care you get in socialized medicine goes down.
Chris Woodward: In Canada, which has had socialized medicine for a long time, you can go to your general practitioner, and your GP may say you need a hip replacement. Then they say, "We'll get you an appointment with a specialist five months from now."
Chris Woodward: This causes restrictions on how many patients specialists can have and how many patients a GP can have. There's a whole other story behind the promises of socialized medicine. Unfortunately, Medicare for all sounds really good if you're not familiar with socialized medicine.
Tim Wildmon: It sounds great because health care costs a lot of money. If you say, "We're going to give you health care free," everybody says, "Sign me up for that."
Chris Woodward: There's a price to be paid. When somebody gives you something, there are no free lunches, as they say. The trade-off for "free" medicine is that the government tells you what doctor you can see, when you can see the doctor, and what tests they'll pay for.
Chris Woodward: There are a lot of conditions that Americans would find unacceptable. But if you put it in a campaign speech and say, "We're spending a lot on defense. To pay for everybody's health care, who's with me?" you're going to get a healthy response.
Tim Wildmon: One of the things El-Sayed is known to say is that the government will pay for it.
Chris Woodward: The taxpayers fund the government. If you're concerned about $40 trillion in debt, and you should be, it will be a whole lot worse if we ever go down this road.
Chris Woodward: Talking about El-Sayed real quick, former President Barack Obama came to Michigan and campaigned with him this week. In a social media post, El-Sayed thanked Obama for coming to help him and urged voters in Michigan to help continue Obama's legacy and guarantee health coverage.
Tim Wildmon: The Affordable Care Act, which Obama signed into law, was supposed to provide coverage to the uninsured. Why are we guaranteeing people something they're already allowed to get at taxpayer expense? Depending on your income, you can get subsidized health care plans for little to no money at all.
Tim Wildmon: All right, we will be back with Abraham Hamilton III.
Chris Woodward: We're each a third, and we make up a whole on this show.
Tim Wildmon: But nobody's there.
Chris Woodward: Are you even a second?
Tim Wildmon: Abraham Hamilton III will be with us in just a few minutes, right here on Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network.
Tim Wildmon: Welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to AFR. I'm Tim with Fred and Chris. As we told you, Abraham Hamilton III would be joining us, and he is in the studio. Abe is host of The Hamilton Corner, which a lot of you listen to each weekday afternoon, five to six o'clock Central, right here on AFR. Good morning, Abe.
Abraham Hamilton III: Good morning. Good morning.
Tim Wildmon: I want to give you an opportunity to honor your father, who recently passed away. He was an Air Force veteran, right?
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes, an Air Force veteran. Abraham Hamilton Jr. died just shy of 80 years old. He would have been turning 80 soon. He passed away on Monday, October 12th.
Tim Wildmon: He was key in mentoring you.
Abraham Hamilton III: Absolutely. My father was my first coach, the one who encouraged me to have self-confidence. The entirety of the trajectory of my life was radically transformed because my parents became Christians the year that I was born.
Abraham Hamilton III: I was basically raised by young, passionate Christians. I keenly remember, in New Orleans, Louisiana, my mom pouring out alcohol. She said, "Because I love Jesus, and I'm serious about this." That was something my parents pursued.
Abraham Hamilton III: This was in the midst of growing up in what could only be described as a chaotic environment. When I was growing up in New Orleans, it was one of the murder capitals of the world per capita.
Tim Wildmon: You lived in the inner city, right?
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes. Long before I ever started practicing law, I saw dead bodies outside of my grandmother's home. My parents were intentional about creating a culture within my home that was an island and a difference from what was surrounding us.
Abraham Hamilton III: I keenly remember my parents requiring me to use my tongue and my teeth. Even now people say, "You don't sound like you're from New Orleans," and that's because of my parents. They made us articulate the English language inside my home. I never thought in a million years I'd be speaking in my adulthood.
Tim Wildmon: What a great legacy and what great parents they were. How many siblings did you have?
Abraham Hamilton III: I have three sisters and two brothers. The reality is that Jesus is the game changer. If Jesus had not first and foremost invaded my parents' lives, I would more than likely be no different than anybody else who grew up where I grew up. My experience was transformed because of my parents' transformation.
Tim Wildmon: On the carnal side of things, one of your sisters can absolutely cook.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: I don't know if that's carnal. Maybe you were misused right there. I'm just talking about fleshly things.
Chris Woodward: She can cook some New Orleans-style food.
Tim Wildmon: She was in Tupelo for a while and then went back to New Orleans.
Abraham Hamilton III: She went back to New Orleans.
Tim Wildmon: I miss buying her food. She would make food that was off the charts.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: I wanted you to mention that because your dad recently passed. He served the Lord God, served our country, and obviously served his family.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes. His faith is now sight.
Tim Wildmon: Amen.
Abraham Hamilton III: Amen.
Tim Wildmon: Is he buried in the veterans cemetery?
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: My dad is up there as well.
Abraham Hamilton III: Really?
Tim Wildmon: We're probably hanging out together.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: So your dad is also buried in a military cemetery?
Abraham Hamilton III: There is a United States military cemetery an hour from my home in Mississippi, so that's where my father's buried.
Tim Wildmon: What branch was your dad in?
Abraham Hamilton III: He was in the Navy. He was drafted into the Navy in the 1960s and went to Vietnam. He's buried up there at the Corinth National Cemetery.
Tim Wildmon: Do you have to make application to be buried in this military national cemetery?
Abraham Hamilton III: You either provide the DD-214 or other identifying information, and they verify military service. One of the things I learned through this process is that our armed forces will provide a burial plot for those who've served our nation in the armed forces without charging the family, as well as the headstone and a liner for the casket.
Tim Wildmon: Arlington National Cemetery is obviously the most famous, but there are a lot of people who don't know that there are military cemeteries around the country.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes. My grandfather was also an armed services veteran who was buried in a national cemetery in Houston, Texas.
Tim Wildmon: That's where my grandfather is. That's Abraham Sr. Junior is my dad, and I'm the third.
Tim Wildmon: Switching topics, we mentioned to you prior to the show that we wanted to talk about Islam and what's going on with Muslims running for office in America, what that means, and what could happen.
Tim Wildmon: This is an issue that needs some context. Most Muslims are good people. They don't agree with us theologically, but I've dealt with a lot of Muslims over my lifetime, and most all of them were nice, friendly people. I didn't have any problem with them.
Tim Wildmon: However, there is a difference, and people need to understand this. There is a difference between an individual Muslim person and the teachings of Islam. Are you with me on that?
Abraham Hamilton III: I'm with you 100 percent. The thing we have to come face to face with is really twofold. One, in our nation, according to the data available to us, we have somewhere between five and six million Muslims in America.
Abraham Hamilton III: If the majority is, as you described, peaceful and not hostile to the American way of life, if only one percent of them would actually heed the entire scope of the teachings of the Quran and the Hadith, you're talking somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 people.
Abraham Hamilton III: So the majority or minority issue is not the exclusive issue to consider. It does not take a majority in order for there to be trouble for us. Secondarily, we also have to ask which conduct is consistent with the Quran and the Hadith, and which conduct is a derogation from it.
Abraham Hamilton III: Whenever there has been caliphate-style behavior established, the first victims of Islamic zealots are usually fellow Muslims. They would be apostates.
Tim Wildmon: So, just to be clear, Sharia?
Abraham Hamilton III: Sure.
Tim Wildmon: The peaceful Muslims aren't really following Sharia. Is that a fair statement?
Abraham Hamilton III: It would not even be my opinion. I think other Muslims would make that argument.
Tim Wildmon: The practicing Muslims who say they follow Sharia, Sharia is a law that says their law is supreme and that they are here to diminish the impact of other religions.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes. They cannot abide any other religion or legal system. It must be subjugated to Sharia.
Tim Wildmon: If you want evidence of what we're talking about, where Islam dominates and what that leads to, there are examples in the world today, Iran chief among them.
Tim Wildmon: Within the religion of Islam, there are two major denominations, to use a term American Christians would be familiar with. Just like we have Catholics and Protestants, they have the Sunni group and the Shia group.
Abraham Hamilton III: The Sunni group is about 70 to 80 percent of all Muslims in the world. They would be found in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey, for example. The Shia are about 20 percent, and they're in Iran, for example. They're more in the Persian countries.
Tim Wildmon: I'm using Persian as opposed to Arab countries. Arab countries include Saudi Arabia. That's why you wonder why Saudi Arabia and Iran have a rivalry. It's because they're two different denominations of Islam.
Tim Wildmon: Back to talking about Islam, these places in the world that have Muslim-dominant populations operate under Sharia law. The religion dominates everything: politics, society, the law, and education. They dominate everything. There is no room for any other religion to be practiced or expressed.
Tim Wildmon: When we had troops stationed in Kuwait during the first Gulf War, do you remember the controversy that arose because the government of Kuwait, an Islamic government, didn't want our servicemen to be able to observe Christmas?
Fred Jackson: I remember that.
Tim Wildmon: Our military said, "Okay, we'll keep them in their tents." I think it was Kuwait. It may have been somewhere else over there. But do you remember this?
Tim Wildmon: As long as Islam is, especially in America, still a tiny minority, although growing, they're not going to come out and say, "Hey, we want to dominate America and turn it into an Islamic country like Iran or a theocracy." They're not going to say that.
Tim Wildmon: Obviously, this is what Abdul El-Sayed is being confronted with in Michigan, because he's being asked about the teachings of Islam versus observing and revering the Constitution of the United States. Those are completely different things.
Tim Wildmon: Abe, any comments on what I've just expressed, as well as statements he's made in the past when he's asserted that Sharia law should be supreme over the United States of America? He said that on tape. Why is he changing course now?
Abraham Hamilton III: Because he's running for office. He wants to win in a general election statewide in the state of Michigan.
Tim Wildmon: Do you think he's changed, or do you think he's telling whoppers?
Abraham Hamilton III: I do not think he's changed. I think he's intentionally telling whoppers in order to deceive a significant portion of Michigan voters so he can get elected.
Tim Wildmon: You think he's trying to deceive them by saying, "No, I no longer believe what I said back then"?
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes, I do believe that. That is consistent with what you just described. Whenever you have a smaller minority of Muslims present, there is a certain tactic that's employed that often includes deception for the express purpose of advancing the status of Islam in the place where they do so.
Abraham Hamilton III: There are lots of different historical sources of evidence that we could use. One example is that in 2004 our FBI found an explanatory memorandum on the general strategic goal for the Muslim Brotherhood in North America.
Tim Wildmon: What is the Muslim Brotherhood?
Abraham Hamilton III: The Muslim Brotherhood is an Arab Muslim, Sunni-dominated organization that seeks to export Islam all around the world and uses terrorism primarily as its means of doing so. Think al-Qaeda.
Tim Wildmon: And ISIS.
Abraham Hamilton III: Literally. They have the same ideology. In Egypt, they were so radical that the Egyptian government kicked them out. The Egyptian government is Arab Muslim, and they kicked the Muslim Brotherhood out because they were a terrorist organization.
Tim Wildmon: So you're saying this fellow El-Sayed, his family has been identified with this organization?
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: He's saying that's not true, isn't he?
Abraham Hamilton III: He disputes the information, just like he's disputing whether or not he supports the supremacy of Sharia law.
Tim Wildmon: But should he, in fairness, be held accountable for what his parents or family may have been involved with in the past? He's not them. It's about what he believes.
Abraham Hamilton III: Far more than any other human being could be, I know a family where one brother's progeny deviated very much from the views, worldviews, and commitments of that brother, especially when you have a public record of that commitment and it consists throughout the family's life.
Tim Wildmon: You're talking about me.
Abraham Hamilton III: I was using that as an example.
Tim Wildmon: I caught on pretty quick there.
Abraham Hamilton III: It could possibly happen, but I wanted people to understand who the Muslim Brotherhood was because I was about to talk about that.
Abraham Hamilton III: The FBI accidentally found this memorandum in 2004, but sometimes people fail to realize the context in which they found it. The memorandum was related to an adopted and approved agenda from 1987. This memo was a 1991 appendix to the adopted commitment of the Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Abraham Hamilton III: In it, they developed, articulated, and put in print a long-term plan to infiltrate and move the United States of America to become an Islamic nation, as part of a global Islamic caliphate.
Abraham Hamilton III: Among the most amazing quotes is that they articulated the necessity of applying a grand jihad. They distinguished this grand jihad as a civilizational jihad process, not in the sense of an armed struggle, as the word had been used prior to that moment, but in an effort to articulate a civilizational struggle.
