HENDERSONVILLE, N.C. — An address on “The Islamification of America” — warning of the demise of the United States if major changes are not enacted and action is not taken — was presented by keynote speaker James W. Bruggeman during a breakfast meeting of the Henderson County Republican Men’s Club on Aug. 8 at American Legion Post 77 here.

Around 60 people attended the 75-minute meeting that featured Bruggeman’s 20-minute presentation, followed by a 12-minute question-and-answer session.

The Q&A finally was halted only because the meeting needed to be ended, as the Men’s Club’s rental time for use of the building’s main room would soon expire.

Earlier, in his monthly treasurer’s report, HCRMC Treasurer Ed Carlyle reported that the club has 36 dues-paying regular members (men) and 18 associate members (women).

Following Carlyle, 11th District GOP Chairwoman  Merry Guy gave an update on how a party nominee will be chosen to run to replace U.S. Rep. Chuck Edwards, R-Flat Rock, who announced on Aug. 5 that he will not seek re-election on Nov. 3. 

Later, between Bruggeman’s presentation and the question-and-answer session that followed, HCRMC President Bill Fishburne noted that Treasurer Ed Carlyle has agreed to run for re-election in the upcoming officers’ election. Fishburne then added that he would run for president — if the club members so desired. 

In response, a number of HCRMC members cheered and applauded, drawing a broad smile from Fishburne, a former Special Forces A-Team leader for the U.S. Army in Panama during the late 1960s. 

Fishburne then mentioned that Bruce Hildebrand and Betty Lange, whom he praised for their efforts, have told him they will not be seeking re-election to the club secretary post that they now share. The secretary also is in charge of the club newsletter.

(Since the meeting, Hildebrand and Lange notified to the Daily Planet that they decided they are open to continuing to serve as co-secretaries of the club for another term.)

 Fishburne noted that the club secretary is an important post — and praised Hildebrand and Lange for their efforts.

In an email to the Daily Planet after the meeting on Aug. 8, Fishburne noted, “... I was humbled by the unexpected applause and cheering regarding running (returning) for the club president. I just hope I live through a two-year term. (So far so good. I don’t know what’s going to kill me yet, but I’m sure it’s hiding in the bushes out there somewhere!)”

Just prior to his presentation, Bruggeman was introduced by Fishburne as a Fletcher resident and member of the HCRMC. He holds a doctorate in biblical studies and theology — and is a Bible teacher, historian and author. He also writes a daily blog at www.StoneKingdom.org. 

Bruggeman began by stating, “My topic is ‘The Islamification of America.’ I have bad news and good news.

“In one paragraph, the bad news is that the American republic has fallen so far from its original intent that the enemies of the republic have not only been at the gate, but for many decades, they have been swarming through the gates. And lately, there have been no gates,” with those who hate the U.S.“flooding into America (working) to destroy it from within.”

Further, he asserted, “This has all been done with the help of very wealthy and powerful people — both inside and outside America — who want to bring down the U.S.A. to the point where they can merge us into a global government where all nations are equal... equal at a Third World level.

“The good news is that more and more of our fellow citizens are finally awakening — and I say finally because I’ve personally been working at this for 50 years ... they are finally awakening to these facts and we are influencing our fellow citizens to make our voices heard locally and in Raleigh and in Washington, with the results that some freedom-loving legislators are hearing and acting.”

Continuing, Bruggeman said, “I expect that many in this room recognize the ongoing crises that erupted into insanity during the Biden administration, and we also note the good news that we finally have a man in the White House who is taking the necessary actions to reverse course with deportations, tariffs, etc.

“However, we also note that President (Donald J.) Trump’s actions are beset by all manner of opposition, and when the Leftists can do nothing else, they call in their ‘sleepers’ on the benches of many courts in this nation — judges who then ignore the Constitution and forbid the Trump administration from deporting illegals.

“This is one of a host of reasons why our midterm elections — coming in just three months — are so very critical so that we increase our majorities in both sides of Congress to be able to impeach and remove the radical Leftist judges.

“Meanwhile, also on the ‘good news’ side is a bill just introduced in late April by (U.S.) Rep. Chip Roy (a Republican) of Texas. Listen to the full and official short title... It is the ‘Measures Against Marxism’s Dangerous Adherents and Noxious Islamists Act of 2026.’

