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This is Episode 577 of Making the Argument, published September 11, 2026

00:00 – What that day set in motion, and what it did to the rest of us

07:23 – The only thing that stopped him was the fear of profiling

09:30 – Bush said Islam is peace

13:00 – September 12th, and the footage NBC ran out of Gaza

15:54 – Go country by country and count the peaceful conversions

19:48 – Bernie, AOC, and Mamdani all found time for this guy

24:45 – We were attacked, and then we doubled the immigration

28:32 – We imported more Muslims to prove we weren't bigots

33:38 – The students who led that revolution were executed by it

36:30 – The sitrep that got me a phone call from Task Force North

42:12 – Nobody is mass migrating in the other direction

45:13 – The Barbary pirates, and how we actually got them to stop

50:25 – You cannot go to war with a tactic

55:15 – They judge groups as groups, right up until it's their group

1:00:01 – Ignorant, arrogant, or cowards

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