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At a Democratic Socialists of American convention in 2023, Zohran Mamdani went on record that “we have to make clear when the boot of the NYPD is on your neck, it’s been laced by the IDF.” Mamdani sees those oppressive Jews everywhere and he would order New York police to arrest Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu. The Muslim socialist also refused to demand that Hamas terrorists, perpetrators of the 10/7 massacre, lay down their weapons. That is hard to top but in the run-up to November 4 Mamdani may have pulled it off.
After the attack of September 11, 2001, which he has not directly attributed to Islamic terrorism, Mamdani claimed that his father’s cousin, supposedly his “aunt,” was afraid to wear her hijab while riding the subway. This wasn’t the first attempt to trivialize the worst attack on America since Pearl Harbor in 1941. On September 17, 2001, six days after al Qaeda terrorist killed 3,000 people. President Bush appeared at the Islamic Center of Washington DC and said:
These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith. And it’s important for my fellow Americans to understand that.
The English translation is not as eloquent as the original Arabic, but let me quote from the Koran, itself: In the long run, evil in the extreme will be the end of those who do evil. For that they rejected the signs of Allah and held them up to ridicule.
The face of terror is not the true faith of Islam. That’s not what Islam is all about. Islam is peace. These terrorists don’t represent peace. They represent evil and war.
When we think of Islam we think of a faith that brings comfort to a billion people around the world. Billions of people find comfort and solace and peace. And that’s made brothers and sisters out of every race — out of every race. . .
In our anger and emotion, our fellow Americans must treat each other with respect.
Women who cover their heads in this country must feel comfortable going outside their homes. Moms who wear cover must be not intimidated in America. That’s not the America I know. That’s not the America I value.
I’ve been told that some fear to leave; some don’t want to go shopping for their families; some don’t want to go about their ordinary daily routines because, by wearing cover, they’re afraid they’ll be intimidated. That should not and that will not stand in America.
And so on, like something from CAIR or Mamdani’s speechwriter. The president then proceeded to botch the response. The mighty CIA, once headed by his father George H.W. Bush, had no clue that the attack was coming, an intelligence and national security failure for the ages. Bush failed to fire CIA director George Tenet, a Clinton retread, and rewarded the CIA with a bigger budget. The Bush administration also created a new bureaucracy, the Department of Homeland Security. The late P.J. O’Rourke said it sounded like a failed savings and loan, a quip not far off the mark.
The DHS, CIA and FBI failed to prevent Islamic terrorist attacks at Fort Hood (2009), the Boston Marathon (2013), San Bernardino (2015), and Orlando in 2016, all with massive loss of innocent lives. The federal agencies played no role in the takedown of the terrorists, all handled by local police. Consider also the response by the composite character president formerly known as Barry Soetoro, step-son of Lolo Soetoro, the Indonesian student his mother Ann Dunham married in 1965.
At Fort Hood in 2009, self-proclaimed “soldier of Allah” Nidal Hasan shouted “Allahu Akbar” as he gunned down 13 Americans, including Pvt. Francheska Velez, who was pregnant, ignoring her cries of “my baby!” For the composite character president, this was “workplace violence,” not terrorism or even gun violence.
In 2005, a smiling Obama posed for a photo with Louis Farrakhan of the Nation of Islam. The composite character did a good job concealing his associations with Louis Farrakhan. The president also obscured his relationship with the Communist Frank Marshall Davis, the black poet “Frank” in Dreams from My Father. The former Barry Soetoro also made light of his association with Weather Underground radical Bill Ayers.
In similar style in 2018, the candidate for Congress calling himself Ammar Campa-Najjar, billed as “Palestinian Mexican-American,” failed to reveal that he is the grandson of Muhammad Abu Yousef al-Najjar, mastermind of the Palestinian terrorists who abducted, tortured and murdered 11 Israeli athletes at the Munich Olympics in 1972. The Democrat rock star, as he was billed by Rolling Stone, lost to Duncan Hunter in 2018 and Darrell Issa in 2020. After losing the Chula Vista mayor’s race in 2022, the Munichian candidate joined the Navy. Watch for him to run again for Congress, billed as a proud veteran.
The Uganda-born Mamdani, by contrast, openly proclaims “I am a Muslim and a democratic socialist.” Despite the record, he still gained election as mayor of New York. What Mandami has in store for the people could have been showcased by the Muslim mayor of Dearborn, Michigan, once home to Henry Ford.
Abdullah Hammoud renamed Warren Avenue after Arab American News publisher Osama Siblani, who has praised Hezbollah and Hamas terrorists as “freedom fighters.” When Christian minister Ted Barham protested the change, mayor Hammoud told him, “although you live here, I want you to know, as mayor, you are not welcome here, and the day you move out of the city will be the day I launch a parade celebrating the fact that you moved out of the city.” No apology from the mayor, who predictably branded Barham a racist and Islamophobe.
Zohran Mamdani has yet to tell any protesters they are no longer welcome in New York. Should that take place, the response could exceed the Muslim mayor’s expectations. As President Trump likes to say, we’ll have to see what happens.
