Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildman
>> Today's Issues continues on AFR with your host, Tim Wildmon, president of the American Family Association.
>> Tim Wildmon: Hey, welcome back, everybody, to Today's Issues on the American Family Radio Network. We're here every Monday through Friday. Friday, of course, we have trivia Friday, but Monday through Thursday, we cover the news stories of the day and, try to put them in some perspective if we can. Here I'm Tim with Fred and, Tim Wildmon, Fred Jackson. And now joining us studio is Steve Paisley Jordal. Good morning, brother Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: Good morning, everybody.
>> Fred Jackson: who's not very Paisley today.
>> Tim Wildmon: No, he's got the. He's got the fishing, shirt.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, I don't do a lot of fishing, but I'm, doing a Rusty's job this morning. I. My alarm went off at 2:15 this morning, and so I am sleeping with the fishes as we sit here.
>> Tim Wildmon: For those who can't see, on our YouTube, our Facebook channel, we. Steve's got the shirt, on with, with fishes. Yes, it's fish. Shirt.
>> Steve Jordahl: Fishes or, fish. What's the plural of fish?
>> Tim Wildmon: Fish.
>> Fred Jackson: Fish.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is it still. So fishes don't even.
>> Steve Jordahl: I know what you mean.
>> Tim Wildmon: What about the, With a parable of the fish loaf. The,
>> Fred Jackson: Yes. Oh, they do say the loaves and fishes.
>> Tim Wildmon: Don't we say fishes? We've always said fishes right there on the parables from the Bible. Right? Loaves and fishes.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: So is that appropriate?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, I don't know. I never thought about that.
>> Tim Wildmon: Is that bad Hebrew or bad. Or is that bad Greek? I should say.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, I don't know.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's a mystery. We'll have to solve that later.
>> Fred Jackson: We need Ray Pritchard.
>> Tim Wildmon: We do.
>> Steve Jordahl: There you go. That's what we need.
There's a mayoral race in New York City up for grabs this year
>> Tim Wildmon: All right, so, hey, before we get into what you have here, Steve, you and I and Fred were talking before the air, before we went on the air, momentarily live. There's this mayoral race in New York City.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: And, of course, most people would say, what do I care about that? I don't live there. And those people, always vote far enough Democrats into office anyway. Well, that's not necessarily true. They did vote for Rudolph Giuliani. There have been Bloomberg. There have been examples of Republican mayors in New York City.
>> Steve Jordahl: But they're rare East Coast Republicans. Which East Coast Republicans are. Yeah, yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yes. They're more liberal than Southern conservative Republicans, but nonetheless, you have. But, in this case, they have a situation where a fella is, running, for mayor and he might be elected Named Zoe Zoran Mandami.
>> Steve Jordahl: I get the M's and the ends mixed up all the time.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who is this guy?
>> Steve Jordahl: He is a, ah, legislator. He's born in the Congo. I don't know if he immigrated here. He is an immigrant, legal and is serving. He was or still is. He's going to be leaving his job as a legislator in New York. Been there for three years, hasn't been really active. he calls himself a democrat Socialist. Many people would refer to him as a straight up communist. Due to his proposals, he has won the Democrat nomination for the city of New York for the election upcoming.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, very interesting. On the weekend he was interviewed at NBC.
>> Fred Jackson: And he has said some outlandish things like he wants to tax white people higher. He wants to start running government grocery stores. and one of the things he has said, he refuses to take back a statement he made about the globalization of Intifada. Now, intifada basically killed the Jews and he has refused. Even this weekend he was interviewed by liberal NBC and they challenged him on some of the controversial positions that he has taken.
There's a general election in November for New York mayor
Cut number two, Brent. So I want to give you an opportunity to respond here and now. Do you condemn that phrase, globalize the intifada?
>> Speaker D: That's not language that I use. The language that I use and the language that I will continue to use to lead this city is that which speaks clearly to my intent, which is an intent grounded in a belief in universal human rights. And that includes Israelis and Palestinians as like.
>> Fred Jackson: Do you condemn that phase, globalize the.
