Posted on 08/20/2026 5:30:21 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Twenty-five years ago, America was attacked on its own soil, a first since 1812. A new generation of voters never directly experienced the horrors of that once-in-a-lifetime experience, played out on TV screens like a Hollywood horror movie.
Lessons have been learned in the years since. But not by all Americans, particularly many New Yorkers.
New York City, which began as a city of survivors, has become a city of apologists. The lessons of 9/11 have been buried under layers of political fashion and academic abstraction.
In their place, a new political order has risen, one that is less interested in defending the West than in condemning it. And organized Radical Islam has learned that it is not necessary to mount a frontal assault on our buildings or hijack our planes.
The most visible expression of this new order is the lightning-fast ascendance of Zohran Mamdani. Mamdani is not merely a mayor; he is an audacious symbol of an ideological movement that has outgrown New York and now threatens to reshape it.
His unprecedentedly expansive view of his role, combined with his globalism, results in issues disconnected from the everyday concerns of New Yorkers, intertwined with unrelated Islamist causes. Take distant Palestine. It was referenced during St. Patrick’s Day celebrations while Mamdani’s wife, invited to address a spiritual retreat in Corsica, framed the Virgin Mary as a "Palestinian woman giving birth under occupation,” a bold religious appropriation of Christian belief.
Mamdani’s commitment to Palestine reached new heights with his call to execute an ICC warrant arresting the democratically elected leader of Israel from the UN opening ceremonies. Trump put an end to this foreign policy incursion by emphatically stating “Benjamin Netanyahu will not be arrested, in any way, shape, or form, while in the United States of America.”
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It was still a Territory at that time. Just sayin'.
I was thinking last night that America willingly/gladly committed national suicide the moment we, a mere seven years after 9-11, allowed someone named “Barack HUssein” to enter the Oval Office.
Not yet a state, though.
9-11 was 25 years ago, that’s equivalent to 1 generation.
In somewhat of a defense for NYC Madmani won because the Biden invaders were numerous enough to push him over the finish line . Another example for why it is a good idea to remove these people from our country.
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