Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow wrote that “it's time for an American jihad” to, forcibly if need be, convert every nation's government into a reflection of the U.S. government.

In an October 28 FoxNews.com op-ed, Ablow wrote that America's history “proves our manifest destiny not only to preserve our borders and safety and national character at home, but to spread around the world our love of individual freedom and insist on its reflection in every government.” Ablow's “jihad” consisted of a series of extreme and controversial proposals including having retired U.S. lawmakers seek dual citizenship to influence other nations into adopting American laws, intervening militarily around the world, and making “every tax dollar a tithing and the squandering of those dollars a sin”:

An American jihad would embrace the correct belief that if every nation on earth were governed by freely elected leaders and by our Constitution, the world would be a far better place. And an American jihad would not only hope for this outcome, but work toward it.

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We would urge our leaders, after their service in the U.S. Senate and Congress, to seek dual citizenship in other nations, like France and Italy and Sweden and Argentina and Brazil and Germany, and work to influence those nations to adopt laws very much like our own. We might even fund our leaders' campaigns for office in these other nations.

We would accept the fact that an American jihad could mean boots on the ground in many places in the world where human rights are being denigrated and horrors are unfolding. Because wherever leaders and movements appear that seek to trample upon the human spirit, we have a God-given right to intervene -- because we have been to the mountaintop of freedom, and we have seen the Promised Land spanning the globe.

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An American jihad would make every tax dollar a tithing and the squandering of those dollars a sin. An American jihad would make every hour spent working in an American company -- or founding one -- an offering. An American jihad would make every teacher of American history not only a public servant, but a servant of the Truth.

We the People of the United States are good and we are right. And we need the spirit of an American jihad to properly invite, intensify and focus our intentions to preserve, protect and defend our Constitution here at home, and to seek to spread its principles abroad.

Ablow is no stranger to extreme and controversial statements. He recently accused President Obama of welcoming Ebola into the U.S. because his “affinities” are with Africa. He later defended this comment, saying the president won't “fully defend” the country because “he has it in” for America.

UPDATE: Ablow defended his advocacy of a renewed era of American imperialism on the October 29 edition of Fox News' Fox & Friends, claiming that the United States has a “manifest destiny” to" spread our national character" to “every nation on earth.” Ablow even called for the United States to “export” dual citizens around the world to steer foreign governments toward American interests.

See the full segment here: