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The Chinese Communist Party poses the single greatest national security threat to the United States.

Others suggest that different threats are greater. Take Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. Speaking at a Turning Point USA event last week, Gabbard argued that “the greatest near- and long-term threat to both our freedom and our security … is the threat of Islamist ideology.” Gabbard noted how terrorist groups such as the Islamic State and al Qaeda employ violence to extinguish individual freedom. She also spuriously suggested that sharia law is encroaching domestically against secular law — the supremacy of the U.S. Constitution prevents that.

To be clear, the vast majority of American Muslims believe passionately in the Constitution. Most American Muslims love this country for a simple reason: It has given them greater opportunity and treated them more kindly than other nations treat Muslims. They respect the fundamental American contract: work hard, live well, support your community, obey the law. Islamist extremist political movements in the U.S. are smaller and weaker than their counterparts in Europe, for example. At the same time, it’s absolutely true that extremist Islamist ideology threatens American security. Because America stands anathema to the theological authoritarianism that defines Salafi-jihadists or followers of Iran’s Khomeinist ideology, it will always serve as a focal point for their hostility, other motivating factors notwithstanding.

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