The Prophet of Conservatism

Violence, however tragic, is the most efficient vehicle for ideas to force themselves into the public domain. Blood makes the world listen. Revolutions, assassinations, and terrorist attacks turn whispers into thunderclaps. A man can be ignored while alive; kill him, and suddenly his words command global attention.

The modern West learned this after September 11, 2001. Before that day, Islam in America was a marginal subject, vaguely exotic and mostly irrelevant. But when nineteen jihadists carried out the deadliest terrorist attack on U.S. soil, Islam exploded into national conversation. Though it was the ideology driving the violence, the result was paradoxical: Islam was no longer obscure. Universities offered courses. Media outlets launched campaigns to explain it. Public libraries stocked Qur’ans. Mosques filled with visitors. Conversions surged.

Islam was responsible for carnage, yet violence gave it a platform no marketing campaign could have secured.

Now, two decades later, America has witnessed another example of blood elevating an idea, this time not by foreign terrorists, but by the assassination of one of its own. Charlie Kirk, the young conservative firebrand, was gunned down on September 10, 2025. His enemies thought they had silenced him. Instead, they unleashed him. In death, his name is now spoken on an international stage. His ideas are now dissected, debated, and, by many, embraced.