• What Happened: American-Muslim men in Dearborn, Michigan were asked who they would support if America went to war against an Islamic nation and said they would fight for Iraq, not the United States.
  • Why It Matters: A Christian American on the scene responded directly, saying anyone who supports another nation over America needs to go live in that nation.
  • Bottom Line: The exchange is raising serious questions about loyalty, assimilation, and what it means to call yourself an American.

The question was simple. The answer was chilling.

Investigative journalist Nick Shirley, the same man who blew open Minnesota's billion-dollar child care fraud scandal, was on the ground in Dearborn, Michigan when he posed a straightforward question to American-Muslim men in the city: who would you support if America went to war against an Islamic nation?

They did not hesitate. "We would support our brothers in Iraq," one man said flatly. "We would not defend America."

Another man offered a religious justification. "In our Islamic book, we are not allowed to fight against people that are against our religion."

These are not men living in Baghdad or Beirut. These are men living in the United States of America. Men who enjoy the freedoms, the infrastructure, the opportunity, and the protection that this country provides every single day. And when asked point blank whether they would defend it, the answer was no.

A Christian American standing nearby had heard enough.

"Anybody who supports another nation needs to live in that nation," he said.

He is right. That is not a complicated position. That is the most basic expectation any country has of the people who live within its borders. You do not have to love every policy. You do not have to agree with every war. But when the nation that feeds you, houses you, and protects you is under threat, the expectation of basic loyalty is not extreme. It is foundational.

Dearborn has the largest concentration of Arab Americans in the United States. It has a Muslim mayor who told a Christian resident he was not welcome in his own city. It has seen chants of death to America at public rallies. And now it has men on camera telling one of America's most prominent investigative journalists that they would take up arms for a foreign nation against the country whose passport they carry.

At what point does the political class start asking the question that millions of ordinary Americans are already asking out loud?

Is the enemy already inside? After watching Shirley's video, I think the answer is clear.