Abraham Hamilton III: The memorandum said, "The process of settlement is a civilizational jihadist process. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers, Islamic believers, so that it is eliminated and Islam is made victorious over all other religions."
Abraham Hamilton III: The term Ikhwan is a Sunni Wahhabi term that refers to a religiously dedicated militia.
Abraham Hamilton III: This is in the document our FBI discovered in 2004, revealing a plan that dated all the way back to 1987 for the Muslim Brotherhood to use, in their terminology, America's miserable hands to sabotage its own house.
Tim Wildmon: So it's infiltration without guns being fired.
Abraham Hamilton III: Exactly. The memo lists a host of organizations like CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and a host of other organizations that they will work together with in order to accomplish this grand jihad, which ultimately includes running candidates for office, attaining power, and using that power to advance the cause of Islam.
Abraham Hamilton III: That's why I'm not surprised to see Abdul El-Sayed's most recent ad, where he was trying to make an argument about economics and saying the reason bananas are so high is because of the Jews.
Tim Wildmon: That leads me to this, because I want to use the case that everybody knows about, and that's Iran.
Tim Wildmon: In 1979 we had the Iranian Islamic Revolution. If you didn't live through that, which I did, and Fred did, you know about it anyway. The Ayatollah and the mullahs, who are religious instructors there in Iran, took over the country.
Tim Wildmon: They threw the shah out. He was an American-friendly, Western-friendly guy, basically a dictator, but they threw him out and replaced him with an Islamic dictator named the Ayatollah.
Tim Wildmon: Ayatollah, correct me if I'm wrong here, is a term used like "pope." You have all kinds of people who have been popes. When they say Ayatollah Khomeini, that's just a title. They'll have another ayatollah.
Abraham Hamilton III: It's a title, not a name.
Tim Wildmon: That's when they began to use language in Iran. That's really when our war with Iran started, because Iran began to threaten us by calling us the Great Satan and trying to teach its citizens to hate the West and America in particular.
Tim Wildmon: We were the Great Satan, and the Jews in Israel became the Little Satan. They've been indoctrinating their people and the followers of the Shia branch of Islam with this ideology for a long time.
Tim Wildmon: How did we get into this current war that we're in with Iran, and how does that relate to 1979?
Tim Wildmon: When you hold a view like the Ayatollah and the mullahs in Iran do, and by the way, they've had internal fighting inside Iran with people who don't like living under this religious oppression, which is terroristic, it's like totalitarianism, probably worse than China.
Abraham Hamilton III: It is.
Tim Wildmon: In terms of how many protesters were just killed in January.
Abraham Hamilton III: Forty thousand protesters were killed.
Tim Wildmon: They kill them. If you disagree with the Ayatollah, you're dead. You wonder why the people of Iran haven't risen up.
Abraham Hamilton III: They're scared to death. They're in their homes. They don't have any guns.
Tim Wildmon: But back to my point, how does this relate? How does 1979 relate to where we are today?
Abraham Hamilton III: Usually in warfare, you have a border dispute, a tribal dispute, or people fighting over natural resources. There are reasons why people hate one another and why they go to war with one another.
Abraham Hamilton III: In the case of Iran, Israel is not on their border. Israel is probably 1,500 or 2,000 miles away. They're still in the neighborhood in the Middle East, but there have not been wars between Iran and the Jews in Israel over the kinds of things people typically fight over.
Abraham Hamilton III: They hold a religious view that the Jews are infidels and are occupying a Muslim, formerly Muslim, part of the world, talking about Palestine and modern-day Israel. That's the reason they hate the Jews. They want the Jews killed and want to move into that part of the world.
Tim Wildmon: They have proxies around them to do their bidding for them.
Abraham Hamilton III: Hamas is one of them. Hezbollah is another one. They want to war against the Jews, kill them all, drive them from the river to the sea, and get rid of the Jewish state of Israel.
Tim Wildmon: There's no reason for Iran and Israel to be at war with one another, as opposed to Ukraine and Russia, where you can at least understand that it is over borders and land, what people typically fight over.
Tim Wildmon: With Iran, they just hate Jews and Christians. They view America as a Christian nation, an infidel, Great Satan nation. That's why they're at war with us.
Abraham Hamilton III: What's concerning to Israel and to the United States is that these people hate our guts, have control, and are about to get a nuclear weapon.
Tim Wildmon: That's why President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu had our military fighting Iran. They were genuinely worried. You may disagree with that, right?
Abraham Hamilton III: They were genuinely worried.
Tim Wildmon: Can you hang on? I want to finish this thought. I know I went into a sermon there. We'll be back momentarily. Stay with us.
Tim Wildmon: Hey, good morning, everybody, and welcome to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for joining us this Wednesday, October 28, 2026. October is almost gone.
Tim Wildmon: Joining me in the studio is Fred Jackson. Good morning, Fred.
Fred Jackson: Good morning to you.
Tim Wildmon: And Chris Woodward.
Chris Woodward: Hello.
Tim Wildmon: That's it, people. Just three of us. We're not even splitting the brain power up four ways today. It's just three.
Chris Woodward: Three amigos.
Tim Wildmon: We have a plethora of stories. We have a plethora, and we're going to bring it.
Tim Wildmon: Ed's out this week, and Ray's out too. I'd rather be with us tomorrow. Westy's out, so here we are. We've got a lot of news. Not all of it good, but not all of it bad. Kind of like life, isn't it?
Tim Wildmon: Today's Issues here with American Family Radio. Brother Abraham Hamilton III will be with us at the bottom of the hour. We look forward to visiting with Abe and listening to his voice fluctuate greatly. He's a preacher. You know he's a preacher. He's a preacher-lawyer combo.
Tim Wildmon: Abe can do what we call go. He can go. We look forward to talking to Brother Abe. All right, Chris, what is happening in our world?
Chris Woodward: Let's go to the Middle East, where that election that occurred yesterday in Israel is too close to call. I'm talking about the parliamentary election that will determine whether Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu remains prime minister or whether they'll go in another direction.
Chris Woodward: Netanyahu's Likud Party is neck and neck with his opposition party, Yesh Atid.
Tim Wildmon: We've got you. Good job there, Chris.
Chris Woodward: I rehearsed in the car.