“Of course, unlike the Democrats who lie through their teeth when they name their bills, freedom-loving legislators tell the truth when giving a title to a piece of legislation.

“But even that short title is a teensy bit long, and so Chip Roy conveniently and deliberately designed it to be called by its acronym, ‘the Mamdani bill.’”

Bruggeman then provided some details from Roy’s office regarding the bill. Specifically, it stated in a memo that “the Mamdani Act enacts sweeping immigration law changes that would deport, denaturalize, deny U.S. citizenship, or entry to any alien who is a member of a socialist party, a communist party, the Chinese Communist Party, or Islamic fundamentalist party, or advocates for socialism, communism, Marxism or Islamic fundamentalism.

“Additionally, this legislation creates new definitions for each of these terms and repeals existing loopholes, including chain migration and fraudulent claims in current immigration law that have facilitated the mass importation of Marxists and Islamists.”

In championing Roy’s bill, Bruggeman noted that it “would eliminate chain migration and so-called ‘anchor babies’ and ‘birthright citizenship.’ This whole issue of chain migration, anchor babies and birthright citizenship was argued before the Supreme Court in the recent session which concluded at the end of June.

“The decision rested heavily upon a correct historical understanding of the 14th Amendment. Unfortunately, the court rendered the wrong decision.

“The only thing that I can conclude is that there is much behind-the-scenes pressure, intimidation, blackmail or other tactics being used against the allegedly conservative justices.”

Nonetheless, Bruggeman continued, “I am not depressed about the decision. I think Trump expected this outcome and has other ‘trump cards’ yet to be played. We shall see.

“In any event, this is all the more reason why a bill like Chip Roy’s, when passed by Congress, can nullify a Supreme Court decision. Constitutonally, Congress is the last word — not the Supreme Court.”

Speaking more broadly, Bruggeman asked, rhetorically, “Did you know that 10 percent of all births (in the U.S.) are now anchor births of illegals? Then, there are the ‘tourism babies,’ primarily from the estimated yearly 100,000 Chinese who have visited American territory, just to have a baby.

“Then the Chinese go back and raise the quote-unquote ‘American citizen baby’ in China, and in 20 years or less they will send them (the babies) back to vote and/or to hold office in America.

“Both China and Islam play the very long game. If our people over the past many decades had been properly taught world history, we would all know that the Western world has been a target of Muslim conquest since before the Battle of Tours in France in 732 A.D.

“The Muslim conquest was only stopped for a while by European Christendom’s defensive wars called the Crusades. But the religion Muhammed foisted upon a large portion of the world over many centuries does not give up; they merely change tactics according to their holy book, the Koran.

“Obviously, there is no time here for anything more than a few cursory statements about this truly existential threat we face from the Islamic invasion of America.

“During his administration, President Thomas Jefferson deployed the newly created U.S. Marines to the Barbary Coast states of Tripoli, Tunis, Algiers and Morocco to bring a halt to their state-sponsored piracy and end the payment of ransom for those Americans being kidnapped and sold into slavery by the Moslems.

“That was known as the First Barbary War — and it lasted from 1801 to 1805. Incidentally, this is where the U.S. Marines received their nickname (of ‘Leathernecks’).” 

“The curved sword of the Moslems are called scimitars and the Moslem fighters favored decapitation of their enemies. Knowing that, the Marines wore pieces of heavy leather strapped around their necks, and hence their nickname, ‘the Leathernecks.’

“That was 220 years ago. The modern strategy of Islam is to slowly, methodically and gradually increase their numbers until they can vote themselves into office all over the U.S.A. Then, when their numbers reach critical mass, they can institute their Sharia law, which spells the doom of all non-Muslims.

“Do not fall for the propaganda that theirs is a peaceful religion. Yeah, right, it is peaceful just as the communists often claimed. They are for peace, which in their redefinition of words means that when there is no further resistance to their totalitarian ideology, then that is the ‘peace’ we will all have, which means peace in the grave for those who love liberty”

Bruggeman then spoke of another bill introduced a few weeks ago by U.S. Rep. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., that “deals primarily not with illegal immigration, but with America’s broken legal immigration policies. 