>> Steve Jordahl: Intifada, which a lot of people hear is a call to violence against Jews.
>> Speaker D: I've heard from many Jewish New Yorkers who have shared their concerns with me, especially in light of the horrific attacks that we saw in Washington D.C. and in Boulder, Colorado about this moment of anti Semitism in our country and in our city. And I've heard those fears and I've had those conversations. I don't believe that the role of the mayor is to police speech in the manner especially of that of Donald Trump, who has put one New Yorker in jail, who's just returned to his family, Mahmoud Khalil, for that very supposed crime of speech.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. But throughout all of that, she pressed him, he refused. He refused to condemn that speech. He said, it's not my job to police that speech. This guy, his daddy, this is very interesting, is a professor at Columbia University who's extremely anti Jewish. This guy, Zorin Mamdani. He also, is an endorser of the the boycott and divest, when it comes to, to Jewish businesses, etc, etc. He is. He makes the most liberal Democrat that you can think of.
>> Steve Jordahl: Like a conservative east to the left of aoc.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. And we won't go over the litany of things, but he's promising free stuff, for everybody in New York.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes. And he's going to pay for it by taxing the rich. Where have you heard that?
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: And raising the corporate tax.
>> Tim Wildmon: Taxing the rich. But they need to be rich white people, he said.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, yeah. And he, and he wants, he wants. He doesn't believe in billionaires. You, you cannot be a billionaire and living.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well. I think the billionaires that are in New York are gonna head on down. They're gonna. Yeah, they're gonna go to Florida or somewhere else. They're getting out of town. They're getting out of Dodge. Really? This guy is. He is a, physically speaking, he's a communist. Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: That's what he is.
>> Tim Wildmon: So he believes in promising, everything for everybody, paying for everything, and he's going to get that money by taxing the white, rich people. I'm not making this up. He did say white rich people, didn't he?
>> Fred Jackson: Yep. Oh, he's. I could not believe in New York, which has just seen some of the. The biggest anti Jewish, anti Israel protests on the campuses like Columbia, and yet they turn around and they vote for this guy.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. I don't know why that is now. He hasn't been elected yet. There's. There's a general election in November. It'll be him as the Democrat nominee and probably the current mayor. what's the fellow's name?
>> Steve Jordahl: Eric Adams.
>> Tim Wildmon: Eric Adams, who's, not running as a Democrat because he. I don't know why. He's been in some scandal. Some scandal attached to his campaign, or his office. Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: He's been quite effective in most places. Ah. The scandal might be, the, former governor of. Cuomo of New York, who also is rumored to be running as an independent. And he has had some scandal attached to his campaign I'm not sure about. There may be scandal attached to the.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, there has been, because Trump pardoned him.
>> Steve Jordahl: Pardoned, Eric Adams.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: There you go.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. What happened was, is that Eric Adams.
>> Tim Wildmon: The feds went after him.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah. Eric Adams agreed to work with Homeland Security to arrest the bad illegal immigrants.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, he was also criticizing Biden for letting all these people fight into his city in New York City illegally.
>> Fred Jackson: Yes.
>> Tim Wildmon: And it's that. It's about that time that the Fed started going after him.
>> Fred Jackson: Yep.
>> Tim Wildmon: On, charges. And Trump came in and said, hey, they're doing the same thing to you that they did to me, that you're being persecuted for your political statements and beliefs, and so I'm going to pardon you. So he pardoned him. it may have been a preemptive pardon. I don't know if he ever went to trial. I've forgotten about that.
New York City has more Jews than any other city in the world
But anyway, we'll see what happens in New York City. Who's elect? Cuomo, the former governor. Of course, when you say New York City, you almost got to say corrupt.
>> Fred Jackson: right up there with Chicago.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. It's like these big cities. Who, isn't corrupt, running for office, but we'll see who wins. Who wins that, in New York. but you're right there, there's more. Some people say there's more Jews in New York than there are in Israel. I don't know if that's true or not, but there are. New, York City's got more Jewish people than I think I heard that.