Tim Wildmon: You got it. Who's in? What, Chris?
Chris Woodward: Likud and Yesh Atid.
Tim Wildmon: Yes.
Chris Woodward: Good Mississippi way to describe them.
Tim Wildmon: Thank you. What was the second one?
Chris Woodward: Yesh Atid.
Tim Wildmon: Are you sure about that?
Chris Woodward: Yesh Atid.
Tim Wildmon: Sounds like a place over in the Delta.
Chris Woodward: Yeah, I was born in Yesh Atid. That's next to Money.
Tim Wildmon: More serious here.
Chris Woodward: Anyway, in all seriousness, Fred has posted some AP material to this effect as Israel awaits final election results, and Netanyahu remains far from defeated. Somebody on television this morning talking about this was none other than Fox News reporter Trey Yingst, who had this to say from Tel Aviv.
Trey Yingst: The votes in Israel are being counted as we speak, and the race is still incredibly tight, with no official results given. We do know that neither bloc, the right or left, currently has a 61-seat coalition. Israel now faces weeks of political uncertainty that could end in a deal with Arab parties, a unity government, or forcing the country back into new elections.
Trey Yingst: Exit polls largely showed Netanyahu's Likud Party getting the most votes, but his bloc was lower than his main challenger, Gadi Eisenkot's Yesh Atid Party.
Tim Wildmon: As we talked about this before, folks, I know it gets a little complicated for we Americans to understand the parliamentary form of government used in many countries around the world, including Israel.
Tim Wildmon: They're having to put together whoever they can. They have an election, and there may be eight people running for office. Then the final two, excuse me, the two with the most votes, have to try to work out deals and negotiations with these other smaller parties to put together a majority. The prime ministership, as it were, will not change. Benjamin Netanyahu will remain prime minister until this election is resolved. Do I have it right?
Chris Woodward: Yeah, that's about it. There are at least a couple dozen parties in Israel. The polls closed there at 10 o'clock local time last night, so it was a long day. By the time it was over, neither Netanyahu nor Eisenkot, who was his closest rival in this, had the majority. It's a 120-seat parliament of sorts. You need 61 to have a majority.
Chris Woodward: The two headliners, Netanyahu and Eisenkot, did not even come close to that. So now, as Trey Yingst was pointing out, we go into a series of negotiations. These two men will start talking to some of these smaller parties to see if they can bring the count up to 61, and whether these other parties will support them.
Chris Woodward: Prime Minister Netanyahu has said already that he has no plans to talk to at least two predominantly Arab parties in the Israeli Knesset, because there are a lot of Palestinians who are Israeli citizens. He says he has no interest in talking to them because he believes they want a two-state solution, and Prime Minister Netanyahu is really not interested in that.
Chris Woodward: There was one other very interesting factor in this election. The election turnout was almost 78 percent of eligible voters. They actually voted, 78 percent.
Chris Woodward: We've talked a lot about getting the vote out in this country. I think there would be a lot of happy people if we got to 78 percent in this country of eligible voters actually voting. As of this morning in this country, we've got 36 million people who have already voted, but that's not even close to how many people are eligible to vote.
Chris Woodward: It is the first election since the October 7, 2023, massacre of more than 1,200 Israeli men, women, and children. There are some in Israel who are trying to blame Prime Minister Netanyahu for not detecting that Hamas terrorists were going to carry out this massacre, but as many others have said, Hamas is the only one responsible for what happened on October 7, 2023.
Tim Wildmon: So it could be a week or two before we know?
Chris Woodward: Yeah, this is going to be two or three weeks probably.
Tim Wildmon: What is the substantive difference between Netanyahu, whose party is Likud, and the gentleman who's got Eisenkot? What is he saying is wrong with Netanyahu's politics?
Chris Woodward: I can tell you from news reports and my own Q and A's with Israelis over the past year and a half, a lot of people are upset with the handling of the situation in Gaza, the handling of the war. A lot of Israelis, even though many of the hostages were released, were upset that Netanyahu didn't bring the hostages home sooner.
Tim Wildmon: So what else are they standing for?
Chris Woodward: There are also some who object that there hasn't been a formal inquiry as to why Hamas was able to carry out this massacre. That's one thing. The other issue has been that the Likud Party, Prime Minister Netanyahu's party, has allowed Orthodox Jews to be exempt from their young people going into mandatory military service.
Tim Wildmon: Which one of the candidates is in favor of the Orthodox being able to be exempt?
Chris Woodward: Likud.
Tim Wildmon: Prime Minister Netanyahu?
Chris Woodward: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: That would be unpopular with me. If I were in Israel and I was not an Orthodox Jew, yet they were exempt from serving to protect the country that they live in, that just doesn't seem right to me. It never has seemed right to me. But we'll see what happens there. It is a divisive issue within the country of Israel.
Tim Wildmon: Meanwhile, back here in the homeland, we've got an election coming up for us.
Chris Woodward: We sure do. Somebody trying to ensure there is a good voter turnout here in the United States of America is none other than President Donald Trump. He's been traveling the country to try to get out the vote, especially among Republicans.
Tim Wildmon: He was in Corinth, Mississippi.
Chris Woodward: He cares whether Democrats get out and vote. He cares for the Republicans.
Tim Wildmon: Sure, because they're the ones who will help approve his agenda.
Chris Woodward: He had two rallies yesterday in Texas. He's actually been to Texas several times on this campaign blitz, but he had two rallies yesterday in which he urged voters to side with Ken Paxton over James Talarico, the Democrat running for Senate there in Texas. If elected, Talarico would be the first Democratic senator in Texas since the early 1990s.
Chris Woodward: Trump told the crowd that Talarico was wrong for Texas. He said, "You've got to vote for the other guy."
Donald Trump: We're going to elect one of the greatest attorneys general in the entire country and, frankly, the greatest attorney general in the history of Texas, Ken Paxton. The other guy does not deserve it. He doesn't represent your values. As soon as that election would be over, I don't even want to say the words, if he won, because I can't believe it's even possible. But you'll go off meat, you'll go off oil, you'll be letting millions and millions of people flow through your border, and you'll also have no Second Amendment. Him and his group, you will have no Second Amendment. It'll be destroyed.
Chris Woodward: He was in Corpus Christi first, and then he had another rally in Lubbock. It was interesting that in Corpus Christi they played a montage of quotes from Talarico early on, with Talarico talking about how he favors transgender issues and so on. They played that, and the crowd loved it.
Chris Woodward: At the Corpus Christi event yesterday, it seemed to be held in a hangar near the coastline, because you could look out the hangar door. President Trump said, "Look over there. There's a big tanker with a lot of Venezuelan oil," referring to efforts to help bring down oil prices.
Chris Woodward: In Lubbock, he had an announcement about removing more of Joe Biden's restrictions on oil, gas, and methane. The crowd loved it there in Lubbock. He really played to the oil and gas industry, which is so important in Texas.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, it is. To give you an idea of how big it is, oil is the foundational economic driver of Texas. I'm reading from the Federal Reserve's own information. Oil is the foundation economic driver of Texas, accounting for roughly 10 percent of the state's gross state product and producing 5.8 million barrels of oil per day.
Tim Wildmon: The beef industry that he mentioned is the third-largest state economic generator in Texas and the largest livestock sector, contributing over $12 billion annually. So if those economies fail in Texas, that impacts everybody listening, because we're all one big country.
Chris Woodward: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: The president is hitting the campaign trail for all the Republicans out there. He's trying to gin up the base of the party and make sure that it's get-out-the-vote mode.
Chris Woodward: Both sides try, but everybody says, especially in a close election, as a lot of them will be next Tuesday, the old cliché is true: whoever can get out their voters is the one who's going to win. Republicans have made a bigger effort to get early voting done. They didn't focus on that in the past, but since 2024 they've really emphasized getting out early and voting.
Tim Wildmon: I say go early, get out early, and vote often. I think that's the motto we need to know.
Chris Woodward: I'm just kidding.
Tim Wildmon: But watch out. Don't wait until next Tuesday night and go, "You know what? I never did vote." Then they tally up the numbers and you realize you didn't participate.
Chris Woodward: Yep. Let's remind folks that we will be here on Tuesday night, election night, at six o'clock Central with a full broadcast. We'll tell you about the results.
Tim Wildmon: It's almost a relief when the campaigns are over and you finally get to talk about results and see what's happening. I'm going to be interested in Michigan, the Senate race there. That is absolutely huge.
Chris Woodward: If the polling is correct, there are going to be some very close Senate races, in particular in Texas and Michigan, perhaps some other places. Maine may be close, Texas for sure, and Ohio. There are going to be some very close Senate races to watch.
Chris Woodward: It's important that the Republicans maintain control of the U.S. Senate. I'm assuming they're going to lose the House, although I could be wrong on that. Almost all indicators are that the Republicans only have a tiny majority now, maybe three, four, or five seats. If the Democrats take over the House, then the Senate is crucial to passing conservative federal judges that President Trump would nominate to the federal bench.
Tim Wildmon: I've mentioned that over and over again. In the universe in which we live, there is God Almighty, who alone is King of the universe. On planet Earth, though, the federal judges are number one in terms of their impact on our country. I'm exaggerating a little bit, but not by much.
Chris Woodward: For generations, they make decisions. There were people on the bench when I was born who were still on the bench making decisions.
Tim Wildmon: That's right. They have lifetime appointments. Who gets to appoint federal judges all over the country? Whoever is the president of the United States. Who gets to confirm or reject those nominees? The United States Senate.
Chris Woodward: Even if the Republicans were able to hold the Senate, they have a 53 to 47 lead right now. After next Tuesday, if that diminishes to, let's say, 50 to 50, then, assuming they had no breakaways on confirmations of judges, Vice President JD Vance could be a tie-breaking vote on a lot of different issues.
Chris Woodward: It's important to conservatism that it doesn't flip over to the liberals, like 51 to 49. That's a whole different world than even 50 to 50.
Tim Wildmon: You're listening to Today's Issues on American Family Radio. We're going to have Abraham Hamilton III join us at the bottom of the hour. We are going to talk about Islam. It's becoming more of an issue in the United States of America because more Muslims are running for office.
Tim Wildmon: What exactly do at least Muslims in other parts of the world, where they have a majority, how do they govern? Is it a theocracy? Is it a democracy? What does the Quran teach about politics?
Tim Wildmon: A lot of Muslims are now beginning to run for office in America as their numbers grow, just as they've grown greatly in Europe. What does that mean? A lot of people argue that the Quran, the holy book of Islam, and its teachings are not compatible with Western-style democracy, or in particular with the United States Constitution.
Tim Wildmon: Can those who follow the Quran merge with a democracy or a representative form of government that has free speech, freedom of religion, human rights, and those kinds of things? Can those things coexist with a religion that, if it takes a majority, often dominates the culture and society, as we've seen in Iran with the religion of Islam?
Tim Wildmon: We'll talk about that with Abraham Hamilton III.
Chris Woodward: Speaking of Muslims running for office, the fellow in Michigan, the Democrat, his last name is El-Sayed. What's his first name?
Tim Wildmon: Abdul.
Chris Woodward: Abdul. Well, there's your Muslim name.
Tim Wildmon: If they're named Abdul or Muhammad, you can tell.
Chris Woodward: I'm sorry. He's not Irish Catholic.
Tim Wildmon: Good point, Chris. Good observation.
Chris Woodward: This gentleman there in Michigan has been challenged on this very issue.
Tim Wildmon: Yes, and he doesn't like it. He gets upset and flustered when people start talking about his thoughts on the Quran and Islam and how they merge with Western-style democracy.
Chris Woodward: He's tried to compare himself to John F. Kennedy back in the 1960s, when people were concerned at that time about the odds of having a Catholic president in the White House. In recent days, he launched a black-and-white campaign ad in which El-Sayed portrayed himself as a "man of faith."
Chris Woodward: In that campaign video, it shows churches with crosses clearly in the video. He's shown people in synagogues with yarmulkes on. He's trying to portray himself as a man of faith and therefore a man of the people.
Chris Woodward: But Mike Rogers, the Republican challenging El-Sayed in Tuesday's election, claims, and has claimed for a long time, that El-Sayed has deep, strong ties to groups like the Muslim Brotherhood, which is a concern for the United States of America because the Muslim Brotherhood is generally referred to and thought of as a terrorist organization.
Chris Woodward: We ought to be thanking our good Lord that we live in a day and age with technology called videotape, because a lot of things have come out about whether it's El-Sayed in Michigan or Talarico in Texas, things they have said in the past that they're now trying to back away from.
