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Zohran Mamdani has called for having social workers respond to domestic violence and hate crimes. The radical mayoral candidate seeking to take power in New York City has proposed creating a new ‘Department of Community Safety’ to displace the NYPD using social workers, ‘violence interrupters’ and other non-law enforcement personnel to deal with some crimes.
Using non-police to respond to crimes while defunding the police is a pro-crime measure and indeed Mamdani’s proposed $1.1 billion Department of Community Safety is supposed to pull over $600 million from existing offices, but there’s something even more troubling about it.
Jews, especially after Oct 7, have become the victims of unprecedented levels of hate crimes in New York City. More than half of the hate crimes in 2024 were aimed at Jews and they were the victims of 60% of the hate crimes committed this year. A growing number of those crimes are being committed by members of Mamdani’s Islamic religion and supporters of Islamic terrorism.
Last year, Muhammad Shahzeb Khan had plotted a terrorist attack at New York City synagogues either on the anniversary of the Oct 7 Muslim terrorist massacres or around the High Holy Days. After the Oct 7 massacres, Yehia Amin, a Muslim man living in Queens, likely in Mamdani’s district, assaulted a group of Jewish men who were wearing religious clothing in Times Square while telling them, “Hamas should kill more of you” and “All Jews should die.”
Elsewhere in the city, a Jewish man was slashed by an attacker shouting “Free Palestine”, a Jewish family was attacked at a graduation ceremony with shouts of “Death to Israel” and a former Director of Government Affairs for CAIR began screaming, “I demand jihad, I want ISIS to kill all of you” at a Jewish man. CAIR, a pro-terror group that cheered the Hamas attacks of Oct 7, had reportedly funneled $100,000 to a pro-Mamdani PAC working to elect the terror supporter.
Some of the attacks on Jews were the work of Islamic and pro-terrorist political organizations including those part of the anti-Israel coalitions Mamdani had joined with. Synagogues in Brooklyn were targeted by ‘protesters’ leading to several assaults. The home of a Jewish official was vandalized with the Hamas red triangle during a Jewish holiday by terror supporters.
Why would Mamdani want to shift hate crimes away from law enforcement and to a new department of activists handpicked by him and his associates? One reason would be to suppress reporting, enforcement and prosecutions of attacks on Jews by his people and allies.
The previous De Blasio administration, which Mamdani had described as a role model, had already crippled the NYPD’s counterterrorism and ability to stop Muslim terrorist attacks before they happen. The NYPD was once able to interdict the plot by Ahmed Ferhani and Mohammad Mamdouh to attack a synagogue and the plot by Muhammad Yusuf to kill U.S soldiers in 2011. Then De Blasio took office and New York City was left exposed to Islamic terrorist attacks.
Now Mamdani appears set to cripple the NYPD’s ability to also respond to attacks on Jews.
What do hate crimes and domestic violence have in common? They’re both acts that members of Mamdani’s Muslim religion and community are disproportionately involved in. Studies have shown that Muslim settlers residing in America have highly elevated rates of domestic violence.
At least 1 in 10 Muslim women report experiencing domestic violence in multiple surveys and the numbers may actually be even higher. For example 41% of Muslim women receiving counseling in Northern Virginia reported suffering domestic violence. Considering the high rates of domestic violence in their native countries in the Muslim world, the true numbers are likely higher. For example, 86% of married women in Egypt faced domestic abuse, 70% of women in Istanbul, Turkey and ‘honor killings’ are so common in Pakistan that they go unpunished.
One of the first big ‘Islamophobia’ hoaxes in America was the murder of Shaima Alawadi whose bloodied body was left alongside a note reading, “Go back to your country, you terrorist.” The actual murderer was her husband. It’s unknown how many similar family violence incidents blamed on ‘Islamophobia’ were actually carried out by spouses and parents.
Domestic violence is a major problem in Islam because it is endorsed by the Koran. The holy book of Islam states, “Men have authority over women because Allah has made the one superior to the other” and “as for those from whom you fear disobedience, admonish them… and beat them.”
Al-Jazeera and other Islamist outlets have promoted domestic abuse as the solution. On one Al Jazeera show, a Sharia expert from Qatar’s Religious Ministry, advised that it was “better to lift the rod and bring her back to her senses.” A Gaza Islamic ‘scholar’ declared that “The purpose of beating is to warn the wife that the life of the family is in danger.”
By shifting domestic violence away from law enforcement and toward a ‘Department of Community Safety’, Mamdani will be able to maintain a culture of domestic violence in his community without fear of police intervention. Much as with antisemitic violence, Mamdani is diverting the NYPD from responding to particularly those crimes that are sanctioned by Islam.
Islam sanctions violence against Jews and women. Mamdani is proposing to reengineer police responses in New York City so that domestic violence and antisemitic violence are covered up.
This is not classical police defunding so much as it is the exploitation of police defunding to cover up the crimes of the Muslim communities that Mamdani belongs to and which have invested a great deal of money and effort to back his takeover of New York City.
And the question is where will it end?
Domestic violence and antisemitic violence are only some of the crimes endorsed by Sharia Islamic law. Islam is a violent way of life and those are only some of the violent behaviors sanctioned by its teachings. How will Mamdani contrive to protect those crimes?
In the UK, British authorities colluded to cover up Muslim sex grooming gangs. Witnesses were threatened and suppressed. Sexually abused girls were left with the Muslim gangs abusing them. Parents were warned that they faced arrest if they dared try and save their daughters.
How long until these same crimes are covered up the same way in New York City?