>> Steve Jordahl: New York City has more Jews than any other city in the world. There's not as many as in Israel in total, but more than there are in Tel Aviv.
>> Tim Wildmon: More than there are, by the way, too. Miami's a big place.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah. Just to conclude the. I don't conclude, but just to finish the list of candidates. Curtis Sliwa is the Republican candidate. He is a Republican candidate. You would know him, if you knew him at all, as the founder of the Guardian Angels.
>> Tim Wildmon: Oh, he's the one that wears the.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, the beret, the little red beret.
>> Tim Wildmon: What does the Guardian Angels do?
>> Steve Jordahl: They're a neighborhood watch kind of, thing where the.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, they really took off when the violence in the subways in New York and that they, they. Part of their group is to go down and be in the subway areas.
>> Tim Wildmon: They're not police officers.
>> Fred Jackson: They're not police officers, but they're there to curb crime and the subway crime has been a big issue for them.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay, all right, what's your story?
They have identified the suspect in the Idaho shooting. He has been identified as 20 year old Wes
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, let me do this. I have a story that's kind of related to the, New York what we were just talking about. But first I want to do some breaking news. They have identified the suspect in the Idaho shooting. This is the, the, sniper shooting of firefighters that were called out to a wildfire in Idaho and Coeur d' Alene, near Coeur d' Alene. He has been identified as 20 year old Wes Rolly R O L E Y from Arizona. And, that's as far as I am willing to. I can confirm now we have Grok or the, AI has called some other information which possibly is true. I'm going to say this. I'll put the little asterisk next to it. This hasn't been confirmed, but it is, I do believe it could be true. He's reportedly. He worked at his father's tree farm near Canfield Mountain where the, fire was set. He, He roley alleged to set a wildfire to ambush. To ambush firefighters. We do know that he killed two and injured one. We do know that his motive is unknown. Investigations are continuing. Unverified claims about political affiliation lack credible support. Rollie was found near a firearm with the cause of death unclear. Not sure if he shot himself or was killed by police.
>> Tim Wildmon: So that's all we know right now.
>> Steve Jordahl: That's all we know. We do have a name. And to my 20.
>> Tim Wildmon: 20 years old.
>> Steve Jordahl: 20 years old. This has been, a story. Now it's getting close to 24 hours and in my experience this is a little slow for the rollout of information. But these days, not so much, I guess. always whenever you have a breaking news story like this, you're going to hear some things and it changes. It's not malicious on account of, news people. It's just they try to give you the best information they know, but it takes a while to do an investigation and learn motives and all that kind of stuff. Everybody wants to know now, but it's impossible to know now. Kind of like the damage assessment of nuclear power plants in Iran. You can't really know right away.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, yeah, we'll wait to see what happens. There are people in this world who are just mentally ill. Yep. Are just, in modern common vernacular, they're just not so. And they. I don't know. This. This may have been. This guy may have been just. Just a nut job. You know, he didn't have to have a. His motivation is made up in his mind. I don't know. I better stop there. But you know what I'm saying.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, but it was well planned.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay.
>> Fred Jackson: He starts the fire.
>> Tim Wildmon: True. That's not insanity when you plan out something like that.
>> Fred Jackson: He has a gun, he starts to fire. He knows that's going to draw firefighters.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. like I said, I've never in my life heard of a vendetta against firefighters.
>> Fred Jackson: No.
>> Tim Wildmon: For any reason.
>> Fred Jackson: There's something yet that we don't know.
>> Tim Wildmon: There to come something we don't know yet. All right. But, you're listening to today's issues on the American Family Radio Network. Thanks for listening to American Family Radio. Tim, Fred and Steve continuing on. Steve.
New York City will be one of the first major American cities with Muslim mayor
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, one of the things we do know about, Mamdani is that his Muslim, so New York City will be one of the first major American cities with a Muslim mayor. Now, this has happened.
>> Tim Wildmon: If he's elected.