Tim Wildmon: El-Sayed in Michigan does not like Israel and basically hates Prime Minister Netanyahu. That's been out there for a while. On Israel, definitely, he's no friend of Israel.
Chris Woodward: Also, his economic policies are a marrying of Islam and socialism, because he favors Medicare for all. Somebody has done some calculating about how much it would cost American taxpayers. We're talking trillions of dollars, trillions.
Chris Woodward: Here's what happens when you have socialized medicine. There are big promises. You've got medical care for all. Well, not really. The amount of medical care you get in socialized medicine goes down.
Chris Woodward: In Canada, which has had socialized medicine for a long time, you can go to your general practitioner, and your GP may say you need a hip replacement. Then they say, "We'll get you an appointment with a specialist five months from now."
Chris Woodward: This causes restrictions on how many patients specialists can have and how many patients a GP can have. There's a whole other story behind the promises of socialized medicine. Unfortunately, Medicare for all sounds really good if you're not familiar with socialized medicine.
Tim Wildmon: It sounds great because health care costs a lot of money. If you say, "We're going to give you health care free," everybody says, "Sign me up for that."
Chris Woodward: There's a price to be paid. When somebody gives you something, there are no free lunches, as they say. The trade-off for "free" medicine is that the government tells you what doctor you can see, when you can see the doctor, and what tests they'll pay for.
Chris Woodward: There are a lot of conditions that Americans would find unacceptable. But if you put it in a campaign speech and say, "We're spending a lot on defense. To pay for everybody's health care, who's with me?" you're going to get a healthy response.
Tim Wildmon: One of the things El-Sayed is known to say is that the government will pay for it.
Chris Woodward: The taxpayers fund the government. If you're concerned about $40 trillion in debt, and you should be, it will be a whole lot worse if we ever go down this road.
Chris Woodward: Talking about El-Sayed real quick, former President Barack Obama came to Michigan and campaigned with him this week. In a social media post, El-Sayed thanked Obama for coming to help him and urged voters in Michigan to help continue Obama's legacy and guarantee health coverage.
Tim Wildmon: The Affordable Care Act, which Obama signed into law, was supposed to provide coverage to the uninsured. Why are we guaranteeing people something they're already allowed to get at taxpayer expense? Depending on your income, you can get subsidized health care plans for little to no money at all.
Tim Wildmon: All right, we will be back with Abraham Hamilton III.
Chris Woodward: We're each a third, and we make up a whole on this show.
Tim Wildmon: But nobody's there.
Chris Woodward: Are you even a second?
Tim Wildmon: Abraham Hamilton III will be with us in just a few minutes, right here on Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network.
Tim Wildmon: Welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to AFR. I'm Tim with Fred and Chris. As we told you, Abraham Hamilton III would be joining us, and he is in the studio. Abe is host of The Hamilton Corner, which a lot of you listen to each weekday afternoon, five to six o'clock Central, right here on AFR. Good morning, Abe.
Abraham Hamilton III: Good morning. Good morning.
Tim Wildmon: I want to give you an opportunity to honor your father, who recently passed away. He was an Air Force veteran, right?
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes, an Air Force veteran. Abraham Hamilton Jr. died just shy of 80 years old. He would have been turning 80 soon. He passed away on Monday, October 12th.
Tim Wildmon: He was key in mentoring you.
Abraham Hamilton III: Absolutely. My father was my first coach, the one who encouraged me to have self-confidence. The entirety of the trajectory of my life was radically transformed because my parents became Christians the year that I was born.
Abraham Hamilton III: I was basically raised by young, passionate Christians. I keenly remember, in New Orleans, Louisiana, my mom pouring out alcohol. She said, "Because I love Jesus, and I'm serious about this." That was something my parents pursued.
Abraham Hamilton III: This was in the midst of growing up in what could only be described as a chaotic environment. When I was growing up in New Orleans, it was one of the murder capitals of the world per capita.
Tim Wildmon: You lived in the inner city, right?
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes. Long before I ever started practicing law, I saw dead bodies outside of my grandmother's home. My parents were intentional about creating a culture within my home that was an island and a difference from what was surrounding us.
Abraham Hamilton III: I keenly remember my parents requiring me to use my tongue and my teeth. Even now people say, "You don't sound like you're from New Orleans," and that's because of my parents. They made us articulate the English language inside my home. I never thought in a million years I'd be speaking in my adulthood.
Tim Wildmon: What a great legacy and what great parents they were. How many siblings did you have?
Abraham Hamilton III: I have three sisters and two brothers. The reality is that Jesus is the game changer. If Jesus had not first and foremost invaded my parents' lives, I would more than likely be no different than anybody else who grew up where I grew up. My experience was transformed because of my parents' transformation.
Tim Wildmon: On the carnal side of things, one of your sisters can absolutely cook.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: I don't know if that's carnal. Maybe you were misused right there. I'm just talking about fleshly things.
Chris Woodward: She can cook some New Orleans-style food.
Tim Wildmon: She was in Tupelo for a while and then went back to New Orleans.
Abraham Hamilton III: She went back to New Orleans.
Tim Wildmon: I miss buying her food. She would make food that was off the charts.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: I wanted you to mention that because your dad recently passed. He served the Lord God, served our country, and obviously served his family.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes. His faith is now sight.
Tim Wildmon: Amen.
Abraham Hamilton III: Amen.
Tim Wildmon: Is he buried in the veterans cemetery?
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: My dad is up there as well.
Abraham Hamilton III: Really?
Tim Wildmon: We're probably hanging out together.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yeah.
Tim Wildmon: So your dad is also buried in a military cemetery?
Abraham Hamilton III: There is a United States military cemetery an hour from my home in Mississippi, so that's where my father's buried.
Tim Wildmon: What branch was your dad in?
Abraham Hamilton III: He was in the Navy. He was drafted into the Navy in the 1960s and went to Vietnam. He's buried up there at the Corinth National Cemetery.
Tim Wildmon: Do you have to make application to be buried in this military national cemetery?
Abraham Hamilton III: You either provide the DD-214 or other identifying information, and they verify military service. One of the things I learned through this process is that our armed forces will provide a burial plot for those who've served our nation in the armed forces without charging the family, as well as the headstone and a liner for the casket.
