The All-Too-Eager Islamist Filmmaker

Phylis Chesler ^ | 31 Aug 2025 | Phylis Chesler

[Rummyfan]

Revelations of all kinds are upon us. Here's one that just caught my eye. It's about Zohran Mamdani's film-maker mother, Mira Nair, whose films I've reviewed over the years.

Guess who funded Mira Nair's propaganda filmmaking? According to Will Bredderman at the New York Post, (August 31st), none other than Sheikha Al-Mayassa bint Hamad Al-Thani, sister to the ruling Emir of Qatar. Qatar! The banker for Iran's terrorist proxy, Hamas, and for Afghanistan's Taliban; the safe haven for terrorist leaders and for antisemitic psychologists such as Lara Sheehi; the owners of Al-Jazeera, which was founded in 1996. Al Jazeera? An Islamist, anti-American and anti-Israel television network which, as of 2006, broadcast in English.

film, "Control Room" was all about Al-Jazeera. I remember it well--it excited so many American "progressives" because it reinforced their belief that Al-Jazeera was cool and groovy, just like CNN or the former MSNBC (now MS Now). They could relax. America was the unredeemable Bad Guy and Muslim Islamist terrorists were actually innocent, righteous, and fundamentally "reluctant" to blow up Marines in their barracks and fly planes into Manhattan buildings; they had no choice, we drove them to it.

[BenLurkin]

[SkyDancer]

Upvote, but the mussies will say and call it islamophobia..

[arthurus]

So Mamdani will be Quatar’s mayor of New York!