>> Steve Jordahl: If he's elected. This has kind of been the trend in Great Britain, for example, and, there's a lot of people concerned about it. I just want to play you 20 seconds of an ad. that is a recruiting ad for British police. This is the British law enforcement agencies trying to recruit police officers in London. And, here we go. This would be cut, 13.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, that's because that's in Arabic. They're now advertising for Muslim police officers, in Muslim cities.
>> Tim Wildmon: In London.
>> Steve Jordahl: London in England. But that's in London. Yes. related to this. So where does this take us here? the mayor of, the mayor of Minneapolis is a guy named Jacob Fry. And Minneapolis is, known to have a large Somali community. Recently, they celebrated Somalia's Independence Day. I'm not sure. I mean, it's good that they can do that if they want, but this was Mayor Jacob Fry speaking to that crowd. Cut 15. Somalia. Hanu Lato Samaliajan. Somalia.
>> Tim Wildmon: Han.
>> Steve Jordahl: Somalia. Igea. Ah, Jacob Fry. Yarub. Minneapolis mafia. What do you know? Jacob Fry speaks Somali. He's celebrating their independence today with them, by celebrating, in Somali. And by the way, the state of Minnesota recently changed their flag to mimic the Somali flag. This is, this is not, a coincidence, I don't think. I think we're trending the way England is trending in certain areas.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. France is, I don't know, 10 to 12% Muslim now.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Western Europe is going to. If the trends continue, Western Europe, will not look anything like it does historically in probably 30 years from now. Because the combination of immigration from North Africa and from the Middle east into Europe, and you combine that with the native Europeans having a zero birth rate, basically, yeah. You can see what happens in three, just two or three decades, what's going to happen there.
>> Fred Jackson: And so there are sections, I think, in, In Britain, Liverpool, very large Muslim population. Birmingham, I'm told Birmingham, that's even more so Paris. I remember a few years ago, there were reports that for midday prayers, they shut down whole streets in Paris, the Muslim population is so big and local police basically have given over some areas.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah, they're no go zones.
>> Fred Jackson: Do what you want.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: This is what I think it's important to remember about the Muslim immigrants. is that, ah, jihad as we understand it is a violent, you commit jihad, you're blowing things up. And that's how we understand jihad. But there is a version of jihad in the Muslim faith which is, is taking over a territory by things like birth rate or immigration. These people, when they come into these cities are not trying in the least to assimilate into the American culture. they don't, they're not interested in that. They're interested in setting up little, Islamic cities, territories in the United States. It's with. It's known to be an Islamic doctrine that once a territory is in Islamic hands, they consider it Islamic for all eternity. So you can't, you, you don't get it back, at least from them unless you take it by force.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, yeah. and that's why the concern has been raised about this proposed establishment. what, north of Dallas?
>> Steve Jordahl: Yes, that city, what's it called? I have to look it up because yes, there was a settlement north of Dallas that they, that was being set up as a Muslim city. and let me like Dearborn.
>> Tim Wildmon: Michigan or this place in Minneapolis.
>> Fred Jackson: You like a whole community even more. So you mean to let them basically.
>> Tim Wildmon: It would be a Sharia law and stuff like that?
>> Fred Jackson: Well, no. the state is investigating the, in the individuals and their plan to set up this community that would be basically an Islamic community.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Fred Jackson: so that's why the state.
>> Tim Wildmon: Very American. Is it? The state was supposed to be a.
>> Steve Jordahl: Melting pot, epic city community. And the developers proposed it, tied to the East Plano Islamic Center. the developers, have complained that they are being bullied by multiple federal and state investigations because they're Muslim, but they want to set up a Muslim community with the Muslim. They do their own peace law enforcement.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, let's see. Yeah, I don't care about, them having their own community, so to speak. A lot of communities do that. The Amish do it. people of like mind and like lifestyle often live in communities together. That's not unusual. It's the. But, but you're not going to be able to allow them to have their own, you know, their own lawmaking. that, that's outside the Constitution. I don't think nobody suggesting that. Right.
>> Fred Jackson: Well, that, that is like Sharia law.
>> Tim Wildmon: Instead of US Law.