Tim Wildmon: Arlington National Cemetery is obviously the most famous, but there are a lot of people who don't know that there are military cemeteries around the country.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes. My grandfather was also an armed services veteran who was buried in a national cemetery in Houston, Texas.
Tim Wildmon: That's where my grandfather is. That's Abraham Sr. Junior is my dad, and I'm the third.
Tim Wildmon: Switching topics, we mentioned to you prior to the show that we wanted to talk about Islam and what's going on with Muslims running for office in America, what that means, and what could happen.
Tim Wildmon: This is an issue that needs some context. Most Muslims are good people. They don't agree with us theologically, but I've dealt with a lot of Muslims over my lifetime, and most all of them were nice, friendly people. I didn't have any problem with them.
Tim Wildmon: However, there is a difference, and people need to understand this. There is a difference between an individual Muslim person and the teachings of Islam. Are you with me on that?
Abraham Hamilton III: I'm with you 100 percent. The thing we have to come face to face with is really twofold. One, in our nation, according to the data available to us, we have somewhere between five and six million Muslims in America.
Abraham Hamilton III: If the majority is, as you described, peaceful and not hostile to the American way of life, if only one percent of them would actually heed the entire scope of the teachings of the Quran and the Hadith, you're talking somewhere between 50,000 and 60,000 people.
Abraham Hamilton III: So the majority or minority issue is not the exclusive issue to consider. It does not take a majority in order for there to be trouble for us. Secondarily, we also have to ask which conduct is consistent with the Quran and the Hadith, and which conduct is a derogation from it.
Abraham Hamilton III: Whenever there has been caliphate-style behavior established, the first victims of Islamic zealots are usually fellow Muslims. They would be apostates.
Tim Wildmon: So, just to be clear, Sharia?
Abraham Hamilton III: Sure.
Tim Wildmon: The peaceful Muslims aren't really following Sharia. Is that a fair statement?
Abraham Hamilton III: It would not even be my opinion. I think other Muslims would make that argument.
Tim Wildmon: The practicing Muslims who say they follow Sharia, Sharia is a law that says their law is supreme and that they are here to diminish the impact of other religions.
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes. They cannot abide any other religion or legal system. It must be subjugated to Sharia.
Tim Wildmon: If you want evidence of what we're talking about, where Islam dominates and what that leads to, there are examples in the world today, Iran chief among them.
Tim Wildmon: Within the religion of Islam, there are two major denominations, to use a term American Christians would be familiar with. Just like we have Catholics and Protestants, they have the Sunni group and the Shia group.
Abraham Hamilton III: The Sunni group is about 70 to 80 percent of all Muslims in the world. They would be found in Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Jordan, Syria, and Turkey, for example. The Shia are about 20 percent, and they're in Iran, for example. They're more in the Persian countries.
Tim Wildmon: I'm using Persian as opposed to Arab countries. Arab countries include Saudi Arabia. That's why you wonder why Saudi Arabia and Iran have a rivalry. It's because they're two different denominations of Islam.
Tim Wildmon: Back to talking about Islam, these places in the world that have Muslim-dominant populations operate under Sharia law. The religion dominates everything: politics, society, the law, and education. They dominate everything. There is no room for any other religion to be practiced or expressed.
Tim Wildmon: When we had troops stationed in Kuwait during the first Gulf War, do you remember the controversy that arose because the government of Kuwait, an Islamic government, didn't want our servicemen to be able to observe Christmas?
Fred Jackson: I remember that.
Tim Wildmon: Our military said, "Okay, we'll keep them in their tents." I think it was Kuwait. It may have been somewhere else over there. But do you remember this?
Tim Wildmon: As long as Islam is, especially in America, still a tiny minority, although growing, they're not going to come out and say, "Hey, we want to dominate America and turn it into an Islamic country like Iran or a theocracy." They're not going to say that.
Tim Wildmon: Obviously, this is what Abdul El-Sayed is being confronted with in Michigan, because he's being asked about the teachings of Islam versus observing and revering the Constitution of the United States. Those are completely different things.
Tim Wildmon: Abe, any comments on what I've just expressed, as well as statements he's made in the past when he's asserted that Sharia law should be supreme over the United States of America? He said that on tape. Why is he changing course now?
Abraham Hamilton III: Because he's running for office. He wants to win in a general election statewide in the state of Michigan.
Tim Wildmon: Do you think he's changed, or do you think he's telling whoppers?
Abraham Hamilton III: I do not think he's changed. I think he's intentionally telling whoppers in order to deceive a significant portion of Michigan voters so he can get elected.
Tim Wildmon: You think he's trying to deceive them by saying, "No, I no longer believe what I said back then"?
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes, I do believe that. That is consistent with what you just described. Whenever you have a smaller minority of Muslims present, there is a certain tactic that's employed that often includes deception for the express purpose of advancing the status of Islam in the place where they do so.
Abraham Hamilton III: There are lots of different historical sources of evidence that we could use. One example is that in 2004 our FBI found an explanatory memorandum on the general strategic goal for the Muslim Brotherhood in North America.
Tim Wildmon: What is the Muslim Brotherhood?
Abraham Hamilton III: The Muslim Brotherhood is an Arab Muslim, Sunni-dominated organization that seeks to export Islam all around the world and uses terrorism primarily as its means of doing so. Think al-Qaeda.
Tim Wildmon: And ISIS.
Abraham Hamilton III: Literally. They have the same ideology. In Egypt, they were so radical that the Egyptian government kicked them out. The Egyptian government is Arab Muslim, and they kicked the Muslim Brotherhood out because they were a terrorist organization.
Tim Wildmon: So you're saying this fellow El-Sayed, his family has been identified with this organization?
Abraham Hamilton III: Yes.
Tim Wildmon: He's saying that's not true, isn't he?
Abraham Hamilton III: He disputes the information, just like he's disputing whether or not he supports the supremacy of Sharia law.
Tim Wildmon: But should he, in fairness, be held accountable for what his parents or family may have been involved with in the past? He's not them. It's about what he believes.
Abraham Hamilton III: Far more than any other human being could be, I know a family where one brother's progeny deviated very much from the views, worldviews, and commitments of that brother, especially when you have a public record of that commitment and it consists throughout the family's life.
Tim Wildmon: You're talking about me.
Abraham Hamilton III: I was using that as an example.
Tim Wildmon: I caught on pretty quick there.