(On Aug. 6, Ogles lost despite having President Trump’s endorsement, NBC News reported. Former state Agriculture Commissioner Charlie Hatcher will be the GOP nominee in the Nov. 3 general election.)

“Rep. Ogles has frequently criticized the Hart-Cellar Act, which he says enabled ‘third-world migration’ and the ‘Islamification of America,’” and “has been bold by asserting the blunt truth that ‘America and Islam are incompatible’ and further that ‘Muslims don’t belong in American society.”

To that end, Bruggeman asserted, “Not surprisingly, the Democrats have offered a censure resolution, accusing Rep. Ogles of quote — ‘spewing hatred and bigotry toward Muslim Americans’ — end quote.

“But again if we do not learn from history, we are doomed to repeat it. From the founding of Islam, the Moslems have tried to conquer Europe with military armies of men equipped with swords, with bows and arrows.

“The ninth and final crusade of Christian Europeans against the Moslem invasion of Europe was in 1272 A.D. But again, that only paused the threat, and in the siege of Constantinople in 1453, cannons and gunpowder were new weapons added to the wars.

“The fall of Constantinople eliminated what was once a powerful defense of Christian Europe against Moslem invasion. But that defeat resulted in uninterrupted Ottoman-Muslim expansion into eastern Europe.

“Presently in America, there are about 4.4 million Muslims. I know a few of them, and so do you, and they seem like genuinely peaceful and nice people. And they will be... until they have reached the point of critical mass, where they have sufficient numbers to elect or cheat to install Muslims into political office.

“It is not a military invasion at this time. It is infiltration from within. We need to look no further than Dearborn, Michigan, or the huge planned Islamic residential development north of Dallas (Texas), or Mayor (Zohran) Mamdani in New York City.

“But if we look across the pool in England — London, in particular – we see how the Muslims are well on their way to total control. By the way, the word ‘Islam’ literally means ‘submission,’ and the world ‘Moslem,’ or ‘Muslim,’ literally means ‘one who submits.’

“Those of us who see this threat to our God-given freedoms are then often labeled as Islamophobes. But what does that word mean? It means fear of Islam. I suggest that as we understand the history of the past one thousand three hundred years, we have very sound reasons to be fearful of Islam.”

In closing, Bruggeman said, “... we should not be intimidated or let that fear paralyze us into apathy. Rather, we should let that reasonable fear motivate us to work as hard as we can, first to know the positive spiritual and cultural values we hold dear, and to promote them in all our political activities, so help us, God!”

Bruggeman then recommended two books to read for those who like to learn more about the Muslim threat, including “The Politically Incorrect Guide to Islam (and the Crusades)” by Robert Spencer, and “Sword and Scimitar: Fourteen Centuries of War Between Islam and the West” by Raymond Ibrahim.

During the 12-minute Q&A session that followed, an unidentified man asked, “Historically, we’ve had millions of the immigrants over the past few centuries and most have assimilated into the American culture... so why are so many Muslims so different and don’t assimilate?”

Bruggeman replied, “People’s religion determines people’s culture. Their religion (Islam) teaches them they are not allowed to assimilate because their goal is the Islamification of the world.”

An unidentified woman asked for specific numbers of Muslims serving in office in the U.S.

Bruggeman answered, “I don’t have the numbers right now. But their numbers are growing at a fast rate.”

An unidentified man said, “Four Muslim are serving in U.S. Congress right now.”

In a referemce to birthright citizenship. Rebecca Moon, secretary of the Henderson County Republican Party. asked, “Shouldn’t there be a bill to disallow that?”

Bruggeman replied, “Absolutely…. It’s hard to get Chip Roy’s bill” and other proposals “to a winning vote...”

After a brief pause, Bruggeman asserted, “The military may be the last resort... I don’t want to see that... But there could be blood in the streets... That is President Trump’s ultimate trump card....”

To another question, Bruggeman said, “That’s why educating our fellow citizens is so vital.... As long as the people are bamboozled by the legacy media” the Muslim-Marxist takeover threat will advance in the U.S. “There (also) are a lot of people in the judicial system who need to have removed from office...”

Regarding the two largest branches of Islam, an unidentied man asked, “Sunni and Shiite —which is worse?”

In answering the closing question, Bruggeman replied, “Both (branches of Islam) are equally bad!”