State of Texas investigating whether Islamic community is violating state law
>> Fred Jackson: No, that kind of thing. The developers certainly aren't saying that, but there is concern when people say, okay, this particular group wants to set this up. They want to. Basically it's run as an Islamic community. And that's why the state of Texas, and I think there is a federal investigation also.
>> Steve Jordahl: The department, has closed that. I'm reading.
>> Tim Wildmon: Well, we'll see what happens. You know, like I said, I don't have a problem with it as long as, they don't start, trying to impose Sharia law. Ah. In replacement of U.S. law. So there's our state, Texas law.
>> Steve Jordahl: Kind of looks like the DEI programs of the day. They renamed them because they're illegal, but they still have them. So there are still enforcers within some of these communities that will take the women who don't dress properly aside and I.
>> Tim Wildmon: 30, 30 lashes.
>> Steve Jordahl: I don't know that they're beating them. Maybe they are, I don't know. But they are certainly enforcing Sharia law by as much as they can.
>> Tim Wildmon: We got about a minute and a half left.
This is fitness challenge. All right, I have a good news and a challenge
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, I have a. I have a good news.
>> Tim Wildmon: You got some good news?
>> Steve Jordahl: Well, I got a challenge.
>> Tim Wildmon: Okay. Challenge.
>> Steve Jordahl: I got a challenge. This is fitness challenge.
>> Tim Wildmon: All.
Steve asks who did 11,707 chin ups in 24 hours
>> Steve Jordahl: All right, so, I did, tested myself the other day to see how many pull ups I could do my chin over a bar.
>> Tim Wildmon: Right.
>> Steve Jordahl: It was a resounding zero at this point because my shoulders.
>> Tim Wildmon: Don't you have a baseline now?
>> Steve Jordahl: I do. I have a baseline. But if I wanted to get the world record, I could do 11,707 in a 24 hour period and I would have the world record because that is the world record.
>> Tim Wildmon: Who did that?
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm just looking it up. My, my, I have one question. Yes?
>> Fred Jackson: Why would you want to do that?
>> Tim Wildmon: That seems like you could. Because it's like it could kill you to me. Be m. Kind of counterproductive, wouldn't it? To the 11,000 chin ups. Pull up. What are you talking about now?
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah, pull up.
>> Tim Wildmon: Pull up. On a bar.
>> Fred Jackson: On a. Over a bar.
>> Tim Wildmon: 24 hours. Yes. You're gonna have to give me a Ron Cooper. Ron Cooper. Ron.
>> Steve Jordahl: Ron did it.
>> Tim Wildmon: No kidding.
>> Steve Jordahl: Yeah, Ron.
>> Tim Wildmon: I would have never guessed it. Well, I saw him at McDonald's last week. He didn't look like he's ready to do. Let me pull ups.
>> Steve Jordahl: He doesn't look that. He's got the 0 body fat.
>> Tim Wildmon: Where does he live? where's he from?
>> Steve Jordahl: I'm looking here. Ron Cooper.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah.
>> Steve Jordahl: The video doesn't say, I'll look that up for you.
>> Tim Wildmon: Have it, next time you tell us about a world record, have the name of the person who, who did it so we can verify that.
>> Fred Jackson: You know, the Pull Up Champions, kind of the opposite of the Hot Dog King, you know, they have that contest every. I think it's around July 4th.
>> Tim Wildmon: Yeah. But I bet that guy's jaws can. Can they do some damage here?
>> Fred Jackson: You know, I. I have the same question. Why?
>> Tim Wildmon: Why? I know. That's Joey Chestnut, right? Isn't that his name?
>> Fred Jackson: I think you're right.
>> Tim Wildmon: I think that's the hot dog. The guy who. July, fourth, he'll eat all the hot dogs and win the record on how many hot dogs every year.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: That's his fame to claim.
>> Fred Jackson: Yeah.
>> Tim Wildmon: Claim to fame. Whatever it is.
>> Fred Jackson: I like hot dogs, but not to make myself uncomfortable.
>> Tim Wildmon: No. All right. Thank you, Steve.
>> Steve Jordahl: My pleasure.
>> Tim Wildmon: Go do some chin ups now.
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