This is Frank Gaffney with the Secure Freedom Minute.

Yesterday, Donald Trump posthumously awarded Charlie Kirk the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Among the many attributes that made Charlie so worthy of this recognition was his relentless defense of liberty and our God-given, unalienable right to it.

In his final months, Charlie Kirk focused intensively on the threat to freedom posed by adherents of the totalitarian Islamic code called Sharia. He declared flatly that “Islam is not compatible with Western civilization.”

President Trump is confronting that reality in the refusal to date of the Sharia-supremacist group known as Hamas to disarm as required by his Mideast peace deal. The President is right to say they must and will be disarmed.

But unless that is achieved forcefully, Sharia commands faithful Muslims to lie, violate truces and pursue jihad – and Hamas will do so until it is permanently put out of business.

This is Frank Gaffney.