In a sharply worded column published this week, American Thinker contributor Eric Utter argues that Canada and the United States are drifting simultaneously toward what he describes as Islamism and Marxism, and that too many people on both sides of the political spectrum are too tolerant of ideas he believes are aimed at their destruction.
The piece, titled “Islam, Marxism, and insanity advancing apace in Canada and the U.S.,” opens with a claim about a retail outlet in Ontario, Canada, where, according to Utter, women must now be accompanied by a male guardian to enter. “If you must act like you’re living under Sharia Law, you are effectively living under Sharia Law,” he writes, adding that he finds it remarkable that self-described feminists have not responded with outrage, which he attributes to a fear of being labeled Islamophobic.
Utter does not identify the store, the city, or the policy’s origin in the column, and offers no documentation for the claim. Readers looking for verification will not find it in the piece. The columnist presents the assertion as one more data point in a broader argument about what he calls the “Deranged Dominion.”
Hate speech laws and a ‘police state’ charge
From there, Utter pivots to Canada’s hate speech statutes, specifically citing Section 319, subsection 2 of the Canadian Criminal Code — the “Willful Promotion of Hate” provision — which he characterizes as “ludicrous.” His concern is that anything a person says, posts, or blogs could be used against them, and he claims some Muslims are using those laws to harass non-Muslim Canadians. That assertion, too, is presented without supporting evidence or named cases.
The columnist concludes that Canada is “now a police state,” and takes a swipe at the country’s aspirations toward closer ties with the United Kingdom and the European Union, referencing the prospect of associate membership. (The column spells the bloc as the “Europeon European Union.”)
To illustrate what he sees as the absurdity of Canadian speech restrictions, Utter offers a joke — one he acknowledges may itself be treated as hate speech north of the border. The joke features an Ottawan, an Albertan, and a Muslim in a bar, and ends with the Muslim shooting the bartender before the Ottawan warns patrons against Islamophobia. He then asks readers not to forward the joke to Canadian authorities “or to the Democrat-Socialists of America, for that matter.”
A San Diego fraud case and a swipe at Minneapolis
Shifting to the United States, Utter notes that three men named Mohammed have been charged with day care fraud in San Diego. He treats the shared first name as the punchline, then adds a parenthetical jab at Minneapolis, which he implies has its own comparable case. The column does not name the defendants, the charges’ specifics, or the outcome of the case.
From there, Utter makes a sweeping claim: “I am beginning to wonder if there is a single legitimate Muslim-owned business in the United States.” He pairs that with an assertion that an “overwhelming percentage” of illegal immigrants receive government support. Neither claim is sourced.
Democrats, immigration, and the ‘Marxist’ charge
The column’s most concrete political target is Hallie Shoffner, a Democratic candidate running to unseat Sen. Tom Cotton (R-Ark.). According to Utter, Shoffner told an Arkansas-based podcast that illegal immigrant field hands are so valuable she would trade five American workers for a single one of them. Utter frames this as evidence that Democrats favor undocumented immigrants over U.S. citizens, writing: “She’d deport five American citizens to keep one illegal alien?”
He speculates about her personal motives — wondering whether she is “fond of her gardener and pool boy” — and asks what any American employee at Costco, Buc-ees, Amazon, Ford, or Netflix has ever done for her, or what workers at her local restaurants, salons, pubs, schools, hospitals, or waste management companies have done.
Utter does not quote Shoffner directly in the column, and the podcast is not named in the text provided.
A call to abandon ‘suicidal empathy’
The column closes with a direct appeal to what Utter calls “all non-communist, non-insane Americans.” He argues that Democrats and their allies in the mainstream media “really do disdain you,” that Marxists “really are on the march,” and that Muslims — whether “passively or aggressively” — are attempting a long-term takeover of the United States.
He also expresses frustration with Republicans who, in his view, are too accepting of what he calls the “rapid metastasis of Marxism,” and with feminists and liberals who he says are comfortable with the rise of Islam.
“We cannot be ‘tolerant’ of ideologies that are trying to see to our demise, to put it politely, if we wish to survive,” he writes. “A society that welcomes, fetes, and rewards those who want to convert, enslave, or kill it, is obviously condemned to extinction.”
The column ends with a note inviting readers to support American Thinker financially, framed as a defense of free expression “now more than ever.”
What the piece actually argues
Stripped of its jokes and asides, the argument runs along a familiar track for the outlet: that multicultural tolerance is a form of weakness, that Canada’s hate speech laws are a warning of where the United States is headed, and that immigration and Islam are existential threats that both major parties — Democrats more than Republicans — refuse to confront seriously.
Whether any of the factual predicates hold up — the Ontario shop policy, the hate speech complaints, the Shoffner quote, and the day care fraud case — is left to the reader. Utter provides no links, no case numbers, and no named sources. The piece is an opinion column, and it reads like one: assertive, unsourced, and built for an audience that already shares its premises.
What makes it notable is less the individual claims than the synthesis — a single column that moves from an Ontario storefront to Canadian criminal code to a San Diego courtroom to an Arkansas Senate race, all in service of a single conclusion: that the West is being lost from within by people who lack the will to name the threat. Readers who agree will find ammunition. Readers who don’t will find plenty to dispute, starting with the most basic question of what actually happened in that shop in Ontario.
Source: www.americanthinker.com — https://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2026/09/islam-marxism-and-insanity-advancing-apace-in-north-america/