Abraham Hamilton III: It could possibly happen, but I wanted people to understand who the Muslim Brotherhood was because I was about to talk about that.
Abraham Hamilton III: The FBI accidentally found this memorandum in 2004, but sometimes people fail to realize the context in which they found it. The memorandum was related to an adopted and approved agenda from 1987. This memo was a 1991 appendix to the adopted commitment of the Shura Council of the Muslim Brotherhood.
Abraham Hamilton III: In it, they developed, articulated, and put in print a long-term plan to infiltrate and move the United States of America to become an Islamic nation, as part of a global Islamic caliphate.
Abraham Hamilton III: Among the most amazing quotes is that they articulated the necessity of applying a grand jihad. They distinguished this grand jihad as a civilizational jihad process, not in the sense of an armed struggle, as the word had been used prior to that moment, but in an effort to articulate a civilizational struggle.
Abraham Hamilton III: The memorandum said, "The process of settlement is a civilizational jihadist process. The Ikhwan must understand that their work in America is a kind of grand jihad in eliminating and destroying Western civilization from within and sabotaging its miserable house by their hands and the hands of the believers, Islamic believers, so that it is eliminated and Islam is made victorious over all other religions."
Abraham Hamilton III: The term Ikhwan is a Sunni Wahhabi term that refers to a religiously dedicated militia.
Abraham Hamilton III: This is in the document our FBI discovered in 2004, revealing a plan that dated all the way back to 1987 for the Muslim Brotherhood to use, in their terminology, America's miserable hands to sabotage its own house.
Tim Wildmon: So it's infiltration without guns being fired.
Abraham Hamilton III: Exactly. The memo lists a host of organizations like CAIR, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, the Islamic Society of North America, and a host of other organizations that they will work together with in order to accomplish this grand jihad, which ultimately includes running candidates for office, attaining power, and using that power to advance the cause of Islam.
Abraham Hamilton III: That's why I'm not surprised to see Abdul El-Sayed's most recent ad, where he was trying to make an argument about economics and saying the reason bananas are so high is because of the Jews.
Tim Wildmon: That leads me to this, because I want to use the case that everybody knows about, and that's Iran.
Tim Wildmon: In 1979 we had the Iranian Islamic Revolution. If you didn't live through that, which I did, and Fred did, you know about it anyway. The Ayatollah and the mullahs, who are religious instructors there in Iran, took over the country.
Tim Wildmon: They threw the shah out. He was an American-friendly, Western-friendly guy, basically a dictator, but they threw him out and replaced him with an Islamic dictator named the Ayatollah.
Tim Wildmon: Ayatollah, correct me if I'm wrong here, is a term used like "pope." You have all kinds of people who have been popes. When they say Ayatollah Khomeini, that's just a title. They'll have another ayatollah.
Abraham Hamilton III: It's a title, not a name.
Tim Wildmon: That's when they began to use language in Iran. That's really when our war with Iran started, because Iran began to threaten us by calling us the Great Satan and trying to teach its citizens to hate the West and America in particular.
Tim Wildmon: We were the Great Satan, and the Jews in Israel became the Little Satan. They've been indoctrinating their people and the followers of the Shia branch of Islam with this ideology for a long time.
Tim Wildmon: How did we get into this current war that we're in with Iran, and how does that relate to 1979?
Tim Wildmon: When you hold a view like the Ayatollah and the mullahs in Iran do, and by the way, they've had internal fighting inside Iran with people who don't like living under this religious oppression, which is terroristic, it's like totalitarianism, probably worse than China.
Abraham Hamilton III: It is.
Tim Wildmon: In terms of how many protesters were just killed in January.
Abraham Hamilton III: Forty thousand protesters were killed.
Tim Wildmon: They kill them. If you disagree with the Ayatollah, you're dead. You wonder why the people of Iran haven't risen up.
Abraham Hamilton III: They're scared to death. They're in their homes. They don't have any guns.
Tim Wildmon: But back to my point, how does this relate? How does 1979 relate to where we are today?
Abraham Hamilton III: Usually in warfare, you have a border dispute, a tribal dispute, or people fighting over natural resources. There are reasons why people hate one another and why they go to war with one another.
Abraham Hamilton III: In the case of Iran, Israel is not on their border. Israel is probably 1,500 or 2,000 miles away. They're still in the neighborhood in the Middle East, but there have not been wars between Iran and the Jews in Israel over the kinds of things people typically fight over.
Abraham Hamilton III: They hold a religious view that the Jews are infidels and are occupying a Muslim, formerly Muslim, part of the world, talking about Palestine and modern-day Israel. That's the reason they hate the Jews. They want the Jews killed and want to move into that part of the world.
Tim Wildmon: They have proxies around them to do their bidding for them.
Abraham Hamilton III: Hamas is one of them. Hezbollah is another one. They want to war against the Jews, kill them all, drive them from the river to the sea, and get rid of the Jewish state of Israel.
Tim Wildmon: There's no reason for Iran and Israel to be at war with one another, as opposed to Ukraine and Russia, where you can at least understand that it is over borders and land, what people typically fight over.
Tim Wildmon: With Iran, they just hate Jews and Christians. They view America as a Christian nation, an infidel, Great Satan nation. That's why they're at war with us.
Abraham Hamilton III: What's concerning to Israel and to the United States is that these people hate our guts, have control, and are about to get a nuclear weapon.
Tim Wildmon: That's why President Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu had our military fighting Iran. They were genuinely worried. You may disagree with that, right?
Abraham Hamilton III: They were genuinely worried.
Tim Wildmon: Can you hang on? I want to finish this thought. I know I went into a sermon there. We'll be back momentarily. Stay with us.
Tim Wildmon and company examine Israel’s unresolved parliamentary election, the coalition negotiations facing Benjamin Netanyahu, and voter turnout following the October 7 attack. They also discuss President Donald Trump’s Texas campaign appearances and his support for Ken Paxton over James Talarico.
Abraham Hamilton III joins the program to discuss the growth of Muslim political involvement in America and questions surrounding Islam, Sharia law, and the U.S. Constitution. The conversation includes Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan Senate campaign, disputed claims about his views and associations, and Hamilton’s account of an FBI-discovered Muslim Brotherhood memorandum.
The program also considers Iran’s Islamic Revolution, its hostility toward Israel and the United States, and the role of religious ideology in ongoing conflict.
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